Hoping the ibuprofen kicks in before the dental anesthesia wears off. 🤕

Last one, I promise. Wolf's Path is 54% off. www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Path-J...

I platanutred too close to the sun. Translation: I ate the whole bag of platanutres. Dinner of champions.

I'm delighted to launch the 2026 World SF bundle today! FIFTEEN books for just $30! Our biggest bundle yet! With @tadethompson.bsky.social, @aliettedebodard.com, @lavanya.bsky.social and many more! Plus supporting @locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts appreciated! storybundle.com/scifi

Sale alert! If you like audiobooks, the Molly Southbourne trilogy by @tadethompson.bsky.social is on sale from Chirp for $2.99 USD apparently! (I read and liked the first one, still need to pick up the others.) www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/t...

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

If you're into really messed up, dark romance (and I know a lot of you are) THE TAKER ebook is on sale for $1.99 www.amazon.com/Taker-Book-O...

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

I am here! It is happening! Please don't hesitate to say hello. All of my panels are in Room 206 and signings are taking place at vendor booth 729. maryrobinettekowal.com/events/mrk-a...

The pace of scamming and tech is moving so much faster than so many of us can keep up with but elders are really getting slammed. Glad to see banks taking action.

You know what an ereader will never do? Give you two paper cuts. 😫 Not sure why the book I'm reading felt like it needed to bite. 😒 It's not a horror novel.

Apparently the first two ebooks are on sale right now? Grab them and splurge on the third!

The thing I like about most kickstarter supporters is that people aren't buying a thing, they're helping make sure the idea of cool human things stays uplifted, especially with things like books.

When you get the electricity bill after your heating system has been running nonstop for three weeks 🤯😫😒🫠

If you're into fables and witches and loving and a mingling of kickass families born & found, keep in mind Amnandi Sails (a fantasy) is eligible for your vote in novel award categories. Provided you've read it. Padme meme incoming. "You've read it, right?"

If you liked Bad Bunny's halftime show, freighted with PR symbolism and imagery? Nominations for the BSFA Awards close next Thursday (2/19/2026). Please consider my longlisted short story, "Blanquitos" for the final ballot! www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/

Sometimes I wonder what I'm going to do with the boxes of journals and notebooks I've written throughout my life. Now I know. Those pages will be proof I was here on this earth and that I did my own writing. GenAI garbage can be punted directly into the sun.

Open to submissions of short stories for What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style until April 15th, 2026. 8¢/word. <6,000 words. Simsub ok, no multiple submissions, original stories only. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

The snowcrete blocked walkways are not letting me visit Little Free Libraries and I have a sad.

An ask: Wanna read about a Black mother & daughter wielding powerful magicks to make their travels around the world lovely? I hope so because I'm working on a 3rd one. If you've read books 1 & 2 & enjoyed them plz leave a review or recommendation. Share like pie. Because life is delicious!

Writer’s Log Earth Date 01-31-2026 Photo by Min An on Pexels.com The end of the first month of this new year seems a fitting day to write a writing update post. There hasn't been a lot of writing this month. There wasn't a lot of fiction writing in 2025 for that matter either. Journaling?…

I want coffee but I first must make the coffee. But I don’t want to. It is very rude that I don’t have the magical powers to conjure a delicious cup of the elixir of life.

My neighbors are sledding down our road and that is a moment of joy that I can hold on to.

Got plans Saturday evening? Here is a quick (approx 2-minute video) with our latest estimate on when the first flakes arrive, and more importantly when we might start to see impacts on roads in the DC area.

We are at (checks) 367?! SO CLOSE! Give us a follow for recordings of #SWSWQR; fun, wild panels from our Holiday Extravaganzas, annual recap videos, and interviews with @angiechristieWN ! You know you want to. youtube.com/@strongwomen...

That moment when your plastic palette knife snaps because it’s so old. 😮‍💨

Today calls for ice cream.

Grateful to see my forthcoming SF thriller THE FIST OF MEMORY on this list of excellent African fiction in 2026. 🙏🏾

It’s really hard to hold on to hope right now. Trying, I’ll keep trying because a better world has to be possible.

It’s the first of the year, may I suggest backing up your important files.

Wishing you all a happy New Year’s Day. Started the year by tidying up the place and folding laundry. I’m going to open the manuscript and see if I can poke some words in this novella.

Me trying to determine if I really have an earache.

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Dears! Our popular A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN is on digital sale! 2.99 across ALL RETAILERS, including @bookshop.org! Support your local independent store AND examine women's history through the lens of ghost lore! In time for Halloween AND #NonfictionNovember! bookshop.org/p/books/a-ha...

Hello, heist fans! On Nov. 9, Im teaching a virtual heist workshop! I’ve done a terrible job promoting it because of book tour brain - so! If you are interested in writing heists, give it a look! Help me spread the word! (The art was 100% done on the run, btw!) www.eventbrite.com/e...

I keep thinking about the phrase Human Standard Time. I wrote it down on a post it and I have no idea where I read or heard it but what HST implies is appealing. The time it takes a human to live, work, love at a reasonable pace.

In a middle of the week miracle: I remember the idea I had in bed last night for this short story and I can actually write it down. Please be impressed with my brain’s power of recollection. 🤣

Hey Everyone, come and support our Kickstarter for the Speculative Detective Agency anthology. This is going to be a fantastic book and in donating to the kickstarter you also get the book at a discount. Woohoo! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Started playing Monument Valley again because my brain needs something gentle.

My most recent article for SFWA's Planetside! Copyright is a complicated subject about which there are many myths and misconceptions...in this article, I try to untangle some of them.

🦟eBook Discount! ESPERANCE by Adam Oyebanji is only $2.99 on Kindle Monthly Deals. A whip-smart thriller that plumbs the depths of a seemingly impossible crime rooted in racism, intergenerational trauma, and an inhuman concept of justice. buff.ly/F4C3OIL

Want to read the deleted first chapter of Apprehension, my upcoming novella from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social ? Sign up for my newsletter, and I'll send it to you. You'll also receive info about book tour locations. maryrobinettekowal.com/newsletter/

Long before Afrofuturism became a recognized movement, Black women were reshaping literature and imagination. From @PhyllisWheatley, the first published African-American poet, to @PaulineHopkins. #sistahscifi #BlackWomenWriters

FINAL HOURS for 25% off AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION via @barnesandnoble.com ahead of our 9/30 release! Tell all your spooky friends! Pre-orders are everything! Appreciate it so much! Join us in examining ghosts + gothic tropes! 🖤👻🖤 Sale ends tonight at midnight!

Last day for this sale!

Final day! Preorder A MURDEROUS BUSINESS so you can tick something off your to do list 😜

Tomorrow, tomorrow, we love ya, tomorrow...🎵 Grab your lunch and spend an hour with 6 fantastic women & nonbinary authors! Giveaways! Chat with readers & writers! Make new friends! share.google/ioprLU8hUUY4...

Direct hit. And I felt this one in my soul.

Hey, House of Bone and Rain—a Stoker, Locus, and Goodreads finalist—is still just $3.99 everywhere for a limited time! If you like horror, crime, grief, magic, friendship, ocean monsters, and ghosts, this is for you. And THANK YOU! Every copy counts. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...