The white men ain’t pushed out of literature enough. I can still hear their yapping.

Given the time of year, we'd like to re-share this wonderful article by @zzclaybourne.bsky.social about how reading is a way to connect with the world. We hope you're all able to take the time you need to read. <3 www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-w... #BookSky

ICYMI, here's my final reading of the year, courtesy Casa Hernandooney (C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez), who brought all the fun I didn't know I needed. May your future stay full of good words and the comforts of friends!

See also: -how we could we even fix our school system -how is public transit ever viable -how would we make college free -what would possibly reduce poverty There's a whole subgenre of rich-asshole concern trolling that assumes you've never heard of any country other than America.

Behold! Leslye Penelope's new book! The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass! lpenelope.com/book/the-ine...

Crows collect baubles & shiny things as signs of gratitude. "I see the beauty of the world. I arrange it just so." Been a year of wonders & heroes; people have held space for me, lifted me, laughed with me, & shone the kinds of love that only come from beautiful souls. Moments carefully placed.

For anybody hurting today. Rest your head...

FELLOW READERS: If you want a witchy found family fantasy readers have called "a delight", "beautiful", & "classic"... get it now at Amazon for just $8! PAPERflippingBACK. "Each sentence flows lightly yet hints at backstory that feels ancient..." A holiday miracle.

Ending the year reading to folks is a definite happy "That'll do, Zig" for me. Thanks, everybody.

Midnight again. So, when I wake up, I know I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be the man who wipped along with you: Fog so thick it nudged the young witch for space coiled over the grass of the moor, and she moved just as slowly, just as silently beneath it. She was 38... Khumalo book 3

It feels like there are five hearts beating inside me it feels like every thought I have is coming from someone else's dream it feels like it feels like have we forgotten how to feel? I believe I will feel Tonight

Revealed at tonight's FICTION: IMPOSSIBLE reading hosted by C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez: Beef between me and cats. The extremely official title of the 3rd & final Khumalo book. Hot forbidden notebook action. Unbridled book love. (YouTube link to come)

Tonight! Monday! 7 PM Eastern! Carlos Hernandez and I are hosting guest star @zzclaybourne.bsky.social on FICTION: IMPOSSIBLE! Stream us live on twitch.tv/csecooney (you can even JOIN THE CHAT!), or catch the recording later on YouTube.

T-minus 10 hours.

As intimate as setting as the internet allows. Me, you, and good words between us.

As the holiday season approaches, here's a reminder that you can get my books nearly everywhere ebooks are sold. The best place to buy is direct from me. You can put in a request to your local library too! #booksky #queersky 💙📚 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 🩸

Sale still going on. You can get extra.

Finally got my hands on this one. Hold my calls. If there's an emergency, 911 is well-staffed. Send food as long as the delivery person doesn't mind me coming straight from the bubble bath to get it, damn the towel, it's reading time. @vajra.me It's reading time!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Emmy Jackson has a strength & musicality to their writing like solid boots while whirling to zydeco. This novel's serialized via Patreon (should've been picked up by publishers but y'know). This is about places that have souls, magic that requires movement, and fighting for wherever you call home.

"A book and a series you’ll love to experience and a world that’s a true escape from the everyday. A must read for true fantasy fans." High praise from one of the 'Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction' crew, Milton Davis, on AMNANDI SAILS. Happy Friday!

The word for today is "whimsy". Live it, be it, get you some.

Midnight again. This time we're in a garden of words and the words smell like loam & rain and we won't overstay but putting hands in dirt is cool: "I wish for you many languid days, many languid thoughts, a thousand moments of idleness. May even your shits be things of leisure." Khumalo 3 WIP

Gather it. I don't care if it's spite, joy, anger, bile, defiance, loneliness, relief, sexual energy, humor, recollection, pride, confusion or infinitely reliable curiosity. Use it like a storm under your control, filled with lightning. Let bolts fly.

Fortunately there has never been a Star Trek Holiday Special. That, or I blanked it out. ("Bread & Circuses" does not count)

It's 12:30am where I am. I'm up, you're up. Let's raid the mental fridge for cake. WIP snippet incoming: "The odds that a witch ever had a sandwich stolen from them -- fox or human -- were likely extremely low." Khumalo trilogy, book 3

Taking a moment to remind everyone who's read The Brothers Jetstream to please refrain from talking about Bigfoot. Sucker thrives on your attention and rage clicks.

i read a lot of new-to-me authors this year (goes with reading for awards), but some stand-outs have been: melissa caruso mishell baker django wexler e.m. anderson stephanie burgis zig zag claybourne 🎄 #FantasyIndiesDecember 🎄

I love Jessica's short fiction and this is a great collection! #booksky

What is best in art life? To have fun with what you do, To pause for good reason as needed, and To high-five others digging their groove too.

Fantasy Stories Sold Cheap: The Three Rules of Witches: Love fearlessly, travel extensively, and never pass up an abandoned cottage for a well-deserved rest. Rule #4: Never fail to protect innocents in harm's way.

When your apartment complex has a meeting about people falling down stairs and management shouts "Not enough!"

The paperback is less than 10 bucks at Amazod. I don't know for how long, but I'm thinking of buying a copy and I wrote the damn thing.

The freedom to stay up as long as you want to + the inability to stay up due to your azz falling asleep mid-movie every single time is one of the most blissful confluences there ever is when you give yourself over to it fully. Zonk out, touch faith.

It's not whether anyone has ever died from lack of funk, it's do we want a world where the question's even presented.

What a good book, go read it.

"Takes readers on another non-stop psychedelic ride to places other science fiction works are afraid to go." Friday's AFRO PUFFS ARE THE ANTENNAE OF THE UNIVERSE replay groove via Amazing Stories! amazingstories.com/2021/01/revi...

Some more gems from @zzclaybourne.bsky.social's BREATH, WARMTH, AND DREAM: "There were still at least three hours of summer daylight before the universe settled upon them." "Stars are fascinating. Always there but only seen on their own schedule." (+)

Today's Hot Commute Action: the vehicular equivalent of the close talker: the close stopper. That person who, at every light, has to stop so close on your azz as to be a surreptitious dog humping you. Every. chance. it. gets. I don't want your nostrils breathing through mine, bruh!

Full Sisko to anybody who made it to the end of the year without grifting, backstabbing, clumsily lying or otherwise being the ass-end of a pure fool. Ben Sisko knows you wanted to lay hands but found other ways. Praise to ya.

Each time someone reviews Uncertain Sons, there's little moves in the books. There are like 7 people on reddit, no idea who they are, who talk about it. That moves the needle too. They say "is anyone talking about this, I like it," but they are the ones talking. Hope they find eachother/become buds.

If a review begins "Somewhere in a parallel universe, musician George Clinton decided to become a novelist..." ...best believe I'm gonna share it. December, in case ya dunno, is the celebration month for the 5th anniversary of AFRO PUFFS ARE THE ANTENNAE OF THE UNIVERSE! I love this weird book!

Everybody out here all erudite and charming with their awards eligibility posts. Me: But seriously, here’s my post link. Short, sweet, short. zzclaybourne.com/write-on-right-on/2025/12/9/2025-awards-eligibility-post

Time's crunching.

Blizzard conditions here in Detroit. I'ma need a good book, a plush robe, and a hot mug of leaf squeezins. Stat.

Your yearly indispensable Awards Resource!

"Spiderweb stringing fall leaves like pages of a story--" From "Autumn Bewitched," in @writerjencrow.bsky.social's collection TAKE UP YOUR SKIN What I love is not just the celebration of autumn, a wild fae season, but how the poem shows the fae coming to out world to enjoy it properly. (1/2)

Today's Hot Commute Action: the law. Alone on a 2-lane, your flow like pricey butter. You achieve zen with your tires. You catch up to the only other 2 cars on the road with you. They are side by side. They pace each other at 10 miles/hour slower than you. This is your next 5 miles. This is the law.

Elon Musk genuinely the least surprising candidate to rerun the Mechanical Turk bit a century later