“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes. “Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!” RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25 Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror “Adam in the garden…”

Writing novels is very hard, and everyone who finishes writing one deserves praise and accolades purely for that accomplishment.

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

Today, I'd like to say- The Taino were the people of Borinquen. Borinquen was later renamed to Puerto Rico. Some Taino words remain today. Words like hurakán = hurricane, barbacoa = barbeque. The Taino greeting is Taino-ti Which means - "I greet you with love because you are family."

WILD proposition

Holy shit this was a hilarious read! Thank you for this Marshall!

The challenge is, of course, the time to celebrate Marescatide (Marescacide?) is already the Christmas season.

I don’t understand (I mean, I do) why book coverage keeps shrinking while a huge number of books are still published every week.

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

Psssst, ICYMI!

I’m outside for lunch today, and there are two people at another table who have a Very Big Dog (who is being a Very Good Boy), but he’s so big when he’s sitting up it just looks like he’s at the table with them.

NYC! Come see us at PT Knitwear on Monday 10/13 💖

"Jesus Christ, Bob, what the fuck?" - Heinlein's editor, probably at least seven or eight times a book after 1970

Menchaca.

The "Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet" aspect of this REALLY speaks to me. Like, this man just needed to let a map POUR out of him and used whatever piece of paper was closest.

You ever look up some actors on Cameo and think, "Oh, no, I know you're not huge, but you should be charging more." Like, Terry Ferrell should be able to ask more than $75.

#GauntletChat A2: Pure cussedness, mostly, with the steady dedication of a persistence hunter. And, in this case, allowing @mrmaresca.com to harass me / keep me accountable.

I say this as someone who loves MI movies, but all the places they’re extracting data from seem way too inconvenient for the folks who need that data. The one in MI:5, if you stub your toe, you’re locked out.

Just read A Murder of Mages by @mrmaresca.com and it has cured my reading slump! An adventure that has just enough weight to it, a fascinating world, and complex characters. I'm now waiting impatiently for the library to send me ALL THE OTHER BOOKS.

To this date, none of y'all know for sure when you've met Marshall and when you've met Ryan.

To this date, none of y'all know for sure when you've met Marshall and when you've met Ryan.

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil GALACTIC EMPIRE. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Hey baby, are we in Albania? Because I'm seeing red flags.

Last night’s dream involved someone trying to frame me for a series of escalating murders he committed over a parking permit. The weirdest part was the villain was played by Clancy Brown. Not Clancy Brown himself, but a character being played by Clancy Brown. Which is good casting!

DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰 Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳

This makes me think about how when I was a kid, I needed to Make Sense of anything like that. I once yelled at my sister to tell me the eighth day of the Beatles song "Eight Days A Week". Why did the song not have explanatory lore?

I'm doing an AMA on r/Fantasy today. Please drop by and ask questions! I'll be answering throughout the day. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

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I'm pretty sure I've been in meetings with execs that went exactly like this.

I promised it, and here 'tis! Another edition of Backlist Book Love, featuring titles from Kate Elliott, K.B. Wagers, and Mary Robinette Kowal! It ended up being an "oops, all space adventures" edition. 😅

market: promote your work or die also market: <artificially limits promotion>

Had a strange dream I was a Canadian actor in the 90s, and my big break was playing a main character on a show that was a gestalt of DUE SOUTH and FOREVER KNIGHT about Vampire Mounties. But then Geraint Wyn Davies and Paul Gross got me kicked off because they thought I would "draw focus" from them.

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Oh, see, that's easy. See, the media has decided that the Democrats are the protagonists of the government, their job is to solve problems, regardless, and the Republicans get to be the antagonists who are allowed to just make problems and have no responsibility to fix things.

I’m approaching being An Old, but I do love a good video. HOWEVER, it’s gotta justify the video format by doing something with the medium. And “creating a two minute clip loop to repeat over the audio” is not that.

Re-upping this one more time: this is the audio version of one of my new stories for the year, "Data Ghost" originally published in the Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Storyteller.

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of @cassmorriswrites.com's From Unseen Fire (The Aven Cycle), which I *have* and *started* and then got confused by starting something else and then lost it on the TBR list so I need to start over. @kbspangler.com raves about the book! #KindleBookGiveaway

#Septopolis D29: Shouting out @mrmaresca.com because this entire project is his fault AND his continual support / gentle haranguing is what's kept me churning away on it. 😜

I'm working on Season 2 of ELSBETH, and we've come upon an episode where there isn't even a strange random clue that's set Elsbeth on the person we already know is the killer. She's just on pure "I dunno, vibes" and targets the correct person on nothing.

Here's our very first live show at @armadillocon.bsky.social! Thanks to @mrmaresca.com for inviting us! hugogirl.libsyn.com/hgg-live-the...

The one silver lining in all of this is it only works with Trump at the center. Vance doesn't have the juice at all. It MIGHT hold together if Don Jr. had a bit of juice to just coast on legacy, but he doesn't. Nobody else has that particular alchemy that makes Trump "work" for the MAGA folks.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

started reading jordan s carroll's speculative whiteness and it is making me feel like everyone needs to be writing more sci-fi right now. like especially marginalized writers but also white writers committed to inclusive work. everyone just pivot towards inclusive, antifascist futurism please

(If we can try to support living authors, that would be especially neat btw)

This is why these companies and the techbros who invested in them are expending so much effort to convince you that reliance on genAI programs is inevitable. It isn't.