Book signing in Greensburg PA next weekend at In Your Write Mind!

thanks for doing this, bird! i'd love it if people checked out my sapphic ace romantasy with two disaster queers raising a baby dragon. ebook is on sale for pride and audiobook is available now too! #LateNightWrite books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6 vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...

Happy Juneteenth!!!

Over the next 19 weeks, I'll be publishing an alternate version of Farewell Speech on Patreon. It's an earlier draft that still has my heart with its drama and worldbuilding but kinda flopped on mothering respectably (hence the real version). www.patreon.com/collection/2...

The Triangulation Kickstarter was funded in a single day! We're aiming for stretch goals now, the first of which will increase payment for the authors. Back to get your copy of Bad Romance!

Fast forward to 1996. The US & Panama co-establish COPEG! It's a giant flesh-eating maggot farm that raises & releases millions of sterile males per week. This building right here is the firewall keeping flesh-eating maggots out of Central & North America. pa.usembassy.gov/copeg-25th-a...

𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 All cancer survivors are entitled to treat themselves to a cookie. Also give a cookie to your loved ones, especially those who aided in your ongoing survival. books2read.com/Audacious This ebook is 80% off today.

All set up at Big Ohio Book Con.

One premium that's still available is a professional edit of your work by ME. I literally never agree to do these for non-workshop-mates. Six hours to go! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

Well I've heard enough, Seanan McGuire for Secretary of Agriculture!

I can't wait to see folks at the Nebulas!

My writing group reminds me that my new novella Farewell Speech is actually women's fiction/scifi, and I am a long way from learning how to market that.

Fucking lit.

Happy book launch to the little novella of my heart! With the hope that all the moms it encounters believe that they can invest in their own happiness, too. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/farewell-s...

Life is wild and I missed my book's birthday...

Want to support me without spending a dime? Request my books at your library! The library pays for their copy so I still get paid and you get to read it for free! Best part, others can enjoy it after you! 🌈📚 #booksky

WisCon needs panelists! wiscon.net/2026/05/07/2...

Yup. Learning is vastly more efficient in the *long* term (i.e., not in this quarter's profit/expense calculations, counter to standard business practice these days). Businesses—and the general public nowadays—have forgotten this essential fact.

Omg I just did this last week and evacuated 5 basils that survived the winter and a thyme that was 3 years old... but I didn't know about the dust, and now they're all dead. No herbs for me this year. 😭

I started writing the son from this story in high school, along with another teenage boy, and I was really surprised to get feedback that someone connected to them. They made it sound like representation they hadn't found.

4 days until Farewell Speech! shannoneichorn.net/books/farewe...

Orson Scott Card touched on this principle in his 1990 book "How to write Science Fiction and Fantasy", when discussing the principles of exposition by analysing the opening sentence of Octavia Butler's "Wild Seed". He called it "abeyance".

This is key to why most SFF readers start in childhood, and it can be a struggle to learn how to read SFF as an adult if you didn’t start teen you still knew how to read like a kid.

This is an excellent point. I stand on a chair to thank everybody who's ever reached out with an internet high five. It is HUGELY appreciated. And writers, when I fan at you, please know it's real. If I wasn't so scattered I'd fan a lot more.

Five more days until Farewell Speech comes out... shannoneichorn.net/books/farewe...

@irismatthews.bsky.social Farewell Speech as a good Mother's Day gift? Y/N?

We are bottom-dwellers in a protective ocean of air

I'm on Scalzi's "Whatever" Blog explaining The Big Idea behind Multitude: What if We were Us?  https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/04/28/the-big-idea-marie-vibbert-3/

If I can get just sixteen more reviews, Hornytown Chutzpah will be my most reviewed book. C'mon grapevine. Get active.

If you're going to Confluence in Pittsburgh this summer, you can pre-order your pretty dragon T-shirt, and this year's T-shirt will have my name on the back as the conference workshop leader. :D confluence-sff.org/t-shirt

OMG this: "The paper is essentially a mathematical proof that a world with universal basic income is more meritocratic than a world without one, because luck-based distribution — which is what we have now — throws away most of the talent in the room." www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

And that right there is the "death panel" that the GOP whined about for so long. EVERY accusation is a confession.

Okay. Let's take a moment to talk about How To Be A Hugo Nominee And Come Out Of It Happy About the Honor. I realize this is relevant to like, twelve people. I don't care, those twelve people deserve my time. (You may have seen a version of this thread before. I do it every year.)

That said, there are frequently scholarships for nominees, especially first-time nominees, and people are generally happy to help. If someone offers, let them. If you're the person who can offer, do. Just remember that truly helping someone shouldn't have strings attached.

it's lesbian visibility week! get this absolute beast of a sapphic bundle with nearly 100 books for only $40 omg! #booksky itch.io/b/3635/lesbi...

April is Autism Awareness Month and I am on book tour, thus giving lots and LOTS of new people the opportunity to be aware of autism!

My cat nephew is named Crash, which makes this whole prospect sound way better. Yes, I will watch domestic cat Crash Bandicoot get custody of his kittens.

[Him being antithetical to Christ has been obvious for many years.]

Congratulations, friend!

I wrote stories all my life, from about seven years old until I sold my first semi-pro at the tender age of 39 for $50. I had logged something like 700 submissions at that point. Nothing makes me gasp "You poor thing!" like someone saying they want to take up writing to make money.

It's a gray kind of day inside and out. What song(s) do you like to play to brighten the room with warmth, comfort, and joy?

Bookshop.org has the print version of Farewell Speech marked down. Preorders are open if you enjoy scifi stories about single mothers, protective teens, and supportive body-sharing aliens. bookshop.org/p/books/fare...

@itgodp.bsky.social has a series worthy of a listen. Here we discuss how writers can pursue equity in their writing, how to deal with the toxicity of reading alt-right works, and examples of anti-fascist writing. 🎧Listen now itgodp.libsyn.com or wherever you like to pod. #WriterSky #SciFiSky #SFF

USB 3.0 Micro-B is an affront to nature. That is all.

If you want to support an author but don't want to spend any money, ask your local library to stock their book! Most libraries have an online form you can fill out to request a title. If your library already has their book, check it out! Good circulation numbers will tempt them to buy again.

Enjoying the tea I got from a tribe in a state I grew up in with cinnamon I got from a local spice dealer and honey from a farm in the next town over. Feels very personal.

Learning more about yaupon tea this morning, since I found some in the Catawba Cultural Center on my way home from the Artemis launch. Only native North American plant that's caffeinated. www.gpb.org/blogs/fork-i...

Creatively, give yourself a year of yes. Say yes to every feasible appearance, opportunity, and project. Then wrestle yourself a year of no. Just you doing you. Once the poles are established, merge the 2 into becoming a happy state of flow and hold on to it. Worked for me, might for you. #control