I really wish people would stop talking about autistic people (like me!) as a “risk” instead of a neutral and naturally occurring subset of humanity who get born mostly because other autistic people exist in our bloodline. It’s really exhausting. We’re human and ✨can hear you.✨

New Book Spotlight up on the blog today. A mini-interview with @kristinaten.bsky.social about Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine from Stillhouse Press spacecowboybooks.com/3253-2/

I wrote my debut novel while working full time. It took me 10 years, but I don't regret any of the time I spent drafting and revising.

My weird Gothic fairytale novel, The West Facade comes out exactly 6 months from today with @sfwp.bsky.social Eeeee! Here's how you can pre-order 🌙🖤 www.sfwp.com/books/johnson

End-of-summer writing update ✍️ At the beginning of June, I posted about Jami Attenberg’s annual challenge, #1000wordsofsummer, and I wanted to share where I landed for accountability’s sake.

This just in, our summer book sale works on preorders! Treat yourself to books by @carolinehagood.bsky.social, Lisa K. Friedman, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, @laurencjohnson.bsky.social, and @wendyjfox.bsky.social, and get 30% off your total purchase when you shop directly from SFWP! buff.ly/S3Jxn7N

I got to host a reading last night & it was SPECTACULAR @laurencjohnson.bsky.social, Josh Fernandez, K. M. Soehnlein, @audthentic.bsky.social and @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social read, @fabulistmag.bsky.social co-hosted, Cafe Suspiro & Arc Gallery were an amazing double venue. San Francisco I love you

I'm so thrilled to join this 🌟stellar🌟 lineup!!! Bay Area friends, come through!

My short fiction recs for April-June are up. Featuring stories by T.K. Rex, @foxesandroses.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @nuzo.bsky.social @mariahaskins.com @angelaliu.bsky.social Madison Jozefiak @carrievaughnco.bsky.social and @aimeeogdenwrites.com itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/07/shor...

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

My wonderful editor, Adam al-Sirgany's collection is available for pre-order from @whiskeytit.com!! Two words: sentient figurines! whiskeytit.com/product/more...

THANK YOU to everyone who submitted pieces to Club Chicxulub Vol. 4, LIMBO!! 🌀 We received double the submissions we received last time, and we're so honored and humbled that you trust us to present your work. We promise to respond to you asap! 🦖☄️✨

A belated congrats to Alexander Boldizar for winning the 2025 Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2024 for The Man Who Saw Seconds!!! This was my first time attending the Locus Awards Weekend festivities and it was a hoot!

Hey hey. If you’re in the Bay July 10, I’m hosting a new reading series called Stir, at Cafe Suspiro on Folsom. It’s going to kick ass. @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social will be there. We also have an Instagram: @stir.at.cafe.suspiro cafesuspiro.com/pages/stir-a...

En route to the reading and kickoff mixer with @ruddagerrustin.bsky.social and @clubchicxulub.bsky.social 🦖⭐ So excited to meet everyone!

Literature is dead and no one reads anymore! I would still encourage you to make terrible life choices and become a writer anyway! Fuck a job, write poetry!

Oh dear. I learned about Labubus over the weekend and now I'm afraid I must have one.

Illustrated by Jocelyn Sanchez, we're thrilled to share the cover of @laurencjohnson.bsky.social‬'s forthcoming #historicalfiction #fantasy novel, THE WEST FAÇADE! Available March 3rd, 2026, you can preorder a copy of THE WEST FAÇADE right now! buff.ly/Pqx4OKn @susanschulman.bsky.social‬

Thrilled to be keeping company with these amazing SFF writers in the Bay Area ✨

🌀What do we do when life throws us curveballs? Artist & poet Paul S. Flores explores this question in his book WE STILL BE. Listen to this gorgeous clip of Paul reading his work, then get excited to hear him perform at Babylon this Sat, Jun 14 @The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free! www.babylonsalon.com 🍻📚

💥"These days there are very few American comedy writers bringing their A-game, but Browne is swinging for the fences.” Here's the stunning Kirkus Review of Scott G. Browne's book FATED. Come hear S.G. Browne at Babylon Salon this Sat, Jun 14 at The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free! www.babylonsalon.com 📚

I’m excited to introduce the bewitching @laurenparker.bsky.social, author of Dark Way Down and Spells for Success, at @babylonsalon.bsky.social's Summer reading and performance on 6/14! Join us for merrymaking, storytelling, drinks, curly fries, and catching up with friends at the Sycamore Bar!

Congratulations to @laurencjohnson.bsky.social whose hybrid interview/essay with author Tomas Moniz was published in The Panafold! buff.ly/6k21MaK

DC area friends! This is where the party's happening tomorrow! I so very much wish I could be there!

Be there!!!

I am listening to the audiobook for Middlemarch and was just thinking of how I will never want AI to replace vocal talent. Juliet Aubrey is incredible.

Holy shit - this is such a violation of so many different kinds of privacy and ALSO fucking terrifying

I'm excited to share that I have a new author interview/hybrid essay in issue 2 of the gorgeous, gorgeous Panafold magazine! thepanafold.com ❤️

Club Chicxulub is growing our team, and we’re thrilled to introduce a new reader to our masthead. Behold, Bron Treanor! www.brontreanor.com

So thrilled my Florida flash fiction piece, "The Sunshine Skyway" found a home with The Sunlight Press 🌞

Tonight's Club Chicxulub is going to be a wild ride. 🦖☄️ Demonic roomies and neighbors! Sacrifices! Spells! Cyborg love and cyborg sex! Every kind of witch! Our writers and musicians have brought it all! We’ll see you at 7:00 p.m. tonight at Ingleside's premier town tavern, Ocean Ale House! 🌊🎹

TONIGHT at 7pm PDT, @clubchicxulub.bsky.social will be having it's reading event at Ocean Ale House in San Francisco, CA with Katie M. Flynn, Naomi Kanakia, Evan Kennedy, K.R. Morrison, & LeeAnn Perry, produced by @laurencjohnson.bsky.social, Matt Scott Carney, & Dev Bhat! buff.ly/ufr4wo4

I explained it to several young teens today: imagine we wanted you to become more self-sufficient in the kitchen, so we decided to charge you $20 every time you got takeout. But also we have no food in the house, we won't let you go to the store, and also you don't know how to cook.

Yesterday, every single Republican & 30 Democrats supported Trump's $8.8 billion bomb shipment to help Netanyahu continue his annihilation of the Palestinian people. That isn't what the American people want. Below are my floor remarks to stop the sale. www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

some helpful links to fight against authors’ works—mine included—being used to train AI without our consent: Here is the checker AND an update from Authors Guild with steps to take. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

Students are holding a "study-in" at the Department of Education to protest Trump's attempt to abolish the Department. We're calling it what it is: Trump and Musk are stealing from kids to fund tax breaks for billionaires. We won't let it stand.

Happy belated Spring Equinox/Ostara! 🌱🪻Yesterday, I spent some time journaling in my Mushroom School Workbook from Corporeal Writing. I will forever shout Corporeal Writing’s praises to anyone looking for a creative writing and arts community.

“The real enemy of DOGE is not waste and bureaucracy, as Musk claims, but the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake—and the idea that education should be a public good.” time.com/7269589/depa...

Trump attacked Federal Funding for Libraries. We need Americans like you to take action today! Please sign and share the petition before it's too late! action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.

Fuck AI. We open 4/20. Be aggressively, violently human

Creative nonfiction is so hard! Jumping into a new essay after spending the past year almost exclusively editing my novel, and gaaah lots of false starts with the opening paragraph.

It just occurred to me that my owl puns have gotten out of control. I'm even dropping owl emojis in LinkedIn posts. I should probably have some owls on my author website for consistent branding 🦉

National Book Award nominee @samsax.bsky.social & shot of the packed house at our Mar. 1st show!

⭐ Our stunning authors on Sat. night (L to R): Jon Hickey, Mercilee Jenkins, Nina Schuyler, & Emily Jon Tobias! (Look for sam sax in a 2nd post.) Just when we think Babylon can't get any better, it does! ⭐

We just had the worst flu season in ten years and there are SO many people who would be dead right now if they hadn’t gotten the vaccine. I am fucking livid www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

🔥 "I had to tell a story about characters in crisis—spiritual, political, personal—& make the themes into something real and urgent.” [email protected] For a preview of Jon's debut novel, join us this Sat., Mar. 1 @ The Sycamore SF! Doors @ 5pm, Reading @5:30. As always, admission is free! 💜

The Statue of Liberty should feel free to spring to life and start marching towards Washington DC any time now…..no pressure though

Hands down, one of my favorite interviews I’ve worked on to date. I had so much fun chatting with Lauren Parker (@laurenparker.bsky.social) about her new poetry collection, Dark Way Down—a speculative continuation of David Bowie’s 1976 album, Station to Station. theracketsf.com/home/intervi...