RIGHT RIGHT WHAT'S ALL THIS THEN

Spread the disease this holiday season... THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: NEW TALES OF STEPHEN KING'S THE STAND A New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post Bestseller Hardcover, audiobook, and eBook amzn.to/4oJdpvF

so my friends: are any of you (or someone you know) an expert on post-main sequence stellar evolution and/or planets in post-main sequence star systems? 👉👈😬🧪🔭

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

Thanks @premeemohamed.com I just finished beneath the rising (which I thoroughly enjoyed) and now my friends outside of winnipeg are seeing northern lights and all I can think is the doors are getting thinner

@gianttourtiere.bsky.social But

You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit

OK I gently cleaned the black one, touched up the silicone grease, and filled it with an appropriate ink :D Back to work!

Oh also here is the other pen I got in France, it is a mournful sardine

ANYWAY slowly unpacking (still can't breathe lol) and here are my souvenir pens from Paris! I always try to buy a souvenir pen now when I travel. I spotted one in the display and in my execrable French was like "Oh! I didn't know J. Herbin made pens! I have some of their inks??" Sales lady: 😍

Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a very small weevil posing majestically. (Brazil) #Bugsky 🐙🌿

LOOKING FOR BOOKS: golden and silver age sci-fi focused on space exploration

i still refuse to back down from my belief that every single living person has the capacity for artistic genius. society-as-profit has just crushed those of us who don't happen to luck out

Sir that does not mean you can just go SELLING THEM ON THE STREET you know

Frog is one of the nicest and most relentlessly talented people I know. It sucks, so bad, for every creative you know right now. Please, if you can, hire him. Dude ROCKS.

Ugh ugh I splurged and bought this in hardback and I am saving it as a TREAT (it seems a treat with leggies) till after my next two giant deadlines EVERYBODY GO GET IT

I filled out an MTA lost property form, but if anyone saw a blue Mets jacket on the eastbound Q 45 today, or the Q 44 in either direction (I got lost!), Or at the corner of Main Street and Union Turnpike, or the southbound corner of Lafayette Avenue and the Hutchinson River Parkway…hit me up!

I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs. Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.

What's that? DATA, you say? 👀

What time is it? It's DRAG THE SALMON OUT OF THE TOYBOX AND KILL THE SALMON TIME

AUTHORS IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO HAVE STAFF? THEN THE ANSWER IS NOT TO EXPLOIT OTHER'S PEOPLE LABOR FOR FREE!

No auroras here due to the freezing fog, but it means we have had another cool phenomenon. Hoar frost. And it’s particularly long and spiky.

hung out with some beetle people, mentioned fairy shrimp, and they mentioned a specialist ground beetle which is a fairy shrimp predator. how can you know that much of the story and then not know the best part, which is that the beetles only hunt at night because the shrimp GLOW IN THE DARK

I'm sorry you said it's a *what* now news.sky.com/story/powerf...

I'm excited to announce a writing discussion coming to my channel on Tuesday, November 25th at 9 p.m. ET! Join @premeemohamed.com, @brandoncrilly.bsky.social, @valerievaldes.bsky.social, and me for "Crossing The 49th: Canadian and American Authors Talk Shop," about North American publishing in 2025!

"Fiasco am invited to this zoom meeting" You were not "Yes! Fiasco am PARTICIPANT." Your butthole is TOUCHING MY WORK "Fiasco am part of authorial process"

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST NOVELLAS IN THE WORLD

if you're here because of this (who are you people? where did you come from?) then you'll definitely-maybe like my book that's all about swordfighting and magic and kissing (that definitely contains no magic swords) Burn Up in Victory! books2read.com/burnupinvict...

By the way, I will be reading at tonight's @brocktonwriters.bsky.social ! Virtually (as I just dragged my carcass home from another continent and literally could not go to Toronto) but the other readers will be live and in-person! :) brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com/next-event/

He's just so very excited that I'm home after two weeks away

I think that with how uncertain things are right now for the arts, it's especially frustrating when given the advice from artist to artist that in order to survive, you have to do more, and that it's seemingly at the point where whatever more we have to do, it's never actually enough.

Also as discussed on Insta, because it was so sunny on my last day out and about I mostly could not see my phone screen, so I was like "Did any of my photos turn out nice" and yes, because Paris just... poses for you no matter what you do.

By the way, I will be reading at tonight's @brocktonwriters.bsky.social ! Virtually (as I just dragged my carcass home from another continent and literally could not go to Toronto) but the other readers will be live and in-person! :) brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com/next-event/

It seems that if you want to make new, big discoveries in the natural sciences, a good bet would be to study fungi and mushrooms. Then again, I wasn't getting "we are flush with cash" vibes from the mycologists, so if your aim is to drive a fancy car, maybe think twice. But things do change...

34 hours to go!!! WITCHING SEASON has about $5k to go to reach our goal, we are 90% there! Please share and support if you can🌙 A 150+ page horror comic anthology with 28 original stories from so many incredible creators! www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

I want that last paragraph on a T-shirt (or really, an enamel pin because I need to be able to wear it constantly) There’s certainly some stuff I make a note of for various reasons, but I also have been thinking a lot about Bryan Stevenson’s “Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done”

About once a week someone online hits me with a passive aggressive “wow I am SURPRISED to see you repost/fave/share a person I broke up with/don’t like etc”. Friends. I remind you that I don’t know you or your personal burn book.

Hmm hmmmmm hmm what's all this then

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

Aaaaa! :) This is the short piece I wrote (yes, another one based on a dream) for the crowdfund! It's called SONGS NEVER SUNG and it's... sort of about birds but not really?

3LBE Issue 46 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by K.S. Walker, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Corey Farrenkopf, Premee Mohamed, and Katie McIvor. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/

"No, you get it; you understand that the internet forever longs for your knee-jerk, negative, and uninformed opinions that occasionally contain grammatical errors — and you are more than ready to deliver them."

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

E425.1.1 Revenant as lady in white.

I am HOME and so so so tired (I don't get jetlag any more because all I want to do is sleep 20 hours/day, so my body has lost the ability to know when it's 'supposed' to do that) The kitties have celebrated by *checks notes* Franca ambushing Fiasco in the kitchen (he is now wailing under the table)

Aurora Borealis alert

ALSO when I unpack at some point this week, your guys will get to see the souvenir fountain pens I got in Paris and you can say "Oh that's so weird" as well as "Oh but that's so nice though" 😊 (because it is also an story of random generosity to a Canadian stranger)

ALMOST HOME (another hour till my connecting flight starts to board, then that flight, then my cab ride home, but ALMOST)

Reading The Siege of Burning Grass by @premeemohamed.com and honestly it is a crime that publishing hasn't given this woman a million dollars to just write books forever Her prose is beautiful, her worldbuilding exquisite, her characters fascinating