in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

TODAY, Friday January 23rd, 2026: We are ALL residents of Minnesota. We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊 Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔

In other awards news… omfgcksh!!! A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST has been longlisted for the BSFA award for best novel! Thank you to everyone who nominated my chonky baby, and congratulations to all the other longlisted authors!

The joy at seeing a horror movie get such recognition; a horror movie with a Black cast that so beautifully explores what it is to be Black (especially a Black creative), both historically and currently, is just the best feeling. SINNERS is unparalleled and it deserves all the praise.

I'm reading and enjoying «A Song of Legends Lost», by @mhayinde.bsky.social, and «Positive Obsession», a biography about Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris.

THIS COVER 😍😍😍

Hello, would you like some queer urban fantasy books? Would you like to discover them through the media of pretty pictures? GREAT! Here's a thread for you!! 1: Laurence and Quentin, by @rudiindra4.bsky.social

Alright Weeellll my non existent TBR which was to be the same as my previous TBR has just gone up in flames because I was approved to read Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker AND A Dance of Burning Blades by @mhayinde.bsky.social and you all cant see it but happy dancing!!

WE HAVE HEATING AND HOT WATER AGAIN I AM REJOICE (Turns out our old boiler was wired wrongly so it’s a miracle it limped along for 13 years.)

Fan of our latest issue's cover art? So are we! FIYAH is thrilled to welcome our new Art Director, Kerine Wint! "A cover isn’t always just a cover — a magazine is never just a magazine — without a vision, a purpose, and a community." More thoughts from Kerine here: fiyahlitmag.com/2026/01/19/a...

Swooping back this very fine MLK Day with our first unthemed issue of 2026! Behold! Get yours! Tell a friend! fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

A good day to you on this MLK Monday! We didn't come this far just to come this far...sending you much love, safety, and rest for the week ahead. Sprinkle those words in where you can ♥️

1/? More or less Personal Me: so Minneapolis/St. Paul and environs are taking a huge hit on many levels from the 🧊 invasion and occupation. Please check out our many small businesses, if you can! So many places are closing or at reduced hours to protect staff! Here’s a few local bizes out here:

Urgh, getting sidetracked by some kind of bad-guy buddy road trip scene why do I do these things halp this was not in Draft 1

Today's flowers go to @mhayinde.bsky.social's A Song of Legends Lost. I love sff hybrids, and this is a good one! Very interesting story and characters that kept me reading. Highly recommend and will be reading A Dance of Burning Blades for sure!

Finally watched The Wild Robot and I am undone. It has undidded me.

New #WriterBeware blog post: my annual look back at the topics the Writer Beware blog covered in 2025. Scams, of course, but also contracts, copyright, generative AI, and more. If you missed any of our posts last year, here's your chance to catch up writerbeware.blog/2026/01/16/b...

GNoH NEEDS YOU. Last year, certainly the first half was a washout for me, but after getting proper psychiatric help, I am back with a reviewing vengeance. And GNoH needs more reviewers. If you'd like to volunteer your services, please drop me an email (jimmcleod(at)gnofhorror.com)

Ahhh!! My book is launched! It's live on Amazon right now! https://amzn.to/4qrXnqO

ICYMI, I announced the launch party for Bound by the Blood! It'll be January 25th at Pandemonium Books & Games in Cambridge! 6:30 pm, books will be on hand and I'll have some special swag, as well, for those who RSVP! pandemoniumbooks.com...

Happy Friday! Let's love on our creators today. Who is a Black SFF author you wish more people were screaming about? Bonus if they have new work coming out this year 🔥🔥🔥

(Correction: it seems this is US only. Anyone outside the US who wants to win a copy - I’ll be holding a giveaway for newsletter subscribers at the end of next week. Link in bio to subscribe.)

Dear artists, it's hard avoiding wondering if what we do is irrelevant or an insult when it's harsh, scary, dangerous & violent out there, but one thing is always true as stone: someone will need what you do, someone won't, & you won't know the difference. Err on the side of hope. Create if u can.

The First Amendment protects the public’s right to: 1. Film ICE in public 2. Photograph ICE in public 3. Observe what ICE does in public ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.

There’s currently a Goodreads giveaway happening for A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES, Book 2 of The Invoker Trilogy. Details on the book’s page, here (US/Canada only, I’m afraid): tr.ee/e3BrJD06WN

Good morning. A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive. That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power. Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

I briefly find myself in the NORTH. Everyone is FRIENDLY and men wear SHORTS, in brazen defiance of the temperature.

Sharing about your WIP, making it real for eventual readers, can help keep the channel open. Whether it's a resolution or a project you've been working on for years, drop a single line of your progress this week! Let's speak life into our work today 🔥🔥🔥 #onelinewed #WIPWednesday

Important update: Boiler is, to use the complex technical term, completely knackered, innit 😭😭😭

Morning fam! The horrors persist, but so do we 🔥 Whether you write for resistance, love, joy, vengeance, or purely out of spite...get your words IN this week. We need em and we need you 🥰 let folks know how your WIP is going!

Boiler on the bloody blink

Since this seems to be under-reported, you may be unaware that digital images are also being manipulated to depict women and children as victims of physical violence. It's not just about bikinis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just over three weeks left to submit your SFF short story or poem to our second unthemed issue of 2026! Don't overthink it, smash that send button 👇🏿 fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Born to post my silly thoughts to get them out of my head Forced to post "YOU CAN'T KILL US ALL, NAZIS" Not a fan, really

FUCK ICE. FUCK FUCK ICE. FUCK FUCK FUCK ICE. FUCk ICE. FUCK ICE Fuck ice

Almost 90% of Greenland’s population is Indigenous, in case you’re wondering why the rich white men in the gilded White House think they can just take their land.

This is perhaps one of many reasons why it won't be published in the US any time soon. As I said at WFC in Brighton: Ballantine Books, who published Perilous Times in the US, wanted me to cut a major queer storyline from the book. When I refused to makes those edits, they cancelled the contract.

THE KNIGHT WATCH is a book about many things, including: - a giant magical salmon - the complicity between transphobia and the far right - Arthurian knights slaughtering Nazis and having fun doing it - Lancelot being a queer disaster - Galehaut dealing with Lancelot's bullshit

My second novel, THE KNIGHT WATCH, will be published by Orbit in June this year. It features the Knights of the Round Table killing Nazis and living their messy queer afterlives during the Second World War. I'll be sharing the wonderful cover art as soon as I'm permitted to do so.

Who is writing this week? Here to encourage you on that goal we set for 2026. Seven days in, let's share some progress! A line you love from your WIP, doesn't need to be perfect, just on the page 📖 #WIPWed #onelinewed

I may be dressed for my run but I ain’t running on that ice.

Another day, another opportunity for my kids to roast me: “Mum, what are all those emojis supposed to mean? It looks like a toddler got hold of your phone.” 💀😭👵🏾 (Those emojis are just for him…)

Currently wrapping up my speed run draft of Book 3 of The Invoker Trilogy! 😮‍💨

I seem to have fallen into an “Americans in Britain” algo on Insta, and today I saw a reel with a guy saying when we Brits are ultra polite it usually means we’re livid. Well IT’S TRUE because, today I automatically flashed a massive grin at a rude receptionist and cried, “thank you SO much!”

Oof, this is powerful and heart-rending and important:

One of my fave and most personal things I’ve ever written has been translated into Spanish! Thank you to @vocesinsolito.bsky.social for bringing this story to Spanish readers, and to @carlabestruch.bsky.social for the translation! More here: www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...

A thread I'll be adding to hopefully as new titles are announced: the upcoming 2026 books I've been making an excited note of in my diary so far. Old favourite authors, new voices that just sound too intriguing, and very occasionally a stunning bit of cover art that really caught my eye! #SFF 🪐📚💙

April should see the release of A Dance of Burning Blades, book 2 in @mhayinde.bsky.social's gripping Invoker Trilogy. A sweeping & fresh tale of revenge and rebellion set in a richly imagined world of warring clans and ancestor magic - epic fantasy fans really should give this series a read! 💙📚🪐