I'm still raising funds to pay for increased cancer treatment costs, & as a token of my appreciation to all donors, every contribution between Feb 1 & Mar 28 will be entered in a random draw to win 1 of 3 autographed copies of my latest novella! Click for details! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

“Lies and propaganda!” “No, it’s science.” Love this line in the S1 finale of Starfleet Academy.

Starting the week with promo in the midst of the hellscape: join me and @annaleen.bsky.social at @booksinc.bsky.social Palo Alto on 4/21 for the launch of THE PHOTONIC EFFECT! RSVP for free here! If you're not local, you can order a signed copy to ship here too: www.eventbrite.com/e/mike-chen-...

Welcome back to another year of the Trans Rights Readathon! This year’s readathon will take place from March 17 to March 31. If you want to officially sign up, fill out the form on our 🕸️site to join the fun! #TransRightsReadathon #trr26 #TransBooks

And if you're interested in the series I pitched to my editor as "Sephiroth and Joan of Arc team up against Emet-Selch from FFXIV in a BERSERK inspired tale" then you should start with THE RADIANT KING!

The second book of The Astral Kingdoms Trilogy now has both a name and a cover! DAUGHTER OF DESTRUCTION Thank you so much, @magalivilleneuve.bsky.social, for such incredible artwork. I could not have envisioned a more perfect representation of Isabelle.

THIS!!!

I loved The Last Jedi and wish we could have got the ending it promised.

I just typed the (non) word feets (as in more than one foot) so I think maybe it’s time to call it a night… 😭

The joy in this gorgeous cover! 🥹

Another FIYAH issue is headed your way soon! In the meantime, we feast on the stunning cover art for April's next unthemed issue: fiyahlitmag.com/2026/03/09/f...

#Booksky Kobo reader? Our books are out there too! Get some great queer books and escape for a bit! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Ramadan Market is an auction of signed books and other offers from many participating authors (including me with three signed copies of RAKESFALL!) organized by Lit for Lebanon and others. Each book sold feeds a family in Lebanon this Ramadan! www.32auctions.com/ramadanmarket

Cymera festival in Edinburgh is coming soon! 5th-7th June. Get your Early Bird Weekend Passes now! www.cymerafestival.co.uk?utm_source=s...

“One of the most insidious aspects of colonialism, reinforced by the paucity of positive diverse representation in literature, is that authors of color often have to undertake an entire personal journey to learn that it is okay to write characters (and stories) that aren’t white” Essential reading:

Wait, is Rotta… ripped?!

🎥 🎞️ COMING SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 🎞️ 🎥 As revealed in @people! MAZYWOOD, a haunting new literary thriller from @tananarivedue, author of the New York Times bestseller The Reformatory. Preorder now: https://bit.ly/3OMpYco

📣 In the UK & US shop! Purchase at: bit.ly/IC_ADOBB Our Illumicrate Exclusive: A Dance of Burning Blades edition, created in collaboration with M.H. Ayinde and Orbit Books, is now available for general sale.⁠

Also available in our UK & US shops - limited remaining book & box stock of A Song of Legends Lost (book 1): bit.ly/IC_ASOLL

Generative AI is where creativity goes to die

Very cool to see that my @sauutiverse.bsky.social novella DESCENT is now a finalist for the BSFA Awards! Many thanks to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing it, to everyone who read and congratulations to all my fellow finalists whom I'm pleasantly intimidated to be counted among! #bsfa #awards

This entirety of month's bookstack is compromised of review books for @sffworld.com Looks like another fun and diverse stack of books! @cgolden.bsky.social @mhayinde.bsky.social @kierstenwhite.bsky.social @jedediahberry.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social #bookstack #fantasybooks #horrorbooks

Oh my goodness. Dr. Daniel Black writes this way 😆 I once asked him why he made a character do something and he said “well daughter I was just as surprised as you were”

Oh dear I’ve realised something terrible is about to happen to one of my characters and I am not responsible because I did not plan for this it is completely out of my control soz

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Short break from insanity to share that UNCERTAIN SONS is a BSFA finalist. A testament to @undertow.bsky.social's thoughtful work more than anything else that the book has gone anywhere. Thanks to them and to folks who support indies like UP. Means a lot. Congrats to all the finalists.

Delighted that my collection WHO WILL YOU SAVE? Is a finalist for the BSFA Awards! This makes me an 11-time nominee (and twice winner)! #bsfaawards2026 #bsfaawards #books

So THE SALT ORACLE is a finalist for the BSFA awards! And my amazing designer, Sam Gretton is a finalist for the cover too! 🙌🏽 Truly delighted for Sam & very, very grateful to everyone who voted for my strange, briny why-pick-one-genre-when-you-can-pick-four book 🤗 @solarisbooks.bsky.social 🖤

Overjoyed to see fabulous friends @bethkesh.bsky.social @stewarthotston.com @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @jennicoutts.bsky.social & others on there too. What an excellent bunch you are 🤗

It is with great joy that i can say Project Hanuman is shortlisted for best novel In the BSFA awards @bsfa.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social i also have a story in the short listed anthology, Creative Futures If you’ve not yet read either now is the time! Congrats to all the finalists.

The BSFA Awards shortlists are up, highlighting an array of excellent work. Do take a look, whether or not you're voting. (Especially if you're in need of an alternative to doomscrolling) bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Reading new novelists for the Compton Crook Award is some of the fun in being a member of @balticon.bsky.social Best wishes to all of this year's finalists. @eirencaffall.bsky.social, Haley Gefulso, Antonia Hodgson, @barsukov.com, @mhayinde.bsky.social & Andrew Luddington

It’s such an honour to have been chosen as a finalist for the Compton Crook Award for best debut SFFH novel! And huge congratulations to all my fellow finalists!

Congrats to these debut authors! @eirencaffall.bsky.social @barsukov.com @mhayinde.bsky.social More of this kind of author support, please.

«A Song of Legends Lost» es una chulada de libro, de lo mejorcito que leí el mes pasado. ¡A leerlo todo el mundo!

Yesterday was UK paperback release day for A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST! 🥳 I loves me a crispy, yellowing, mass market paperback. May copies of ASOLL one day be found looking like my well-worn edition of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, sellotaped up, much read, and with all the wrinkles of a village elder

An African View Of The 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List, Hugo and Nebula Nominations, BSFA voting and More. Hey y’all. The 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List is out and as usual, I did a quick analysis of the list to see how much work by African authors appears, something I've been tracking…

How about… hear me out… *no* line of succession?! 🤔🤔🤔

It is I, joining the ranks of those for whom design is their passion Very happy this weirdo novella found a home with Union Square and Mika Kasuga! Thanks to @canonizer.bsky.social for connecting us!

Catching up on the TWD spin-off shows and they’re all basically Our Plucky Heroes fighting assorted fascists in various decaying world locations, while around them the mindless masses continue to consume and consume, yet their civilisation is already dead, is eating itself, is unsustainable and… oh.

PSA: A scammer is using the email account '[email protected]' to impersonate me. That is not my email account, and I am not sending messages from it. Please delete all such messages if you receive them.

Friends, "To Kill A Language" was voted as the Best Flash Fiction in Apex Choice Awards 2025. I'm officially an award winning writer!

Swooping back in with the deets on our two THEMED issues of the year! Tell a friend who would write the hell out of these 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

If you’re wondering where I am mentally, I’ve discovered someone has uploaded a 24 minute loop of Sakura’s theme from Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha onto YouTube and I am listening to all 24 minutes of it.

About to write a big Scene of a scene.

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JANUARY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's December's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

Today (+every day) in the chronicles of an anxious over-thinker: How many exclamation marks is too many exclamation marks in an email? Having them in consecutive sentences looks hysterical. Having none looks uninterested/cold. And using them in alternating sentences looks like I can’t pick a mood

My two besties