Mad you have to do a bunch of non-book-writing work as an author? Yeah, we all are. But you still have to do it even if you don't get "paid" to do so. www.agentsandbooks.com/thats-what-t...

one thing about Kate's book WRITE THROUGH IT that I thought was really useful framing was the chapter on self-promotion where she talks about what kind of marketing the publisher is good at (trade reviews, bookstores & libraries) vs. what kind the author is good at (readers, your writing community)

I have a new story in Craft Literary, “Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk Into the Woods”, about the people & places that haunt us. would be so thrilled for you to read this one 👻 🌲 🤍 www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/19/t...

I wrote a craft essay for @literaryhub.bsky.social about solo road-tripping and creativity. lithub.com/karen-palmer...

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

god I would love to attend this - please go, NOLA peeps, so I can live vicariously 😍

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

Vielen dank, Gretchen and Amy. Here's the new shorty story, read by the author, from the New Yorker podcast: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

IT'S A GOTHIC RENAISSANCE BAYBEE (my latest from Reactor: a review of Isabel Cañas's excellent third novel)

keep trottin

Fans of science fiction fantasy and straight up sci-fi with twisted societies, reluctant alliances, and flawed characters, may I entice you with my weird writing? Sequels in both series coming soon! www.rebeccareyeswriting.com/work/book-series #SFF #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Books #BookSky💙📚

Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D 🎁Link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

My fiction debut comes out in less than a month and you *can* get a copy from my small press today, right now, this second.

Here's a periodic reminder: I write a newsletter called Transfer Orbit, which is all about genre, fandom, reading, science fiction, writing, and quite a bit more. This newsletter is my way of keeping up with, commentating, and reporting on the genre world in a couple of ways.

everyone in power is engaging with an imaginary version of society and refusing to admit it they just go along with the approved facade and never look back it's like societal gaslighting

More guest editor news! 📣 Emma Burnett, our guest editor for our Nov 2025 issue, has a new story out today at @unchartedmag.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #writingcommunity #shortstory #speculativefiction

On The Take-Up podcast, our inventory of "permanent cinema" continues with my inaugural pick, Joel and Ethan Coen's arguably perfect neo-noir/western, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007). open.spotify.com/episode/7fb1...

if you wanna read some good criticism today read this thebaffler.com/latest/mille...

Was able to drop a shout-out in our closing segment for @emmasloley.bsky.social excellent new post-apocalyptic / zoology nerd novel, THE ISLAND OF LAST THINGS. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Need a read that will hasten your heartbeat, #booksky? 🫀 Here are a handful of literary pick-me-ups that are sure to give you the wake-up you’ve been looking for! Full of high-stakes drama and breath-catching suspense, these book recs will have you sweating bullets even as the weather cools 📚

GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub YA or adult SFF/H book coming out Sept 2025 - March 2026? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

Okay this answers a lot of questions I have had!!!!

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

very excited to get my first skull today! honored for my poem to be included in @havehashad.com - thanks @aaronburch.bsky.social 💀🗡️ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/sel...

72% of our funding goal with only 45 hours left. We need your support now to publish another year of stories that are strange terrifying numinous inspiring queer heartening subversive unexpected intrepid. kck.st/4mIkEm1

The New Providence Book Festival will be returning on September 20, 2025. I'll be there, signing my books. Learn more at www.NewProvidenceBookFestival.com

It’s my birthday! Everyone who preorders Tell Me Yours from Stillhouse Press today (9/9 till 11:59pm ET) will get a signed—and, if you want, respectfully doodled in—copy! And one lucky duck will also snag this sexy, sparkly “cool S” pin. iykyk!

My team alerted me to this review a while back and warned me it was unfavorable so I'm never going to read it, lol, but I sincerely mean this when I say I appreciate when a critic (or anyone) reads and engages with my work on this level, even if they end up not enjoying it 🥹🖤

I would like people to talk to me about speculative fiction that falls - loosely, in some way, no rules required - into the category of Australian Gothic (yes I'm writing about Honeyeater yes I need MORE PLEASE)

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.

me in Paris taking my first bite of baguette & the butter with salt crystals in it: FINE, I will pay 40-50% of my income in tax, please just let me stay here 🥹

hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together

Cheers to 10 years of making videos 🥂

I'm happy to announce that I'm the new associate editor of the sf section at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. So I'm open to good review/essay pitches that fit LARB's audience. I've been quietly doing this for a few weeks and already commissioned some things I'm excited for you to read!

My team alerted me to this review a while back and warned me it was unfavorable so I'm never going to read it, lol, but I sincerely mean this when I say I appreciate when a critic (or anyone) reads and engages with my work on this level, even if they end up not enjoying it 🥹🖤

Book giveaway!!! I just got my author copies of SALTCROP and I’m giving two away! Sign up for my newsletter before Friday 9/5/25, 11AM EST for a chance to win! More details 🧵

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Wrote for The Metropolitan Review about the pros & cons of working w/ small indie presses vs. big presses, the journey from almost being a big fancy author to being a medium unfancy author, and mid-career re-evaluation of what I want out of the writing life www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

In solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla which launches this week in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, I've recorded a new song for Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axj...

I am collecting photos of my book posed with people's animals, so if you'd like to be a part of this worthwhile endeavor, please be like Chloe and tag me in pictures with your various familiars, real, imaginary or plushy 🥹🐊📚

I am so so excited for @emmasloley.bsky.social book! Blahaj even cannot contain themselves

happy to share that I am going to AWP next March ‘cause I’m on a kickass Jewish panel with some of the coolest folks on the planet 🔥✡️🤗

I wrote a little guest post for @barnesandnoble.com's blog about the origin story and writing process for my new novel, The Island of Last Things, should you enjoy that sort of thing! www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/emma-sl... #booksky 💙📚

It was an excellent read! A wonderful exploration of humanity's relationship with nature, wrapped in a story of survival, sacrifice, and the enduring power of hope. Highly recommended.

Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?

Hi just a lil' reminder that tomorrow I'm running a little Mini #1000wordsofsummer for the weekend, more details here mini1000.substack.com/p/the-next-m...