I got withdrawals after I finished watching the latest season of Thing I Am Loathe To Talk About (and the surprise movie), so I have started my annual rewatch of every season.

A podcast of my story "Disassembling Light", originally published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is up on It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton!!! This isn't even a career milestone I knew to want, but my nerd's heart is so full!!

The one and only. www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/jose...

From A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, "Ocean Vengeance" by @mspicone.bsky.social, a poem in which a woman, transfigured, becomes the ocean itself: reckoning.press/ocean-vengea...

New music for wind ensemble! Whether you go by ‘wind band’, ‘concert band’, ‘wind orchestra’, or something else, Composers Edition’s Isa Gibbs introduces a selection of great pieces for you whatsnew.composersedition.com/contemporary...

Happy #Novellavember and Happy 6 months in the world to my latest book!

Have you read? Scoop by Rebecca E. Treasure at Small Wonders I had to read this story multiple times to follow it. (in a good way) Very well done. smallwondersmag.com/piece/scoop/

Latest issue of Gothic Studies now out!

FANTASY LOVERS, ready for new and unusual stories that take you to unexpected places? Check out this list of unique works. I’m proud to have my book listed as one of them. Let your imagination fly. books.bookfunnel.com/fantasyoffth... #IndieBooks #BookSky #Fantasy #FantasySky #EBooksky #Ebooks

I had stories out in 2025! Seven stories! Please consider them: louisehugheswrites.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

I'm an old lady and I need my rest after a day of teaching and getting soaked in a monsoon shower + driving home through partially flooded roads. My aspirations for tonight are simply to be in pjs and in bed by 9pm, clutching a book (or two) to me.

I suppose it was inevitable that in teaching Deleuze/Guattari and Rhizomes I invoked 6-7 and "mak kau hijau".

All's said and done, for now I think I'm ending 2025 in a moderately good place as an author. Particularly considering the long drought of the past few years. Which doesn't mean I'm stopping here. I'm just taking a beat. But still will submit short fic. And poetry, ffs.

Trying to counter the fact that I tend to over-eat on Thursdays when I rush between classes etc. Bought one of those microwave meals that's around 335 kcal. Quite tasty. Hope it keeps me full for a few hours (I also had coffee and a tiny bit of chocolate to keep me going).

Taught The Tempest, some aspects of postcolonial theatre plus a soft intro to the Stanislavksi System today: background info and some exercises. Later, Deleuze and Guattari and a recap of writing systems.

Good morning BlueSky~~~ another Thursday filled with Existential Dread, writing short stories, editing some reel content, and a reminder I'm open for #commissions... (both writing & video editiong) How's your Thursday looking? #WritingCommunity #WriterEky #PostSky #BSNM #PromoSky

What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday? What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators? Can we make this a thing?

AND I share the TOC with many wonderful people including my Clarion West student @somtoihezue.bsky.social !

Amazingly got another sale after mentioning I was going to stop promoting Watermyth. Nice send-off since it put me into 3rd royalty territory. Thank you, whoever it was. For now, I rest.

This is at least the fourth story I've seen of an author having to exchange multiple emails (over 20) with this publisher to get the contract language to not be rights grabby and it's one of three where the writer walked away. I appreciate the effort and transparency but I will also say-

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Men with Tails" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/xrh90Pa

(I've given myself permission not to throw my hat into the awards-eligibility promotion ring this year. Maybe not next year also. Mental health and regulating my cortisol levels is more important to me.)

I'm going back to my spaceship. 🥱 🛌 🚀 🪐

Close to midnight, have completed making 53 slides for tomorrow's morning lecture. May add a few more tomorrow. It's a brand new course, so extra work is needed. For the afternoon, I already have the slides from last year which do need some refreshing. That's a tomorrow problem. Already half-dead.

Haven't done #3GoodThings in awhile. (1) Three fiction acceptances this year (even if two are reprints, they count!). Signed the third contract earlier. (2) My takeout place for vegetarian Tamil food sent me a packet with a free currypuff. Aww. (3) Loving the fact that I'm having a reading streak!

Sometimes I watch a thing I enjoy and I want to talk about it here but I'm so not into reply-people jumping in to tell me how they disliked it or were disappointed by it. This isn't a class assignment. You're not going be given grades on critical appreciation by harshing someone else's squee.

Got an article acceptance (finally!). Now working to submit another two articles (hopefully!) this week, prep for tomorrow's monster teaching block (morning and afternoon), plus do a peer review.

I love being an author and that's my primary ontological state. But I feel I can make more of a change/difference as an educator. Over 21 years since I started teaching (July 2004) and I'm not bored of teaching. There are always new challenges and new excitements.

I like to introduce students to excellent SFF short fiction writers every now and then. For my ESOL Theory and Practice class (where I guide them through teaching language and lit for ESOL students), I gave them a mystery box last week and told them to pick out one slip (with a name) per group. 🧵

This is what the Antisense Universe is about. In my books Cities of the Future and Climate Town, this relocation happens: the refugees build themselves a climate positive city. But my message is being suppressed by capitalist publishers who won’t even read my pitch. youtu.be/aKdU7PxyKkc?...

I just want to focus on my academic work (which I do enjoy), then come home and enjoy being cozy/restful. I want to enjoy writing/making music without additional stresses and pressures and anxieties. At least for a couple of months.

Also, maybe I'm just feeling I should enjoy Watermyth's quiet wins and focus on the next/ongoing project(s). It's November, I deserve a break from the promo grind.

Nearing the two year mark for Watermyth and I'm starting to feel lazy/shy to reboost my promo posts so maybe I'll just let it rest for now.

sweet dreams 🦭💤 Another W.I.P. ! But I like how it looks with just monochrome, too! #art #artist #mythology #cute #oc #ocs #illustration #selkie #fish #linocut #folklore #drawing #lineart #fantasy #digitalart #procreate #nature #character #couple

Third contract of 2025 signed. 😌

We all know James Bond is a rogue Time Lord. If they can bring the Master back, they can bring James Bond back. (Hopefully without the drums, I mean, and turning all the world into James Bond, but if needs must ...)

night night! 🥱🛌🪐🛸

In case you’re wondering why my goodnight posts sometimes come with planets and spaceships it is because at one point I was having star trek dreams nearly every night. Specifically, Klingon dreams. Even more specifically, dancing with Klingons at Ten Forward a couple of times. My bed is a spaceship!

I have a story in this! The ToC is wild, the stories are incredible. If you want a weird west anthology, that's the one you NEED. Buy a copy, and check out 'Five Lemons in a Net', my story of trauma, soul-eating shadows, and of course, the importance of shopping lists 🔥

i had the pleasure of hearing Anthony Hopkins recite a stanza of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in an NPR interview the other day and we really need to make recitation cool again

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence: Here's Hummingbird www.amazon.com/Hummingbird-... QT and share yours if you fancy it!

And, again, if you have remote leads in writing, editing, marketing, teaching, publishing... I'd be very grateful!

ICYMI - my poem about caring for plants & self in @alocasiamag.bsky.social

🎉It's my book day!🎉 SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library! Full of short fiction and poetry retellings! books2read.com/u/b6EDMA devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

My overall advice for people in workplaces: work, don't waste time gossiping. If you're unhappy and need to vent, that's fine. But stop after a point. Don't circulate bad air like a daily habit because that thing (and its agents) feeds on itself.

Hello @support.bsky.team why has @sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social