Episode 264 of my Eating the Fantastic podcast is now live with guest @foxesandroses.bsky.social! Join us at the table and learn why she ended up as a fantasy writer rather than a comic book creator, how a pantser handles world building — and much more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

My teacher is a brilliant classical guitarist and music scholar researching the works of women composers; this record deserves to see the light of day and is a long time coming. Please share widely.

An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜‍♀️ #Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...

Blessing your feed with some baby arctic foxes. At this time of year, young foxes in Finland are leaving the den to start life on their own.⁠ The arctic fox is a critically endangered species in Finland but the good news is, numbers have been increasing in recent years.🧡

New series (in 🧵 ) -- the musical influences behind/in the #CantataoftheFourfoldRealms (1) I'm going to start with the whole #ballet that gave me the fever-dream in 1996 which instigated the creation of the hypertext: youtu.be/1s9vEQsTGyg?... #MauriceRavel #DaphnisetChloe

(40) This deep cut is one of my favourite Mitski songs. I listen to her entire discography on repeat when editing/revising first Watermyth and now Rosemirror. This is SUCH a watermaidens-type song (the ones who live in the bottom of the garden) youtu.be/49qd3wokK1k?...

If you're looking for a thick mythic fantasy to read this weekend, here's a handy dandy little graphic I made to help you decide if Watermyth is the book for you! 💙 📚 mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p... #BookSky #mermaids #fantasy #myth #sirens #mythology

🌊 🧜‍♀️ Watermyth is a postcolonial portal fantasy novel featuring characters from the Global South diaspora mashed up with an epic retooling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Featuring: a storyteller mermaid-siren, merkingdoms, and an alternate Venice. mythopoetica.com/2024/01/10/p... #Booksky 💙 📚

Just a friendly reminder that Flights of Foundry starts TODAY and if you want to attend my sessions or the many excellent other panels, you need to register (which is free but let's support them by donating if we can): flights-of-foundry.org

I have done the time conversion so here are my sessions at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social on 28 September 2025! (1) My reading (12pm GMT+8/11pm CDT - 1pm GMT+8/12am CDT) (2) Folk music and Fiction: I am moderating a session with Marie Brennan(1pm GMT+8/12am CDT - 2pm GMT+8 /1am CDT)

Proposals for American Nightmares II: the biennial symposium of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic are due Oct. 1st. The event is March 19th - 21st in Salem, MA. Information at americangothicsociety.com/symposium/

It's Friday in at least some of the time zones Translunar Travelers Lounge operates out of. And what better day to submit a story? 5000 words or less speculative fiction. Full details at the link. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Just a friendly reminder that Flights of Foundry starts TODAY and if you want to attend my sessions or the many excellent other panels, you need to register (which is free but let's support them by donating if we can): flights-of-foundry.org

HUGE win! Big thanks to the many tech workers and organizers who made this happen 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @bdsmovement.bsky.social @notechforapartheid.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

On to more positive matters! I’m going to be moderating a session with Marie Brennan on Folk Music in fiction over at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social and I’d like to expand the scope of folk music. What Global (none-Anglophone) folk songs outside of the known have been adapted to fiction?

You could maybe buy my book? You might even enjoy it? 🧜🏽‍♀️🧜🏾‍♂️🧜🏽 💙📚

A great chunk of Rosemirror (the sequel to Watermyth and the second book in the Cantata of the Fourfold Realms) will be happening underwater; mostly in the Mer-Empire of the Empress Rhavella. I'm having to consult physics textbooks for a fantasy novel for certain movements etc.

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

There's still one day left to apply to be an Augur editor. Edit for Augur and Tales & Feathers! We'd love to have you join the team. 💜✨

I have a headache and I'm going back to bed but if you want to read Hamlet who is a recent college grad, a girl, wearing cutoffs and getting Windmill and going to the beach in New Jersey, is Exit Ghost the book for you

I've reached 2.5k posts which is outside of my limit so I'm going to be slowly pruning while I have time. Also hit my social media limit for now in a very big way so apart from re-posting my promo posts for my book and Flights of Foundry sessions I'm mostly not here. Focus is needed at the moment.

If by some extremely remote chance any of you might be interested in my reading, I've decided that a great chunk of the hour will be a chapter from Watermyth since I've never actually done a reading for Watermyth. If there's extra time I'll read an excerpt from Rosemirror.

And if you miss any of International Cure Day you can listen to the archive for 2 weeks on the KEXP app or website (kexp.org)!

2 Postdoc Positions in Milan! Are you (or is someone you know) interested in modern (17th and 18th C) moral philosophy? Come join Stefano Bacin and I on the @erc.europa.eu Grant '18ETHICS': 18ethics.unimi.it/two-further-... Please share widely!

STRENGTH CRUSHES ENEMIES! HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

A wide ranging convo between me & @rabble.nz for @revolution.social → past, present and future of Blacksky (the community + company) → mutual aid, susus, people's assemblies, etc → building protocols for people wherever you get your podcasts.

Mourning the loss of Jon Lasser, Seattle SFF community stalwart and new friend and colleague. The world has lost a deeply generous and compassionate human and talented author. You'll be missed.

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Anyway, join the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social to have your fantasy reading horizons expanded.

If by some extremely remote chance any of you might be interested in my reading, I've decided that a great chunk of the hour will be a chapter from Watermyth since I've never actually done a reading for Watermyth. If there's extra time I'll read an excerpt from Rosemirror.

As well as accepting submissions, don't forget that Translunar Travelers Lounge published Issue 13 in August - have you read it yet? translunartravelerslounge.com

Recognizing Palestine while funding Israel’s genocide is symbolism without substance. Our latest: what this recognition means, what it doesn’t, and why it’s happening now.

This whole thread.

You know, even if you've maybe already got a copy of Watermyth, there's no harm in ordering a copy through your local libraries so others can read it and maybe (hopefully) find some comfort from it.

Please help, folks. I still need about $900 to pay rent even if this end-of-the-month contract gig comes through. Cashapp is $AdrienneLeigh, or paypal below

Mildly anxious that only my PhD supervisees will be at my Flights of Foundry reading but I adore my team and they're so supportive so I will be happy to read to them.

Sorry to hear this morning about the passing of Jon Lasser (@disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy). My deepest condolences to his family and all who knew him. If you aren’t familiar with Jon’s work, here are some things he had published: twoideas.org/publications...

People thinking I'm a sad 50 year old spinster and I'm all "yay, no agents of patriarchy in my home except during home repairs*". *also see the extent I go to avoid said home repairs.

MEN: if you don't marry a toxic man-baby and reproduce you'll become an old cat lady with no man to keep you company WOMEN: that sounds fantastic— we could make a tiny woman-only village! #malelonelinessepidemic

"My room was filled with journals... clay figurines, stuffed animals, posters and stray, cracked seashells, an exhibition of 'Lily: Before'. I tiptoed through it, examined each specimen, feeling like a graverobber." Read 'Lily Facsimile' by DW West inner-worlds.ghost.io/lily-facsimi...

This poem is fire. Very well-deserved award! 🔥

People waiting for me to be mannered and sophisticated will wait forever I guess. If I have no chill at 50, I will likely never have chill.

well, you could read a story instead. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

15 minutes left!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

🔥⚔️🔥TODAY IS THE DAY TO BURN UP IN VICTORY 🔥⚔️🔥 books2read.com/burnupinvict...

I umm..actually have an eligible short story this year? *shuffles feet awkwardly*

israel is once again attacking civilian vessels

Hello! I wrote up a full review for @thomasha.bsky.social 's brilliant, brilliant, unnerving, haunting, and deeply empathetic horror collection, Uncertain Sons itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...