We have a short fiction spotlight every 1-2 months, usually with 6 recs. The most recent one was last week. We focus on works eligible for the next awards cycle. You can find them all here (we usually pair them with a short book review): narratedpodcast.com/episodes?cat...

It's that time of year (I know, because it's the exact same date I posted it on last year and the year before) so - eligibility post. Would be thrilled if you were to consider me for your fan writing, review and criticism awards nominating needs. I have a post with handy dandy links and everything.

If you are a Hugo voter/nominator, reminder that this book is eligible in the 2026 Best Related Work category.

BIG NEWS REVEALED: The GORGEOUS new for the next book in the "Tune"-iverse ("We Interrupt This Program") -- a magical, Muse-ical mystery tour! 👵 older woman solving mysteries 🧚‍♂️ mixed-up Unseelie gardener 🍞 shortbread magic ❓ disappearing TROPE town residents Pre-order now! geni.us/weinterrupt

This is one of the best books of 2026, and Naomi Kritzer is right in Minneapolis so she might be a bit distracted by what’s going on. So gonna ask you to preorder it if you can and if you’re interested.

If you are at @arisia.bsky.social, here is a starter pack to help you find and follow this year's panelists. I hope someone finds it useful! go.bsky.app/SxjZTSw

If you are at @arisia.bsky.social, here is a starter pack to help you find and follow this year's panelists. I hope someone finds it useful! go.bsky.app/SxjZTSw

okay, here we go... Here are my picks for the 30 most exciting SFF titles coming out in the first half of the year! There are a LOT of beautiful books coming up—it's gonna be a really good year for spec fic reactormag.com/30-sff-title...

Multiple help requests per day means that it's officially Hugo Awards season. Now the Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom ALSO comes with a guide in case you want to join us (you should join us). #HugoAwards

Shachi, Mark, Scott, and I discuss anticipated books of 2026. Includes titles by: Maggie O’Farrell @marthwells.com Moniquill Blackgoose @shaykauwe.bsky.social @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social Xochitl Gonzalez James S.A. Corey @slhuang.com @aptshadow.bsky.social narratedpodcast.com/episodes/340

Shachi, Mark, Scott, and I discuss anticipated books of 2026. Includes titles by: Maggie O’Farrell @marthwells.com Moniquill Blackgoose @shaykauwe.bsky.social @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social Xochitl Gonzalez James S.A. Corey @slhuang.com @aptshadow.bsky.social narratedpodcast.com/episodes/340

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi! I’m the “ray gun” I made at age 5 by hammering a bunch of nails into a 2x4, tying a bare wire to one of the nails, and sticking the other end of the wire into a power outlet.

Happy New Year, all! In our latest episode, Shachi, Mark, Scott, and I discuss our favorite books of 2025. My picks are books we didn’t cover on Narrated, with a list at the end of other favorites previously discussed. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/339

Friends! We appeared on a Hugo Rec List! It may be the first time this happened! 🥺 (Hugo, Girl! thanked us in their acceptance speech, which my kid maintains is just like getting a Hugo) I’m so excited and should probably make an eligibility post! ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2025/12/15/w...

This looks like a solid prediction list. Your heading for the one category that only has Tchaikovsky in it made me LOL

I received these, and now I have both the audio and physical versions of We Will Rise Again, which is great because I love it. My husband was bummed I’d already read it (“What?? It just came out like 2 weeks ago!”), but that means he picked something exactly right!

Exhibit way further down the list than A: my Dad, born 1947, an engineer who found his passion in amusement park safety regulation. This was one of the (many) notebooks he kept to track his FreeCell games.

Have started reading We Will Rise Again, edited by @annaleen.bsky.social, @drkarenlord.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social. Three pieces and one forward in, I already know: this is the good shit. It feels urgent, needed, timely.

This resonates so hard

As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help. The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.

GenX sucker punch indeed. As an elementary schooler I spent my daily hour of TV on the local station’s science fiction hour, which rotated between reruns of Star Trek (TOS), Battlestar Galactica (1978), and Buck Rogers. RIP, Buck.

Too many books to pick one. Sunward, Automatic Noodle, and The River has Roots come to mind as a start. Also the Murderbot TV series brought me so much joy.

Down in the Sea of Angels is an absolutely gorgeously written book, with wonderful, memorable characters in all three timelines. I loved Eunice Wong’s narration.

True story: Warren Towers are the reason I went to a small liberal arts college. 17 year old me was so intimidated on the tour by the thought of trying to find friends in there that every college I applied to had fewer students than that dorm.

I’m so excited the audio version of this will arrive in @libro.fm library tomorrow!

I've been thinking about the importance of human voice actors ever since I started listening to the audiobook for You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White. The narrator, Max Weber, puts in WORK. Agree or disagree with his acting choices, but it's a performance, it's an interpretation.

Please enjoy my teenager’s charcu-turkey

STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!

Doing a novella a day this week as I catch up on books I’ve been meaning to get to before our #Novellavember episode. I have a 2+hour daily commute (ugh) and listen to audiobooks at 1.75x, so a novella gets me to work and back nicely.

The witch took her hands off the patient's body. "First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you." "The doctor-" "Said you must be either man or woman?" "That it's black or white, no grey." "Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."

Publishers Weekly has named my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR a Best Book of the Year, 😃🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🦿🐬. Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is on bookshop's Most Anticipated: Fiction list! I AM SO HAPPY THANK YOU (and thank you to @lilymeade.bsky.social for telling me!) bookshop.org/lists/most-a...

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

Book 105 or so?: Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. Space courier who helps raise AI bots (true AI, not the bullshit AI we have today) gets ensnared in political revolutionary shenanigans. 💙📚

#Booksky We’re going to kick off @wiscon.bsky.social’s new Vendor of the Month program on 11/1! Here’s how it works: sign up for WisCon’s newsletter and get the discount coupon for our webstore. Buy your queer books from us and we make a donation to WisCon through 11/30! wiscon.net/news/e-newsl...

Well this looks awesome 👀 www.adapalmer.com/publication/...

Shouts: #NOVELLAVEMBER

Ooh, look! The Ignyte Winners announcements are happening RIGHT NOW! Let’s all tune in!

This is a lovely and blush-inducing chat about the audiobook of SUNWARD, which was given life and breath by @lindseydorcus.bsky.social.

This week on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social and I talk about Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. A lonely job in deep space becomes a way to nurture and grow a chosen family. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/328

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This week on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social and I talk about Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. A lonely job in deep space becomes a way to nurture and grow a chosen family. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/328

I wrote a song for the first time in a couple of years and I’m pretty happy with it 😊. Sometimes working within the constraints of rhyme and meter makes interesting things happen.

In which the great @maryrobinettekowal.com offers the hospitality of her blog for a My Favorite Bit post from moi: maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-f...

My siblings are a huge part of my life, so I LOVED this list from @yumewrites.bsky.social in Reactor this morning. The only thing missing is SALTCROP, Yume's brand-new novel, which is one of the best books about sisters I've ever read. reactormag.com/five-sff-boo...

New on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social, Mark, and I discuss The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi and the rest of the Old Man’s War series. I’ll be shocked if we aren’t repeating some of this for the Hugo Best Series episode in 2026. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/327

Inspired by current events, I listened to When Prophecy Fails. Researchers in the 1950s embedded in a UFO cult and watched exactly how the group reacted when the aliens didn’t come pick them up. Answer: they believed and justified even harder, at least at first. Fascinating stuff.

What will be in the next batch of Neon Hemlock novellas? 👀 Can’t wait to see!

Lessons in Magic and Disaster is my favorite work by @charliejane.bsky.social so far, and one is my favorite books of the year. The intimate focus on one family and their relationships reminds me of @sarahpinsker.bsky.social’s We are Satellites. The magic in it feels like a real part of our world.