OK, last call for longlist nominations for this queer SFF project I'm doing: here's 2024! Honestly an absolute banger of a year for it. Here's my initial list, what else in 24 would you give an A- or above in the queer SFF space? Next up, the very first *non-award* for 2020, sometime early March

Another Hugo nomination-time thread! And in this one, I'll be talking about novellas. (this thread will probably go long, sorry-not-sorry)

And the audiobook for The Mountain Crown is on sale ☺️🐉🏔️ www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

The Desert Talon and A Covenant of Ice by Karin Lowachee (Solaris) A two for one deal! Karin Lowachee completed the excellent Crowns of Ishia trilogy this year, and both new entries were amazing. Dragons and politics and interpersonal (and intrapersonal) relationships, all done amazingly.

the shortlist from this prize is always incredible. if you read a book last year that hits these notes, you can nominate it! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-overview

And our final pick, if you loved Anne McCaffrey's OG dragonrider series, you'll fall for @karinlow.bsky.social 's THE MOUNTAIN CROWN (THE CROWNS OF ISHIA novella trilogy)! -indigenous dragonriders -found family -sustaining community in the face of colonialism -finding a future in balance with nature

GET 50% of the audiobook for The Mountain Crown until March 12! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

GET 50% of the audiobook for The Mountain Crown until March 12! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

THE DESERT TALON by Karin Lowachee, book 2 in the Crowns of Ishia trilogy and perhaps my favorite of the lot. Dry and dusty, a queer man's Western on the wild edges of an unwelcome land.

My very first pro sale was with On Spec. My second was Warchild ☺️ TIME FLIES

“a hallucinatory narrative of dragons as forces of nature” Eddie, you can write all my blurbs for me in the future kthnx 🙏🏼😆👏🏻 For anyone not familiar, it is definitely my love letter to the natural world. With dragons more aligned with cats & orcas than talking creatures. @solarisbooks.bsky.social

The absolute absence of contractions in dialogue on Bridgerton is hella distracting and annoying. They modernize the clothing, music, and culture but the characters can’t say “can”t”?! Dude. I know the show suffers from a refusal to follow thru on worldbuilding but this is an easy fix.

Why 16 Oscar nominations for SINNERS matters, and why you've probably never heard of the oldest written Black vampire tale in North America. Happy Black History Month to all who celebrate!

It's Black History Month, and here's an opportunity for you to directly support black authors and editors in their creative careers. This anthology includes stories by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social @davaun.bsky.social @brentclambert.bsky.social @edenroyce.bsky.social and more. Pre-order now!!

The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has announced a two-week residency with Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social, Sheree Renee Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, and Joshua Whitehead. Yes you DO want to do this. banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

OMG I’ve gotten so many of these and didn’t clue in til later. Thankfully the second they said I’d have to pay a fee to be featured I realized…

Dealing with people who are clearly using AI for customer service because their responses to you totally don’t address anything you said is MADDENING and I have no chill about it because they take your money then ghost you with AI. This is why people will Luigi other people.

I’m so ready for Sherlock Hottie 😜 m.youtube.com/watch?v=rXMr...

While analyzing our 2025 submission data, I noticed that the US is now the primary producer of slop submissions (which includes fully and partially-generated/assisted/whatever). Congrats. You're #1. Happy? You should be embarrassed. Please stop. (In 2023 and 2024, the US wasn't in the top three.)

We are delighted to reveal the cover for Caskey Russell's The Eagle in the Mountain! The sequel to The Door on the Sea is a Tlingit epic fantasy following what happens when the quest is finished–and when someone else needs to takes over:

The latest F&SF, edited by the amazing Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, includes (with MANY fantastic things) my latest By the Numbers column, "Why We Need To Count On Each Other": 53 BIPOC authors filled out a survey asking about their experiences in publishing! www.fandsf.com

Thank you for mentioning me and The Mountain Crown! @solarisbooks.bsky.social It’s a great discussion overall from all involved.

New months, new books. Here's the latest Transfer Orbit book list: 15 SF/F titles that caught my eye coming out in January! Read it here: www.andrewliptak.com/heres-the-ja...

Book 3 for 2026 The Mountain Crown by Karin Lowachee. A book in 2 halves with a gradual methodical build up and then jumping a little discordantly through the action sequences and resulting consequences but this mirrors the experience of the protagonist so I can understand the change. 💙📚🪐

This #bluemonday, we've got the antidote to feeling blue - pick up a blue Solaris Book Instead! Here are a few of our blue titles for you, which would you pick? Ft @vajra.me @rainewilson.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @karinlow.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social#bluemonday& more!

The fact they couldn’t have anticipated this just goes to show how stupid people are being hailing “AI” as some kind of workforce Messiah. These results were so obvious to anyone with even passing knowledge of “AI”. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid and tanking your corporations. 👍🏼

Please, never be shy telling an author you loved their books. It’s seriously what gets us through.

In the interest of loving and supporting backlist titles too, how about telling me some queer dude SFFH faves from the last five years? All the better when written by queer dudes!

Karin Lowachee - The Desert Talon & Covenant of Ice. Hugely effective storytelling in unflashily brilliant prose; packs a *lot* into short books. & *goes there* with its ending on the consequences of extractive colonialism pretty fearlessly; doesn't shy away from the consequences of its narrative.

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

January means the start to a new year of short fiction. Here's my latest Table of Contents roundup for you to check out: www.andrewliptak.com/sci-fi-fanta...

Here I am thinking, Wow I know some Swedish to hear it spoken and I can read a little! Then I watch Bill Skarsgård in Clark and I’m lucky if I catch one out of 10 words. It’s how rapid it sounds from native speakers 😭 But I’m persevering! 🇸🇪 It’s a fun language to learn for English speakers.

Eddie really understood what I was doing with the trilogy - THANK YOU EDDIE! “The series as a whole is a fascinating exploration of colonialism, modernity, and extractivism, while never neglecting character or setting…” @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Good summary from a reliable source. #Mask #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Start the New Year with a New Fantasy Series! And here's a Solaris selection to get you going... @natania.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @mattfnwallace.bsky.social @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @ldcolter.com‬ and more!

ALSO everyone go read Caskey’s The Door on the Sea. I enjoyed it SO MUCH (that I blurbed it!) 🚪🌊

That's the end of 2025...and on to 2026. The perfect time to finish one book...and pick up a sequel! Ft @csecooney.bsky.social @taranhunt.bsky.social @karinlow.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @natania.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social & more! All out now!

It’s always been difficult for my books to get through or even sometimes to find readers, so I am eternally grateful for those who do find them and advocate for them. 🙏🏼🌟

Then I found this trilogy of novellas and was fascinated by them. I wanted more, but what I got was great. Good world building that refused to hold your hand about things. And then I was like OH I DO LIKE READING and dove right into it again with joy. Automatic Noodle was a DELIGHT

Genre rules are only guidelines anyway! Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device? We've got all that and more! 1/3

Still time to enter to win the full trilogy! 🐉🐲

We do not have a three French hens, but we DO something else with wings for...a complete set of @karinlow.bsky.social 's THE CROWNS OF ISHIA novella trilogy! Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a dragon 🐲 in the comments to [email protected] 6 23:59 GMT. #booksky🪐📚💙

@aptshadow.bsky.social’s Children of Time @brianstaveley.bsky.social’s Unhewn Throne @byzantienne.bsky.social’s Memory Called Empire / Desolation Called Peace @karinlow.bsky.social’s Warchild @annleckie.com’s Ancillary Justice

The holidays is the perfect time to binge a complete book series, & we're here to enable this with a selection of Solaris Books! Inc. @derekkunsken.bsky.social @karinlow.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @koldholdt.bsky.social @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social

The era of the mass market paperback is coming to an end, and that’s not good thing for anyone. I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

In 2025 we've completed three fabulous fantasy series! 👑 QUEENS OF FATE by @natania.bsky.social 🐉 THE CROWNS OF ISHIA by @karinlow.bsky.social 💀 THE CEMETERIES OF AMALO by Katherine Addison @pennyvixen.bsky.social ...and the holiday break would be the perfect time to devour the full set!

It's #bookqw, the word is #blue Because I love this book so very much, I'm sharing this with you! @dawbooks.bsky.social

Get the shots. Stay alive. COVID-19 mRNA vaccination linked to a 25% lower chance of death FROM ANY CAUSE. This is huge. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Going to post my short stories that’re online for new readers who’ve met my writing thru Crowns of Ishia. I posted LYCEUM before; here’s ENEMY STATE, first appeared in the antho “War Stories”. It’s about a man left behind when his love goes to war in space. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...