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There are no words for how evil this is

8K GIVEAWAY! Win books from @csecooney.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social an early ARC from @authortrmoore.bsky.social & more! Like, follow, repost and drop a book 📙 in the comments to enter! Ends 23:59 GMT on 13/10/25. Open to UK & IE, CAN & US only.

This woman is all of us in Canada.

This IS my team and I’ve lost at least 3 lives 🤣😭 #LETSGOBLUEJAYS ⚾️🧢

Why is this game playing out like it was scripted in Hollywood 😭🤣

Bo Bichette’s absolute swag on that homerun 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼⚾️🧢 #GOBLUEJAYS

Time to update the thread. I don't remember who, but I saw the cover of The Mountain Crown by Karin Lowachee posted here a few times, I'm into novellas, and who doesn't like dragons so now I have the whole trilogy. They're great! (34/?)

This is GORGEOUS. Can we normalize literature in the genre world that can be esoteric and difficult because Odin forbid the prose doesn’t hit you over the head with easy answers or doesn’t need to be understood on literal levels all the time.

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

Apex needs $3412 to hit their base goal!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Me startling the cat every time the Jays get a hit and certainly when they got a homerun. Sorry kitty 😂🐈‍⬛

LET’S GO BLUE JAYS #worldseries2025

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

I didn’t think anything could beat Peaky Blinders but House of Guinness is just as good. Along with Rogue Heroes, Steven Knight might just be my favourite. FANTASTIC writing and character work across all 3 series.

real talk alert: we are HASHTAG BLESSED to have a bunch of amazing, generous patrons subscribed to get a copy of the epub, or the physical copy of The DEADlands. these supporters literally help us keep publishing. currently $758/mo it costs closer to 1500/mo to fund a year of TD pls join us! 👇

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

I wanted to see that scene/narrative so I just wrote it myself 😆🙏🏼🐉

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼☺️

Thank u for the boost! Just to be clear tho I’m not Indigenous (my family comes from 3 different cultures & settled in S. America in the 19th C, many working as indentured servants), I just try to write honestly & responsibly, inspired by many of the same concerns of Indigenous peoples worldwide. 🙏🏼

New Suns 2 is an anthology of 18 speculative fiction short stories by people of color, many of which are appropriate for #spooky season. Great narration too. 🪐📚 #31DaysOfHalloween #Books #BookSky #Audiobooks

The full conversation is on Netflix but here’s Jane Goodall’s final message to the world. Growing up with an awareness of her and others like Dian Fossey impacted me deeply. No doubt influenced my writing even now and my love and affection for all of nature. ❤️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=lfLK...

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

If I don't like your pitch, but you think your work could be right for me, please also feel free to query at the same link! #DVpit

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

thewalrus.ca/the-publishi... Interesting article.

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

What are all these “chicagowrite” illisustrators suddenly following me on ig? they smell of scam accounts/AI bots…

I am in my Temeraire era and *loving* it, but I can't help but internally scream 'make it queer!' Although the platonic bond between the seasoned captain and his dragon with delicate sensibilities hits me right in the gut, so there's that. (3/3)

It’s Mailbag Monday! Today we’ve got dragons, and witches, and heroes of old, weird cities, antiauthoritarianism, a Rome yet to come, & some Scots who can’t stop. Plus top-tier tunes & the drinks you really need to pair with them. Plenty of great reads of all lengths for my fall! What's on your TBR?

Fellow bird lovers or just film lovers… m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

Finishing work on an investigative report about a new writing scam targeting authors. The scam was first reported by @victoriastrauss.com in the linked report. My investigation builds off Victoria's great work. My report will drop Saturday in my Genre Grapevine. writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

1. My cat and cats in general 2. Formula 1 3. Writing/creativity 🐈‍⬛🏎️✍🏼

#Breaking: Postal union launches nationwide strike after Ottawa gives Canada Post the OK to end home delivery

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A VOICE CALLING by @cbarzak.bsky.social. A rust belt gothic, this haunted house novella was chilling and atmospheric, a weight of malice on both home and town. Our drink, Button House, is an apple brandy delight.

Why does Ethan Hawke not turn on any lights in SINISTER? 🤔😂 If i’m hearing spooky things in the night, my house would be blazing!

Dug into the backlist and outside my normal subgenre and was rewarded by the tremendous Warchild by Karin Lowachee www.tarvolon.com/2024/05/21/s...

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-...

Literally the only thing that matters in the Anthropic settlement is if they'll be forced to delete the stolen material and all traces of it from their system. If they can keep everything that came out of the theft, them paying authors a paltry sum still screws authors over big time.

So much of horror are people gaslighting other people that what they are experiencing isn’t real. Hmmm…

Thank you so much to @karinlow.bsky.social for this stunning endorsement of Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA, the first book in a new epic fantasy series Inspired by the culture and folklore of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska! Out October 2025. Preorder now: geni.us/doorsea

The Leaning Pile of Books for 8/24/2025, featuring A COVENANT OF ICE (The Crowns of Ishia #3) and the Murderbot/Martha Wells Humble Bundle. www.fantasybookcafe.com/2025/08/the-... #Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SpecFic #SciFi 📚🪐

When I wrote for @johnjosephadams.com’s Dystopia Triptych about AI taking over education, didn’t think the concept would be pushed so soon. In my 3 stories the development meant bad actor influence because of course politics. F*ck AI in the classroom. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/lyce...

Now complete! THE CROWNS OF ISHIA, @karinlow.bsky.social 's novella trilogy of indigenous dragonriders seeking to live in balance with the land, resist those that oppress them and find love and family on the frontier concludes in A COVENANT OF ICE. Buy geni.us/ishia

Wearing my Nine Inch Nails shirt and a guy stopped at the signing table because of that (he told me) and he ended up buying all 3 novellas. WORD. 👏🏼😸

I’m at Indigo Erin Mills until 4pm today! 5015 Glen Erin Dr. Come say hi, get a reading with a dragon oracle card and chat! 🐉

Book 35 of 2025: The Desert Talon by @karinlow.bsky.social. I’m really enjoying this series, and this installment is a really great dissection of two cultures violently clashing. Plus dragons. I’m really excited to get the third installment.

THIS SATURDAY 🐉