Congratulations to alumna Amal El-Mohtar on winning the Locus Award for Best Novella for The River Has Roots! Be sure to check out the audiobook for the full-on experience. @locusmag.bsky.social

When she escapes the house, she will wear a gown she did not choose and a stolen coat, and an expression of unutterable weariness.

What indie presses are putting out #horror books that you're the MOST excited about? feeling out of the loop, and I want to rectify that. 👁️

this book is GREAT and Amal is a delight and i am just so thrilled!!

Huge congratulations to long-time friend of the con @amalelmohtar.com for taking home the Locus Award for Best Novella! Can*Con salutes all the winners! locusmag.com/2026/05/2026...

Big congrats to all the winners (and nominees!) of the 2026 Locus Awards: @somtoihezue.bsky.social; @amalelmohtar.com; @drkarenlord.bsky.social / @older.bsky.social / @annaleen.bsky.social et al; Yooh Ha Lee; THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER; and to @locusmag.bsky.social for making it happen.

Having the kind of lovely time at Imaginales that resists documentation but every single person I’ve spoken with has been an absolute delight & I want to dwell among these (currently finally cool & breezy) pines for several more weeks & am truly so sad to be leaving today

"El río tiene raíces" acaba de ganar un Locus 🥳 En español podéis encontrar esta preciosidad de novela corta en el catálogo de @obscuraed.bsky.social, traducida por servidora.

So moved to wake to the news that THE RIVER HAS ROOTS won the Locus Award for Best Novella! I sent a video in before absconding to France for Les Imaginales, & catching up on the awards ceremony while I pack up my room is making me weepy. You can hear my acceptance speech around the 90 minute mark

I saw a white-throated dipper for the first time today 😭 “Unlikely in Epinal Today” per Merlin! 🪶

People are now debating what the proper earring placement is.

Encours aux imaginales : une interview passionnante de @amalelmohtar.com (Notes : lisez ses livres)

I am slowly reading @amalelmohtar.com's SEASONS OF GLASS AND IRON. Slowly because it is so powerful, beautiful, evocative, moving, mournful, loving, generous, heartfelt, poetic, and real. I have to keep stopping to feel. What a gift this book is.

Do you know someone in the Bay Area? If so, send them this calendar! It's free! www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

Tucked away at the back of the old BBC building on Queen Margaret Drive in the West End of Glasgow is this rather beautiful little Art Nouveau building. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #charlesrenniemackintosh #architecturephotography

losing my shit because the dev of Butterfly Soup is making a new game that's like if Pentiment was set in Chinese folklore and had a Disco Elysium skill tree, and the music is being composed by the same person who's doing Delphinium kotaku.com/butterfly-so...

I had such a wonderful time chatting with Ben!!

This enchanting novella is a lyrical, fairytale ballad of sisterly and romantic love, with a little bit of a bite. Appended with a twisty story excerpted from @amalelmohtar.com's new short story collection, which I'm looking forward to. #JustRead

Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for letting me go off on one of my favourite topics (and a question I am asked very often): why do we like the bad guys so much? Here's to all the fiction villains who did irrevocable damage to my brain during my formative years. lithub.com/villains-are...

I have so much Paris wandering I intend to do today but all contingent on first finding: a hat also shout-out to the passing weirdo who took loud, sustained, baffled exception to me wearing all black, “même tes cheveux,” as if I don’t have a prominent teal streak in it turning brassier by the day

so sleepy but v pleased to have managed this quick I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 25th 2026 (Easy), in 02:02 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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I just finished @amalelmohtar.com's The River Has Roots, which is a fairy tale in the best of ways (but definitely more Grimm than Andersen). Strongly recommend the audiobook -- the production is spectacular, the narrator dazzles with delicious accents, and the author provides music throughout.

Paris is really good actually

I did this last year. Dreamed that Pret sold a cookie called Hairy Man. He had a solid choc chest of hair and choc sprinkle body hair. Woke up, drew it, then baked it. Him.

slowly realizing how much of my work is repping for those who carry their hearts in their hands any time they walk by a river

It’s really happening! Look at the gorgeous job the art department @ecwpress.bsky.social has done on the cover of my book!! I can’t wait to share the whole journey with you after it releases on October 6th! (Thrillingly, @amalelmohtar.com has graciously agreed to write the foreword!) Squeeeee! 👻📘

The house, like the girl, is ravenous.

From The Essential June Jordan: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556596209 #poetry #booksky #writing

lol well I had a lovely time!

[speechless]

When your best friend texts you “wake up, new encyclical dropped.

there’s mermay & then there’s

A waist of time and space

So random but does anyone have birding recs for parks in Paris? 🪶

I had a really nice time chatting with Kimberly Lemaire for Apt 613, & this interview was the result!

Tooth and Claw, my World Fantasy Award winning fantasy of manners about dragons who eat each other is only $1.99 as an ebook today, probably just in the US www.amazon.com/Tooth-Claw-J...

There’s so much wrong with this article — factually, tonally, & in its framing — but the most disturbing to me is the unexamined use of “unity.” Who was white Christian America united AGAINST, Ron?

No it the fuck was not.

I had a really nice time chatting with Kimberly Lemaire for Apt 613, & this interview was the result!

This was really fun! Went a bit more slowly than I think I needed to but pleased with the result I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 24th 2026 (Hard), in less than 12 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

If anyone is at London Comic Con this afternoon I too wish I was there, but I left signed ALL HAIL CHAOS at the Forbidden Planet stand.

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

I’ve checked in early to a lot of flights but this is the first time I’ve been offered the option to pay money to “block” an empty seat next to me — with the caveat that they might need it for “operational” reasons anyway? So it’s just … gambling? For something you might get anyway for free?

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Thrilled to have been introduced to Julia on the JoCo Cruise, post which she is in fact now among my fave comedians!

The first fifteen #mermay mermaids: tanaudel.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/m...

YOU - No need for secrets. SHIVERS - No need for anything anymore.