Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence! Show me yours if you want THE UNIDENTIFIED, ebook release this Saturday, Nov 15

You can never convince me that the system has to be the way that it is when things have not always been this way. Once, there were god-kings; many of them lost their heads. Anything created can be destroyed. Whatever cannot sustain will be changed.

I’m independently re-releasing an updated version of my YA SF debut The Unidentified, so I’m going to be real annoying about it for a while so people know the new ebook and print edition is coming out. Tell your friends so I don’t have to! Free peek at my site: raemariz.com/the-unidenti...

I get @sarahgailey.bsky.social's newsletter in my inbox, and I'd been WAITING for a quiet moment to open this Reasons to Be Alive post by @edenroyce.bsky.social. I knew it would be good. Friends, it was good. In all the ways. Give yourself a quiet moment. stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letters...

I’m independently re-releasing an updated version of my YA SF debut The Unidentified, so I’m going to be real annoying about it for a while so people know the new ebook and print edition is coming out. Tell your friends so I don’t have to! Free peek at my site: raemariz.com/the-unidenti...

Kids find ways to rebel against corporate control in a fun tech dystopia. #hopepit #YA #P If you like my #ecofiction Weird Fishes or my #IndigenousFuturism short stories in @khoreo.bsky.social and @grist.org (and soon @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social!) see how it all started books2read.com/b/bpJdnq

Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today! This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic. In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook Available wherever books are sold. #booksky #Blackbooksky

Keolu's work is so inspiring and I don't use that word too many times in tech these days.

“I have a very tight bond with the boar, the feral pig, all hoglets … Not only this affectionate individual, but their story and history. And their instinctive, obsessive urge to poke at a problem.” www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

a newly murdered thing of the sea

If you're looking for something you can do in these times, find something you have in abundance and apportion it in a way that you can give some away to neighbors. Just ask them if they want any, hand it over, and don't take anything in return. A ripple of kindness goes further than you think.

WEDNESDAY x HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK A sullen 13yo is haunted by her grandma’s irritatingly life-affirming ghost. Puberty & purgatory share some metaphysical similarities in this feel-good dark comedy about grief & creativity. #DVpit #MG #MagicalRealism #HA

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN A high-concept workplace comedy about working together, focusing on the here and now, and realizing that the only real escape plan needs to include everyone. For real, let’s all get outta here. #DVpit #A #LF #CON #HA #NHPI #WOC

Surly 12yo Belarusian social orphan enters the last old growth forest in Europe to cross the EU border to save her older sister whose been trafficked by bad dudes. The fantastical creatures from folktales still exist, they’re crowded like refugees in this enchanted forest. #DVpit #A #LF #novella

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN Hollywood has taken over casting for a one-way televised mission to Mars. Refugees & wanderers, frustrated scientists & bored adventurers all compete in a reality TV show for a ticket away from this mess. #DVpit #A #CON #LF #HA

WEDNESDAY x HOME ALONE 2 A morose 13yo is haunted by her grandma’s irritatingly cheerful ghost. When the suitcase gma’s ghost is bound to goes missing, she has to—horror of all horrors—go on a road-trip with her supportive family. Feel-good dark comedy about grief & creativity. #DVpit #MG #HA

Fantastical creatures from folktales still exist, they’re just crowded like refugees inside this dwindling area of Eastern European old growth forest. The folk are misunderstood and irritable, and curious about the first child to stumble into their enchanted habitat in 100 years. #DVpit #A #novella

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN #ND Black academic teams up with well-meaning white lady reality TV casting director to find an ensemble cast representative of global population for delusional tech-bro’s one-way televised mission to Mars megaproject. #DVpit #A #LF #CON #HA #NHPI #WOC

We're aware the hashtag searching is down right now. We have reports it does work if you redownload the app, but is still buggy on desktop. We've contacted bluesky and will update soon #dvpit

“Laying someone to rest is the final act of care that leaves a lingering impression, not only on the dead, but on you.” @edenroyce.bsky.social on the importance of funerary details in the face of grief.

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

she's going through some things. but you're right, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. it's just a very long tunnel. (good thing your pearly eyes are adapted for darkness, friend.)

**MEAN GIRLS meets THE MATRIX** THE UNIDENTIFIED by rae mariz Available next month through your favorite online retailers, unless your favorite online retailer is Amazon, because eff them. You won’t find it there. #Unhingedpit #YA #SF #CS

A triumphant moment of blocking two more pieces (the back and right sleeve) of one of my Tove Jansson-inspired intarsia knitting projects. 🧶 #moomin

I didn’t make the fishes in Weird Fishes weird enough.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

"Some of my tension is from the non-stop working (which, as we’ve already covered, is barely “work” by any traditional definition), and some of it is from the masking I constantly do as an autistic person in a neurotypical world." RELATABLE. Too bad I don't have a tub.

Issue 5.3 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A special themed issue on Symbiosis—close relationships between species. The stories creatively explore their own take on this theme. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com This incredible cover is by @jocelynshort.bsky.social 🧡

If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better.

hi i am looking for online examples of cli-fi short stories that deal with indigenous futurism!! all my faves are in print, which is not accessible to my students…

Scientists announce the discovery of the bumpy snailfish, a pink, big-eyed species found more than 10,000 feet below the ocean's surface.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not what you (or I) think. It can't be detected by the casual naked eye. Four particles of fingernail-sized or smaller per cubic meter isn't photogenic, so the media substituted coastal collections and the like.

I wanted to share some thoughts on social media, comment culture, isolation, connection & conversation. I'm sure I'm not the only one finding it tricky to connect here of late, for multiple reasons I unpack in this post. Yes, with a couple of writer/ reader Discord antidote suggestions 😉

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The world has changed so much since I wrote this, but at the end of the day it's still an essay I had a breakdown writing, an essay that took days because I couldn't stop crying long enough to write strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

The Imperfect Blue Marble. In a culture where a child's first word takes on great meaning, a nonverbal child shows his compassion beyond words. grist.org/climate-fict... #ClimateFiction #BookSky #Solarpunk #Fiction #SciFi #Literature

This one looks like an After School Special, heh. Fun fact about The Unidentified, it was in development with the Disney Channel for a few years after publication with the Jonas Brothers’ production company. “Breakfast Club x Matrix” was how the film agent pitched it. #PosterPit #P #YA #SF

#PosterPit #P #YA #SF

I’m working on getting the rights to my out-of-print debut YA SF reverted back to me in time for a 15-year anniversary ebook re-release. Testing out some new book cover aesthetics in these #PosterPit designs. Let me know which ones look fun! #PosterPit #P #YA #SF

very funny how I'm the most under-employed and broke I've been in a long ass time but I'm also somehow extremely busy

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN A behind-the-screens look at an unlikely team of endearingly flawed professionals working together (and against each other) to cast a reality TV team challenge competition to win a one-way trip to Mars. Fun and smart and trashy. #QuestPit #A #LF #HA #Q

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN A behind-the-screens look at an unlikely team of endearingly flawed professionals working together (and against each other) to cast a reality TV team challenge competition to win a one-way trip to Mars. Fun and smart and trashy. #QuestPit #A #LF #HA #Q

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN 😂😬workplace comedy 🤳🤩social media & reality tv 😇💪messy women just doing their jobs 👯🔪🤡teen girl vigilantes terrorizing tech-bros 😲🌏large ensemble cast (multiple #ND #Indigenous #genderfluid POVs) 😁💅🤯fun and trashy and smart #QuestPit #A #LF #HA #Q

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This is the light of the summer nights in northern Sweden that @mariahaskins.com describes in her Nordic Dark Speculative Fiction what to read list. My kid and her friend last night outside Gravmark, Sweden at 10pm, chased by a summer thunderstorm but too hypnotized to hurry home.

Idgaf if you think I’m smart! Laugh at my joke! 😔