She's here!

"As the Little Mermaid's granddaughter marches to war." Get some is obvious.

Got vaccinated for Covid and flu, negative on a rapid test this morning, stocked up on masks... Ready for Capclave! Hope to see some familiar faces soon :)

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

"I did nothing to these people, but every day I have to see them gleefully cheer online about the anticipated death of my chosen profession. I had no idea we artists were so hated—I still don't know why. What did my silly little cat drawings do to earn so much contempt?"

Black women protect your peace at all costs, even from you if necessary.

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed! "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

I loved this collection. Thomas is one of our absolute best working right now. Go get it.

I have a schedule for Flights of Foundry! It's Sep 26-28! Eeeee! flights-of-foundry.org -- attaching my schedule in the image below. I hope I will see many of you there virtually! 🎉

Mask up and get your vaccines if you can, friends.

This is a moment not lost on me. @ldlewiswrites.com and myself have been friends for almost (if not over) a decade now. I was a fan first though and getting to be the first blurb for YEAR OF THE MER is something I manifested for us years ago. Pre-order yall! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...

What are some trad pub SFF/H books that have been out at least a year that you think didn't get enough attention? Adult or YA. Marginalized authors preferred, and small press titles encouraged. Not looking for big bestsellers or award-sweepers.

As I'm using it for MULTIPLE examples of great writing this year in my talks/presentations, this is your occasional reminder that if you have not yet read THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS by @kurellian.bsky.social what are you even DOING with your life GO READ IT

In a newly integrated insect metropolis, generations clash around art, technology, and capitalism. Boris, a rural vesper, chases modernity to the city, but tradition is there first. Next week. "Laurie on the Radio" by Sam Davis!! Art by Michael Hirshon Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

Happy 1 year to my novella, Countess. Thank you to everyone who has spent even a moment with my rebellious Virika. You all have given this book a life beyond what I expected. It is a book about this very moment we are living through, and if art is an act of resistance, it is the rock I have thrown🖤💜

Heartbreaking and imaginative! I loved this.

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

Book Release Day! Long List Anthology Volume 9 is now available in various ebook vendors for purchase! www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/

Lookie!

"Cook would do what she loved until the end." 😭😭😭😭 love a story that makes me cry before 9am

ICYMI, I have a new story out in Lightspeed Magazine about lovers aboard a doomed science vessel!! It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food. Check it out: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

She is done. No more last looks. No more polish. No more what if I added this or that. She is proofread, revised, edited and all shined up. I am euphoric. This is a high I have not experienced before. I wrote a fucking Trinidadian lesbian gothic banger. Dear publishers come get her. 😃 💥💥💥💥

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this. Every pub should do this.

Locus Mag, a non-profit org, has been an integral part of the California Bay Area SFF scene since 1973. We rely on readers, writers, and fellow science fiction fans to keep us going. And we have a Patreon for monthly support - check it out! patreon.com/locus

For those bagging on litfic, I urge you to look at any major literary awards longlist like the 2025 Booker Prize, pick a book at random, and just read. No “horny professors” here. The books are tender, quiet, harrowing, and expansive. Set across the world, written by authors from across the world.

One month till TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE! Got your copy yet?

Hi! Have you ever wanted to chat with David Steffen, (aka the weird gremlin known dor Diabolical Plots, Submission Grinder, and Long List Anthology)? there is a lottery signup to do just that online with Flights of Foundry, session on September 26th! flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/

@kcolemanwrites.bsky.social now SEE lol, I did not ask to have all these feelings on a Saturday afternoon. Wow!! What a punch. Joy and grief and acceptance in equal measure. And the details to make sure we are grounded in the alien were perfect!! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

This. I guarantee that anything horrifying you right now is absolutely shit that disabled people have been SCREAMING about in ignored warnings for DECADES.

September is proving to be a long month of unexpected financial shifts. :/ And the costs keep rolling in - I need more freelance work asap. Even just a couple small scale gigs would help right now. I'll take whatever writing/editing people have got. mathesonfreelancing.com

Hello new followers! I'm a spec fic author from Trinidad & Tobago. My latest book, THE NIGHTWARD, is a THE WITCHER meets Caribbean mythology mash-up. I wrote it in the wake of my granny's death & edited it as I battled cancer. I'd love if you gave it a look. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

My story is free to read today!!! "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" is short and... well, bittersweet. This science vessel IS doomed, after all. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

Kel had me at purple porridge

I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...

My story is free to read today!!! "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" is short and... well, bittersweet. This science vessel IS doomed, after all. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

"Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" finding a home in @lightspeedmagazine.com still feels like a dream but pub day is finally here!!! If you like Star Trek vibes, found families, and lavish descriptions of food, this one is for you. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/sep-2...

Would you care for a queer cyberpunk short story in these trying times? Because hi yes "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" is out for free now at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨ This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜 🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆

IT'S ALIVE!! ARCS for APPREHENSION / RED STAR HUSTLE are making their way out into the world! I haven't gotten mine yet but book reviewers and booksellers etc should absolutely request one!!

Today's Classic Cover is Zilphia Keatley Snyder's 1975 fantasy novel Below the Root, with the cover illustration by James C. Christensen. Below the Root inspired a canonical sequel in the form of a 1984 video game of the same name, considered an early precursor to metroidvanias.

"Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" finding a home in @lightspeedmagazine.com still feels like a dream but pub day is finally here!!! If you like Star Trek vibes, found families, and lavish descriptions of food, this one is for you. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/sep-2...

If you submit a story to Diabolical Plots based around hatred of trans people: --you can fuck off --I mean, like entirely all the way off --you should save yourself and us the trouble and just withdraw it before we read it --if you can go ahead and block us here too, that would be great thanks

Hey UK readers! Kindle UK has selected Someone You Can Build A Nest In as one of their monthly picks for August. It's won a Nebula and a Locus award, and it's a finalist for the Hugo, and for a limited time you can get it for just 99p. Feel like meeting a queer monster today?

Submissions for Saros #5 are really rolling in! 40 spots left in the queue--if you were thinking of submitting something to this issue, soon might be a good time...

August Spec Flash Roundup! With @smallwondersmag.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social @factorfourmagazine.com @naturefutures.bsky.social @hexliterary.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @escapepod.org @molotovlitzine.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com 1/3

I’ve had 13 original stories published (so far) this year. If you’re reading for awards find descriptions and links here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-.... The one I’m most hoping you’ll consider though is this one:

Alrighty. I old-school blogged about my #Worldcon experience. Yeah, it was not perfect. But there were some real highlights and nothing beats gathering with my rabble-rousing writer pals. #SeattleWorldcon www.ceciliatan.com/a...

Saros #5 is open for submissions! Send us your 500-2,500 word fiction themed around sound(s), silence(s), and the spectrum in between: Music, speech, singing, unbearable (enticing?) noise(s), and/or auditory nothingness.