Watch this space. 🚀🪡 www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

During revisions, I'll wrestle with a page or a passage for days on end, wanting to force the "right" words. And always, those words only come after I've *rested.* After I've loosened my grip on the book, stepped away, and supped on other stories, or napped, or lost myself elsewhere.

If you need some hope as the year ends, try this anthology about protest, resistance, and building a more just world.

@lyszflo.bsky.social and @jdridges.bsky.social's first post as poetry coeditors is live on Patreon. If you're intrigued, do read to learn about their plans for the column Anathema | In Verse: www.patreon.com/posts/happy-...

I love when I'm not expecting to fall, head-first, into a book, only to look up, hours later, with sunlight having fled the world, swathed in darkness, unsure of the hour, only to realize I've read 150 pages--and don't want to stop. That's where I am with BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL. 😮‍💨

TV ads: *christmas!* *Mariah Carey!* *glitter!* *Santa!!!* Me: *IT: Welcome to Derry* *X* *Pluribus* *The Possession of Alba Díaz* 😈

It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!! I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜

Quick question: who bought all the FRESHLY DELIVERED CASES of smoked turkey wings before I could get to the store… Secondly: how dare you. 😭

Folks seem to be forgetting this so I’m here to remind you: ‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘

I know that’s right. 👏🏾 Put some respect on Mookie’s name.

Gnawing on the bars of my damn enclosure, RELEASE ME FROM THIS GAME, SOMEBODY PLEASE

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

Baseball is going to END ME. 🫠

Lolol. I want “It’s fun to feel bad” on a horror mug.

🤣 truly what this game feels like. 🫠

Preorder links for THE KING MUST DIE, my science fantasy novel about found family, revolution, and second chances are live! Submit receipts via this form to receive a digital poster, drawn by the incredible Eepz. www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...

So allegedly 🧊 rebranded. Now their vests say Police HSI. Just something to look out for

A real one. 🫡

😍😍😍 cannot wait to read this!

Me, thinking I wouldn’t be plagued by one of these (as somebody without a novel out yet). Scammers: HELLO, wrong Jennifer Brown!!!!!

Applications are now open for the 2026 Novel Writing Workshop with @drkarenlord.bsky.social! Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio. #novelwritingworkshop #clarionwest www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...

whoa october is around the corner! reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon. more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

"motherfucker" is a gender neutral term

Oh, hello

Me, after being wrecked by yet another Silvia Moreno-Garcia book. (Just finished THE BEWITCHING. In my entire feelings about the way Silvia weaves generational narratives around surviving the horrors that haunt us. How does she DO THIS?! 😭)

Once-opulence? Space novellas with interesting relationships?? An extremely adept author whose prose swept me away, the first time I read them??? Yeah. My bookshelves are ready.

I’ve read these opening pages yall. They were spectacular. 👀🔥

Twinkle, 10 x 16 inches, acrylics on board and paper. The lady and a few of the stars pop out in 3d :)

It's Black Speculative Fiction month! All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own. 1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a... 2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

Today is my favorite person @brentclambert.bsky.social 's birthday! The SFF field is better for his part in it as a writer, a reader, a friend and cheerleader and my life is brighter for sharing his light. If you have not let it bless you just yet, pick up and devour his A Necessary Chaos today.

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

ah look its all our fears

aging Cassandra has been living in my head for a while now, it is time to set her free #dragonage

Did you happen to enjoy my short "Flicker" in Peele's Out There Screaming anthology? Patton Oswalt did, and now it's its own itty bitty limited edition baby in his next Ghost Box set from Canadian publisher Hingston & Olsen www.hingstonandolsen.com/ghost-box-iv

white folks love to hear this when it's from black lawyers and professors - they've "earned" the right to not be disrespected - but let it be a negro without a Harvard degree, living paycheck to paycheck and the empathy goes right out the window

This is why we have high blood pressure.

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Ahem...might I offer you some joy, in these trying times? Applications for @clarionwest.bsky.social's 2026 Novel Writing Workshop open soon. So, I wrote about my application experience & programmatic takeaways, thus far. If you're thinking about applying? Do it. ✊🏾 jencbrown.com/2025/09/27/o...

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

This Friday! Writers With Drinks! Queer spoken word 'n comedy. It's going to be AMAZING. Here's why I'm so excited about each of these performers/readers...

Don’t sleep on this method!! It can often feel like forms go into a black hole, but purchase requests do get seen. Librarians get excited when folks make their collection development responsibilities a little easier. 🙏🏾

All damn day: *all-consuming, barely stringing sentences together, tiredness* 11:59 pm: *mental backflips, conjuring memories from 15 years ago, I wonder where that random thing is, wired-ness* 🫠

oh hey it's pre-order sale time again at @barnesandnoble.com which makes it a great time to pre-order WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, interviews about activism, protest, and collective action, edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly

are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Don’t know who made this but thank you

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

The Botanists Had a lot of fun making this one

I fucking hate this so much, it delays search every time I forget to add "-ai", so annoying that it makes me fucking type more to get basic search I HATE IT (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻