Another Hugo Award has successfully passed through the airport after a thorough inspection.

What a gift to spend time with so many SFWA members and SFWA-curious SFF-lovers at #Worldcon this weekend. Thank you to the staff, thank you to the attendees, and thank YOU for making our SFWA events such a joy. More soon on SFWA at Baltimore, but for now--we hope you came home inspired to create!

Of Song and Shadow, Book 2 of The Blade Mage is live on Audible today! Wooohooo! www.audible.com/pd/B0F1Z5ZN7...

SFWA Provides Must Read with Notes and Model Language for Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF Contracts. Read the press release: www.sfwa.org/2025/07/23/p...

Our gate keeps changing on us. We're convinced this one will be a success. Maybe even... A critical success

Pretty neat seeing my name mentioned alongside so many great authors in an article on Locusmag.com. Also, the Coffee & Careers workshop at the Nebulas was a blast. locusmag.com/2025/07/sfwa...

Today is the day! Truly a dream come true. I'm sitting here listening to my own book... It's surreal. John Pirhalla absolutely crushed it. Couldn't have asked for a better narrator. He rocks. www.audible.com/pd/The-Blade...?

My dearest witches and other wonderful beings, my publisher is giving away 100 e-books! You might want to try this. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

50% OFF Threader God url:https://www.audiobooks.com/promotions/promotedBook/525552/threader-god?refId=201485

Very excited to announce The Blade Mage is coming to audio! Produced by Blackstone Publishing with the brilliant John Pirhalla narrating! This is a serious dream come true moment for me! www.audible.com/pd/The-Blade...

Super excited to have been included in this! What an honor! insights.bookbub.com/successful-a...

This week on The SFWA Blog: How to Navigate the Publishing Industry with Social Anxiety. Marie Croke shows us how to ease into this kind of public exposure with a practical step-by-step guide. Check it out here: www.sfwa.org/2025/04/01/h...

My novelette "Enough" is an Analog's AnaLab finalist! Read my story about a graffiti artist taking on a totalitarian government (and a lot of other great stories and poems) for free at the link below. Thanks to everyone who liked the story and voted for it! www.analogsf.com/about-analog...

📢 Guest Announcement @garrettwang.bsky.social ✨ He's best known for portraying Harry Kim on Star Trek: Voyager. He also voiced Kim in Star Trek: Lower Decks. 🦝 Meet Garrett June 20-22 at Soonercon 33 in Norman, OK! Save now on passes, kids 12 & under free with adult: soonercon.com/guests/garre...

Get Joshua Palmatier's book THE THRONE OF AMENKOR signed plus a new #sff #pirate #anthology at the ZNB #Kickstarter! tinyurl.com/ZNBSkullXBones #kickstartercampaign #crowdfunding #amreading #amwriting #fantasy #urbanfantasy #horror #amreadingsff #booksky #readingcommunity #sciencefiction #scifi

Yay! Finished my final author's pass on the manuscript of THE FAERIE MORGANA. Orbit have done the most amazing job with the cover--and bonus material at the end! Pre-order if you like (links on my website) and thank you SO much, from me, my editor, my agent, and my kid! www.louisemarley.com

Back SKULL X BONES, an #sff #anthology from ZNB on #Kickstarter at tinyurl.com/ZNBSkullXBones NOW! Stories about #pirates edited by @davidbcoe.bsky.social & @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social! Support now! #amreading #amwriting #amreadingfantasy #fantasy #scifi #booksky #urbanfantasy #sciencefiction

Hanging out in my backyard...

Applications for the Soonercon 33 Art Show are open! You can browse, bid on and buy original art pieces June 20-22. Soonercon staff handle all the sales. Artists can mail-in pieces or set them up. Apply now at soonercon.com/shopping/art...

It is launch day for my novel CAPTAIN MARVEL: CAROL DANVERS DECLASSIFIED!!! So happy to be sharing this book with the world! #Marvel #CaptainMarvel #Avengers Purchase: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Captai...

New ZNB #Kickstarter now LIVE at tinyurl.com/ZNBSkullXBones! Back now for #sff #antho about #pirates featuring RS Belcher, @ccfinlay.bsky.social, @mistymassey.bsky.social, & more! Rewards and bonuses galore! Support #smallpress! #booksky #crowdfunding #fantasy #sciencefiction #urbanfantasy #scifi

Michael A. Stackpole is our Soonercon 33 Author Guest of Honor! His work has shaped fandom for decades! Now’s your chance to meet him, celebrate the stories you love, and maybe even get a book or two signed. Don’t miss it! Learn more: soonercon.com/guests/micha... @michaelastackpole.bsky.social

Soonercon needs A/V volunteers! Help with live production, tech, and behind-the-scenes action. 💡 Roles include: 🎥 Camera Operator 🎚 Audio Engineer 📢 Production Coordinator 📜 Teleprompter Operator 💡 Lighting Operator Interested? Note your role on the application! 📋Sign up: soonercon.com/volunteer/

Not every day you see someone flip around in the middle of the interstate and come flying up the entrance ramp. The same entrance ramp you're currently traveling down. Whew! That was a close one!

Come see us! @jhfleming.bsky.social and I will be slinging and signing books at the Same Page book store in Claremore, OK from 1pm - 4pm on Saturday! Good times will be had! www.facebook.com/events/11111...

This week on Future Best Seller we had the pleasure of chatting with @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social about editing and publishing anthologies. They may have an open call soon. Hint hint. open.spotify.com/episode/6IVu...

Author hard at work...

Tried to write "humanity's original home world," and wound up with "humanity's original hoe world," which would be an entirely different sort of story.

So if anyone is still around Soonercon at noon Sunday, I’ll be reading from a new short story: “Jolene Korkamus and the Miracle of Arson Claus”

Soonercon! Soonercon! Anyone out there going to #Soonercon this weekend?

Sharing scary stories at Soonercon. #Soonercon

I don't post the thing I make very often, but here are three fascinators I just finished. Each has a color changing LED in the center. I'll have them in the Art Show at Soonercon this weekend. Bid early and bid often!

I think I brought some super cool prizes for Fact or Fiction: Historical Events as Portrayed by Anime later today at SoonerCon 👀👀👀 if you're at the con, I hope to see you there!

Literary agent Stacey Kondla joined the pod this week to drop some knowledge about querying. And parrots. And concerts. Good times were had by all! open.spotify.com/episode/6WJv...

New #epicfantasy from @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social coming April 1st (no joke)! CRYSTAL LATTICE, Book One of the "Crystal Cities" trilogy. The most powerful magician in the world...can't do magic. Check out the full back cover copy and links to preorder here: www.patreon.com/posts/100977... #fantasy

This week, we had the pleasure of chatting with our friend, Author Paula Lafferty, who taught us all about Kickstarter & TikTok open.spotify.com/episode/3HX1...

This week, we had the pleasure of chatting with our good friend Olivia Harding. She is a member of the amazing band Music the Gathering, AND Gum Shoe Noir, AND host of the podcast, Folk Files, AND is about to publish a novel! Oh, AND she was on J.H.'s album! open.spotify.com/episode/57bz...

This week we had the pleasure of visiting with author R.L. King who has 35 books published in a single series! 🤯 open.spotify.com/episode/2fgq...

Our neighbor came to visit...

This is when the voice actors scream their lines, right? #writing #authors #writingmemes #authorsullivanhardgrave

I'm excited to announce my book, Jack of Crows, will be promoted as part of a special sale on @Smashwords to celebrate 2024 Read an Ebook Week from March 3 - March 9. Be sure to follow me for more updates and links to the promotion for my books and many more! #ebookweek24 #Smashwords

Less than 2 days left in the Zombies Need Brains Magazine Kickstarter for YEAR THREE of the SFF online magazine ZNB PRESENTS! If we don't fund, then the magazine will have to shut down! www.kickstarter.com/projects/znb/znb-presents-year-three #amreading #readingcommunity #fantasy #sciencefiction

The March/April issue of Analog is out with my novelette "Enough." There is a nice long excerpt on their website at the link below. And don't forget to check out the issue's Reference Library that has a great review of my short story collection. www.analogsf.com/current-issu...

This week we had on the one and only Craig Martelle! Whether you're an indie author or going trad, you won't want to miss this one! open.spotify.com/episode/4kPn...

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! The Zombies Need Brains Magazine Kickstarter is in trouble! We've got 8 days to raise $10K to hit our goal! Support #SmallPress! This is a @sfwa.bsky.social-qualifying market! www.kickstarter.com/projects/znb... #readingcommunity #fantasy #urbanfantasy #sciencefiction #scifi

Anyone else feel like their mental voice changes to copy things you've listened to? I just listened to a bunch of standup comedy then got in the car, and it felt like I was leaving an invisible trail of Screaming Australian Comedian as I blew through an intersection.

If you’re on Reddit, anything you’ve posted may be used for AI training, per a new deal between Reddit and an unnamed AI company arstechnica.com/information-...

This week we recapped the fantastic time we had at the Superstars Writing Seminar! Spoiler alert - Superstars was amazing open.spotify.com/episode/5VVi...