brainwashed early by the High Achieving Asian Disapora culture in my weird insular high school cohort; ruled out business (evil), engineering (too much screen time), law (can't handle being wrong occasionally) > guess i'm gonna do medicine

We lost some work because some authors who showed their weirdness and rough edges asked uncomfortable questions about the power structures too many people accept as given, and then a bunch of the "community" tormented them until they hid away. Isabel Fall was one for starters.

everyone remembers what happened to Isabel Fall.

"Novels of female interiority have dominated literary fiction for nearly a decade." Happy almost 11 months of pub to CLUB CONTANGO. ✨️😮 Did you know!✨️ It has a not-young MC, and takes on "themes of migration and money"! 🎲📉

my monday routine these days is doing my little rounds and seeing if there are any updates for Things That I Am Waiting On

impossible to tell if this is a not enough caffeine headache or a too much caffeine headache

guys not to be like this but i am sitting on some bomb ass short stories that are currently being run through the submission grinder. and i'm like ik patience is the game but man. one of them in particular i am actually quite proud of, it is perhaps the best complete thing ive written in a while

spent all day doing research to write one (1) paragraph and i'm really not even sure if it reads well, classic

For some #FridayFun, how about a Spooktastic Selection of Solaris Books? Remember, being spooky is for life, not just for Halloween! Ft. books from @rainewilson.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @emmanewman.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @alexdecampi.bsky.social#FridayFun& more!

current resting state of our household at this moment is no more than three cats stay in the same room at the same time. time will only tell if we can achieve the rare four cat equilibrium

going to do nano this year for the first time in forever wahaha wish me luck

every few months i'm like hm why do i suddenly hate the way i look and want to delete every photo anyone takes and then i realize it's time to get a haircut

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read this book right now if you haven't yet

A list of reasons to make art: -horny -spite -for the bit -if you don't who will

discovering that working 14 days in a row the last 7 of which are 24/7 on call days is mentally exhausting even if the daytime stuff is lighter than usual...

was going to write something today to get the rusty wheels turning again. spent all evening playing hades ii instead oops

dreamed that some AI generated newspaper flawlessly hallucinated a deal report for my book with the very specific premise intact. i'm not even on sub??

deepest of deep breaths feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

midday vibes

With all the traveling I've been doing this month, I've been lax in my marketing responsibilities and, as a result, we're down 13 over this time last month. So here I am, taking a very jet-lagged moment to remind you that each subscription makes a difference: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Other trans writers on here are taking the opportunity to push their books atm so I thought I'd stop worrying about looking opportunistic for a moment and shill the trans cyberpunk noir mystery I originally drafted in 2019. The world is vastly and grimly different than it was back then. 1/2

plot of my next book

goodreads thinks you should read my book and i am inclined to agree

it's contemplating novellas i don't have time to write o'clock

:') jazzed to have been two noms away from making the astounding ballot again this year what an incredible slate of authors to be listed amongst!

Reskeet for the #LaborDay crowd!

there are some pretty great books in this bundle if you ask me

I'll be running the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast fiction series again in 2026. Here's the Call for Submissions. Please spread the word. alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...

i really wish the current publishing landscape (esp sff!) had more space for ongoing semi-pro serialized stories with potential for consolidating into novel form to enter the trad pub pipeline

1. A little🧵 about US mail order. The US federal government's plan is that tariffs on merch headed stateside will now be paid in advance BY US, not our customer(s). & I suppose these theoretical revenues will, in time, make their way to pay for ICE's masked goons, or the Florida gulag,

we need more books with top povs

New pinned. Family photo of CLUB CONTANGO (mystery novel, single mum "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with gangs, clubs, and gloves off) and OTHER MINDS (technoir novellas: one for the TRON, "Infernal Affairs" and Sphere fans), pubbed by Dark Matter INK 🛒 bookshop.org, blackwells.co.uk, kinokuniya.com.sg

recently finished taiwan travelogue by 楊双子 translated by lin king which somehow managed to make me emotional in the process of reading the four (4!!!) afterwards the book closes with, three of which are fictional and build out the world of the story stunningly

my handwriting exists in that fun medium place where it's actually not too bad compared to my day job peers and yet is notably terrible

so very excited for this!!

the quotes will show this is sadly a common experience, particularly in the SFF community! i have had my named misspelled/mispronounced countless times, despite the fact that it's fairly phonetically simple, and also one of the most common last names anywhere 🙃

please spread the news far and wide!! librarians and booksellers, THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now on Netgalley!

Plus ça change at the Hugos this year about what gets mispronounced—the Lipan title of Darcie Little Badger's award-winning book SHEINE LENDE; the Cambodian first name of the author of THE MINISTRY OF TIME, Kaliane Bradley—or casually skipped, like the khōréō masthead with all those foreign names.

no one ever told me my adult life would involve quite so much invoicing

We’re excited to announce the acquisition of @macey.bsky.social 's BLOOD OF QUEENS, a gothic historical fantasy featuring Tudor-inspired court intrigue, necromancy, and an audacious heist. For fans of M. A. Carrick’s The Mask of Mirrors and Holly Race's Six Wild Crowns, this hits shelves Spring ’27!

I am headed to worldcon tomorrow! no programming this year I will just be floating around the con and saying hi to people, so if you will be there & want to hang out, give me a shout!

Sometimes, to destroy a tyrant, you have to burn your own life down too. Out this fall, THE GANYMEDAN by R. T. Ester/@shoutoutmapes.bsky.social, a dark, compelling SciFi debut examining agency and sacrifice through one man’s desperate attempt to reach home. Preorder: geni.us/ganym

me: literally a pain doctor also me, every time i take a single ibuprofen and it actually works: 😮😮😮😮

not to call myself out as a workaholic or anything but im like literally instantly wilting without a project to directly work on in my off time...

im high off superhero fumes i loved the new superman

i LOVE this

the strongest and most emphatic thank fucking god it's friday!!!!!!!!! officially survived my first week as a real grown up doctor & nothing horrific happened 🥳