“PANDEMONIUM WALTZ includes seventeen stories dating back to 2014 (with one original), plus a delightful and incisive interview with Kelly Link, one of the few writers whose voice is as distinctive as Ford’s.” @garykwolfe reviews Jeffrey Ford

The new podcast In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin pairs Le Guin's blog posts with commentary from authors, librarians, critics, and more, including David Mitchell, Emily Wilson, Rick Riordan, Robin Hobb, and Vajra Chandrasekera.

#UpforAuction Horror master Peter Straub was famous for his deeply creepy tales, his collaborations with Stephen King, and his incredibly dapper custom suits with bow ties. His estate bequeathed several of his famous bespoke bowties to Locus! locus.betterworld.or...#UpforAuctionLINK IN BIO

The Subtle Art of Folding Space tour! On April 8th at 7pm, I will be at Odyssey Books in South Hadley, MA with @jedediahberry.bsky.social odysseybks.com/event/2026-0...

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Hope it's clear I'm not suggesting that writing by hand is the only valid way to write. That's as ridiculous as suggesting that a failure to rely on chatbots means you'll get left behind.

Recent work session with game writing partner @andrewmcalpine.bsky.social resulted in ideas we can't explore fully until maybe 2 or 3 books from now. But I already love having them tucked away as we carry on with the current project.

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Time I made a confession. These days, I use AI in all my writing. AI stands for "actual ink." See what I do is I put ink into a pen and then I use it to write things. This technological marvel has revolutionized my drafting process. Writing IS thinking. Writing without thinking is useless to me.

Yeah, no. I'm not forced to be sneaky about shit. I don't fucking use it. I'm not a slopper. I don't consider sloppers to be my colleagues. I'm a human making human art. I don't outsource my soul to corporations and their proprietary demonic familiars (summoned from my stolen work).

Very happy to find The Naming Song among the finalists for the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, alongside works by @nghivo.bsky.social and @guygavrielkay.bsky.social.

Hi! Huge news! COVER REVEAL!!! 📖 SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME is a groundbreaking anthology where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and generations.

well, well, well... we meet again, for the first AND last time, time wizard... though we will meet... many more times, as we already have. again.

Proust miniseries is complete—find it at @literaryhub.bsky.social and in any podcatcher! And get your Proust books at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social’s site. Find every Cosmic Library book via our own reading list there: Proust, 1,001 Nights, Journey to the West . . . www.harvard.com/cosmic-library

This book is so fun and so good. A sci-fi heist as well as a moving meditation on the nature of art and simulacra. (Do add it to the pre-order spree you are currently engaged in, thank you.)

I don't usually re-up my own stuff, but I saw some trustworthy folks saying I should do that, so here I am again, rattling teapots and yawping on about my next book. YAWP!

This book is SO MUCH FUN, you definitely want to get it while the gittin' is good

B&N members can score that 25% discount on KILL ALL WIZARDS preorders right now, and that is cool. BUT anyone can get a tidy little discount while also supporting the indie bookshop of their choice through bookshop dot org bookshop.org/p/books/kill...

For less than $2k you can own this pair of hand-carved chairs, and there is absolutely no chance your own face will someday appear among those they've collected through the centuries.

Hayao Miyazaki has recreated/redrawn 31 scenes from his films in "Panorama Boxes", on display starting July 8 at Ghibli Park. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVU...

I'm still doing a GoFundMe to help my parents rebuild after a devastating house fire. The costs of doing so, with an uninsured house, are extremely high. My parents are elderly and low-income and my disabled brother lives with them. I deeply appreciate shares of this link! gofund.me/ac93c03d5

Sent home from preschool with the three-year-old. So proud.

THIS APRIL! Excited to share my short story "Frog Heart" - a fairy tale about parenthood & trying to save the ones we love - originally in Ploughshares - in its new form as a standalone chapbook, thanks to @ikeproject.bsky.social! Pre-order & read about it here: asterismbooks.com/product/frog...

In the weeks ahead, I get to join several writers in conversation about their new books—something I love to do. First up is VOIDVERSE by Damien Ober. This book is stunning and strange and daring, and I can't wait to talk about it. March 19th at Visions Video in Northampton, MA.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Not exactly a jingle but our local station did this Star Trek: TNG / We Didn’t Start the Fire mashup that has uhhhhh really stuck with me youtu.be/bDk3eaeao8E?...

My favorite thing is that our titles can be read as a complete paragraph. The dragon has some complaints. "Kill all wizards!"

Happy to see KILL ALL WIZARDS in this month's ABA/ Netgalley digital box, right next to @wiswell.bsky.social's THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS. Bookstore and library folks—if I may be so bold—why not check out . . . both? (I certainly know what I'm reading next.)

A very happy welcome back to bookstores to maybe the best grimdark medieval horror ever

a lil prize thread, now with nomination form link!!!!

Best stuff at the art institute this week: Haunted House by Morris Kantor, this guy, drawing by Bruce Goff, shield/gun

The wonderful Edward Carey is teaching a class on fairy tales as inspiration. Inspired by the one he used to teach at UT Austin's MFA. Perfect if you're not going to AWP or if you'll be home in time that Sunday March 8th. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

Gene Wolfe translated them out of a future language

Alone at home with the two-year-old. She just pointed to the basement door and said, voice all raspy from a cold, "There's someone at the door." Reader, my heart did lurch.

Cairn: Barebones Edition is available in Hardback, Perfect Bound, Stapled, and Coilbound from Lulu! And they all look great! www.lulu.com/search?sortB...

It's easy to believe the world is full of hate, to feel overwhelmed and that change is impossible. But 150 yrs worth of data show it takes just 3.5% of a population—say 12 million Americans—engaged in nonviolent civil resistance to create real change—even the fall of administrations. This is doable.

Don’t sleep on them, true, but do sleep with at least one of them under your pillow.

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

My novella THE RAINSEEKERS is out today from Tordotcom! A group of adventurers hope to be the first to feel the rain on Mars. “A vivid, poignant, and compassionate story about our desperate search for meaning...whether on Earth or far beyond it.” —Veronica Roth

The No ICE in Minnesota itch bundle has raised $375k and counting. Let's keep this going. itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Bard alum and former faculty member here. Leon Botstein must resign.

"We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend."

Relieved & VERY grateful for author blurbs for THE LOOM TREE (6.30.26) Thank you @jedediahberry.bsky.social, Olivie Blake & Lynn D. Jung for your words. Pre-order link below: www.kensingtonbooks.com/978164566088... @dianapho.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

Supporting local journalism is a gift to oneself in so many ways.

In all the discussions about AI cognition, we should at least acknowledge that the dataset these models have trained on includes vast tracts of fiction in which AIs gain sentience. These lines have all been written previously.

Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc

These brighter ones went up last February and have proved popular. Thanks to everyone who bought them (and donated) we've sold 199 and raised $2,121 for Safe Place International www.bonfire.com/read-books-p...