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...

me whenever i look at the fire in my hand

I can verify this is a fantastic read (just finished an ARC yesterday!). Review to come. :) #booksky

I contributed an adventure to this. No ICE in Minnesota, no ICE anywhere. Prosecute ICE.

My publisher is giving away some advance copies of Kill All Wizards. Enter if you dare: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

This novella was great! It comes out on February 17th! Here's what I said about it! @matthewkressel.net

New Troika Initiative Cards are coming soon: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... Sign up to the campaign, make us look good, keep updated on progress!

Reckoning reopened to submissions on February 1st! We pay @sfwa.org pro rates, we never charge fees, AND we're piloting a new/improved process for reviewing and publishing submissions, which shows every sign of making our response times MUCH faster. Please submit? Guidelines: reckoning.press/submit/

To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...

Some fine company there :)

Yesterday I spent the morning with my daughter for her first day of pre-school, the afternoon with my grad students for their first workshop of the semester. Saw the whole of my academic life flash by in a whirl of alphabet block manuscripts and Crayola syllabi.

Writer in the top 1% of writerly success: "Can't wait to alienate myself from my peers and audience to work with literally the worst boss in the world for a cool 80k a year."

James Sallis was one of the true towering figures, crossing multiple genres and categories, but particularly in crime fiction. His death at the age of 81 is a real loss, but we do have two more books of his to look forward to this year. mailchi.mp/sohopress/re...

SFWA folks, I am happy to do this for Game Writing as well should you wish it!

okay if you like Weird Medieval Guys, architecture, gender, bees, and eldritch women, have I got a book for you (which I also illustrated!)

I wrote an adult literary fantasy for my kids & all of us children of borderless fairy tales & cross-cultural myth, about preserving our stories & histories & passing them on, defying those who seek to deny, diminish or erase us. @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social

If you're a @kellylink.bsky.social collector, and/or you have a special place in your heart for The Faery Handbag, the swanky edition of it from Conversation Tree Press (which is like 15km from my house) is open for public orders now. The 500 copy run is half gone already...

A bunch of Minneapolis authors are coming together to offer incentives for donating. If you DM me proof of donation, I’ll send you a bookplate and a piece of microfiction that is set in the word of The First Bright Thing.

Over the next few weeks @literaryhub.bsky.social will be publishing letters from Minnesotans about ICE’s authoritarian occupation of their home. First up today is poet Dobby Gibson. lithub.com/letter-from-...

I was looking up something about Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light & came across this 2005 piece @jedediahberry.bsky.social wrote for the Small Beer newsletter. Cannot wait to get the beautiful new UK edition—looking forward to reading Samantha Shannon's intro. smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...

Marisa Calin is fantastic and I'm so glad she was able to take this on.

NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.

Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.

Just immediately read this as "Get ready for AI slopping agents!"

Here it is: Block by Frozen Block is a short, interactive poem I made in Twine as a vessel for ... all the stuff roiling around in my head as everyone here is fighting for our neighbors in big ways and small. adeniro.itch.io/block-by-fro...

Gigantic melancholies AND gigantic mirth? In THIS economy?

I love this book so much! I know you’ll love it too!!! Please buy it + read it + request it for your local library!!!

hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca

Closing late pledges tomorrow morning, so here's your chance to grab the good stuff* via Kickstarter. *Cool places to visit with your weirdo friends, imaginary and otherwise. www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...

"It’s not hard to imagine that Renee Good would have also found writing and artistic community in the city, had she lived." I wrote about why it matters that Good was a poet, and the connection of poetry to resistance. nonprofitquarterly.org/why-it-matte...

My new "adventure" Dungeon of Sparks is out now! It's fully illustrated but needs you, the reader to become the author. I'm calling it a "disjointed collaboration". When you finish writing it, you can use the art in it to publish an adventure. Enjoy! better-legends.itch.io/dungeon-of-s...

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

you know what's beautiful, and it can be easy to forget, but the people. the people are beautiful.

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

It's happening! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

I hope others using Shopify will do as I just did, and tell the support team that if they don't let us opt-out of this "feature" in advance, our time with their service will be short.

What the hell is this nonsense? How exactly am I “in control” if they’re forcing the on switch? Why am I being unwillingly opted-in for a “free trial period” of this garbage?

OK, this is amazing. An automata of Gormenghast. youtu.be/v3fyV06D1gk?...

Spike Lee’s David Byrne American Utopia documentary is pretty great.

A reminder that Between Two Cons is going on this June in Portland, Oregon! In the past few days we've had a deluge of vendors, sponsors, and badge holders sign up to attend! It's going to be super fun, with: - Games - Seminars - A Live recording Come join us! tabletop.events/groups/betwe...

"In my previous life, I must have met you guys." This is so sweet.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

The paradox of reading (and writing) is that you go away from the world in order to come back to it closer than you were before. (It’s the same way that returning from a trip temporarily makes home more visible.) All good books provide this experience in some measure. Probably most good art.

@megapolisomancy.bsky.social on the "Well-Built City Trilogy" and the "sense of complexity especially evident in Ford’s trilogy, most particularly in its use of subjectivity." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-are-close-we-are-almost-there/

May I also recommend Evan Dahm's version, also rules.

Cover art by Matthew Crumpton! www.instagram.com/crumpton_

My novella Kill All Wizards will be set loose in June. It's a little Jane Austen and a whole lotta bloody barbaric vengeance. If you like Conan, The Count of Monte Cristo, highly opinionated narrators, or old-school adventure, then this is the book for you. thirdarchive.net#killallwizards

But their little toes can't type 911.

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