Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

Seattle Worldcon Post Mortem - Two goals, one success. Plus a friend gets an award nomination, and free stuff (at the end). jakkoke.com/newsletter/

on the lighter side of the news today: Tiny Staircases for Cats

beautiful sand art in Cornwall...

@karawynn.bsky.social and I will be in Seattle for Worldcon (and to visit friends). #seattleworldcon #writingcommunity #sff

Learn why attending a nonviolent protest is one of the most effective things you can do right now. #nokings #resist ninelives.karawynnlong.com/strategic-re...

we all feel this way sometimes... and this is a good reminder.

@karawynn.bsky.social talks about the difficulty of picking what to write in the face of an exploding world. ninelives.karawynnlong.com/a-question-f...

Do you have protest photos from last weekend? Did you do any crowd-counting? Help social scientists accurately measure protest participation by scrolling to Submit a Record at the CCC. (If you don’t have the data, maybe someone you know does! Please pass it on.) ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro...

Reading is good for your health! I've believed this for years, but recent science now confirms it! Not mentioned in the title is that reading also seems to stave off dementia! #neuroscience #sff #reading #writing-community #writing #books #fiction

Just finished this excellent science fiction book. Really engaging, exciting, and heartfelt. Highly recommended! #booksky #sff #unreliablenarrator

i found this enlightening... youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?...

well… it’s worse than i thought… TLDR: Meta / FB - torrented a shitton of copyrighted books from known pirate sites to train their AI… knowingly and there’s an email trail to prove it

Rep Landsman: "You're just picking on children. Our government is not supposed to be this intrusive. Your government has become incredibly intrusive. You're in our doctors offices banning treatments. You're in our classroom banning books. Now you're in my daughter's locker room"

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” ― George Orwell, 1984 Thinking about that quote a lot lately.

hat tip: @sunyidean.com - so true it hurts. physically hurts, actually.

#authors and other creatives should read Cory's latest ... good shit.

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643,000

Cyberpunk games are like “we somehow made up a worse version of your world do you want to spend hours of your life in it” and I’m like no thank you.

a new story featuring a character i created a long time ago...

"...you can read whole articles about this that don’t inform you that Mexico is already doing much of what Trump wants it to do—or that this was apparently accomplished through diplomacy, without Trumpian bluster."

Hey. Fake account. Gideon Nav says please report and block. Thanks! #onefleshoneend

So Wired Magazine did a profile of me! www.wired.com/story/murder...

this was 100% a decision made to curry favor with trump www.thewrap.com/la-times-cas...

In her latest (fantastic) Nine Lives, @karawynn.bsky.social - talks about her journey to understanding gender at middle age... and includes some great science. ninelives.karawynnlong.com/gender-x/

“What possible business could an out-of-office U.S. president have to call Vladimir Putin seven times?” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-...

shh, this one's a total bilf! 🤣

lol, how hard can it be?

I don't look so good, pre-coffee :)

ugh... stuck my head through the X door to see what it looks like these days ... and now i need a shower to wash off all the toxicity ...

So here's some good news for a change... www.bbc.com/news/article...

The CW write-a-thon has begun. I'm committing to 2000 words per week, most of it on a new Shadowrun novelette. See secure.clarionwest.org/jakkoke-writ... Donations go to Clarion West, supporting world-class instruction to empower emerging and underrepresented writers.

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

@karawynn.bsky.social and I commissioned a bookshelf a couple months ago, and now we have room for our books... and to buy new ones. This is the hardcover of one of the greatest SF books of all time.

Book release day! My YA science fiction novel MY STARS SHINE DARKLY is now available in paperback and ebook. In a story awash with Shakespearean intrigue and hijinks, join our intrepid heroine as she struggles against the dystopian patriarchy of her world. books2read.com/mystarsshine...

NYT - A New Publisher Promises Authors ‘the Lion’s Share of the Profit’ .... The article is scant on details, but says the new publisher - Authors Equity - is run by industry heavyweights - and offers profit sharing instead of advances. Does anyone have more details about this? #writing-community

One of my favorite stories of 2023 - Hope is the Thing with Feathers by @karawynn.bsky.social - is an Asimov's reader's choice finalist for best short story. And because it's award nomination season, they've posted them for free reading. Go read it!

New author copies. Sweet giant frog demigod.

"Romantasy" as a respected genre label to help readers find what they like and diminish the toxicity romance faces in SFF = GOOD! "Romantasy" used as a bludgeon to scoff at the rest of fantasy and erase a entire history of female fantasy writers = WTF, WHY??? this is not that hard *headdesk*

Lol. If you ACTUALLY think about it, libraries are the backbone of nearly every (traditionally published) authors' sales. There are over 17K public libraries in the US, and 100k libraries of every kind. They *all* buy books. And sometimes buy more when the first set wear out! Libraries are AMAZING.

Yup. If you really want to support a writer/musician (and can afford it), buy the book/music. Spotify, Kindle Unlimited, etc are great discovery tools but generally crap for payment, especially for indie folks. Getting a copy, from them or the sellers they prefer, puts more money in their pocket.

Hilarity on trumpets and marriage:

We've tried it. It works. It's time.