Once in a while, I get asked "where do your ideas come from?" and this morning I got a mini-version of the process to share. 1. See an ad from 1925 for Tuxedo Tobacco which features a white woman in profile stating "I love to see a man smoke a pipe."

we're hosting @nghivo.bsky.social tonight 🐈‍⬛ 6pm at the bookstore 🐈‍⬛ wander in, clerics 🧙📚✨

Hey, Wisconsin folks, you around in Madison tonight? I'm gonna be at A Room of One's Own at 6PM talking about A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills standalone novella series! roomofonesown.com/event/2025-1...

Left a handful of signed copies of Don't Sleep with the Dead at Barbara's Bookstore in O'Hare, F Concourse mear the McDonalds!

Anyone in Wichita, KS tonight? I'm on at Watermark Books and Cafe tonight at 6PM talking about Singing Hills #6, A Mouthful of Dust! watermarkbooks.com/event/2025-1...

Actually this is at the Spencer Road Library!!

Anyone in St. Louis tonight at 7PM? I'm hanging out at Main Street Books talking about the newest Singing Hills, A Mouthful of Dust!!! mainstreetbooks.indielite.org/event/2025-1...

Anyone free in Milwaukee tonight? Come check me out at Boswell Book Company, where I'll be talking about A Mouthful of Dust, Singing Hills #6, all about hunger, famine, food and the stories we tell about all of 'em! boswellbooks.com/event/2025-1...

Happy book birthday to A Mouthful of Dust, standalone novella in the Singing Hlls Cycle, out today! This time, Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant the hoopoe memory spirit are investigating the town of Baolin, famous for its pork recipe and its famine. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Hey. Hey. On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

Any one in Minneapolis this weekend? I'm here for Gaylaxicon! Friday 1pm-Signing 2:30pm- Bits and Bobs panel 4pm- Blood and Bone 8:30- interview Saturday 2:30pm- Queering the Classics 4:30pm- reading Sunday 10am- signing

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

I'm in town for Gaylaxicon, but before we kick off, I'm at DreamHaven Books at 6:30PM tonight! You want to get a copy of the standalone Singing Hills novella A Mouthful of Dust early? This is where ya do it! dreamhavenbooks.com/event/pre-ga...

Hey, what's everyone up to? I'm gonna be in Gaylaxicon up in Minneapolis this weekend, likely running around like a chicken with her head unavailable. www.gaylaxiconmn.org

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! Keep AI out of translation!

To hell with DC for this stupid fucking call. Go buy some books from one of the best horror writers working today: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Thank you so much to everyone who chimed in on this post- I would really like to see this diary find a place somewhere, and now I've got a few leads to run down. Have one of my favorite entries:

Hey, does anyone here have an in with the Annapolis Royal Heritage Society in Nova Scotia or any similar group from the region? I've tried a few emails and not had any luck. Please, I have the 130+ year old diary of a woman living in the region and would like to see it taken care of!

I've been walking around stunned all weekend, thank you everyone who voted for Stitched! If you missed this one, you can check out at Uncanny Magazine, ALSO a 2025 Hugo winner! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/stit...

COVER! A Long and Speaking Silence is out next year, but in the meantime, we can all stare at the cover, or at least, I know that's what I'm going to be doing. A million thanks to Alyssa for her incredible work; this series wouldn't be what it is without her!

Nghi Vo (@nghivo.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from her novel The City in Glass, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Reading for the Hugo Awards? "Stitched to Skin like Family Is" by Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social is a finalist for a Best Short Story Hugo Award! It's also a Locus Award finalist! Read it here or in the Hugo Award Packet! buff.ly/bhzn4PL

Hey, are you in Columbus, OH and wanna see me talk about fantasy, writing, all that good stuff? I'm on at 1:30PM at the Columbus Book Festival on the Fabulous Fantasy panel ar Author Stage 1!

On in twenty minutes at Author Stage 1 at the Columbus Book Festival! Come for the shelter from the rain, stay for the soggy writer!

Pack an umbrella and be sure to check out the folks at Smut Lover Cafe, who have cute things and were nice enough not to chuck me out into the deluge! www.instagram.com/smutlovercaf...

Heeey, if you come to the Columbus Book Festival, pack an umbrella!

‪ Are you in Columbus, OH this weekend? I'm at the Columbus Book Festival Saturday and Sunday! Sat, 4PM, Not Quite Human: Otherworldly Characters, with Lindy Ryan and Vivian Shaw Sun, 1:30PM, Fabulous Fantasy, with Jennifer K. Lambert and P. H. Lowe Hope I see you! www.columbusbookfestival.org

‪ Are you in Columbus, OH this weekend? I'm at the Columbus Book Festival Saturday and Sunday! Sat, 4PM, Not Quite Human: Otherworldly Characters, with Lindy Ryan and Vivian Shaw Sun, 1:30PM, Fabulous Fantasy, with Jennifer K. Lambert and P. H. Lowe Hope I see you! www.columbusbookfestival.org

There's this thing I do when writing Singing Hills novellas where I've gotten rid of the word 'beautiful' as it pertains to humans. I thought it'd be fun to just describe the characters as I see 'em and let the audience draw their own conclusions.

Hey everyone! I'm on in 3 hours at the St. Joe County Public Library! Come hear me talk about life, books, this cool heron I saw on the river, whatever we come up with! sjcpl.org/news/inthest...

Gonna be in South Bend, Indiana tonight? Come hear me talk at the St.Joe County Public Library about books, life, and whatever else the audience wants to hear about! sjcpl.org/news/inthest...

Look what I was given on tour! They're the most adorable stickers of Cleric Chih and Jordan Baker, made by the phenomenally talented @fourthleafluckart.bsky.social, and I love them so very much!

Moments from Pride '25: Random queer kid: (picks up a book titled something like "Sea Hag" or "The Problem with Most Marriages," turns to friend) THIS IS YOU!* Me: Quit it! Stop using our free books to bully each other! This is the only wholesome thing I do all year, don't fuck this up for me!

Set up at Pridefest MKE!!! Come say hello, get a book signed, and grab some FREE BOOKS from the MKE LGBT Center! Thank you to everyone who came by yesterday, it was so good to see people!

Maybe favorite moment of Pride today: Me: Just to let you know, all the books are free! Patron: Ha right, they're *free.* Me: They are! Patron: Of course! (pause) Wait, really? Me: Are you fucking with me? Patron: Are you fucking with ME? Me: I don't know anything anymore! Take some books!

I'm at Milwaukee Pridefest with the MKE LGBT library Friday and Saturday, and we are giving away so many books! Come out to see us, come grab one of my books and get it signed for a suggested donation of 15 bucks!!

Hey folks! You in Milwaukee? You going to Pride? I'll be there Saturday and Sunday with the MKE LGBT Center's library. All our books are free for the taking, so come take some home! I'll be there with some of my books as well, and I'll sign whatever ya want that's not a contract!

Looking for some fun today? I'm speaking at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books with @edwardunderhill.bsky.social at 11:45am! Come out and see us! events.humanitix.com/edward-under...

So much love to @strangehorizons.bsky.social, home of my first professionally published short story!

Okay, I have been told that you don't get to hint at a spite art bequest and not follow up on it. Badger and Cooke had some feelings about who got their art collection, as reported here in the U.S.1.

Hey, who wants something nice? So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! I'm gonna be signing at Mysterious Galaxy's booth from 4:30PM-5PM at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books today! Come say hi! Come get a signature! Come buy some books from some awesome folks!

If you're coming to the LA Times Festival of Books today, bring an umbrella! This message brought to you by the collection of drowned cats masquerading as writers and booksellers this Saturday.

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! I'm gonna be signing at Mysterious Galaxy's booth from 4:30PM-5PM at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books today! Come say hi! Come get a signature! Come buy some books from some awesome folks!

Are you gonna be at the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend? Come join me, Jedediah Berry, Cary Groner, and Stacy Nathanial Jackson on Saturday, 4/26, at 12:30PM for our panel, Stranger, Freer, More Beguiling: The Artful Side of Fantasy and Sci-Fi! We'll be at the Ray Stark Family Theatre!

Are you gonna be at the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend? Come join me, Jedediah Berry, Cary Groner, and Stacy Nathanial Jackson on Saturday, 4/26, at 12:30PM for our panel, Stranger, Freer, More Beguiling: The Artful Side of Fantasy and Sci-Fi! We'll be at the Ray Stark Family Theatre!

Hey. Hey. You have to be in the car in about 6 hours. You have to be at an awards ceremony some 15 hours after that. You need to- You know, the city of Azril has a local fortunetelling system consisting of a deck of illustrated cards. The problem (or maybe the point) of these cards-

Hey, wanna come see me, N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, and Matthew Kirby talk gods, religion and fiction in Chicago? We're on tomorrow at the American Writers Museum for their American Prophets series! americanwritersmuseum.org/program-cale...

Hey, wanna come see me, N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, and Matthew Kirby talk gods, religion and fiction in Chicago? We're on tomorrow at the American Writers Museum for their American Prophets series! americanwritersmuseum.org/program-cale...

Look what I found today, it's @tkingfisher.com 's Nettle and Bone in braille!