If you're looking for a story to read while you're nesting in a pile of warm blankets this autumn, check out, "The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been" by @leahning.bsky.social ✨

I made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Take a look at what's new and keep sending your own links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

Also got interviewed by the delightful @marissavu.bsky.social ❤️ I always appreciate the research and thoughtfulness she puts into her interview questions!

New story day!!! If you need some weird sad eco body horror in your life, this one is for you! 🌊🦀🐠 Thank you for believing in this one @lesleyconner.bsky.social ❤️

✨NEW RELEASE!!!✨ It’s pub day for my fox spirit Chinese Cinderella romantic fantasy folklore tale, YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST! 🥳🎧🦊🍜💖 Listen for free via Spotify Premium, purchase from Libro.FM, Audible, or your fave audiobook retailer, or request from your local library!!! 🎧🦊🍜💖

It's new (ish) story day!!! PodCastle made a delightful production of "The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been", originally published in Monster Lairs (edited by Anna Madden). Hope y'all enjoy!! There might be a fresh story coming out with PodCastle in the future, too... 👀

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In the Tongue of Unbanished Ghosts: 🏜️ A desert full of war 🔪 A mother whose secrets lead to her murder 🩶 A clueless, clumsy widower who forges watches with soul 🩵 A war criminal who is, unfortunately, very attractive 🏍️ And there was only one dirt bike #dvpit #f #a

Gay JOHN WICK x MAD MAX FURY ROAD + soul magic When his ma’s murdered, Noah embarks on a cross-desert hunt for answers—w/ an annoyingly attractive war criminal offering help. As Noah’s suspicion turns to feelings (ugh!), secrets from his companion’s past threaten to destroy them both. #dvpit #a #f

DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰 Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳

Hi! (the ebook version of) The Long List Anthology Volume 9 will be officially released on Monday September 8th! You can pre-order it at many ebook vendors right now, which are super helpful as they all count as release day sales toward the sales algos. www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/

Just a reminder that i have a story in this upcoming Best Of Anthology! "A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life

Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!

I feel like I'm late to the game in this discovery but...the @clarkesworldmagazine.com website has a dark mode?? This fills me with inordinate amounts of delight.

I have need for two reprints, preferably published within the last two years, only in print (not online), either in a magazine or an anthology or a ss coll, under 6,000 words, sent to [email protected]. TIA!

Issue #437 of BCS has my story "Turn to Stone Ourselves" as the From the Archives pick 😊 (and two new stories by Rosemary Claire Smith & Malda Marlys!)

Slowly preparing to exist at Seattle Worldcon. Excited to see some folks there - shout if you're going and want to say hi!!

Submissions for our last themed issue of the year CLOSE in TEN DAYS! Get it polished, get it in. The squad can't wait to feast on your words 🍽️ All the info you need to submit is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/ Share with a Black writer who needs to rip the band aid off. Don't self reject!!!

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

Short story sale!!! Super excited to be returning to the pages of @apexmag.bsky.social with "We Used to Wake to Song" this October. Read if you're into messed up parent-child relationships, body horror, and the ocean claiming our bodies to fix what we destroyed. 🌊🪸

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible Widower enlists the help of a war criminal to rescue his mom, accidentally falls in love, ohshit.jpg

BCS needs our support!! They are good people and they publish amazing fiction.

Baby's second full request?? Don't mind me, I'll just be over here screaming??

Get this on my bookshelf immediately please thanks

incredibly honoured to see A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (@titanbooks.bsky.social ) included in this @nytimes.com article by @marthawells.com 😭‼️✨

I cannot possibly express the depths of my excitement and delight 😭

Finished and submitted my first short story in a while today! Nice to be submitting again. I expect my yeet from The Dark in *checks watch* five...four...

Baby's first full request 👀

This book is WILD omg I cannot wait for it to be in the world. Congrats Kelsea!!!!

Querying update: Novel #2 is definitely getting a better reception than novel #1 in the query trenches. Which feels like progress! I've had a couple partial requests and more personals than I got on the first novel by far. And I got a partial recently on novel #1 from an agent that I am just 👀👀

Last day to enter the giveaway for both of these amazing novellas - if you haven't yet, why??

ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo Awards? "We Drink Lava" by Ai Jiang @aijiang.bsky.social is a finalist for a Best Poem Hugo Award! Read it here or in the Hugo Award Packet! buff.ly/Jxpsnqs

I am not looking for discourse. I am not looking for head pats. I only want a public record of my actions and my stance. I have withdrawn from program participation for Seattle Worldcon 2025. I've included screenshots of my reasons for ease of reading, and will also thread for accessibility.

To celebrate ANHPI month, @anovelescape.bsky.social & I are teaming up with our publisher, @titanbooks.bsky.social for a giveaway!! Five winners will receive a hardcover of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND + an ARC of DEMON SONG!! 🥳 To enter, repost and comment recommending a book!

GOOD LUCK!!👀✨🙆🏻‍♀️🌬️🎭

Man, querying is a trip. You send little chunks of your soul out into the ether as often as possible and every second of every day you may receive an email that could change your life but we're all just chilling??

Do you love reading speculative fiction and want to be part of khōréō magazine? We’re looking for First Readers, who can read submitted stories and provide their input on which ones might be good fits for khōréō! Read more details and apply here: www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

"I’m consistently in awe of the strange and wonderful-terrible worlds Ai Jiang creates and the lovely whimsy she infuses them with." New review by @leahning.bsky.social: "A PALACE NEAR THE WIND by @aijiang.bsky.social" 📚 Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

I got to review @marygthompson.bsky.social 's new novella for this issue of Apex!!! Congrats on the release, Mary, it's a great read!

OKAY Y'ALL I HAVE NEWS. @probablyharmless.bsky.social and I are making THE FUCKED UP DEER anthology a reality!!! Kickstarter is next month! I am so fricking excited!!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Odyssey graduate @leahning.bsky.social describes her workshop experience. If you want customized guidance to improve your writing, Your Personal Odyssey #WritingWorkshop can help. App Deadline 4/1 odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo... #amwritinghorror #amwritingfantasy #amwritingscifi

I got lucky enough to get an eARC of @roannelau.bsky.social 's The Serpent Called Mercy and it was AMAZING. More gushing in the link below.

BCS Archives: "Witchbreaker" by @leahning.bsky.social, BCS #359: "what's worse? Coming back to what you thought would be home and finding out they've been dead for years? Or finding out you missed it by an hour, one that only felt like seconds to you?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/witc...

After months of rumors, I can confirm that the "big 3" SF/F magazines of Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have been purchased. The new owner is Steven Salpeter and a group of investors. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/123173...

2024 Stoker Awards Final Ballot locusmag.com/2025/02...

Hey friends and fiends! Haven Spec’s Kickstarter is about 60% funded and we only have 11 days left, so if you love speculative fiction and want to help @havenspec.bsky.social keep paying pro rates, please consider contributing if you can. And please boost? Ty www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...

❤️YA contemporary romance ⌨️ 70k words Raised by her strict Tiger Mom, Maggie Wang fake-dates the hockey team grump to make her crush jealous, only to fall for the wrong guy and risk breaking all her mom’s rules. #2025pit #Q #YA #R #CON#poc #writingcommunity #amquerying

TREASURE PLANET X STARFIELD When Jak finds an ancient wrist computer with his new friend Eris—a tech prodigy—he couldn't have guessed it would tear him from his home on a pirate space station to an interstellar quest for answers about his dad's legacy, old mysteries & himself. #2025Pit #YA #SF #M

A centaur cheats at jousting, until the fake horse head goes KERPLOP! 🌈Mythology X SPOP 🗡️Betrayed by the man he loves 🗡️Betrayed by his father 🐈‍⬛Cat Si from Irish folklore 🐐Snarky/greedy satyr 🐎Badass centaur 🧚‍♀️Tricky pixies can't lie ☀️Gods from many pantheons #2025pit #YA #F #writing #Q