Thrilled to announce this new YA duology from the brilliant @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social! THE BLOODWINDS will sweep you away into a dystopian Botswana, where Earth is fighting for its life, releasing deadly winds and vicious sprites, and a young girl holds the future in her hands…

Today’s #solarpunk #soilpunk story from Tractor Beam is “An Echo’s Timelapse” by @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social “the building started as a poem, developed by a trainee architect who, with the laborers, pressed incantations into bricks of burnt clay” www.tractorbeam.earth/story/an-ech...

Still haven't hit my next milestone which is less than $800 away, so please keep sharing, boosting and donating. If all goes well today (literally at clinic right now), then surgery is early next month. Any help before then will be even more appreciated. Thank you!

I've had more than a few unexpected health expenses due to my breast cancer treatment this past year, so things are not so good financially. I'd be grateful for anything you can spare to get me through what looks to be a tough New Year. Thank you & please boost. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

Trying not to comment on sff awards and best of discourse and focus on my own paper But I will ask a related question: which books/novellas did you enjoy this year that were NOT on "most looked forward to lists", and not published by big five. Don't say mine. 😉

Including a lil write up on Griots & Galaxies (and my fave picture of me and our sound engineer, Bailey) csi.asu.edu/publications...

"...and when you blend different genres, you can expand one genre’s boundaries by intersecting it with another." – @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social

MIT Press is having a holiday season promotion, so you can get 30% off DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART, edited by me, on US orders until November 30, 2024 with code MITHOLIDAY at penguinrandomhouse.com:

Today! 5 Eastern! Also - we had to change the link, so if you set a reminder, you might have to re-click it. Seriously, this is going to be a really fun, as well as, I think, cathartic chat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZ5...

I was thrilled to read an ARC of Songs For the Shadows, out tomorrow 11/12. This beautiful novella about grief and ghosts, set in the Sauútiverse shared world, was fascinating and refreshingly different. Don't miss it! www.atthisarts.com/product/song... @atthisarts.com @sauutiverse.bsky.social

Please sincerely understand that there are many victims involved who have been egregiously mistreated. What has been shared and revealed is only a tip of the iceberg.

Nobody is holding this against her. What she gave is a clarification, not an admission of guilt. Point still stands, she was lied to about being acknowledged for work she did. And Erin’s statement isn’t the only indictment on this person. If anything, it’s the least out of the many.

One of this year's Milford Bursary recipients, @naomieselojor.bsky.social, reports on her week at the writing workshop at @gladlib.bsky.social in Sept: "I had always had such reckless optimism that my writing would literally take me places. And it has." milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/m...

Hey, my second novel RAKESFALL is currently $2.99 on Kindle! Generally everyone so far has been like What The Fuck Did I Just Read (complimentary or derogatory, we swing both ways) and I feel like it's totally worth three American dollars if you want to find out www.amazon.com/Rakesfall-Va...

Someone You Can Build A Nest In will drop in paperback on April 15, 2025! I'm ecstatic to share that Barnes & Noble is doing a special edition of the paperback, complete with sprayed edges and an eerie revamped color scheme! I cannot wait to hold one of these. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/someone-yo...

I suspect anthology D is Dominion. I mentioned it in a column at Washington Post discussing African SFF. In particular I wanted to highlight Dare Segun Falowo's fic. You never got your due as the co-editor that you were. This would've been an important clipping www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Saturday is my birthday and *also* the final reading by Jack Straw's 2024 fellows: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-seattl... See and hear the mesmerizing fineness of these poets and journalists and novelists I picked for you for their urgency and delight! FREE!

So the writer who did the "investigation" and spread the utter and deeply harmful untruths about me? One of the first things he suggested in the Discord was a Black man who would have been more appropriate than our Black woman Special Guest.

Always a treat meeting up with Cheryl in Oxford! Lots to catch up on and projects to chat about. 💫 And getting her awesome @sauutiverse.bsky.social novella “Songs for the Shadows” signed 👀📖✏️ Get your copy from @atthisarts.com

Hello new followers. I’m Tobi, author of the British Fantasy Award winning collection of dark fables JACKAL, JACKAL and the fantasy novella (first in a duology) IN THE SHADOW OF THE FALL

Periodic reminder to writers! (Ekpeki's statements to the contrary.) If your work was in an anthology that was longlisted, shortlisted for an award or won an award... Put that in your CV! Put it in your biblio! Say it!! Any editor who tells you otherwise does not have your interests in mind.

As a Nigerian writer of speculative fiction and a recipient of the ODE-organized Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award for Disability in Speculative Fiction, I feel obliged to say something about what has been brought to the surface about Ekpeki's behaviour.

Quote with one thing you've written that everyone should read 👀📚 My scifantasy #TheNightward is a bodyguard chase story set in matriarchal world with gendered magic. But it's also a world that believes certain stories about itself. A lot of those stories are lies. www.amazon.com/Nightward-Bo...

Please do give our work a look: www.atthisarts.com/awards/atthi...

For some reason, my new short story collection costs exactly $16.73 in paperback on Amazon. I am confused but ok. You can get yourself one too - amzn.to/48skUzx (associate link)

Sigh. www.sfwa.org/2024/10/28/s...

Latest 5 from Broken Eye (3/5): POWER TO YIELD (2024) by @bogiperson.bsky.social collects speculative tales that explore gender identity, neurodiversity, and religion. Bold, insightful, unflinching, these are "tales of science and magic, of immigrants and exiles, of deep loss and abiding hope."*

The thing with someone who habitually takes credit for other people's accomplishments is that when they say something that looks cool, interesting, etc. - you *cannot* know it was first said by them. About Ekpeki, this stood out for me a while ago... (cont'd)

Here is my report on my experience with unethical behavior and bad faith dealings of Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. ethicsreport.tiiny.site