Join us on January 6th! with Sinister Wisdom us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

ARC requests are open for The Twice-Wanted Witch on NetGalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Deal News - THE KENNEL CLUB MURDERS by Melodie Campbell! Read more: transatlanticagency.com/2025/12/15/d...

Goodreads Giveaway! Enter between Dec 2–16 for a chance to win 1 of 100 advanced reader copies of AN ACCIDENT OF DRAGONS by Cheri Radke! 🐉✨ Don’t miss your chance to read it before release! Cheri is represented by @benglishhh.bsky.social Congratulations, Cheri!

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

Always so lovely when clients get to meet up in real life! @bpladek.bsky.social

Calls for reviews & essays: February 2026

"Fascinating... Spam: A Global History nimbly uncovers the means by which this processed meat has become enmeshed in international foodways." Kelly A. Spring shows Spam isn’t just a sandwich filler, it’s history! Kelly is represented by Brenna English-Loeb. Congratulations, Kelly!

Upcoming November events! www.queerfoodconference.com/p/additional... @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social @benglishhh.bsky.social

A fun article on books that let us indulge our love of monsters! Get unhinged with Katie.

The PITCH CRAFT book tour is hitting the road this October! Laura is represented by Amanda Orozco and Brenna English-Loeb. Congratulations, Laura!

Happy, happy book birthday to VESSELLESS and Cortney!!!!

Happy book birthday to QUEERS AT THE TABLE and its amazing editors, @aketchum22.bsky.social and Megan Elias!

Queers at the Table, an anthology I contributed a comic (and the cover) to, is out today! arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...

DEAL NEWS - Cortney L. Winn's VESSELLESS and MERCILESS! Read more: transatlanticagency.com/2025/10/06/d...

Join us for tomorrow's free, virtual event: www.eventbrite.com/e/1424815695... with @kwazana.bsky.social @johnbirdsall.bsky.social Rachel Hope Cleves and Erik Piepenburg @mcgillarts.bsky.social

So excited to be working together, @reschaefer.bsky.social! I can't wait for everyone to meet Casmir, too -- they're going to love him!

Thank you to everyone who came to our Queer Food as Queer and Trans Joy event! @arsenalpulp.bsky.social

Since we could all use some more queer and trans joy- join us for our virtual event tomorrow night (September 23) -- it's free!! www.eventbrite.com/e/1424903818...

Negotiating pay isn’t awkward—it’s professional self-advocacy and in Laura Goode’s newest book, PITCH CRAFT, she reminds writers that asking for what you’re worth is part of the craft, too. Laura is represented by Amanda Orozco and Brenna English-Loeb. Congratulations, Laura!

Join us for our upcoming free and virtual events on queer food! Register online at: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/additional...

Congratulations on the publication of PITCH CRAFT by Laura Goode - out now with Ten Speed Press! Read more: transatlanticagency.com/2025/09/16/c...

Very excited to be working with Tali on her incredible gothic fantasy!

Join us tomorrow!! free, virtual event on queer food www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/event/kitche...

Four truths and a lie -- The Twice-Sold Soul edition! Can you spot the lie? I'll post it tomorrow 😁 1/2 With thanks to @mcarubia.bsky.social for the gaming and cat pics!

"Queers at the Table" edited by #McGillArts Professor Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias, is featured on CBC Books' 45 Canadian Nonfiction Books to Read this fall! @aketchum22.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/books/45-can...

This Story Hour, B. Pladek returns, and Susan Taitel makes her Story Hour debut! Join us for the warmth, the wit, and the wisdom! Join us Wednesday, August 20 at 7:00 PDT! @bpladek.bsky.social @susantaitel.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Four of TLA’s amazing authors gathered at Seattle WorldCon this past week and snapped this adorable photo together! From right to left: Rachel Csabi, Inez Rae, Katie Hallahan, and B. Pladek. All of these lovely clients are represented by Brenna English-Loeb.

An excerpt from my upcoming book #HumansofAI for @uoftpress.bsky.social "Pay No Attention to Those Engineers Behind the Curtain: The Hidden Infrastructure that Runs AI" #STS @americananthro.bsky.social @cas-sca.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08...

We’re so excited to see that QUEERS AT THE TABLE by @aketchum22.bsky.social and Megan J. Elias’s is featured in PW’s roundup of graphic novels/illustrated works coming out this fall! Out Oct. 7 - pre-order your copy today! Alex and Megan are represented by Rob Firing and Brenna English-Loeb.

Congrats Inez!!!!!!!

It's Barnes & Noble pre-order sale time! Get THE TWICE-WANTED WITCH for 25% off with the code PREORDER25, on both ebook and paperback! Coming this November, and cover reveal coming soon, too! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-twice-...

So excited to be holding Queers at the Table!!! @arsenalpulp.bsky.social YAYYYYYYYYY I am so overwhelmed with emotion! The book has 38 contributors! It has been so wonderful to work with you all! arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...

Needed this reminder today.

Yay! Just won another SSHRC Connection Grant. This money will fund 16+ events about LGBTQ+ food + also support next year's Queer Food Conference! #SSHRCFunded Learn more about these events at: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/additional... @mcgillarts.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social

do we think cuomo understands how ranked choice voting works?

Is Pride making you hungry? Join us in the fall for our event on New Books on Queer Food (free, virtual) www.eventbrite.com/e/new-books-... @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @kwazana.bsky.social @johnbirdsall.bsky.social @rachelcleves.bsky.social

I have a 30-minute AMA session up for auction and there are plenty of other awesome offers to bid on too! All proceeds go to Literary Agents of Change, a nonprofit that works to increase the number of literary agents from historically underrepresented groups in publishing. www.32auctions.com/LAFC

Voting 👏👏 is happening til August 15. Go do the thing 💯 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

The #IgnyteAwards finalists for the Outstanding Short Story category is for speculative works ranging from 2,000-7,499 words. Congratulations to the following titles and their authors.

@bpladek.bsky.social's "The Spindle of Necessity" is shortlisted for Outstanding Short Story! Massive congrats Ben!!!!

If you are a journalist working on a book-length project about rationalism and zizism, or interested in developing one, please hit me up!

Pro-tip: if you want to let an editor or publisher know about your newsletter or web fiction or whatever it is, the worst possible way you can do that is to subscribe them yourself to your Substack.

Three days to go! I'm so excited!

Thanks so much for this generous review @kaelynnnarita.bsky.social @refugejournal.bsky.social!

We’re thrilled to share that B Pladek’s story “The Spindle of Necessity” has been named a Notable Story in the forthcoming Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2025 anthology! Read it here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... B. is represented by Brenna English-Loeb. Congratulations!

Queers at the Table: Coming Together will feature a panel with queer food historians Megan J. Elias and Alex D. Ketchum, joined by writers, artists, activists, and food industry professionals Isabel Barbosa, Ericka Mabrie, and Rani Som. www.mofad.org/calendar/que... @arsenalpulp.bsky.social

Bluesky scientists/historians! Interested in writing weird creative non-fiction, essays about your research, or the sorts of popular sci-com pieces you’d pitch to The Conversation? I’d be interested in potentially commissioning you for our newsletter HEAT DEATH. (And crucially, we’d pay you!)

So proud of Ben and his work in general, but right now especially this story, "The Spindle of Necessity," which you can read here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...