Putting some positivity back into the world and reminding myself that a few shitty people doesn't mean there aren't a lot of amazing ones out there. #everyoneisawesome #lgbtq🌈

Some days you just need a glass of Lag 16 and a Lego kit. #selfcare #lagavulin #everyoneisawesome

Yesterday's Word on the Street haul. Great way to find new authors to love. Check out the Toronto SFF Writers table while you're down there and meet some truly fantastic people. #wots2025 #sffwriterstoronto #sffwriters #torontowriters #canadianwriters #canadianauthors #canadianbooks

Come find us at Word on the Street this weekend!

Heading down to Word on the Street today to see a particularly awesome group of people. If you're in the area make sure to stop by the Toronto SFF Writers table! #wordonthestreet #WOTS2025 #sffwriters #badassbooks #toronto

Evening of wine and personality type surveys with the hubby. No surprises here. I assumed being a judgemental, anxiety-ridden perfectionist is a prerequisite for being a writer. 🤷‍♀️😅🍷 #writer #personalitytype #typeone #6w5 #enneagram

Yeah, we quiet over here, but we love y'all. These publishing streets are rough these days. October marks Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we're thrilled to drop TWO issues on you in the coming weeks. Updates soon come. Anyway support some Black creators: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p Follow, share, BUY 🔥

1452 sides sanded, 363 stickers applied. The books are ready! Can I PLEASE start building the abbey library now? Despite the books not being in Latin, points for having LotR. Negative points for the multiple copies of one cheesy romance novel. Unless the abbot approved... 🤔 #booknook #minilibrary

Just a couple of books to assemble for my new booknook. 😅 #booknook #minibooks #abbeylibrary

Next weekend (Sept 27-28) I'll have my books set up at Word on the Street in Toronto! It's a great event with lots of options for readers of all types. Come down and find your next favourite author. 🤩 #WotS2025 #BookSky #CanadianWriters

Pale Grey Dot will be at Word on the Street next weekend alongside Toronto SF&F's finest! David Pecaut Square Sat, Sept 27 – 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM Sun, Sept 28 – 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM dmiasek.com/2025/09/19/p... Come meet me, buy a book, get it autographed, and check out the works of my cohorts!

Math and technology teacher by day, so when I find time to write I almost always write discrete instead of discreet 🤦 #writerfail

Fantastic event with fantastic authors from my writing group. Some day I hope to join them! 💙📚

Sending out one query letter while working on another... Sigh... #amquerying #querytrenches #idratherbewriting

Outside my writing window. Inspiration or an omen? #crows #outmywindow #writer

Out now: BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY, @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social 's Hugo Award-winning epic fantasy Series inspired by the pre-Columbian Americas. Grab them in paperback, eBook and audiobook from all good booksellers (or, if you're very lucky, the beautiful @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social hardbacks!)

Nineteen submissions this weekend. My brain feels fuzzy. #amquerying #querytrenches #writerstears #writer #fantasywriter ❤️📚

Getting back on the Query train. Wish me luck! #querying #writerstears

Look what came in the mail! 🚀 Thank you again to everyone who voted. Incredible. 🥹

Had this quote on my mind lately... "Monsters all want the same thing: to feed. They are united by that common goal, while you are divided by your morals and your pride. What do I think? If you cannot come together, you cannot win." Our Dark Duet - Victoria Schwab #veschwab #ourdarkduet

Just received these breathtaking editions of The Farseer Trilogy by @robinhobb.bsky.social from @illumicrate.bsky.social More pictures to come. #specialeditionbooks #illumicrate #robinhobb #farseertriology #omgtheyrepretty

Nudges further up the list...

My anxiety is a cat. Most of the time it naps quietly. Sometimes it needs to be fed or pet to make it chill out and purr. And sometimes, for no reason whatsoever, it gets the @#$&ing zoomies. #anxiety #anxietysucks

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Nothing quite like describing a dark garden full of poisonous plants and having the "Concerning Hobbits" music start to play in the background. 🤦😆 #fantasywriter #writerproblems #badtiming #lotrsoundtrack

Worth every star.

Finished what I hope is my last round of major edits. The draft is making its way to the hands of my victims, I mean gamma(?)-readers. Here's hoping the news is good 🤞 #revisions #fantasywriter #fantasynovel #writerstears #bookedits

Be aware. Be prepared.

Took a day off editing my @#$! book to go to FanEXPO and satisfy my inner BG3-obsessed nerd. The highlight of the day was meeting @davejones.actor (my first con-celebrity!). He's such a nice guy and indulged my ridiculous request for an autograph quote. A great way to finish off the summer ❤️

For the cynics who think it doesn’t matter, that the compensation for authors whose work was stolen will be so low it’s not worth fighting, I personally think it’s worth making the monetary punitive damage these companies suffer as big as possible to deter similar theft in the future.

Trust me, write the weird thing.

Happy release day to @melissacaruso.bsky.social The @illumicrate.bsky.social edition of The Last Soul Among Wolves is absolutely breathtaking. I can't wait to dive in! #newrelease #prettybooks #illumicrate 💙📚🪐

🚨HUGO AWARD WINNER!🚨 Huge congratulations to @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social: BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY, her epic fantasy trilogy inspired by the Pre-Columbian Americas, has won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Series!!!! Grab them in paperback, eBook and Audiobook from all good booksellers.

Physical copies over e-books every time. Can't wait to dive back into this beauty. @ympang.bsky.social #anthology #sffanthology #fantasy

Well deserved! If you have not checked out Between Earth and Sky it is a fantasy must! #hugo #epicfantasy #epicreads

So I have a bunch of events at incredibly awesome bookstores coming up, and I've been so busy traveling I haven't been spreading the word as much as I should! Here they are, and I'm going to enthuse about each one with sign up links in thread below! Please come if you can—none are full yet!

Feedback is probably the hardest thing about writing, offering up your baby so others can tell you all the things they didn't like. But nothing is more satisfying when those changes let you see a scene for everything your readers knew it could be. ❤️ #writing #writer #writerstears #revisions

One book closes and another opens. The universe knows I'll drop everything for V.E. Schwab. Helpfully I finished my latest read last night. Time to lose myself in the awesome. #veschwab #newread #lgbtqfiction

You think you know what's going on? I promise, you don't. What a ride! I long for complex, immersive fantasy, where authors don't feel the need to hold your hand. Wow, did this deliver! Eagerly awaiting the next. A Song of Legends Lost by @mhayinde.bsky.social

Beta revisions complete! Now I just need to read it again and make sure the whole thing still makes sense 😅 #writer #fantasywriter #fantasynovel #bookrevisions #writerstears #finaldraft

My writing group is large enough that I don't often cross paths with some people. I picked this up in e-book form as a show of support , not realising how amazing it and its author @ympang.bsky.social were. Only a few stories in and I'm going back for a physical copy!

A fantastic anthology by double Aurora Award winner @ympang.bsky.social #auroraawards #anthology #fantasyanthology

Back to Tokyo Our trip finished in Tokyo with a lovely sushi dinner in Akihabara and a trip to a miniature pig cafe where a not so-mini-pig bullied the little ones away and promptly fell asleep on me. 😅 Ready to go home, but also wishing I could stay. Until next time ❤️ #japantravel #tokyo

Read it!

Livestream link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2k...

The Aurora Award ceremonies (by @csffa.bsky.social) will be livestreamed on Youtube this Sunday August 10th at 5pm EST! Support your favourite Canadian fantasy and science fiction authors at the awards. #SFF #fantasybooks #sciencefictionbooks #sciencefiction #fantasy #CanadianSFF

The 2025 Aurora Award Ceremony will begin at 5:00pm EDT on Sunday, August 10th. That’s Eastern time (Ontario and Quebec). Make sure you adjust your time if you live elsewhere. The ceremony is again hosted by Mark and Liz. Links to livestream the ceremony will follow in the replies.

Kanazawa Day 3: A visit to the old neighbourhood. It was good to be back, but so much has changed about the area, and us. One of those times of your life you can revisit but never truly get back. Oh, and we checked into a hotel staffed by dinosaurs. 😁 #japantravel #kanazawa #jetprogramme #jetalt

Kanazawa Day 2: Higashi Chaya This wasn't a district I visited often when I lived here, but I wish I had. Gold leaf ice cream, great shopping, making our own gold leaf crafts and finishing off with sukiyaki, one of my favourite Japanese meals. #kanazawa #higashichaya #goldleaf #goldleaficecream

Hey Maggie and Kai fans. RIVER OF BONES cover reveal tomorrow. BONES is a novella set in the Sixth World, and just like the covers for TRAIL and STORM, artist Tommy Arnold knocked this one out of the park. Check back tomorrow for the reveal!