So THE SALT ORACLE is a finalist for the BSFA awards! And my amazing designer, Sam Gretton is a finalist for the cover too! 🙌🏽 Truly delighted for Sam & very, very grateful to everyone who voted for my strange, briny why-pick-one-genre-when-you-can-pick-four book 🤗 @solarisbooks.bsky.social 🖤

Ian Mond, Locus: Slatter is a tremendous writer, with a body of work that puts her in the top echelon of contemporary fantasy authors. With AFD, she’s elevated those skills to another level giving us a work that isn’t just a cracking story richly told, but also connects at a personal intimate level.

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

This book made me cry with joy and heartache every time I read it for edits. Beautiful, delightful and poignant all in one

Did you wish Kwa had more 'screentime' in book 1? Then you'll love this one

🎉 We're so excited to see SIX Solaris books on @locusmag.bsky.social 's 2025 Recommended Reading list! https://bit.ly/3ZwRhK5 Feat. @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @isabelcanas.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social and @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social Locus Awards Voting closes 1 April.

Proud of all my authors from 2025! And proud of how much I have grown editorially. More from these authors and beyond in 2026

Hello whoever reads this, I am alive, still editing, but also growing and aching and trying to find life away from social media

Amnesty International has a great guide for filling in this strategically poorly constructed survey. Also having just gotten ILR I see red if I think about this whole thing for too long

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd of hundreds of rabbis, cantors, and other Jews have gathered outside ICE headquarters in DC for the largest ever Jewish protest against ICE’s violence and crimes. #jewsagainstICE

[aggressively adds to my TBR]

I am eligible for Best Long Form Editor, but there are about fifteen editors I would vote for before myself 😁 Talented folk, in the SFF editorial field!

Working with Margrét on Nordic Visions was a brilliantly enriching experience, so I’m unbelievably excited to be collaborating again on NORDIC NIGHTMARES! Jumped at the chance to help bring this collection of contemporary Nordic horror into the hands of readers worldwide. Fall 2026!

A great resource and a chance to remind people what great stuff is out there!

Turns out I'll be tagging in for @alrutter.bsky.social at World Fantasycon this weekend: I'll be in the PUBLISHING DEMYSTIFIED panel on Friday and the EDITING AND EDITORS panel on Saturday! Hope to see you there!

I do freelance editing in addition to my day job &I am encountering more people using programmes eg ProWritingAid to 'assist' in writing their first drafts before coming to me for dev edits/coaching. Wrt making a decision about taking on a client, I'm not sure what to make of this /1

In less than a month, my novel The Ganymedan, which combines Altered Carbon with the spacefacing intrigue of The Expanse, will be out in stores. Please consider pre-ordering a copy. If you already have, thank you kindly! geni.us/ganym

I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books. If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc) Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book

Realised with a jolt that World Fantasycon is around the corner. I would love to meet folks, especially writers in the folk fantasy and horror spaces! Or please just do say hi!

(I loved writing my theatre review like an AO3 entry, way too proud of it as an idea)

🌊1st in a new epic fantasy series 🛶 Inspired by the culture and folklore of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska 📕 One of Reactor & Indigo's "Most Anticipated" Books of 2025 🐦⬛ Features a REALLY rude Raven 🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA! Buy geni.us/doorsea

Only October, but we're already looking ahead to the fantastic books coming out next year: give us a pitch if you're interested in reviewing any of these January titles! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/02/c...

Really enjoyed how this review brings theater & speculative criticism together. Good stuff!

My theatre life and publishing life collide in a book review of this fascinating SF re-imagining of The Tempest!

Good morning it’s their day

🚨AVAILABLE ON NETGALLEY!🚨 RUN, don't walk, over to Netgalley to request an eARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social 's darkly romantic eco fantasy of gods and forests, from the perspective of a traumatised "war hero" longing for peace. Request geni.us/SolarisNG Preorder geni.us/godsmb

Come for the locked boat dark academia murder mystery, stay for a strange and drowning Oracle? We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac

Passed my Life in the UK test now I gotta fill in a form, overshare all aspects of my life in a stack of documents, and pay the government an exorbitant amount of money one more time and then y'all are stuck with me permanently

"Red kite" The iconic conservation success story: persecuted to just a few pairs in Wales, an intensive conservation effort has seen a spectacular recovery in population, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023. More info in Alt txt. #Stunday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIconic #Photography

🚨ARCS ARE READY!🚨 Calling all UK/IE/CAN/US Reviewers & booksellers, pop a wolf🐺in the comments to be in with a chance of receiving an ARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social 's THE GODS MUST BURN: where a disgraced war hero is transformed into the Wolf God against his will. geni.us/godsmb

Today is the anniversary of the opening of The first production of The Threepenny Opera. I’ll post below it a photo from a production I did in SF some years ago. . .

Slowly making my way through these - the Le Guin prize is always a great way to discover incredible work

Happy 10 years in the UK to meeeee 🥳🥳✨️

It's not every day I see Antonio Gramsci (Italian political philosopher, commentator on the shifting world order, political prisoner of the Mussolini regime) name-dropped in a piece of literary analysis, and this is a good name-drop.

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Eden Robins (@edenrobins.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from Remember You Will Die, her novel in obituaries, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

If you want an emotional double-feature experience I highly recommend reading Remember You Will Die (Eden Robins) and Notes From a Regicide (Isaac Fellman) simultaneously or in close succession. Such loving encapsulations of queer life and memory, and acts of remembering

The ending so moved me in college that I threw the book across the room in outrage.

"Trump’s margents are an architectural representation of the world he inherited in the 20th and 21st century, as much as the world he wishes to make" Astute and fascinating analysis as always!

The difference between video game D&D and human D&D is that when Karlach shares her story and says she hasn't had a hug or even a pat on the shoulder in so long, the game just gives some dialogue options, but in a party I would cast mage hand and pat her on the head

ICYMI

I'm finally playing Baldur's Gate 3 and while I am enjoying it I am also having a lot of thoughts and feelings about D&D as a necessarily human-run game. So much of the joy, and sometimes the common sense, is missing when it's a computer as your DM

Sorry to be That Person but what's the title of a book that came out either this year or last, white hardback cover with an illustration of a dragon done in gradient yellow and red. Looked like an epic dragon fantasy. Author and title both escape me.

Huge congrats to @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social for his started review for The Ganymedan in Publishers Weekly!! @solarisbooks.bsky.social @bardythoughts.bsky.social

Sometimes, to destroy a tyrant, you have to burn your own life down too. Out this fall, THE GANYMEDAN by R. T. Ester/@shoutoutmapes.bsky.social, a dark, compelling SciFi debut examining agency and sacrifice through one man’s desperate attempt to reach home. Preorder: geni.us/ganym

So glad we can shout about this now!!

Amanda is an amazing colleague and friend, please help if you can

In other news I've started reading this and as usual Butler's materialist and psychoanalytic take is illuminating, but I do also want an essay comparing their analysis of gender being used as a 'phantasm' to the metaphor of the 'spectre haunting Europe'.

Next time I decide to do a book review, study for the Life in the UK test, start a freelance side hustle to support my 28k salary and revise a book proposal all at the same time, someone slap me

At the end of the trailer for Twilight Breaking Dawn, as the subtitle "part 1" appeared a bro in front of me declared loudly, "Oh fuck there's another one"