I've had my head in the sand re: book stuff almost since pub -- so I am grateful, and humbled, and shaken to be able to say that THE ARCHIVE UNDYING is a finalist in the spec fic category of the Lammys. I would also like to direct folks to read fellow finalist Vajra Chandrasekera's essay below:

THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a finalist for the Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction category. I'm grateful for this unexpected and difficult joy. As a Lammy nominee—so very strange!—I have three painful things to say. I'll try to keep it short. vajra.me/2024/03/27/t...

This is the best editorial on the Hugos mess I've read so far. "But the attitude over the last month has been that we let the riffraff in, and look what happened. Now that we know that WE are the riffraff, our response should change accordingly."

So essentially the white censorship committee penalized Chinese fans for existing and discarded all of these votes as illegitimate, which instantly removed all the most popular Chinese writers from contention and allowed for a US-dominated year in standard fashion. They did TWO levels of censorship.

If you: 1) Are mad about Hugos 2) Have five dollars you could spare - seriously, five (many don't, but if you do) 3) Please put it here ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards. Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3

You know the situation is especially bad when CNN actually names Israel as the perpetrator of violence

I want to be clear that when I say this it isn’t just vibes. CNN’s reporting on Israel & Palestine has been deeply scrutinized by other journalists, as in this Jan 4 piece by the Intercept. theintercept.com/2024/01/04/c...

Exactly this point. One of the things that I'm working on right now is the very idea of a "digital public square" as a powerful, albeit ahistorical, myth that drives everything from platform design to the cultural norms of social media to the ways that users take up the affordances of the platform.

Wow, KICKASS rec list! I'm honored for THE WATER OUTLAWS to share it w/ @emcandon.bsky.social @vajra.me @samitbasu.bsky.social @kateelliottsff.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @older.bsky.social @brentclambert.bsky.social @valerievaldes.bsky.social &more!! www.nerds-feather.com/2024/01/nerd...

Bringing up the award run by QWOC when the white folks are fucking up feels an awful lot what happens in every other industry when WOC are uplifted and expected to clean up white people’s messes. LD and Suzan deserve better than that. The Ignytes are tremendous enough all on their own.

For real tho, the Ignytes have consistently been my personal favorite list for every year they've been running.

Hi! So I'm L, I do a lot in SFF and one of those things I do is run the Ignyte Awards. We're a spec lit award centering the perspectives/contributions of BIPOC in genre. We came about because existing legacy institutions sustain(ed) practices disrespectful or exclusionary of marginalized creators.

What I don't get is, why be such an asshole to folks with predictable and understandable questions? Like, you can totally stick to the script without being a condescending ass about it. Why does condescending assery seem like the way to go?

1. OHHH?? WHOOOA. AAAAH. 2. Congrats to all my fellows on the list!!! I've read so many of these books, and they have brought me SUCH delight! 3. a punchline. they've misspelled my name, but specifically the white name. i can live with that.

THE WATER OUTLAWS is BSFA longlisted! High five and congrats to the other Best Novel authors, esp @older.bsky.social @mvmelcer.com @wtalabi.bsky.social @emcandon.bsky.social @meganeokeefe.bsky.social @vajra.me @kateheartfield.com @suyidavies.com @rfkuang.bsky.social !! cc: @tordotcom.bsky.social

The Sunday Morning Transport charges forward into 2024 with the first of four free stories, this one from Nibedita Sen (@hernibsen.bsky.social), a story to light up your new year. Read it for free and enjoy the archives as well!

New Year’s Eve ONLY — THE WATER OUTLAWS ebook is $2.99!!!! 🗡 Genderdiverse bandits. 🌟 A female protagonist in her 40s. 🏮 Like a Hong Kong martial arts movie, but super, duper queer. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

GUESS WHOSE BOOK IS ON SALE -- 12/23 only tho! as a reward for being a 2023 Amazon Editor pick, THE ARCHIVE UNDYING is going for a hot $2.99! come for the terrifying divine robots and disaster queers! stay for the metaphysical dissection of identity! woooo! www.amazon.com/Archive-Undy...

Remember bookify wrapped on twitter last year? Quoteskeet and pass it on. My top novels this year: Light from Uncommon Stars by @rykaaoki.bsky.social Witch King by @marthawells.bsky.social The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by @indrapramitdas.bsky.social The Archive Undying by @emcandon.bsky.social

The paper where i talk about why absolutely everyone (okay almost everyone) is thinking about "AGI" the wrong way, & how if they every really want to think about or work toward "conscious machines", the first thing they have to do is stop treating marginalized people and the environment like garbage

Happy Bookday to my weird pandemic-inspired work from home horror novel. I wrote, edited, and promoted it in one of the most intense periods of my life, and it’s entirely surreal to see it in the wild. Grab a copy if you like doppelgängers, disaster lesbians, and bad basements.

hey y'all, it's another first Friday, which means it's Book Tour TIme over on trunkcast! tune in today to listen to @cstarling.bsky.social talk about her Excellent new book, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM! www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-...

“He can’t help himself. When he sees pain, he reaches out to make it his own. Masochistic empathy: the archivist’s true calling.” (I wanted fighting space robots, and instead @emcandon.bsky.social’s giving me a meditation on trauma’s recursions within + between persons AND fighting robots)

This week on #FinishUrBookFall, I present to you the mood board for Veyadi, moodiest of board-erline anxious breakdown-havers (YOU try being half of a resurrected AI divinity while the world debates going to war first with you or itself!! YOU do it! He will PAY you to do it!!)

THE ARCHIVE UNDYING by Emma Mieko Candon hits my brain like an achillean version of THE TIGER FLU by Larissa Lai or THE ALL-CONSUMING WORLD by Cassandra Khaw, combining viscera and technology to create liminal immortality in an ongoing negotiation, tenuous and vital.

me describing Archive 2 stuff to a friend: basically veyadi has entered what the children call a villain era veyadi: *crying over instant noodles and terrifying strangers on purpose*

JUST..... FUNDED?!!?!? how y'all turned this around on the last day....IM SPEECHLESS!!!! thank you all soooo much, I can't believe we get to make this creepy weird beautiful book!!! holy moly what a ride this has been 6 more hours, last chance to get in on this goodness!

you know what OKAY let's go #FinishUrBookFall i'm working on the sequel to THE ARCHIVE UNDYING come back to my shed! i've given the robots all sorts of new mental illnesses! the queers they are metaphysically bound to are NOT faring any better! and their fashion sense has NOT improved!

WE ARE 68% FUNDED…. omg… we could do it maybe… there’s 48 hours left, I just got Covid, I’m feeling insane lmao BACK OUR BOOK !!! and feast on this juicy Lesle Kieu skull ☠️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/slo...

Happy US book birthday to THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by @emdashliu.bsky.social! (14th Sep for UK readers) The queer scifi retelling of Hamlet as a locked room thriller that you never knew you needed... Buy it now! bit.ly/3zVU8iT "oh, the tension! It will murder you.” - @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social

i enjoy learning ppl's emotional problems via their tabletop PCs so it's been mortifying to start recognizing my own what do you MEAN i made another mom friend suffering profound existential crises who is constantly teetering on the precipice of going full anarchist rebellion on god?? AGAIN??

Alright, gang, my thoughts on @emcandon.bsky.social’s THE ARCHIVE UNDYING are live at @seizethepress.bsky.social now. If you know me, you know that this is setting up a rave review: https://www.seizethepress.com/2023/09/04/gillan-review-thearchiveundying-stp8/

Morning Bluesky. Migrating our eight person, queer jewelry shop over from That Other Place, so if you like jewelry, and you like queer crafters, maybe give @peculiarityshop.bsky.social a follow? Thanks for peeking at our stuff and sharing, as always. We appreciate you! www.peculiarityshop.com

Cross-posting this, but less than 30 days till A NECESSARY CHAOS releases (10/3!!) & could not be happier to have gotten this blurb from gay SFFH trailblazer @sentencebender.bsky.social . Seriously, Sam's work was some of the first to really make me go "oh shit, it can be done!"

🧑🏼‍🚀🍸ESCAPE VELOCITY🍸🧑🏼‍🚀 cover + pub date My new novel launches 5/21/24 from Erewhon Books—preorders now available everywhere you get your books! If you’re into White Lotus, The Menu, Parasite, Knives Out, Succession, you’ll dig this one Art: Sam Chivers Design: Samira Iravani

Mobility issues were high-key one of the reasons I left NYC when I did. I had become increasingly dependent on a wheelchair and it was making getting to my appointments--at clinics across the whole damn city--a whole new kind of hell, if not outright impossible, given the accompanying fatigue.

i feel like the rest of the internet deserves to know what evils Tumblr is committing upon its userbase in collaboration with Netflix. behold: a screenshot of the tumblr dashboard. yes, the clown is on every dash. no, you do not opt in. no, you cannot make it leave.

friends, the Kickstarter for an amazing anthology of Ukrainian fiction from Ukraine and the diaspora is now LIVE!! this project is *so* dear to my heart. check it out, boost, support, in any way you can. (maybe there's even something in there by me?👀 maybe it makes you cry?)

also Baldur's Gate 3 isn't on my PS5 yet and i'm suffering about it it's been so long since i wanted to romance dudes as well as ladies but asterion and gale just look like they make the WORST choices and i cannot WAIT

Return of the Jedi was probably my favorite of the original trilogy growing up -- and the fireworks at Endor are probably foundational to why I still love fireworks today. Getting to reach for them through none other than Wedge "Two Death Stars" Antilles in FACPOV was a real gift of gifts.

It’s finally here! Where Peace Is Lost has been released into the wilds of bookstores online and in meat space. It’s been quite a journey, and I hope you’ll enjoy it, too. http://candleinsunshine.com/books/where-peace-is-lost/

I've written TWO Star Wars: Ronin is about a renegade Sith trying to answer for the legacy of his mistakes (like what if Anakin Skywalker had an "i fucked up" epiphany AFTER betraying the Jedi Order) The Archive Undying is divine AIs, mecha, body autonomy problems, and fraught queer romance

i am once again opening the door to anyone who wishes to hunt me for sport until i hit word quota

I don’t think they have a Bluesky presence yet so it’s up to me to do a COVER REVEAL art by Kuri Huang design by Christine Foltzer

THE DAY HAS COME! If you’ve already got your preorder receipt for LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, head on over to the link below to submit it! And if you haven’t preordered yet, consider preordering from Copper Dog Books - because a receipt from there will get you TWO pins!

Well, time for my first thread here on BlueSky, and I'm pissed off. I've been catching up on the situation with F&SF and Sheree Thomas. I'm slow because I'm not on FB anymore, where apparently the bulk of the convo is happening, and I'm barely on Twitter. Anyway.

if anyone ever wonders why i have other characters call the Ronin "old man" -- or even why he sometimes thinks himself old! -- even tho he's like in his late 40s probably, it's bc i, at 35, am FALLING. APART. brought to you by this rickety parody of a human stumbling once more toward the bed

i used to think Darth Maul was just the Wil E. Coyote of Star Wars and was content to leave it at that but as the years go on i think i might actually want to write him. give me the worst sith. give me his failure. i will give him anxiety and make him a looney tune.

Books for Maui is a book-related fundraiser for the people recovering from the catastrophic Maui fires. Lots of amazing items on offer. I have an Ask Me Anything up for grabs. More info here: https://www.32auctions.com/BooksforMaui