As proofreader for @lightspeedmagazine.com I get a sneak peak at what's coming up next month. You really don't want to miss @mcflycahill90.bsky.social 's "At the Bottom of the Bonfire." Heartbreaking and thought-provoking and beautifully crafted and disturbing.

I started a little project 2 weeks ago as a way to celebrate turning 60 next year: read 1 book published in, and watch 1 movie first released in, each year since I was born. I'm allowing myself a mix of rereads/rewatches and stuff I've never seen or read before.

Oh yes I will be writing an essay about how the SNW episode “Four and a Half Vulcans” is wildly offensive and normalizing race science that was mainstream and popular in United States in the 1850s Like Disco called this shit terrorism What the fuck is this regressive bullshit

Proof I'm not the same person I was 6 months ago: I'm actually annoyed that my hotel only has 1 working treadmill and it's occupied. (Yes, I could get on the Peleton bike, but I'm not a cycler, I'm a walker.)

My colon cancer diagnosis was 20 years ago today, which means I'm almost 20 years cancer-free. That time has flown by. But today always makes me think of the loved ones who had the same cancer I did, and didn't survive it. I kiss my cousin Frank and my friend Jay every day.

Apparently today is National Read A Book Day. Or as we call it in my house, A Day Ending In Y.

I'LL BE THERE! The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD Sat, Sep 6 6:30-8:30 pm www.theivybookshop.com/event/charm-... About STORYTELLER: “Packed with diversity, supercharged with emotional & philosophical revelation, & full of surprises & power..." -- Midwest Review of Books.

Very excited that over the weekend, my copy of Negocios Infernales, the GM-less, dice-less TTRPG created by @csecooney.bsky.social and Carlos Hernandez, arrived. Haven't had time to take everything out of the box never mind play it, but it's here!

Today on the blog, I chat with author @craigmmcdonald.bsky.social about his Doc Savage-inspired Zana O'Savin novels, his Hector Lassiter historical mystery series, and his writing process. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/8/...

Today on the blog I talk to artist and documentarian @artistronhill.bsky.social about We Are Doc Savage, DocCon and artistic process. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/8/...

Today on the website, I chat with artist @markwheatley.bsky.social about the return of #Breathtaker, his process, and his upcoming projects. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/8/...

At the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon NY for an author event hosted by Stanza Books. What a great space!

Short fiction lovers .... @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is SO CLOSE to funding for another year, but the Kickstarter only has 4 days left to hit the goal and it's "all or nothing." Please support this wonderful magazine! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Today on the blog, I chat with @woldnewton.bsky.social , Paul Spiteri, and Mike Croteau of Meteor House Press about Savageology, the book about Philip Jose Farmer and his love for Doc Savage that releases next week! www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Today on the blog, I chat with @douglasklauba.bsky.social about his love of art, his influences, his process, and upcoming projects. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Today on the blog I chat with @writermillhouse.bsky.social about his influences, his process, and his character Captain Hawklin. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Today on the blog, I interview writer and friend @woldnewton.bsky.social about carrying on the legacies of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Philip Jose Farmer and Win's writing process. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

We can do it, Space Unicorns!

Today over on the blog, Sunday Shorts takes a look at the @leemandelo.bsky.social -edited Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Today on the blog, my thoughts on Stephen Graham Jones' latest: www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Today on the blog my thoughts on @bethcato.bsky.social 's wonderful cozy mystery with thriller aspects. One of my favorite books of the year so far. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Today on theblog, #TheatreThursday shines "God's BLUE spotlight" on @roundaboutnyc.bsky.social 's Pirates! The Penzance Musical. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Also on the blog today, my interview with @cpcarey.bsky.social in his capacity as VP of Publishing at @edgarriceburroughs.bsky.social www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Somehow in my haste, I left *readers* of novellas off this list! I would love to see readers posting about their favorite novellas, reviews of new novellas, etc.

I am really trying to make National Novella Month, aka Novella November, a thing. Novellas are my favorite length of fiction. I'm working with an artist to create some unifying graphics, and am looking for writers, editors, publishers and indie bookstores who might like to participate. Interested?

Today on the blog, my thoughts on @wnwagner.bsky.social 's new ecohorror novel, out last week from Tor Nightfire. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Today over on the blog, Top Ten(ish) Tuesday takes a look at my favorite members of the Superman Family. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

And today's book review scrapes in with a half-hour to spare: my thoughts on @mythicdelirium.bsky.social 's at turns disturbing and whimsical novel The Black Fire Concerto, which was published by Ruadan Books in April: www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Makes me wish I still had a press.

Forgot to post this yesterday! in honor of the release of Jack of All Comics!, which has an essay by me about Kirby's work on The Sandman for DC in the 70s, I sat down (virtually) with editor/publisher Jim Beard to discuss the book: www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Short, worthwhile thread on the "Superman is an immigrant" topic. (IMHO, "Luthor is an untouchable billionaire and Superman's adoptive parents are still alive" were the only good things to come out of Byrne's reboot.)

Today over on the website, I review @csecooney.bsky.social 's wonderful Saint Death's Herald from @solarisbooks.bsky.social, the sequel to her 2023 World Fantasy Award winning novel Saint Death's Daughter. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/7/...

Hello fellow #DoctorWho fans! The Pandorica, a Doctor Who themed restaurant in Beacon NY, needs our help to stay open. I've been privileged to meet Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, Annette Badlands at events there. Here's the link to fundraiser if you'd like to help. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-p...

Happy Book Release Day to "Jack of All Comics"! Essays by a whole bunch of comics pros (and me!) about Jack Kirby's work for both DC and Marvel during the 1970s. My essay is about DC's short-lived 70s Sandman run. a.co/d/5DW2BKB

#TheatreThursday returns to my website with a look at a truly exhilarating multi-disciplinary piece of theatre from a Montreal group, currently playing in NYC. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/6/...

Oooh sorry, this weekend's not great for me. Friday I'm gonna be unclenching my jaw from *this* week, Saturdays are only 45 minutes long now, and Sunday I'm totally tied up having a series of little panic attacks about *next* week so

Today’s re-post for #PrideMonth #BookSky recommendations is once again drawing on my gaming groups, which this time means @anthonycardno.bsky.social and @hudsonlinwrites.bsky.social! Grab yourself some grumpy/sunshine and some holiday cheer… 🏳️‍🌈📚💙

The problem with listening to actor memoirs is that I immediately want to watch /rewatch everything they were ever in. This post brought to you today by Sam Neill's memoir.

By the way, I'm a story or two short on my Lesbian Witch anthology; if you have anything appropriate (no less than 7k, non-evil witches only, please), just comment below with a brief sentence synopsis. This is a paying gig.

Today on the blog, #TheatreThursday returns with my thoughts on the latest Sondheim revue. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/5/...

This is unethical and wrong. They should not be doing this.

@scalzi.com granted gracious permission to me to share the inspirations for my *just (re)released by @ruadanbooks.bsky.social* novel THE BLACK FIRE CONCERTO on his popular WHATEVER blog. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Check out the Big Idea & find lotsa links to where to get the book, too! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/23/t...

Cancel my family, tell my plans I love them or however that goes, I’m busy #SaintDeathsHerald @csecooney.bsky.social

Travel with Peredur (and @mckatie.bsky.social) into the land of Dyfed in a strange and haunted retelling of “Mabinogion.” kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...

And many are outright geniuses, and engage in more productive activity in an hour than RFK Jr. will in his entire life.

Going to do something different for the cover reveal of the new #SgtJanus novel, a 4-day rollout that begins on Monday the 28th and culminates on May 1st. You can see it all here: www.facebook.com/flinchbooks. You'll also be able to see the whole cover eventually on www.flinchbooks.com. Join us!

@reactorsff.bsky.social I don't see a way to comment on your Life of Chuck trailer/photo post. Wanted to let you know that the kid in the final photo with Mike Flanagan is not Benjamin Pajak. Per IMDB, I think it's Cody Flanagan.

And seriously, if you have time (I know, nobody has any time), the archives of Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Reckoning and Kaleidotrope are worth browsing. (I may have spent some recent time in all of them just to avoid current reality, only to get reminded of current reality...)

Listening to @hwinkler4real.bsky.social 's memoir this week. I smile every time he mentions my hometown, Mahopac NY. Smiled even more when he mentioned the summer camp on the other side of Lake Secor from the small community I grew up in.

Also just read, over breakfast, the first story in this month's @clarkesworldmagazine.com . Great story about actual artificial intelligence and the need for connection regardless of who you are.