IT IS FINISHED!!!!

but maybe today is the day i finish it?

thrilled to report that the novel that was supposed to be done for january 1st is not done.

why is the Robarts library on the cover of Clarkesworld?

what is even the point of shoveling snow all day, every day if bookstores won't even label my book "Canadian"?

At @reactorsff.bsky.social, I previewed some indie press books due out in January and February. reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...

oh look, the tasks i've been putting off for two weeks actually took me 15 min to do. truly, a shock.

is that Etsy witch doing hexes again?

Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3

Huzzah! Congrats to @thesuiway.bsky.social and to @augursociety.bsky.social

YES TO ALL OF THIS!!! Seriously, @thesuiway.bsky.social's work is incredible (see The Dragonfly Gambit), but this novella in particular hits so many of my special interests (trial hiking! urban legends! othersides! old, strained friendships!) that ahhh I can't wait!!

That is sooooooo perfect! 💚 Congrats, @thesuiway.bsky.social!

A decade into Augur, sometimes pieces show up in subs & you can just sense the story will breathe your tone. @thesuiway.bsky.social is one of those writers for Augur—and at the top of my list when soliciting for our press' first novellas. I'm delighted to announce CREST, forthcoming in 2027 📖

Just a friendly reminder that today is the last day to recommend works for the Stoker Awards! bramstokerawards.horror.org/the-bram-sto...

also, kinda wild, but this is book 5 🫣

the novella is out of the bag!!! super excited to continue working with @augursociety.bsky.social, but now in ✨longform✨! check out the novella that nearly broke my brain. yes, you heard it here first— it's in second person! it's about hiking! and yes, it will make you cry!

Plese repost & share: "The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education." www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

if you're ever suspicious that i've been replaced by an evil clone, an easy way to tell that it's the evil clone and not me is that they will have a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'.

Hi #portfolioday, I’m a comic artist/illustrator+painter/designer based in Manila. I love sci-fi & fantasy. Open to client work this year: book design, comic anthologies, editorial illustration, and poster design especially 🪽 elleshivers.com [email protected]

hi, I paint detailed scenes in gouache / poster colour #PortfolioDay

None if this trash is ever inevitable and you can help crush this surveillance creep tech by calling it surveillance creep tech.

guys, we need to increase the negativity until he stops talking.

screaming. crying. chewing on concrete. The Iron Garden Sutra is on ANOTHER LIST WHAAAAAAAT??? i am in amazing company and can't wait to read everyone's books!

my bonsai tree died this morning. i will never love again.

The Iron Garden Sutra is on A LIST, and honestly, i am speechless cause this whole list is a must-read. 🙏

thank you @bookriot.bsky.social and @lmanusos.bsky.social for including "A White Day Comes" with such awesome stories! it is true! these are all free! and they are all excellent!

are you in Toronto or the GTA? do you like soup? then, come out to the launch of The Iron Garden Sutra on February 28, 3p.m. at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social! the launch will also serve as the first-ever live recording of the murmurstations podcast! *there will be soup, book signing, and treats!

Friends. The eBooks of our 2025 titles are on sale til the end of the month for just $3 each. Grab @thomasha.bsky.social's amazing debut, or Best Weird Fiction Vol. 1, or Weird Horror 10 and 11. Heck, grab 'em all! undertowpublications.com/ebooks

In this edition of explanations we didn’t need before this decade: If you are too lazy to write and prefer entering a poorly written, word salad prompt for a robot to do it for you, you are not a writer. Hope this helps.

london, ontario, where you can experience below seasonal temperatures and above seasonal temperatures all in the span of three days.

my partner has spent 3 days corresponding with an academic journal editor about a submission he made to the journal (regular academic publishing stuff) only to learn this morning that the editor doesn't exist and is actually an AI. fuck AI.

the level of surveillance that i'm subjecting myself while trying to mail things would put the Soviet Union to shame.

sometimes, i come to the wrong conclusion that i've attained inner peace, and then i try to mail something to the US.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

good thing i have this post-apocalyptic, dystopian, ecologically drained fictional world to escape to.

> Americans doing what Americans do “What are we, a bunch of Eastern Europeans?” Сука шовіністи їбані як же всі від вас втомились

It’s hell today in Dnipro . I don’t know how much information gets to your mainstream media, but it’s tough . Sirens don’t work , and Russia continues attacking the city. - so peopel rely on internet notifications - but since Russia bombed power station again and it’s blackout - people are asked

Chatgpt! Is! Not! Confidential! Do! Not! Do! This! For! Fuck's! Sake!

and if you're Canadian, i highly encourage you to email/ call your MPs and tell them why Carney's response re: Venezuela is not enough.

Canadians! Use this tool to find your reps: www.ourcommons.ca/members/en And let them know that you, too, are deeply disappointed in our government's failure to properly address the situation in Venezuela

Start your new year ✨fresh✨ with this list of all! the new! science fiction books! coming out in January 2026!

The Iron Garden Sutra is on another LIST!!! (all of the titles here are going straight to my TBR pile and then i'm buying a new bookshelf to accommodate)

75?! folks, i am throwing in the towel. i am not that much of a luddite.

for every like i'll post a piece of technology i hate from the bottom of my heart.

2026 is our debut year!! Here are some of the SFF authors I have the honor of debuting with early this year. I am really excited about these books so please check them out when you have the chance! #booksky

gosh how i wish someone would describe my work as having "mind viruses" in it 🥹

get the rabies vaccine if a bat touches. trust me it's waaaaaaay fewer shots than before and MUCH better than dying of rabies. sincerely, person who got rabies vaccine

okay open call, if you have an SFF romance coming out in 2026, and it's not grindingly heteropatriarchal in outlook and values, please tell me about it! I'm compiling my reading lists!

ARB's Notable Books of 2025!

Gimme your 2026 books!