I love the act of writing. But sometimes just sitting with my coffee and letting a story percolate until I know where its first two acts end is a better use of the caffeine. ❤️🔥🦾

I’m pretty tired. Think I’ll go home now.

OMG this is nearly at 10x the initial goal and it hasn’t even been 24 hours yet! Congrats to @shawnspeakman.com and all the authors, artists and editors involved in this #Unbroken Kickstarter! Can’t wait to read my hardcover! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...

Well how about that. Congrats to Peter Orullian and @shawnspeakman.com ! #BookSky

Can’t believe how quick it funded! Well done @shawnspeakman.com and all Involved! 🎉👏👏👏

Unbroken anthology announcement video by @shawnspeakman.com Kickstarter coming soon. (Never could have imagined my name appearing in a line-up like this) #BookSky youtu.be/e3_lJbXPhcs?...

This drops next week on April 21 and I can’t wait! So amazing #SFF authors are contributing, it’s going to be 800+ pages of awesomeness, edited by Peter Orullian and @shawnspeakman.com :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...

I mean, this is such a stacked lineup for this #SFF Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...

Wheeee! www.patreon.com/posts/delive...

No Fascists Day is upon us. Again.

Tomorrow at @powells.bsky.social Cedar Hills.

Thank you @terrybrooks.bsky.social and @shawnspeakman.com for the FB live! A gloriously bright spot in an often dark world. Don’t have Facebook so you can add at least one lurker to your numbers Shawn;) Can confirm Mick Herron’s Clown Town is amazing, you’ll love it. Looking forward to next time!

I'm still reading James Holland's 'Together We Stand'. I'm also dipping into the first volume of 'Unfettered' (ed. @shawnspeakman.com). I'm really enjoying discovering some new (to me) authors in there.

I had the great pleasure of visiting the @grimoakpress.bsky.social warehouse yesterday to sign 500 copies of GRIMOIRE that debuted at the Seattle Worldcon. I was lucky to be able to sign alongside @shawnspeakman.com, @katogden.bsky.social, and Megan Lindholm!

Now that I'm home, it's time to dig into my contributors copy of Grimoire: A Grim Oak Press Anthology for Seattle WorldCon 2025. I'm told all 750 hardcovers sold by Friday, and no more will be printed. But don't worry — @shawnspeakman.com tells me an ebook will soon be available. So watch the skies!

WorldCon Book Haul! Assassin’s Quest @robinhobb.bsky.social Darkblade @andypeloquinauthor.bsky.social Anji Kills a King by Evan Leikam City in the Dragon’s Eye @jordanloyalshort.bsky.social Grimoire - a collection of stories edited @shawnspeakman.com Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski

Voters not taking responsibility for their actions is why we are in this mess. A vote matters. A vote has consequences. Every vote matters. And not voting is not the same as voting.

Was very grateful to sit down to dinner with @shawnspeakman.com and @terrybrooks.bsky.social for dinner - thank you Shawn !!!! and @grimoakpress.bsky.social for a chance to listen to Terry’s wisdom and @mattdinniman.bsky.social was there too as a tremendous bonus !!! So much fun!

Whoa TIL that @shawnspeakman.com & the terrific @grimoakpress.bsky.social are giving the special edition treatment to an iconic & highly underrated @tadwilliams.bsky.social series. The Otherland saga is one of my alltime faves & finally it’s getting the deluxe look & feel which it richly deserves

TWO WEEKS UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!

I have returned to writing Wyrmbane, my forthcoming novella that is influenced by Thornhedge, The Last Unicorn, and The Summer War. Details on my Patreon! Join FREE now. www.patreon.com/posts/writin...

Some news! I'm contributing a short story to UNBROKEN, an amazing anthology forthcoming to Kickstarter September 23rd. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb... Also, I uploaded to Patreon the first 18 chapters from my forthcoming sequel to The Dark Thorn. www.patreon.com/posts/delive... FUN TIMES!

Well well well, the hat is back, Dresden friends! Art by Chris McGrath. Publishing in January.

If you missed it, there's a new Murderbot short story at: reactormag.com/rapport-mart...

When you’re definitely not guilty.

No one will be fooled by this. People are asking for the release of the evidence from the Epstein investigation. The grand jury transcripts are something else entirely and would exclude almost all evidence.

Delivering the third part of a planned four. Star-crossed lovers separated by magic. Join my Patreon. Just $3/month. Getting to work on that fourth and final part. Excited to wrap this up and get back to writing Wyrmbane!

A new public post with pictures available on my Patreon, featuring news about the arrival of The Preferred Dark Thorn ARCs. www.patreon.com/posts/delive...

Delivering Chapter 2 for A Kiss Between Water and Wood. The short story will be officially published in the Grimoire anthology at Dragonsteel Nexus this December by Grim Oak Press. Chapter 3 coming later this week. Join my Patreon for just $3 for new fantasy! www.patreon.com/c/ShawnSpeak...

For once, a very good headline, and of course @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social is not wrong here www.cpr.org/2025/07/12/i...

For Murderbot Day, a great interview with Alexander Skarsgård! collider.com/murderbot-fi...

I'm seeing Superman in IMAX today. It is an emotional day. When being chemo-infused for both of my cancers, I wore a Superman t-shirt every day to treatment. But it goes back farther than that. Thoughts on my Patreon.

Remember tonight: reactormag.com/read-a-new-m...

New stuff on my Patreon. 😎 www.patreon.com/posts/kiss-b...

Stupid Is versus Stupid Does.

So @shawnspeakman.com of @grimoakpress.bsky.social just wrote to say the frontispiece page of their deluxe The Darkest Road is headed my way to be signed. I used to like him. (More seriously, with Fionavar done, we’ll start thinking about what to do next. They do have their ideas.)

Question: Is it NO KINGS? Or NO KKKINGS? Answer: Yes.

Fuck, I don’t even want to visit the United States. And I live here.

A nice interview setting up my event in Santa Cruz, Tuesday. www.goodtimes.sc/christopher-...

We need answers about what happened on Alderaan and assurances from the Empire that it won’t happen again.

She goes FULL fascist here. How many Nevalnys will this administrations create, arrest, and imprison?

I'm shipping out books signed by @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social and @djangowexler.bsky.social, and watching Gavin Newsom murder Trump's inane online babble. Fun times.

I alone will make Superman a blockbuster. That’s how many times I plan on going, @jamesgunn.bsky.social.

With all the world's bullshit, it is still lovely to have a day where I visit @djangowexler.bsky.social to sign books and chat, text with Matt Dinniman about the state of publishing, plan a new publishing company, and get a sketch from @jmaddalina.bsky.social for a secret project. Fun still exists.

Writing update on this beautiful Monday morning! www.patreon.com/posts/writin...

I need this. Now.