Hard working Dems flipped THREE SEATS in the Mississippi legislature (thus ending the GOP supermajority there). This is huge news, and what an achievement: www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

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#DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because THE UNDERTAKERS @nicole-glover.com is on #sale on #Kindle for a limited time only! amzn.to/4nC48US #TheUndertakers #MurderandMagic #ad

Virginia, today is the big day! It’s the last day to vote if you haven’t already. 🗳️ Make your voice heard, because you never know, you could become the deciding vote!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

How quickly they go from flattery to creepily veiled threats. 🙄 I’m pretty good at clocking spam, but nothing sets off the alarm bells more the laying it on too thick or being upset it doesn’t work. Also this an example of AI text vs not. AI generated text always seems like it doing too much

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

New essay! "The Evolution of the Vampire Image, from Nosferatu to Sinners" by Del Sandeen! buff.ly/BENXjEL

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Set in 1964, THE STARSEEKERS follows Cynthia as she investigates a series of strange accidents and deaths, and a peculiar curse that is the connecting thread. 🔪standalone cozy mystery 🪄constellation magic 📚 academic hijinks 💕 a bubbly romance 🚀 NASA antics www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

I will be at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social this weekend! 9/26 4pm ET - PRAY FOR US SINNERS: Dissecting the Film's impact 7pm ET - Public Transportation 10pm ET -Chill-n-Chat 9/27 9am ET - Altering Adaptations 5pm ET - What's Great in Fantasy 9/28 2pm ET - The Map is (not) the Territory

The Starseekers cover is here! 🚀 📚🌙🪄🔪🤔 A standalone mystery set in 1964, The Starseekers follows Cynthia Rhodes as she investigates a series of strange accidents, deaths, and a peculiar curse that keeps appearing in unexpected places. nicole-glover.com/2025/09/18/t...

I will be at @capclave.bsky.social this weekend! 9/20 11am - Mixing the Genres 1pm - Purposeful Diversity in SF & Fantasy 2:30pm - Reading 5pm- Uses of History 9/21 10am - Magic: Wonder or Mechanics? 2pm - Point of View capclave.org/capclave25/

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

It's been a busy few days, but I wanted quickly to share that THE STARSEEKERS is up on NetGalley!

September brings SFWA showers--of genre panels! Join @isisasare.bsky.social at #BaltimoreBookFestival, Sept 13. At 11, the SFWA Stage features @tomdoyle.bsky.social, @alansmale.bsky.social, @afrostorian.bsky.social, @nicole-glover.com, & @miriamseidel.bsky.social for TWISTING HISTORY. See ya there!

My week began with my parents celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary and will end attending the wedding of a cousin of mine. So weddings have been on my mind lately, mainly because they are a great excuse to bring characters together... and allow important plot beats to unfold.

why is bitching that I can't write a thing an essential part of my process as a writer

I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains. Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

I wrote down a few thoughts I have from being part of Writing as an Act of Resistance panel at WorldCon as well as other reflections on the current moment. Also, I share the link to the CrimeReads essay I wrote some years ago on the role of police in mysteries.

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier is suing over "illegal confinement" after Republicans locked her in the state Capitol for refusing police surveillance

While researching The Starseekers I found several other rather interesting "hidden figures". In this post I talk about a few people whose contributions to NASA aren't widely known. Think of this as a preview for my WorldCon panel "NASA's Unsung Heroes"

DC gets picked on because of its lack of statehood, historically being a Black city, and proximity to Capitol Hill. There’s a lot of stories out there about the fed gov interfering with the city politics and it’s always those three things in play behind it.

In this week's newsletter, I share some tips and thoughts for writing historical fantasy.

Some of my favorite things I spotted while volunteering at my local butterfly house. (Besides the little kid who eagerly caught the praying mantis for me!)

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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The Real Magic of Educational Television The author reflects on the impact of educational television, particularly programs like Sesame Street, which emerged from 1960s social change. Their upcoming novel, The Starseekers, includes a subplot about a magical educational show, highlighting the…

I’m in Boston for the weekend checking out @readercon.bsky.social It’s the first time I’ve managed to get out here, but I’ve always heard great things!

DID YOU KNOW: ConCurrent is hosting the ONLY panel on Sinners during WorldCon? 2:30, Aug 14, the ACT Theatre. Register to see @ldlewiswrites.com @lpkindred.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social @nicole-glover.com @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social talk Sinners! concurrentseattle.weebly.com/register.html

I heard a certain bookseller is having a sale again! 📚 If you’re a B&N member use Preorder25 and get a sweet discount for upcoming releases, including. THE STARSEEKERS which is launching on 1/6/26! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-starse...

A recent library haul with a very timely hold coming in. I’d freely admit I immediately put WE REFUSE on hold because the cover was not striking but echoes the verrrry long history of resistance work over the centuries.

My latest newsletter, with a few updates and some gushing about SINNERS.

This is a kindly reminder, that if you can, go to your library to get books. Libby is great but several ebooks that had a 12+ weeks hold were chilling on the new books section waiting to be snatched up. (Plus a stack of books exerts much more peer pressure for you to read them!)

Remember when Google’s motto was Don’t Be Evil aw that was so cute! Fun story: Google shoving AI summaries of every search result in your face so even if you’re committed to #TeamHuman, you’re already using AI instead of your own mind, is a quiet long-game evil of which SF dystopias dare not dream

In short: * there is very little the author can do on social media to sell books * the Good News Firehose is just as detrimental as the Bad News Firehose * taking a walk >opening your feed * if publishing is hard for you right now, you're not alone * keep writing; we need your stories 14/14

Finally snagged the time to see Sinners. Lots of things I’m chewing on, but mainly about THAT scene in the juke and how we create stories that center around a single moment, because that moment is why we needed to tell the story of the first place.

One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search. In this op-ed, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about ⤵️

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Surprise flowers are the best!🌻 My agent sent me flowers for picking up this year’s Webster Award given by RavenCon. I alway did like sunflowers and they certainly are a much needed brightness for my day!

Duolingo also recently redefined all their user experience roles as product experience. Which says, like this pivot with AI, what higher ups think of the people who use and build the app

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the theme for the 2025 Costume Institute Gala as “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," which will honor the African American dandy. The style of dress being celebrated reveals a complex history of race, class, and identity politics.

In other news, I officially moved my little newsletter onto my website. I’m also giving up on newsletter services as they either have steep prices, terrible UX, or platforming equally terrible people.

I keep hearing that AI is supposed to save time and stress but all it’s done is create extra leg work whether people massaging output into something useable or trying to detect is AI has appeared where it shouldn’t

Here are some actionable suggestions if publishers want to actually help Black and Brown writers (rather than some publicity stunt that helps one or two people, gives a pat on the head to the publisher, and does nothing for anybody else). 1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.