A Ruin, Great and Free by @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social weirdly just dropped from $9.99 to $5.99 in ebook form, if you’re into that sort of thing. Just moved it from to-read to in-the-queue.

If they were real, wouldn’t the bullets say “fuck ice”’

going over my notes for my next Hope in Horror column for the @itgodp.bsky.social podcast and jotting down the first draft of the script... Train to Busan has some interesting bits that contrast well with No Exit style Zombie films like Night of the Living Dead, etc. Esp with the ending

Are the Rapture people gone yet so we can back to work building the better world that is possible?

Definitely pick this up!

To everyone sharing this or saying nice things about it: Thank You! I don't care how big an author gets, Word of Mouth will always be the realest, bestest marketing joy. I poured spirits & ancestors into every page. I hope everyone falls in love with Amnandi Khumalo!

This has ~$1000 left to go and needs it by the end of today. It's almost there! Let's get it done. #booksky ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Today is the last day for our lil free short story bundle! If you like FREE and SHORT this is for you

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

Honestly, it's hard to believe Charlie Kirk was only 31. Dude looks older than me and I'm in my late 40s. Hate ages you

Go fash, lose cash

Writing an email draft to our hosting company so I can better understand how (or if) they intend to stand up to the T Administration when they start asking for progressive podcasts to be taken down. Any thoughts on what I should include?

IEET Board member PJ Manney on the New Mythos, how to make the world a better place in the micro and macro for everyone. stuffthatmattersnow.libsyn.com/s7-e6-pj-man...

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

Swamp Thing knocking over confederate monuments since 1982. #SwampThing #punchracists

instructors! today is a good day to ask yourself this question again

Invitation to friends in the arts. I'm part of a group organizing a project called Fall of Freedom. We want artists and orgs of all kinds (whether you're an Indie bookstore, a cinema, gallery, whatever) to come together to resist authoritarianism. Starting November 21st... www.falloffreedom.com

This is the last day for the Murderbot + Witch King and my other fantasy Humble Book Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/martha... We've raised $89,000 in donations for World Central Kitchen so far!

💫eBook Discount! FLOATING HOTEL by Grace Curtis is only $2.99 on Kindle Monthly Deals. This cozy science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the stars buff.ly/8nAxjz6

I was in DC with my kids literally 2 days before Trump put ICE there and I didn't feel even slightly threatened. In fact, it was quite nice and peaceful

If a cover of Swamp Thing can't be described as lurid, what's it even doing? #comicbooks

So what comic book podcast should I be listening to?

The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors! Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry. Jan 2026.

Tonight!

If you're tired of "fantasy is just pro-monarchy stuff" may I suggest my fantasy book "Stars and Soil" in which revolutionaries want to bring abt a socialist democracy? And my forthcoming fantasy novel "Shackles and Shards" in which the social democracy must be protected? revolutionaryfantasy.com

1/? Our new episode with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social is out. It is a very stimulating conversation about SFF, law, anarchism, and Indian publishing. Take a look if you haven't.

Take it from someone who is an educational tech and curriculum dev guru at a very large company (it's me!). No time soon!

#Booksky Can’t make it to one of our book tables? Find our books at our website, Smashwords, Kobo, @weightlessbooks.bsky.social, iTunes, GooglePlay, Bookshop, DriveThruFiction, B&N and beyond! Also DreamHaven Books, your local indie or library! queenofswordspress.com

Bluesky has been really weird for me the last few weeks. It's not always working

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

Eugen Bacon's #NOVIC #Preorder swag package is on sale! This dark prequel to Claiming T-Mo gives some of the backstory of the immortal priest Novic. A standalone but it will make you want to read the next one ;) https://smpl.is/aan6y#NOVIC#Preorder@Eugen Bacon

I’ll be picketing, of course, but outside of picketing shifts, I’ll have a lot of free time, and strike pay does not pay the bills, so if you’re an editor of a games/magic/books site or vertical, my DMs are open.

Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.

I'm doing an AMA on r/Fantasy if you have any questions!

For those who don't check social media over a holiday:

Sat with the great folks at the @itgodp.bsky.social podcast to talk about The Sentence, The Wheel of Time, Anarchism, the Paris Commune, the Mondragon Cooperative, SFF and publishing in India, the sequel to The Sentence, and more. Give it a listen: itgodp.libsyn.com/website/the-...

Looks like we were long listed for the Hugo's again! Some might not make a big deal of this cause of where we are on the list, but I appreciate any recognition of what we're doing. It's nice to know we aren't shouting into the void, entirely. Lol. Thanks to everyone who voted for us!

Blizzard’s Diablo team has unionized

I loved this "Rome but with magic" fantasy novel, and now it is on SALE.

Anyway HELLO AND THANK YOU I cannot help but notice that THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still reaching people more than a year after it was published! :D (I assume the... things... that live in the woods are involved. But thank you anyway!) If you haven't yet, pick up your copy today!

Oooo @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social story!!

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Do you like horror? Noir? Magic? The ocean? Righteous violence? Ghosts? Hanging with your friends? I have one for you! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.

November 5 Put it on your calendar!

I called my local CVS this morning to book my #COVID vaccine and #Flu vaccine shots. I was simply asked if I qualify and answered yes. No further details or prescription was requested. My appointment is made. The shots will be available in the pharmacy September 4th.

Agreed!

Dr. Daskalakis's letter is both measured & excoriating. He writes that the "intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection & unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive & many if not all will suffer." #IllnessPolitics

In the latest Geeks Guide to the Galaxy, I talk to host David Barr Kirtley about the longrunning Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, which I now cohost with @datlow.bsky.social. (We are currently running a GoFundMe to keep the series going for 4 more years.)

Praise from @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social: "Jason Sanford ain't playing with y'all anymore. We Who Hunt Alexanders lives at the intersection of cyberpunk and horror. Edginess and timeliness; blood and desperation; love and terror all woven like a rogue literary DNA strand." 1/2