People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-

HEY AUTHOR FRIENDS!!! Have you got a bunch of author copies sitting around? Would you like to get them OUT OF YOUR HOUSE? We are looking for authors with 5 - 10 copies of a book they'd like to sign and send to some lucky winner, and help raise money for voting rights!

A statement regarding @darkhorseunion.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4uOQHVM

I fucking loved this book!

Today is my book birthday. I'm celebrating with waffles and whipped cream and SZA. Pizza and wine later. bookshop.org/p/books/mu-e...

ARB is now a paying venue for sff criticism. This is a dream come true thanks to the efforts of @casella.bsky.social and the many writers, editors, and interviewees who have made @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org and @mealofthorns.bsky.social one of the best places for contemporary sff criticism.

I'm gonna say something that's stressful for me to say personally: but until the time when every story can be a queer story, reading (watching, etc) only queer stories IS actually going to be stifling when it comes to learning about other marginalized people's experiences

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

okay so. for Reasons I cannot disclose yet, I'm on the hunt for a podcast editor/sound designer! I can't give too many details, but this is an ongoing job, so looking for someone reliable and experienced, preferably with SFF knowledge. If that's you or you know anyone, DMs are open!

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

Fave sf/f series of the past decade - Seth Dickinson's Masquerade - Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb - James S. A. Corey's Captive's War - Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch - Ursula Whitcher's North Continent Ribbon [1] [1] It's a collection/series of *connected stories* & *I* count it! (so hard to choose)

Genuinely curious if new employees there are aware of the events of last year, or if they just don't question why there are *checks notes* a total of three people working there, two of whom are executives.

I would love to give this a shot though, if you are or know an artist in Seattle who might want to sublet a studio space for a bit I'd love to hear from you. I'm good at taking care of plants.

Addressed a stressful financial issue today (by trading one debt with another debt, but sometimes that's adulting). I forget where I read the quote below, I think about a book on managing anxiety, but it's been on my mind a lot since my early 2020s meltdown.

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or [email protected]

who are some writers and academics doing interesting work around beauty and desirability politics?

In which Mónica Ojeda has a new book out, and Muñeca gets to keep company with her on Book Riot's 15 New Latine Books to Take You Into Summer. (Also, More Like Enemigas looks quite intriguing.) bookriot.com/new-latine-b...

"If this were happening to any other community" is a way of cutting off coalition between minority groups negatively affected by human rights decay. In effect if not intent, it functions to collude in that very decay by foreclosing on the potential for anything other than isolationist affirmation.

Be sure to join us at a special UNIONS IN PUBLISHING AMA co-hosted by our friends at the university of Chicago Press Workers Guild and featuring employees from HarperCollins, Verso, Abrams, and other unionized publishing houses!

Cruising along through What We Are Seeking ✨ I absolutely need an artbook for this novel. Full color xenobio illustrations would be so cool. I'm thinking the sort of work that Sanderson commissions in the Stormlight books.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

feels very normal to sit here and watch Quirk hire an entirely new staff after union-busting and laying off 90% of their existing staff last year! meanwhile everyone from my wonderful publishing team there is still looking for work!!! anyway if you’re considering applying for a job there, don’t!

Perennial herbs and perennial fruits are both huge money-savers, with almost no time cost. Even if you can't plant a tree, blueberries and raspberries can both be grown in containers or small pieces of land.

I just devoured the second Meihan Booey (THE ENIGMATIC MRS INGRAM) and 1. If you like the Emily Wilde / cozy paranormal / myths minding their own business space, read these ASAP. They're delightful speculative mysteries set in Singapore, I'd read a hundred of them. 2. #MSWL!

do less, better

Does anyone know of some linguistics/historical work that explains why “futuristic” names are pretty similar across sci-fi? I want to know where all the X, Y, and Z nouns came from!

One week til launch! 🪼🚀 Help a debut novelist out by preordering THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM and/or requesting a copy at your local library, and a magic jellyfish will* appear in your bathtub and grant you one wish! bookshop.org/p/books/the-... *might

People Magazine said MUÑECA is "wholly original and wildly romantic"!! When they're right they're right!!! (congratulations @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social)

There is no paragraph so bad that a human couldn't have written it. I just don't really believe that "AI tells" are a thing the way people want them to be.

Well this is interesting.

Yes, coffee is a bean broth.

**I will be opening to queries on Monday, June 1 until I reach 100 queries** During this time, I will ONLY be accepting queries for queer romance with magical elements. Think Sangu Mandanna, Sara Raasch - romance + grounded/very low fantasy. Let magic enhance love, and make me swoon. #amquerying

In which Muñeca has been mentioned in the past week by... Book Riot: bookriot.com/queer-horror... The Lesbrary: lesbrary.com/muneca-by-cy... NPR: www.npr.org/2026/05/19/n... And you can read an excerpt here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...

Pause and listen to the Fred Eaglesmith cover of the Dar Williams cover of the Fred Eaglesmith song "Wilder Than Her."

MSWL

Oh boy howdy yes. Everyone whose publisher failed to register copyright even if, say, they were CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGED TO DO SO, why not let the Authors Guild know? @societyofauthors.bsky.social will you be following this up too?

The fact is, any one of those woo-woo lines in AI-prose would be acceptable *at some point* in a genuine story, but only if it was ballasted, and informed, and backed-up – if it was 'guaranteed' – by some specific concrete detailed real-stuff. Things, being instantiated and described and happening.

we would all be much better off if people, young and old, would just admit that they like pissing and moaning rather than try to make this kind of low-stakes ball into What This Says About Society

#Romancelandia. Just saw the notice from Casablanca Books that author Piper J Drake has passed away. My condolences to all who knew and loved her. May she rest peacefully.

"Whatever the case may be, it is bad writing. Its elevation to a platform like Granta suggests that when it comes to postcolonial writing, the expectation is unintelligibility."

please

The major water basins on the North American continent. Turtle Island’s original organization and structure.

broke: shrimps is bugs bespoke: bees is shrimps

"This is why I think of being trans, for all its challenges, as ultimately a blessing. It forces you to pursue your favorite possible version of yourself." defector.com/how-to-dress...

Or honestly just make up the answer yourself. You don't need an algorithm to lie to you. Lie to your damn self like a fucking adult!