Next month, London! My first play "The Failure of the Century" will have its staged reading as part of Talos Fest, on 12/13! app.lineupnow.com/event/talos-...

Apparently Alan Moore says something like this as well, but honestly, if you're writing in a genre go out and find a a couple of mediocre books published in it. Reading a bad Dan Brown knock off will show you what Dan Brown does that is good!

Pete and Edie have a bit of off-kilter flirtatious banter followed by her saying “Don’t go out and get beaten up by gangsters, stay here with me,” and him saying “I can’t stay here with you, I have an appointment to get beaten up by gangsters.” Then he leaves and gets beaten up by gangsters.

To be serious for a moment, there's an audience for listening, for preference, for convenience and for necessity. I'm told I do better than screen readers. I'll read anything I write if people want me to. (Anything long will take time!)

If the title's no good, no one's going to read it anyway

Chester has a sister now

Okay, okay, I give in, it’s 2025 awards eligibility time! I still have December stories coming, which means I cannot yet bring myself to make an extra-fancy graphic or a full long thread, but… until then, I hope you’ll consider reading some of my stories! Will link a couple favorites in the 🧵 (1/4)

In other, beautiful news - Transpose: SUBVERSE opening night at Barbican was an absolute joy and wonder last night. We have three nights left - if trans art and incredible music/poetry is your thing, then come/share/both! If cost is a barrier, just message. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

If the title's no good, no one's going to read it anyway

my husband sent this to me and honestly it’s been making me giggle for days

To be serious for a moment, there's an audience for listening, for preference, for convenience and for necessity. I'm told I do better than screen readers. I'll read anything I write if people want me to. (Anything long will take time!)

REMINDER: The submissions for our Winter Issue have opened! SUBMISSION Link: sffsouthasia.moksha.io/publication/... Good luck, everyone! P.S There is no theme for this issue. 🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

I think it would be a very good idea for Must Read Magazines to post their model contract publicly so as not to waste their editor's valuable time. Hopefully they'll consult with @sfwa.org on what is best industry practice before their slush pile dwindles to a puddle!

Today's community drabble is, "Phantom People" by Sarah Oakes. The theme was "apparition." Find Sarah Oakes on Bluesky @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl #authors #drabbles #writingprompts

A strange invasive plant has appeared in station green spaces across the Alicorn Rim. Many different methods of control have been tried with varying success. You have been asked to carry horticulturists to a conference, when you discover spores have escaped into the lifesystem of your ship.

A pair of American Mastodon chow down on a (slightly fantastical) pumpkin patch 🍂✨️ #sciart #paleoart

Apparently Alan Moore says something like this as well, but honestly, if you're writing in a genre go out and find a a couple of mediocre books published in it. Reading a bad Dan Brown knock off will show you what Dan Brown does that is good!

I watched Peter Gunn a 1960s private investigator TV show. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-wa...

Proud of my profile of JAS in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3

This is why you remove Detect Magic from starting spell lists

Discover what the buzz is all about in @neilwillcox.bsky.social’s new story “The Beekeeper’s Daughter.” kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

hung out with some beetle people, mentioned fairy shrimp, and they mentioned a specialist ground beetle which is a fairy shrimp predator. how can you know that much of the story and then not know the best part, which is that the beetles only hunt at night because the shrimp GLOW IN THE DARK

The Goon, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Prince Goon The Voyage of the Goon Treader The Silver Goon The Horse and His Goon The Goon’s Nephew The Last Goon

I watched Saltburn, a blackly funny thriller about obsession, class and a big house. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-wa...

My wood library is raising a lot of questions that are not answered by my wood library (because it's pieces of wood, not reference books)

I am LITERALLY recorded performatively reading a Kalediotrope story in a file that you can listen to on the Kaleidotrope website. The evidence is IN THE MAGAZINE. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

This is why you remove Detect Magic from starting spell lists

One of the Little Free Libraries got a pile of books on autism, folklore and mythology, and finding your gender identity, and that's how I know there's a Bluesky user in the neighborhood

Everyone needs a cosmic horror cooking competition book. If you don’t have (pork???) I’m sure you can substitute….

It's been years, but you said something in there about the twee "oh noes my writers block" being bs but if you're having straight up agonizing problems working, it's something else and you have to sort it out. (I got mental health help + started getting sober after reading that.)

I like the way Anthony Burgess uses "gorblimey" as a verb, here, and would like to see it more widely used.

Vast sin-concealing chaos

16) Sword & sorcery can be community. Ever since THIEVES' WORLD petered out, we've largely lost the idea of sharecropper universes in fantasy; people seem more happy with LitRPG worlds based on D&D and World of Warcraft. But S&S has always been in communion with other S&S works, building off ideas.

this is the best thing ever actually

In a mood. 1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

I am LITERALLY recorded performatively reading a Kalediotrope story in a file that you can listen to on the Kaleidotrope website. The evidence is IN THE MAGAZINE. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

The Thought Bubble Festival is on this weekend, your chance to meet me and talk all things C*nan in a safe space. Muscles, swords, strength, beheadings, thews, Crom, serpent men. Remember that while others have tried to realise the Cimmerian in comics, only one man has truly delivered.

The powerful Dockers Guild on Herculan Station has slowed operations to a crawl with ships queuing to dock, undock or get anything loaded or unloaded. The station authorities have asked you to look into the recent death of one of the Guild's masters.

Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves. Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.

We are exactly four (4!) downloads away from setting a new FF annual record* for most downloads! It's a perfect time to grab yourself a free download of FF#26! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/ (*I mean we're way ahead if I include Saros, but I still wanna beat the FF-only record)

My wood library is raising a lot of questions that are not answered by my wood library (because it's pieces of wood, not reference books)

did you know? "Dare Seize the Fire" is my latest short story that you can just read for free online right now? futurefire.net/2025.73/fict...

I watched Saltburn, a blackly funny thriller about obsession, class and a big house. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-wa...

World’s greatest detectives.

Every eighteen months or so people learn about the SS Richard Montgomery, this is why you shouldn't go to Sheppey

Obviously you should buy Necropolis from @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social but while you're there have you considered getting Duel edited by @thisisguan.bsky.social with stories from @faithallington.bsky.social @carlc75.bsky.social Huijia Li, @livstrom.bsky.social and also me.

That guy writing about beekeepers sounds like he knows what he's talking about