Every book is better with tea -- this one particularly so. So I'm doing a giveaway: a curated goodie box of themed tea and snacks for 1 reader who preorders *Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry*! Preorder here: books2read.com/tea-treachery Then upload your receipt: forms.gle/q2t2n28NAheg...

I have TWO books coming out in the next six months!! I'll be talking lots about: 📘Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry 📗The Final Chronicle of Yeneh I'm super excited, and both are very "me," but very different from each other, so it's bound to get confusing. (Even for me lol). In a nutshell:

Even the internet's favorite dog account calls out Ring video cameras what they are: Mass surveillance.

I love this book soooooo much and just want to live in the world of the Infinite Pantry. You should definitely be preordering this one, friends. 😍

Alright, where are my gifted kids at? You were smart and you never had to study and then you went to college and suddenly had to learn a new skillset overnight, that everybody else had years to learn, or flame out spectacularly? That’s what talent is like.

In Hornytown Chutzpah, Detective Sol Weiss enters Hell armed with a super soaker loaded with Manischewitz. I thought it'd be cute to do a book promo video about what that looked like. TBS, I asked @theradr.bsky.social if it was Kosher. 40 days 'til release www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hornytown-...

Cathartic bird scream meme of the day (This is a song sparrow doing their thing in a park in Ottawa)

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

Pre-ordering a book is like giving a lil present to your future self. And this one's a real treat, I promise. 🫖🍪😽

All of Beth’s books are worth reading. So get this while it’s a deal!

Pre-orders are up for Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry! A cozy fantasy steeped in magic and deliciousness, with a sweet F/NB romance. If you’re hungry for a story of people caring for each other even when things get tough, this one’s for you. Pre-order here: books2read.com/tea-treachery

I got to read a recent version of this and it's great! Totally non-stop bonkers (in the best way), you all are going to love it.

This month's newsletter is out! In which I mull the awkwardness of promoting books when the world is burning, and why we need to keep creating stories and why that act in itself is part of resistance. Also some book recs. jomiles.optin.com/newsletter/a...

Sleet is inevitable Sunday-freezing rain is what worries us. Sleet bounces off trees & power lines. Freezing rain glazes them & that’s when outages become a risk. It's like a sprinkled donut (sleet) vs a glazed donut (freezing rain). Freezing rain risk increases late afternoon, esp E/SE of Beltway

Making a list of folks on the ground and trusted news orgs

Minneapolis friends, I love you all

Happy Friday to me, thanks to getting print ARCs in the mail for The Final Chronicle of Yeneh @hornedlarkpress.com! It never gets old, holding a book in my hands for the first time.

This takes enormous amounts of resources and sacrifice to pull off. Sharing this to support people on the ground: "This directory of places to donate to all comes from activists on the ground, plugged into the situation. Everything is vetted, with the exception of individual GoFundMes"

abolish ice 😭

Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.

Another secret! Book reviews don't have to be extensive and thoughtful and deep. You can give a book 5 stars and say nothing, or you can say, "Really enjoyed it!" or "Lovely worldbuilding!" or "One of my favorite authors!" No one expects a thesis. Every review helps.

Please, never be shy telling an author you loved their books. It’s seriously what gets us through.

Looks like we got our first bisexual Star Trek captain!

My story in the new issue of Analog, "A Chatbot's Guide to Self-Respect," takes on one narrow slice of what's wrong with how we're using AI today. It includes a therapy-bot based on Eliza, the very first chatbot. Not until writing this did I learn how cool Eliza's creator Joseph Weizenbaum was:

Just finished Skullrunner and, you guys, it's so good. It's great epic fantasy in its own right, but I esp love how wonderfully, unapologetically queer it is. Not just "here's some queer characters" but deeply exploring queerness in a world of weird magic. Also, pirates. What's not to like?

The Uncanny Magazine Patreon has been going in the wrong direction recently. Now is a great time to become a Patron! Help me pay the creators and staff! Get the second part of an issue a month before the Internet! :D

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ARC signups are open through 12/31 for THE CHAMOS PROJECT! Sign up if you like sad gays in space! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... #WritingCommunity #SFF #indieauthor

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

I got to read an early version of this and let me tell you all of you who read this are in for a treat (pun intended).

So excited to reveal the cover for Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry! It's a cozy fantasy full of delicious food, magic, found family, and sweet romance (with two queer middle-aged MCs!) Oh, and tea. Lots of tea. First in a brand new series! I can’t WAIT to share it with you #sff #booksky

I'm coming up on 48h awake so I don't have the energy to alt-text the un-alt-texted image, but: bog standard rights grant clause, has all the limiters I look for, you cannot run a website without a rights grant clause, zero reason for panic

People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon

ARCs are coming!!! Want to blurb or review my portal fantasy adventure meets anticolonialist ecological sci-fi, aka Narnia in space? Let me or Kevin know and we'll hook you up!

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Happy Small Business Saturday! It's a great day to support your favorite authors -- especially via your local bookstore, Bookshop.org (which supports local bookstores!), or a smaller ebook retailer like Smashwords. (Mine are on all the stores: www.jomiles.com/books/) Books make great gifts too! 📚🎁

Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?

Can confirm that InkFoundry is really neat. Possibly even neat-o!

Today is my birthday, which you know I always use as an excuse to spoil you! November 14th, everything online is 14% off, no code needed! Just skedaddle on over to the site and get shopping!⁠

Ah, it's that time again...

Things are haaaaaappenning! Seeing art come together is my favorite part, up there with actually holding a book in my hands.

Our Kickstarter ends in just 24 HOURS! This is your LAST CHANCE to shop our catalogue of new ebooks, author critiques, and exclusive merch before it's gone for good. Check the 🧵 to see our full selection! Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Audiobook lovers! All three Brennex books are now out in audio, narrated by the excellent Adi Cabral. Available everywhere! Get your anti-capitalist space opera fix: Warped State: books2read.com/u/3Jeere Dissonant State: books2read.com/u/3nBwR8 Ravenous State: books2read.com/u/3RPqAx

"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge."

I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, so... that's gross. Instructions on how to cancel your Spotify subscription: app.sosha.ai/s/kvYKdhBX #DontStreamFascism

I'm super excited for this week's newsletter: I'm going to announce my new series! Obv I'll share here, later, but I like to give my newsletter folks cool news before sharing with the world. Want to hear about my new cozy fantasy before anyone else? You know what to do! www.jomiles.com/newsletter

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

So, you don't start massive renovations to your house if you're only planning to live there for 4 years.

Interested in a query critique OR a short story critique from @jomiles.bsky.social? We’re deeply grateful to Jo for offering both! Jo is the author of The Gifted of Brennex trilogy plus short fiction published in Lightspeed, F&SF, Analog, and elsewhere! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...