apologies for the rare selfie but today’s my birthday and i have a new shirt from Books Beyond Bars so it’s a perfect day for me to ask you to support the wonderful folks at Books Beyond Bars!

head to kingsbookstore.ca/gift-cards and mention the Books Beyond Bars program in the comments and you’ll be helping us get books and notebooks into the women’s unit of the Burnside jail where they’re needed <3

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

TriCon: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction May 15-17, 2026 Kjipuktuk | Halifax, Nova Scotia Registration now open! More details: tricon-halifax.com. GOHs: @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social @kurestinarmada.bsky.social #amwriting #speculativefiction @tricon-hfx.bsky.social

Introducing TriCon! ✨May 15-17, 2026 in Kjipuktuk | #Halifax. Celebrating spec fic, we couldn't be prouder to have @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social and @kurestinarmada.bsky.social joining us as our Guests of Honour. Earlybird tickets available now! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/tricon-the...

Check your Accessibility Settings folks - as I discovered after some other people posted about it, my "require alt text before posting" setting too had switched itself off.

Henry James: The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt—no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries. Dickens: this guy is named “M'Choakumchild” James: Dickens: he be chokin them childs!

Felt weird about the rapture being scheduled on Rosh Hashanah, and it turns out I was right! They're using the shofar to symbolise the rapture trumpets! The shofar is not for Christians! Stop co-opting our stuff and get your own stuff! Today is not for you! *Spritzes Evangelism with spray bottle*

If you like his quotes about AI, you’ll love his short stories. Stories of Your Life and (especially) Exhalation are about as good as science-fiction gets.

Shana tova, friends! Wishing you a happy and sweet new year, and a better (whatever that means to you) 5786 than the year we left behind.

May we all love something with the enthusiasm of wee Rex who is accosting random children at this park to enthuse about “Pachycephalosaurus, the strongest dinosaur in the world!” (And may we, and Rex, learn when people don’t want to hear about it anymore. 💀)

🎵big steps! Big steps!

Cheers to the Montreal airport (did you ever think I'd say that?) for its unisex washrooms that would make millions of Americans absolutely lose it. I washed my hands next to a MAN, and... it was exactly as uneventful as any rational person would expect.

I feel like #HaliSky is the right audience for this. Did y'all know that members of the public are welcome to be university/college library patrons? You only have to be 18+ and a resident of Nova Scotia or NB.

It depends on my mood. Sometimes I want straightforward and easy. I do love murder mysteries. But sometimes you do want the complete mindfuck. Hello Locked Tomb.

words that should have been workshopped a bit harder: enervate restive bemused nonplussed

amazon playing people for fools listing books at higher than retail prices and offering 'big discounts' to their actual price

Are you really "not making enough progress" or is it just that your expectations of yourself outpace both what you'd expect of anyone else *and* the laws of physics

Because of visual issues, I listen to more audiobks these days + borrow ebooks/audio from Toronto Library. I've decided to switch from Audible to @libro.fm, an audiobook company that shares profits w/ indie bookstores. My referral link (if you want to switch, too): libro.fm/referral?rf_...

My fall editing availability is wide open! Email me at contact@bookmarteneditorial if you’re looking for a queer editor for your queer romance or SFF novel! #QueerWriters

20 years in bookselling and i didn’t know those numbers meant anything specific

Pretty good, Nova Scotia 🧡 #HaliSky (literally)

Had forgotten the particular mental nonsense of going on submission with a manuscript. We sent my book out *yesterday*, and despite this being my second time on sub—I know how this process works—my foolishly optimistic brain can't help going, "But what if someone just really loves it?" #Booksky

Queer SFF writers! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

My tiny niece is my actual favourite person, and I promise your day will improve immensely if you take 27 seconds to listen to her reading Tolkien to you.

Joining the party of Book People who apparently need books in their video games as well as their day jobs.

FYI folks, the Big Holidays coming up are: Rosh Hashanah is Mon 22 Sep-24 Sep Yom Kippur is Wed 1 Oct - 2 Oct And also? You don't have to KNOW who's Jewish to not schedule meetings these days. Just do it. (AND DON'T BE ALL "WE HAVE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE [PERSON] IS JEWISH" THAT'S TACKY & GROSS)

PUT 👏🏻 JEWISH 👏🏻 HOLIDAYS 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 YOUR 👏🏻 CALENDARS The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!

Nothing quite like your own bed after a weekend away.

“There's a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don't look too closely).”

For those who need an #Uplift: bsky.app/profile/debb... Hand-curated by yours truly, updated daily. Criteria unapologetically subjective, tho esp: bookish • quirky • word nerds • art that shows human process (eg with art tools in photo) • science-nerdyfun • obscure interest deep-dives • alt-text

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Look at this really helpful note I found on my phone

Stressing out about navigating around Toronto and I'm not even there yet. Why is it so BIG

This is the heart of everyone saying there can be no TENSION in a romance if it had to end happily. With every book release, about 5 people message me saying they skipped to the end to make sure it was going to turn out okay even though the genre was a literal promise it would. That's the job.

i’m working a Saturday tomorrow & decided we have too many books so come say hi and take advantage of our Too Many Books sale! Discounts will apply to all our regular (non-coursebook) stock and if you can’t make it in just place an order on kingsbookstore.ca and I’ll apply the appropriate discounts

He thought t̶o̶ h̶i̶m̶s̶e̶l̶f̶. #copyediting

Can any of you recommend a Black woman authenticity/sensitivity reader? I'm looking for feedback on a handful of pages in a graphic novel I'm translating. Ideally this person would have SR experience, and an understanding of comics, YA, and historical fiction. #BookSky #Comics #xl8

That first socks day of late summer is truly the coziest thing.

If you are suffering as a customer during a strike, that is because management is intentionally passing on the suffering to you, which means you have common cause with the workers. This is so whether the management is of an airline, a hospital, or a retail establishment.

it’s also about pouring wine and mixing wine and drinking wine and sailing across the wine-dark sea

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

"Please, do not have a panel called ‘Women in SF'”: A 1979 Letter from Ursula K. Le Guin manuscriptsandmore.liverpool.ac.uk?p=8752

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

I also wish ill on JK Rowling who has done nothing for the last several years but used her excessive wealth and power to make things demonstrably worse for everyone by demonizing the most marginalized and powerless among us.

Delighted and thrilled to be able to share with you that I'm a GoH at the forthcoming 2027 Montreal Worldcon, along with Yves Meynard and Chris Barkley! bid.montreal2027.ca/en-ca/

Maybe you're forgetful, like I am. You can turn on reminders! Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text. Done! Easy accessibility.

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.