Seen at the back of a KJ Charles book. What an icon.

BIIIG spike in views for this one recently! What are the gray men, and how are they connected to the skazzerai? This was written pre-DHR but I think it holds up. www.thehiddenschools.com/articles/gra...

BIIIG spike in views for this one recently! What are the gray men, and how are they connected to the skazzerai? This was written pre-DHR but I think it holds up. www.thehiddenschools.com/articles/gra...

It means more than I can say to have received so much support for these books as they have grown and changed—as I have and as the world has. It''s a rush every day to get to work on sticking the landing. (No pressure!) Thank you for walking with me on this journey.

CRAFT WARS is a Hugo Finalist! I'm very grateful to be nominated, and extremely pleased by the company!

WE GOT ON THE SHORTLIST YAY CRAFT SEQUENCE FANS

You can follow all the finalists (or at least all the ones who have Bsky accounts) for the 2026 Hugo Awards right here with this starter pack. go.bsky.app/mR4XaC

WE GOT ON THE SHORTLIST YAY CRAFT SEQUENCE FANS

Mean lesbian stack? Mean lesbian stack! Longtime viewers of Bar Cart Bookshelf know I love some toxic in the community, so I pulled together this stack of some of the most sinister sapphics in my library. Mad scientists, warlords, contract killers, vamps, empresses, mercs. It’s a good day to be bad!

Starting a conspiracy theory that the reason we don't have cover, title, or release date for Craft Wras #4 is because they're splitting the book in two and we will be getting 2 more books instead of 1.

"Sometimes there’s no good way to do what’s needed, so you do what you can instead. You see your chance and make it good. No one will prompt you to do that. No one will tell you now’s the time." DEAD COUNTRY

semi-regular reminder that as I'm in the UK and won't upload age verification docs, I don't see messages here and don't get notifications for messages! I am emailable if you want to get in touch one to one! And I've now belatedly updated my contact page: www.thehiddenschools.com/contact

Starting a conspiracy theory that the reason we don't have cover, title, or release date for Craft Wras #4 is because they're splitting the book in two and we will be getting 2 more books instead of 1.

guys, this is how you lose the time war

semi-regular reminder that as I'm in the UK and won't upload age verification docs, I don't see messages here and don't get notifications for messages! I am emailable if you want to get in touch one to one! And I've now belatedly updated my contact page: www.thehiddenschools.com/contact

We must change how writers and artists are treated by society. We must stop the exploitation and theft of not only our creations but also our very lives by those with power and money. The Anthropic settlement was merely one battle. There will be many more to come. 3/

NEW POST: Three books deep into the Craft Wars quartet, it's time to reconsider Dawn. Turns out I, at least, missed a something pretty damn important... www.thehiddenschools.com/articles/in-...

Highly recommend a Max chat! Also Locus is pretty cool. Donate donate donate!

Regular reminder that Craft Wars is now a quartet and we are awaiting the final book! (I desperately need a title, cover, and release date ASAP @maxgladstone.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social) (Also yes my WhatsApp background is the Dead Country cover)

Highly recommend a Max chat! Also Locus is pretty cool. Donate donate donate!

This is the culmination of SIXTEEN YEARS of dogged work by everyday Hungarians. You think that felt hopeless sometimes? I'm sure it did. 👏 Don't 👏 give 👏 up 👏

Someone on threads asked authors to describe their books without tropes or genres. It was a really good exercise! How about it? How would you describe your book?

Regular reminder that Craft Wars is now a quartet and we are awaiting the final book! (I desperately need a title, cover, and release date ASAP @maxgladstone.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social) (Also yes my WhatsApp background is the Dead Country cover)

“It started the day I met Tara Abernathy.” It struck her as she told the story how short it was, how simple. Her childhood wrapped up in a sentence. Edgemont under siege. Learning the Craft from Tara. The Raiders. The skazzerai in the edge storm. The Crack in the World, and the being trapped there.

Found the King in Red's merch. How many thaums per candle, do you think?

I have a new and thrilling symptom that may be nothing or may be a sign of yet another chronic condition. If it's the latter I am going to crawl into a cave and have a breakdown for at least six months.

"ARB puts progressive & mutualist ideas into practice with a collaborative editorial process, a focus on fiction and nonfiction works that challenge established ideas, and...publishing practices that support the reading and critical communities." a.) True. b.) Sound good? Send money if you have it!

So some interesting books are on sale on Kobo right now, while the world burns, including Courtney Floyd's debut Higher Magic, which has a @maxgladstone.bsky.social blurb. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Couldn't fit this in, so here are some thoughts on Sybil's name. Sybil is a variant of Sibyl, which comes from the Greek Σίβυλλα (Sibylla), meaning "prophetess." It wasn't used as a name in Ancient Greek, I believe, but was a title for female prophets.

NEW POST: Three books deep into the Craft Wars quartet, it's time to reconsider Dawn. Turns out I, at least, missed a something pretty damn important... www.thehiddenschools.com/articles/in-...

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

I'm so looking forward to this conversation with my dear friend and colleague @amalelmohtar.com. If you're in Glasgow, or anywhere near, please join us on Tuesday, 7 April, at Waterstones Argyle Street.

I have changed my own mind while writing this Dawn essay. The power of close reading and nerd writing.

Friends, I have just been made aware of an excellent coo story from a town near where I grew up. Described on Turriff's Wikipedia page as "cow involved in National Insurance protests in 1913" under the notable residents section. This coo had a film was made about it, and there is a STATUE. Amazing.

Friends, I have just been made aware of an excellent coo story from a town near where I grew up. Described on Turriff's Wikipedia page as "cow involved in National Insurance protests in 1913" under the notable residents section. This coo had a film was made about it, and there is a STATUE. Amazing.

Should I do a quick essay about Craft vampire Jesus for Easter? Or about Kos being resurrected in 3 days? Or is that insensitive....

I got to the end of the most recent book and discovered two surprises: 1. I have grown very fond of the King in Red 2. He feels very “what if Darth Vader was Obi Wan Kenobi” and I’m here for that.

Tara had met the King in Red one time, and he must have liked the Wars, because he’d been very very good at them. What would it make you, to grow used to handling such power? To see a battlefield and think of it not as a horror but a puzzle, a knot of bodies you might untie, or simply cut? DC

I dunno if prologues and epilogues are part of the main story but I do know your publisher should pay you a separate fee and/or offer a contractually guaranteed budget if they expect you to market your own book because that’s not your job nor what your advance or royalties are for.

For this #TransDayofVisiblity, I want to recommend a SFF that's infinitely better than *that one* that you can recommend to your people who still cling to the past. The Craft Sequence by @maxgladstone.bsky.social is phenomenal, queer, and literally changed my mind about genre. #TDoV

One of the true drawbacks of writing secondary world fantasy is that sometimes the character /really/ wants to say "JEEsus FUCKing CHRIST"

She did not want to lift her arm and hold it to the stars, to the moonlight. Did not want to see what was left of her. But there were many things Tara Abernathy had not wanted to do in life, and she’d done most of them already. DEAD COUNTRY

Also hello, March has not been a good month for me, hoping April will be better and will be back to talk all things Craft Sequence

Job hunting for communications roles, and have seen several "writer" or "novelist" ads looking for "established" writers eith "substantial bodies of published works" to.... Edit AI manuscripts. Knew this was happening but seeing it so blatantly advertised is utterly depressing.

If you're a Seattle or LA member, youuuu are running out of time to vote, and the data suggests you maybe haven't yet. Vote for what you love, even if you can't fill it all out! Here's some stuff for your consideration: #HugoAwards #Hugos #Worldcon #LACon

⏳ Time is running out. ⏳ Nominations close on March 28. www.lacon.org/hugos

Closes 9am pacific time on 28 March!!! Nominaaaaaaate

DEAD HAND RULE is only $2.99 in ebook this week as part of the Kindle Spring Deal promotion! In the US at least, and likely on other sites as well due to the magic of price matching: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQJ4PJ15

If things are terrible right now, just know it won't always be the same. The universe will find new and exciting ways to make things a different kind of terrible.