Happy New Years' reading, and I cannot wait for your next in the Drowned Kingdom Saga in April!

I was not informed this was happening! Bargain!

It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...

Time for the last giveaway of 2025/first giveaway of 2026! The Best of @aptshadow.bsky.social has been selling briskly -- comment with a book you're looking forward to next year to win an ARC! Ends Jan. 5 at noon ET, open int'l. Preorder here: subterraneanpress.com/tchaikovsky-...

Sticking to my promise to be better about mentioning these things--the first two books of the award-winning Gray Assassin Trilogy are now available in audio, narrated by the incomparable @trendane.bsky.social. Please check them out, and spread the word! :D

The next Murderbot book, Platform Decay, is also available in the Barnes & Noble preorder sale: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/platform-d... #booksky

The trade paper edition of Queen Demon, which will be out next September, seems to also qualify for the preorder sale, if you've been holding off waiting for a good deal on it: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/queen-demo... (It's already out in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.) #booksky

What a delightful surprise! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBvn... Wars of Light and Shadow peeps, heads up!

True power of authority steers only personal choices: what services to use or support, what ethical line won't be crossed, when to participate, and how to be happy. This matters. Strength sets the example that inspires change by doing. Weakness lectures others who don't agree with an opinion.

My novel NOOR was a clue in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle, 😃. #Africanfuturism FTW. 🇳🇬

New books from me from Tor UK - this starts with Children of Strife next year and will continue with some standalone books after that.

It is on sale for this month - so is Master of Whitestorm.

Merry Christmas Eve! And may your 2026 bring you joy, wonder, great books, and surprises that sparkle!

Happy birthday to @nalohop.bsky.social! Celebrate her latest spin around the run by eavesdropping on our lunch on an episode of Eating the Fantastic, during which she shares why Samuel R. Delany’s The Motion of Light in Water is "a lifesaving book" — and more. www.scottedelman.com/2016/12/23/b...

Lighting the beacons for a friend of a friend: does anyone have connections to or information about transition care organizations and locations in Minnesota, US? Specifically for overweight people.

What the ACTUAL hell? SFWA was founded to PROTECT writers' rights. Not to grant sanction to undermine them. Not give them over to machines. Up has become Down. This is flat INSANE.

HAPPENING! Huge thanks to the book community! Preorder link: www.audible.com/series/The-W...

“A bad king revels in his importance. A good one hates his office. He spends himself into infirmity quashing deadly little plots to make power the tool of the greedy.”

Wars of Light and Shadow/2 more volumes coming in Audio Book, Colin Mace narrating: Ships of Merior/4/5/26 and Warhost of Vastmark, 4/19/26! Preorders: www.audible.com/series/The-W... Perfect series starter, Curse of the Mistwraith, (already available) Ships & Warhost completes Arc II. Let's go!

OMG LOOK! All 4 Seasons of the Swordspoint Prequel *Tremontaine* Audio now available with HumbleBundle! Hours & hours (& hours) of stunning narration by 3 greats. Got a long holiday drive ahead? Let the scheming Duchess Tremontaine, keep you entertained and wide awake on the road!

I’m already starting to feel like this read of all the published novels of Guy Gavriel Kay could be one of my favorite literary journeys!

Livestream discussion for Grand Conspiracy, Wars of Light and Shadow vol 5 TODAY! at 1 PM ET, with Sylvia hosting at LIbrary Unbounded. Spoiler time will have warning! Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0R...

What I would love more than anything for the holidays is for our two most shy mama cats to find their forever homes. Porsche, mom of the Auto Club kittens, since May this year. Shoyu, who is the mama of last year’s wonderful little grass Miso & Dashi, has been in our rescue since October *2024.*

Tempting you to grab BRIGHTWASH with some character art 👀 Both BRIGHTWASH and BRICK & BONE are part of Smashword’s huge year end sale! Come snag them both at 75% off and see what else you can find in the sale! www.smashwords.com/sale

Are you ready for the plunge? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjYS...

Here's a WGA membership scam that's going around. Fake email address, fake registration page link. Also, there's no plain WGA (it's either WGA East or WGA West); & WGA is for ppl in the movie biz, and does _not_ exist "to advocate for standout indie authors like you"

✨LAST DAY!✨ We're closing up shop tonight for our year-end break, and will re-open in January. If you wanted any Studio Rayyan goodies for gift giving, you better get gallopin'. Shop links in profile. 🐢 #art #prints #turtle

Holy moly....read this! Note: with coffee or beverages NOWHERE near your keyboard. Chuck, I am ded.

I also have a patreon! www.patreon.com/c/kristadb1 I have a lot of things already scheduled for 2025, including a new novel first draft for $3 patreons, and $5 patreons get a new world that I'm writing told through worldbuilding codices/stories (think video game codex or micro short stories).

These are brilliant, topical, and unique with a lively wry humor that runs like a thread of gold throughout.

Hearing reports that some of you have not been informed that we are casting the net far and wide to determine the science fiction and fantasy favorites of the year. Here's me amending that:

Of course, we are a little biased, but we think our bookshop looks cosier than a penguin in a thermal sleeping bag. A little literary oasis of words and light, in the long winter night. #books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield

If you'd like personalized copies of the Southern Reach this holiday season and you live in the US, I've got you covered! booksandtaps.com/shop/jeff-va...

Your periodic reminder that you can order any of my in print titles, signed and personalized, from my wonderful local bookstore @odysseybks.bsky.social odysseybks.com/elizabeth-be...

Tomorrow through Monday, all print books on our site will be on sale, 25-50% off! Your support of a small press that employs real folks & never uses AI for anything will not only make a great gift but give a nice middle finger to billionaires

My favorite bookstore is about to level up and buy their building!!! 🤩 Go forth, and help them by buying books!

Kobo has Master of Whitestorm e book on SALE TODAY, USA $1.99, CA $2.99. Sword and Sorcery tale of the making of a legendary hero.

We’re going LIVE for the final @sffaddictspod.bsky.social episode of the year, chatting about our favorite reads with @jajminton.bsky.social and @owwrpod.bsky.social 🎉 Join us LIVE on Dec. 1 at 8pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/RBntoqs...

Finale discussion thread for the group read of Curse of the Mistwraith is up at r/fantasy, join in and share your thoughts: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

The can has officially lost. Pumpkin got cooked, scraped, and crammed through the sieve without any blowouts. We have enough for TWO YEARS!

Didn't carve our Halloween pumpkins, and Don's decided to cook them and do PUMPKIN PIE FROM SCRATCH. My Joy of Cooking (Ancient!) tells how, but I have, (snort) canned pumpkin on the sly IN CASE. Make yer popcorn and place bets: does he survive straining the pulp or Must he be rescued by the CAN?

Here's my award eligibility post(s) for 2025: May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p... 1/?

Also, please share @tychebooks.bsky.social book posts because she is one of the few Canadian small presses left AND she pays everyone on time and in full. And people are stealing my book she published. Some books: bsky.app/profile/tych... or bsky.app/profile/tych...

New #WriterBeware blog post: Among the most frequent publisher complaints I receive: non-payment of royalties and failure to provide sales reports. A look at three recent offenders, who collectively owe thousands that it seems unlikely authors will be able to recoup writerbeware.blog/2025/11/21/r...

Hit the halfway point on the second pass to smooth over the slash and burn edit phase of The Guardian. If you have not read the first novella/Verrain's story/The Gallant, plenty of time to catch up. I work the old fashioned way - largely hand marking over draft copy.

For those reading, or interested in reading, the Triempery Revelations series, here's an interview I did with P.L. Stuart. I talk about SORDANEON, and writing, and life. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQ7...

Curse of the Mistwraith is this month's read on r/fantasy, and the midpoint discussion was posted today - hop in and share your thoughts on the thread: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Friends: that other platform has cluttered up their DMs - surest bet to reach me is my email at Paravia; I will also see messages here. If you send to me 'over there' - don't count on it.

Thank you for the shout out - I also know what I will be looking forward to reading in 2026, and that is your next to last installment of the Drowned Kingdom Saga!

Thank you. For the creators, for the planet, for the dreamers.