@ncgaylaxians.bsky.social made the Twin Cities Gay Scene as the Gayest SF Convention in Town! www.twincitiesgayscene.com/editorial/sc...

Butterfly (or moth) in DC. Proving there's at least one lovey thing in Washington.

@scottedelman.bsky.social and @naomikritzer.bsky.social having a rather fishy (catfishing) moment at @capclave.bsky.social.

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Miss Shannan Paul is a comedian, host, and professional chaos-wrangler. Join us Saturday, Oct. 4 for her live show Comedy Through the Chaos: Cabaret Edition — Out & Outrageous for an evening of #fandom, inclusion, and laughs at #Gaylaxicon2025! Register at www.gaylaxiconmn.org

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Naomi Kritzer is a Locus, Hugo, Nebula, and Lodestar award-winning author. Her first duology featured a lesbian protagonist and her YA duology, starting with Catfishing on CatNet, centers #neurodivergent #queer youth. Register for #Gaylaxicon2025 at www.gaylaxiconmn.com

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Adam Stemple is an award-winning author, poet, & musician. Like many authors, his life experience is broad and odd, and it also includes 20 years spent on the road as a musician. His works range from children’s literature and YA, to #SFFH novels, poetry & music. #Gaylaxicon2025

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Eleanor Arnason is a #Minnesota author whose work often depicts cultural conflict & change, and characters who seldom live by their societies' rules. Her novel A Woman of the Iron People won the 1992 Mythopoeic Award and the very first Otherwise Award in 1991. #Gaylaxicon2025

Feed cleanse...

I don’t know who these people are, but it’s well said.

Nghi Vo is coming to Gaylaxicon 2025! Her works have been finalists for the Locus Award and the Lambda Literary Award, and have won the Crawford Award, the Ignyte Award, and the Hugo Award. Don't Sleep with the Dead is recommended by The NY Times and USA Today. www.gaylaxiconmn.org October 3-5!

Blue Delliquanti will be one of the Invited Guests at this year's Gaylaxicon. www.gaylaxiconmn.org They drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction webcomic O Human Star. Blue is also the creator of Meal (with Soleil Ho), Across a Field of Starlight, and Adversary.

Something beautiful today.

Newest podcast: The Long Tomorrow all about cyberpunk-influencer artist, Moebius: open.spotify.com/episode/70RK...

Tonight's reading at Webber Library in NE Minneapolis with @naomikritzer.bsky.social and me. Naomi read from her new novella Obstetrix (pre-order now!) wanderingraccoonbooks.com/products/978...

I'll be a guest of honor with @naomikritzer.bsky.social at www.diversicon.org in Plymouth, MN (near Minneapolis/St. Pau) this weekend.

I last posted about this with everyone at Worldcon, so I'd appreciate a boost if you're willing as the world is noisy and full of horror, but the African SF Novels and Novellas Bundle - curated by Eugen Bacon, is still going strong at StoryBundle, and includes 2 of my novels! storybundle.com/scifi

The #HugoAward for Best Short Story goes to “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is”, Nghi Vo (Uncanny 2/24).

Naomi writes more than just guides to local elections, but I think everyone knows that by now (unless they don't).

Congratulations to @nghivo.bsky.social on winning the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is”!

Congratulations #Gaylaxicon2025 atending professional and my bestie, @naomikritzer.bsky.social for her Hugo win (novelette) for "The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea." Yay, Naomi!!

Congrats to #Gaylaxicon2025 guest of honor @nghivo.bsky.social for short story,"Stitched to Skin Like Family Is."

Ward 4 in Saint Paul, MN. It's special election time! I voted, did you?

I love cool rocks! I have some to share, too!

I've been taking pictures of bugs lately (in order to keep my sanity in these trying times). Here's a great close-up I got of a grasshopper hugging a stem.

You ARE the playing field.

More great guests at #Gaylaxicon2025! There's still plenty of time to sign up and join in the fun!! www.gaylaxiconmn.org

Emma Törzs will be at #Gaylaxicon2025! Register at gaylaxiconmn.org and check out her debut novel, Ink Blood Sister Scribe, which quickly became an international bestseller and made The NY Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023. #minneapolis #LGBTQbooks #fantasybooks #booksky #queerbooks

This week on Mona Lisa Overpod, we're talking about The Matrix franchise again. I wanted to like Matrix 3 better than I did? The whole philosophy/religion thing should be my jam... yet I was wooed back with 4, despite the ham-handed meta, or maybe because of it! open.spotify.com/episode/53do...

I enjoyed this one, even though it's a tough story about surviving a stroke. A Shaky Bridge by Marissa Lingen clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_08_25/

Nghi Vo is coming to #Gaylaxicon2025! Register at gaylaxiconmn.org and read more about her novels and acclaimed novellas of the Singing Hills Cycle. Be sure to check out her latest novella, Don't Sleep with the Dead. We hope to see you October 3-5! #queerbooks #LGBTQbooks #fantasy #scifi #SFFH

I have recently gotten involved in con running for my favorite local-to-me convention, a LGBTQIA+ focused convention called Gaylaxicon (www.gaylaxiconmn.org). I'm sticking to what I know, programming, but we have some AMAZING guests coming this year and, obviously, I want the con to be a success.

My most recent podcast is up. We explore wheter or not the Ameican comic book American Flagg is cyberpunk and... whether or not it even HAS a theme. open.spotify.com/episode/4yFx...

In my garden today..

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Dr. Who," or "Transformers."

It's July 2. Did you stop being queer?? No! And neither did we! There's still time to get your Pride Story bundle. Don't let the calendar stop you! storybundle.com/pride

Coolest thing about playing RPGs on Zoom as a GM? Breakout rooms. Direct message. Y'all old enough to remember when we had to PASS NOTES around the table?? This is so much smoother.

MN50501 is fundraising and we only have until Friday to reach our goal. If you'd like to help fund future demonstrations like No Kings Day, pick up your laser loon shirt or other merch here: mn50501-org-merch.itemorder.com/shop/product...

I had a great time - it was really interesting to revisit Trouble in light of current events. Super hosts, great discussion!

Still haven't bought your storybundle.com/pride? Well, here's a new reason to! My co-host and I had a fantastic conversation with none other than @blueterraplane.bsky.social on our most recent episode: open.spotify.com/episode/2Tfm...

It's Pride Month! What a great time to consider coming to a LGBTQIA+ science fiction convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul www.gaylaxiconmn.org. We have cool guests like @nghivo.bsky.social !! Plus, if you let me know you're coming, I'm on the programming committee and will tailor panels just for you!

#Booksky Just 12 days left to get your mitts on the 2025 Pride StoryBundle! 14 great queer books by a bunch of great authors like Melissa Scott and Clara Ward AND you can support Rainbow Railroad at the same time!

Apparently, I am listed at Seattle, so call off the hounds!

I need to wallow in self-pity for a moment. I just noticed that I'm not listed as an attending professional at Seattle WorldCON. I guess... sixteen books, a Shamus, and a Philip K Dick (Special Citation for Excellence) does not a professional make. I mean, I'm attending virtually, but still... alas.

Don't miss out on the Pride Month StoryBundle. 14 DRM-free ebooks for just $25, including one by our own Lyda Morehouse. storybundle.com/pride

Y'all! I think I saw a fungus gnat near our jack-in-the-pulplit!! Pollination could be happening right now!

The Pride Month StoryBundle is here, and Lyda Morehouse is in it. 14 wonderfully queer speculative fiction ebooks for just $25. How can you miss it? storybundle.com/pride

Happy Pride! Check out the Pride StoryBundle put together by Catherine Lundoff and @blueterraplane.bsky.social, that I, as well as many amazing others including Melissa Scott and @bogiperson.bsky.social, are part of... storybundle.com/pride Part of the proceeds go to Rainbow Railroad!

Look who made it into CLMP's Pride reading list. (Hint: it's me!) www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

For fans of my AngeLINK series... could have be Ariel, eh?