Join us online next Tue to meet Fabienne Schwizer @knifewitch.bsky.social of the Ki Agency @kiagency.bsky.social, who is more open to SF/F than most agents. Try a verbal pitch or just learn from a literary agent. Cover charge £5. #writingcommunity #amwriting www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986268056...

We are the LARGEST union in trade publishing history, and we want better for our workers in order to make a sea change for creatives everywhere. Let's take a stand together against the existential threats to the arts, whether stagnating wages, the AI slop machine, and destructive layoffs.

Pleased to be reading a short bit of my novel UNITY among some amazing authors! Sign up to join us at noon Eastern on May 1st. strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com

Look at me and @darylwriterguy.bsky.social having the best covers designed by @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social!! @tachyonpub.bsky.social

Time for ep. 399E: Samantha Mills presents RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES, a gorgeous and subversive collection of speculative stories that probe the borders of genre, society, and time. @samtasticbooks.com @tachyonpub.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/04/23/t...

I make this cover for an upcoming book where the creepy doll imagery is a metaphor for a dark capitalist cloning industry, and a week later my boss is like 'ok we acquired a new book. it's about a haunted doll.' ...so I've got two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

Please help get the word out that I am open for submissions. Thyme Travellers is an award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror. My publisher and I are making it a series. Submissions are open for short stories, pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

You can help Mohammed's family survive Israel's genocide right now by sharing & donating. His baby is critically ill, & they desperately need help to keep her alive without income and scarce access to unaffordable healthcare:

A shoutout to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Editorial Collective. It's not just our team of editors, first readers, pod-casters... but also our writers and poets!

so this is a thing! Stoked to be on a list with my longtime steampunk bestie @dianapho.bsky.social in my first Hugo nomination!

I'LL SEE YOU IN LA! 🚀 Thrilled to be nominated again this year!! Warmest congrats to my fellow nominees @englelaird.bsky.social, Lee Harris, @jennihill.bsky.social @joemts.bsky.social and a truly special shout-out to my steampunk bestie @jhameia.bsky.social on her first nomination!! #AuntieEditor

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills and this weekend I'll once again be at @jordanconinc.bsky.social, tiara, Blue Ajah cape, and everything! Drop in, if you're so inclined. I'll be with @gabriellabuba.bsky.social to read some new work on Sunday!

It's the annual repost of my story "The Last Cheng Beng Gift"! First published in @lightspeedmagazine.com, it's been republished in Best American SFF and even read by @levarburton.bsky.social! Cool illo by Alan Bao. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

This felt like an April Fool's Day joke so I had to look it up. Apparently indoor airconditioning will also raise from hell-freezing temps to 24'c.

We’re stocked up with provisions ahead of the #mnwx storm. 😉 📚 We had ordered The Hex online before, ordered Everything for Everyone from @bookshop.org today, picked up Beyond the Glittering World from Tropes & Trifles, & got Superman Smashes the Klan & We Will Rise Again from Dream Haven #mpls

If you're a baseball player who can catch, slide, and run, but you can't hit the ball, you can: a) Practice on your own (teammates, ball machine) b) Hire a good coach c) Switch sports Notice how there is no d) Put your jersey on a robot every time it's your turn at bat (then lie about it)

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

No joke! It’s the one year anniversary of One Level Down! Keep making better universes, friends! Thank you @tachyonpub.bsky.social @jenazantian.bsky.social

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Heyooo, if you preorder RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES directly from @tachyonpub.bsky.social in the next week, you'll also get a signed, limited edition chapbook of "Rabbit Test" with intro essay and sources! 😎 tachyonpublications.com/product/rabbit-test-and-other-stories

Read this thread.

Because I've been told that IF WISHES WERE RETAIL is close to earning out, here I am to hawk my comic contemporary fantasy, IF WISHES WERE RETAIL to you, potential readers of IF WISHES WERE RETAIL, which is about a genie opening a shop in a failing mall selling wishes for money. Buy it!

It is March already. 😱 It is unseasonably warm out. 😱 My first short story collection comes out April 21. 😱😱 Rabbit Test and Other Stories contains all my favorite experiments in scifi and fantasy. I'm very proud of it. :) Preorder links at samtasticbooks.com/collections

How to pick only FIVE women in SFFH who inspire me? @nisishawl.bsky.social @ktempestbradford.com @nalohop.bsky.social @ceciliatan.com @jolantru.bsky.social

It's been the kind of week where I feel a bit weird doing book promo because of everything that is on fire. Nevertheless book promo is part of my job. So: maybe it would cheer you up to listen to the IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS official playlist! open.spotify.com/playlist/1fi...

Actually, I do have something of mine that is eligible for awards! That I wrote. With my own words and all. "A Brief Letter on the Origins of the Harpy Aviary in the Kirani Capital" from WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE AND HOPE!

A fellowship for all you vampire short story authors: draculamap.com/news-and-eve...

Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF! More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I am, no lie, still in disbelief AND it took me almost a full 12 hours to tell my husband and friends this happened. I'm on a list with giants of romance. WHAT.

In case you're unaware, in the US if you're disabled from birth the only monetary support you can receive is SSI. SSI has a $2k asset/savings limit before they dock your benefits, and marriage cancels all benefits. See below numbers: beyond poverty numbers w/ no allowed addition. Eugenics in action.

Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving & homeless in winter under renewed bombing. His mother needs urgent treatment for retinal disease. Bluesky keeps deleting him. Please help bring them some hope on during Ramadan:

A must-read this Ramadan. "We wept. We wept because we had been starved even of this, of a voice reminding us that we still belonged to something larger than destruction." arablit.org/2026/02/19/r...

Awards nominations season is coming up again?? Darn, feels like just yesterday I put up a thread about nominatable(??) works on my end. As usual I can't quality for Best Editor since I didn't edit many novels last year but I did edit some tremendous works!!

Book Riot did a roundup of the Best Romance Books of Century So Far, and I had the great pleasure of choosing @itsamia.bsky.social's glorious BITTER MEDICINE, published by @tachyonpub.bsky.social! Check out the rest of the list! bookriot.com/best-romance...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

this sentence is a great review of my New Suns story; if you fall in love with bobbit worms after reading it, that is all I wanted.

Why masking in 2026? Beyond COVID it's still cold and flu season, dealers can't opt out of their own sales room, and most don't get any kind of sick pay. I have also heard some mention how art is their profession in part because of chronic illness or disability, so the stakes differ vs the public.

[most enticing vizier voice] my lord... this one was a World Fantasy finalist and Compton Crook winner... it's about hero worship and deprogramming from your fascist upbringing... and accepting that sometimes your gods don't love you back... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This is such an amazing review from @ruthjoffre.bsky.social at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! "The stories in We Will Rise Again offer readers a glimpse of not just how things are now but also how they could be. They present worlds where we solve problems collectively..."

Mohamed Ahmed is back on Bluesky and he and his family could absolutely use support! You probably remember him if you've been following me for a while, he has established a small farm next to his tent in Mawasi refugee camp, and posts pictures of it regularly.

really enjoying @didichanoch.bsky.social's live reading/reviewing of WE WILL RISE AGAIN anthology!!

No donations for 9 days. Shimaa lost her husband to Israel's ongoing genocide, & was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her little baby daughter alive. Please help them survive the winter rains, they're starving & homeless:

I made a long-form comic book! It’s a romance! Teens fall in love! Hijinks! Transmasc non-binary love interest! Mother-daughter bonding! Idyllic wintry vibes! Five starred reviews from trade publications! bookshop.org/p/books/ange...

Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.

Might be thinking about this more than usual because of a project that will probably be announced next year, but I am ALSO thinking about the rapid invisibilization of survivors of both these things, and the fact that history has largely forgotten about encephalitis lethargica.

Reminder that you can also purchase small press books directly from the publishers' websites! support a small press instead of the 'Zon!

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌