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 😌

loving this so much, and I never get tired of listening to @rblemberg.bsky.social discuss their @tachyonpub.bsky.social novella YOKE OF STARS, which, ICYMI, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 😎 thanks @darthj.uno for steering such an excellent conversation!

Huge congratulations to @rblemberg.bsky.social and @tachyonpub.bsky.social for winning Best Novella at the #WorldFantasyAwards2025! 🎉 A fantastical novella of language and listening between two hurt souls in the School Of Assassins! Check out the link below: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/yoke...

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

WHAT

still time to pre-order this anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about activism!

Best Novella: #WorldFantasyAwards2025 Winner: Yoke of Stars, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)

YOKE OF STARS by @rblemberg.bsky.social is a World Fantasy Award winner! 💞💞💞💖💖❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

It only takes $2500 to support one of our regional desks for a month! Only $25 from 100 of our many readers would do it! Help us continue to provide this important coverage by donating whatever you can donorbox.org/donate-to-th...

waiting for the plane with @jolantru.bsky.social!

gonna see @jolantru.bsky.social tomorrow on a plane ride to Brighton!

I'm at the airport now! See you soon Kuching!

Speaking of @tachyonpub.bsky.social, we're gearing up for this MAGICAL EVENT! One of their special 30th Anniversary festivities: a reading & Q&A with some of its authors & editor @jhameia.bsky.social! All info here, but note on your calendars: OCT 2! 8-10 Eastern! www.eventbrite.com/e/tachyon-30...

one of the funnest projects I've edited so far!

The Fox is free! Today my debut, Audition For The Fox, is officially out in the world. Magic. Fables. Time travel. And the many ways even a goofball can resist oppression & fight tyranny. Thank you to everyone who had a paw in bringing this into the world & supporting it. Forever grateful, I am 🦊💜

One Level Down has now existed in the world for 4 months! 58-year old Ella is trapped in a simulated universe, forced to act like she’s five years old. Help her escape by reading this book! @tachyonpub.bsky.social tachyonpublications.com/product/one-...

NONBINARY TRICKSTER FOX GOD IS USING TIMETRAVEL-BUT-FANTASY TO TRY OUT A FLAILY DEMIGOD &OVERTHROW FASCISTS aka I preordered @mcflycahill90.bsky.social's 🦊AUDITION FOR THE FOX🦊 directly from @tachyonpub.bsky.social and thus got my ebook a week early BRB GOT A BOOK TO DEVOUR

email I just sent to @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social who is patiently dealing with unclear proofreading edits: 1) November 2) Change 3) SORRY I THINK THAT WAS A CAT

Friends! In collaboration with @tachyonpub.bsky.social, Carlos & I are hosting one of their glorious 30th Anniversary Events on our Twitch TV channel! SAVE THE DATE: Oct 2, 8 PM Eastern (5 PM Pacific, 6 Mountain, 7 Central). 9 writers & editor @jhameia.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.com/e/tachyon-30...

We have a schedule grid for #MYWriterFest! To register, go here: tinyurl.com/RegisterMyWr...

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee. This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges. I want to see an awards panel that represents the field. forms.gle/WWsFSAZLPvqb... 1/

if you’re a writer and have an idea but you’re thinking “idk how to stretch this into a novel” and that discourages you from finishing… consider just writing a short story or a novella. you don’t actually need to write a novel for a story to be worth reading

I found my old friend Auston Habershaw’s new book at my local library. If Wishes Were Retail is hilarious but has serious depth, too. Perfect escapist read! @aahabershaw.bsky.social @tachyonpub.bsky.social