I always stall when I am about to write a new story. Part of it is fear that I will mess it up, part of it is that my brain needs breaks between stories (weeks or even months). But when I do sit down and start writing I remember that creating art is a major part of me being functional and balanced.

Don't take my word for it - I'm just a baby bird in this here Blue Sky Listen to Evan, he's been here for like at least 15 minutes You can trust him 👀

How about no.

As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!

I was privileged to learn alongside Celeste at Clarion West and to read an early draft of this story. Her voice was exquisite. Let's make sure we hold her memory high

So sorry to hear that we've lost Celeste Rita Baker. I only got to publish her once, with "Glass Bottle Dancer" in LIGHTSPEED (which was selected for inclusion in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy). www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/glas.... RIP.

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

Both of my collections are in this sale! And a bunch of my favorite books by my favorite authors.

A Megha story is always full of gorgeous language and surprises that will make your head spin and the story impossible to forget ❤️

I’m so out of it, my self-promo has plunged into a ravine of nothingness, even while I had a brand new story come out exactly two weeks ago in @blaft.bsky.social's deliciously bizarre new anthology, Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales! So let me tell you a little bit about it. 👁️🌿

Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!

I have a new flash story out today! “How To Set Up Your Mourning Robot” is now free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...

This is my only story coming out in 2025 thanks to some publishing date weirdness elsewhere, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. l have a soft spot for fiction & film about stage magic, and it was fun to play in that playground.

i have been DYING to share this cover for SO LONG so everyone please look at it and not my face.

Pre-order link before I forget!! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mercutio-k...

Happy to announce I sold my scifi horror/satire novelette "The Snatchers" to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! It’s a story inspired by “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. It sprang out of my literal nightmares about…everything. It's about those who snatch people and make them disappear.

On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising... THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.

Also, the pre-order is on sale atm! Get it while it's hot!

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

I read this glorious collection by @vanessafogg.bsky.social who is one of my favorite short story writers. A collection that thrives in the negative space. In what the characters don’t say. Words missing or left untold. Connections waiting to be made. ✨

Psst! Canadians! The eligibility lists for the Aurora Awards are now open for work originally published in 2025. Make sure your speculative fiction, poetry, art, and eligible related work is listed! www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

Deeply saddened and more than a little shocked that we've lost Celeste Rita Baker. I had the privilege of editing her once—do read “De MotherJumpers” in Strange Horizons! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

also spotlighting stories by the late @celesterita.bsky.social 💔 she is already so missed

It's so good to wake up to some good news. I really hope they keep coming. 🙏

At Van Gogh Immersive Experience

In the meantime, I wrote a Palestinian gothic story about the depopulated village of Lifta in Jerusalem that can be read for free here: www.seizethepress.com/2022/10/12/s...

With the release today of THE NAMELESS LAND, my grimsweet fantasy road trip w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials + bonus ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt is a complete duology (The Witch Roads). us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

New novelette! "And on Their Graves a Fall of Angels" by Natalia Theodoridou! buff.ly/Qjm8Ial

This was Celeste's Week 5 story at Clarion West, and I remember the experience of reading it for the first time, like it was yesterday. A specific sense of wonder and awe at what Celeste was doing on the page, the sharpness and brilliance and joy of it.

Another one of Celeste's wonderful, heartful stories that we were lucky enough to read during CW. 💔

I'm on the cover of this month's Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social! If you get a copy, you'll get to read an interview with me and one with Joe Hill, as well as industry news, book reviews, and much more! BTW, does this mean my new nickname is "Atmosphere of Disturbia"? #booksky #Blackbooksky

I have a book dropping from @torbooks.bsky.social on Tuesday (The Nameless Land, the 2nd book of The Witch Roads duology, so if you're waiting for the entire story, it is here) THEN a near future sf novelette ("Barnacle") dropping on Wednesday at @reactorsff.bsky.social so brace yourselves, peeps.

It's election day and also new story day! My novelette "The Millay Illusion" is in the new issue of Uncanny!

New notebook. Time for new notes (new novel?).

Very happy book birthday @vanessafogg.bsky.social!!!

Yes to the del Toro Frankenstein exhibition at Oxford Street Selfridges. Spend that Netflix cash, Guillermo! Now can we crowdfund a show for Coppola's Dracula? Where are those Eiko Ishioka costumes hiding...

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists!!

Congratulations to Eugenia Triantafyllou! Eugenia's “Loneliness Universe” won the Best Short Story 2025 British Fantasy Award! You can read it here! buff.ly/lY0VAZC

Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance. Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!

¡Enhorabuena a Eugenia Triantafyllou!, cuyo relato "Universo de soledad' acaba de ganar el premio British Fantasy Award. Congrats! 🎉

Heck yes it is! Congrats @foxesandroses.bsky.social 🖤

Congratulations to all the amazing nominees and winners <3 Your talent is immeasurable!

Congratulations to @foxesandroses.bsky.social for Best Short Story, and also to all the other British Fantasy Award winners!

@foxesandroses.bsky.social!!!!!

Congratulations @foxesandroses.bsky.social ! She deserves this award so much. She is an incredible author and it was the best in a category of great stories Thank you for letting me accept it on your behalf. 🙌

Yoooo congratulations @foxesandroses.bsky.social!!!

Congratulations to @foxesandroses.bsky.social, whose short story "Loneliness Universe" just won a World Fantasy Award! Get to know this astonishing author better by taking a seat at the table with us on a recent episode of my Eating the Fantastic podcast. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Congrats @foxesandroses.bsky.social !

So this happened. Today has been such a rollercoaster. Hug all your friends tight and celebrate every little joy when you can <3

And that, I think, is the true magic of workshopping, of any sort of creative collaboration. Even after it’s over, the voices of your classmates stick with you. They’re a part of everything you write. Thanks for letting me try that jacket on, Celeste; I’ll never forget your voice. 💖