My horrors / thrillers are both in Kobo's Under $5 Sale (CA, US) for 5 more days. Price matched and bundled on Itch! In an eat or be eaten world, domestication is a death sentence. Kobo Dom www.kobo.com/en/ebook/dom... Cat www.kobo.com/en/ebook/cat... Itch itch.io/s/187126/thr...

I'm now paying for my wild day out of getting my tires rotated and picking up my groceries. Ha! I slept twelve hours, and I won't be sitting in this chair very long. If this slump doesn't last too many days, I'll say it was worth it for that fleeting feeling of ability. Don't get Covid, folks!

Rothko rain in Tokyo

One last thing: I often see people saying things like ‘never talk to the police without a lawyer’ and a lot of people don’t have lawyers and are like, what should I do? The answer is that you should not talk to the police at all.

I see this in my cancer hospital workplace all the time. Cancer patient in a good mask. Partner with no mask. And I think: they must not know because surely they love their partner and don't want them to get sick? Mind you when none of the doctors and nurses are role-modelling mask-wearing ...

Men. If your wife is wearing a respirator, why are you chin masking a surgical? (Real scenario seen three times this month, and not the same couple.)

Good!

This is a rejected design for the cover of my omnibus Dead Energy, which is 40% off on Kobo with code VIP40JUN. The sale ends in two days! (Click the link to see the actual cover!) The dead are being used as an energy source! Protect the dead! www.kobo.com/en/ebook/dea...

Great advice!

I don't want to jinx it, but I've been doing better this week! I know a lot of people with Long COVID fluctuate. I don't. Unless we're counting the fluctuation of a crash or the known payment that's coming because I did a thing.

"In the study, the drug reduced the risk of symptomatic COVID-19 by 67% when treatment was started within 72 hours of an exposure." "the drug will be available in the U.S. in mid-July [with] a list price of $1,400. The drug is sold for around $310 in Japan"

🚨One week left!🚨 One week to send in your dinosaur ghost stories! Details on our website.

I've got a bunch of these with a space mentally reserved for the cute little moth man moth kitten to go with my other moth kittens. Alas! Cute moth man is currently sold out. If you like cute, check it out!

I got some new reviews today for Catamorphosis! Yay! Thank you! Buy your copy! books2read.com/Catamorphosis shannonknight.itch.io/catamorphosis Catamorphosis is in Kobo's Under $5 Sale this month--price matched on Itch!

50% off all ebooks until July 4th in dishonor of Amaz*n. Use code COMPOSITE at www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks.

Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...

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Check out this nacho spread. Incredible.

We turned around and went back just to get a picture after driving by this.

Just 8 more days to go in The Elite and the Rogues Backerkit campaign. Queer Dystopian Sci Fi with found family, morally grey characters, a galactic tyrant, an underground rebellion, & an AI with snark (Not the GenAI kind, the actual AI kind) 📢📚💙📚📚🖤🤎💜🖤💚🌈🌈📚🪐#booksky #queersky

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Dead Energy, the omnibus of Grave Cold, Death Rights, and Memento Mori Station, is 40% off in Kobo's VIP sale (CA, US, UK, AU, NZ) with code VIP40JUN! Get the full trilogy in one volume! Sale ends Friday. The dead are being used as an energy source! Protect the dead! www.kobo.com/en/ebook/dea...

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Happy Summer Solstice! I'm wearing Sorce's This Is Not a Love Spell and a short-sleeve, cherry-print wrap-dress today, so I'm as cute as Little Bat as we hang out on this longest day.

The Most Dad Thing I've done is wage a peppermint war with the various rodents who wish to nest in my car. I have increased the mint and even refreshed the mint weekly. (The mint may drive me out of the car before it does them.) I don't want to hurt them. CAN YOU TAKE THIS LEVEL OF MINTY FRESHNESS?

Happy birthday to Michelle!

Grave Cold is set in a near-future overrun by mutations. The dead are being used as an energy source, and an unlikely pair team up to protect the dead. Grave Cold spends a lot of time in cemeteries and is free at most retailers. books2read.com/GraveCold shannonknight.itch.io/grave-cold

SPECIAL REQUEST! A certain dragon is opening an advice column. Do you have a personal problem? Do the characters in the book you're reading have a dilemma? Solve everything through the wisdom of a fire-breathing lizard! Reply to this post (or email johncwiswellATgmail to remain anonymous).

I'm trying Sorce's Serpentine today. The opening is very cardamom-forward and green with a honey sweetness that keeps it from smelling like ye olde male-coded spice bomb. Then the wood and balsam start coming forward. There's less fig than I expected.

My knightly namesake 🖤

It's fun to see videos of happy foreigners visiting the US for the first time and being excited about normal (to us) stuff. I'm sad they traveled to America and are eating from chain restaurants for any reason beyond the novelty. Ask someone for the good place--they'll tell you.

This is the AI leadership I want to see.

I bought a little box of samples from Sorce. I love the sound of Sorce's scent combos, and their magical marketing style is fun. "Sorce" is shortened from "Sorcellerie Apothecary," which is a great idea because most Americans don't French well at all!

The remake of just one of the movies she starred in made over a billion dollars last year alone, and she still died in poverty from an extremely preventable infection. We need universal healthcare or we don’t have basic human rights.

“Unlike vaccines, which trigger immune responses, this molecule acts as a physical shield, offering a novel approach to infection prevention.” Sounds pretty exciting.

It's Summerwe'en! If you're looking for summer horror with the tang of spruce sap about it, The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle may be for you! And you can read along with the MC's experiences starting July 12th! Grab it now while it's on sale (or pick up the physical book!) #summerween #summerhorror

Little Bat is so cuddly at night. Perimenopause is waking me up with hot flashes, which are often followed by shivering chills (either Long Covid or my thyroid), which in turn reminds me of months of much more severe Covid night sweats and chills. But now when I wake, a little kitty...

Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”

"The court’s order—requiring a temporary injunction barring Google from spreading the false claims in any further AI Overviews—may have global implications, as the court seems to be the first to hold an AI firm liable for AI speech."

Little Bat on the tractor

The official announcement of the 10 semifinalists in the SPSFC 5. Congrats to everyone who advanced! spsfc.space/2026/06/17/t...

Butterflies are out like crazy now. That bully Odin was eating one the other day. I realized I've never seen a cat eat a butterfly before.

I know AI is gross anywhere, but it's such a bummer that AI has poisoned my Chinese fantasy and historical shows. Bad CGI was no big deal. People were trying their best. Same with obviously plastic trees. You win some, you lose some, set makers. But AI? I'm turning the show off.

LLM-hallucinated citation misogyny ✨

Hi everyone! I've started a group chat for readers and reviewers who are taking part in Self-published Authors Appreciation Week this July. We can chat, share authors/books to feature, etc. This group is for #readers. You don't need to follow me to be involved in SPAAW. #bookbloggers #booksky

JOIN US at this unique FREE event Wednesday June 17 at 8p ET / 5p PT! I'll be in conversation with Ashley C. Ford (Somebody’s Daughter) about my novel The Reformatory - and lessons from the setting in 1950 that still resonate TODAY. Let's talk about it! HERE'S THE LINK! youtube.com/live/PPALU3J...

Grave Cold is set in a near-future overrun by mutations. The dead are being used as an energy source, and an unlikely pair team up to protect the dead. Grave Cold spends a lot of time in cemeteries and is free at most retailers. books2read.com/GraveCold shannonknight.itch.io/grave-cold

satisfaction from a clean peel 📈 🎵 vyn & laevi - hunny #brbchasingdreams

A college senior in the Midwest doesn't associate cross-burning with the KKK. The American education system didn't JUST START hiding race history issues, but how you don't stumble across it in pop culture at the very least...

You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."