@victoriascott.bsky.social you mentioned a public comment period for the sounder expansion south/building its own rails. do you have a link?

I just think we're sleeping on space opera romance as a subgenre.

Congrats to all the finalists! This is an amazing list of great stories.

I know the current discourse is usually about the “K shaped economy” and I don’t know if this idea is related to that, but it feels more like one of those video game levels where water is rising and you need to keep climbing to survive.

This month, @bluejo.bsky.social touches on Michael Chabon and mainstream lit, as well as Le Guin, Eco, and the latest from Kate Elliott. She also recommends three brand-new books that are finally out from Cameron Reed, John Chu, and Francis Spufford!

Look, what's wrong with being a slutty guy who loves to poison people? Everyone in this book is so fuckable or poisonable!

Rock climbing and silk embroidery are not good friends as far as concurrent hobbies go

i would make a very strong argument that Mdou Moctar is earth’s greatest living guitarist. Anyway he remade Purple Rain and it’s the first fiction film in Tamasheq. And it’s on the internet archive! C’mon, you’ve got nothing better to do today. archive.org/details/rain...

Smiley, our resident spotted eagle ray, gave us a nice glide-by yesterday 😊 #spottedeagleray #stingraysofcoralcity #stingray #eagleray #coralcitycamera

I may be reaching the mathematical limit of what can be done with Costco’s $.99/lb chicken drumsticks. I just hand minced two pounds of them for larb and saved trim for stock and schmaltz. The economy is not great, dude.

Timeline cleanse because what the fuck

The main reason booksellers (and librarians, and and and) shelve SF and fantasy together is that the same people buy both. Experiments in separating them have usually resulted in confusion and lower sales. (To say nothing of endless tiresome arguments about which category any given work belongs in.)

pet peeve: people making vast incorrect statements about "trad pub" that instantly reveal they do not read new books

I'm going to be at apollycon later this month! If you're also going, let's meet up!

Okay, Hellzapoppin is beyond brilliant

this is a great review. I did the second round edits on this book over the course of about 72 hours in which i did nothing else but sleep and felt myself go completely insane, which is a peak reading experience and also gave me flashbacks to october 2020

Amazing how you just LOSE things in ramen broth Where did my eggy go Men, sing out if ye see the white whale! These seas are like SOUP

god i love seattle. everyone is posting about the train. we're all so right. the train is amazing. wsdot ftw. IT'S ON A FUCKING PONTOON BRIDGE. hell yeah.

Book acquired ✨ this is such a pretty edition from @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social Probably not gonna get to it today but soon 🩷

WE’RE GOING TO THE ZOOOOOOO

I keep drawing people with either missing hearts, hearts being devoured or eaten, or things pouring out from their hearts. i'm sure that's nothing I need to worry about or think too deeply about, lol

yay, this bullshit triggered a flare-up. fuck

Unbelievably angry for so many reasons but this is one of them. Cameron Reed's first book in 30 years published today. There is no "just a book" but this is the opposite of that, a triumphant and incredibly important comeback. And.

New sonnet on my Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/in-tim...

emails.

Come on then, and remove him.

You can find all your reps at all levels at reps.fyi

does anyone have any pirin tablets

Everyone stop what you're doing and read this immediately.

The Nerd Daily has a short excerpt from WHAT WE ARE SEEKING, in which there is scary botany. thenerddaily.com/what-we-are-...

Anyway heyooo

SO SMOOTH

1. This song is so good 2. Her 2019 (!!!!!) album is also pure fire m.youtube.com/watch?v=JG6D...

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo

Great article from @taliabhatt.itch.io on the trans literary counterculture that's been at the core of a lot of the hottest sff coming out these days--whether readers know it or not www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Gary Wolfe's great review of Trace Elements in Locus locusmag.com/review/trace...

Just paid $90 to dog poison control only to for Wilf to be formally diagnosed as “too chunky to be at risk.” My boy.

hop on in kids we're gonna have a bad and weird time at the zoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They also let their cashiers sit down while they work.

i cannot emphasize enough that both of the book deals i have signed have a massive IF YOU USE AI WE CAN LEGALLY PUT YOU DOWN LIKE A DOG clause

Deepwater discoveries: scientists find more than 110 new fish and invertebrate species in the Coral Sea

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Genuinely could not be more excited for all of you to meet this book next week. WHAT WE ARE SEEKING is luminous, transformative, life altering, and frequently very funny.

Just one week until we Go To The Zoo

so last year i thought the cherry sapling my friend dug up and gave to me had died so when i trimmed the volunteer cherry (?) I stuck a bunch of shoots from it into the ground. They all lived. There is a double-digit number of cherry trees in this midsized suburban yard now. Oops.

"I don't write political romance, my books just deal with the wealthy Regency aristocracy" is like watching fish argue that their books have nothing to do with water. And makes about as much sense as you'd get from a fish.

Happy trans day of visibility! I'm grateful to get to work with some exceptional trans writers, and I always want to be helpful to trans writers finding their way in. If anyone has questions about traditional (SFFH) publishing while trans, drop them here, and I'll answer as best I can.