It’s two in the morning, the start of November. I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better. Glasgow is cold, but I like where I’m living…

I have such a story itching to be written and I have no time to do it now

Pfft Frankenstein. Frankenstein was two weeks ago. In this house, it’s season of the witch. (It’s always season of the witch)

New Orville Peck LP coming! New Florence, new Orville, we eatin’ good

One thing no one tells you about learning languages as an adult is how much concentration you have to use to make sounds that don’t come naturally to you. And how easy it is to slide right back into your comfortable phonemes.

Graham Joyce once told me, “You’re only a writer when you’re writing. Being a writer isn’t about having written.”

A bunch of writer friends are noting that they have not used LLMs to write. Me either, absolutely not. I feel like we need to stop asking kids what they want to BE when they grow up and start asking them what they want to DO. Because: I am not here to BE A WRITER, I am here to WRITE.

Uhh, I hope this is human carelessness and not AI hallucination. Y Tu Maná Tambien is a film by Alfonso Cuarón, not Pedro Almosóvar. The directors are not even from the same country. Both films star Gael García Bernal, but so does The Science of Sleep.

Instagram talking head: AOC just dropped some tea about MTG… Me, making stank face: You don’t *drop* tea, you *spill* it.

Watching Drag Race UK. Why are the UK queens always so bad at reading?

It’s purely coincidence that it’s “fem top fall” and there’s another Femne and Sundance story coming soon.

So weird to see Andrew referred to with a surname

The headlines are all like “Swarthy immigrants roaming the streets working illegally!” And “Prison mistakenly releases deranged supervillain from the dark continent!”

My recent book mail is pleasingly color coordinated and matches my office walls! Really looking forward to these: Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell, @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social's forthcoming collection The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, and Apprehension by @maryrobinettekowal.com. 1/2

It's officially launch day for Blood In The Bricks! It's folk horror, but right here in our towns and cities, written by some of my absolute favourite contemporary writers. Get it now (or They'll pay you a visit). www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Eat your ex’s semi-homemade Kwanzaa cake, Cuomo!

Watching Todo Sobre mi Madre for the first time since my mother died. It’s possibly my favorite film, but my mother never forgave me for making her watch it, because Esteban, the precocious gay writer, reminded her of me.

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

Saw Bugonia. I have thoughts.

56 years into the Nixon Imperium, another of his dread heralds passes into oblivion

Has anyone put out a Christmas classic since Mariah Carey in 1994?

I have so many fascinating new books I don’t have time to read right now because reasons

Dunno how I feel about my birthday being “good meat day”

@aknighton.bsky.social Hi Andrew! Wanted to commend you again on boldly soldiering on with your reading through Stevie Woner and Michael Jackson. I’ve picked up a copy of your duo, and look forward to reading it.

The errors in my work are human errors. My writing is based on thought, memory, feeling, human imagination. I’m never going to be sanguine about machines that take my carefully arranged words, blend them up with other stolen content, then extrude them as a beige paste.

"bluesky isn't a welcoming place for AI boosters" wow cool they should put that in ads

I’m Black and I’m queer and an immigrant besides. I never run short on people who disagree with me existing making known their views.

You’ve gotta feel really dirty if you backed Cuomo--or sat it out--and now Stephen Miller is endorsing Cuomo, who’s clearly happily accepted it.

Instead of getting up to buy groceries, I have bought a ticket to see Bugonia.

@sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social so, on my last day in Brighton, I went up in the big tourist bubble and saw this. You’ve given me a complex and now I’m going to have to find some red brick dust to put in a little bag around my neck.

There is nothing in my fridge, and I have to go back to cooking for myself, but I feel like lying here for a while.

Me, walking through a very wet city centre on my way home: the streets are pretty like this. They kind of shi— My brain: IN THE RAIN THE PAVEMENTS SHINE LIKE SIIIIIILVER Me: I call them sidewalks, also we’re nowhere near the Clyde, so My brain: ALL THE LIGHTS ARE MISTY IN THE RIIIVER

Hey handsome guy at the bar Saturday who described my presence on a panel as “seemingly passive and polite, but actually forceful and passionate..” if you were trying to smash, I was into it.

It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have monks in space, medieval monsters, otherworldly entities in cities real and unreal, short stories and epic sagas, horrid hospitals, towering trees, wriggling worms and soooo many bones. What looks good to you?

I’ll be honest, my first day there, I thought I didn’t like Brighton. But taking the time to explore back streets and side paths away from the seafront, I found a lot of charm and beauty. Also, there is something magnificently melancholy about an empty pier fun fair in the off-season

Was great fun to be on a Queer in Fantasy panel that veered into queer Peter Pan retellings and get to recommend @halduncan.com ‘s “The Disappearance of James H___”

No, Adobe. I would very much not find an AI summary of a contract helpful.

Surprisingly good Mexican food in Brighton

@annaclark.bsky.social Hi Anna! Was nice to chat with you this weekend!

Packing and crying like Daisy Buchanan over my beautiful shirts

It is the Feast of All Souls. I woke up in Brighton and thought of my very Catholic grandmother who loved a party, and remembered her with tenderness. There’s is a family crypt in New Orleans, although I don’t know if anyone has visited it today.

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it! Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I went to see One Battle After Another and as a long time PTA fan I think it had too much of what he does badly and not enough of what he does well. He does not do race well.

LA i love u but i wanted toronto to win. they agreed to wicker man drake if they did

@foxesandroses.bsky.social congratulation!

No green room, so I’m psyching myself up with new Florence + the Machine in the hallway outside where Queer in Fantasy will be.

I really like this book written by a complete stranger’

I finished reading "Call and Response" by Christopher Caldwell. Yay for reading! (Highest possible recommendation, by the way.) www.instagram.com/p/DQX3I8zj5Rc/

If you’re at WFC, you can see mr waffle in about villains at 1900

I am a serious writer of literary merit and not a good.