Now that Can-Con is over, it's time for a short social media break while I try to get some things done. Take care, friends.

This still may be my favourite art gallery ad of all time, which ran regularly on Detroit television during my formative years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbK...

This was posted in context of folks criticizing protests, but this is my personal pet peeve about those who complain about art, esp abstract expressionism. "I could've done that." Great! Get yourself a 20' tall canvas and some paints and do it.

#can-con folks! I asked the hotel front desk to call me a taxi and they said it can take 30-40 min to get there. Give yourself lots of time, or book online beforehand.

HMW made the @vulture.com list, and my heart is doing tiny bat flips. Appreciate the love! 🖤

Help, am waiting for the train and the older gentleman sitting near me just turned to his wife and started a sentence with "I read on Facebook..." and proceeded to mention a couple of countries in the news. Pls don't get your news from FB, sir 🤦🏻‍♀️

Goodreads can be a quagmire, like most social sites, but I've heard publishers pay attention to the numbers. I got active again on the site because of this. So pls add my (or others') books to your lists if you're interested!

Aaaaahh, the hare 😍

Heyyyy, SWEETSIDE MOTEL, SLASHER SUMMER, and ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD are up on Goodreads! Add to your Want to Read list if you are so inclined. (I've checked Storygraph but nothing yet.) www.goodreads.com/author/list/...

As per usual my suitcase for @canconsffh.bsky.social is half-filled with snacks, which will be replaced by books at the end of the weekend.

New ebook editions of SUMMON THE KEEPER and THE SECOND SUMMONING with new ebook edition covers are now available. 1/3

They made a big deal about the Doctor being the last Time Lord after the Time War but he's not, Romana is still kicking around in E-space, isn't she?

MAKE THE LOGO BIGGER

The perfect news to celebrate for spooky season!! So excited for more forthcoming @elainechen.com books! ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD is a suspenseful horror novel about the challenges women face in middle age, and past mistakes coming back to haunt you 😈

Kermit flail! Giddy I can finally announce that @orbitbooks.bsky.social's horror imprint, Run For It, has acquired my mid-life crisis found footage horror movie novel ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD. 🪰 1/

BREAKING NEWS: I have FINALLY seen Kpop Demon Hunters.

If you're coming to @canconsffh.bsky.social next weekend, I hope you like stickers! I'll be leaving some on the freebies table and will have them on me to give out too. Really happy with how these turned out.

If you're coming to @canconsffh.bsky.social next weekend, I hope you like stickers! I'll be leaving some on the freebies table and will have them on me to give out too. Really happy with how these turned out.

For breakfast I had a Nutella-packed croissant and caffeinated coffee (normally I drink decaf) and now I can see time

On Spec has long deserved recognition for best semiprozine at the Hugo Awards, but has never even made the ballot because it's Canadian and most Hugo voters are U.S.-based. 2026 will be your final opportunity to nominate an institution that has been an incubator for so much talent.

The end of an era. So many Canadian SFF writers, myself included (4 early stories + 1 cover painting), got their start in this magazine. Wishing the staff a well-deserved rest and thank you for all the opportunities given!

Kid has joined school stage crew so I need to buy him some black clothes.

I got this twice in a row, so I guess it must be true 🤷‍♀️

The Little Ghosts Screenwriting Workshop is BACK in November ! This 5 week crash course by @jkrawczyk.bsky.social will have you leaving with your own short film script. No matter if you are adapting existing work or making something new, we welcome you to join! Details here: square.link/u/OpFJONSy

Just another reminder that I have a newsletter that I send out quarterly, unless I have extra news to impart 👀 buttondown.com/chaoticrespo...

Just another reminder that I have a newsletter that I send out quarterly, unless I have extra news to impart 👀 buttondown.com/chaoticrespo...

I've never seen TITANIC. It was HUGE when it came out, but I simply had no interest even though I liked James Cameron's films. Pop culture has made me familiar with all the meme-able bits, I feel like I don't need to see it (plus I know how it ends 😅 ).

I have a new book out today! We Bury Nothing is a YA historical/present day murder mystery set at a Canadian camp for German POWs. kateblair.com/we-bury-noth...

On a TV on the Radio kick and ah, the lyrics to this are hitting hard. Love is the province of the brave indeed. Suddenly, all your history's ablaze Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change Holding tenderly to what remains

25 years! Fun fact: I helped redesign the SH website over 20 years ago. Basic CSS and HTML and Verdana, back when a "responsive" site meant the text would reflow to any screen size. I recall I was designing with the assumption that penniless writers did not have the newest monitors. 😅

Bing Crosby's "They All Laughed", but I wouldn't slow it down, I'd leave it as is.

Toronto, tomorrow we're festing for free at Little Ghosts Fest by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social I'm going to hang out all afternoon to watch all the panels and check out the vendors and then I'll talk queer villains on a panel and read something :P. And I'm bringing my devil horns. It'll be fun. 😀

Oh shit, we are indeed rolling now. :D Up to 4/15 new Huldra House subs toward helping me yeet my deadname! I would be very happy for this trend to continue. $9 USD gets you 24 Hulderotica stories, and the collected edition w/extras once released.

I run a support group video chat for #SouthAsian #kidlit and #yalit #writers and #illustrators. I started this chat in 2020 and we just had a wonderful chat tonight. Email me to join my mailing list to learn about the next one. #kidlitart

This Friday is Bandcamp Friday! On October 3rd, from midnight to midnight PST, we'll once again waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels.

I have just finished talking to four different customer service reps (for three separate issues) and I fear my face may be frozen like this for the rest of the day (ironically I was also texting friends about autistic masking at the same time)

Once again noting that parenting is 10% yelling "I'm in the bathroom!" whenever you are in the bathroom

I don't do online dating but if I did, I'd be adding the criteria "must be able to help kid with high school math." Never thought I'd look fondly on the ex with the engineering PhD, but here we are. (I am paying for regular math tutoring, but it isn't enough.)

I need a pimple patch, but in the shape of my whole face. Like a sheet mask made of pimple patch material. Someone please make this.

Oof.

Dear eugenicists: There have always been autistic people. There will always be autistic people. Autism is not polio. It is not a disease to be eliminated. The world is so much better and more interesting with the spectrum of neurodiversity than it would be without it. We're not going anywhere.

thanks

Woo! Just delivered a draft, now to celebrate by working on something else

But I don't want to get started, Microsoft 365 😒 No close button and clicking outside the modal doesn't dismiss it. Not cool. The links open in new tabs. But the button does nothing but close the modal? So it was just an awareness msg? That's bad CTA copy then, maybe Copilot wrote it 🤔

Once again wondering if the great artists and novelists of the world ever had to help their kids with math homework while batch cooking breakfasts to take to the office 😒

Heads up, looks like my contemporary gothic novella SWEETSIDE MOTEL will be out from @interstellarflight.bsky.social next March. Don't forget to lock your door.

That iPhone Air's going to get lost between the couch cushions for sure 😳

Heads up, looks like my contemporary gothic novella SWEETSIDE MOTEL will be out from @interstellarflight.bsky.social next March. Don't forget to lock your door.

Every September. 🫠