Just seeing this. Help support Nia or boost if you can. She's a wonderful person and writer.

Oh. Wrote. WROTE. Yes, I published one: "Please Listen Carefully Because Our Menu Options Have Recently Changed," in @naturefutures.bsky.social: (I'm afraid the publisher wants you to pay for access, though) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Men please feel free to performatively read my books everywhere. You are absolutely allowed to read!!! Don't let them shame you. They should be ashamed! Stop making collages of people reading and read a book too!

If you haven't already you've got to read "There Be Monsters" (and you can! just by clicking the link).

2025 was a quiet year publication wise for me. I've had to tell myself you have been on the go constantly from 2020. Between 2020-2025 I published a collection, a novella, wrote a novel, had 12 short stories pubbed, helped run an award, coedited. Maybe a tiny rest is okay. Just a tiny one tho 😉

This is my work visibility post! I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts! www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...

okay so while @siennatristen.bsky.social is still getting oriented on bluesky, I'm going to take it upon myself to ✨shriek✨ about the fact that the HERETIC'S GUIDE audiobook Kickstarter is $400 from being funded. [INSERT SHRIEK HERE] come bring us over the finish line! LINK: tinyurl.com/cm2utrzz

I wouldn't have spent a zillion hours doing this if I did not enjoy the act of writing. Even when it's hard (especially when it's hard), it's so rewarding. It's so clarifying. When I finish something, sure I'm proud of it, but I'm already itching to shove it out of my way and start the next thing.

I love writing but I find it very difficult, especially the first draft. I have trouble focusing on one task for long periods of time and so writing a 0 draft takes a lot out of me. I'm fried after most writing sessions. BUT it's worth it because the joy of getting through it is euphoric.

This guy was having such a hard time...stop going away. sob. lol youtu.be/s_-QRNVbNM8?...

Oh it's snowing. Hmmm

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

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 👀

The Gothic manifesto for real.

This is the vibe going into 2026 and every year after.

I have watched the big Gothic movie. I continue my reread of the book ( a favourite of mine) Of course I have many thoughts about this movie but I just love that big gothic movies are getting made. BIG GOTHIC MOVIES. I want gothic movies made out of my work. Keep going gothic film makers!

Much beloved friend of the con Sienna Tristen is bringing out an audiobook of their 'Heretic's Guide to Homecoming'! If you had a chance to listen to the sample in our vendor's room, you know this is going to be AMAZE! If you didn't - it's going to be AMAZE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...

November submissions are OPEN! The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS! We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

"Salt Slough" is a story folded into an academic paper trapped into another story by the paper’s footnotes. It is a sentient lagoon. It is a researcher who sees beneath what their eyes show them. Not entirely by choice. Things bloom. Sometimes everywhere.

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. 👁️🌿

“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.

LAST DAY OF LADZ'S ENTIRE CATALOGUE IS $1 OR LESS

lol Just because a very nice person asked I sent it yesterday. See accoutapalumbo!

Machine translations never work anyways. It's a glorified dictionary that doesn't understand context Best example for English is unironically, "shit." A native English speaker knows batshit, apeshit, dogshit, horseshit, and bullshit are all different concepts. A dictionary thinks you're at a zoo.

I would like Countess and Skin Thief available in French BUT they must be translated by a human who gets paid. I work with words, and I do not support taking work away from translators. Translation isn't just Word equivalent computing. I don't want that for my books or translators.

I would love to offer my books in French for Canadians. Never like this, obviously. Hell no. 100% the absolute not.

Oh this was beautifully written and also...excuse why am I in it??? You should all read Marika's work....I love when I writer has such control of language and rhythm and this flows so well, it's like rap or spoken word poetry and I like that A LOT.

Excited to finally be able to share my book with the world! Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga 💀⭐️ The book explores the relationship between celebrity culture and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...

I'm speaking about Latinx fantasy literature at a free online conference Friday, 11/7, at 11am EST. Come join in the fun and get some great book recommendations: latinxarchive.com/latinx-visio...

Hi! I have a story out in Small Wonders today! This is a little horny gremlin of a tale and I hope you take a chance on it, if you're into words and whatnot.

This thing doesn't want to read the face I'm giving right now.

Overseen on the Tumbles www.tumblr.com/caressthosec...

Thank you @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for including Stone and Steel!!!

I spy @sillysyntax.bsky.social !! Do the thing and read Countess

Thank you to Alex Brown for including Countess on this list. It's especially wonderful to be on it with @brentclambert.bsky.social and @ebonidunbar.bsky.social who I 🖤 I knew I took risks when I wrote Countess. But my goal as an artist is to be bold. Its heartening to see that appreciated. 🔥✊

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.

writing industry...feel free to send me money you owe me or acceptances. Scammers are not being shy about contacting me so you shouldn't be either!

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...

Hurricane Melissa wreaked havoc in my birth nation of Jamaica. Reported: "The University of Miami with the US NOAA measured wind speeds from start to finish across Jamaica with the weather aircraft named Kermit. The maximum wind gust speeds were 252mph and maximum sustained winds were 185 mph..."

I just read K.C.'s newsletter and this saddened me so deeply. Celeste Rita Baker was a great Caribbean writer. I loved much of her work. Glass Bottle Dancer was written in dialect and won the World Fantasy Award in 2021. It encouraged me to keep writing in dialect. Love to her friends and family.

Okay so some real talk: I am fully aware that there are many gatekeepers in the arts that hate me. I know a big part of it is that I’ve bypassed them and still found an audience for my work. But I am also aware it’s because of this bypassing I am much harder to control when I speak up.

You will never regret standing up for the right thing. It may cost you SOMETHING in that moment, but you will never ever regret standing up for your principles.

Have been thinking about this A LOT the past few days. About how if I were more quiet re my views that this might smooth the way into other opportunities for me. I have thought a lot about the word political and what it means to be a writer and what I want my work and words to stand for.

Cover reveal for Carnalis, my lesbian cannibal novella, which is out in MARCH from @nictitatingbooks.bsky.social!!

As a person who was a tiny immigrant long long ago...it's absolutely lovely to wake up and see these clips of Mamdani saying immigrants help build and keep communities running and that they deserve to be treated like humans and people. Because everyday, from all over the world I read they/we aren't.

I hope that man keeps safe.

Omg Trinis got a shout out!!!!