had a dream that I invented, and attempted to market, "the thinking man's tiramisu," and as a consequence was assassinated

🌌 COVER REVEAL! 🌌 The fourth and final installment of the Dark Gods Saga, THE MERIDIAN FORGE, drops November 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social , only 5 months after THE DAWN THRONE! Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio

Engaging in the age-old ritual for fantasy writers: meticulously researching ships/boats

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

the kids are alright

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

House Lastrider when Taesia goes rogue

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Telling myself to play the game I just bought instead of replaying Stardew Valley again

IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR (B&N preorder sale) ☀️ Grab THE DAWN THRONE now: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dawn-t...

I am SO stoked that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won not only GOTY, but so many other awards it absolutely deserved! Love this game so, so much

Look I’m just gonna say it: it’s difficult for me to believe that this level of disrespect is not tied to this series being about gay people. I’m the first one to talk about how much privilege white ppl have in this space, but I can’t imagine this level of casual for a het book becoming a smash hit

HOW DO YOU ASSESS WHAT A SPOILER IS, AMAZON An LLM, and I cannot emphasize this enough, cannot discern what a "SPOILER" is

Wake Up Dead Man was DELIGHTFUL

I’m howling.

The thought of writing an adult Indian epic fantasy calling to me like the Green Goblin mask

I have books to write and people to take care of. I don’t have time to get Covid or a cold!

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

this feels like........a slippery slope.....

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Damn Pluribus is SO good so far and scratching that Severance itch

GDT's Frankenstein was awesome. Gothic and delicious. Ofc I now have to peddle my Indian Frankenstein book for those of you who, like me, wonder what would happen if Victor was a teen girl. www.penguinteen.com/978059340742...

GDT's Frankenstein was awesome. Gothic and delicious. Ofc I now have to peddle my Indian Frankenstein book for those of you who, like me, wonder what would happen if Victor was a teen girl. www.penguinteen.com/978059340742...

Savor this moment, friends. They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.

BREAKING: California voters approve a new House map designed to help Democrats net 5 seats next year, NBC News projects, countering Republican redistricting in other states.

THIS LOOKS SICK AS HELL?????? www.youtube.com/watch?si=p6C...

ACA = “Obamacare”. Same thing. Its proof that many white folks would rather shoot off their own foot if they knew something helped a black or latino person get by too. Its no different from how they used to fill public pools with cement during integration resulting in everyone being hot & miserable.

I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few

THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM (2023)

WE SHALL BE MONSTERS (2024)

This is amazing news and a win for the freedom to read. And I want to add that it was students who first told me of my book being pulled and who led the effort to petition the board. What a testament to the power of young people and collective action. And thanks @heykellyjensen.bsky.social!

Seconding this and adding that it really is that bad in terms of the lack of marketing for BIPOC authors esp. And as bad as it is in adult, it's worse in YA and kidlit.

You know...I really did write THE CITY OF DUSK for the tiefling rogues of the world

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

"I know what this chapter is missing," I mutter to myself as I dial up the gay meter

doomscroll break

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so This headline is misleading for not mentioning that. The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk. There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest! www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

MEXICAN GOTHIC X HAMLET 1969: India might be free, but the ring on her finger means Dr. Harshini Sahai certainly isn’t. Blackmailed into investigating a murder, Harshini finds herself surrounded by people and secrets that could ruin her reputation—or worse. #DVPit #HF #A #H #Asian #DIS #LGBT #WOC

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

NEW GAME++ HERE I COME

A depressing but accurate look at what being a midlist author is like right now: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...