Willow, smiling in her sleep 🥹 happy holidays everyone!!

It is officially “pile of kitties on my lap” season ❄️ aka the best part of cold weather

Quill hasn’t been feeling well so he’s getting extra cuddles all around, including from Willow 🥹

The Maradaine Saga: Deft do-gooder defeats drug-dealers with dextrous derring-do! Constable colleagues crack cases with competent craft! Stealthy siblings stop sadistic scheme and seek satisfaction with swindles and stabbing! Pacifist paladins protects populace from perilous plots! maradaine.com

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

My beautiful cozy boy.

Popped in our local B&N to grab a copy of the Analog I’m in!

I’ll be at @armadillocon.bsky.social this weekend, the wonderfully nerdy literary convention in Austin!

Hey look, it’s me! Absolutely delighted to have a story in Analog.

Came across this old photo of Rowan in a laundry basket; it’s still one of my favorites. She is just painfully adorable.

The fact that this is a solved problem almost makes it worse, honestly. And to me, points an even stronger finger at needing a more robust system (than the current WSFS) for continuity from one con to the next.

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

Eclipse took a moment to pose under the paper lanterns, in all her regal fluffiness.

Had a great time at worldcon! So glad I got to go this year. Hung out with friends, went to some awesome panels, bought cool stuff, and went to an excellent reading by @interstellarflight.bsky.social. Who could ask for more?

Traveling is nice, but so is coming home.

Briefly breaking my unplanned social media silence to present: A Trio of Cats

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).

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We’re in that time of year when the cats are no longer content to take turns in my lap but must double up and I love it (seriously, how cute are they).

Financial statement today reminded me HOW GREAT IT IS when folks request that their libraries acquire books. 😍 Seriously, if you want a totally free-to-you way to help an author, submit a request with your local library. Those sales help us so much, in whatever format.

Breaking my unplanned social media silence to share the adorable stumpiness of my scruffy alley cat girl’s legs 😂 (I know some cats are bred for this but she was literally found in a dumpster).

Think I might need to print this out and put it on my wall 😅

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One of the fun things about having 4 (yes 4) cats is a photo of one is almost always photobombed by another. Behold Eclipse—in all her fluffy glory!—and Willow, sneaking up to say hi. #cats

Not sure if reading John Koenig’s Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows was a good idea for trying to get past the election or not… oof. (I do recommend it though, it’s quite beautifully written.)

Normalize this reaction #art #artists

New book announcement! I'm thrilled, thrilled, THRILLED to let you know Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Two is available NOW in ebook from Kobo, B&N, and Amazon and that the trade paperback publishes this coming Tuesday, Nov 12th! Vol 2 is 25K+ longer than Vol 1...and it shows ;) #thicc

Cute animal checkpoint! This is Willow. She loves cardboard tubes and shoulder snuggles.

Halloween is also a holiday for my hunter-cat Quill—the door is open so much more often for trick or treaters, and in come the BUGS. He’ll be delighted to have this batch sorted soon. (Yes, he is indoor only…. he would murder EVERYTHING if allowed outside.)

Hello #WeeknightWriters! My name is Avery and I’m in the editing stage of my cozy (but also apocalyptic) scifi novel 👋🏻. I’ve made more progress this week than I have in the past month!

Happy Halloween!! 💀

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HIS TIME HAS COME

Another glitch. And Voyager fixed it without asking. While hurtling away from us at a gazillion miles a second. And we heard it whispering. This is all incomprehensibly brilliant.

It’s a great time to read speculative fiction. We asked over 50 authors about the most iconic SFF books of this century. Here's what they had to say. reactormag.com/the-most-ico...

Lunch break with a lap cat and a book, what could be better?

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Interstellar Flight Press is currently OPEN to submissions from speculative poets who are queer and disabled. This is a unique collaborative series with the opportunity to work with other poets! Guest Edited by Toby MacNutt. www.interstellarflightpress.com/submissions....

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Found a new place to write and had to admire a friend’s setup: wireless mechanical keyboard, connected to phone; phone propped by empty beer glass. Well done sir.

Did a panel at a con recently about “reading as writers” and this is just… excellent.

I did the thing! Rowan and Quill are unimpressed, which is fair, for they are cats.

Adding the pile of books from world fantasy to my (too large to photograph) TBR pile 😅 yay books!!

Attended the fantastic reading by @wlbolm.bsky.social at world fantasy—here’s your photo W, it was great to meet you!

Niagara Falls is a very different experience from on high versus down below, both 10/10.

Had a fantastic time at World Fantasy this weekend!! Went to some excellent panels, picked up some great books, even acquired a gorgeous art print. And most of all, had a wonderful time chatting with writers! I love going to these events—huge thanks to the staff for all their hard work!!