Never thought I’d miss Swiss noise regulation laws

And I’m officially open to queries again ✨ looking forward to diving into some great stories. QueryTracker.net/query/fabien...

Meant to edit today, got dragged into the gay hockey show instead

Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope) 📷 IWM A 10646 🧵1/17

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th. Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. <6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

But in more positive things, send your queer spec short fic to these awesome people.

Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/

Honestly, though, begs the question... why did this even occur? Everyone involved should be fired or quit or whatever the process is. I'm not actually thankful they rescinded it so much as wanting accountability for why it even happened in the first place.

Actually, there is no good reason to use genAI in your writing. Just don’t.

BLOODY FINALLY.

If you're a writer in the North of England, there's two days left to send your work to us for consideration! We're looking for new novellas and short story collections of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror - with a preference for strange and literary writing.

I’ll be reopening to queries in January - please see my freshly updated MSWL and submission guidelines at the link. I can’t wait to read all your fantastic projects. ✨✨✨

Hey universe, I’d really appreciate a Christmas present in the form of good news, pretty please

I love the cold, foggy mornings. Really make my cemetery commute shine.

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

I have a (longish) story in this. Publishers Weekly gave a nod to "The Road of Mirrors", which is kind of a deconstruction of the classic novel as well as being horrifically queer. You can grab a copy here: www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page... 🎭🏳️‍🌈📚💙 #NewStory

“Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project” www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...

Slow Gods, by Claire North (pub by @orbitbooks.bsky.social) is a superb space opera, a novel with a different narrative approach that stays with you long after finishing Maw's story. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/slow... 💙📚

Mental state: tried to get on the wrong train

We’re immensely proud of our very own @hagenilda.bsky.social who is now a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!

If you like reading South-Asian Speculative Fiction, we have an opportunity for you. Tasavvur is currently looking for enthusiastic slush readers, preferably with prior literary experience. Email us at [email protected] with your pitch! 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

MARCH 10 2026 BE THERE OR BE SQUARE Covers are by @fringe-element.net who did an awesome job Editions will include introductions plus bonus short stories There will also be a preorder campaign--more details on that later.

The usual Wednesday end of day thing of “why ever did I think going to D&D was a good idea I’m far too dead”

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

It doesn’t look very sexy but I made myself an advent calendar out of books I picked up throughout the year and it feels glorious to unwrap a book I really want to read each day.

Hey, I’ll be on a virtual panel this weekend - if you want to hear me ramble about changing the industry, widening access and ESEA spec fic, you can still get tickets! britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen...

One last slow morning at the pool in Singapore, home tonight. I had the best time visiting the Singapore Writers Festival as an international visitor, met many fantastic people and learned a lot.

So far this is excellent. Impressive writing and rooted in history and mythology.

Reading a YA fantasy and just figured out the MC was born the year I finished school. Nothing like YA to make you feel old…

I couldn’t be more excited about this development. From the first time Peat shared his writing years ago I knew he would one day be published. ✨

Please extend a warm welcome to Ki’s newest client. @xuetingni.bsky.social is an editor, translator and cultural commentator bringing Chinese speculative fiction to the anglophone world. Xueting is represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social. Read more: www.ki-agency.co.uk/post/xueting...

What a weekend at World Fantasy Con - so many great conversations and lovely people! Ready to not talk to anyone for a bit now

Future Worlds Prize 2026 is open for entries! We're looking for great works of SFF by unpublished writers of colour. If that's you, check out our website for more information: www.futureworldsprize.co.uk/2026-prize/

SHE IS HERE ✨ Baby agent’s first deal announcement and I couldn’t be prouder of the wonderful Marianne

Literary horror giving me life this spooky season 🖤

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Contributors Wanted! Do YOU want to write for Nerds of a Feather? www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cont...

Oh hey, I’m on TWO entire panels - going back to my Grimdark roots and pretending I’m a real life agent and not just three kittens in a cloak. Really looking forward to seeing clients and meeting loads of lovely new folk 🖤

Looking forward to the day I stop giving hypo snack brands another chance if they have interesting new options 😭

They're acting like the problem with denying so many vulnerable people a covid vaccine this year is that the information informing us that we're no longer eligible isn't clear enough on the booking website! The fucking problem is we're being denied vital healthcare! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Realities of chronic illness: when you know you’re ruining your blood sugar by not leaving the house but leaving the house seems like too much effort so you suffer

The @divergent-paths.bsky.social website is up, and we're looking for partners. www.divergentpaths.co.uk This isn't about finger pointing or blame. It's about helping all ND people in the publishing industry - writers, editors, agents, artists - find a better path forward ❤️ Excited to start

whoa october is around the corner! reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon. more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Today, TO reviews Claire North's upcoming space opera SLOW GODS: "North gives us a wide-ranging enthralling, resonant and cathartic fable of our own world’s predicament but anchors it with individual characters..." More: tinyurl.com/4wfz7cub @orbitbooks.bsky.social

Never, ever debate your right to exist. Never debate the right of other human beings to exist. You'll be making a major rookie mistake and bigots will grift the circuit you're allowing by debating them. Thank you.

I need someone to write me a book about this.

Wotcha all. I am Peat, the person responsible for spouting the guff you’ve presumably read in the blog posts. Or maybe you are smart and haven’t. I don’t like photos of myself, so I posted one of my cat, who’s a charming little savage indeed. This blog is mostly about fantasy literature, writing…

How the f*** are people willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money to buy THAT TERF’s new book?! Society, you disappoint me.

this morning i saw a con program with this panel description: “where does romance fit in speculative fiction?” now, i’m not naming the con—i’ve contacted them, hopefully they’ll change it—but since they’re not alone in framing questions like this, we’re going to talk about why it sucks actually 🧵