Alright y'all. This is finally happening.

Excellent book! Strongly recommended.

This sounds amazing

Sounds very interesting!

"African gods on a supernatural heist" definitely got my attention!

Irresistible!

YAY!!! If you haven't read SHIGIDI yet, now's a good time! So much fun - I know I'm going to read it again! 🔥

If you haven't picked this up yet, go get it.

Wake up babe, new Tade Thompson story just dropped. [And its an expansion of one of my favorite Tade stories]

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾 Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social

You won’t be able to put down this imaginative supernatural thriller with twists you won’t see coming, complex relationships, and a world where gods live among us. Preorder the paperback version of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon today! buff.ly/5PpcYIO

Oh yay! Excellent news. 🙂

This is a terrific book, y'all!

It's a beautiful edition and a terrific book. It will make somebody's Christmas.

fam, you need this book

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Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance. Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!

Wine on an Empty Stomach (bad idea, great bookclub, awesome podcast) with @thousandeyespod.bsky.social + World Fantasy Convention info wtalabi.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/w...

Many of my friends are beginning their trips to this year's World Fantasy Convention. If like me, you won't be heading there and dread FOMO, well, 22 WFC panelists have been guests on my Eating the Fantastic podcast. Why not download their episodes and pretend you're in Brighton? pod.link/1083737796

We had such a great chat with @wtalabi.bsky.social about his novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon! You can check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Kh... Look out for the paperback version, coming November 4! Support your favorite local book store with Bookshop.org!

Happening in 10 hrs. Join us online. 📚✍️🖥

"With a strong sense of place and mesmerizing writing that makes you feel the world can shift beneath you at any moment, these are stories that conjure up the unease that lurks in the corners of our minds...." - Wole Talabi, author of SHIGIDI AND THE BRASS HEAD OF OBALFON.

Heyo! On Tuesday, 11/4 join me and *the* @hanalee.bsky.social at Books Inc. for THE KING MUST DIE’s book launch!

Arabfuturism is coming! It's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY cover reveal day. Don't ask me which one I like more. They're both epic! (It's Gollancz on the left and Saga Press on the right 🫡)

I know writers are not supposed to read reviews but this might be my favorite review of my collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS so far 😂😂😂

Connecting, Collectives, Celebrations, Space And The Sea - wtalabi.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/c...

Oct 25 6PM EDT Wine On An Empty Stomach Book Club - SHIGIDI and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi. A minor god and a succubus commit a heist. Another must read. Do it! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Kh...

20.10.20 We never forget.

Its refreshing and fascinating spending time with authors from different genres (some of which I'd never even heard of before) that have completely different experiences of the publishing landscape. We're all writers but some things I consider par for the course are alien to them & vice versa

Join us. It'll be fun!* *Terms and conditions may apply.

Had a great time at the Perth #Festivaloffiction2025 yesterday talking about my novel Shigidi with an amazing panel of brilliant authors. We all write in wildly different genres but we talked flowingly about crafting problems and resolving them in our fiction using humor and trust and much more. 📚

I just blew through Project Hail Mary. Super fun. Shigidi is indeed amazing. An eldritch African heist novel and a breathless read.

It's Black Speculative Fiction month! All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own. 1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a... 2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

If you're in Perth this weekend, feel free to drop by.

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

It is not only possible, but desirable under the correct circumstances to write in first, third, or even second person omni. Finding these confusing is a skill issue (yours) (y’all asked for unhinged okay)

Particularly want to highlight this excellent award for speculative poetry going to this formally inventive, searing poem about the Lekki Toll Gate Massacre of October 2020. As @wtalabi.bsky.social said: The Ignytes truly do not miss. bsky.app/profile/thei...

I was lucky enough to hear Wole Talabi read some of his novella "Descent" at Flights of Foundry, and having just finished reading it, I want to make everyone else read it, too. Fascinating worldbuilding; gorgeous images; a thoughtful portrayal of how and why we seek knowledge. tinyurl.com/wt-descent

WATERSTONES PREORDER CAMPAIGN! Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡

Yo! The Ignytes don't miss. They don't miss. Great choices all round. Congratulations to all the winners!

Did you know there’s a paperback edition of our book club read coming out soon? No? Well, I’m telling you now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Kh...

Is it a fast-paced heist? Is it a vivid, sexual, unyielding exploration of love, morality, and control that leaves us begging for a sequel? One way to decide. Pick up Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi. bookshop.org/p/books/shig...

Hit your local library or bookstore. You're gonna want to be in the chat for these livestreams. Plus! We'll be joined by Wole Talabi when we talk about his book. Victorian Psycho: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUNJ... Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Kh...

Join this online bookclub discussion with Nikki and Tanya about my novel SHIGIDI. I'll make an appearance and talk about supernatural heists at the British museum, African gods, belief and sex as sources of power, plus more. It'll be fun. astrapublishinghouse.com/product/shig...

Aussie folks. I'll be a panelist at the Perth festival of fiction in 2 weeks! Solving crimes, heists, overcoming obstacles, finding happiness. Michael Robotham, Rachael Johns, Marcia Van Zeller and myself will discuss writing ways into and out of thrilling conundrums. #perth #writer #shigidi

I had no idea what One Battle After Another was about before I decided to go see it. Hadn't seen any trailers or anything for it and so I didnt know what to expect. It started off shaky but by the end I thoroughly enjoyed that weird movie.

There are times when we thug each other into reading books that we couldn't put down because we both know the other will share the enthusiasm and burning need to talk about it when they finish. Here are two such books:

South African journalist & author Zukiswa Wanner among those detained by Israel's military youtube.com/watch?v=KO-P...

I was in the UAE with Zuks just a few months ago, talking, laughing, reading. She's such a force of life and creativity. Her abduction, like so much else, is heartbreaking. "South African writer & activist Zukiswa Wanner Among Those Detained on Gaza-Bound Flotilla" brittlepaper.com/2025/10/brea...