aww 🖤 i think it was you who brought the extraordinary Nico! we're so excited to share this story with you all, go grab a preorder to find out why 👀🖤🦎

Echoes of Flesh - project is still alive

"There really was a very big preserved tapeworm in a jar with ‘YUM’ written on it." hey, it's @nicasio.bsky.social interviewing @klschroeder.bsky.social about their forthcoming novella NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD read on (YUM) and preorder too! psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...

When I read this novella in submissions, I knew we had to have it. The story is dark and timely, focusing on damaged systems: bodies and planets, human and animal. We are more alike than not, every person a world being ravaged by changing climates: environmental, emotional.

its here!! would you also like to also fall in love with a lizard named Hecate? 🦎🖤 get thee to the preorder :)

As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, ineffective charm that will help you meet a rather colossal friendly dog.

"into the dark" Bei Interesse schreib mich gerne an🩵 #FarbkartenDoodle #Art #bsnm #kleineKunstklasse #Herz&Blut

I'm back and the highschool kids were fabulous. They brainstormed ideas with pencil and paper and talked abt story ideas, had insightful questions, asked me abt writers block, asked me how to write the middle of books asked what exactly do publishers do? Lol 💀 Girl writing/reading is not dead yet.

Everything will eventually be worn down with time. All we can do is try our best to hold on.

Friends and friendlies on here: don't stop talking about your lives and joys. I know some folk are quiet or staying away what with *everything* but posts about cats and books and funny shaped puddles are essential to us getting through it. And shouldn't be drowned out by the fash.

this is so beautiful ❤️ congratulations El!

kind of speechless to read this after years of reading Dave's excellent SF! thank you so much, im glad you're enjoying it 🤩📚 @psychopomp.com

Kein Meer mehr. Aber Reflexionen

I pirated my gender

No One to Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social arrives this fall: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

a fantastic article on Nordic dark speculative fiction -- which includes the upcoming 'No One to Hold our Distant Dead' in some incredible company. thank you Maria!

I'm editing a new anthology of sci fi written by sex workers for @workinggirlspress.bsky.social. It's called Liquid Silver (after the club/brothel in Tank Girl) and I'm so excited to see what my SW babes are writing!

I suppose there comes a point in every project where you pile the phone, laptop, notebook, appropriate reference books, kindle, bluetooth in a big stack and then use the nunchucks on them

when did the science folk become so fashionable? i thought we were still wearing old tshirts with jokes about glycine...

Happy Friday! May I present for your consideration: buy my book? The reasons you should do this are: it's my book, and it's very good, and it has a radish and her fox wife whom she adores and also a rock determined to live her best life even if maybe she wasn't meant to have a life to live.

Do one thing every day to make the world a worse place for evil people.

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

look at these 7 excellent things to look forward to in 2025!

#booksky #solarpunk #hopepunk #stories #fascism

love this rebuttal. seek librarians, teachers, experts -- seek humans!

I am reminded of a story I wrote

Look, storytelling is ripping off a little piece of your soul (it’s fine, souls replenish) moulding it and stretching it and twisting it into something interesting and glorious and then using that to connect to other human beings. Computers cannot do that. They will *never* be able to do that.

Honestly, if someone doesn’t want to write anymore, just *quit.* it’ll still be there if things change. But why piss it all away like that? What did they think was going to happen?

No Kickstarter updates today. Only #freepalestine. See our statement below. We invite fellow mags to join us, and acknowledge we referenced the work of @strangehorizons.bsky.social, Room Magazine, & @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social when writing our earlier statements.

its here its here!! there's a chill in the air and a litter of dead leaves, time to feast your mind on these unsettling tales from the north 🍽️💀

extremely excited to work with @psychopomp.bsky.social to bring NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD to your eyeballs 💀

its still international cat day in Pago Pago, so here's Leo. he has the temperament and bloodlust* of a noble vampire prince.

Wonderful shot by Jean de Spiegeleer.

Worth thinking about how long Tolkien goes on in Return of the King about despair being a weapon, and presenting defeat as a forgone conclusion being a deliberate and effective tactic

hey look, Northern Nights is part of the B&N preorder sale! grab it now and have a selection of unsettling tales from the north summoned to your doorstep come October >:)

I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem

This is where I'm at--I think illegal art is so valuable and essential but that's not what AI is doing. There's no creation, no expression, no transformation. It's just theft for profit.

Periodic reminder.

Fun fact: did you know that effort, policy, campaigning and activism directed towards climate change results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and lower fossil fuel use Giving fossil fuel fatalism the middle finger works really nicely :) :) climateactiontracker.org/blog/eus-gre...

Afternoon mood brought to you by Axil Tinsti.

congratulations to all this year's finalists :)

This is my response to the Cass Report

We are _thrilled_ to share that our book, Rosalind's Siblings, edited by the wonderful and brilliant @bogiperson.bsky.social, is a Lambda Award finalist! Congratulations to everyone who helped make this book a reality! #LambdaAwards #LambdaLiteraryAwards #Lammys lambdaliterary.org/awards/curre...

Ooh, this is a brilliant essay. I'm a linguist and English/Finnish bilingual - and as such have a LOT of thoughts about SFF linguistic worldbuilding - and @filiphdz.bsky.social got a lot of new thoughts churning in me. Refreshing angles and intriguing solutions! Ugh I love thinking about language

I, for one, welcome our new slime mold buddies.

Love this cover -- I'm thrilled to have a story amidst these Canadian legends! Really can't wait to read what @undertow.bsky.social has put together.

Fortitude to all about to weather 2024.

I finally wrote up most of my twitter threads on Palestine and writing from recent weeks into a short essay (combined with my belated-for-my-website cover reveal announcement) talking about ways to think about the politics of your art