I found so many awesome books that way. How cool would it be to write one of them?

There's a new interview up wherein I talk about one of my favorite authors, Silvia Moreno-Garcia!

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Dazed, I stare at the small round flask, the glistening violet liquid at the bottom. I reach for my phone, hands trembling. My supervisor? My best friend? I text grandma first. She writes back "SO PROUD of you sweetie... 🥳🤗😈" This is how she says "Good as hell." I've always loved it.

'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️ mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho

Opens slush pile. Reads generated story... Bans. Reads generated story... Bans. Reads generated story... Bans... Screams. Closes computer. Screams again. Runs off into the woods. Sees squirrel. Hmmm... Squirrels have never submitted a generated story. Squirrel gets treat.

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.

JD Vance might be even less sexually appealing than Pierre Poilievre, and I did not think that was physically possible.

It's live! IT'S LIVE! The Kickstarter for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Four is now LIVE! Award-winning series, best of 2025, and (with your help) the biggest volume yet. Can you back early enough to land The Canucklehead tier and get to choose the dedication for the book?? Pls SHARE WIDELY!

Living seawall in San Francisco designed to create marine habitat while reducing floods. The textured concrete tiles in marine environments support native seaweeds, shellfish and small fish, so San Francisco is now rebuilding its ageing seawall using this technique. buff.ly/6T26Ftz #ShareGoodNewsToo

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@rebeccacampbell.bsky.social your story “Thank You for Your Patience” rings hard and true. What a brilliant framing for the polycrisis and tender exploration of a person’s experience. 🏆 Thank you for writing this.

Logging on on April 1st

Today is trans day of visibility. I see and love and celebrate all my trans friends. Also, I know that in many places it's stressful or terrifying or dangerous to be visible, and whatever decisions you've made for your own safety are valid and don't change who you are.

THE FRUMPKIN IS OUT OF THE BAG! I wrote a @criticalrole.bsky.social book, you guys!! It has fistfights and smooching and disaster gays and dark academia and spooky archeology and political intrigue, and I am terrified and excited for you all to read it!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760755...

Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg! Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

So, friends… would you all be interested in reading more fantasy, science fiction, and horror by Palestinian writers? Lmk. 🍉✨

Women in Horror Month continues. Today's spotlight is @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social's novella The Talosite. He was made of copper wire and electrical sparks and aethereal fluid and hyphae ... emerging in the mist of dawn. Resurrection is possible. A Grab our eBook for just $2. bit.ly/4rkiv1C

For those reading for the Auroras.

My novella, THE APOLOGISTS, is a finalist for the BSFA awards. You can read and/or listen to at. @clarkesworldmagazine.com Link below. On the one hand, yay! On the other hand, I've been nominated for the BSFA many times. I never win. So, boo! But you can still enjoy the story.

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY

we are 80% funded (if you were curious) 80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey 80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear 80% off is a going out of business sale please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u join us! get fiction! 👇

The fundamental premise behind AI-enabled cheating is that coursework is merely busy work, because your'e just doing it for professors. We would never say that showing up for football practice is merely busy work because you're just doing it for your coaches.

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks. You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.

Canadian authors. The PLR program is open. Don’t forget to register your new titles. publiclendingright.ca

Reckoning reopened to submissions on February 1st! We pay @sfwa.org pro rates, we never charge fees, AND we're piloting a new/improved process for reviewing and publishing submissions, which shows every sign of making our response times MUCH faster. Please submit? Guidelines: reckoning.press/submit/

I TOLD YOU I LOVE THE LIBRARY! Surprise! I'm the 2026 Brampton Writer in Residence. Reception on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 TIME: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM I'll be running workshops and reading partial MSs during the residency. ALL FREE. BRAMPTON PPL TELL YOUR FRIENDS. www.bramptonlibrary.ca/programs-and...

Tomorrow-- Thursday 12 February--I'll be reading with @myriamontheoutside.bsky.social at the Wild Prose Reading Series. It's at Books & Shenanigans (347 Cook Street, Victoria BC). It's a lovely bookstore, and worth browsing (as well as listening) (@stelliform.press)

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS! Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

Got some donated freelance edit slots (via help with current financial messes - pressing ones sorted, and thankfully out of that a breather.) So I've got *4* short story edit (dev, line, copy, whatever) slots open. One per person. 7.5k max. Marginalized writers only, please. Reply or DM.

The rumours are TRUE! There is a Romance x Horror bookstore PopUp in Union station running from now until May 31st. This great little space, shared between us and Hopeless Romantic Books, is the pink/black bookstore of your dreams. Come by say hi on your next commute! 🖤📚👻💕

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

this one's a rerun but, you know, it felt relevant!!!!

So grateful to Johnnie Jae and Red Pop! News for this thoughtful interview 💚🌿 redpopnews.com/the-scariest...

Also, ICYMI, our 2 main 2025 titles on sale as a bundle. Both on the Locus Recommended Reading List. And @thomasha.bsky.social 's UNCERTAIN SONS is a Philip K. Dick Award Nominee, and NYPL 'Best Of' 2025. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

This issue is 50% original Canadian Toronto ghost stories with apartments. His is east end and mine is west. It's a serendipitous combo.

Nice to wake up to THE OTHER SHORE (from @stelliform.press!) on the recommended reading list, along with a LOT of good reading, and space for translation as well.

You guys, everybody has to drop what they're doing for 15 minutes a day and read the stories that make up THE OTHER SHORE, by @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social. Irreplaceable. #booksky #review #fiction #SF boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/rebe...

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

This is interesting stuff, and a reminder that military tactics are discursive as well as practical-- that they are theatre, even if the regime is telling you over and over again that it's about solving a problem.

I'd love to build out my list of BIPOC illustrators interested in book covers or page illustrations!! If anyone is interested (or if you want to rec an artist), please introduce yourself, ideally with some art samples and/or portfolio link!✨ *Absolutely no AI allowed, and please tag any NSFW art!

Reading Awards Longlists to Gratifyingly Find 'Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism' in an Age of Fascism (Heartfelt thanks to anyone nominating and/or voting and/or just reading the essay. The fascists will lose.)

In good company over on the BSFA list.

I never get any AI agent or bookclub scammers trying to separate me from my hard-earned cash. And yet when I ask any of the AIs directly, they all *love* my stories, and even like a couple of novels I don't remember having written. What am I doing wrong?

A friendly reminder for HWA members: the deadline to recommend/nominate works for the Stoker Awards is January 15! Get your recs in now! bramstokerawards.horror.org

EXTRAPOLATION seeks a reviewer for Mayurika Chakravorty’s FANTASY AND THE POLITICS OF SUBVERSION: SPECULATIVE WRITING IN COLONIAL INDIA. Please send queries to [email protected]. www.bloomsbury.com/us/fantasy-a... @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social (2026)

Is the attack on Venezuela a distraction? Well, it acts that way, and might have been intended that way, but it is also another set of crimes. Trying to distract from crimes with more crimes is not mere distraction. Criminals commit crimes because that's the criminal mindset.