Check out this week’s #FreeFictionFriday, “The Middle” by author @erinkwagner.bsky.social , in which a Michelin-starred restaurant installs a robotic sous-chef, and the human staff walk out. Nate, the head chef, is the only one who remains to oversee the transition. 🔗 issues.org/futuretensef...

"Writing is a matter of doing it—again and again and again. It’s not always brilliant and innate talent." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/s... #SuccessStory #WritingCommunity #booksky‪ @erinkwagner.bsky.social @litjared.bsky.social @dawbooks.bsky.social

I hope that by stealing from my books about androids and AI, LLMs face an internal contradiction that leads to deconstruction. This is what sci-fi has taught me.

Banning bookes ys terrible. But cutting entyre fieldes of researche by defunding universityes and closing departments doth also destroye knowledge & freedom. Universityes are the source of bookes on specialized topics. Yf you fighte booke bans, plese consider following news about universitye cuts.

Writing about the locked room mystery of Richard Hunne’s murder in 16th century England in my February newsletter. Now’s the time to sign up! dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/124166...

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

I made biscuits today. And they actually rose; they had flaky layers. Usually, they’re like hockey pucks. Such a small thing. But a thing today that did not make me mad.

Getting my author newsletter up and running if you care to subscribe and hear about what I’m doing or talk writing tips or gush over robots…. Link at my website: www.erinkwagner.com

Maybe not the best sign when you start rooting for the villains of Christmas movies….

Join me tonight on YouTube (www.youtube.com/live/GWNdP3q...) or Streamyard (streamyard.com/watch/DgwAPK...)

Self-promotion runs counterintuitive to how I often work—but, darn it, I’ve got a book coming out in 4 days (or 3, depending on your countdown method…). Join me at the launch!

Register to join us for a virtual launch party on Streamyard. There’ll be swag! streamyard.com/watch/DgwAPK...

The best part of baking for the holiday potluck is the few cookies left that you can bring back home….

Register to join us for a virtual launch party on Streamyard. There’ll be swag! streamyard.com/watch/DgwAPK...

Me: watching the best of year lists come out My book: biding its time until Dec. 17

If you see this, post a knight.

Authors include @natania.bsky.social, @cupiscent.bsky.social, @greatdismal.bsky.social, @gabriellekorn.bsky.social, @lhmoore.bsky.social, @bethrevis.bsky.social, @alexsegura.bsky.social, @alisonstine.bsky.social, @erinkwagner.bsky.social, @alexwhite.bsky.social, and more!

The December Clarkesworld aka @clarkesworldmagazine.com includes my interviews with: author Erin K. Wagner @erinkwagner.bsky.social artist/illustrator Donato Giancola! Recent interviews include Nalo Hopkinson & Eliane Boey, RSA Garcia & Indrapramit Das, and more!❤️‍🔥 clarkesworldmagazine.com

“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society…We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.” Copyright © 2014 Ursula K. Le Guin

According to @zutsuit.bsky.social, these are the sci-fi and fantasy books you should look out for in December, including work by Alex Segura, Julia Armfield, Alison Stine, and more.

I can write a novel (sometimes) but when faced with the blank screen of a new social media post…Anyways, hello Bluesky! I followed the trend.