Sundaes at Juliette & Chocolat this morning to celebrate the release of Everybody's Perfect. The chocolate one was mine, and tasted even better than it looks! @gretchenmcculloch.com

Montreal Peeps!

Book launch for Everybody's Perfect at the Argo Montreal (on Ste Catherine between Atwater and Guy) 7pm Tuesday 7th July. I will be reading, having a conversation with @gretchenmcculloch.com answering questions, and signing books If you RSVP they'll know how many but you can just show up, it's fine

I remember reading the final book of this series, getting about halfway through and thinking "this might be the greatest work in the English language," in case you wondered if how I feel about TLL. I've read it four times, and there'll be more.

Ten years today since @adapalmer.bsky.social's Too Like the Lightning came out! Still my favourite series of the twenty-first century so far.

For @bluejo.eurosky.social and others.

Holiday reading: Inventing the Renaissance by @adapalmer.bsky.social Recommending reading for historians & SF fans alike, even if you are not in Florence (although the view definitely helps!)📚🇮🇹

Only a short way in and am so delighted by this book! The thing where every Jo Walton book does its job but is also just More, weirder and stranger and cooler than you expected... I love that.

Q and A with me at The Nerd Daily thenerddaily.com/jo-walton-ev...

I'm a little over halfway through this and really loving it. Walton's books where she just drops people into a premise and lets them live in it are some of my all-time faves.

Wishing peace, order, and good governement to all, today on Canada Day!

The Romancing the Vote auction is almost here! If you haven't perused it yet, take a look. www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...

*grabby hands*

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Well this sounds awesome! Let me save anyone who agrees from typing it into search (courtesy of a reader with clumsy thumbs): bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

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I hope you will like it *because* it's a bit weird!

Just came in at the library last night, enjoying the vibes

I got to read Everybody's Perfect in advance and I'm looking forward to rereading it in time to talk with Jo about it next Tuesday at @argobookshop.bsky.social in Montreal, where you can come for the launch if you're local!

Such a hopeful, lovely book.

VENICE CONTENT

This book is terrific.

Can't wait to read it!

Today! My first novel in six years! Everybody's Perfect! Delany once titled a story "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals." But what if more plague and more carnivals? What if Venice but less substantial? And more magical? With immigration and friendship? It's a bit weird but I hope you like it anyway.

Joyful launch day to Everybody’s Perfect! I don’t know of any other SF book that so beautifully exemplifies something I learned from direct action AIDS activists: We collectively shape the world that then shapes us, under conditions in which we have limited power but a great deal of agency. 1/

When people ask me which is my favourite of my own books I always say "The next one."

Wow! How can I not now add Jo Walton & Ada Palmer to the list of all the other intriguing authors I’ve discovered via Bluesky, including of course @doctorow.pluralistic.net himself?Thankfully, I’m more determined to role-model reading for my grandson than daunted by my seemingly never ending list.

EVERYBODY’S PERFECT by Jo Walton The Serenissima is built from mist and belief, a mythical shadow sister to Venice and crossroads of the nine worlds. When a laborer called Tiry has a dream that Serenissima will have a doge, and that they will marry the sea, he tells it to a fortune teller named…

TRACE ELEMENTS CONVERSATIONS ON THE PROJECT OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY (2026) by Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy award-winning author of Among Others Jo Walton and Ada Palmer award-winning author of the Terra Ignota series is a book.

Oh, il y a un nouveau roman de Jo Walton qui sort aujourd'hui ! Grassouille ! (Mais encore quatre novellas, six novellettes et six short stories pour le Hugo.)

There's a new Jo Walton book, called *Everybody's Perfect*. Because it's a Walton novel, you know in advance that three things are true about it: 1. It is beautiful; 2. It is profound; 3. It is unlike every other novel, including every other Jo Walton novel. us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 1/

I blurbed this - so excited to be able to *talk* about it with everyone!

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Everybody's Perfect is OUT !!! I'm so excited. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

#BookReview: Everybody’s Perfect by Jo Walton #booksky @bluejo.eurosky.social #torbooks @torbooks.bsky.social #historicalfantasy #sciencefiction #sciencefantasy #historicalfiction My Review:  The story emerges from… https://www.readingreality.net/2026/06/bookreview-everybodys-perfect-by-jo-walton/

I can hardly believe that my new novel Everybody's Perfect will actually be out and on bookstore shelves tomorrow! www.publishersweekly.com/9781250314055

Thrilled to see @willalex.bsky.social's Sunward, one of my favourite books of last year, on the shortlist for the Ursula Le Guin Prize www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26 along with some other great books!

Just four days until Everybody's Perfect comes out! My first new novel since 2020, a story in nine hands of fantasy Venice. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Just four days before my new Venice novel Everybody's Perfect hits the shelves, and here are my author copies arranged with some tapestry cushions! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Because writers shouldn't have to do their own publicity: my #Pre-orders for June 30 2026 Everybody's Perfect, by Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Moss'd in Space, by Rebecca Thorne @rebeccathorne.bsky.social rebeccathorne.net/books/cozy-s... #Booksky #Books #SFF

Six days until Everybody's Perfect comes out, my first novel since 2020, and here's a picture of me with my author copies not looking weird at all... maybe this should be my author photo for this book!

New poem on my Patreon, Solstice Fairies www.patreon.com/bluejo/posts...

It's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop.org, the best day to support your favorite independent bookstore, and give your money to working people not billionaries, when ordering one of my books! bookshop.org/beta-search?...

I did not realize there was a new Jo Walton book coming out this month, so here's a repost for anyone else who needed to know there's a new Jo Walton book coming out this month.

One week from today, Everybody's Perfect comes out! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Another great Anti-Prime-Day option: Barnes & Noble is having its PRE-ORDER sale on books coming out next winter, including the paperback of Trace Elements, my essay collection with @bluejo.eurosky.social on the craft and history of scifi and fantasy www.barnesandnoble.com/w/trace-elem...

One week from today, Everybody's Perfect will be out! Two weeks from today, I'm doing a book launch event for it at Argo, on Ste Catherine near Guy metro, Montreal. There will be reading and signing.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Riddaren Rider, John Bauer, 1914.

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.

I’m about one fifth of the way into @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social’s What We Are Seeking, and it’s one of those “how are books so good?” experiences. Just everything I want in an sf novel.