2026 revelations: I still don't like shovelling snow

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - NOVEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 15 stories by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @sarahpinsker.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @yoakeim.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @authorizedmusings.bsky.social & MANY MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/147084...

I've just posted a big 2025 wrap-up with personal writing news and also links to free stories (and free anthologies!), sales, and more. Check it out: www.stephanieburgis.com/2026/01/2025...

REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!! www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

My thoughts on the current discussions in the SF/F genre over writers using generative AI (LLMs). In particular, I love the essays shared by @chuckwendig.bsky.social and @fozmeadows.bsky.social. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/147102...

you can read "To Be Merciful; or, Light After Darkness" for free! www.patreon.com/posts/to-be-...

Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS. Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social Check it out here: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

My most recent @escapepod.org piece, Baron Quits the Payloaders, is featured in Charles's great list! If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing. escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - NOVEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 15 stories by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @sarahpinsker.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @yoakeim.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @authorizedmusings.bsky.social & MANY MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/147084...

It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN NOVEMBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's October's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

Puzzle #17: Holiday Cats Another tricky one with a lot of repeat elements and white space. Still very cute. 1000 pieces and all accounted for.

Puzzle 16: Dragon's Treasure 1000 pieces and pretty tough. Took us three days and the coins vs scales was not always easy. Quite enjoy the cat, of course

Authors! Readers! The grand Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is now upon us. Use the code PREORDER25 to save 25% off basically every pre-ordered book for next year. Authors: please reply to this post with your upcoming book title, a link, and at least one cool thing in your book!

My flash piece "3 East" appeared in Inner Worlds in November. inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-3-ea...

My little queasy post-breakup Sapphic friendship cosmic horror story "Snow, Stars, Stone" was in the November issue of Heartlines Spec! Thank you, Charles! www.heartlines-spec.com/snow-stars-s...

My piece Baron Quits the Payloaders was out in November at @escapepod.org! escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...

My trans horror drabble "Don't Hide From the Mirror" was published in @apexmag.bsky.social! www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Thank you, Charles!!! My queer grief story, “Nature Morte,” came out in @theslabpress.bsky.social anthology HIDING UNDER THE LEAVES www.amazon.com/Hiding-Under...

I published "To Be Merciful; or, Light After Darkness" on my Patreon in November (it's free to read) www.patreon.com/posts/to-be-...

My novelette "The Millay Illusion" was published in Uncanny in November. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN NOVEMBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's October's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

The big Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is live! 25% off all pre-orders, including my own upcoming THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! A grumpy dragon pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon riding academy. Need a monster in your life? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dragon...

Hey, @barnesandnoble.com has a 25% off sale on preorders for their members from 12/30 to 1/1. Preorder _The Subtle Art of Folding Space_ at a discount. Debugging physics! A family reckoning! A status report in the form of an egg tart! #BNPreorder www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-subtle...

Holiday puzzle haul

oh hey this is neat! thanks so much, @cypayseur.bsky.social and @locusmag.bsky.social! story came out in @lightspeedmagazine.com way back in January 2025, link here (sorry for repost, forgot to add this): www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/tell... locusmag.com/2025/12/staf...

Holiday savings at @jms-books.com! Fifty percent off thru Dec 28! ALL ebooks! Many lovely authors including @elliethomas.bsky.social, @fionaglass.bsky.social, @cypayseur.bsky.social @klnoone.bsky.social, Ofelia Grand and @kateyhawthorne.bsky.social! www.jms-books.com/mere-rain-c-...

“New Sound” marked my return to @cypayseur.bsky.social's Locus recommended reading list, in which he wrote “It’s a familiar story, chilling in many ways and yet delivered masterfully with an understated desperation.” locusmag.com/review/world...

Contributor copy of We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2024 has arrived from @neonhemlock.bsky.social, with my spring-break-in-Florida Snegurochka retelling, “How to Make a Snow Maiden” 🥰🍧

I wrote about WE WILL RISE AGAIN, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social , for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org 's 2025 Notable Books! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...

Monday marketing! Buy my books!

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

Pick up your copy here! www.neonhemlock.com/books/were-h...

Mail day! Genuinely surreal to hold this in my hands and see my name on there. Huge thanks to @neonhemlock.bsky.social for bringing this gorgeous book to life and to @cypayseur.bsky.social and @rykaaoki.bsky.social for choosing “Linden Honey, Blackcurrant Wine” for WE’RE HERE 2024. Still processing.

For anyone in the US or Canada, Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon, Kobo, and B&N for just 7 days, starting today. Enjoy! www.amazon.com/Wooing-Witch... www.kobo.com/us/en/search... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the... www.indigo.ca/en-ca/wooing... #romancelandia

Holiday self-promo thread: if you're looking for last-minute gifts... For the person who wants their cozy fantasy heavily anticapitalist and queer, with a dash of sexy incubus: wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

*ahem* to anyone still doing some holiday shopping for readers who love weird family curses where everyone is queer: hi, I wrote a novella! It's called Death Valley Blooms and goddamn just look at that cover, I'll never get over it www.neonhemlock.com/books/death-...

Hooray! My sapphic romantasy short story "Five Reasons Why I am Absolutely Not in Love with my Nemesis" is available as an ebook now. Just subscribe to my Patreon at any level from $5/month upwards to snap up this & a whole bunch of other stories from me: patreon.com/stephanieburgis #romancelandia

blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/ been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th. Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. <6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Look what arrived: my author copies of (the US edition of) Enchanting the Fae Queen! Aren't they beautiful? You can preorder your own copy now: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen And I'll give away an early copy in my next newsletter! stephanieburgis.com/newsletter #romancelandia

I put together a post about some of my favorite short fiction of 2025. acwise.net/favorite-sho...

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews Small Wonders #29 (3 originals, plus 3 poems) @smallwondersmag.com Melissa Jornd starts things off with the super sweet "Pink Witches" which finds a young woman who has just lost her grandmother, who seemed to wield a kind of magic kindness.

“Last Meal Aboard the Awassa” by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, “Compass Rose, Running” by Julie Reeser from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social

Guess who had a story come out over at @100footcrow.bsky.social today? It's a weird little haunting story that I had a lot of fun with. Come give it a poke! 100footcrow.com/linger-just-...

BCS skipping an issue this month (only the third time in 17 years), so Scott (me!) can catch up on submissions. No new issue 12/25; BCS #448 out 1/8. To tide you over, peruse our back issues of 900+ stories, including seven BCS Science-Fantasy Months! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/11/18/b...

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews Diabolical Plots #129 (2 originals) @diabolicalplots.com Two stories that touch on personhood and gatekeeping in some interesting and very different ways. Worth spending time with both.

Thanks for this! I always appreciate your thoughts on & reviews of short fiction, so it's a pleasure to see your writeup of this story.

Ahahaha my time has come!!! Let's do this!!! I'm a bit pressed for time rn, so I'll probably do a couple now, and the rest over the weekend (G-d willing). A lot of puzzle / thinky games, narrative-focused, queer stuff will follow (not every game is all of these, but some definitely are!)

My story in @diabolicalplots.com is out in the world! www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1... #shortstory #fantasy #fiction