Hey folks! The Goodreads giveaway for GWATF is up and running, with 50 arcs going. Unfortunately USA only as that’s all GR can facilitate but if/when uk arcs appear I’ll try to run a (smaller) one for international readers ❤️ www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

I was hoping this wip would be sort of Station Eleven crossed with Scanner Darkly, but so far it’s shaping up to be more like Normal People with a slice of Fallout 🫠

I don’t think, at the end of this, that I can forgive the people who voted for him, or even the people who just didn’t vote. If you can, you’re a better person than me and I’m happy to admit it. Not only is the scale of damage so ridiculously vast, it was also completely needless and avoidable.

okay, here we go... Here are my picks for the 30 most exciting SFF titles coming out in the first half of the year! There are a LOT of beautiful books coming up—it's gonna be a really good year for spec fic reactormag.com/30-sff-title...

A part of me wants to go check my dad’s alt right forums to see what he’s saying about all recent events, but this is of course a fool’s errand. There will be nothing good or kind in those replies, only disappointing hate and/or a lack of compassion. It’ll do nothing but give me pointless anger.

The day a poet is murdered by ice, by Hannah eve levy

Honestly I’m at a fucking loss. If you don’t understand the difference between using generative AI, and NOT using generative AI, there are simply no words in any language which are going to explain it to you.

Which 2026 SFFH book releases are YOU excited to read this year? Check out @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social Greta Kelly & @adrianmgibson.bsky.social’s top picks for 2026 releases below, including books by @fondalee.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @sunyidean.com @robertjbennett.bsky.social and many more!

Goddamn, SLOW GODS is so good, send tweet

Someone in a fantasy group asked for recommendations for novels which have middle aged characters, and one of the first responses was Dungeon Crawler Carl because the mc is 27 and “very old” for his age I am dust

Every author dreams of readers waiting for their work to come out! Here are some! Includes @sunyidean.com , @isabel.kim , @johnchu.bsky.social , @acwise.bsky.social , @annleckie.com Might have to put a few of these on the tbr list. theportalist.com/most-anticip...

Folks, I’m so excited by this gritty, grounded fantasy full of social unrest, civil war, and stabby cagefighting lesbians (in a queer normative world!) and I can’t wait for more people to discover it soon!

I’ve noticed a lot of Qipao-coded influences in western fashion lately, more than usual. But often they aren’t marketed or labelled as such. That makes me curious—western folks, do you pick up these designs as have that Qipao influence? If not, how would you think of them or describe them?

91 of 2025 I cannot wait for the rest of the world to get to see what @sunyidean.com has brought to life (and death and life again) in this one. Equal parts rumination on grief and forgiveness and a good old fashioned ghost tale, there’s so much Good going on here. And and and also? A cat named Bao.

TFW when you take an incredibly weak chapter in your MS and turn it into one of your favorite sections through careful polish and rejigging 😌🤌 there is no drug that compares to that high lmao

Flashback to the time my children created horror beyond comprehension with some gingerbread cookies and a slurry of icing

Lost my phone for a day and a half, and I’m devastated to report that I rewrote two ms chapters and read 3 books as a result 😩

What a better way to start a Monday than with the second part of "A Jam's list to 2026 releases"? Second part of my most awaited titles for 2026 and that I hope to cover in the blog (depending on review copies and all): jamreads.com/articles/a-j... 💙📚

Finally watching WEAPONS. It is so so so well structured.

She looks great, but this social double standard drives me insane. No one would bat an eyelid if she were a man. And no one is expecting my partner to wear makeup when we get hitched, but loads of people keep baiting death by telling me I’ll look “tired and sick” if I don’t learn to facepaint.

Fancy hotel gyms are a nice treat, but I love my small home one the best. Can’t go into a public gym in my pjs with a cup of tea/coffee, and put on Star Trek.

The Christmas Bonus no one asked for: the epilogue to The Book Eaters, originally found in the Waterstones Special Edition. It’s taken quite a long time to get this sorted, sorry! Freeing up formerly exclusive content isn’t always straightforward 🤓 www.sunyidean.com/bonuscontent...

When watching Pluribus, I keep thinking of this fantastic parable by Anthony De Mello, a Hindu Jesuit priest who died in 2005.

One of my quiet fears for GWATF is that it sits in this uncomfortable place between current reader groups. There is no spice/romance to catch Romantasy, no true magic to catch the “magic system” readers, and not enough historical content to be true hist fic. It’s also slow, and second person.

Years of reading about heroines who hate stitching has left me unprepared for how much I enjoy embroidery. It’s such a chill, cathartic little hobby, so different from the martial arts that eats my free time, while still being incredibly grounding. And you get something beautiful at the end of it.

So happy of receiving an ARC of one of my most awaited releases of 2026: thanks to @sunyidean.com for this gorgeous copy of The Girl with a Thousand Faces. The Book Eaters already was one of my fav books, and I'm sure this will end in a similar spot.

‘Where do you get your ideas from’ that authors often dread focuses on this misunderstanding. Ideas are easy. Ideas spring from ideas. Ideas create a more complex ecosystem that prompts the evolution of…

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

Swung by York to do arc drops for the fantastic Criminally Good Books and had an amazing platter lunch at Valhalla

The news is out!!!! Cannot wait to share my disgusting little book with the world! A huge thanks to the team at @titanbooks.bsky.social for making this happen!

We are delighted to announce that Titan Books will be publishing THE FLESH I WANT by @toddsjordan.bsky.social, a captivating literary body horror about desire, the male gaze, and the gory lengths we will go to satisfy our hunger… Coming February 2027! 🩸

Oh blimey, this book. Like the mad offspring of Iain Banks and Lucy Rose. Grisly, weird Sussex-set body horror. @toddsjordan.bsky.social is one of the most exciting new voices in the genre I've come across in a while. You're going to love this one.

I'm insanely excited that @toddsjordan.bsky.social news is finally public 🙂 THE FLESH I WANT is so, so, so good. Stunning literary voice and creeping, suffocating horror in the heart of 90s rural Britain. Via @titanbooks.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...

The Write Hive mentor reading period ends in six days 👀

Tippin pages landed this morning! Excited and privileged to be doing this once again 🤓

One day I’ll learn to write novels without having to do substantial rounds of rewrites and redrafting, over and over but not today

Kind of want to see Zootopia in cinemas but my kids don’t do animated films and my friends are too adult for such nonsense 🤔

Just had some surprise #bookmail pop through the letterbox! Huge thanks to @sunyidean.com for sending over this beautiful arc for ‘The Girl With a Thousand Faces! I love a bookmark & the ghost ward talisman & author letter make me want to read the book even more! Out May 26.

This is annoying me so much. I cannot believe the BBC is making me defend James Daunt, but this article title is some absolute clickbait bullshit. "As a bookseller, we sell what publishers publish, but I can say that instinctively that is something that we would recoil [from]," he said.

Some gorgeous #Bookpost today coming May next year is The Girl With A Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean - what a cover, a fascinating story and a dedication too! Thanks to @tordotcom.bsky.social

The news is out! The Broken Binding is producing a special edition of my novella Casthen Gain from @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social 💜 * Signed * Foil on Boards * Digital Fore-Edge * Block-Sprayed Top & Bottom * Royal Hardback £19.99 + P&P ~ Pre-order NOW: thebrokenbindingsub.com/products/cas...

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Checking out this listing on Vinted and every one of the seller’s items is telling a whole entire drama Dress 1 - “I bought this in Hong Kong for my tea ceremony, but my future mil didn’t like it” Dress 2 - “I bought this in Hong Kong for the wedding ceremony but my future mil didn’t approve”

Love it 🙌

Currently packing my ARC swag bags as a little Christmas gift to local booksellers (and a handful of local peeps too!)

Foundling Fathers, by Meg Elison Hamilton meets The Boys from Brazil 1776 meets Clone High All the Presidents' Heads meets Jurassic Park 6.23.2026 It's the satire America deserves for her 250th. tachyonpublications.com/product/foun...

“I have no earthly idea what women do for fun”

Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.

I feel like I read a lot of horror which is gorgeously well-written. I wonder if perhaps the genre draws certain types of writers and writing styles. After all, you can’t craft a subtle yet saturated atmosphere with clunky sentences and forced dialogue. The narrative would collapse.

Piracy is common and unavoidable, but it was still disheartening to see 2800+ downloads of my writing, in various languages, on a big piracy site