me watching Alch*mised make the British book awards shortlist

Recent midlist SFF books that deserve everything: The Tales of the Plains trilogy by @davewragg.com The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social Seven Recipes for Revolution by @ryanprose.bsky.social A bit older but The Graven trilogy by @essahansen.bsky.social

The Girl with a Thousand Faces by @sunyidean.com - out from Harper Voyager UK in May The Tapestry of Fate by @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social - out from Harpervoyager UK in May The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore - out from Harpervoyager UK in March

someone said to me yesterday, “You’re never happy with how you look because your body has become a project, not a home” and it honestly fucking floored me

i know buds mean well when they post stuff like ‘i cant believe chuck tingle went from erotica to traditional bestseller lists’ and thats FINE. i take it in the kind way it is intended. at same time, i want to live in a world where fantastical sexuality in art is not seen as a gutter to emerge from

Currently working my way through all the watercress soup that my partner batched cooked for me before he left, because he knows that I will eat like an absolute gremlin when there is no one else in the house 😂

I almost never think about my books in relation to film, because that isn’t why I write. But whenever I see Mackenzie Crook I can’t help but think how absolutely perfect he’d be for the mc of The Silence in Heaven

"And lest anyone think this is purely a selfish ruling on our part—we know plenty of Outer God sycophants who are feeling the same pain right now. But not, you know, the same pain that comes from your humanity being sucked out of your ears by an infernal soul vacuum."

Yes, we did it for real. Not acting, not faking (but he did wear a box, otherwise it’d be crippling lol). That throat jab looks like a joke, but it genuinely hurts like hell, while requiring very little strength to pull off. #selfdefense #jiujitsu #selfdefenseforwomen

My Vinted pet peeve is when obviously-Chinese items are listed as Japanese, eg Qipao adjacent clothes are being sold as “kimonos” Kimonos and Qipao look nothing alike structurally, it’s not even close 🤨 if you can’t be bothered to list them right, I can’t be bothered to buy

Hello 999? I’d like to report a fatality

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Cor what a time to be alive

The author, the first page, and the book

A little update to this. A source emailed me to say they'd used an industry tool to look up Coral Hart's sales and they totaled only 37 copies for the books under that pen name. So, yeah I do not believe the six figures on 50k sales the NYT reported.

It’s lowkey nuts to me how often people will just *not pay* you in publishing. MCM were supposed to pay me six months ago for a panel, and even with the publisher nudging them for me, they haven’t gotten around to it.

Reading The Girl with A Thousand Faces by @sunyidean.com and immediately in love with Bao. Maybe my Ghost explains why. 😹

#ShareGoodNewsToo 🐋🧑‍🍼🐋🧑‍🍼🐋🧑‍🍼🐋🧑‍🍼!!!!

The Problem with Early Warnings, by Charles Rafferty

Thread: John has been having a bunch of health issues and now has rib fractures that will require time and rest Please consider chipping in Also buying all his books because they're fabulous and he's such a kind and amazing person

Since people are asking if they can do something for me, here is a short thread. I'm clearly going to be laid up for a lot longer. Here are a few simple links. Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Uk netgalley is up! www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

I’ve spent the week so far emailing people who don’t want to answer, chasing people for money who don’t want to pay, trying to work with people who don’t want to work and WOW am I ready for mma class tonight. Hope it’s fucking grueling because I need structured violence STAT

I’m thrilled to reveal the cover of Eight Tastes of Treachery! In the sequel to Seven Recipes For Revolution, Paprick and co will reckon with dire prophesies, new flavors, and bigger emphon. July 21, 2026

Part two of “What’s on my TBR for 2026?”I can’t wait to read these books by @sunyidean.com @johngwynneauthor.bsky.social @jcmberne.bsky.social @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social @scottpalmerauthor.bsky.social @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social and more. What are you all planning to read this year?

My favorite form of emotional self harm is heading to the Ask A Trump Supporter Reddit to see that yep, they’re fine with everything he does, his decisions are great, they love it, everything is wonderful, possibly he could deport a few more people and that’s it, otherwise YAY champagne for all 🥂

I’m one of a small handful of Harper Uk titles being released this spring which aren’t Romantasy, and I think it’s a big part of why this book will die quietly here lol. This is not a shade against any of those authors because they absolutely should grab any support they can get, it’s—

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...

In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have named the mc of wip “Jay” when I know about six different Jays irl

So I’ve started replying to those endless scam marketing emails with “I’m sorry, you must have the wrong contact details! I’m a different Sunyi who doesn’t write books at all. I’m just a stay at home housewife” and maybe it’s a coincidence but I have not had ANY such emails for days, now 🤔

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.