i would like to go back to being anxious about irrational, or at least highly improbable, things

he’s way cooler than me

Proof of life! I had a wonderful time at #WorldCon2025 last week, met a great many of you, sang sea shanties about spaceships (yes, really!), composed two new poems in the fantastic SF Poetry workshop, worked on my novel with Clarion friends, and will resurrect sometime next year probably. 😴❤️‍🔥✨

I NEED IT!!!!!!

Proof of life! I had a wonderful time at #WorldCon2025 last week, met a great many of you, sang sea shanties about spaceships (yes, really!), composed two new poems in the fantastic SF Poetry workshop, worked on my novel with Clarion friends, and will resurrect sometime next year probably. 😴❤️‍🔥✨

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Brava, @dianapho.bsky.social !!!!! You deserve this and so much more!!!!!! 🎉

Thrilled to get to talk to students at The High School of Art And Design as part of their launch for the AAPI Club's anthology, "Have You Eaten Yet"! The 28-page collection anthology features stories that illustrates the deep cultural connections between food and history across AAPI communities.

Today marks one month of WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON! To celebrate, the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social and I pulled together a special behind-the-art featurette about how this fully illustrated historical romantasy was created. I hope you enjoy it! youtu.be/IGHoH9yZYqE?...

✨🖤📕BOOK DEAL!! 🌊👻✨ Absolutely thrilled to share that my very first horror novel, STORMRAVEN, will be coming out next spring with @simonandschuster.bsky.social (US) & @titanbooks.bsky.social (UK)!!! 🥳

Thank you @jenazantian.bsky.social, @ed-schlesinger.bsky.social, & @dancarpenter.bsky.social 🧵⏬ 👀

Doing some research: the more I zoom in on these Jan Toorop illustrations, the weirder and awesomer they get!... His Indonesian background echoes through in the Wajang-like figures...

Boosting!! Will never get over at that gorgeous cover. 🥹

"Whatever you think of the advent of romantasy onto the SFF scene, be assured that it isn’t a problem to be solved. It’s an opportunity." @readingtheend.bsky.social discusses where romance & romantasy sit within genre–and how to get the right book to the right person: reactormag.com/how-do-you-s...

Fun things about making books for a living: picking the colors of the case stamp, drawing lil plants for chapter head designs

life advice from the lammergeier

Young priest! there's no need to feel down there's a Country! That's inside of a town you can Go there! Now ol Frank's underground and you choose a new guy (bom bom bom bom bom) It's fun to vote for a P O P E

Here are some actionable suggestions if publishers want to actually help Black and Brown writers (rather than some publicity stunt that helps one or two people, gives a pat on the head to the publisher, and does nothing for anybody else). 1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.

holy shit, I just learned that not only is my colleague @dianapho.bsky.social up for Best Editor for the Locus Awards, as are a strong handful of our wonderful titles and authors, but also @erewhonbooks.bsky.social itself is up for Best Publisher??? Y'ALL. I'm gonna cry, holy moley

THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh!

Double brace kind of a day

it hasn't been two weeks but i probably should boost this again. i held a reading and Q&A at Jordancon this past weekend and a gentleman asked if, in THE MEMORY HUNTERS, he could get his grandma's old recipes through diving, and I said yes. that's the world in my book!

Will never be over them. 🥺 SINNERS was phenomenal, the horror threaded through with love.

Will never be over them. 🥺 SINNERS was phenomenal, the horror threaded through with love.

oh, I love this!

Hey y’all! We could use some extra money right now due to some emergency bills so I’m doing a flash sale on my more expensive services! This is a great opportunity to grab a slot and work with me on your manuscript. xD #writers #amquerying

lil goblins, I love them

This is one of my fave pieces~ Embracing decay

Did you know it is possible to be intelligent, capable, and artistic with disabilities? Did you know that the waning of ability in some area of your life is as inevitable as life itself? That gratitude is the other face of loss? That strength is the other side of struggle? I respect THAT.

Read the room. (The room is a bookstore, take your time.)

"Pressure groups and government entities that include elected officials, board members and administrators initiated 72% of demands to censor books in school and public libraries, according to ALA’s report." Only 16% came from parents! @slj.com @txfreedomread.bsky.social www.slj.com/story/newsfe...

Boosting for horror readers! 👁️

The Church at the Edge of Time by Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social "the pastor is a woman with small birds living in the hollows of her eyes." Read the full poem at the link to the latest issue in our bio!

everyone LOOK AT MY GIRL she's so beautiful with all her flawlessly shaped curls and good colours and what about that henna and jewellery detail??? i love jhandra so much

Beautiful 🥺

He did! And it's incisive and gasp-inducing all the way through. 🔥

“Purple sadness is the sadness of classical music and eggplant, the stroke of midnight, human organs, ports cut off for part of every year, words with too many meanings, incense, insomnia, and the crescent moon. It is the sadness of play money, and icebergs seen from a canoe.”

IT IS OFFICIALLY RELEASE DAY FOR— 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind 🏰🌬️🍃 —a big thank you to everyone who made this book possible from start to finish 😭🤍 @titanbooks.bsky.social

My interview with Frasier Armitage for FanFiAddict, in which I talk about horror fiction in China, curating Sinophagia, my motivations for writing, my view on literary translation and more. #sff #chinese #culture www.youtube.com/watch?si=qqN...

“Purple sadness is the sadness of classical music and eggplant, the stroke of midnight, human organs, ports cut off for part of every year, words with too many meanings, incense, insomnia, and the crescent moon. It is the sadness of play money, and icebergs seen from a canoe.”

I am ✨twitterpated✨ to announce that my novel THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN will be published by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! This is my Bridgerton Borg Battlestar book, the one I wrote when I decided to stop holding back and started embracing my inner necromancer. 😍 reactormag.com/book-announc...

Renting out a gorgeous, stylish room in my apartment, very spacious and gets great light during the day. Only catch is you gotta peel up a bunch of yellow wallpaper to free a woman. Utilities included.

Still thinking about these poems today

Genuinely, I am so excited to work with Erewhon on this, and can't wait to share the finished story with you all! 😁😈

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for all of your support so far! @soumiroy1.bsky.social and I are waiting for the first transfer to hit her account. Once it does we'll post an update with all our receipts. Please keep sharing (and donating!) in the meantime! gofund.me/9a83b93c

LESS THAN 24 HOURS LEFT to back the first volume of my illustrated gay novel on KS!! 🐎✨🐎 We've unlocked two extra bonus prints for all physical backers! If we hit that super elusive stretchiest of goals then everyone gets a digital audiobook for FREE!!

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Since it's not real until I post about it online, I'm delighted to officially share that after five & a half years at Janklow & Nesbit, I'm now at Azantian Literary Agency! 📚 I'm thrilled to be part of such a dynamic team as I bring so much more of my brilliant clients' work into the world ✨

I gave something, and I hope you will, too! Even a little would help so much!

two new poems up with Lunch Ticket's Amuse-Bouche today! both these poems emerged as part of two months I spent living in Poland, and are near to my heart. gratitude to Lunch Ticket's editors—I'm so glad these poems have found a home 💙 lunchticket.org/two-poems-by...