Great list! Middle grade sci-fi can spark imagination! Have you checked out “The Wild Robot”? It explores nature and technology beautifully. 🪐📚 What’s your favorite read? #SciFiKids

I really loved having this conversation, both in terms of content and in the feeling of having it in a specifically and intentionally neurodivergent mode. I hope you enjoy it, whenever you get a chance to dig into it.

This week, join us for a rollicking and wide-ranging conversation with Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Data Science at UNC-Charlotte, Dr. Damien P. Williams on the past, present, and future of AI, separating fiction and tech-bro hype from the reality in all its fascinating and flawed glory!

AHHHHH!!! Afro-centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social has been nominated for an Ignyte Award !!! You can vote for this anthology and your other favs by going to this link: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/ #WritingCommunity #booksky

Author publicist/recent NDAF guest, Sarah Shaw, wrote today to say she's actually created a course for neurodivergent authors on strategies for handling social media called SOCIAL MEDIA YOUR WAY - A SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY FOR NEURODIVERGENT AUTHORS: sarah-shaw.systeme.io/neurodiverge...

Infraction now available exclusively on #Wattpad! open.substack.com/pub/themaskf...

Friends and followers! I entreat you to listen to a podcast interview I did with my good friend Mark Wheaton. I talk about my art and all the things I love. I encourage you to follow NDAF on Spotify and YouTube as well! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxz_...

This week, we’re speaking with underground comic artist/cartoonist, Hermit, author/illustrator of RENDEZVOUS WITH THE DEVIL and the forthcoming ADVENTURES OF PRINCESS KAYA, in collaboration with his musical creative partner, Kitten.

I've got a new book out! Cult Britannia is a 400-page beast covering hundreds of weird and wonderful world of British horror and science fiction movies from the quaint post-war 1950s through to the end of the post-modern digital 1990s. Available in paperback and on Kindle here: amzn.eu/d/ghGmoNA

16-19 while I'm in the hospital caring for mother with lung cancer #1000DaysOfDrabble

20 #1000DaysOfDrabble

Congratulations to all the Locus Award Finalists! So awesome to see some of my favourites nominated! And, of course, I'm absolutely thrilled the non-fiction collection I'm a part of received a nomination too!! 😍😍😍 🎉 🎉 🎉 locusmag.com/2025/05/2025... #WritingComunity #locusawards2025 #booksky

I've got a new book out this month! It's an easy reader biography of lovely local lad Harry Styles, via Bonnier's Studio Press imprint. Out on 22nd May, pocket money price!

This week, we’re speaking with writer, Vesper Doom, the author of the adult cozy fantasy/folk horror novel, THE BINDING OF BLOOM MOUNTAIN. She takes us from their earliest writing and discovery of Lovecraft to the conception of BLOOM MOUNTAIN and how it became an outlet after their autism diagnosis.

14 and 15 #1000DaysOfDrabble

This week, we’re delighted to be talking with the wonderful poet and short fiction writer, Caroline Hung, who joins us from Manila to discuss her writing process and the many stories behind her many dark and unsettling tales. She also performs for us a pair of poems, including a new piece, LUNA!

This week, we’re talking to filmmaker, Andrew Kasch, as he takes us through his long and varied career, directing and editing everything from his hilarious shorts, docs on the great horror franchises, and work across the DC TV Universe, all while navigating the positive and negative sides of ADHD.

This week, we’re in conversation with author support specialist and longtime book publicist, Sarah Shaw, formerly of Thomas & Mercer, currently of BookedOnSocial, discussing strategies and tips for social media-averse creators! #NDAF

This week, we’re chatting with author, editor, and publisher, Aquino Loayza, writer of DEEP, THE MONOLOGIST, the forthcoming PAPER LION, as well as the editor and publisher of SPECTRUM: AN AUTISTIC HORROR ANTHOLOGY! #NDAF

In case you're looking for books to add to your #TransRightsReadathon TBR list, here are mine! Many are currently on special - link below! www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #booksky

This week we're chatting with former animation film exec, caregiver advocate, and author of EVERYTHING NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT PARENTING A DISABLED CHILD, Kelley Coleman, about neurodivergence in Hollywood, in our families, and advocating across all spaces, from schools to the workplace #NDAF

A bit of what I alluded to on the @ndafshow.bsky.social podcast this week (episode out NOW) about being in #Hollywood alone for a #publishing thing. Btw the videos I shot there are on Youtube. I'll link them in the comments 🙄 open.substack.com/pub/themaskf...

This week we're chatting with bestselling crime, science fiction, and western novelist, Tony Healey, about the early, wild west days of self-publishing, Healey’s cross-genre versatility, as well as how his autism affects his writing output but also his ability to promote his work. #NDAF

This was SO MUCH FUN.:)

To mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of her landmark horror novel, EXPERIMENTAL FILM, we are thrilled to have with us this week multi-Stoker Award-winning writer, Gemma Files, to speak about the book’s lasting and ever-evolving impact!

At the end of 2024, I was invited to chat about all things neurodivergent & writerly on the new podcast Neurodiverse as F... You can now find it wherever you listen to podcasts or right over here: sites.libsyn.com/561135 #WritingCommunity #ActuallyAutistic

Very honoured to be invited as a guest on this new podcast, which profiles autistic and ND creatives to dig into how it shapes our work. I talk a lot about being diagnosed as an adult, and the challenges of revisiting past experiences and previous work with this new context.

Here’s the teaser for the second episode of @ndafshow.bsky.social featuring guest @danwhitehead.net, which you can listen to RIGHT NOW on your favorite podcast app, or by going to bit.ly/ndaf!

Here’s the teaser for the first episode of @ndafshow.bsky.social featuring guest @xanwriter.bsky.social, which you can listen to RIGHT NOW on your favorite podcast app, or by going to bit.ly/ndaf!

Coming soons