RIP to an author whose books gave me a lot of joy as a kid.

Amazing

Aragorn (Pacino) and Boromir (de Niro) huff at each other across the table in a diner. The One Ring on the table between them, next to the sugar pourer and napkin dispenser. "You take the ring, you know I gotta take you down."

"... the treatment of heroes in the Iliad and the Odyssey is one of our earliest warnings against egoism and relying too much on ‘big men’. Each epic explains the separation between the worlds of gods and mortals and why heroes are also bad for us." neoskosmos.com/en/2026/04/0...

This is precisely why the antagonist of my book #TheMysteryofthePaleKing is called the Hero.

Then they teamed up with Nazis to make sure it would never happen again.

The biggest form of political correctness in America is that basically every single conservative commentator is a gutter bigot and it's just universally understood that it's beyond the pale to ever acknowledge that.

When you're in a creative flow, there's moments when serendipity strikes, like choosing a seemingly random name only to find its meaning compliments the story in ways you were never consciously aware. As small as that may seem, for me it's deeply spiritual.

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you. It changes shape, tosses aside old husks like "divine right of kings" and "bloodlines" and slides right into slick new shells like "meritocracy".

What rules about being a nerd is you get to earnestly tell your normie friends how the Beast Wars episode where Dinobot died is the peak of human emotion

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

There isn't much to say that hasn't been said before, but know that we stand against this administration and their daily atrocities. We support peace, science, diversity, equity, and human rights. We will continue to do our best to uplift marginalized voices and support the community as we can.

I’m so fucking embarrassed to be from the United States with this insane freak in charge.

It’s my book birthday! 🎉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES, Book 2 of The Invoker Trilogy, is out in the UK today! Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this journey! Get ready for battles, ancestor magic, and big revelations! See below for links to the Goldsboro and Illumicrate exclusion editions!

Hes going to kill us all and the people who could stop him are going to sit there and watch. Rage and sadness doesn't even come close to describing it.

who knows better about obeying in advance than a Holocaust museum.

"But much as Musk might want us to divert our eyes upward, something terrible is happening on Earth. The world’s richest man is preventing lifesaving aid from reaching the world’s poorest children, closing off their future as he fantasizes about another." Not paywalled - read it!

Unironically the premise of #ApocalypseAuditor, wherein Space Columbo arrives on the planet Anthelion to arrest the eugenicist murderer Harren Volk

late stage capitalism is fine, it's the authors trying to survive who are the problem

My one and half year old nephew had Hibachi for the first time and his reactions are sending me 🤣

Wrapped up the sci-fi/mystery novella codenamed "Space Columbo" at 31,000 words, used the momentum to hop right onto the new portal fantasy (and romance???) WIP

Do yourself a favor and put this tasty treat in your eyeholes.

Are you looking to have a sacrilegious Easter weekend? Enjoy angelic pregnancies, queer rage, and fucking up white supremacy? Me and @timberghostpress.bsky.social got your back. The Neon Revelation share.google/FMXrdDrdSj43...

This year's Halloween costume locked in

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

This rebirth of the prologue discussion has gotten under my skin. Stay tuned for my full thoughts

I've said it before and will say it again, human beings' ability to compartmentalize is incredible. This pathetic racist very old man in cognitive decline has access to the nukes that can destroy us all.

I write because, simply, I would spontaneously combust if I didn't. If you don't feel the same way when you sit down to write, feel as if you are going to pour a part of yourself onto the page, whether that's happy, sad, or exciting, then you're not writing.

Cheaters think everyone cheats, and people who cheat at writing by using AI think the same. If you don't like writing, don't be a writer!

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

We are open to novella manuscripts! We're looking for dark thrillers, crime noir, & dark speculative fiction—if you've got a complete novella (25k-40k words) that fits, we want to hear from you. Submission guidelines here: links.ruadanbooks.com/Novellas26 #WriterSky #AuthorSky #writingcommunity

*Authors* are not. People desperate to sell the slop machine sure like to pretend otherwise though.

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

This movement has never been about violent criminal aliens, undocumented immigrants writ large, or even immigration in general, but about the country’s changing ethnic and religious makeup. It has always been about white Christian nationalism.

I’m pretty sure they have cellphones in Minnesota.

The singular "they" has been around longer than English has had codified grammar, so really, anyone who fumes about it can go fuck themself www.oed.com/discover/a-b...

One of my history professors back in college said FDR wasn't being egalitarian in any sense when he spearheaded the New Deal. He said he was looking out for his rich friends, all of whom didn't understand that their heads on pikes was the alternative.

Nice 😎

Walz: Welcome to the freest state in the nation—a state where you love who you choose to love, a state where you make your own healthcare decisions, a state where you worship—or not—according to your own beliefs, and maybe most importantly, a state where everyone belongs.

This is the way. This is how United Front actions are supposed to work. Not sectarian abstentionism, sectarian wrecking, or just going along for the festival atmosphere

This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.

heh

less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset

So close to the Funny numbers

I'm a terrible cook so my spaghetti is always a case of diminishing returns as leftovers but my wife is a chef and when I'm lucky and she makes it, it warms up fresh every meal for days.

It's THIS kind of messaging they need to get out in front of everyone