My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a

Worth stressing amidst the current Catholic drama that the schism isn't over some obscure points of doctrine, but shit like whether, as a point of dogma, you believe Jews must be held to account for the death of Christ. The blathering about Latin and tradition is dressing up some real Nazi shit.

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social and The Stone Soup for giving me the space to write about the unique experiences of editing an anarchist SFF magazine -- and why we need your support! stone-soup.ghost.io/guest-featur...

So! I am now officially booked for @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Fantasycon in Glasgow. Who all will I be seeing there?

I forget who but someone on my timeline recently was asking for recommendations for Good Recent Cyberpunk? Bang Bang Bodhisattva easily skyrockets towards the top of my all-timers. It's probably the best of my "recent Cyberpunk" just by that metric alone. Very highly recommended.

this shit goes crazy btw

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

No future without trans people. No future without immigrants. No future without strangers who become loved ones.

From a conversation with @livveypappillion.bsky.social: The day before the day before is called the "antepenultimate" (it was the Bravo TV voiceover guy's favourite word in the '90s, I heard it many, many times). Which suggests one should keep adding different prefixes as one works backwards.

But I mean yeah in all seriousness, a second shortlist spot (!!!!) in this incredible company for what I consider to be my PERSONAL most meaningful award in SFF is... is very something! Thank you so so much to @psychopomp.com @ecatherine.com @mkcurry.bsky.social @seanmarkey.bsky.social !

The actual Sarah Jessica Parker fulsomely recommending M. John Harrison's new novel to her 10 MILLION followers on Instagram was not on my bingo card for 2026. But is hugely welcome.

I mean, it makes a huge amount of sense, from her point of view. The people who sign up for this job are disproportionately going to be people who want to keep asylum seekers out, and when they end up rejecting swathes of people who should absolutely be granted asylum, she can wash her hands of it.

Exactly, most of these l reforms resulted from the UK losing court cases in the European court of human rights. Every government, Labour or Tory in United Kingdom, has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to LGBT rights reform against its will.

Boosting this again - today's your last full day of updating your PLR so you're not doing it in a panic on the deadline day!

Interesting! Every contract I've ever issued for a book includes a clause protecting ebook vendors' right to retain and provide archive copies after the agreement ends.

love to see it

Look, Americans, British homes aren't designed with air conditioning in mind. Our architecture values other things: heat retention, space management, trapdoors, automated breakfast-serving mechanisms which can be operated by a literal dog

ALSO did you know that The Magnus Archives podcast won TWELVE AWARDS (I am trying to figure out a way to work that into my 60-second pitch for this webinar thing today) also I just counted and since that last French one I am up to... FOURTEEN JUST BUY THE NOVEL OKAY that's the pitch

Graphic design is my passion.

man, carcinisation gets to fucking *everything*

an event discussing the social impacts of extreme heat cancelled due to extreme heat

Excited to become part of Profile Books, and very pleased and thankful that I still get to work with my fellow editors and brilliant marketing team. Hopeful for the future!

TOMORROW @natania.bsky.social 's LOVE IN NETHERFORD series concludes: queernorm regency romance, with a much loved cast of vampires, werewolves and witches: only £2.99 each in eBook! Book 1: geni.us/NetherfordH Book 2: geni.us/viscountstal Preorder book 3: geni.us/GameoH #booksky📚💙

So... a bit of news!

I was prepared (see Madeline's Nazi alert), but I... wasn't prepared (upstairs, in the unnumbered "Bedroom" - you'll have to find it on the tour or the video)

‘It’s excellent how hilarity ensues in the novel when characters merge—if a little unsettling…’

An elaborate shitpost - which took me forty-five minutes when I should have been trying to sleep, and which was a fun exercise in gilding the lily - but a shitpost nonetheless

So the PLP, the executive and the media seem intent on Starmer stepping down imminently and Andy Burnham being quickly and seamlessly crowned. And I think he's a good choice, but I also think it won't make a difference, because I don't think the lessons have been learned.

I've tried casting Muppets Pride and Prejudice, but the dearth of female Muppets is a challenge. I've done a stellar casting of Muppets Dracula before. But I think the objectively correct answer is Muppets Three Musketeers.

As was foretold:

Glad to see this reach a wider readership (like the new title too).

IT'S SO GOOD I need everybody to pre-order it IMMEDIATELY so that we can all yell about it as soon as possible

when you get a chance to add Ea-Nasir to your LRP event's plot, you add Ea-Nasir to your LRP event's plot

No shade to the author intended, but this is an example of a type of thinking I've been musing about for a few months, to do with capitalism and how we think about the economy, and I think it has to change for the human species to survive. Why does there have to be such a thing as a "first job"?

I think a lot of things about the U16 social media ban. I‘m just going to list a few of them and go have some lunch. 1. It belongs in part to groups of parents who read (parts of) Jonathan Haidt’s questionable book and then yelled a lot on WhatsApp.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Cutting Corners” by Yoon Ha Lee from Reactor Magazine, “Nameless” by Aliya Whiteley from The Dark, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here -

"An act of rebellion." This homophobe arsehole wondered if her whole entire THIRTY YEAR OLD daughter's sexuality was a fucking ACT OF REBELLION. Jesus H Fortescue Christ.

every now and then I remember that these are real actual books you can buy with your actual money

This is a remarkable book, and Mo and Erin are remarkable people. You should buy the book. It's brilliant.

To: [email protected] From: [email protected] ❗ᵀʰᶦˢ ᵐᵉˢˢᵃᵍᵉ ʷᵃˢ ˢᵉⁿᵗ ʷᶦᵗʰ ᴴᶦᵍʰ ᴵᵐᵖᵒʳᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ Hi Ea-Nasir, 𝗣𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹,

NEW at the Empty City Some preliminary thoughts on the Court of Appeal decision on Palestine Action Why it is important to understand how (bad) law is structured emptycity.substack.com/p/some-preli...

I read a review of one of Terry Pratchett's books once that started by saying he would never win the Booker because too many people like his books. It's not *entirely* fair to the Booker, but I took his point. And you could say something similar about Spielberg.

Im already 50 pages into Saint Death's Herald by C.S.E Cooney. Juat some delightful prose and characters, like an undead flying tiger rug thats still just a big cat at heart.

so from time to time on Al Gore's internet someone will ask "why isn't there a prefix for 100x, like 'centi' is the prefix for 1/100th?" and then someone will invariably reply that there is, and it's "hecto." #wordnerd

If we're being very clear, while the legislation invoked is called the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act, the extremist known to his followers as "Tommy Robinson" was arrested under Schedule 3, which grants powers to arrest people suspected of "hostile acts" on behalf of another state.

Praxis, sister 🙏🌈 #pridemonth