We've got a new show! Grace and @alexyquest.bsky.social discuss the intersections of romance and sci-fi in our new podcast, Queer Eye for the Sci-Fi! Cover art by @penofsteele.bsky.social

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EMPRESS OF DUST (Space Wizard Science Fantasy) by @alexyquest.bsky.social is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations! #SSBA #SSBA2025

Crab party for the release of Relic of Haven by @alexyquest.bsky.social! 🦀🎉

my husband said “I don’t really understand things, it turns out.” I asked him what he meant and he just said, “Sabrina carpenter.”

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!! Book #2 of The Bastion Cycle, Relic of Haven, is OUT NOW from Space Wizard!!!! www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/relic-o...

If you weren't at @alexyquest.bsky.social's last book launch, you missed this! 🦀 Celebrate the release of their new book, Relic of Haven, with us this Saturday at 6pm!

I HAVE NEWS: I am now represented by Sara Megibow at Megibow Literary Agency! 🎉✍️

Monthly newsletter is out!! open.substack.com/pub/alexking...

Very cool list, & big congrats to ARB contributors @alexyquest.bsky.social & @inkstainedwreck.ca!

Semifinalists for SCI-FI A TRUTH BEYOND FULL by Rosie Oliver at @elsewhen.press EMPRESS OF DUST by @alexyquest.bsky.social at @wctracy.bsky.social HER GILDED VOICE by @kcaegis.bsky.social at @knighterrantpress.bsky.social

So many great books here, and I'm so excited that FOUR Space Wizard books are semifinalists! Congrats to @jalexandercohen.com for Talio's Codex @jawerner.bsky.social for The Witch and the Ostrich @alexyquest.bsky.social for Empress of Dust @robincmduncan.bsky.social for The Rigel Redemption

Bout to delta some runes m.twitch.tv/alexyquest42...

I loved this thoughtful, deep exploration of Lessons in Magic and Disaster! @alexyquest.bsky.social rules 😻🥰💘

Here's to the Freaks & Perverts: @alexyquest.bsky.social reviews Charlie Jane Anders' LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER, out now from @torbooks.bsky.social! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/26/h...

streaming #deltarune if anyone wants to vibe!! 🩷💙💚 m.twitch.tv/alexyquest42...

Highlights from @seattlein2025.org !! 🧵I was so busy at #WorldCon I didn’t actually take a ton of pics but here are some of my favorite things I did. Starting out with my academic talk! So many people showed up to hear me talk about robots!!!

"When Everything Has Rights" panel at #Worldcon = my kind of thing! #decolonial #RightsOfNature and touching on what if AI has rights. Excellent panelists include @annaleen.bsky.social @alexyquest.bsky.social Clara Ward @avani.bsky.social #Nature #personhood #SpecLit #WritingCommunity #SFF

A new name for the live transcribers that most of the @seattlein2025.org panel rooms have, courtesy of @alexyquest.bsky.social

Sci-Fi/ Fantasy Authors: Are you attending Worldcon Seattle? Don't miss Audiobooks 101: Streaming; Virtual Room 443-444, Thu. 1:30–2:30 p.m PDT Rebecca H. Lee (M), @alexyquest.bsky.social , Gabrielle de Cuir, Kim Iverson Headlee, @shiromispeaks.com @stefansecho.bsky.social seattlein2025.org

Great advice on submitting for short stories for publication from @alexyquest.bsky.social magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/true-confess... #scifi #fantasy

we live in a dystopia; can’t clean my house because I forgot the password for my fucking vacuum

Baby NEEDS milkies. Our fake true crime podcast just premiered. Cover art by @penofsteele.bsky.social And remember, if you get murdered…that’s on you, girl. open.spotify.com/show/6mVwg1t...

Grace Griego and I have been working for some time on a satirical true crime podcast. The pilot is finally out! Please enjoy the first episode of MURDER BABIES from @strongbranchpro.bsky.social Cover art by @penofsteele.bsky.social open.spotify.com/show/6mVwg1t...

Wrote this article for @interstellarflight.bsky.social about my time reading slush of @clarkesworldmagazine.com ! magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/true-confess...

I’m running for Cook County Commissioner in District 10 to make it easier to live in the city I love. Repost this video and visit drakefor10.com to help us win. #chicago #cookcounty #politics #illinois #government #vote #urbanism #transit #healthcare

Yippee!! So exciting to see EMPRESS on this list 🦀 The Queer Book Fair was SUCH a cool event and I’m glad I got to stop by 🥹

Murderbot and ART are truly the machine intelligences of all time

most egregious Google AI fuckup yet. you mean to tell me that the character Rouxls Kaard(ie RULE CARD) is a building block??? hello???

there should be shazam for smells. fucked up that you can be walking down the street and thing “what’s that smell?” and just…never find out

Stalin in a Flower Crown: @alexyquest.bsky.social reviews Eliot Borenstein’s UNSTUCK IN TIME: ON THE POST-SOVIET UNCANNY (@cornellupress.bsky.social)

Happy #FreeRPGDay! Swing by your local game store to get a copy of @9thlevelgames.bsky.social ‘s anthology, featuring a game by me :)

COVER REVEAL 🦀🪼! So excited to share the cover for RELIC OF HAVEN, the sequel to EMPRESS OF DUST. You can claim a copy RIGHT NOW by supporting @wctracy.bsky.social 's BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

i am once again out here talkin about crabs www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

It's Monday, and that means it's new Podmash day! This week, check out The Stench of Adventure from @strongbranchpro.bsky.social and your host Brady Flanagan of Rogue Life. Check it out here: mij.is/podmash-feed Or wherever you get your podcasts.

IT'S TIME. Listen to the Season 4 Trailer here: open.spotify.com/episode/6z8S...

meta keeping me apprised current events

what does it say about me that these are the target ads i get

Open Letter to Worldcon: Concerns about LLM usage in Panelist Vetting by Jake Casella Brookins, ARB editor and host of A Meal of Thorns ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/01/l...

sorry i can’t hang out tonight i’m busy haunting the narrative

the crazy thing about being a test prep tutor is im 27 years old and still stressed about the AP exams in May

A big #BBNYA2025 welcome to Empress of Dust by @alexyquest.bsky.social Welcome aboard and best of luck!!

Last day to join the game jam with my and @alexyquest.bsky.social new RPGs! Come create a new adventure! itch.io/jam/space-wi...

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my monthly newsletter for february is out now! Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/alexking...

every time i see one of those cat videos with the ai voice i think this

my #zinemonth project funded in less than an hour with only 2 backers!! anything is possible if you move the goal posts very close to you. thank you backers!!!!!