The award for "Turning the Frogs Gay" goes to "Empress of Dust" by Alex Kingsley! @alexyquest.bsky.social

Thanks @armedwithabook.bsky.social for featuring EMPRESS OF DUST in your @specawards.bsky.social post! armedwithabook.com/2025-ssba-sc...

I wrote about WE WILL RISE AGAIN, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social , for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org 's 2025 Notable Books! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...

Okay it's award eligibility time! If you're a voter in any of these, please consider some of these things I've written this year. More info on each in 🧵

Another lovely interview with @alexyquest.bsky.social, this time with @marybuchanan.bsky.social over on the Her Ghosts blog. Read their conversation about representation, vulnerability, and mutual aid as treatment for mental health crises.

Thanks for your review of EMPRESS OF DUST by @alexyquest.bsky.social, @margaretadelle.bsky.social!

My friend Riley is getting top surgery and I’m so excited for them!! They need help covering rent while they recover. If you’re able, please donate what you can! gofund.me/55bfaf936

I got to chat with @indiosyncrasy.bsky.social about sci-fi and disability and transgender crabs during my interview about the @specawards.bsky.social 🙈 open.spotify.com/episode/3Jsf...

This interview between the @specawards.bsky.social winner in science fiction, @alexyquest.bsky.social, & SSBA influencer & BOOKED podcast creator/host, Saffron Asteria, is fantastic! Listen to their conversation about giant crabs, shower writing, alternative D&D, & more! youtu.be/OpdsOSMyYHs?...

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I was so excited to find out that EMPRESS OF DUST is nominated for Best New Novel by a Chicagoan in the Chicago Reader's Best of Chicago poll! chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists, and especially to @alexyquest.bsky.social!

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Wrote this article about @undertale.com for @interstellarflight.bsky.social ! It had been running around in my brain for so long that I had no choice but to put it into words. magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/dreamers-dem...

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

This is why it's important for you to remove source identifiers from links!!

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.