I may be biased, but it sure is a satisfying little book to hold. 😊 Glad we could help make this moment happen!

We love to celebrate firsts on this crazy publishing journey! We're so excited to see The Color of Time out in the wild in just a few short weeks. Pre-order it now at shirakipress.com/cot!

A rare moment captured on camera: me holding my amazing client @millieabecassis.com's extraordinary fairy tale-in-space, The Color of Time...it's my first time ever to hold a physical copy of a client book! Celebrate with me, because this is very special and there will only ever be one first time 🎉

Excited to share that Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume 3 is an Aurora finalist in the Best Related Work category! Thank you to all those who voted, to @csffa.bsky.social & a huge congrats to all Aurora Awards finalists! What a STACKED ballot! Find the full list here: www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

Congratulations @ourmankoto.bsky.social for this well-deserved Locus nomination! And I'm so happy to be along for the ride, with a piece in this collection. 🎉

I just researched & wrote a chapter on the AI overlord dystopian scenario for #ADozenDystopiasAndHowToDodgeThem ...and the Bluesky tone is the one that's in line with the facts. AI is not a super genius. The singularity is not being coy. Our water supply's in danger, but humanity's relevance isn't.

THRILLED @kickstarter.com has chosen Year’s Best Canadian F&SF: Volume 4 as a #ProjectWeLove. PWL status is Kickstarter's way of “highlighting brilliant examples of creativity.” Far be it from me to argue. ;) We're $50 from our next stretch goal of interior art! Maybe YOUR pledge will put us over??

#ADozenDystopiasAndHowToDodgeThem went off to my editor last week, so now I'm plunging right back into the other nonfiction book I'm doing with Bloomsbury, #FromMushroomsToTheMoon. Fungus: there's more to it than you'd think! Spoiler, there's also some fungus in DYSTOPIAS 🍄

I tried to type "should I nudge her" but my phone changed it to "should I judge her" and, Autocorrect, I AM judging you for this. 😅

A fantastic series edited by a terrific gent.

You might want to check out the Kickstarter for the 2025 Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, just saying 👀👀👀

For those of you who missed it, here’s the video of our chat about the Vile Lady Villains UK launch! We have @darthj.uno reading from the book (some of my favorite Klytemnestra chapters) and @ajvanbelle.bsky.social asking some very interesting questions. www.instagram.com/reel/DWwqbGY...

In 2 hours (noon EDT, 9a PDT, 5p GMT) I will be joining my critique partner Danai Christopoulou's virtual launch party LIVE on IG for their book Vile Lady Villains. I and Kat, the narrator who voices Klytemnestra on the audiobook, will be asking Danai questions! www.instagram.com/danaiwrites/

Leonard and Frienard are celebrating spring 🌼

Today is a very special day, because it's release day for the UK edition of my dear friend and critique partner Danai Christopoulou's debut novel, VILE LADY VILLAINS. I am so excited for many more of you to read this delightfully unhinged masterpiece!

All these "writers must embrace AI" folks obviously do not know many writers IRL because we are some of the most stubborn and obstinate people on the face of the planet or else we would not persevere with writing against all the odds stacked against us 🤷‍♂️😂

My book is out today in the UK! If you like Shakespeare, this book might be for you. If you hate Shakespeare, this book might be for you. But if you hate Agamemnon… this book is definitely for you! www.penguin.co.uk/books/470416...

We should have a trans day of invisibility. Like, a day where its illegal for cis people to say anything about trans people

This will be amazing! And TWO of my incredibly talented clients are in the TOC of Your Body Is a Fever Dream!!! Congratulations @morkalmarrh.bsky.social and @whistberry.bsky.social 🎉

I'm in this one with Hatred Enthrones Me! I even made some art for it. Really a bucket-list success for me, and supporting a good cause. I may be perceived for one day only. The other 364 says you're SOL. #tdov

"But AI uses em dashes and semi-colons and figures of speech, so you can't use them in your--" Let me stop you right there. I don't give a damn what AI does. It will never impact the way I write. Ever. Nothing is less relevant to me than generative AI "writing" tendencies.

POV your nonfiction book's alphabetized list of content warnings ends with "...and zombies." #ADozenDystopiasAndHowToDodgeThem

as someone who has been involved in political and community organizing, if you're feeling helpless and want to start helping, the easiest + quickest way in is: 1. find your local mutual aid network 2. find your neighborhood association 3. go to a (city council/library/county/etc.) board meeting

The Extraverted Thinking experience of having to type out three paragraphs of thoughts to friends to come to my own conclusion. And it doesn't work if I just tell the same stuff to myself 🤣

BSFA members, remember to vote for the awards! Deadline is April 2. If you're a member, you have an email from BSFA in your inbox with a bunch of nominated stories, essays, and poems to read. Including my story "Of Seagrass Fins and Slippery Fingers"

Your AI. They'll have to wait outside. We don't want them here.

Ruin a movie by changing one letter: Claderunner, the tale of a taxonomist frantically trying to place a new species on the phylogenetic tree.

Excited for this!

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM Table of Contents will be announced on 3/31! In the meantime, are you looking for some New Weird Horror + More authors & books to support during the #transrightsreadathon? 🏳️‍⚧️ Tenebrous can hook you up! a 🧵 (1/?)

I had the chance to talk to Timber Ghost Press about horror...check it out!

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I'm singing along to the Grateful Dead while working on citations in #ADozenDystopiasAndHowToDodgeThem, and I'm pretty sure Harley and Bo are judging me

The story is called The Shipbuilder's Funeral, and it's all the grandeur of a Viking funeral in space, but with a twist (in addition to the fact that it's in space, that is!)

I'm in this anthology with one of my favorites of all the stories I've written, and I've just been informed there's only 6 hours left to preorder: www.kickstarter.com/...

I love you very much 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ #trans #art

Working on a discussion of cholera in the pandemic chapter of #ADozenDystopiasAndHowToDodgeThem reminds me of reading Love in the Time of Cholera and discovering there was hardly any cholera in it. False advertising! 😂 Don't worry, there will be (a little) cholera in my book.

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Since so many people have told me they want to read #ADozenDystopiasAndHowToDodgeThem when it comes out, I made a magical mystical Google form where you can sign up to be notified when it's up for preorder! Next post in the thread has the 🔗 !

As of right now, I am unironically promising myself that I get to reorganize my closet as a reward for finishing this book.

Petition to change refugee filing requirements to make it easier for LBGTQ+ American residents to seek seek safety in Canada.

The nominating period for the 2026 Rhysling Awards is officially closed, and nominations have been verified. Thank you to all the members who sent in nominations this year! a THREAD /1

Your reminder that I'm giving away 3 autographed copies of my novella, 'The Unbearable Taste of Fruit & Wine', to 3 lucky contributors to my breast cancer Go Fund Me during the month of March! An update & details are at the link. Please feel free to share widely! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

I'm ending every day with my brain full because I'm doing #ADozenDystopiasAndHowToDodgeThem all day, but I feel good about: -This book -Future nonfiction books -and the fiction I'll be writing next

We can’t take everyone from the States. But we should make a concerted effort to provide refugee status to trans people from the USA. What’s happening to them there is a hate crime.

The US cover of Vile Lady Villains (out from Union Square & Co on May 12) has now been officially revealed and I wrote an essay in @debutiful.bsky.social about it. Give it a read, if you will. debutiful.net/2026/03/06/s...

Check this out! Such a cool idea: 12 speculative fiction novels translated into English from languages that are underrepresented in our English libraries. So excited to read these! lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...

While writing #ADozenDystopiasAndHowToDodgeThem, I've found research that may have inspired the ghouls' longevity in Fallout, and I am SO excited by this find 👀👀👀

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

I may be closed to queries but am still taking conference pitches! Will be taking one-on-one pitches at the 2026 (Online) Texas Writing Workshop on March 6-7. Join me! Anyone from anywhere can attend. Learn more about the virtual writers conference here:

Love a high drama and high camp combo!