Hey! It’s a full moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. It’s a giveaway! Win an annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC and some moon-themed stickers! 🌚 Details in thread.

Allison is one of the most insightful critique partners and has a wealth of knowledge to share about book marketing!

I have a new book out today! It's a Sapphic steampunk western adventure about the dashing Karen Memery riding to the rescue as Annie Oakley's stunt double in a beleaguered early movie!

I finished the first draft of my WIP right before WorldCon and it got me thinking about the parallels with my other hobby: sewing. Check out 4 things I've learned from sewing and applied to drafting a novel. open.substack.com/pub/crkellog...

YEEEEEEEEEEEE!! I AM SO HERE FOR THIS BOOK!

Major FOMO re: #worldcon!! Half of our anthology's contributors will be there, so the ebook is more than half off! Grab a copy and say hi to @darylwriterguy.bsky.social @chriscampbell.bsky.social @fechoe.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @avani.bsky.social books2read.com/newyearnewyo...

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"How do I make these words work?" I ask, for the fifth time this morning.

can cats get assimilated

Summer: produce is fresh and my desire to turn on the stove is at an all-time low. Enter: Salad Nicoise. open.substack.com/pub/crkellog...

Today's drafting lunch: literally toasted white bread and this Genova tuna packed in lemon herb olive oil. She's perfect.

One of the many problems with a blanket buyout is that the people most likely to take them were senior employees with a lot of experience who had already vested in their pensions. Add in being overworked in a high stress job, and you've got a lot of vacancies in difficult, specialized areas.

Congratulations 🪼 and WELCOME 🪼 to the 🪼 new members of 🪼 the 🪼 family 🪼

My friend the INCREDIBLE @serenabellbooks.bsky.social has a book coming out 7/14 "Running Hott" and Barnes and Noble just listed it as one of the most anticipated indie July releases!!!!!! press.barnesandnoble.com/bnpress-blog...

I cannot even tell you how good Flickerstate is - I feel so privileged to have gotten to read an early draft. Watch out for F.A. Davidson, she is going to blow your mind. Our @viableparadise.bsky.social class strikes again!

I cannot wait - Laura is an INCREDIBLE writer and this book is going to be a delight 🍄 also this cover is absolute fire.

We couldn’t be more excited to share the stunning cover for Laura Cranehill’s WIFE SHAPED BODIES! The paperback, featuring illustrated French flaps, is out in April 2026. Preorder your copy now! Cover design by Ella Laytham (IG @ellaytham) Cover illustration by Kior Ko (kior.bsky.social‬)

🎊 And the Nebula for Best Novel goes to... SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN by @wiswell.bsky.social (DAW; Arcadia UK). Congratulations!!! #Nebulas2025 🥳🥳🥳

Oh guess I need the UK copy too

I'm so blown away by the UK cover for my debut, The Poet Empress! ❤️ Thank you @gollancz.bsky.social and artist Yohey Horishita for the absolutely stunning design! #ThePoetEmpress #fantasy #booksky

Instant preorder.

@brigittewinter.bsky.social's Youth Playwright Theatre NEA grant was cut a few weeks ago. For many young people in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, YPT provides their only creative writing and theater programming during the school day. Please consider a donation/boost. youngplaywrightstheater.org/give/

We are ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED to welcome @byzantienne.bsky.social and @valerievaldes.bsky.social -- both Viable Paradise grads and both amazing -- to the workshop faculty for 2025! viableparadise.com/viable-parad... Applications are open through May 15.

If I tried to write this as satire, it wouldn't work. Welcome to 2025 when ProPublica is the new satire! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

So much winning I can barely stand it!

What a steal!

I am so not at home for the "Oooh, this was just performative" sneering. You cynical humps of self-congratulation, the fucking Trumpists are performative ALL THE TIME. They set a vibe! Their vibe is "there is no law and we can break everything." God DAMN do we need a resounding counter-vibe.

Cory Booker was the first person I ever heard use the proverb "If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together." It's my thesis in today's Substack while at the same time Cory filibusters like a Democrat with a spine. Must be a sign. open.substack.com/pub/crkellog...

Would read the shit out of this.

New punk eco-fantasy TTRPG from @scryptidgames.bsky.social ❤️🐛🪼🌳

HWAT

New Substack post on a weepy read and roasting a chicken before winter is over! crkellogg.substack.com/p/ugly-cryin...

Can't say how much I needed this pep talk from @maxgladstone.bsky.social on Substack this morning. tinyurl.com/4rypmv8d

To save a missing child, two exes must reunite in their cryptid-obsessed hometown to investigate an unsolved mystery from their childhood. ❤️‍🔥Sapphic yearning ✨Genre-bending fun 👻Spooky small town mystery vibes 👽X-Files if Mulder and Scully were the monsters all along… #cupit #Q #A #LGBT #HOR #RM

In a climate ravaged near-future, a WWIII veteran accepts an offer to compete on a VR reality show to win money for her mother’s dementia treatment. 🗡️Battle-royale dating competition ❤️‍🔥Forbidden romance 🦹‍♀️A showrunner who will do anything to prevent her victory #cupit #Q #A #DTR

When I said our VP class was *stacked* I was not exaggerating.

Congrats to @lauracranehill.bsky.social whose book "Wife Shaped Bodies" was just announced from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social I can't wait for 2026! Our first @viableparadise.bsky.social 2023 book announcement!!

Congrats to @arleysorg.bsky.social and Shingai Njeri Kagunda on relaunching @fantasymagazine.bsky.social! I see that subscriptions are now open. psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

In this month (er...quarter's?) Substack: a writing exercise using scarcity! And "The Hunger" scares the shit out of me. open.substack.com/pub/crkellog...

My son and I are watching the #lions and #vikings game and he is very committed to us getting the No. 1 seed. "The #1 seed is the yummiest seed!" I'm not gonna tell him.

Goodreads Review: New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention by Elizabeth Bear My rating: 5 of 5 stars Short stories are one of my favorite art forms, but some readers don’t seem to like them. Perhaps, in school, all the…

Can't believe @sueburke.bsky.social reviewed New Year, New You! AHHHH thank you!

Today is Science Fiction Day and tomorrow is Free Fiction Friday. The holidays just keep on coming! Consider subscribing or buying your trolls a cup of space Joe. ko-fi.com/trollbreathm...

My almost 4-year-old got a dragon in an egg for Christmas and when he opened it, he exclaimed, "It's a Bone Hydra!" I guess we've been playing #hades more than we realized.

I created a Viable Paradise starter pack! It's a diverse list full of the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop alumni, faculty, and staff. Featuring authors of sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative short fiction and novels and occasionally fascinating non-fiction and essays. go.bsky.app/Sp3hnAw

Last year at @viableparadise.bsky.social I wrote a hellish little story about a couple who attend a music festival in the middle of the Mojave desert. That story will be included in Frontiers of Fright: A Southwestern Horror Anthology which is available for pre-order now! tinyurl.com/sp7wjty5

Guys! New Year, New You is hitting bookshelves this spooky season. If the falling leaves make you yearn for stories of shedding your own skin check out this anthology and maybe give it a rating on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Thrilled, though a little late, to announce that my unpublished manuscript The Stag Hunt won third place in the speculative fiction novel contest at PNWA this month!

My original comment of "Literal tears in my eyes" remains true.