MAD SISTERS OF ESI is one of The Washington Post’s 10 best SFF novels of 2025. In the sheer amount of what gets published each year and what gets lost, this feels like a small, precious miracle ❤️

💀 Eight more days to send us your speculative novellas! 💀 Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy: COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

I sincerely think this is the best music video of all time

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

This book is so amazing and I can’t wait for folks to read it!!!

Big news: I am AGENTED!! Delighted to announce I'm officially repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at Donald Maass Literary Agency. But most importantly, I've signed alongside my incredible writing partner @faye-gabriel.bsky.social 💜💜💜 It can happen, folks. Just need to find your people ☺️

I’m so pleased and proud to announce that my writing partner @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and I will now be represented by Dylan Haston at Donald Maas Literary Agency @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social !

Trace Elements, a collection of essays about the Project of Science Fiction, by me and @adapalmer.bsky.social coming out March 24th 2026, available now for pre-order from all good bookstores www.amazon.com/Trace-Elemen...

Notes from a Regicide is still on sale for $3 on Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2xx5bch9 and Kindle: tinyurl.com/9zkt4khd. Sale ends on Sunday, so pick it up now if you want it!

Hey hey hey! My new novel Everybody's Perfect is available to preorder with a release date of June 30th 2026! (I'm linking to Amazon but you can preorder it from anywhere good books are sold) www.amazon.com/Everybodys-P...

There’s disempowerment in filling kids’ lives w/ stories in media whose vast production costs mean kids have nearly no chance of ever creating one in response. Consuming mainly screen media then trying to reply in prose leaves one floundering w/ unfamiliar tools. Reading empowers reciprocal creation

Read this book if you trust my recommendations even the smallest amount. It is so good, so precious, so wonderful.

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come. translatedhugo.org

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This shortlist is consistently amazing, and this year y’all knocked it out of the park!

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he was Native American too: Comanche. freaking TIRED of us being one of the highest statistics to succumb to homicide. "U.S. DOJ report: From 1992–2002, the rate of violent crime against Natives aged 25–34 years was more than 2.5 times the rate for all people of the same age."

During his graduation speech, NYU student Logan Rozos condemned Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the U.S. role in funding it. The university responded by withholding his diploma, calling his remarks “one-sided” and accusing him of “abusing a privilege.”

Yay! I have been wanting this book to exist for YEARS! bsky.app/profile/amal...

Read this in the past week. An "early contender for one of the best science fiction novels of the year." is about how I feel. A gorgeous book that I will be recommending forever.

monty python and the holy grail must now be remade frame-for-frame in columbus, ohio

April Subsidiary Deals Audio rights to Victoria Goddard's THE HANDS OF THE EMPEROR and AT THE FEET OF THE SUN, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure and Dylan Haston (World English).

As a big fan of Roseanna's writing, I highly recommend this thread on what she included in her voter packet. I also highly recommend her blog, and her writing on ARB, NoaF and SH. She is one of the people I turn to for thoughts on new and classic SFF, and whose taste I trust immensely.

In the shadow of the recent court decision, hopefully it comes out in my writing but: trans rights are human rights and 'biological sex' is a complex non-binary phenomenon.

It's been fascinating, Patterson's long trajectory from writer to brand to launch platform for celebs. They should speed up the cycle, get Yarros to co-brand the Rizzler's first romantasy

I can’t stop thinking about this framing when it comes to climate. And I don’t mean “doom” as in “I feel badly about this situation,” but as in “it’s too late.” Someone responded to my post about the impact of climate activism yesterday calling it hopium. Two people who follow me liked it.

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

my omelas response take is simply that stories in this genre should be known as omelettes

Hossam Shabat, a 23 year old journalist who documented the genocide of his people left a final message. shared by his team.

beating the near-dead horse again, please buy my trans novel before, you know... bookshop.org/p/books/okps...

We're getting meta with the book-clubs: @architamittra.bsky.social in on the podcast to discuss Jo Walton's AMONG OTHERS! Lots of discussion about magic, the double-edged sword of leaning on specific references, & the experience of growing up as a reader. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/03/24/a...

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Contains fascinating insights by @beccaschneid.bsky.social and statements of passing interest by me in regard to some great poems. Take a look!!

AMAZING AND CONGRATS!!!!!!! The chaos of this pitch completely communicates the chaos of this hilarious and awesome book. 🎉 Woop Woop! 🎉

MAD SISTERS OF ESI has a US cover! I'm so delighted @dawbooks.bsky.social kept Upamanyu's award-winning illustration but paired it with bold new lettering for a new format. Coming in hardcover August 2025!

Really cannot stress how good - and how profoundly depressing - this particular book is at this particular junction in history. Can’t think of anything that even comes close.

Myers-Briggs but good, alternate theories of historical development, coffee alt-history, queer game mechanics, the ideological choices of epic fantasy, and just a little bit on Yentl: @benjaminrosenbaum.com is on to talk about Laurie J. Marks' FIRE LOGIC! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/02/10/a...

Hugo nominations are open and I have only two requests: 1. Commit to picking 2 non-Tordotcom novellas for your ballot 2. For the love of all that is holy in this world, do not nominate adult/crossovers or middle grade books for the Lodestar - officially categorized YA only!

Via an announcement to the Science Fiction Research Association list, feminist hard SF author Joan L. Slonczewski has a new novel coming from Arc Manor in August, Minds in Transit, cover and blurb attached (Also, per their e-mail signature, Slonczewski uses they/them pronouns)

This meme but replace Week with Months!!! Preorder this amazing book!! It’s so breathtakingly good.

So glad this beautiful and strange book--which put me in mind of a space operatic PIRANESI (to be reductive)--is going to get more readers beyond South Asia.

I could not imagine a more perfect book for my first acquisition. I’ve been obsessed with @quicunquevult.bsky.social forever and I’m SO EXCITED to work together!

It's taken me a while, but I've finally pulled together my thoughts on some speculative poetry reading in advance of Hugo noms opening, and a list of 11 things I really enjoyed. readerofelse.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/o...

A bit 11th hour, but: it occurs to us that ARB and A Meal of Thorns are eligible to be nominated for the #HugoAwards! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/31/e...

Damned good review of a damned good poet. (1/2) lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...