A new episode of The Writer's Journey will be up on Thursday! I sat down with author, educator, and librarian, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and I can't even tell you how much we laughed! I could have talked with him all day! Links will be up Thursday! #booksky #podcast #writingcommunity

Also out today: A CITY DREAMING, the final act in @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social's Astra Black trilogy! "[M]agnificent...Few current authors can match the ambitious imagination of this powerful and thought-provoking trilogy." —Publishers Weekly, starred review! ⭐ awfulagent.com/ebooks/a-cit...

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME! The last book in my Astra Black trilogy, A CITY DREAMING, dropped today from @torbooks.bsky.social. I’ll be celebrating all week.

In case you missed it, the latest episode of ConFusion still confusing just dropped! An interview with 2026 GOH @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi1C...

THE BIG BAD BOOK OF KAIJU w. stories by @seananmcguire.bsky.social @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @jrobinsonauthor.bsky.social @scottsigler.bsky.social @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social Preorder from Barnes & Noble with 25% (code PREORDER25) off for members! ENDS TODAY! #BNPreorder tinyurl.com/BookOfKaiju

A friend texted me that "some Flour Rangers are obsessed with you online" ... *goes back to work* #rarelyonline

with stories by @tananarivedue.bsky.social @seananmcguire.bsky.social @kelleyarmstrong.bsky.social @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social and more!

CHICAGO! July 25th at Bucket O' Blood Books! Join me, SA Barnes, Maurice Broaddus, Christina Henry, Jonathan Janz, Pulitizer Prize winner Daniel Kraus, Nick Medina, Gus Moreno, and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr! We're gonna talk horror, sign books, and just generally misbehave! JOIN US!!

This was so much fun to record with @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social!

Tomorrow's my first official physio appointment. Help me afford the rest of my eight week treatment plan?

The last book in my Astra Black trilogy, A CITY DREAMING, drops soon. Since we did a book launch for the series, we thought it’d be fitting to do a series close-out party. A friend said, considering the series theme of community, we should call it our Interdependence Day celebration. So...

Thrilled to see @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @jasonsanford.bsky.social nominated for the 2026 Ignyte Ember Award and Community Award! Congratulations to all the nominees!

It's a bit late, but here is my review of @concarolinas.bsky.social ! The one for #StokerCon is forthcoming as both conventions were back-to-back. ko-fi.com/post/StokerC... #ConCarolinas #ScienceFiction @shereereneethomas.bsky.social @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @mochamemoirspress.bsky.social

Congrats to all of the finalists for the @theignyteawards.bsky.social, especially Erewhon's @lincodega.com's MOTHEATER, @leemandelo.bsky.social 's AMPLITUDES, and @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social for the Ember Award! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/current-fina...

I'm honored to be in the same sentence as my fellow finalists!

Fun and crazy day at Indiana Comic Convention. Signed some books, met some cool people (@mjgwrite.bsky.social @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @literaryhypewoman.bsky.social @kierstenwhite.bsky.social @katherinewashere.bsky.social) and talked about SF on some cool panels. Until next time, Indianapolis!

Y’all have no idea how nervous I’ve been about whether the last book in my Astra Black trilogy would land with readers. Especially after my editor said “that ending went batshit…in all the best ways.” [I won’t even tell you about how I hovered over my friend Jared Michael as he read an early draft.]

The many faces of me reading from “The Invisible Man: The Fire Next Time” (published in the Classic Monsters Unleashed anthology) for the Real Life, Revisited reading series.

Going live at 8:05!

CHICAGO! July 25th at Bucket O' Blood Books and Records! Join me, SA Barnes, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @christinahenry.bsky.social @jonathanjanz.bsky.social Pulitizer Prize winner @danielkraus.com Nick Medina, Gus Moreno, and @tvayyyy.bsky.social

I haven't had a chance to process this weekend, but I love my community.

Spent time with many old friends that I've loved for years and now I've met new friends and fallen in love again. What a love fest! So many thanks to @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social for honoring me with the perfect opportunity to connect with community. I'm so blessed. #community

Mo*Con must have started because my inbox has started filling up with memories. 🥹 Love and miss you @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social & fam! 💙💜💖

On this week's episode of Keeneversations, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social make a surprise (and surprised) appearance, and @marysangiovanni.bsky.social figures out what the word "Retirement" means to somebody like me. Available on patreon and Spotify. www.patreon.com/posts/two-ge...

When I needed to go down to Lyle Station to do some research for a story, my dude Corey Ewing (who once created a drink he called The Maurice Daiquiri aka The Daiqurice, which he described as "light and yet full of itself" ... so I'm not sure why we're friends) wanted to make a road trip of it.

🎧 Paranormal Payback by Kerrie Hughes, Jim Butcher @longshotauthor @jimbutchernews @kevinhearne.bsky.social @delilahsdawson.bsky.social @kerrielhughes.bsky.social #RRVirdi #RLKing #FaithHunter #KimHarrison @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @jblackstream.bsky.social @hollyblack.bsky.social…

This is going to be a great time. If you’re in Indianapolis, or in the mood to visit, go to Mo*Con and bask in the brilliance of all these excellent writers and thinkers. April 30 - May 3, 2026.

The Mo*Con Academy is nearly upon us. It’s hard to believe we started doing this in 2006. THIS IS OUR TWENTIETH YEAR OF DOING MO*CON! And my (former?) student, Rianna Butcher, made this flyer.

Two-week photodump: -day trip to Chicago to visit with foodie friends (Michi Trota and Alex Jennings) and have an impromptu photoshoot (thanks Nkechi Chibueze) -speech for the Tri-Literary Dinner (the Fortnightly Literary Club, the Indianapolis Literary Club, and the Indianapolis Woman's Club).

60% OFF The Voices of Martyrs audiobook www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

I still haven't seen anything from this org on this app yet tbh. kheprw.org/community-co... Kheprw is one of the most inspiring initiatives I've come across. At Co-op Cinci last October I had the Privilege to meet many of them. Socialists, Anarchists, DSA members of all sorts pay attention 1/

How it started. How it's going. 26 years today. [When we took the second pic, I reminded her of my proposal: "I can't promise you happily ever after, I *can* promise you that it will be interesting!"]

I SWEAR Y'ALL, I'M WORKING!

Just me hanging with RL Stine at the Ray Bradbury Center...

Behold the cover of Forged in FIYAH edited by DaVaun Sanders, a celebration of Black speculative fiction unlike anything seen before! Coming September 29, 2026. Cover art by Ernanda Souzà Cover design by Christine Foltzer us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

If you know Piper J. Drake, here is the fundraiser to help pay for her next round of chemo treatments. www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho...

For those wondering who we were bringing into the GenCon Writers Symposium as special and featured guests, wonder no longer… www.gencon.com/gen-con-indy... @tananarivedue.bsky.social @kundalinisteve.bsky.social @justinaireland.com @kwamembalia.bsky.social

In an hour or so, I'll be here with @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social , @edenroyce.bsky.social , @pdjeliclark.bsky.social and others! Come join us online!

How Black Gallerists Are Staying Resilient This Black History Month - Artsy

A friend helped me put into words my existential angst about Valentines Day: it's a manufactured holiday designed to create more Scorpios...

Locus Magazine forgot to add Spacefunk! on its list of 2025 recommending reading. I forgive them. Y'all can still read it, though. Available anywhere books are sold. Happy Black History Month.😁

Speaking of Voices… … my collection, The Voices of Martyrs, has been re-issued! Featuring a new cover by Ali and Damon Taziyah. These short stories are a mix of history, fantasy, horror, and sci-fi.

Believe it or not, the first Mo*Con was in 2006 making this year its 20th Anniversary! We can’t let that achievement go uncelebrated, so we’re bringing back some old friends and welcoming some new ones! Mo*Con 2026 runs April 30th (coincidentally my birthday) through May 2nd.

Read @Gabino_Iglesias’s review of THE MAP OF LOST PLACES edited by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social & @lesleyconner.bsky.social: “a solid group of stories that focus on place in very different ways... a very worthy journey.”

I'm honored to be part of a great and supportive team at the Oaks Academy who have worked so hard to bring the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library back to being a community jewel. www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-cul...

My latest Amazing Stories column. As we pass out of the 1/4 of the 21st century these are 23 underrated speculative fiction works. Weird and under the radar a few are out of print. All amazing. Featuring works by @brianevenson.bsky.social @jamesreich.bsky.social @sbdivya.bsky.social...

Next, Abagail’s Gethsemane by Wayne Brady and Maurice Broaddus (@mauricebroaddus.bsky.social). This story fills in Mother Abagail’s time in the wilderness, informing it with an incident (and a pandemic) from her, and America’s, past. This one’s brilliant.

Different publication! @mruthrobinson.bsky.social's "The Last God of Talam Dor" in GigaNotoSaurus is a heartrending queer tale of religious sacrifice and forbidden love, and how queer love was the sacred thing all along (in my reading).