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.

Have just finished Abigail's Gethsemane by Wayne Brady and @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social from The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (edited by @cgolden.bsky.social and @briankeene.bsky.social), listening on @libro.fm. Holy shit, so creepy. What a #horror story.

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).

It’s the first #FridayReads of 2026! Hope it brings you good things. Anyway, let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) little monster full of friendship, magic, and ghosts. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

Tickets are on sale! I've been going to opera productions for nearly 25 yeaes and I'm incredibly psyched for this one. I'm going out for a supernumerary role (supers are background actors in opera productions) in the spring. Wish me luck! #blacksky

Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines… blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Marshall is such a great guy and does so much for community gofund.me/b65736a10

25 years of marriage means if you're staying in a hotel that has a land line in the bathroom, you're obligated to keep calling your spouse until they answer...or at least yell "YOU BETTER NOT BE CALLING ME FROM THE TOILET!" - - Yeah, my job here is done.

Not that I want Jeff's humiliation. I'm just a supportive friend.

When your business manager, who is also your wife, begins the update meeting with "Bruh," you know your antics are about to be reined in...

#FandSF #FavoriteStories Summer 2025 #Fantasy #SF Soul Rebel by @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social Afrofuturistic steampunk tale about the political conflict between the Maroons, Assembly of First Nations, and United States of Albion. Each chapter heading is an apropos title of a Bob Marley song.

Signed books & comics by @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @joerlansdale.bsky.social, @amandaheadlee.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @jeffstrand.bsky.social, @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social, @owenkingauthor.bsky.social, & more! Try finding those on Amazon! vortexbooksandcomicsonline.bigcartel.com

A new issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is here at last from new publisher Must Read Magazines! Featuring @nnedi.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @matthewkressel.net and @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social, @justinkey.bsky.social and more: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine...

Happy birthday to the timeless, ageless, Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social. She's ... kinda alright. #bestbestman

I am finally home for a few days in a row so you know what that means....rant time. How Booksellers Decide What to Sell: Why Aren't We Getting This Info Out About Libraries? raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...

I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...

@niadavenport.bsky.social has been an incredible part of the SSF community. She's someone who has helped many others, including myself. Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...

Flashback Tuesday: in case you were wondering what it's like raising my children (the college years edition)... Oldest: Hey, can you send me some money? I have some college expenses I didn't expect. Us: *sends money* Oldest: Thanks. *sends pic* (He's the 3rd banana from the right)

If y'all ain't karaoke-ing "Bohemian Rhapsody" with your editors, you're doing networking wrong. With @leeharris.net [To those checking our receipts, THESE ARE OFFICIAL BUSINESS MEETINGS, WE SWEAR!]

On the train to London for a variety of author and agent meetings and evening shenanigans with @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social.

This new has been a long time in coming, but it’s finally official: Wayne Brady and I are writing a book together! But first (if you want a peek at what the working relationship of me and Wayne is like), a story …