Whomst among us hasn't had a mother who scoops out her eyes with a spoon and lets us play with them? But that's just the beginning of @montanna-harling.bsky.social's story "Oleander".

So @misty.granades.com and I have been talking tonight and for SFF tv, this is my current #1 with Andor at #2.

Steam Backlog only it’s all the books I’ve bought and haven’t yet read.

Running short fiction magazines is hard, or so I hear. Here’s a list of three you can support if you’re so inclined, and I do hope you are.

I wasn’t prepared for Only Murders to make some very good Tumblr jokes.

Do you like queer speculative fiction? Do you want to help support my work highlighting, reviewing, writing, and discussing queer speculative fiction? Because I'll be reorganizing my Patreon soon and it's a great time to become a patron! www.patreon.com/c/quicksipre...

Boy, doing the math on that cost per word really puts a point on how much work that game was, huh?

Psst @choiceofgames.bsky.social games are in the Steam Autumn Sale! Mine, in which you teach magic in secret at a liberal arts college and certainly don’t summon potentially world-ending entities, is less than $6! That’s $0.000012 a word! store.steampowered.com/app/1766340/...

Excellent point. We have our no-AI policy for submitters of both words and art (smallwondersmag.com/submissions/) but haven’t explicitly spelled out that we don’t use AI in place of first readers, to summarize pieces, or to talk to our contributors or staff. We’ll add that to our site.

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Our co-founders went to sleep and woke up to ANOTHER STRETCH GOAL HIT! Thank you so so much—that's Issue 6 funded WHICH IS HALF OF YEAR 2 FUNDED!! AND it's only Day 2!? Let's see how far into our stretch goals we can go. We added a new one to the list 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

There are seasons of life when daily studio work isn't much of an option. A reminder to myself that being intentional is key.

They’ve almost funded! Your contribution could be the one that fully funds this exciting new magazine!

Happy End of @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social Panels to all who celebrate.

I was also Very Smart™️this year and wrote my FoF round up throughout the weekend, so I will have it up and ready for everyone tomorrow! If you would like it sent directly to your inbox, along with a sci-fi flash story and monthly updates from me, you can subscribe to my newsletter for FREE below:

Okay, listen, Haunted Hotel, it is very unfair for you to pivot to feels like that.

This combines two awful aspects of LLMs: slop as a service and scamming as a service.

Just finished my last Flights of Foundry panel! What an awesome con 💜 Play Again to Find Out has me thinking about what replayability—AND re-readability—look like and how to go about weaving that into a story both in games and fiction! also @valerievaldes.bsky.social and @granades.com are amazing!

Gonna continue hyping @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social panels that are done, because the Literary Spec Fic one that @swingingstorm.bsky.social moderated and that @vajra.me and @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social and I were on was lovely, and eventually devolved into us excitedly yelling about cool stories.

We just finished up the Speculative Flash Fiction panel! (I'm very good at promoting these after the fact.) @cjtavares.bsky.social brought the great questions, and @dianadima.com, @kaidelmas.bsky.social, and @howsweetthewords.bsky.social were super insightful.

The Andor panel was aces! Thanks to @itsamia.bsky.social for excellent moderating and to @carturo222.bsky.social, @molowrites.bsky.social, and @victormanibo.com for the great mix of insights into and glee about the show.

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Flights of Foundry writing conference (@flightsoffoundry.bsky.social) has begun. Join me online this weekend as we talk about the art and technology of writing craft. #writersky

First panel down! Big thanks to @mruthrobinson.bsky.social for excellent moderating and @rukman.bsky.social and @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social for great insights.

If you want to sign up for my chill-n-chat to talk writing or editing or game writing or, I dunno, giant robots, there's still time! flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/#sig...

Guess what starts today? @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social starts today! Here's where you can find me during the convention. Not yet registered for this fabulous online convention? It's free to attend! flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

We’re catching up on Alien: Earth and boy, having food and drink in the xenobiology lab is a great idea.

I understand the desire to run solicitation-based magazines. Submissions are exhausting, a core burnout driver. But without subs-based mags, there’d be no one new to solicit 👀✨ The work doesn’t go away—it is redirected to other editors in the ecosystem, who are critical to finding new writers.

I set up a Google Alert on my name back in the blogging days (pre link pings!) and it alerts me so seldom now that I forget about it and then today it decided to jump scare me.

Do you need a pep talk today to go make things? Here it is!! #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings

Calling all Flights of Foundry Flock! We're looking for volunteers! It takes a lot run a convention. Want to see behind the curtain, meet cool people, and be a part of what makes FoF great? We have several different roles and we'll teach you what to do. flights-of-foundry.o...

Ever wondered how the Booker Prizes judging process works, what the judges are looking for and how they think about the books they read? 🧵👇

In cleaning up I unearthed a blast from the past.

hidden.

We’ve been watching “Murder, She Wrote” from the beginning and it’s a continuous exercise in me saying “what?!? José Ferrer is in this episode?” *search search* “José Farrer was married to Uta Hagen?!?” I thought I understood the ‘80s acting landscape and yet I am a babe in inconsistently-lit woods.

uggh, why do I release software tools that I have to maintain, I'm going to stop doing that* * narrator: they will not, they are in fact readying a new tool as I type

Bruno is whip-smart about interactive narrative and has the rare ability not only to have insightful takes, but also to turn those into actions to fix what's broken as well as help newer folks learn along the way.

Prepping for my @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social Andor panel like I’m a Vulture recapper with an old-school tweet’s worth of words for each episode.

$2.99 a month for some really amazing stories and poems, right in your inbox! store.smallwondersmag.com

This is a lovely, bittersweet story about being called and what happens when that calling leaves.

We’re into year three of @smallwondersmag.com and the experience of reading a story and becoming so excited that you want to publish it immediately has yet to grow old.

Oh hey, we spot a Small Wonders story in there! timothyquinn.bsky.social's The Warfighter in issue 23! smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-wa...

Take a break today for whimsy, somewhat mad science, and cats. Discover the secret ingredients in "Dr. Hypha's Laboratory" by Brian U. Garrison:

I miss when the big news of the day was another dingus leaking information on the War Thunder forum.

So excited to share this new work with you! #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtJournal #ArtBook #Collage #CollageMaker #AbstractWatercolor

Auto-cannibalism, transformation, messy family relationships and more: "Erysichthon’s Daughter" is a story that has it all and holds it all together wonderfully. Read this story by M.R. Robinson in our issue 21 today:

Something has gone awry at the faire this year, and Princess Lilaclaire is not having a great time. Check out "Princess Lilaclaire and the Witch's Frog Faire" by @indigorue.bsky.social today and see what happens when the frogs just aren't cooperating:

Today needs a meet-cute involving a malfunctioning magical toaster. If you agree (and you should) you'll want to read "The Appliance Crisis" by Beth Goder in our issue 21:

When humanity is gone, what will happen to the guardians left behind? Our reprint today is "The Last Sentinels" by Dawn Lloyd:

A to-do list is a dream my brain makes.