Hope a Newton biography appears soon! 📚📖

I’m starting the project up slowly this year - likely fortnightly to start with. And I’m on the lookout for contributors - so if you love short stories, and can show that love through a selection of just twelve (12) of your favourites, then please get in touch!

Hello! We have a whopping _three_ new entries for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction, all pertaining to critters from Deneb. 1940s onwards, common '50s, now rarer, like many such terms. sfdictionary.com/view/2759/de... sfdictionary.com/view/2760/de... sfdictionary.com/view/3056/de...

I love how many academics are here. Carry on, you brilliant people, you!

$72 trillion. Plundered. Over 50 years, wealth was systematically transferred from working people to the billionaire class. That wasn’t “the market.” That was organized money destroying and plundering America. Find the whole convo w/ @harveyjkaye.bsky.social at links in comments

Music legend and national treasure, Dolly Parton, Christmas’ wishes 💙

Merry Christmas cuties 🎄📚

“Criminal syndicates are recruiting Africans to help Russia replenish its army… [after] years of war in Ukraine. Hundreds of Kenyans, many with no military training, have been lured to Russia with false promises of jobs…to find themselves deployed in the fighting” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Ships with freakin’ lasers!

Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive are seeking applications for a Marketing Director. Find out more at deepvellum.org/news.

Hit me up if you want a galley if Maya Kornberg’s forthcoming book STUCK: “The longest U.S. government shutdown in history is over. The 43-day shutdown reminded us just how stuck our government is…” read more at the link below.

Reporters, scholars across disciplines, critics—if you’re pushing boundaries, and doing important work, get in touch. And share with others, for discovering what books we can do is paramount nowadays. I’m excited to learn something new, and help you bring it to market.

Wow, I'm guessing this type of thing isn't only happening in Tennessee. Sound on.

Win a signed galley of @matthewjdavis.bsky.social's BIOGRAPHY OF A MOUNTAIN. It couldn't be easier to win one! @publisherswkly.bsky.social says: "Davis pegs Mt. Rushmore’s story as one of disputed claims and hidden origins…A diligent effort to present a fuller representation of a murky past.”

So much happening for @pageonem.bsky.social authors and experts this week. Go read/listen and check it all out. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

“If we think in planetary terms things are terrible but at the local level it’s much more complicated than that. Our choices matter because they make us the moral beings that we are.”—Sunil Amrith

In response to @gilbertking.bsky.social’s question about how books are capable of fostering peace: “Compassion is a function of the imagination,” says Kaveh Akbar

Opening night at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

I voted early and now I’m heading to the dentist to get my check-up. Take care of yourselves, friends, and VOTE!!

Infections in general in pregnant women pose a risk to fetal brain development. Covid infection during pregnancy is associated with 30% higher risk of neurodevelopmental condition in children. 🧪 www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...

Holy crap.

Applications for our Early-Career Journalism Fellowship are now open! The fellowship, a joint undertaking with @thephilanthropist.ca, provides one Black and/or Indigenous journalist an opportunity to write about issues that matter to their community and civil society. thelocal.to/early-career...

MIND GAME paperback out tomorrow! Which means TODAY is your last chance to feel smug about having preordered and supported me even *more*. Please consider snagging your copy today

Here we have @lmchervinsky.bsky.social talking about early American history in the middle of Manhattan she has the crowd literally going, “wowwwww!” Speaker extraordinaire!

Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.

Quite a crowd at Bryant Park to hear @vluck89.bsky.social talk about BUILT FROM THE FIRE, his Dayton Literary Peace Prize award winning book.

We need to be talking more about the other stat in this article, that literacy has dropped 1% in the U.S. in 20 years. That’s 340,000 fewer people who can read! This is a catastrophic loss for a country that already had 20% of people illiterate: bit.ly/4mUn94C

Happy publication week to Nicole Nehrig and our friends at @wwnorton.com! So much great press for WITH HER OWN HANDS this week and so much more to come. Great work by @poppyhat.bsky.social and Erin Lovett! 💕📚💕

@radiofreetom.bsky.social‬ in fine form: "As it turns out, the people who pioneered the slogan 'Fuck your feelings' are impossibly delicate souls."

Kirkus Reviews gives a **starred** review to Barnett Newman: Here, calling it "an impressive, nuanced study" of the "groundbreaking" artist. Available for pre-order now and releasing in North America on Oct 28. bit.ly/47kXei7

We will be publishing cultural criticism every day at The Rumpus. We hope to fill some of this egregious void being created by the mainstream media. Relaunch is in October but we are also publishing between now and then.

For @thebulletin.org, I spoke with @sangernyt.bsky.social about how cyber operations are reshaping geopolitics and the future of warfare and what the United States can do to prepare for the next breach. thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

Lmao Brad Lander up here doing Vince Carter dunks

Our very first “Page One Picks” roundup is live! These authors are making headlines and shaping conversations around the world! Congratulations on a great week, @timweedwriter.bsky.social, @gretchensisson.bsky.social , and @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social  #Page1MediaPR #LiteraryPR #BookMarketing

#STEMsky! 2030STEM x BWF Fellowship. They’re looking for people committed to increasing inclusion in STEM across sectors = academia, industry, policy, government 2030stem.org/fellowship-1 Deadline August 1, 2025

It’s the last three hours to apply for the @pageonem.bsky.social book publicity grant. Link to apply in the email post below.

Happy Father's Day and Graduates! P1M authors have some great options for gifts for the dads and grads out there.  Featuring @lmchervinsky.bsky.social, @europaeditions.bsky.social,   @timweedwriter.bsky.social, and @tophermcd.bsky.social #fathersday #booksky #graduation

We very rarely work on films (we’re book people here) but this documentary cannot be denied and we couldn’t say no to its mission. Now streaming on Kinema with all proceeds going to fight family and domestic violence.

Vermont Public Radio interview with Mitch Wertlieb about THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT What an incredibly fun and interesting live conversation with Mitch Wertlieb on Vermont Public's Vermont Edition! We talked about the inspirations and scientific research behind THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT, time travel,…

This is Kristi Noem admitting that Homeland Security is currently occupying Los Angeles, not to protect citizens, but for purely *political* reasons. Yes, she really is that stupid.

Just under two more weeks to apply, folks! #writergrants

Happy book birthday @timweedwriter.bsky.social!! #scifi fans if you liked STATION ELEVEN or THE NEW WILDERNESS, run don't walk to your indie bookstore and grab THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT! 💕📚

Nashville friends, this is tomorrow night at 6pm!

Check out the Page One team's great, good work from last week! 📚📻🗞️📝📚

Friends, authors, colleagues, there's only two more weeks to apply for our P1M book publicity grant. That's a completely pro bono campaign for an underrepresented writer. Don't hesitate, apply, or tell a friend to apply!

Friends, read an excerpt of @timweedwriter.bsky.social's new novel, THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT! I promise, it will be time very well spent. Enjoy!

What an awesome offer from @crystalking.com. And her substack is very much worth subscribing to, so it's a win-win!