Recent posts by Speculative Fiction Writers and Editors on Bluesky

all of us who write super erotic (especially queer) books are about to enjoy (derogatory) the extreme limits of chatbots as these books say fucked up shit about our work without our control

Signed up a bajillionty and one books @boulderbookstore.bsky.social, so they can go live under trees for a bit. Hope they find y’all.

An enraged Ilya walking into the club to tatu was fucking hilarious.

I don't know if cats do new year's resolutions but I am going to suggest to @fiascothecat.bsky.social that he resolve to stop lunging out of nowhere and licking whatever is on my breakfast toast That would be a great resolution I think

...ok but how do I get a pendant with a snippet of Setophaga pinus genome? It's the pine warbler, they're not like big or flashy but one male used to hang out with me all the time in North Carolina and we don't have them here in northern California.

In response to the events of 9/11, the National Security Agency built the most extensive surveillance system in history. Episode 4 of our podcast ‘Aftershock’ explores what happened when what was sold as a counterterrorism measure was turned on American citizens. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

I'm seriously considering buying another mini right now so I have a dedicated whistle printer until this is all over. I'd ask y'all to talk me down but I have no faith in your ability to do so and also I don't want to be talked down. LOL

Do you have to get a gift for someone--you don't know a lot about them, but you know they like mysteries? I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU: www.tiktok.com/@maureenjohn...

Friday night…

Also my friend Lenée needs help making sure things are squared away before she has surgery. We need to care for Black women while they're alive and help them stay that way.

My friend and brother Mohamed got banned from BlueSky because they hate people trying to live. It was just before a major storm rolled over Gaza. Please help him repair the tents his family lives in: chuffed.org/project/help...

I am really glad that Tor is perpetually happy to sell my queer books, because this is making me so mad.

Ilya saying Florida is full of Boston people made me giggle. I finally made it down there and I was like wait this is just humid New Hampshire.

Sometimes I remember the days when a box of romances would come in the mail for my grandma and how we would read them and how-if she were alive-i would have to explain why i wouldn’t sign up to her fave publisher. Rachel Reid should be rolling in it right now.

Reddit is serving me ads for a $400 wool shirt that claims to be "workwear" and the co-option of blue collar working clothes into a goddamned fashion style that people pay $400 for makes me want to scream. At least subsidize us regular manual laborers by buying the brands we wear.

On today's episode, I'm flying green.

‘Not only are the written records patchy and laconic, but transatlantic Catholics tried hard to conceal their beliefs. Jesuit missionaries went under assumed names and said Mass in locked, shuttered rooms.’ @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on Catholics in colonial America. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #AWizardOfEarthsea by Ursula Le Guin #BookSky Are there any lessons learned from A Wizard of Earthsea that can be applied to contemporary life and the current challenges? Explain.

#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #AWizardOfEarthsea by Ursula Le Guin #BookSky "From that time forth [Ged] believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, ..." (2012 ed., p. 98). Do you agree? Why or why not?

Readers and Viewers: I can’t believe HQN didn’t print more copies of Heated Rivalry! Every Romance Author who’s been here for more than 5 minutes: Oh we can!

Cheap SF! "Too Like the Lightning": Here's the ebookdaily version of the $2.99 sale on the ebook: ebookdaily.com/bargain-kind... @torbooks.bsky.social

the rant bubbling up inside me about publishers demanding rights they have no intention (or sometimes ability) to exploit is.... whew

#MidnightSomewhere by #JohnnyCompton is featured in yesterday's #newbooks haul on youtube! full video: youtu.be/Baom_nB71FA buy the books: bookshop.org/lists/n... #booksky @blackstonepub

I would never trust a Trump-themed condom to provide any level of protection.

apnews.com/article/nati... national park gift shops ordered to purge merchandise promoting DEI

This should be flagrantly illegal.

apnews.com/article/trum... sued by preservationists seeking architecture review over White House ballroom project

My latest interview. This one with Gary Wolfe, whom I’ve know for, like, ever. Was still recovering fron my jet lag after flying back from India (worst jet lag of my life, 😮‍💨😅), so who knows what the hell I said. jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e/episode-70...

We mourn the passing of SF great John Varley with a look back at his impressive body of work, from the Eight Worlds series to his brilliant short stories. What was the first Varley story you ever read? Which books are your favorites?

Still time to get "Too Like the Lightning" on sale for $2.99 on all e-book platforms today, to enjoy some chewy, ideas-rich hopepunk SF!

Want to read some intense, ideas-packed #hopepunk sci-fi with complex world building and a hopeful future? It's not too late to get the "Too Like the Lightning" e-book on sale for $2.99 today, on sale on ALL e-book platforms (Kobo, Nook, Kindle) including ebookdaily.com @torbooks.bsky.social

‘Surrealism underwent a different sort of assimilation in the postwar United States; as early as the 1950s some of its subversive devices were turned into seductive gimmicks by Madison Avenue ad men and Hollywood movie directors.’ Hal Foster on Surrealist anti-fascism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

You can check out this Fallout recap written by a person as opposed to, hypothetically, one generated with AI with tons of misinformation

Today I lobbed off @aptshadow.bsky.social's introduction to my agency for adding to the Dominion of the Fallen reissue, and belatedly realised that I'd never sent out a newsletter So yeah Adding that to scheduling FYI currently in hyper vigilance watch, have no sleep. Emails will be slow

Oh heh did anyone want review copy? Review copy!

The scissors (I'm afraid k1 took one look at them and burst out laughing)

first one then the other, not in that order

I'm about to be totally normal about this book, just like I was totally normal about the first one.

By my reckoning, if you want to order a book for us to dispatch before Christmas, you have seven days to do so. Next Friday at 3.30 is the cut-off for us to dispatch orders on the Monday, which SHOULD arrive on Christmas Eve. So, no going home just yet, you need to order some books first.

Me buying fiskars kids scissors for my crochet because hopefully I can take them through airport security (and if I can't it won't be an expensive loss)

Many a big rig rig will be wrecked. And not all rest stops survive:

We joke about the timelines diverging at this moment but don't forget that in the other place the glaciers have come to life and captured Maine and upper Michigan. But we will not let the glaciers win!

Just want to say I appreciate those who have been patient with me during my grief for my close family member, which knocked me off my axis this autumn. I'm in a better position than I was, and ready to be stronger in the new year.

Vote for The Librarians! 📚💙

THIS WEEKEND! This course will examine the effect that dialogue in all forms and methods—narratively, temporally, syntactically—manipulates both tension and movement within a scene. Generative exercises included! Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/fall...

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share some books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a tale of magic, friendship, storms, old gods, revenge, crime, and creatures from beyond the reef… www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

Ohmigod My Wednesdays and Fridays are amazing.

Finished @freyamarske.bsky.social's CINDER HOUSE and ooooooof Such a good retelling of Cinderella and I admit I didn't expect the twist with the princess!!!! (everyone involved in that relationship is so cute)

Big Sir Pounce energy

I forgot to do the good news thread! Quick! What's your good news from the week? Whats made you smile?

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‘It’s not just that he taught the world how to rig up a lightning conductor (he installed one on his own house and another on St Paul’s Cathedral). He was master of the theory too. Kant called him “the Prometheus of recent times”.’ Ferdinand Mount on Benjamin Franklin. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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settling down with tea and hot cross buns wondering what film to watch

Hello friends, Your librarian here with a tip. The library has all sorts of cookbooks for you to check out. There are also cooking magazines on the digital app (Libby, Overdrive, Hoopla) that you can read, as well as back issues. You can screenshot recipes. Happy cooking!

Gooooood morning my friends!

Not gonna read this because I still haven't started watching, but I trust Carly so much I'll repost her without having clicked, truly my highest honor.

One last deal before the holiday break, one of my clients is breaking into kid-lit nonfiction! 🎶

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Fallout Season 2 premieres next Wednesday, December 17th, and the Reactor team has crawled out of our nuclear dens to recap everything you need to know before you start watching ☢️ #Fallout

This is an outstanding review for an excellent film—both of which put a love of mystery fiction front and center

NYC Friends: Join the ALA IRC United Nations SDG Subcommittee for an in-person program with UNESCO and IFLA during WSIS+20. Learn why this global review of digital access, information equity & ICT policy matters for libraries. Dec. 16 | 1:20–2:40pm CUNY Graduate Center www.ifla.org/events/doing...

I have amassed a drawer full of specs over the years: prescription changes, ill-advised flirtation with frameless, all that. They feel more personal than clothes, harder to part with. Is that just me? I’ve finally decided to give them all to charity.

Here's why Pluribus's costume designer watched The Walking Dead and researched Barbara Cartland to create the show's wardrobes: #pluribus

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‘Trump, the genius of détournement, delights in saying out loud what the “lunatic left” is accused (by Trump’s friends) of whispering behind its hands. You can feel him daring his real enemy – the media mainstream – to repeat the charges.’ T.J. Clark: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Happy Holiday Shopping Season Friday! Remember, buying your gifts at a small business like an indie bookstore means you're really giving 2 gifts at once; whatever the actual thing you bought AND support for a more humane & sustainable economy! (You don't have to write that last part on the card)...

I've always said that Spartacus needs more characters with an "old married couple" vibe. Graham McTavish (Outlander, The Witcher) spoke with @vanessa-armstrong.com about playing Korris, a role written especially for him: #Spartacus

You can now watch the entirety of our event with @rianjohnson.bsky.social and A. J. Finn on YouTube, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij9O...

Yes!! Down Cemetery Road gets a 2nd season! www.threads.com/@appletv/pos...

‘It’s not about reducing the number of visas that are issued. It’s about treating people differently once they’re already here on the path to settlement – and basically treating them worse.’ @colinyeo.bsky.social on the politics of migration, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

it's not just appropriating someone's artwork (important as that is!); it's also reframing these incredibly sheltered comemierdas, who shift all the risk and consequences from their decisions onto others while hoarding the profits, into this position of casual, almost heroic precarity.

Apparently this is the last day! Murderbot plus Witch King and more Humble Bundle! 14 books total and charity is World Central Kitchen.

He just quotes a joke only he was present for over & over to people who have no idea what he’s talking about. Pennywise just cracks himself up constantly doing a reference at terrified nerds who don’t actually get it like yeah I guess stuff does float in the sewer bub? Kind of focused on the teeth

Deleted that post bc there’s trouble and then there’s Trouble.

*whispers very quietly* Luigi erasure

Rewatching the old (very underrated) IT miniseries & realizing the whole “they all float down here” thing came from Georgie in the first place. Old Grandpa Pennywise was really like “oh that’s so good what a line I’m gonna run that joke into the ground so hard you guys”

I can’t stop thinking about how Pennywise is such a weird old dude he saw ONE show ONE TIME and was like “that’s the greatest thing ever I’m gonna go way too hard on it & make it my whole identity forever”

I pretty much blame Reagan for everything. And in this case, he nominated 4 of the 5 justices who destroyed American democracy. A one vote margin fucked everything. And it baffles me that the Dems never really tried to reform (or even criticize) SCOTUS.

Obviously I’m watching Welcome to Derry, which on paper I should HATE. When I heard it involved the military trying to find Pennywise I thought “oh fuck off then” but I’ve enjoyed the hell out of it. Each season a different interlude? Oh come right in, sir/madam

All the worst people.

Sad news: she was so very kind to me when I was starting out. Clever, kind, rather grand, but ready to tell the most scurrilous store of industry anecdotes once you got a couple of glasses of red wine inside her...

It is honestly hard to answer that with reasons to come, short of some necessity. Fortress Amerika. Keep Out!

‘There are those for whom art is all about subjectivity, but for Schopenhauer art is all about escaping from it. When we encounter a work of art, desire drops away and we are able for a blessed moment to see a piece of the world as it really is.’ Terry Eagleton: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

When there is SO much shit thrown at the wall, it is very hard to choose a ‘biggest story.’ Maybe the biggest story is that nonstop shit is being thrown at all the walls?

MERRY KEZ-MAS! I accidentally created a crime-thriller series. I LOVED writing about Dr Kez Lanyon so much that I had to do it again and again. Currently writing Kez Lanyon Book 4. You can buy Every Smile You Fake & Give Him To Me now and pre-order The Quiet Girls. Have a very merry Kez-mas! 🤶🏾🎄😍

Highlights heading north from visiting friends in San Diego back home to LA on the @amtrak.com Pacific Surfliner train, with a lovely view of bays, wetlands, lagoons, the Pacific Ocean, surfers, etc. before turning inland.

‘Projecting power in Latin America is an established preoccupation of Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser, Marco Rubio. And it has been on Trump’s mind since his first term.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on Trump’s National Security Strategy. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Absolutely stuffed myself with steak and eggs.

I love the barn at Charleston and remember when cows would interrupt your event. I'm delighted to be returning there next year and hope the cows and you can join me. Tickets on sale today! www.charleston.org.uk/event/an-eve...

Bucky and the Bucs were not a hit last night. (We’d cleverly stashed the very good Bucky Irving on our fantasy team through his long injury for just this moment, first round of the playoffs. He coulda stayed stashed. Now @derrylm.bsky.social has a legit edge on us going into weekend. Drat, etc.)

Less than 12 weeks to go...

"The world we live in doesn’t have to be like it is now. The absurd level of inequality we see is not a fact of nature." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

This is such good news. In the bookseller also: www.thebookseller.com/news/waterst...

(My very first tassels, well, my second third and fourth. The first one was given to a kiddo because it was a bit wonky. But perfectly serviceable I'm told)

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