Yay congratulations!

New story day! I wrote The Song Shines On during my residency at Banff (with excellent feedback from friends including @champwongs.bsky.social and @shewhoserenades.bsky.social) so it's dear to my heart 💙

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Thomas Ha, a man of mixed Korean/Irish ancestry who has fair skin, brown eyes, a five-o’clock shadow, and thick black hair worn short and swept back from his forehead. He wears a heathered charcoal tee and gold-tone wire-rimmed glasses. He stands in front of a tree and a building sided with unfinished wood; the building appears to be in near-darkness, although the light on him is bright and casts only soft shadows. He looks directly into the camera, smiling faintly.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Karlo Yeager Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican man with tanned skin, brown eyes, brown hair cut short, a short beard that’s mostly gray, and a well-trimmed mustache that’s about half brown and half gray. He wears glasses with black plastic frames, a V-neck white tee, and a tan aloha shirt with a pattern of toucans. He sits in a leather-backed chair with a decorative shelf and a computer monitor behind him. With his face in three-quarters view and his chin tilted down, he looks into the camera with a faint, soft smile.

Story Hour does not believe in April Fooling. Story Hour is no tricks, all treats. For instance, our April 1 guests are the seriously awesome Thomas Ha and Karlo Yeager Rodríguez. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT—and that’s no joke! @thomasha.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

With the end of the voting season, please let me share my award eligibility one more time. Thank you! 🙏🏼

Had such an incredible reading with the wonderful @lmanusos.bsky.social!! Her story "Unimagined Delicacy" was so so good that I felt myself become something else. The lingering sensations remain 🐙

Please read her story here!

I enjoyed it so much, I'm surprised at how much I liked doing voices! 👻

I can't wait to read this! So fascinated to see your take on romance!!

This looks so utterly incredible OMG

Cannot wait to read this!!!

Seasons of Glass and Iron Release Day! Dear Friends, It's here! Today's the day! Seasons of Glass and Iron is available wherever you get your books! In the normal order of things I should be where my book is – in a shop signing stock, or...

One day I'll remember how to post a newsletter at a time when people read their email but in my defence I am on a ship in the Pacific ocean & time is, among other things, a social construct from which I have been abstracted for the foreseeable future ANYWAY MY NEW BOOK IS OUT TODAY

First time doing a reading with the amazing @lmanusos.bsky.social !! Please tune in if you can!

For the lover: grief and despair
For the kings: crown and banner
"And what for me," I asked
Sounded the Voice: Tablet and pen

-- The Rubaiyat of Sadequain, Sadequain

+

Locus Is a Longstanding Bright Spot in Our Community - Reactor Let’s show up and support them the way they support us.

"Locus is authentic in a sea of commercial opportunism."

@fondalee.bsky.social writes about @locusmag.bsky.social's impact on SFF writers and readers across its fifty-eight years. And right now, the magazine needs our help:

Congratulations!! 🎉

Congratulations!!

Congratulations!!! I'm so happy the story got nominated!! 🫶🏼

I'm a Nebula finalist!!!!! "The Name Ziya" is a story I wrote at 22 for my Clarion West application but also to grapple my own thorny relationship with cultural names & assimilation. It took 3 years to publish; I am so proud it's my first award nom and so so thrilled to share space on this list 🥲

Congratulations Somto!!! I love that story so much 🥹

Our not-so-little story, We Begin Where Infinity Ends, is a Nebula Award Finalist. Infinitely grateful🪲✨🫶🏽

Spiritual paraphernalia inside a typical Bangkok taxi

Found the Autogas Ferryman irl

Real talk: The yantra on the ceiling is drawn by Buddhist monks to ward off danger/evil. The amulets and saisin strings are blessed and given by monks to also ward danger/evil.

All in all, I ought to feel very well-protected.

Khun Narin - "Chackim" YouTube video by Innovative Leisure

Can I introduce you to Thai psychedelic rock?
youtu.be/w-R3xKy_wmo?...

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"

arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

I love this!! I so want to visit Namibia to see the planets and stars mentioned here.

Also seeing my hometown mentioned sent me reeling: "In a quiet laboratory at Phuket Rajabhat University in southern Thailand" - so glad to hear news of coral conservation, esp heat resilient adaptations!

The Year in Review 2025 by A.C. Wise The Year in Review 2025 It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of another year, or at the beginning of a new one by the time this is published. Whatever else is going on in the world, reading contin…

In case you missed it yesterday, my Year in Review column for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available online, highlighting some of my favorite reads from 2025!

locusmag.com/feature/the-...

Scary and melancholy

Congratulations!! Can't wait to read it!

Congratulations Wendy!!! 😊

It would be my pleasure. Thank you!