Thank you to the #sfincs #sfincs3 reviewers who donated their time and attention to all these amazing books, and congrats to all the other finalists, especially winner @jessicaamcminn.bsky.social !
Check out the full list so you can find your next favorite author www.sfincscompetition.com/sfincs3
I was honored when it placed in the top 25 out of 100 amazing novellas. I was floored when it made the top 10. And now I'm completely gobsmacked to learn it placed 3rd, since it can be a challenging read w heavy subject matter & deliberate pacing
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third annual speculative fiction indie novella championship badge with the word "finalist" crossed out and "Third Place!" written in.
Book cover of A Hunger with No Name by Lauren C. Teffeau featuring a starlit mountain valley with a mysterious figure illuminated by firelight
Thrilled to learn my environmental fantasy novella A Hunger with No Name, (which came out fall of 2024 from @utampapress.bsky.social), placed THIRD (!) overall in the third annual Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (#sfincs3 #sfincs)!!
I'm running a giveaway for THE COLOR OF TIME, my sci-fi short novel forthcoming May 19, 2026 at @shirakipress.com 🐍
- 5 paperback copies (for residents of the U.S. and Canada)
- 20 ebook copies (open worldwide)
Enter now 👇
Two authors at a table, Lauren C. Teffeau and Brian D. Hinson. Long-haired white guy author speaking.
Me and @teffeau.bsky.social speaking at the Albuquerque Science Fiction Society
"Birds see fast enough that TV is a just slideshow of still images but slow enough they can see which direction the stars are moving" is really doing a number on me
I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.
A Publishers Marketplace Deal Report: Epiphyte by Hailey Spencer Imprint: Creature Author of the poetry collections Stories for When the Wolves Arrive and Glass Labyrinth, Hailey Spencer's Epiphyte, in which a grad student wakes up in a fairytale forest with her estranged childhood best friend, and they find themselves trapped in a story that can only end in death for one of them unless they use the rules of fairy tales to find their way back to their real lives. To Amanda Manns at Creature, with Krysta Winsheimer editing, in a nice deal, for publication in summer 2027, by Gabrielle Harbowy and Marisa Corvisiero at Corvisiero Literary Agency (world).
Congratulations to Hailey! EPIPHYTE is cottagecore sapphic feminist horror, full of grief and longing. It had me in its spell immediately. I can't wait for you to read it.
Absolutely wild how fast a year can go
The federal government should not decide what your kids are allowed to read.
Oppose the Federal Book Ban bill!
Sign the petition and defend the freedom to read.
action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
One year ago yesterday, we posted an open submission call on the Clarion West Discord server. A year ago today @teffeau.bsky.social submitted her manuscript to us. And on 3/3/26 we published Accelerated Growth Environment.
Jorna’s story reminds me that our pasts do not define our futures.
“Why does [insert thing here] suck now” is reliably answered by a) private equity, b) AI, or c) both
The reclusive trustee of an old Victorian residence hires the son of a hedge witch for a singular task: to make the estate's roses bloom, for the first time in decades. As Louis and Ethan grow closer, they become increasingly desperate to break the garden's bloodthirsty curse... but the garden isn't letting them go without a fight.
WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out now! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr
#booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance
Authors Lauren C. Teffeau and Ursula Vernon before the Retelling the Tales panel at the 2026 Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University.
Another photo from the even came in courtesy of Craig Chrissenger. Next year is the 50th anniversary: my.enmu.edu/jack-william...
nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle
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We love Bookshop.org and you should too ❤️
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Join me and @travelinbrian.bsky.social at the Albuquerque Science Fiction Society this Friday to celebrate the release of Accelerated Growth Environment and Brian's debut Skies of Fire and Smoke! www.bubonicon.com/calendar/eve...
25,000 Americans have signed the petition against the Federal Book Ban Bill!
Were you one of them?
Sign today and don't let the Federal Government ban books in your local library!
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Happy book birthday to WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu, new from @shirakipress.com !
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it's always a blast!
Landscape as character panel with Arkady Martine, Lauren C. Teffeau, Sarena Ulibarri, and Rebecca Roanhorse
Had a great time last week at the Jack Williamson Lectureship hosted by Eastern New Mexico University! laurencteffeau.com/2026/04/13/j...
WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out today! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr
“A lushly written novella full of intriguing magic and love of all kinds.” —E. H. Lupton, author of the Wisconsin Gothic series. They say the stolen rose blooms best. When Ethan Keating Mendoza is hired as a gardener at an old Victorian residence in central Indiana, he has one clear mission: make the roses bloom. Ethan's life is roses--he's the son of a hedge witch and a partner in his father's rose growing business--but he has no magic himself. The Kilbride estate is wild and overgrown. The roses have not bloomed in decades, and Ethan fears he may be in over his head. Worse still is Louis, the peculiar trustee of the property, who lives under a bloodthirsty curse that ties him to the garden. But Louis gives Ethan a chance, and Ethan is determined to do right by the suffering roses. As Ethan and Louis grow closer, Ethan becomes increasingly desperate to save the man he loves from the garden's curse. But the garden isn't letting them go without a fight.
It's time to make the roses bloom.
WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out today! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr
#booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance
Locus magazine top ten finalists list headline
Locus magazine top ten editors list
Locus magazine top ten collections list
I’m busting out of a short media break to say thank you, twice over to @locusmag.bsky.social readers & voters for these amazing honors. So happy to see A CATALOG OF STORMS on the finalist list AND thrilled to join my fellow @morningtransport.bsky.social co editor Julian Yap on the editors list!
Researchers at the University of Connecticut and Yale University have developed a new solar-powered water disinfection system thedebrief.org/a-new-solar-...
Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.
Trump is dismantling the US Forest Service in his biggest smash-and-grab to date, closing ten regional offices and 57 research facilities and handing control of our national forests to pro-logging pols.
just...wow
THE COLOR OF TIME comes out May 19! <3
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Jorna is an #exvangelical, type-A scientist who is making the world a better place one plant at a time. But she can’t outrun her past.
If you need a reminder that you’re the only one you have to convince to give yourself a second chance, then shirakipress.com/age might be your next favorite read. ❤️
⚠️ An account on X purporting to be Amanda Ungaro has been posting threats to Melania, which was the possible impetus behind Melania’s public remarks yesterday: