What a great holiday surprise! Thanks @hannahbae.bsky.social and the @sfchronicle.com for including Starry Field on your best of list! datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/best-b...

BREAKING: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says he has ordered the withdrawal of troops and will formally lift the martial law.

I made a holiday gift guide!

For the full video of Anton’s Favorite Things 2024, see:

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What a joy it was to speak with @hannahbae.bsky.social about publishing (@wtawpress.bsky.social ) How We Know Our Time Travelers by @anitafelicelli.bsky.social for the @sfchronicle.com. The feature is wonderful!

Don't miss this amazing feature in the @sfchronicle.com, spotlighting @anitafelicelli.bsky.social's HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS, forthcoming Dec. 3rd. Many thanks to @hannahbae.bsky.social for this rich, insightful feature.
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Thank you!!!

Oh wow, thanks for this tip!

Haha!

Oh wow! Thank you for this tip!

Smart!

Thanks! It's such a bummer when you realize a bunch of the links to your work on your own website are broken!

Ooh cool! I hadn't heard of this. Thanks, Preeti!

My regular authory rec! It’s not free but I’ve found it worth the cost to not have to pull PDFs — you just enter your byline on whatever sites you write for and it will pull all your work for you and it will live even if the site you wrote for kills the vertical (coughFANGRRLScough) authory.com

If you have your own website (which you should!), upload all those PDFs to your own Dropbox or Google Drive, make those links all available for the public to view, and then post those on your website -- not the godforsaken live URLs to websites that could go under at any minute.

lolol not me having coffee with a friend who said she tried to read one of my essays on C*t*pult, only to get a broken link.

Same goes for Bitch Media (RIP!) and a slew of other sites. The digital media industry is (and always has been) a travesty.

A note to all the journalists and writers out there: Save PDFs of all of your pieces published online NOW.

Don't be like me and spend your Friday night creating PDFs based off Wayback Machine screen grabs of your articles/essays that were published on now-defunct websites.

The incredible group She Who Has No Masters is taking applications for creative writing mentorship from women and nonbinary writers of the Vietnamese and SE Asian diaspora. Apply here! shewhohasnomasters.com/mentorship

I'm particularly interested in getting examples from artists who are working in media other than writing (because I'm a writer, so I'll be sharing my own examples!).

Meanwhile, if you're a BIPOC artist who'd like to take this free class yourself, sign up here! www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-kaac-...

Hi artists, I'm teaching a free class later this month for BIPOC artists on how to write & edit your artist's statement for applications to grants & more.

Do you have a successful example of your artist's statement that you'd be willing to share with me? I'd anonymize. Please DM & we can discuss!

Sonia Sulaiman on Thyme Travellers - Columbia University Press Blog Sonia Sulaiman is the editor of Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. She primarily writes short stories and fantasy inspired by Palestinian folklore and history. Her work...

My interview about Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is up at the Columbia University Press blog: cupblog.org/2024/09/05/s...

My latest for The San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area books coming your way in fall of 2024! I hope these books offer readers comfort, escape, empowerment and new insight on what it means to be human. datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/bay-ar...

I want to highlight this stupid fucking bullshit because literally EVERY TIME an AI writing company has a website, they always have a screenshot that looks good until you read the words that are on the screenshot.

Chef's kiss is the "you're" instead of "your" in the screenshot.

Yes, Mary Ann! I couldn't have done this without a partner like you who was so game for this herculean feat of reading!

Hahaha, thank you, Ben. The books that made the cut really moved me and taught me something about the world, which is a privilege!

Honored to have served with @hannahbae.bsky.social as a nonfiction juror for this year’s Kirkus Prize. A mammoth task! Very pleased with the results -

Here are the finalists for the 2024 Kirkus Prize. The Kirkus Prize, one of the richest annual literary awards in the world, has announced its list of finalists for 2024. The award is given to three titles that received a starred review from Kirkus…

I am so very thrilled to see this list of finalists for the 2024 Kirkus Prize! I was a juror in nonfiction, and I spent six months of my life reading my heart out. Huge congrats to each finalist -- you're all winners in my book. lithub.com/here-are-the...

NYC: New COVID vaccine appointments are available (earliest I'm seeing is next Weds at CVS)! Book your appointments ASAP! I just booked mine.

Looks like Walgreens has new COVID vaccine appts available starting Sept. 6.

‘The Garden Adds Color and Brightness to the City’: Letters From P.S. 130 Students Elementary school children have been writing letters to Mayor Eric Adams in an effort to save Elizabeth Street Garden, where the city is planning to build housing.

If you need a good cry, read this article about the NYC schoolchildren who are writing to our (terrible) mayor, pleading for him not to tear down the historic garden where they learn and play www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/r...