Congratulations!

Really exciting news today. My short story “Six People to Revise You” is a Hugo finalist!

Congrats to all the finalists! See you in Anaheim!!!

www.lacon.org/hugofinalist...

I know! Pretty amazing.

Bram Stoker published Dracula at age 50.

There's still time to follow your grandmother to the most magical town in England and discover you're from a family of witches.

A Publishers Marketplace deal report reads: A MANOR BEYOND THE MIST By Beth Cato Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy April 20, 2026 Beth Cato's A MANOR BEYOND THE MIST, pitched as weaving Arthurian lore and fae myth, in which an American photographer is lured to a remote estate in 1935 England where she realizes she shares a terrible tragedy with her fellow guests and that their hosts are not entirely human, to Marilyn Brigham at 47North, in an exclusive submission, by Rebecca Strauss at DeFiore and Company (world).

Good news!

Ten Years of Sword & Kettle Press An anthology of queer & intersectional speculative literature

What is this I see here?

A Kickstarter that includes ME and several other amazing folks?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/swo...

Frustrating!
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Minute Cryptic - 18 April, 2026
"She’s pregnant with octuplets! Various heads to push" (5)
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, a...

Hey, the audiobook of my Nebula-winning novel Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just SEVEN BUCKS! The deals lasts a while longer.

A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?

North American cover for J.R. Dawson's THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - a view through an elaborate wall of windows, overlooking a lighthouse and the city of Chicago in the background. Plus author and title information.

UK cover for J.R. Dawson's THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - a view through an elaborate wall of windows, overlooking a lighthouse and the city of Chicago in the background. A person walks their dog in front of the windows. Plus author and title information.

THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD by @jrdawson.bsky.social has won the 2026 Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Fiction!

midlandauthors.org/contest-winn...

Published by @torbooks.bsky.social & @torbooksuk.bsky.social

I like creative people who wear respirators. All of them. Every single one. 🥰

Screenshot of the Artemis II mission splashing down in the Pacific Ocean

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH. WELCOME HOME!!

Humbling, emotional, awe-inspiring. Splashdown complete!

The fort sounds like a necessary step. Watching Artemis as well!

The kids have built a fort in the lounge, we have extra food and water supplies, and we are currently watching Artemis land. Cyclone ready!

Honest advice: are you nervous about boosting your own work?

Then boost other people's. What books made you stay up too late? What books entered your life when you needed them most?

Yell about that! Help people find those books, too.

Thinking of all my friends and whānau in the North Island as Cyvlone Vaianu approaches

this morning was a whirlwind, let me properly flail now!!

HI YES I'm honored that "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" is available over at @lightspeedmagazine.com! it's a tragic sapphic space knights story with SO much mess. it's fine!! ✨

🪐 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sain... 🪐

Tiny story day!

I didn't do this in March, but I'm back! Drop a comment in the thread and get a tiny story just for you. If you'd like a prompt, feel free to riff off of any sort of transportation.

I'll get to these through the rest of the month, and hopefully you'll get something fun to enjoy.

Ferry

Bargain Booksy (A Written Word Media Company) banner. Buried Pasts, Vanished Lovers, and Twisted Secrets: Discounted Mystery / Thriller eBooks. Murder on Milverton Square (The Milverton Mysteries Book 1) ($0.99) by G. B. Ralph: First-in-series cosy mystery set in New Zealand with the beginnings of a very slow-burning gay/MM romance. Addison Harper is summoned to Milverton by a prickly lawyer. He's unexpectedly charmed by the small town and its handsome Sergeant Jake Murphy. All is well until Addison finds the lawyer murdered, and his fingerprints are all over the crime!

It's Bargain Booksy time for the first Milverton Mystery!

US 99c: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHRK58DP
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#CozyMystery #Mystery #Books
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www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/... Just a few days left for the Locus fundraiser! Lots of cool rewards left!

Oof, so...guess what? Due to a very frustrating mistake, I had to temporarily "unpublish" my preorder option for A Waltz of Sinister Import (#3 in the Unexpected Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven)...which lost every one of its 200+ preorders! 😱

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SJV Nominations - 2026 Thank you for taking the time to make a nomination for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. These nominations are for works released in the 2025 calendar year. You can find full information on categories and ...

You can still nominate in the SJV Awards until 31st March! Let's lift up some NZ sci fi and fantasy.

Nomination form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Minute Cryptic - 29 March, 2026
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Hugo noms close on Saturday!

The Hugo nomination deadline is nigh! Please nominate for the brand new poetry category. My online poems are threaded below. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Whether you're nominating or not, I'd love you to read my short story "Mail Order Magic," which is free online and eligible this year: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...

i narrated this one and it sure is a perfect day to listen (or read) a perfect story about the world's most perfect sport!!!!!