The SOUR CHERRY paperback is out in the UK today 🍒🎊🍒
www.headline.co.uk/titles/natal...

Thank you so much for coming all this way—it’s been amazing seeing your work around the con!!

(That link is to the original short story, free to read at @theiowareview.bsky.social )

Seven years ago I first read Megan's "Silk Will Hold Her Bones Together" and it's been close to my heart ever since. I'm so very happy this lovely strange couple has finally returned!

If you love dark but heartfelt, please give this one a try.

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I really appreciate the transparency @fusionfragment.bsky.social brings to their statistics, processes, and approach. Makes them one of my favorite markets to submit to!

E) All of the above.

So excited to see Sour Cherry by @nassos.bsky.social on this list! Haunting and gorgeously written, this was one of my favorite books of the year.

If you haven't picked this one up yet, no better time!

A small collection of badge ribbons, black with gold writing, that reads "made of spiders" held up to the camera. A red plaid jacket and teal bookshelf is out of focus in the background.

I got badge ribbons!! Come find me at #NorWesCon in the first weekend of April if you would also like to represent women who are made of spiders!

*cheers excitedly in spider noises*

No topping this one. Na naaa nanananananana na na na nananaaaa.

You all were spectacularly fashionable!

Thank you so much for reading and sharing! <3

Tagging all the fabulous authors!
@pensiv.art
@phoenixbourgeois.bsky.social
@meganleebees.bsky.social
@hlfullerton.bsky.social
@eladhaber.bsky.social
@camdenscorner.bsky.social
@ben-curl.bsky.social
@bethannacook.bsky.social
@aphowell.com
@angeliqueorourke.bsky.social

Delighted to join @meganleebees.bsky.social @camdenscorner.bsky.social and so many other fantastic writers in Animal Noir, a new anthology from Little Key Press!

Catch the release & live reading 7:00 PM PST tonight at youtube.com/@vintagebookshop

Sow Some Lonesome Corner So Many Flowers Bloom YouTube video by Silver Mt Zion - Topic

Sow Some Lonesome Corner So Many Flowers Bloom, by Silver Mt Zion.

All 16 minutes of it.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIaW...

Two black cats lying in an X shape on top of each other in a pool of sunlight.

Happy Valentine’s Day from the snuggliest boys on the planet.

Fantastic picks—Lone Women was such a great read!

Actually failed my first art history class at college; it was pure memorization and I was so unprepared.

Novel Architects - Kij Johnson Information about the Novel Architects workshops and master classes!

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN: My Novel Architects workshop, for people working on long-form SF/F/H. 7/5–18, Lawrence KS. Talks, developmental sessions, & collaborative work. Limited to 8 writers at every level of expertise, from folks starting their first book to bestsellers halfway through a series.

A white spiderweb on black background, with an orange and brown spider perched on the lower left. The spiderweb is spun to read NO, and beneath the web is the name of a novella: One Hundred Thousand Lives After Death

I wanted to make some stickers for the novella release and I'm really pleased with this design #horrorwriter #books #OneHundredThousandLivesAfterDeath

How Misogyny and White Nationalism Converge in ICE Enforcement In Minnesota, poorly trained, heavily armed and trigger-happy men ICE agents target anyone non-white. It's misogyny, racism and state terror.

DHS targets violent white nationalists in their ICE recruiting campaigns, with promises of unleashing them on vulnerable populations.

The cruelty and violence are by design. ICE cannot be reformed. ICE must be dissolved.

msmagazine.com/2026/01/27/i...

Radiant Star (Hardcover) An electrifying new space opera of power, politics, and faith, set in the world of the Imperial Radch, Ann Leckie's ground-breaking, Hugo Award-winning science fiction epic. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is an inconvenience: A backwater religious site on an unimportant planet soon to be absorbed into the imperial Radch’s own, superior culture.

Wanna pre-order Radiant Star and also get it signed (by me)?

www.left-bank.com/book/9780316...

So honored to see my little spider rancher up there alongside so many fabulous stories! 💜

Boosting this call—FlameTree’s anthologies are gorgeous. Send them a story!

Last time it was Operation Iraqi Liberation
And we pretended we were the good guys.
This time there's no pretense
It's just Operation Illegal Landgrab.

Either way, we know what it's all about.

If you publish the story first, most markets ask for 6-12 months of exclusivity, after which you can publish it as a part of a book.
Alternatively, you can publish it as a reprint after the book comes out. Audio markets in particular are often open to reprints, since it’s a different audience.

Karaoke screen with lyrics reading “Hey I, oh, I’m still alive.”

2025 vibes at NYE karaoke

Elevator call button at SeaTac Airport. One button is labeled “UP” and the other is also labeled “UP” but the label is upside down.

2026 which way we going?

Orion the black cat sits next to a scratching pad that reads “Merry Catmas To All, And To All A Good Night.”

Corvus the black cat stands wide-eyed next to a scratching pad that reads “Merry Catmas To All, And To All A Good Night.”

Merry Catmas to those who celebrate.

I think the key perspective is, “You got writing done! In the middle of all that! Heck yeah!”