Two closed books, Stone Blind and A Thousand Ships, showing the covers, and one open book, No Friend to this House, showing the title page signed by the author, Natalie Haynes.
Fantastic event with Natalie Haynes at the Kitchener Public #Library tonight! I am so excited to read these books!
Thanks for going with me @crystalsmusings.bsky.social and @arielkroon.bsky.social!
#booksky #newbooks
Hey #Ontario friends, take this chance to do something nice for the environment that is simple and fast! Right here is a petition to look into alternatives to road salt, which is toxic and polluting the Great Lakes. Given current #water issues, this is pretty important, I think […]
Still looking, sadly. I desire the unborn but, y'know, ethically.
#CSA #localfood #buylocal #eggs #Farmfresheggs
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
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My Calvinist ancestors are rolling in their graves because I am considering conversion to Rave Catholicism.
Sounds like if @greatdismal.bsky.social had hung around with the Beat Poets in his youth and it got woven into Neuromancer lol. Not sure what it's a rework of if at all, but it's great.
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My first thought was of an Atwoodian "Torching the Dusties"-style situation.
Graphic advertising Can*Con 2026 Author Guest of Honour Chuck Wendig. Dates of the convention are 16 to 18 October, 2026.
Our final Guest of Honour for 2026 will be author @chuckwendig.bsky.social!
Chuck is a NYT bestselling author, writes games, comics, film and TV, and we are so excited that he will be joining us in the fall!
Graphic advertising Can*Con 2026 Agent Guest of Honour Hana El Niwairi. Dates of the con are October 16-18, 2026.
We are very excited to announced that our 2026 Agent Guest of Honour will be @hel-no-wai.bsky.social!
Hana is a Literary Agent and Rights Manager at Cooke McDermid and a co-founder of BIPOC Publishing in Canada.
We are super thrilled that Hana can join us next fall!
Graphic advertising the 2026 Can*Con Editor Guest of Honour, Jen Albert. Dates of the convention are 16-18 October, 2026.
We are HYPED to announce that our 2026 Editor Guest of Honour will be @jenralbert.bsky.social - Jen is an acquiring editor at ECW Press, won a British Fantasy Award for her editing work and has been nominated for the Hugo, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Awards.
So excited to have Jen with us next fall!
Poster graphic for 2026 Can*Con Author Guest of Honour tonia laird. Dates for the convention are October 16-18, 2026.
We are EXCITE to be able to announce our Guests of Honour for 2026 this week!
First up is @tonialaird.bsky.social! tonia is a Michif writer from Treaty 6 who does video games, comics, an interactive novel, and her debut novel Seventhblade was released in June from ECW Press.
Tremendous news. Solidarity forever!
You know what would be nice? If Canadian identity wasn't defined by hypermsculine white guy from a beer commercial. Just a thought.
No you know what people who will say things like "I use ChatGPT to DO MY JOB" with their whole ass SHOULD be publicly embarrassed like this
Expected to see a lot more Guy Fawkes memes and references, perhaps I am showing my age and internet proclivities a little too openly...
#RememberRemember #GuyFawkes #VforVendetta #IYKYK
Okay, but now the Terminators will come for all these people first
And that's without taking into consideration the contemporry issue that most of these cons are held in fascist countries... not keen to travel these days...
"The solution is going to have to come from everyone else, using every tool at our disposal to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and too often now, the press."
The horror :(
A+ usage of quisling, I am delighted to see this vocab in the wild. ...regardless of the context I suppose
Hi friends. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica *hard* last month; my neighbour just shared with me that her mother and sister, who were evacuated before landfall, haven't been heard from since :( Melissa devastated her home community of Wakefield, but the ForUsGirls organization is organizing relief […]
It's Hamilton Days this weekend in Hamilton, and lots of local businesses are participating. We're taking this opportunity to highlight some of our books by Hamilton authors. You can learn more about Hamilton Days here: hamiltonday.ca And these books here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
Chuffed to have a story in here! (And in Volume One too!)
There was a moment. A tiny slice of time, when AI could have been brilliant. We are waaaay past that moment, and people need to realize that no amount of magical thinking will bring us back there...
Thats honestly a horror story in itself. The whole creeping infiltration bit...
Good point. Only exceptions i can think of are creepy child vamp Kirsten Dunst in the Interview movie and Spike (from BtVS)'s mom for like 5 seconds...
It was lovely to meet you, Arley. Glad to see your con experience was a good one :D
Oh, and Can*Con is the Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Convention, which was just held in Ottawa. It was a ton of fun, and fully of excellent and kind folks :) their account is @canconsffh.bsky.social and they are pretty active, at least around this time of year.