Book cover: the prow of a small boat pointed toward large, sparkling ocean waves under a blue cloudy sky

"438 Days" by Jonathan Franklin (read for book club, probably a DNF otherwise)

it's always the right time for Cow Poem

This is really cool - thanks, Alex, and @meakoopa.bsky.social, for putting this together, and thanks too for the shoutout - so glad you enjoyed the story :)

Nebula short story #1: "Because I Held His Name Like a Key" by @aimeeogdenwrites.com.

A story about Alan Turing, about brilliance & curiosity, about love that we can't (or won't) quite recognize and about the gaps that can't quite be bridged. Beautiful & heartbreaking.

I really enjoyed this story.

its name is Pome
and wen u post
or when timelin scrol past the most
full of all the doom and dred
it pops bak up
from in yor head

The book cover is very simple, pale green on the right side and a darker green on t he left like a shadow cast on the lighter color

“Things in Nature Merely Grow” by Yiyun Li (gorgeous! harrowing!! One of those truly important books in my heart that i absolutely will not be able to reread anytime soon if ever)

Book cover, simple and stylized, shows a black road cutting through a pink field beneath a pink sky with a sliver of moon. The clouds in the sky and the sheep on the ground are identical except that the sheep have little stick legs

“When We Were Real” by Daryl Gregory, my favorite Nebula nomination list discovery so far (still reading!! I still have time!!!)

The cover of the book shows the head of a bison with an eerily human blue eye looking off to the right

Catching up again! “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jobes

Also HAPPY FRIDAY I would really like for people to pre-order my magical spy weird city novel!

It's not coming out in the UK because the one (1) offer we got for UK rights was like "Ugh ugh bleh THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST barely sold, why would we WANT UK rights"

But! If pre-orders?? Maybe LOVE???

Oof :(

ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, edited by Marissa van Uden Cover Art by Marcela Bolívar Cover Design by Mikio Murakami

We're over the moon to reveal the cover of Violet Lichen's second annual eco anthology edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌙✨🪐

ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, blooming onto bookshelves November 17!

Cover Art by @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design by Mikio Murakami, Silent Q Design

It appeared to be marked down for sale now so hopefully it won’t still be there if I come back in another year, lol

A fun thing to do is to go into a bookstore where you signed 3 copies of your book 2 years ago and one is still there 🥲

Goals written in erasable marker on a glass wall, centered on one that says "LOCK IN. (type shit)"

Choosing to parse this person's message on the goal board at my gym not as "the type of shit where you lock in" but rather as a personal callout to sit down at my keyboard and get to work.

"Scry" was what started the BCS Science-Fantasy Months, which include @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social @aliettedebodard.com @aimeeogdenwrites.com @nassos.bsky.social @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @atgreenblatt.bsky.social @ellybangs.bsky.social and more. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issue-tags/s...

Thursday ”did you read The City Reexamines Its Regrets yet” re-post. I wrote this one over the winter, while struggling with the decision to stay or go back; still struggling and still undecided, but now with a story in hand.

A waterhoen (black bird with red and white beak and a few white wing feathers) standing on a fence through a pond above a sign that says “verboden te vissen” (no fishing)

i don‘t think he can read

In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story out in the April issue of Nightmare Magazine! The Final Girl Trap is now available to read online.

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

Thanks, Effie! 💜

The SOUR CHERRY paperback is out in the UK today 🍒🎊🍒
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Thursday ”did you read The City Reexamines Its Regrets yet” re-post. I wrote this one over the winter, while struggling with the decision to stay or go back; still struggling and still undecided, but now with a story in hand.

2day 2zoo

Ancillary Review of Books: Year 7! Questioning power, imagining possibility: ARB provides thoughtful criticism of speculative fiction. Help us pay our writers and staff!

Big news! ARB's first fundraiser is officially live! We're shooting for the very modest goal of $1k, with lots of stretch goals in mind. Your support is of course appreciated, and any help in spreading the word would be wonderful!

Cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, featuring the title in bold white and pink font, inset by silhouettes of a rabbit and a pregnancy test

For a signed/personalized copy, preorder from Mysterious Galaxy by May 2nd: mystgalaxy.com/5226FeinsteinMills

Other buy links:
Tachyon: bit.ly/3QcZmSx
Bookshop: bit.ly/4tvfAET
B&N: bit.ly/41TJBCu
Amazon: bit.ly/4ccbhqX

Rabbit Test and Other Stories postcard This is a free giveaway for anyone who has preordered or library-requested Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills! Fill out the form, and Sam will write you a postcard with a unique, fun fact...

We are 2 weeks away from the release of Rabbit Test and Other Stories!! To celebrate, I have concocted a fun, worldwide giveaway item. If you've preordered or library-requested the book, fill out this form and I will send you a postcard containing a unique, fun fact.

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Tonight!
Snark! Whimsy! Superhero puns! Rage and catharsis! Depression and acceptance! Personal growth that would make a therapist proud!

Join me and @jrdawson.bsky.social for readings with all these and more!

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Mostly it's an inconvenience that our clothes dryer is in the shed in the garden, but when it flashes its stupid "connect me to wi-fi for more options! :)" screen, I'm a little glad it's quarantined out there.

With 19 minutes left in the "we will call you if your kid(s) didn't get a place in the lottery for the secondary school placement they wanted" period, my phone rang: it was the local bike shop, having finished a repair two days earlier than expected for the first time in recorded history.

thank you for another great read!

it's only 1600 words! you don't have time to go to the zoo for 1600 words??? fuck off