Just bought my ticket to SF for the Locus Awards!🎉

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2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

I'm absolutely thrilled to see Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology make the finalist list for the Locus Awards! An enormous congratulations to all my fellow finalists. It’s amazing to be in such great company! locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...
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So excited to see Storyteller, the Tanith Lee anthology put out last year by @thisjulieday.bsky.social named as a #locusaward Finalist! Amazing!

“Consumer software that generates text, images and videos are uniquely energy inefficient,” says Ketan Joshi, an Oslo-based climate analyst associated with the Australia Institute, due to the “vast datasets and computational strain of pattern-matching that happens underneath the hood”. Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason, he says, a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike. “You might still get the shopping done, and that single trip alone may not even look all that bad in terms of cost or emissions, but what happens when that’s all of your trips, and when all of society starts doing this?”

Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate:

-“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.”

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A graphic that says CL Hellisen award eligibility. Novel, audio. The Shape of Monsters, Audible Original, released July 2025. Alongside is a picture of the cover. Short Stories. Shadow Jack, published May 2025, Giganotosaurus. Saltcove, published June 2025, The Pink Hydra. Makers, published July 2025, Storytellers, a Tanith Lee Anthology.

These are my award-eligible works from 2025, if you're nominating stories:

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STORYTELLER: A TANITH LEE TRIBUTE ANTHOLOGY, edited by @thisjulieday.bsky.social

Did this one for #Tanuary this year. Always amazes me the different ways other people respond to my favorite author.
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Reading lists, awards, discounts, and new project updates.

The latest Essential Dreams Newsletter just dropped! The amazing Julia Deridder, intern and assistant editor extraordinaire, is back at. Sharing all our news and all her enthusiam with the world. She truly is amazing.
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I'm trying to actually enjoy the moment! Milestones like this are few and far between. And it was literally lockdown when I was a finalist for the Lambda Award (my only other finalist moment). We were all homebound and more than a little distracted!

My Bram Stoker Award finalist page just went up. All of a sudden, this feels way more real.
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Plans with good friends fell through for tomorrow night, which means I get to watch SNL and Connor Storrie. Emotional conflict resolved!

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

So totally this. The loss isn’t just how it impacts me. It’s that the individual is no longer living their life. There is some basic “ick factor” about assuming we can recreate a person’s persona with all of its contradictions AND pretending their lack of existence isn’t the central point.

Hurray! I had such a blast writing a story for this! What a complete circuit of loving and being influenced by Tanith Lee’s works in my teens and 20s, and then getting to write a story in her honor in my 40s!

One of the things They don't tell you is that a lot of being creative involves wondering whether or not you're screaming into the void. And a lot more of it is realising that as long as you're screaming, that's the point. And a lot of the rest of it is working out if you're singing or screaming

I borrowed the book from my local library. I find OSC all sorts of problematic, but this book challenged my imagination in the best possible way. The fact that Jane Eyre was my favorite novel at that age doesn’t seem in the least contradictory to me. I wanted to live lives entirely unlike my own.

A decade ago, I started trying to track down a novel I read when I was twelve that has never entirely left me. Today, I finally rediscovered the author and title! The 1980 Orson Scott Card novel A Planet Called Treason. It had a trans protagonist, parthenogenesis, & a surreal delirium section.

I’m experimenting with the air fried. Clearly, it’s a snow day! (I honestly barely ever cook.)

My short story "Zugunruhe" is in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! Thrilled to see the anthology on the final ballet for a Bram Stoker award!

Thanks, Cat! 🎊

Thanks, Kevin!

Thanks, John!

Publishers Weekly says “This passionate and playful anthology is both a fitting tribute to a master and an enchanting compendium in its own right.” 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List. 2025 Bram Stoker Award Finalist

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The 2025 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. Superior Achievement in an Anthology listing, including Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology.

Shocking. Amazing. Thrilling. And that’s just the Blizzard of 2026! I’m so damn happy and grateful to see Storyteller is a finalist for the Stokers! @carinabissett.bsky.social @ethereallad.bsky.social

always raises a red flag when people keep just asking questions that have in fact been studied and answered

I'm working on redrafting a second novella. Did I mention that? I think not. It's still flabergasting to realize how much material I have waiting for me to polish it. The last few years have been incredibly busy and for family/personal reasons particularly hard. It's lovely to find myself again.

Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology by Multiple Authors - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association Publication Details Author(s): Editor-in-Chief: Julie C. Day Coeditors: Carina Bissett, Craig Laurance Gidney Assistant Editor: Julia DeRidder Authors: Mike Allen, […]

.@sfwa.org folks. If you're reading for the various awards, Storyteller is now available on the Recommended Reading List: www.sfwa.org/reading-list...
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Crocheted Pangolin - Little Conkers Crocheted Pangolin - Crocheting a pangolin with a crochet pattern by Pernille Heelsberg. This is fairly extreme crochet, involving more advanced amigurumi techniques, and the famous crocodile stitch.

It's world #pangolin day!
One time I crocheted a pangolin - that's like an extreme sport in the #crochet world.
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Environmental group Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation Activist group says some members have been visited by agents, including by agency’s terrorism taskforce

A few years ago, I suggested that society's repression of vs. the climate movement would escalate, even if *we* didn't escalate.

And presto: "Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion says FBI is investigating it for terrorism".