My publisher emailed me this today, itโs a review?? Of a book?!? That I wrote ?!?!?!! ๐ณ๐ซฃ๐ฎ
(thanks @stelliform.press !)
www.publishersweekly.com/9781998466030
@prioryruins
longing-obsessed writer in old jeans. end the US war machine. they/them. ๐๏ธ Clarion '22, Lambda '25 ๐๏ธ Rhysling finalist ๐๏ธ words now or soon in Heartlines Spec, Small Wonders, Trollbreath, Uncanny, Kaleidotrope ๐ prioryruins.carrd.co
My publisher emailed me this today, itโs a review?? Of a book?!? That I wrote ?!?!?!! ๐ณ๐ซฃ๐ฎ
(thanks @stelliform.press !)
www.publishersweekly.com/9781998466030
Locus Awards Announces Guest of Honor Stephen Graham Jones locusmag.com/2026/03...
I wrote a personal essay about my love for bittersweet endings and LOTR, via the awfulness of the year 2001. And uh I wasn't expecting history to be rhyming quite so hard this week but here we are ๐
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/bitt...
I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
โWhat We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroomโ is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...
i keep seeing writers who want both:
* to be bold iconoclasts going against the pretenses and trends of the day and
* to have a perfect 5.0 review score on goodreads
and like, I'm sorry. those things don't go together.
Hugo Award Nominations Now Open
Hey Hugo nominating people. You know who you are. Now's the time to nominate your favourite works from 2025 for the greatest, most stupendous, most prestigious award in the entire universe: The Hugo Award!
A striking portrait of a triangular-headed tortico cat with big green eyes, perched on a window seat.
as i travel to baltimore all i can think of is the anya i leave behind
My open call with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! ffo.submittable.com/submit/35050...
"Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/bf99...
This month's news letter has one final little taste of whats to come + some important info before Hunting the Scavenger comes out in just a few short weeks!
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www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Vindictive israel finds another way to punish #Gaza - food shipments have ground to a halt causing starvation, panic
The zionist state's institutional cruelty surprises even the most hardened of aid workers
It's sickening & the world awakes to more ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ horror
a black and white typography edit that reads "i am making permanent choices because i want permanent changes." the text is in all caps and is printed over a opened case of tools. the image is textured with very small halftone dots
i โฃ๏ธ bodily autonomy
The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information youโre absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.
Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com
We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! ๐ช๐ก๏ธ
Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW!
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Twin Peaks opening with text reading Kaleidotrope
Damn fine cup of coffee!
Trio of people covered in dust and ash, including an elderly woman and a man carrying a woman in his arms. The street behind them is in flames.
Tehran tonight.
Twenty people were killed in a USโIsraeli attack on Niloufar Square, a busy mixed residential and commercial neighborhood in Tehran.
(The photo was taken by Iranโs Student News Network and has been geolocated.)
digital illustration of various antiques including, a ceremonial dagger, a netsuke, a pistol, a bell, a whistle, a music box, and a statuesque container
drew some things from the v&a museum catalogue
CONGRATS TO YOU TOO NICO <33
I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.
At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursulaโs own work.
Dungeons & Dragons monk in a combat pose with a determined expression. They have a long black braid, and one of their eyelids is closed.
thinking about my #dnd guy ๐ซฃ
no war on iran, hands off iran. the united states and israel are an existential threat to all human life.
JOYOUS CONGRATULATIONS to all the @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling nominees!!!
to my astonishment, my long poem โOne Hundred Thousand Legends and the Longing Underneath,โ published by @cbdroege.bsky.social, is among them! โ๏ธ
i share this honor with gamers everywhere
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Sharing again my favorite poem from last year (by @rjaurand.bsky.social), because it was nominated for a Rhysling <3 smallwondersmag.com/piece/false-...
โThis is mad,โ Trishna says, clinging to the Dagnรฝโs taffrail. โItโs a mad thing, Jack.โ
โWouldnโt be the first,โ Jack says as he pulls his shirt over his head, shivering in the fresh cold of the twilight.
Trishna doesnโt laugh.
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iโm biased but i think youโll like this one. friendship! courage! lobster dads!
Myna oh my goodness. I read these round-ups like clockwork and to see one of MY humble stories on it is astonishing in the best way!!! I am so happy that โSongbookโ resonated with you! Thank you for showing the community such love with your attention and your thoughts! You make it richer <3
AAAH, it made my week to see โSongbook for the Jovian Resistanceโ in such esteemed company! IโM ON A MYNA CHANG ROUND-UP! :โ)
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Psst, can we interest you in a cover for next month's issue? We love Sandy Butchers's bucolic painting of a young kid with their dragon. It's not too late to get this issue if you subscribe today! smallwonders.lemonsq...