SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is in preorders 🎇🦑🌌]

Since people are asking if they can do something for me, here is a short thread. I'm clearly going to be laid up for a lot longer.

Here are a few simple links.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell
Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Oh gosh I'm so sorry. I hope things look up soon :(

congrats to the BSFA longlist! one of my favorite awards!!

www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

A Golden-crowned Kinglet getting ready to launch to another branch. These little cuties snuggle together at night to help keep warm.

oh my gosh who is that? Is there any SF context that makes it make sense 😂

Dang!!!

Closeup of an Anna's hummingbird perched on a small branch, just about to take off. The bird is facing away from the viewer with head turned to profile, with wings raised and tail feathers splayed wide. The green feathers on its back are bright in the morning sun. Blue sky background.

A photo from today's walk: Hummingbird.

#photography #BirdPhotography #nature #wildlife #PNW #hummingbird #BirdSky #birds

🤗🤗🤗 I tried so hard to fit you and Marie in the quote list too...Bluesky needs to give me more characters!!

Oh my gosh you were my reviewer? It was such a wonderfully-written review, thank you so much!

aw, thank you!!

😆❤️

I SAID WHAT I SAID which is preorder this book, request it from your library, give your April self a gift from your January self, thank me later

thank you so much Paul 🤗

will do!

Bogi ❤️❤️❤️ would you like Oliver to send you a copy?

ok, new pinned thingie pinned... oh whoops I forgot the title in the post, did I mention I'm bad at this 😅 I guess people can click the link and such

The Language of Liars "Pitch-perfect science fiction about linguistics and consequences. This book destroyed me."—Yoon Ha Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Ninefox Gambi...

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
💥 "devastating" - Rebecca Roanhorse
💥 "destroyed me" - Yoon Ha Lee
💥 "f*king fantastic" - Samantha Mills
💥 "i AM NOT OKAY" - Mia Tsai
💥 "I felt shattered" - Sue Burke
💥 "heartbreaking" - Yume Kitasei
💥 "brilliant" - Wole Talabi
💥 "SF at its best" - Kate Elliott

Book giveaway for The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang Jan 16-Jan 30, 2026 Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jan 16-Jan 30, 2026. Enter for a chance to win an ARC of THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS by S.L. ...

ok new pinned thingie incoming with a cover this time

upcoming book! preorders live! all the things! :)

oh and there's a goodreads giveaway happening right now, omg I am bad at this www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Illustration of Enitan (a Black woman with brown skin and short black hair in a green tunic) and her sibling Xiang (a Chinese person in a reddish-brown tunic) by @ashcremated on Tumblr.

In the mood for a space opera adventure reviewers have affectionately called “tear-apart-the-empire-with-your-bare-hands wish fulfillment”?

THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY eBook is currently 1.99 *again*!

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✨ www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

The blanket, the secret, the dark The birds have flown long ago. But the body, the body is like this: it has swallowed the smaller moon and now it wants to keep it.

My @strangehorizons.bsky.social poem "The blanket, the secret, the dark" was nominated for the Rhysling award!!

Here is the poem. I'm glad it has been resonating. It's also eligible for the Nebula and Hugo this year <3

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/the-blanket-the-secret-the-dark/

eek thank you so much 🥰

also this reminds me I should make a new pinned thingie with the cover (I am so bad at life Mia)

*hides...*

340: Looking Forward to 2026 — Narrated Podcast

Shachi, Mark, Scott, and I discuss anticipated books of 2026. Includes titles by:

Maggie O’Farrell
@marthwells.com
Moniquill Blackgoose
@shaykauwe.bsky.social
@shannonchakraborty.bsky.social
Xochitl Gonzalez
James S.A. Corey
@slhuang.com
@aptshadow.bsky.social

narratedpodcast.com/episodes/340

Oh, thank you so much! And it's been announced so I can excitedly say that the narrator for THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS will be Emily Woo Zeller :) :)

YAY TOR well I am proud of them then 😆 (also, wow, thank you! ❤️)

in addition to making jokes and posting politics, i write stuff eligible for awards. as nominations are underway, i repost this once more. it will pass your skyline again.

If NG/Tor isn't sending you my new book and you want it you know I will ALWAYS send you one <3

oh awesome 🥰

(psst has Tor sent you a copy, and if not do you want one?)

omg 😭