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Most companies I've applied to on there rarely get back to me.
Screenshot of a Publishers Marketplace announcement: Crawford Award-winning author Jared Pechacek's WHERE FIRE REIGNS, pitched as Firefly with firebenders, in which a crew of fugitives must keep a feral goddess safe from the church who believes her death will bring water back to their dry world, to Carl Engle-Laird at Tor, for publication in winter 2027, by Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency (NA). Translation: alba@mushens-entertainment.com Film/TV: film@azantianlitagency.com
you wanna hear some good news
Today is the paperback release of THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, woo hoo! Tell your friends, family, and foes about it. And also I offer some thoughts on the book and its time out in the wild so far at Ye Olde Bloggery Hut:
March brings a whole new crop of short fiction for you to read. Here’s the roundup of what’s now out: www.andrewliptak.com/sci-fi-fanta...
My novella, THE APOLOGISTS, is a finalist for the BSFA awards.
You can read and/or listen to at. @clarkesworldmagazine.com Link below.
On the one hand, yay!
On the other hand, I've been nominated for the BSFA many times. I never win. So, boo!
But you can still enjoy the story.
Congrats, sir. One hell of a story!
Congrats!
While some people have argued the layoffs at Block are a sign the company is in trouble, Jack Dorsey’s perspective that AI productivity gains means you can do more work with fewer people is actually widespread among CEOs.
They may quibble about his methods but they don’t disagree with his message.
This is so fabulous. Thanks, @eoinglackin.bsky.social ! ❤️
Short story collections I've gone back to more than twice:
-Lorrie Moore: the collected stories
-The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
-Tenth of December / George Saunders
-Stories of Your Life and Other Stories / Ted Chiang
There are others, but these come to mind more readily.
Want to start reading Superhero comics, but are intimidated by the massive lore/hundreds of back issues? I got ya.
Here are a few hints:
1. People will kill me for saying this, but the lore doesn't matter (except to folks like me). Or, it matters less than you might think. Don't let it stop you.
Thank you so much for reading.
What are we if not beings that yearn for worlds that don’t exist - or don’t exist yet? If not beings that build worlds - and destroy them?
@izom-chisom.bsky.social’s Prerequisites for a Possible Predicted World in @clarkesworldmagazine.com reignites our wonder against despair.
#sff #afropunk #scifi
Very surprised to discover that yesterday two of my novellas with @edlatalante.bsky.social were announced as finalists for the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire! 😍
actualitte.com/article/1292...
Since the Hugo Award nominations are now open, we need to talk about the #Lodestar. I'm going to give you some tips on how to nominate appropriately - in other words, to nominate Young Adult, not Middle Grade or adult crossovers. bsky.app/profile/lawo...
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#HugoAwards #HugoAward
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
Said it before, and I’ll say it again, but for people like me, this would be transformative - it would stabilise our incomes, and allow us to plough more time into creative work and less into stuff anyone could be doing.
AND it’s a net economic benefit to the country.
“Since 2016, those who can prove their ancestors came from Africa have been able to get Ghanaian nationality. It was primarily aimed at the descendants of those who were victims of the transatlantic slave trade.”
Book cover depicting a section of a fiery sun surface against a dark, starry space background. Best of British Science Fiction 2025 KEITH BROOKE & ERIC BROWN LAVIE TIDHAR ANNE CHARNOCK TADE THOMPSON GARETH L. POWELL STARK HOLBORN FIONA MOORE TIM MAJOR STEWART HOTSTON E.M. FAULDS STEPHEN ORAM ...and many more... Edited by Donna Scott
Delighted to share the full ToC for Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Pre-orders now available on the Newcon Press website! www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS
Authors Alix E. Harrow, Olivie Blake, and more raise concerns about BookCon 2026
Beautiful thread from my ride-or-die @charliejane.bsky.social about the organization that our @humblebundle.com is benefitting. Buy some books (cheap!!) and help the amazing Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center!
Why does Wonderman work?
I recently finished watching the rather excellent Wonderman, the latest Marvel entry which sits in their 'Spotlight' space which focuses entire runs on a single hero. I had low hopes for Wonderman going in - it's been sat on a shelf at Disney for quite a long time and that…
The interesting part of the whole 'AI will democratise art' thing is that the truly elitism driven art, the one that requires connections in the art world, will be unaffected.
Illustrators, comic artists, graphic designers, and other visual art working stiffs will be the ones...well, stiffed.
I'm going to say this again in case you haven't heard this one: I was a talented writer and it did *nothing whatsoever* because I hadn't put in the work, and I put in the work for ten years (subtracting the bit where I had to quit for my mental health) to write Witchmark
talent alone could *never*
This is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow.
An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag
Me, in a t-shirt worn to the local high school writing club meeting, black with white lettering and an orange triangle of light behind it, reading “Make Orwell Fiction Again”
Every year, my favorite writing club sessions start after the regional writing competition. We get to slip off the shackles of plotting 45-minute stories to maximize scores on a rubric, and start getting to real writing. (Thread)
We have 15 stories (3 novellas, 7 novelettes, and 5 short stories) on the Locus Recommended Reading List this year. Congratulations to all the authors!
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
