Two messages. The first: It's 8pm and I'm sat in a freezing church listening to a band that just does folk songs about the moomins being queer The second: The bass from the gay moomin folk band has just made a small child cry
Texts I send from my normal job:
We need to know this band! 🤣
Latest Supernova Review: Wyldblood #17
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I'm vey pleased to let you all know that Blood Fiction v4 is out today, with 243 pages of short fiction concerning blood, strife and discord.
It includes my story 'My Immortal.'
Available in Kindle and paperback now!
Interzone 304 has arrived.
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with stories by Rachael Cupp, R.T. Ester, Dominic Green, Simon Guerrier, Val Nolan, and Jennifer Jeanne McArdle.
Super excited that '25 Peppercorns' was reviewed in the latest edition of @supernovareviews.bsky.social. You can read the review below, and also here's a link to the story, which was in @mythaxis.bsky.social
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#writing #shortstory
Mythaxis #43 review by yours truly. Next up will be the latest Wyldblood, then Parsec
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Huge ideas, messy emotions, and ships with more personality than most people. This is sci-fi that hits where it hurts: starships with souls, flawed heroes, and hope forged in the wreckage of war.
Available from your favourite #book seller.
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The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel NOW AVAILABLE! Sequel to THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN A Nebula & BSFA Award Finalist J. DIANNE DOTSON "Beautifully immersive" "Fun and fantastic!" "Colorful, exciting, and brimming with life" Ghe Secret or the Sapphire Sentinel "Filled with courage and determination" The Exciting Sequel to Nebula & BSFA Award Finalist THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN by Jendia Gammon, writing as J. Dianne Dotson
It's here!! THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL is now available! Written by me as J. Dianne Dotson, this is the sequel to my Nebula & BSFA finalist novel, THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN. Order from your favorite bookseller!
#scifi #fantasy #sff #newbooks
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Cover of A RIVER FROM THE SKY featuring a being with billowing black hair in a beige robe with wind and water design elements. Koi fish, flowers, and heads float around their head.
Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️
Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥
Yes, we do!!!
Oh, I don't have a lot of purely horror stories (I write dark but not horror), but here's one on the edge for spooky season
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Full on Gothic
(in many ways a precursor to the Dominion of the Fallen books, thematically)
A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.
A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive. Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place. But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood. As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.
Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.
Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta
You can now pre-order The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin, directly from our site - use the code AUTUMNPREORDER at check-out for 10% off (applies to all our forthcoming books) www.silverpress.org/collections/...
Wait. What! OMG! 🙏🏾🙏🏾
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @tobiogundiran.com, @xanwriter.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @dilmandila.com.web.brid.gy
There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Lust for a Vampire
Anaconda
Nosferatu
Cover art for Interzone #303, featuring a poster stylized blue-on-blue image of surfers riding buzzsaws
New issue of Interzone is here! weightlessbooks.com/interzone-303/
Absolutely delighted to have a new story, co-written with Eygló Daða Karlsdóttir, CAUTIONARY PULSES, now published in Interzone 303.
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In case you missed it, the latest story from @thedescenters.bsky.social and I is in Interzone #303!
Do Motorcycle Centaurs Dream of Five Stars and a Tip? is absolutely wild neon-drenched hyperpop/cyberpunk madness.
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Direct: shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw
Interzone #303 is out - fiction, non-fiction, and all points West. Plus reviews and an instalment of Roger Zelazny: American Psychopomp* by ME. Cancel your Disney subscription and support your local Interzone!
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* We didn't call it that. But we should have.
This is the wildest thing we've written together yet - just wall to wall neon-saturated queer craziness.
I love writing with Maddison and everything we've done together so far. And there's so much more to come.
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The stories that shaped Cautionary Pulses.
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Text from story reads: “Babe, the guy who used to be called Alejandro died when he got run over by a 36-wheel, AI-driven, caterpillar truck carrying edible nuclear waste to Megasydney-2. Despite the chunks of grey matter inside your titanium skull, HR has determined that you lack a human mind and all subsequent emotions and entitlements.” I didn’t respond, system still initializing, messages scrolling down my field of view, obscuring my vision. Finally, they cleared. “You’re RoboBro now, babe, and you’re going to revolutionise the food delivery business,” the cybertwink in the turtleneck and labcoat said, taking a brief, professional look down at the breast-shaped protrusions bolted to my chest. “The Tits for Tips program turned you into a GothGF CyberCentaur™ to improve earnings with the ‘Male 15-35,’ demographic and generate a sense of safety and camaraderie with other women.” “Okay, babe,” I said. “No. I call you ‘babe,’ you don’t call me ‘babe,’ babe.” My processor struggled to parse that, but before I could waste any time spontaneously developing feminist philosophy in the workplace, Brolivery Corporation assigned me my first package.
@coreyjwhite.com and I have a new story out today in Interzone #303: "Do Motorcycle Centaurs Dream of Five Stars and A Tip?", a queer, hyperpop infused robocop parody you can read right now at www.patreon.com/InterzoneMag!
Interzone #303 is out now at Scarlet Ferret! 🔴
Featuring short stories, essays, reviews, columns, and much more, with a stunning cover by Martin Hanford.
And hey a writerly update!! My story Bindweed is out in the current issue of Interzone, 303. You can subscribe here: www.patreon.com/InterzoneMag or buy a single issue here: shop.interzone.press
It’s over 65K words of fiction and not. And if you’re broke and want to read my story only, DM for pdf!
Interzone #303 is out today with all sorts of treasures, including my latest column on rereading the Library of America edition of Le Guin!
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Interzone #303 drops today w a lovely review of *Spec Fic for Newbies 2* (thank you, @alexanderglass.bsky.social!). Check out the issue here: shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw Also includes my review of Paul Kincaid's *Colourfields* + the 10th (!) instalment of my Folded Spaces column about SF criticism!
