At Locus aka @locusmag.bsky.social - my latest interview is with Chloe Gong! locusmag.com Interviewers are not credited - BUT - my recents include: Temi Oh Isabel J. Kim Sunyi Dean Rebecca Roanhorse Makana Yamamoto Nnedi Okorafor Kamilah Cole Bethany Jacobs Eden Royce Ken Liu ...& more!

Locus

The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field

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Come celebrate the launch of The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass!!! Thursday, August 13 at 7pm @ Mahogany Books in National Harbor, MD. Leslye will be in conversation with Cerece Rennie Murphy, discussing the book and signing copies! www.eventbrite.com/e/leslye-pen...

Leslye Penelope Discusses & Signs The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass

Join us in celebrating author Leslye Penelope as she discusses & signs her new book,The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass

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And guess what? Also over on @clarkesworldmagazine.com, with @arleysorg.bsky.social leading the charge, is an interview with James Patrick Kelly. Robots & AI are featured in his new collection THE BOOK OF BOTS, out from Fairwood Press during Worldcon. clarkesworldmagazine.com/kelly_interv...

The Minds and Bodies of Robots: A Conversation with James Patrick Kelly by Arley Sorg

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Check out the interview with Carolyn Ives Gilman over on @clarkesworldmagazine.com, led by the inimitable @arleysorg.bsky.social about her writing career and about her new novella TESTAMENT OF LEAVES, forthcoming from Fairwood Press later this month. clarkesworldmagazine.com/gilman_inter...

What We Want to Leave Behind: A Conversation with Carolyn Ives Gilman by Arley Sorg

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Gen Con Writers Symposium was great! So many wonderful hangouts with so many really cool, interesting people! And even more lovely people that I just didn't have enough time (or energy) to get to hangout with! Really glad I came back this year ❤️‍🔥

🤎4 preorders to lock in before August: SEASON OF THE SERPENT (Suyi Davies Okungbowa) THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF ZAHARA DOUGLASS (Leslye Penelope) THE TONGUE I DREAM IN (Sheree Renée Thomas) BLOOD RISING (Markus Redmond) 👉🏾sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #Preorder

Starting the day bringing live the latest episode of Eating the Fantastic, on which you'll get to join my lunch with @katemaru.bsky.social. No direct link yet, but once live, it'll pop up top here, pushing my chat with @arleysorg.bsky.social down one. Reserve your seat! eatingthefantastic.com

Eating the Fantastic ‹ Scott Edelman

Arley’s a 2022 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award recipient, a 2021 and 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist, as well as a 2022 Locus Award finalist for his work as co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine. He was a 2022 Ignyte Award finalist in two categories: for his work as a critic, and for his essay “What You Might Have Missed” in Uncanny Magazine.

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Happy Friday 😈 We are delighted to share an exclusive interview with Bram Stoker Award Winning authors Linda D. Addison (@nytebird45.bsky.social) & Jamal Hodge. Thank you to Arley Sorg (@arleysorg.bsky.social) for donating this piece for our Subscriber Drive! www.darkertimes.com/everything-e...

An Interview With Bram Stoker Award® Winning Authors Linda D. Addison and Jamal Hodge

If you write about humans, no matter where you see them in the universe, you’re going to have some shadow work involved.

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what so many people don't understand is that DEI, affirmative action, even civil rights movements, were all responses to unfair situations - this is mirrored in publishing, including SFF publishing arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe... fiyahlitmag.com/blackspecfic/ www.leeandlow.com/about/divers...

Come celebrate the launch of The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass!!! Thursday, August 13 at 7pm @ Mahogany Books in National Harbor, MD. Leslye will be in conversation with Cerece Rennie Murphy, discussing the book and signing copies! www.eventbrite.com/e/leslye-pen...

Leslye Penelope Discusses & Signs The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass

Join us in celebrating author Leslye Penelope as she discusses & signs her new book,The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass

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Dinner!

ISSUE 2 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Tiger princesses! Cyborgs! Spacefaring scientists and sword-wielding students! Our second issue is warm, tender, hopeful, and sometimes horrifying in the best way. It was a joy to assemble, and we hope you enjoy it too🪐🗡️🌈 othersidespec.com/issues/issue-2/

We’re extending our deadline!! Send us your very best—you’ve got ‘til the 31st! 🤩👀

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You asked, and we answered! ✨ Anathema is EXTENDING our submission window to July 31st! Thank you to everyone who’s submitted—we’ve had such a wonderful time reading and can’t wait to read more. If you haven’t been able to submit in time, now’s your chance! 💜

ahh seems like we're having some difficulties for this live interview thing so we're gonna have to reschedule - apologies to anyone who had planned on swinging by, and especially to anyone who was waiting

I'm doing a Facebook Live interview tomorrow at 1130AM Pacific on "How To Query Without Losing Hope" : ) www.facebook.com/events/10136...

A final ICYMI of the latest Eating the Fantastic for the weekend crowd. Dine with @arleysorg.bsky.social and discover how to inhabit the community that is while envisioning the community that could be, why he feels comfortable in his role as an agent — and more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

I'm doing a Facebook Live interview tomorrow at 1130AM Pacific on "How To Query Without Losing Hope" : ) www.facebook.com/events/10136...

It's Sunday! I'm at a coffee shop doing some work. I'm guessing some of y'all are out there, putting words down, doing edits, sending in submissions, getting critiques, revising queries, and more...! So, quick reminder: *Rejection* DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer!!! Keep. Going. ❤️‍🔥

Went to a wine bar (Crush Pad) to continue doing work over the weekend, and ran into a book club which is doing wine pairings with their discussion of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation - so cooooool! They do a fair amount of SFF reading apparently 😁 www.crushpadwinebar.com www.lvpageturners.com

Few things make me want to get back in shape more than seeing clips of San of Ateez do that chest pop dance. 😅

Episode 287 of the Hugo Award finalist Eating the Fantastic podcast is LIVE! Join @arleysorg.bsky.social for dinner and discover how to make sense of the myths and rumors of science fiction publishing, the importance of doing things without an agenda — and more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Beautiful oatmilk matcha latte at Gäbi Coffee & Bakery! Getting some work done : )

The word is getting out! Check out this wonderful review of the "Forged in FIYAH" anthology from Booklist 🙌🏿 We release September 29. Every preorder supports this amazing squad of Black speculative fiction authors. Please share our project with a reader who loves science fiction, fantasy, and horror!

My latest Lightspeed aka @lightspeedmagazine.com review: Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II ed. by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., pubbed by Vintage TL;DR: It's AWESOME! Go get a copy, read it, enjoy! www.lightspeedmagazine.com www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788213...

Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II: 9798217007622 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The bestselling Indigenous dark fiction anthology returns with a new selection of even more daring and sinister stories. From monsters to mutilation, Never Whistle at Night is back for revenge. Fe...

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Lord save me from having to explain to folks that being part of a marginalized group has never immunized you from absorbing and reproducing normalized bigotry against that same marginalized group. The whole concept of normalization relies on the fact that it *occurs beneath notice.*

Edited my way to the 45-minute mark in the audio from my StokerCon dinner with the multi-faceted @arleysorg.bsky.social, removing any infelicities which would interfere with your enjoyment. Subscribe to be among the first to join us on Friday's episode of Eating the Fantastic. pod.link/1083737796

finally home. Readercon aka @readercon.org was absolutely wonderful, though! so many lovely hangouts with so many lovely people! and organizers were kind & helpful. minor gripes about the hotel, but 🤷🏽 I think the hotel staff did the best they could Delta: SERIOUSLY DELAYED FLIGHT😠 readercon.org

Lunch! Made myself mushroom cream pasta!

Readercon is... (checks calendar) TOMORROW?!? Yes, tomorrow... @readercon.org is tomorrow...! Worldcon is SOON...! Gen Con later this month, then @laworldcon.bsky.social in Anaheim... then @canconsffh.bsky.social in Ottawa! Who is going to what?!? Where will I see you???🫣 readercon.org

quiet joy.