The NYT best TV shows of the 21st century is just rage bait. Will I fall for it? Yup.

I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!

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New Release Tuesday: YA New Releases September 22nd 2026 Young Adult New Releases September 22nd 2026 There is nothing like the big fall release season and we are eager for our favs to drop...like Sabaa Tahir's Empire, the final book in the Heir duology! There is something for everyone today,…

New Release Tuesday: YA New Releases September 22nd 2026

Young Adult New Releases September 22nd 2026 There is nothing like the big fall release season and we are eager for our favs to drop...like Sabaa Tahir's Empire, the final book in the Heir duology! There is something for everyone today, check out most of the new YA books below. We hope that if you plan to grab any recent titles from our work, that you try one of our independent affiliates: Libro.fm for all your audiobooks and Bookshop.org for all your digital or physical editions!

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Today is an excellent day to share my friend Musa’s campaign. Every donation helps his family thrive. 🖤 chuffed.org/project/mosa...

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From the courtroom to the tent: Saving the Musa family from destruction in Gaza

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Starting SGJ’s OFF THE RESERVATION tonight! Thank you @sagapressbooks.bsky.social #sagasayscrew for the ARC!

Today is an excellent day to share my friend Musa’s campaign. Every donation helps his family thrive. 🖤 chuffed.org/project/mosa...

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From the courtroom to the tent: Saving the Musa family from destruction in Gaza

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THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT is out today! In 1994, three girls go to the movies to see an obscure film. Only one comes out. 30 years later, the survivor learns the movie isn't done with her yet. Now playing in a bookstore near you 😈📽️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827994...

You don't get to argue that the number of trans people is so small that our rights can't be a major priority, while also claiming there are so many of us that we are going to destroy the whole country by withholding votes.

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

HUGO VOTERS! As you’re reading for next year, please consider nominating Children of Owl for BEST NOVEL (a Hugo) and the LODESTAR (not a Hugo).

Darcie Little Badger@littlebadger.bsky.social · 3w ago

Shelf Awareness just gave Children of owl its FOURTH started review!!! “Children of Owl, Darcie Little Badger’s commanding work of YA genre fiction, is a dreamlike tale about trauma, family, and all that we owe to the dead.” I’m so grateful for the readers who resonate with this story 🥹

No surprise, this book is a gd delight. Paranormal YA horror, genderqueer MC, and kittens! 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

Speaking of yesterday’s rainbow, I caught the very end of it. 🌈

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Also the "You have to explain things to the reader" thinking, no I don't, that is totally optional, where did people get that idea?!? That's never been mandatory. Readers can keep up. And they should be very good at it if they read a lot of speculative fiction!

My post from earlier today about the craziness around Anthropic claim notices, updated with both of the notices writers are receiving, and a list of literary agents who are trying to claim a share of payouts writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/a...

Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors' Payouts - Writer Beware

This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like these: The one on the right invites authors to review and confirm their claims: jus...

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"they blocked me and i never even said anything to them" buddy i have some bad news about how many people can perceive your behavior in a public setting

3) Again, I want to recognize the intent behind creating an entire award solely for YA works, because that does matter. However, in 2027 we will have a full ten years of nominee experiences to review, and my suspicion is that this cohort found being "Not A Hugo" to be, at best, othering.

This whole thread, esp this part.

Margaret Owen@what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 4w ago

Because, if I'm being frank, when people use the shorthand "Not A Hugo" with a pejorative overtone, we all know they're not talking about the Astounding. Anyway! It's after midnight, I am home, my cats are anxious to suffocate me. Hopefully this is food for thought.

....the ongoing delights of being both a Hugo finalist and a wheelchair user. "The backstage is for walking participants," said directly to my face, as a wheelchair user.

Mari Ness, writer of things@mariness.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The backstage is for walking partipants," something that I was just told by a Worldcon staffer. #LACon #Worldcon #Hugos

Popped into the B&N I used to work at (two stores ago) for a wander and a hello and found that they still use my Locked Tomb shelftalker 🥹 Maybe the “coming soon” for Alecto was wishful thinking 😂

Moon’s haunted. #eclipse

I just wanted you all to know that I still dance like this, unironically, but I never look this good doing it.

Frank N Furter Dancing - Rhps

Alt: Frank N Furter Dancing - Tim Curry as Franknfurter in Rocky Horror dancing to Time Warp by shaking his hips and cycling his arms.

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Nope. Just nope. 😭

Just about to settle in with the laptop to do some critique stuff and Kaz has other ideas. So helpful.

In honor of Dolly, I'd like to give away some of my middle grade books to teachers who are having trouble getting books into their classrooms. I have Mine, Camp Scare, and Ride or Die on the Horror side and Minecraft Mob Squad on the Fantasy/Gaming side. I'll give away 4 mailers with 3 books each.

I need everyone to watch this.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · last mo.

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last mo.

not only that, they are demanding that they not be called racist when they are observed to be signing up to support the racist

ALT version.