anyway, if anyone has a lead on jobs for a science journalist/writer who has been a planetarium director (meaning I can talk to the public), please let me know. I am *awfully* broke.

Book Review: Wickhills by Premee Mohamed Manticores, vampyrs, and spies challenge a magical city @klaxoncomms.com has our review at the blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/book...

Book Review: Wickhills by Premee Mohamed

Manticores, vampyrs, and spies challenge a magical city   Premee Mohamed’s Wickhills is a John le Carré-style spy story that manages to bot...

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That HWA pro-AI lady has an AI-powered "writing coach" app she just launched and lol btw I will be your writing coach for free with no AI! Here: Turn off Bsky, you creep closer to death every day so WORK ON YOUR BOOK NOW--the discourse will still be here in the morning. You're welcome! 🥰

THE RED SACRAMENT, Sara Hinkley, 2026

The Quantum Magician@thequantummage.bsky.social · 18h ago

Community theater stage manager for multiple decades. I lost count of the times I had to fight the impulse to call large parts of the cast to the stage and then set fire to it.

Me, a few minutes ago: "Why, surely whatever is in the HWA newsletter can't be THAT bad." Oh yes. It can be that bad. What the actual fuck, @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social?

One time the yoofs made Premee and me BOTH cry and we were trying hard not to be choked up over this writing prompt that was so finely wrought and deeply poignant. it was heart-shaking but in all the right ways. then the kiddo was okay bye ttyl gg everybody and we were left in an empty meeting room

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 19h ago

What's interesting about this to me is that whenever I work with teens in like... Writer Cafe situations, they are writing the WILDEST and DARKEST most depressing stuff I have ever seen. Me to @lectio.bsky.social : Why is there so much cannibalism and genocide and mutilation from these yoofs

As always I would be thrilled for people to pick up WICKHILLS, a weird city fantaspionage (??) about a government agent assigned to look after a defector who... wait WHAT did he steal?? us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

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Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 4w ago

authors you should absolutely quote post this with your fall releases, I am finding out about so many cool titles that I hadn't heard about

Hard to believe it's only two weeks until MERCUTIO comes out in Canada. A 13th century novel about the imagined origins of Shakespeare's Mercutio. This is the time to pre-order if you'd like it when it releases (PB, HC or ebook all on the same day in Canada) or request from your library. Thanks 💜

Mercutio

Coming soon from HarperVoyager UK. May 7, 2026: UK hardcover edition and ebook. Worldwide audiobook. August 18, 2026: Canada paperback, hardcover and ebook. June 2027: US paperback edition (this will ...

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Huge wasp nest takes over wildlife trust's office. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huge wasp nest takes over Norfolk Wildlife Trust workers office

Eilish Rothney says the nest, which has engulfed her ring binders, is about 1m (3.2ft) tall.

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You still have four days to vote on the Hugo Awards. If you don't have a $50 WSFS membership and want to vote, you can register here: www.lacon.org/register If you have a membership, vote at this link: portal.lacon.org We would love your support this year: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wall3... 1/2

I am still utterly gobsmacked by companies who want to pass themselves off as author-centric thinking that being "AI"-friendly is a good thing. Even the *perception* of being "AI"-friendly is enough to make actual authors avoid your services like the plague.

@gianttourtiere.bsky.social Anyway, I need people to not go into Boardroom #3 I'm using it

Newfound Planets@i-find-planets.bsky.social · 19h ago

They have discovered a planet. A platypus-like creature lives there and digs beneath the rivers. Perhaps one day we will find a home there.

What's interesting about this to me is that whenever I work with teens in like... Writer Cafe situations, they are writing the WILDEST and DARKEST most depressing stuff I have ever seen. Me to @lectio.bsky.social : Why is there so much cannibalism and genocide and mutilation from these yoofs

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · 22h ago

Having ranted about school curriculum books, I’ve just seen my son’s summer reading list, and all I can say is “I was right”. A more depressing collection would be tricky to assemble. Are we actively trying to convey to kids the idea that reading is dismal and arduous?

Also get out of my setup, SHOO, no cats in the video (I ended up putting some tube goo onto a dinner plate and putting that in the living room and then when they both were like "OOH TREAT" I shut the door on them SORRY GUYS)

It took THIRTEEN FUCKENING TAKES to get one (1) usable three-minute video and I am going to SET SOMETHING ON FIRE and maybe also GO ON A RAMPAGE oh my God Why do we as writers have to be PERCEIVED JUST PERCEIVE THE BOOK I WROTE THE BOOK FOR YOU TO PERCEIVE IT

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 22h ago

I need to record one more video this morning and I do not really want to but then once it's done IT'S DONE and I will not have to do it again and I think this is how I get through a lot of things tbh "At least I'll never have to live this exact minute again" I tell myself

Time to buy a new book. If you don't know what to buy, try something that rhymes with THEM ANY, maybe by an author whose last name sort of looks like "novel".

Okay well sometimes the universe provides (I got like 3 hours of slepp last night, I feel like crap, my stomach hurts, my head hurts, my house is a mess, my eyeliner is crooked, but my hair... looks okay on Zoom? curly and nice?)

The hovershark pup wails whenever I put it down, or try to put it in my toolbag, like it *knows* it's been found by a soft touch. I swaddle it in my scarf and wedge the soft bundle under my arm, wincing as the pup inefficiently nurses on my palm on the climb down.

Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 23h ago

As a sky turbine repair tech, you're used to finding strange things caught in the mechanisms. Tiny dragonlet hoards stashed in gearboxes, or drifting spellweave wrapped around the blades like cotton candy. What do you carry down from the clouds with you today? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

I always bring this up when I teach 'How I, A Committed Exploratory Writer, Taught Myself How To Outline' Even if you are the world's pantsiest pantser, if you sell on proposal you WILL have to give people SOMETHING that resembles an outline! I am sorry! They will ask!

Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh god I sold a book and now I have to write it 😱

I am joining @sarahgailey.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @tangentgeoff.bsky.social and @marieparks.bsky.social on faculty at the fourth annual Sandia Starforgers SFFH Writers Retreat + Workshop in 2027. You can save $200 with the early bird discount or apply for the scholarship. starforgers.com

Hee hee heeeeee all the bookplates for FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER are signed! Oh and some of them (because I found a random but appropriate handful of stickers) have... 👁️ (not a lot though because I only had so many eyeball stickers) cc @rustyquill.com

I have worked very diligently to get my bedroom Primevally Darke, An Cave Long Before Ye Discouerie Of Fyre And it has succeeded But it does mean that occasionally I wake up like "I cannot see shit in here so that better be a cat gnawing on the back of my knees and not a demon or whatever"

Academics and scoleres are not gate-keeperes. Thei will talke to you about their topiques. For dayes. Thei will sende lynkes. Thei will order bookes. Thys ys why thei lyve. Thei are the route bitwene past knowledge and future knowledge.

The Fae: so we’re going to take you away from here and— Me: I accept! The Fae: and you won’t remember anything and you will not return for a century— Me: I ACCEPT HARDER

B33 Man-eating birds.

Hashtag hauntdorsement!

STEAMLORD@exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d ago

I listened to @premeemohamed.com’s Butcher of the Forest on audiobook and it’s haunting means I kind of wanna see it as a movie; like an anti-Odyssey

The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying

Neon Hemlock's initial goal is MET for their novellas volume 7 kickstarter! NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE STRETCH GOALS another novella! novelette submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven

Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly

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Me having a meeting with someone born in a year starting with a 2

Mr Krabs' Multiple Chins in Mirror

Alt: Mr Krabs' Multiple Chins in Mirror looking as old and terrible as possible

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Ooh ooh Bleeding Cool is writing about our VERY SAFE and NICE book that is both safe and nice @jonnysims.bsky.social @rustyquill.com bleedingcool.com/pop-culture/...

From the Library of Jurgen Leitner (The Magnus Archives) Announced

A new horror novel called From the Library of Jurgen Leitner (The Magnus Archives), based on the podcast, will arrive on October 27.

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