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🤘i write ∙ astounding award & BFA finalist ∙ IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL + THE DEATH I GAVE HIM + work in Clarkesworld | yyz ✈️ yvr https://emdashliu.com/
i really do think that trad pub fanfiction is on the whole a bad idea—it's really a symptom of how the commercially oriented high profile sector of the industry does not see book publishing as a vehicle for tastemaking, and tbh i do think that negatively impacts us all
fans of If Found Return to Hell (i know you're out there) watch out for the latest @augursociety.bsky.social issue for a little more from the world of king death & world weary reapers
Nara Monteiro@notesfromnara.bsky.social · last mo.Just hit this scene in @emdashliu.bsky.social’s If Found, Return to Hell & let out a little yelp of excitement! Keep an eye out for Lark in issue 9.1 of @augursociety.bsky.social later this summer :)
Trans cyberpunk noir buddy comedy murder mystery. I think the hardcover is out of stock. Help me move some more volume so I can finish my sequel. bsky.app/profile/brie...
Aubrey Wood - BANG BANG BODHISATTVA paperback and audio out now!@briewoodfiction.bsky.social · 2y agoMy trans cyberpunk debut Bang Bang Bodhisattva is out in hardback, paperback and audiobook! It was a finalist for the 2024 Lambda award for speculative fiction! www.amazon.com/Bang-Bodhisa...
It's Pride Month! Time for a compilation graphic of Solaris books to read for 🌈Pride, & to help you Read Queer All Year! #booksky Inc. Fantasy, Sci Fi, Horror & Spec Fic with a queer main character and/or a strong element of queerness within the plot! Hop downthread to see who is featured 👇
genuinely YVR is the GOAT best airport in north america hands down
found out today that a significant portion of my coworkers think i am married?!? which is like not offensive per se but also: what the fuck lol
what beautiful news, adored this book so much and im so glad it's receiving the deserved accolades!
The Booker Prizes@thebookerprizes.com · 3mo ago‘It’s a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel’ We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King. Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
I ducked into a bookstore and found something a little bit remarkable. Toward the end of the first section of a cyberpunk anthology, Isabel Fall's Helicopter Story is in physical print. Copyright 2023. I choose to believe she's out there somewhere, that she made it. I hope I'm right.
i love this book so bad one of the best fantasy novels of this decade
Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)@mayadeane.bsky.social · 3mo agoapparently trans Achilles is having an algorithmic moment. anyway, buy wrath goddess sing.
i write scifi on a very technical level 😌
Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoGenre rules are only guidelines anyway! Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device? We've got all that and more! 1/3
has anyone read sha po lang I Would Like To Talk About Sha Po Lang
I read some words by Cory Doctorow when I was but a wee squatter girl writing bad zines: what an artist should fear isn't piracy. It's obscurity. Those words stuck with me and have served me well.
in kind of tremendous danger of becoming too important at my job lately...
i think my social circle is somewhat cosmically out of balance at the moment because it is mostly strava friends and not enough letterboxd friends
Some awards eligibility periods are closing soon! 👀 Please check out "As The Earth Dreams" for your anthology considerations! 💜🩵🖤 Filled with beautiful and haunting stories of ancestry, memory, labor, freedom, and more, this is the first Black Canadian SFF anthology, and hopefully not the last.
Terese Mason Pierre@teresempierre.bsky.social · 8mo agoA very short awards eligibility post: This year, I edited an anthology of Black Canadian SFF, "As The Earth Dreams." I'm honored to champion these writers! Also, all of the stories in the collection are so amazing and diverse! Please consider them for awards, too! houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
One day I'll remember how to post a newsletter at a time when people read their email but in my defence I am on a ship in the Pacific ocean & time is, among other things, a social construct from which I have been abstracted for the foreseeable future ANYWAY MY NEW BOOK IS OUT TODAY
Seasons of Glass and Iron Release Day!
Dear Friends, It's here! Today's the day! Seasons of Glass and Iron is available wherever you get your books! In the normal order of things I should be where my book is – in a shop signing stock, or...
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CLUB CONTANGO is sold out at Kinokuniya!😭 Get it at the usual platforms, @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social and more. Or the audiobook, narrated by @valory.bsky.social 🎲🌠 Watch out for THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANIZING MANUAL '27 via @starsandsabers.bsky.social
i have given into the impulse (bought tickets for kyuhyun death note musical 😪) so for the next 4 weeks i need to marathon all of death note in order to be maximally insane about this series and reap the maximum emotional catharsis of my decisions
em x. liu | 雯雯@emdashliu.bsky.social · 5mo agosometimes a really specific brand of crazy hits you (a guy you like a lot stars in a musical you have wanted to see for years) and you find yourself feverishly googling round trip flights to seoul
instead of buying me a pizza just get my book honestly
took an uber to work today because it is raining buckets and i am mildly ill and when i got in, the driver's phone chimed like "DESTINATION: CANCER CENTRE" and he very audibly Startled and i said, "don't worry i'm going to work" and he was like Oh Thank God
necessary read & eternally timely unfortunately—what strikes me is how often writers are stuck with that feeling of "was that racist or....?" when dealing with an industry that we're always told is deeply subjective. in my experience usually the answer is yes! lmao
Arley Sorg@arleysorg.bsky.social · 5mo ago"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?" arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...
sometimes a really specific brand of crazy hits you (a guy you like a lot stars in a musical you have wanted to see for years) and you find yourself feverishly googling round trip flights to seoul
Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.
Going to re-up our call to nominate On Spec for Best Semiprozine at the Hugos With Canadian identity under attack by USA-based alt-right political forces, it's an important moment to celebrate things that are weirdly Canadian This is also their last year of eligibility. Throw them a vote, please.
An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog@hugobookclub.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe urge all our friends in the Worldcon community to consider nominating On Spec for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award, and to consider nominating Diane Walton for Best Editor - Short Form. They've done great work for 35 years. New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
so fucking hyped for this can barely put it into words
Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 5mo agoFirst trailer for Jane Schoenbrun’s ‘TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA.’ Starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder, it follows a director rebooting a slasher film obsessed with the original “final girl” actor. In theaters August 7. #TeenageSexAndDeathAtCampMiasma #JaneSchoenbrun
