@emilytesh.net I just finished Some Desperate Glory and it is instantly one of my favorite books. I was crying and contemplating and hootin and hollering the whole time. Thank you for making such beautiful art

My grandparents were children (unemployed) a century ago so perhaps I would instead take up my great-grandparents’ business activities, such as ‘coal miner’, ‘career criminal’, or ‘professional bridge player’. I might try to avoid ‘abused housewife’.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

my favourite thing I've read this month is Meredith Lanzen's FORMULA ZERO, a romance about racing against your childhood bestie/rival in very fast spaceships

once again it's time for 'this academic book looks extremely relevant to the novel I'm working on but I can't find it anywhere for less than £50'

picked up NOTES FROM A REGICIDE off this list and it absolutely whips. the story of two revolutionaries in the distant future, as told by their son. I've cried twice, and a third time from envy

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · last mo.

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

She’s here! Today is the start of this Couch to 5k for reading I’ve put together! Come and join us :-D open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading

we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.

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nobody yells READ A DIFFERENT BOOK at silmarillion fans because our hearts are pure

UK #DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because THE INCANDESCENT @emilytesh.net is on #sale on #Kindle UK for today only! amzn.to/4vh2mfn #TheIncandescent #ad #amazonuk

The Incandescent

Dr Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England.

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'exercise routine' 'exercise routine for person who doesn't care about all that' 'exercise routine for specifically the feeling of dread I get when it's time to carry the vacuum cleaner up the stairs' 'lightweight vacuum cleaner'

so I WAS trying to catch up with the Le Guin shortlist but I read Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung and had to stop and read everything else Chung has published in English. now please picture me sitting hopefully on Anton Hur's doorstep waiting for the next translation. wow.

Audible #UKSFFBookBargans anyone? Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.net won the Hugo in 2024 and deserved to. I don't know the reading, but the book is so good. £3.99 www.audible.co.uk/pd/Some-Desp...

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picked up MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE by Bora Chung in Anton Hur’s translation, read it in a day, and now I need to read everything else Chung has ever written. good to be reminded of how much I love ghost stories!

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

so I've been doing a project that I'm calling the Reading Generously Project because it occurred to me that I had become so mean and cynical about book marketing copy that I wasn't giving most books a fair chance.

Re-reading is one of the greatest compliments a writer can receive 🥰

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last mo.

Some life things happened, and then I wanted to re-read Long Live Evil, and then I had to read All Hail Chaos TWICE and unsurprisingly had a great time but also lots of Thoughts and Feelings but also lots of HOW DARE YOU @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social

You can now listen to the 43rd episode of Afterimages Podcast, a discussion with SF and fantasy author @emilytesh.net about Peter Jackson's 2001 first instalment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. Close your eyes, it's... AFTERIMAGES! 🎥 🎞️ 📺

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Wait!! God damn it!! Contact info on my portfolio site: www.agbouskila.com And I need to say: you can't really call it an honour to be employed, but it WAS an honour to work alongside such sharp, thoughtful, experienced peers. Bungie team, thank you for everything. I'll really, really miss you.

I think about some of Ari's brilliant frameworks for writing and narrative design pretty much every day; if you're hiring for writers you literally could not do better

ariella@agbouskila.bsky.social · last mo.

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

Ariella is one of the sharpest narrative thinkers I know; some of you will remember her guest appearance on Eight Days of Diana.

ariella@agbouskila.bsky.social · last mo.

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

For a fiction author there can be no glory so great, no award so gleaming, no praise that so warms the heart, as unsolicited fan art

it's a gothic romantasy about a condemned woman who must earn her freedom by destroying the heart of an evil sorceress in a cursed city called moonscarrow. it is not at all subtly inspired by sleeping beauty, and is also as close as i'm going to get to a villain romance

My little announcement - I have a new book in 2027, and this is the cover!

New Kai Ashante Wilson novel! Hopefully this update post rectifies the issues with the earlier one. I want y'all to see it! www.patreon.com/KaiAshanteWi...

I am reading this right now and it's SO good. voicey, sharp, moving, queer: 1970s alt-history featuring the anticommunist space military (derogatory). I picked it up completely by chance - it wasn't on my radar at all! - and I am having such a good time.

Titan Books@titanbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE DISCO AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Nathan Tavares is out now! Don't miss this exhilarating and riotously entertaining science fiction romance, blending queer counterculture, joy as resistance, and banging disco hits. 🪩🚀 Get your copy today: https://loom.ly/O_50NsM

I am reading this right now and it's SO good. voicey, sharp, moving, queer: 1970s alt-history featuring the anticommunist space military (derogatory). I picked it up completely by chance - it wasn't on my radar at all! - and I am having such a good time.

Titan Books@titanbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE DISCO AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Nathan Tavares is out now! Don't miss this exhilarating and riotously entertaining science fiction romance, blending queer counterculture, joy as resistance, and banging disco hits. 🪩🚀 Get your copy today: https://loom.ly/O_50NsM

all right everyone, who's ready to visit Fantasyland (c. 1997)? please remember when packing for your trip that you are Not allowed to bring any personal items unless they are Magic and/or contain Important Lore zencastr.com/z/U8sm3Gjc

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

JOKES are against the rules. A tour of nineties Fantasyland, with stops along the way in California, Minnesota, Shannara, Valdemar, Derkholm, Dalemark, and the 'Maggots' entry in the Encyclopedia of ...

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quick check, what would feel good right now: - stare at my inbox waiting for an email that definitely won't come outside US business hours - mindless scrolling - mop the kitchen floor - read a mediaeval romance about Lancelot making a fool of himself for love

Nice to get home from the UK to the Bram Stoker Award and the Nebula Award waiting here:

It's a week until pub day, so I'm going to start sharing some of the amazing blurb quotes from authors who loved The Knight Watch. First up is @venetiaconstantine.bsky.social , #1 Sunday Times Bestselling Author of The Last Starborn Seer!

"Call Me Traitor"'s cover without text, a new book by the ever fantastic @everinamaxwell.bsky.social 🌊🌟