Jen Brown ✨
@jenbrownwrites.bsky.social
Bi, Black librarian (she/her); Ignyte Award nom'd SFF author; Clarion West alum (Novel Workshop '25). Stories in Fantasy, Reactor, FIYAH, & more (🔗s on jencbrown.com). Rep'd by Fabienne Schwizer at Ki Agency. Header by well_dipper.
1/ Happy Juneteenth! How a Texas emancipation commemoration spread across the US is an amazing story. But Juneteenth wasn’t the first Black Freedom Day in America—or the only one of its day. So, let’s talk about em’. Pictured: Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie V Yates, Houston Juneteenth, 1908 | HPL
Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.
For Pride, you can preorder my & @cypayseur.bsky.social's favorite queer speculative stories of 2025! There have been many discussions lately about how queer publishing in the US is being squeezed from all directions. Pls support this ONGOING series & make sure it *remains* ongoing 💕 It matters!
We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 edited by Bogi Takács & Charles Payseur (Pre-Order) — neon hemlock
We’re Here 2025 is edited by Bogi Takács & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews . An 8” x 5” book. ~275 pages. To be published Fall 2026. We’re Here 2025 includes the f...
neonhemlock.com
HI. HELLO. I HAVE NEWS. 👀 Thrilled to share that I'm now represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social at @kiagency.bsky.social! My adult fantasy novel, "A Vengeance, Most Tender," feat Black sapphic necromancers, is in wonderful hands. 🙌🏾
We are delighted to welcome the Bid to Bring Worldcon to Edmonton in 2030 as a sponsor of the 2026 Ignyte Awards! @edmontonin2030.bsky.social
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan. A queer time travel adventure of sapphic longing, Chinese immortals, and Artist4Magician Old Man Yaoi, this novella utterly charms. Our drink is a mocktail: The Dragon's Daughter.
![[Image desc: THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan alongside a pale yellow amber drink in a cut crystal glass on a garden table flanked by yellow coreopsis flowers.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ry77yg67bhrjsh4h5ptccng6/bafkreicpooqjs6v5o5qeh3wwxthkx4m3io6r46vhvxdikwn5ubu3yd7sfy)
We're preparing the 2026 Shortlist for announcement and the open voting period on June 8! There are currently 2 ways to support: General Donations (for which you receive our thanks): ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/ Sponsorship (for which we might send you stuff): donorbox.org/sponsor-the-...
support - The Ignyte Awards
We live in immensely difficult times and hope our supporters are utilizing their discretionary income to prioritize giving to causes which aid in our collective survival and the dismantling of oppress...
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com
_Your Body Is a Fever Dream_ This is not my work alone (although I have a story in it) An anthology of queer cosmic horror from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social which will raise money for trans charities (a companion volume to their award-winning YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY)
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM - anthology (print + eBook) *preorder*
This is a preorder. This book is expected to ship on or before October 6, 2026. The spiritual sequel to 2022's wildly successful and acclaimed YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY is here! It takes forty trans ...
store.tenebrouspress.com
Below are some projects I love that are accepting money at this time and the costs of their products.
L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 3mo agoYou have to support the projects you love with money. I am sorry we do not live in a world where that is not the truth.
Baffling Magazine has for years been producing the queer fiction I didn’t know I was starving for. A patreon subscription starts at 3 USD monthly. www.patreon.com/neonhemlock
Get more from Neon Hemlock Press on Patreon
Get more from Neon Hemlock Press on Patreon. creating Baffling Magazine. Support Neon Hemlock Press and get exclusive access to their work.
patreon.com
FIYAH the magazine's hiatus does not impact the operations of the Ignyte Awards or a future convention. We are operating on some shared infrastructure, though, so expenses related to being fully hosted independently will be taken into account in a future crowdfunding/sponsorship cycle.
Our stories are powerful and worthy and deserve a platform. I'm confident that this magazine can return stronger than ever under new leadership, and barring that, new pathways will emerge to share our work with the world. Black writers, we need your stories. Keep writing. Keep going!
DaVaun was my first editor; one of the first folks who saw something in my work. FIYAH brought me into community with many beloved Black SFF authors/kinfolk. But its editors & staff deserve to run the mag with appropriate financial backing. Point, blank, period.
DaVaun Sanders@davaun.bsky.social · 3mo agoDifficult post, but past time to rip the band aid off. FIYAH is going on hiatus indefinitely, with issue #40 currently set to be our last for the time being. The mag cannot continue running at a loss, and needs time to reassess operations from top to bottom if a viable path forward is to be created.
You have to support the projects you love with money. I am sorry we do not live in a world where that is not the truth.
Cannot stress enough that WE did not make this a problem. Trans people just want to mind our own business. REPUBLICANS made it a problem and liberals went along with it. You didn’t have to do this.
Quickly approaching 100 hours in Fields of Mistria. Cannot express how much I love this game. It brings such silly joy to pet my bunny rabbits, ducks, cows, horses, alpaca, and chickens+ my house cat (who goes outside to fetch wood for us during the day!). And the towniesssss! 🥹
THE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...
nypl.org
I tell you what: two women, clasping hands, & running off together as the world burns? Hits. Every. Time.
a close up of a woman making a funny face while sitting in a dark room .
Alt: close up of michelle obama shimmying in apparent joy
media.tenor.com
In other words: tell us your prose reads like a disembodied camera dictating tedious physical mannerisms, sans interiority, without telling us that.
Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’m tired, boss. These people suck.
Ok ok ok here we go! Cover reveal for my next novel: THE FIST OF MEMORY. Check out that lovely dynamic design. And look at those amazing quotes by the incredibly generous @aptshadow.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social to whom I am greatly indebted! Get the book y'all! buff.ly/X3CHaZk
The Fist of Memory - Astra Publishing House
“Absolutely masterful.” —Annalee Newitz “A unique meeting of big concepts and elegantly-crafted action.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky A strange alien spacecraft suddenly appears in the sky in this electrifying...
buff.ly
DAW Books@dawbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe cover of THE FIST OF MEMORY by award-winning author Wole Talabi has landed! A strange alien spacecraft suddenly appears in the sky in this electrifying, action-packed first contact novel set in near-future Nigeria. Cover Design by Adam Aurebach Preorder now, available 10/27: buff.ly/X3CHaZk
As a trans CSA survivor, I cannot emphasize enough how infuriating, dehumanizing, and devastating it is to watch the majority of society around me get so agitated about the hypothetical bogeyman of the "pedophile" (aka queer person) while intentionally ignoring the actual pedophiles in their midst.