It's been a West Facade kind of summer and we're finishing strong with these August events!🕯️🍊 🖤 Club Chicxulub IX: The Founders' Edition Ocean Ale House, San Francisco 8/13, 7 pmPT In Conversation: Wendy J. Fox and Lauren C. Johnson Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA 8/16, 4 pmPT

ICYMI, @laurencjohnson.bsky.social was recently on the Cover to Cover podcast with @maryejackson5.bsky.social to discuss her debut novel, THE WEST FACADE! buff.ly/f86Nmw7 Get THE WEST FACADE right here: buff.ly/Kl6qxZN @susanschulman.bsky.social

ICYMI, @laurencjohnson.bsky.social and @wendyjfox.bsky.social will be in-conversation at @boulderbookstore.bsky.social TOMORROW NIGHT at 6:30pm MDT! buff.ly/4fljKnX Get your tickets RIGHT HERE if you haven't already done so! buff.ly/4fljKnX

Don't miss out on RSVP-ing for your chance to hear @wendyjfox.bsky.social and @laurencjohnson.bsky.social as they talk about their novels, THE LAST SUPPER and THE WEST FACADE, at Boulder Bookstore this Thursday at 6:30pm MDT! RSVP right here: buff.ly/9pHx8sw @susanschulman.bsky.social

Boulder, CO, here we come!

Boulder Bookstore@boulderbookstore.bsky.social · 3w ago

Join us next week when @wendyjfox.bsky.social & @laurencjohnson.bsky.social will speak about and sign their new books, "The Last Supper" and "The West Facade"! Purchase tickets here: foxjohnsonbbs.eventbrite.com

I got a lil sneak peak of the Strong Women, Strange Worlds readings/lineup during a tech rehearsal last week, and lemme tell you, this reading is going to be GOOD! If you love speculative fiction, you don't wanna miss this one. 🗓️ Thur, July 16 4pm PT/7pm ET www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

I loved interviewing Thomas Wharton, author of Wolf, Moon, Dog, for The Rumpus! If you're just getting started writing fiction or creative nonfiction, I recommend trying your hand at author interviews. Each conversation is an opportunity to learn about craft. ✒️ therumpus.net/2026/06/16/d...

Decentering the Human Narrative in Fables: A Conversation with Thomas Wharton - The Rumpus

“Do I have a process for tackling tragic scenes? Just to be honest and direct about what’s happening, and to avoid overwriting—that’s what moves me in the sentimental writing that I admire. If my own ...

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"I had to give myself permission to write the book I wanted to write...which is fantasy as well as historical fiction." Listen to @laurencjohnson.bsky.social on Women, Life and Science discussing her debut novel, THE WEST FACADE: bit.ly/4pd2njm @sfwp.bsky.social

Some pics from this week’s Words & Stories reading with The Writers Grotto. It was an honor to read alongside Kristen Cosby and bring my weird gargoyle story to Salesforce Park 😆 The Grotto hosts mini readings every Wednesday afternoon at 1pm in the Salesforce Park. Come through next week!

I *cannot wait* to introduce you all to the nonbinary, dinosaur-riding, sellsword-turned-model protagonist of my next book, THE CURSED BLADE OF WEK. (2027 @neonhemlock.bsky.social !!)

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · last mo.

It's far too easy to reduce Sword and Sorcery to a set of stereotypes that fail to reflect the breadth, depth, and glorious strangeness of the genre's origins; @cynthiaward.bsky.social on the need to embrace and restore S&S's essential weirdness and heterogeneity

Join us for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of the TJPA Salesforce Park! Lauren C. Johnson and Kristen Cosby will be reading from their work, come by! Words & Stories Reading Series July 1 • 1:00–1:30 PM Wetlands Garden at TJPA’s Salesforce Park #literaryevents

SF friends: Take a late lunch break and come see me tomorrow at The Wetland Gardens in Salesforce Park from 1:05-1:35 PM. I’ll be reading from my debut novel, The West Facade, a gothic fairytale about a statue that learns what it means to be human. See you there!

Check out @laurencjohnson.bsky.social's interview with Thomas Wharton where they discuss, "decentering the Human Narrative in Fables,"over on @therumpus.net! buff.ly/2psoVCa Get THE WEST FACADE here: buff.ly/7RBg62Z @susanschulman.bsky.social

Have you heard the good news? @wendyjfox.bsky.social will be in-conversation with @laurencjohnson.bsky.social on 7/23 at @boulderbookstore.bsky.social starting at 6:30pm MDT! Click the link here to order your tickets and to get a copy of THE LAST SUPPER and THE WEST FACADE!

Wendy J. Fox and Lauren C. Johnson In Conversation

Summer Garage Closure - Spruce St. Garage will be closed beginning in June. Click here for more information and alternate parking options near Boulder Bookstore.

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Twice a month we have an amazing selection of authors and as always, I can't wait for this one! #swswqr

Lauren C. Johnson@laurencjohnson.bsky.social · last mo.

I love the Strong Women, Strange Worlds reading series! Stoked to join this line-up of fabulous women and non-binary SFFH authors 🔮✨ @leticiaasu.bsky.social @cwroseauthor.bsky.social @nattykbrown.bsky.social 🗓️ 7/16 ⏰ 4pm PT/ 7pm ET 📍 Zoom www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

I love the Strong Women, Strange Worlds reading series! Stoked to join this line-up of fabulous women and non-binary SFFH authors 🔮✨ @leticiaasu.bsky.social @cwroseauthor.bsky.social @nattykbrown.bsky.social 🗓️ 7/16 ⏰ 4pm PT/ 7pm ET 📍 Zoom www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

"The first time I saw the Notre Dame Cathedral, I was struck by the statues that are in these doorway niches...If they could come to life, what would they want?" Hear @laurencjohnson.bsky.social, author of THE WEST FACADE, on the @splturnthepage.bsky.social podcast: bit.ly/4aiJtRN @sfwp.bsky.social

Re-reading The Beginners by Heidi Kasa to get ready for our Babylon Salon Summer 2026 Performance on Saturday ⭐🎙️ I love this collection so much; it's poetic, wonderfully weird, and challenging in the best kind of way. I'm thrilled Heidi's flying all the way in from Austin to join our lineup!

East Bay pals, come on out this afternoon to the ADORABLE Sweet Potatoes Upbeet Cafe for an afternoon with the Rebel Readers! We'll be there today from 1-4!

TONIGHT Saturday, June 6th! Beyond honored to join this lineup for "Out of Fury Into Grace: Poems & Stories of Reckoning and Resilience." Emceed by Leslie Kirk Campbell. donorbox.org/events/936954

ICYMI, @laurencjohnson.bsky.social was on the Shelley Irwin show to talk about her debut novel, THE WEST FACADE! buff.ly/W5OSUv6 Treat yourself to THE WEST FACADE during our summer sale right here: buff.ly/CZtnjZf @susanschulman.bsky.social

Tomorrow, June 4! 7pm! Join me and Ilana DeBare at Clio's Books for an author talk, Alive/Not Alive! www.eventbrite.com/e/live-not-a...

It's another reading this week! East Bay/El Cerrito friends! Come hang out with me at the adorable Sweet Potato's Upbeet Cafe! It's going to be way cute; the owner is even making special drinks for the occasion: Galactic Latte and Dragon's Breath Mocha. 🐲☕

Shoring up my energy for three(?!?) readings this week! Alive/Not Alive: In conversation with Ilana DeBare Clio’s Bookstore, Oakland June 4 @7pm Out of Fury into Grace Telegraph Hill Books, San Francisco June 6 @6:30 PM Rebel Readers Sweet Potatoes Up Beet Cafe, El Cerrito June 7 @ 1pm

"I wanted this in ways to feel like a modern story, too...finding a way to circle into some of our present concerns...climate change, erosion, toxic rain." Listen to @laurencjohnson.bsky.social discuss her debut novel, THE WEST FACADE, on the Salt Lake Dirt podcast: bit.ly/4tKbicH @sfwp.bsky.social

Make sure to RSVP for @laurencjohnson.bsky.social's event with Ilana DeBare for their conversation about writing women characters who break the rules at Clio's Books on June 4th from 7-9pm PDT! buff.ly/3Co4EXu @susanschulman.bsky.social

Daly City, here we come! 🙌 The wonderful @peninsulabookcollaborative is graciously hosting an author meet and greet for me TODAY, May 2 2-4 pm! The first five attendees get a free copy of The West Facade! 🕯️🍊🖤

The new issue of Club Chicxulub is live and I'm so proud to have been part of the magic behind the scenes. 🦖☄️ Lately, I've realized it's my life's work to not only write and share stories but to also create spaces for others to share art. Club Chicxulub is absolutely aligned with that.

Club Chicxulub@clubchicxulub.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BEHOLD! The doors to Pandæmonium are flung wide as Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 5 is now LIVE! 🔗 A mélange of psychedelic fiction, poetry, visual art and music! 🎭🦖☄️ clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxul...

I marched to a concentration camp yesterday. We need to call it that. open.substack.com/pub/thecause...

I marched to a concentration camp yesterday. We need to call it that.

'Detention' sounds like something America does to people who 'have it coming.' That's the problem.

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A behind-the-scenes look at book promotions, plus some of The West Façade character art I commissioned from Gerlanda di Francia. Gerlanda is one of my favorite contemporary surrealist artists, and I'm thrilled she made these pieces for me! 🖤🕯️🍊 substack.com/home/post/p-...