I washed a horse that did not care to be washed. That's a workout. Him mad.
Elizabeth Bear
@matociquala.bsky.social
Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat. 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈 https://buttondown.email/matociquala THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Congrats, World Fantasy Award nominees! locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...
2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists
The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…
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Happy Ray Bradbury apocalypse day to all who celebrate.
Hey folks! I'm going to have a little medical downtime in early September (cataract surgery) so I'm taking advantage of that enforced rest to offer 4 writing mentoring sessions at $750/each.
Remember how nice and fast Southwest boarding used to be when they didn't have assigned seating and didn't charge extra to check a bag? It's not like that any more.
Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)
Three Parts Dead
From the author of the viral bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War..."Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good." —Patrick RothfussMax Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build ...
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I feel like it's got less trusty 'cause a hauberk that's got rusty Will never flex and jingle quite the same.
Someone left the chainmail in the rain Doesn't matter cause it's metal And the rain won't make it brittle And we can make another hauberk anyday.....
My Schedule Today at the Gencon Writer's Symposium! Building a Long-Term Career 11 am, Ballroom 4 Can They Get Away With It? Heist Plots for Literature and RPGs 3 pm, Ballroom 3 History as Worldbuilding 4 pm, Ballroom 3
Today I am at the GenCon Writer's Symposium! Come on by, I'm friendly! In a couple of weeks I will be at @laworldcon.bsky.social ! (Schedule to follow) Then I will sleep for a month!
Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 6d agoWe have another great Featured Guest to announce - Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social will be on program at #LAconV!
What a great team to work with, and the audience was fantastic.
Kameron Hurley@kameronhurley.com · 6d agoLovely panel on burnout with @matociquala.bsky.social and @sandratayler.bsky.social. We were an eminently qualified trio to speak on this topic 😆. Lovely audience! Hope we had some useful tips for them! (I certainly got useful tips!!)
Pushing back for Indy! See some of you at the #GenCon #writerssymposium !!
You'll get-- my em- dashes when-- you pry-- --them-- from my cold-- ---dead--- Keyboard.
horse girls, historical reenactors, train guys, trauma nurses...i'm NOT saying you should collect neurodivergent friends on purpose btw. i'm saying you're a writer so your friends are already neurodivergent
Happy book day, Sarah!!
Sarah Beth Durst@sarahbethdurst.bsky.social · last wk.Today is the book birthday for my new cozy fantasy, SEA OF CHARMS!!! A standalone set in the world of THE SPELLSHOP, it's about a sailor, a musician, a sea serpent, and a shrub who loves the sea... Thanks so much to Bramble for bringing this book to life! sarahbethdurst.com/SeaofCharms....
As we near the release of THE FIST OF MEMORY, I've been thinking about why I wrote the book and why people should read it. One reason is that this novel is unique - the purest expression of all my creative and philosophical interests molten, annealed and fired like a bullet into the readers heart.
Kleenex box slippers are the inevitable consequence of incomprehensible wealth. Prove me wrong.
"So anyway after that we rescued the vampire mindflayer from the Positive Energy Plane..." #pathfinder @redbaeyr.bsky.social
Claire Humphrey, Lora Gray, Jo Miles, Haralambi Markov, @janapbianchi.bsky.social, @swantower.bsky.social, @anamariacurtis.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social, & @tbonejenkins.bsky.social! 3/3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!
Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
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@marissalingen.bsky.social, Thomas Mixon, Kenneth Schneyer, Kirsty Logan, @alwayscoffee.bsky.social, Juliet Kahn, @michaeldthomas.bsky.social, Delia Sherman, @atgreenblatt.bsky.social, @matociquala.bsky.social... 2/3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!
Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
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Writers! The Uncanny Year 13 Kickstarter has MANUSCRIPT CRITIQUES from @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social, @acwise.bsky.social, @rati.bsky.social, @seraph76.bsky.social, @foxesandroses.bsky.social... 1/3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!
Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
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Friends: 3rd iteration of SalamAward workshop has been scheduled for March 2027 Elizabeth Bear and Saad Z Hussain will be traveling to Pakistan to teach students If you’d like to support the future of the field, esp for South Asian SF, here’s your chance www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
Transform Lives for 12 Young Writers - Salam Writing Workshop by Salam Award - Indiegogo
Your contribution will be used to provide scholarships to participants and fund logistics of The Salam Workshop 2027 including travel costs for the instructors. Since 2023, we have hosted two biannual...
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Did not have the Electric Mayhem backing up BTS on my 2026 bingo card.
Anyone seeing this in contact with Laurie T. Edison? I can't seem to reach her lately.
This doesn't look like Herman Melville or DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP to me.
Moscow Mitch is simply evolving into his next instar.
The Salam Award team is putting on their third workshop with @saadzhossain.bsky.social and @matociquala.bsky.social as instructors. Support their fundraiser and help provide scholarships to up and coming unpublished spec fic writers in Pakistan: www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
Transform Lives for 12 Young Writers - Salam Writing Workshop by Salam Award - Indiegogo
Your contribution will be used to provide scholarships to participants and fund logistics of The Salam Workshop 2027 including travel costs for the instructors. Since 2023, we have hosted two biannual...
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Friends of the workshop: Logan is a Hong Kong-born queer trans speculative fiction writer who is hoping to attend Viable Paradise this year! gofund.me/e77997616
Donate to Help Send Logan to Viable Paradise!, organized by Logan Hoffman-Smith
Hello!! I’m Logan (they/them) a queer Hong Kong-born adoptee SF/F writer from … Logan Hoffman-Smith needs your support for Help Send Logan to Viable Paradise!
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Guess a near death experience takes like, 20 years off your face.