Join Pete Sutton for his second Writing About Writing About Writing look at books about writing comics: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/w...
Sara K Ellis
@skateellis.bsky.social
Lit prof, newly minted beachcomber, and SF writer in Japan. Words in Analog, F&SF, and elsewhere. Debut novel—If the Stars Are Lit (Luna Press).
This tie-in snack for the VIVANT series is taking the naptha shortage to brilliant levels.
Elon’s Odyssey has the Robert Palmer girls and Warren Worthington III. #myeyes
This year's GenCon Writers Symposium was amazing! Check out this thread from @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social to learn why the convention is a must-attend for writers. Maurice and his staff have truly transformed the Symposium in the last two years. I can't wait to see what they do next time!
Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · 2d agoWe survived GenCon Writers Symposium 2026, y’all (and that’s saying something considering the occasional tornado). I was so busy running around I barely got to enjoy it. Luckily, my interns and friends made sure to slow me down to experience what we were curating.
As of ~10 pm, the walls and water tower were still standing. Photo taken ~9:45.
Don’t know why I waited so long to crack open that Alexander Chee book that’s been staring from the shelf, but I’m so glad I did it now.
I’m increasingly of the opinion that #psychogeography is mostly just middle-class people walking through car parks noting their horror at working-class people buying things.
"Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones... Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins.” —Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier #BookologyThursday
What hit was how much the narrator’s voice seems to prefigure social media, enacting all those critical voices against a paralysis of honest self-expression. I mean, she has to be stifled, the plot wouldn’t work otherwise, but it feels surprisingly now.
BOOKSNS@booksns.bsky.social · 4d agoRebecca by Daphne du Maurier is kind of like if Mike Flanagan did Downton Abbey (spoilers) https://www.booksns.com/219663/ I read this book at the recommendation of my girlfriend. It was a very slow burn at first, but the last few chapters – from the party to the end – really made up for it. …
"'You're not a child anymore, Good Stab,' my father told me back, quiet. 'I don't know what I am,' I said, and he might not even have heard. He clapped his hand to my wrist like a hug and held it there, and I shook my head no." @stephengrahamjones.com
I was just thinking about how "you need to become an influencer to sell books" is ruining everything
Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 5d agoI hate how what I need to do is write books, and yet I keep thinking, "Maybe if I wore increasingly weird glasses and sat in front of my taxidermy with a bubble pipe and did unhinged houseplant reviews I could go viral and sell some books." Doing the work doesn't feel like enough, some days.
Some days are so good you slap on the soundtrack to this masterpiece and sing along in made-up French.
The Young Girls Of Rochefort 1967
Alt: The Young Girls Of Rochefort 1967
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A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.
What with the world being on fire and all, you might've missed that the 3rd volume of SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES by me and @vallescurarule.bsky.social came out from @lunapress.bsky.social, containing info & instruction on writing *even more* SF subgenres & tropes! linktr.ee/specficforne... #writing #sf
If the Stars Are Lit is the debut speculative mystery by Sara K Ellis, exploring the implications of AI, memory, and loss. Cover art by Tara Bush. Order now! www.lunapresspublishing.com/novels @skateellis.bsky.social #sciencefiction #smallpresspublishing #booksfromscotland
I am very excited to be part of this conference: Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty, organised by Jocelyn Hargrave at University of Derby. This will be my very first conference paper, and I am delighted and grateful for the opportunity! details below. 🧡 www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty
The Publishing Programme is holding an online two-day conference on 1–2 September 2026 to mark this ten-year anniversary, and to reflect on the sociocultural, economic and practical implications for t...
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Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
The huff over Wilson’s Odyssey review shows how we’ve forgotten that film reviews are their own art. Not just a 🍅-meter score or a takedown platform. I’ve read everything by Kael not because I agree with her or think she was a particularly good human (Raising Kane ahem) … 1/2
I enjoyed Nolan's ODYSSEY quite a bit, and found it more moving than expected. I also read Wilson's critique and found that both enjoyable and insightful. It's not even really a bad review -- it's an incisive dissection from the POV of someone whose knives have long been sharpened on the material.
Because she could not stop for death. He Waited
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Hmmm. I read the Emily Wilson review of Nolan's The Odyssey and not sure what the hubbub is about. Are negative reviews not allowed anymore? Some nuance of her points seems flattened in the criticisms of the review, too.
Hey so also: it’s available on streaming, and I really think you should watch Supergirl, which is about women healing from trauma and beating the shit out of sex trafficking incels. news.chanda.science/archive/you-...
You should go see Supergirl
It's pop art that is unapologetically political.
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Stayed up all night reading “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” like a normal, responsible adult I’m at the buffalo hunter hunting part
In Vol 3 of Spec Fic for Newbies by me and @vallescurarule.bsky.social (from @lunapress.bsky.social) you get 10 *more* horror subgenres and major tropes! Some with extra exclamation points! Learn to write more of what keeps people awake late at night: linktr.ee/specficforne... #writing #horror
One thing that is obvious from the Odyssey/Wilson discourse is that English comprehension and attention spans have taken a hit over the last...dunno, few years?