1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

New newsletter! I emerge from my revisions cave with some thoughts on writing and finishing a novel, some other exciting publishing news & new writing, and a new series for paid subscribers. Free link here: www.patreon.com/carolineshea...

I feel like some people just really believe in their guts that the reason we are facing anti-trans backlash is because we used the wrong words in the 2010s and not, you know, the concerted efforts of people who hate us, plus the well-documented history of backlash as a political phenomenon.

New newsletter! I emerge from my revisions cave with some thoughts on writing and finishing a novel, some other exciting publishing news & new writing, and a new series for paid subscribers. Free link here: www.patreon.com/carolineshea...

Weird how much discourse around the Mamdani grocery stores ignores the existence of the Green Cart intiative (launched under Bloomberg) that provides subsidized fruit and vegetable stands across the city under the exact same logic as the grocery stores

obsessed with Ian Flemming's daily schedule - swim - brunch - write 1500 words no edits just freestyle - lobster hunting - pink gin - lunch - siesta - sit in garden - another swim - 500 more words - "a couple of powerful drinks" - dinner - scrabble with wife - sleep

Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance

"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."

There's a National Blood Supply Crisis Happening Right Now

Red Cross officials are pleading with Americans to donate blood, especially if they have O-positive blood.

gizmodo.com

TOMORROW (caitlin im stealing ur post to promote our event >:3c)

Caitlin Rozakis@caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 2w ago

On Wed Jul 29, for the folks in Manhattan with a lunch break and no money, I'm part of the free Bryant Park Summer Reading Room - Speculative Fiction panel with @clarenceahaynes.bsky.social @isabel.kim and Leila Siddiqui! bryantpark.org/calendar/eve...

The ebook of this is up if you'd prefer a digital version: weightlessbooks.com/lady-churchi...

Caroline Shea@therealcshea.bsky.social · last mo.

Very excited to share that I have a new story in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. It's a loose retelling of "The Dream of Óengus" but its heart is in Central PA and Vermont. I can't wait to read the rest of the issue. I hope you'll pick up a copy: smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2026/06...

"She’s died of fever and of pox. She’s bled out giving birth more times than she can count. She’s thrown herself from parapets and facedown into ponds, more than half-sick, at that point, of shadows. Sick of herself, that many-faced, many-fated serpent." (cold-signal.com/argent-carol...)

Argent – Caroline Shea

Argentby Caroline Shea Where She Starts  Whatever version of the story you start with, the girl’s gotten a raw deal: a life of looking over her shoulder, the devil a few steps behind. Her voic…

cold-signal.com

But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

It's an unusually big Tuesday at Weightless! New issues of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet AND @uncannymagazine.bsky.social go out to subscribers, one from @pmpress.bsky.social, and THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES: Stories by Haralambi Markov from @mythicdelirium.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/2026/07/

Rhaenyra Targaryen is an autocrat fighting a war against external enemies while increasingly fixated on enemies within. I hear that's how empires fall. Bonus: This review opens with a Road House quote. See if I'm joking

‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Under Pressure (Gift Article)

Queen Rhaenrya is beginning to sound a little paranoid. That rarely bodes well with an autocrat.

nytimes.com

like twenty pages into parade’s end and discovering heretofore unknown depths of repression…sickosyes.jpg

"what is the point of living when death is standing on your shoulder?" winner of the Shirley Jackson Award finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the Nebula Award, and the Indie Book Prize (talking mountains! talking deaths! has a bird!)

The Death of Mountains

The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories like The Death of Mountains are more ...

bookshop.org

So this is now available on BBC Sounds for the next NINE MONTHS! So no excuse, folks, as the winter nights set in, turn down the lights, fix a glass of Jameson’s and let the spirits wander... if you dare! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Le Fanu Ballads

Neil Brand's mix of Irish balladry and classic Le Fanu stories of supernatural justice.

bbc.co.uk

If, for whatever reason, you abhor getting cool things in the mail, you can now find my story, "Bone Harp Hair," in the digital version of LCRW 52, here:

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52

We read a lot of stories sent to us through the mail by kind and patient writers. These are the nine we liked a lot and thought you might, too. We're also happy to introduce a new columnist, Joanna Bu...

weightlessbooks.com

In “Like Paralda”—available now in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52—an ambitious musician explores the utility of envy and how artistic autonomy means mutation: becoming something the system can no longer commodify. #anticapitalist #speculativefiction #WeirdFiction

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Thinking about Archbishop Desmond Tutu's statement that he would rather go to hell than a homophobic heaven

“Black lawmakers and activists across the Deep South argue they have been abandoned by the Democratic Party to fight an existential crisis on their own. They say they’ve been let down by nearly all corners of the party.” Essential read:

Southern Black leaders warn their power is on the line — and Democrats are looking elsewhere

Black lawmakers and activists in the Deep South say they are fighting an existential crisis on their own in the wake of a major Supreme Court ruling.

politico.com

SELF-CONTEMPT CAN DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD

📨A very interesting upcoming anthology of Weird Queer Arthuriana, with a fantastic editor, that you may wish to submit to: juliebozza.com/submissions-...

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

brb gonna go levitate for a sec

You too can make chess moves like this if you apply basic consistency of principle!

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last mo.

AOC not getting behind Graham Platner looks like a chess move now.

Save the date! On July 18th at 11 a.m. Pacific, @mariness.bsky.social will be the featured reader at SFWA's Quarterly Poetry Open Mic. Come to read a couple of poems, or just listen! @sfwa.bsky.social

You can also hear me read an excerpt from the story @swsworlds.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKbq...

Strong Women-Strange Worlds QuickRead May 21, 2026

YouTube video by Strong Women - Strange Worlds

youtube.com

My copy got here today and it’s so pretty! If you’ve been thinking of picking up an issue or trying a subscription I definitely recommend it. (It’s the only magazine I know that comes with an option to include chocolate).

Caroline Shea@therealcshea.bsky.social · last mo.

Very excited to share that I have a new story in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. It's a loose retelling of "The Dream of Óengus" but its heart is in Central PA and Vermont. I can't wait to read the rest of the issue. I hope you'll pick up a copy: smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2026/06...