Nisi Shawl

Very pleased to announce that Lovecraft Country is one of eight horror titles chosen for this year's Harper Perennial Olive Edition series. (As you can see below, I'm in great company.) On-sale date is August 27. bymattruff.com/2024/07/19/l...

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Seriously this might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

Using my suribachi to grind cloves for a new batch of Because We Are So Royal tea and bemused as to why I don't use the thing more often. And when my heirs go through my belongings to take or sell or throw them away, will they even know what this is?

Found out from Timmi Duchamp that To The Woman in the Pink Hat, a novella they published, just WON THE FREAKIN SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD! Aqueduct publishes maybe 12 titles a year, but they always win at least 1 award. Yay to author LaToya Jordan (@latoyajordanwriter.bsky.social)! Yays all around!

Who are all these fuckers following me now with zero posts?

Latest follower on Insta: "I'm a man of God fearing man, I hate lie's and deception I'm honest Truth humble and understanding!❤️" Oh, where to begin?

@lammatic.hellthread.vet, time-sensitive question in your DMs from me.

"Gay furry hackers!" www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/10/g...

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If you see this post, post something red #TuesdayRed

If you see this post, post something red #TuesdayRed Korina Emmerich, Puyallup descent Red pants & vest ensemble, 2022 Tiffany Vanderhoop, Aquinnah Wampanoag and Haida All My Ancestors Are Watching red earrings, 2022 #DressUp

Tonight @sarahpinsker.bsky.social reads live from new work! Come to the downtown Seattle Public Library--it's free! And it's part of @clarionwest.bsky.social's Summer Series. You can register online here: www.spl.org/event-calend...

Event Calendarwww.spl.org Find free classes, events and activities at the Library.

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I've sold a novel to Tor Books! Title to come. Thank you to @ericshowers.bsky.social and @jengunnels.bsky.social for believing in it. I'm eternally grateful to @annvandermeer.bsky.social for editing the story it's based on, which you can read at @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/hold-time-vi...

Hold-Time Violations - Reactorreactormag.com Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryos...

And we'll all block @ldragoon together, right?

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Gotta say as a rez kid it is goddamn hilarious to watch white people running around all chicken little about being sent to "the camps" The Camps are why your daddy was able to live in the suburbs. The Camps turned your great granddaddy into a land owner. You've loved The Camps all your life.

Once upon a time a co-worker asked me to describe chocolate. "It's brown, kinda greasy, in everything," I replied. Then she told me that my description was spozed to apply equally to how I felt about love.

@ccameron.bsky.social Hey, that new story I just finished? Spozed to be set in 2040 Vancouver! I hope when it's in the wild you read it and can tell.

Who can I tell? Feeling so mighty now I've finished writing this story!

The underpaid and unsung (till now!) heroes of SFFH publishing are our venues' first readers. Thank you Nelly Garcia-Rosas for writing "The Ballad of the Slush Reader": www.sfwa.org/2024/07/03/t...

The Ballad of the Slush Reader What I’ve Learned (And What I Want to Know) about Reading Slush - SFWAwww.sfwa.org by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas Introduction – In Which I Rant a Little First, let me get this off my chest; I don’t believe that reading slush can make anyone a better writer. I say this because anyt...

It's July 3! It's @andreahairston.bsky.social and me on Octavia Butler's influence in our oeuvre: sistahscifi.com/pages/events From 5 to 6 p.m. US Pacific Time

Eventssistahscifi.com Sistah Scifi is the first Black owned bookstore focused on Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Science Fiction, and Fantasy in the United States.

New post by Nelly Garcia-Rosas up for the @sfwa.bsky.social Publishing Taught Me online antho: Ballad of the Slush Reader www.sfwa.org/2024/07/03/t...

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ICMYI I wrote about the importance of being a citizen archivist. We've seen so much incredible art and writing from marginalized people, and we need to preserve it in the face of a huge, well-funded backlash. This is something concrete you personally can do! buttondown.email/charliejane/...

We Should All Be Archivistsbuttondown.email Lately, I keep obsessing about two seemingly opposing but interrelated trends: 1) The past decade has seen an incredible bounty of art and self-expression...

Sometimes I block new followers just because they're looking kinda suss. Like, you took that photo from Vogue online, right? And the quote about Jesus? Knock it off.

Tomorrow me and @andreahairston.bsky.social discuss Octavia Butler's gigantic influence on our work for Sistah SciFi: sistahscifi.com/pages/events

Eventssistahscifi.com Sistah Scifi is the first Black owned bookstore focused on Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Science Fiction, and Fantasy in the United States.

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Hey, Zin A. Rocklyn was slogging through shit and broken glass this year to get to the middle of July when she could have the refuge of being with her people at ReaderCon and Camp NeoCon this month. That rug got pulled yesterday. But we can help:

Fund Teri Clarke's Mental Health Boosting Trip, organized by Teri Clarkewww.gofundme.com hello I am coming to you with my heart in my hands as I *need* this to … Teri Clarke needs your support for Fund Teri Clarke's Mental Health Boosting Trip

It was kinda nice not being an automatic outlaw for a hot geological minute.

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Consider which communities typically revere their elders and work to keep them integrated in said community, and which just… don't, and there's a throughline with which communities have been actively, intentionally destabilized and disrupted. Not causal, necessarily, but definitely correlated

"The 'generation gap' is an important social tool for any repressive society. If younger members of a community view older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memory of the community, nor ask the question, 'Why?'" 1/2 Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speecheswww.mahoganybooks.com The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work, several of them published for the first time, span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work.

Giving out ARCs of my Beat era fantasy at #ala2024, booth 2534C! That's Rosarium Publishing, and they have FREE copies of The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox. Plus more great stuff to read and fondle and buy.

So far one comment, opining that this is not actually a standalone story. Which of course I cannot judge because I wrote it: reactormag.com/the-colors-o...

The Colors of Money - Reactorreactormag.com Set after the events of Everfair, espionage, betrayal, and political intrigue follow, when the estranged son of a founding member of Everfair visits his sister in Zanzibar . . .