Jedediah Berry

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Making it up as I go. Author of The Naming Song, coming 9/24 from Tor. See also: The Family Arcana, The Valley of Flowers, The Manual of Detection.

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imo there is no being late to this party, there is only keeping the door open to get more people in until we've taken over the block for a week

It's 6pm. I'm still in my pajamas and have done nothing but read The Saint of Bright Doors today. It's unputdownable in a way I haven't experienced before and I love everything about it. (I am late to the party, I know.)

Just learned that THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS—the weird Arthurian RPG setting I wrote with @andrewmcalpine.bsky.social—is up for TWO WHOLE ENNIE AWARDS, including one for Product of the Year. We worked hard on this through a difficult time, and this means a lot to me. ennie-awards.com/2024-nominees/

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FRONT PAGE BANNER BABYYYY I am infrastructure boi at Lit Hub (and the podcast guy) but I'm also... the house SFFH geek. And so I bring you 21 awesome SFFH books to be excited about! (altho there are SO MANY MORE coming this year too) lithub.com/our-21-most-...

Haven’t received a shiny little star for my work since grade school. Thanks, Library Journal! www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-n...

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Added pictures from the printer's proofs of all Wesley Allsbrook's illustrations for The Book of Love: smallbeerpress.com/the-book-of-...

For the last many months @gavingrant.bsky.social & I have been putting together a limited edition of The Book of Love in four volumes with illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook. Soon off to the printers, and then it will be available for preorder.

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I love Leonora Carrington's work. Her life story is truly fascinating, and her best friend in her Mexico years, Remedios Varo, was the inspiration behind the Surrealist painter Anna Naverra in my novel The Wood Wife. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Long ignored, at last the surrealist art of Leonora Carrington is getting the attention it’s duewww.theguardian.com The artist and writer is celebrated in a new UK show – but why was a woman of such talent so little known in her lifetime, asks her cousin?

Whether or not you play Troika (and you should, of course), this is pretty delightful.

Hey, stop reading about how horrible everything is. Go play with this name generator for Troika Citizens instead. It's got, like, a billion names and jobs and stuff. Chill out for a bit. perchance.org/4tpvv57r56#e...

Troikan Citizan Generatorperchance.org

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The three short tales in David B's "The Armed Garden, and Other Stories" are fantastic and medieval, full of pious believers trying to found new societies or conquer someone else's, while strange magic and fairy tale logic send each story in unpredictable directions. 💙📚 #comics

The Armed Garden, and Other Storieslunarflaneur.blogspot.com The Armed Garden, and Other Stories by David B translated by Kim Thompson Fantagraphics 2006, reprinted 2011 There's a rare pleasur...

I’m sad we didn’t get more of Gary Oldman’s George Smiley but his Jackson Lamb is some consolation.

Smiley’s People

This is a strange and beguiling book and I’m excited for it to be loosed on the world.

Publishers Weekly reviews @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social's THE JAGUAR MASK, out Aug 1st. If you like magical realism, surrealism, political intrigue, murder mysteries, and a humane story built on an optimistic foundation, this is for you! TJM is now available to order everywhere books are sold.

I KNEW IT

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taxes

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Thank you Tor Books for sending THE NAMING SONG by @jedediahberry.bsky.social my way!! Surreal and dreamlike fantasy with deep magic and the power of knowing. I am so excited to travel alongside the unnamed courier and see what marvels await me! And trains!!!

Got myself a little Father’s Day present: a TWSBI Diamond fountain pen.

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Alex Cox, director of Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, is crowdfunding for his last movie. MY LAST MOVIE, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ale...

MY LAST MOVIEwww.kickstarter.com Alex Cox, director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, and Walker, and presenter of Moviedrome, embarks on his last hurrah.

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OK, lay here on this couch and dictated a the comment into the machine. Maybe you could do the same?

the CDC is again trying to limit the 2024-25 booster availability to provably immunocompromised and elderly people. they’re taking written comments through the 17th. please take a minute to let them know boosters should be available to all who want them: www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD...

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Join us Thursday 6/20 with Tananarive Due and Kelly Link! These Locus Award nominees will be reading from their incredible work. Check out the schedule here for more nominee readings: tinyurl.com/locusawa... @tananarivedue.bsky.social #LocusAwards2024 #sff@tananarivedue.bsky.social #LocusAwards2024 #sff

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Correct

I am begging publishers to stop using uline, they support all kinds of bad shit and you have options, this is not an amzn situation.

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Support for Reckoning has flagged a bit since our 2022 fundraiser. We don't want to roll back payrates--we want to pay more, so more marginalized folks can have room to write about environmental justice and teach us how to be better! Please help if you can? reckoning.press/one-more-cal...

One More Call for Support | Reckoningreckoning.press I hate asking for money. We asked for money in 2022 and it was rough: a lot of work, a lot of feeling sorry for pressuring people in those ridiculously hard times. But we managed, and it let us raise ...

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Congratulations to our short story writing friend, Ted, the latest short story writer to receive the PEN/Malamud Award! www.penfaulkner.org/2024/06/11/t...

Ted Chiang Wins the 2024 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story | The PEN/Faulkner Foundationwww.penfaulkner.org

“You showed that it is not necessary to be unhappy, even while one is clear-eyed and undeluded about how terrible everything is.” This letter from Sontag to Borges is really getting me this morning link.lithub.com/view/602ea73...

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And so, so well deserved! Read this book if you haven't already.

me waking up slowly, still nursing yesterday's migraine: oh let me just take a big sip of water and check my phone there's an hours-old missed call and a text message from a friend back home. it says: wake up motherfucker you just won the nebula vajra.me/2024/06/09/t...

The Saint of Bright Doors wins the Nebulavajra.me THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS wins the Nebula Award!

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SAINT officially reaches the UK today! I'm still too covidy to celebrate appropriately, so please do so on my behalf, I mean, ideally by buying the book but also running around and screaming is quite acceptable vajra.me/2024/06/06/t...

The Saint of Bright Doors now out in the UKvajra.me Today is the UK paperback release of THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS!

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#copyediting Improbable amounts should be expressed in, as with emojis, odd numbers, and preferably without repetition of digits. "I've watched this movie 873 times" means "I've watched this movie a lot." "I've watched this movie 442 times" means "I've watched the movie 442 times."

Mr. Bumble the beadle voice: “MORE…???”

To the kid on his stoop two doors down, trying again and again to play Ode to Joy on his recorder: You’ve got this.

"You push a button and all the colors come out." ❤️ (Also, this piece was among the inspirations for the courier protagonist of The Naming Song.)

I love the way Moebius talked about his own art.

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Coode Street 651: @garykwolfe.bsky.social & @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social chat with @vajra.me & @mondyboy74.bsky.social about The Saint of Bright Doors and much more! jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e/episode-65...

Episode 651: Vajra Chandrasekera and The Saint of Bright Doors | The Coode Street Podcastjonathanstrahan.podbean.com This episode is a wide-ranging discussion with two important guests: the brilliant Vajra Chandrasekera, whose amazing first novel The Saint of Bright Doors is currently nominated for both Hugo and Neb...

Lovely, meandering (in the best of ways) interview with Peter S. Beagle on the Coode Street Podcast: jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e/episode-64...

Episode 646: Peter S. Beagle and a Life Filled With Story | The Coode Street Podcastjonathanstrahan.podbean.com This week we are joined by the legendary author of The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle, who discusses his new novel I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons (published next month by Saga Press & Gollancz), as...