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I really loved having this conversation, both in terms of content and in the feeling of having it in a specifically and intentionally neurodivergent mode.
I hope you enjoy it, whenever you get a chance to dig into it.
This week, join us for a rollicking and wide-ranging conversation with Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Data Science at UNC-Charlotte, Dr. Damien P. Williams on the past, present, and future of AI, separating fiction and tech-bro hype from the reality in all its fascinating and flawed glory!
23.06.2025 02:36 — 👍 75 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 11
AHHHHH!!!
Afro-centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction by
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social has been nominated for an Ignyte Award !!!
You can vote for this anthology and your other favs by going to this link:
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/
#WritingCommunity #booksky
And because lol, here's a photo she took of me in Seattle at the Thomas & Mercer offices, mere minutes from meeting her most excellent dog, Moose.
04.06.2025 00:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Naturally, I signed up? Sarah, who you can also find at bookedonsocial.com, oversaw three of my crime thrillers at Thomas & Mercer and as, well, the first one sold over 200,000 copies, I can say I have very much benefitted from her expertise in the past?
04.06.2025 00:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Author publicist/recent NDAF guest, Sarah Shaw, wrote today to say she's actually created a course for neurodivergent authors on strategies for handling social media called SOCIAL MEDIA YOUR WAY - A SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY FOR NEURODIVERGENT AUTHORS: sarah-shaw.systeme.io/neurodiverge...
03.06.2025 23:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Infraction now available exclusively on #Wattpad!
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OUT NOW Astrophobia An Anthology of Space Horror Curated by Vesper Doom
“This collection is so diverse in fears and representations.” - Goodreads Review “I never knew I feared space until now. Please don’t ever send me.” - Goodreads Review "It is rare for an Anthology to hit bullseye with every single story. But Astrophobia is one of the few that, at least for me, managed to do." - spot_the_book_unicorn “Ultimately, in Astrophobia, it doesn’t matter which story you pick, you are guaranteed some juicy squick. These are some disquieting tales from the edges of humanity, out in the vast dark of space, that will interrogate some equally dark corners of our collective experience. Expect discomfort.” - Grimdark Magazine
ASTROPHOBIA IS OUT NOW!
Check out these thirteen stories of horror beyond earth and buy at: books2read.com/astrophobia
Check out the review in @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social at: www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-astro...
Friends and followers! I entreat you to listen to a podcast interview I did with my good friend Mark Wheaton. I talk about my art and all the things I love. I encourage you to follow NDAF on Spotify and YouTube as well!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxz_...
This week, we’re speaking with underground comic artist/cartoonist, Hermit, author/illustrator of RENDEZVOUS WITH THE DEVIL and the forthcoming ADVENTURES OF PRINCESS KAYA, in collaboration with his musical creative partner, Kitten.
12.05.2025 04:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The front cover of a book called Cult Britannia. The title is in large white letters against a Union Jack flag background, where the central red stripes are made from strips of film. The subtitle reads Great British Genre Movies from the 1950s to the 1990s.
I've got a new book out! Cult Britannia is a 400-page beast covering hundreds of weird and wonderful world of British horror and science fiction movies from the quaint post-war 1950s through to the end of the post-modern digital 1990s.
Available in paperback and on Kindle here: amzn.eu/d/ghGmoNA
That sucks. I'm really sorry you're going through that.
09.05.2025 19:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
16 I tripped and fell into a hole. It was a long way down. Long way. I landed on a soft, muddy pile, and I couldn't see anything, not even my own hands. The light could no longer reach me. Then a man started shoveling soil down into the hole. Slowly, slowly, blotting out my pinprick view of the sky. There was once an old story like this. Some kind of animal would shake the dirt off its back, until the earth grew under its feet. I was not an animal of ingenious wit, though I could not be killed from a simple burying. The man tired of the shovel. Tucked deep underground, I touched the ancient roots of a forest. And when they brought me up, a full, silvery moon was shining bright upon me.
17 I'd never held a sword before. What was so special about a tool for cutting skin, stabbing into organs, slashing flesh and sinew, and not even all that well? But the evil king had given me a sword, large and heavy and double-bladed and straight edges, a really boring sword, to defend myself from attackers. Did that make him a generous king instead? No, all kings carried a cruelty in their hearts. It's baked into the crown... But anyway, a sword. Is it supposed to grow spikes on the handle, piercing my hands and draining all the blood from my body? Well, well--nice try, evil king. This won't kill me, but I'll be sure to put your blood-sucking blade to good use when I come to strike you down from your throne.
18 "Ah! Bunny! It's a bunny! Cute widdol bun-bun, c'mere!" The rabbit ran into the bushes, frightened by my enthusiasm. I sat back on the forest floor and did my very best to hold back tears. There was a rustling in the bushes behind me, and the click of a gun, pointed straight to the back of my head. I knew even without looking. They'd always come to hunt me down. I turned to face them slowly, and stare down the barrel of their gun. I wasn't a little rabbit, though. A little rabbit wouldn't have smiled, all jagged teeth, crushing bullets then a hunter's skull. Another day.
19 A butterfly paid me a visit last night. A shining, beautiful thing with powdery wings and a subtle gaze. It watched me sleep, and waited as my mind wandered off to the land of dreams. It did not care for my heart. The butterfly hovered over my head, and perched delicately upon an eyelid. I could feel it all in my sleep. The butterfly wished to let me rest, and never rise again, even as the dawn broke over and over. My dream, warm and soft, turned into a nightmare suffering a thousand deaths. I woke up and crushed the butterfly in my palm.
16-19 while I'm in the hospital caring for mother with lung cancer #1000DaysOfDrabble
09.05.2025 08:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
20 "Am I strange?" The mermaid asked from their tank. Gurgled, more like, with their face half-submerged and spitting foam. Small bubbles bled over the water's surface. "No," I said, hands pressed against the glass. "No, of course not, why would you say that?" "But I am." The mermaid wailed, and dragged their sharp claws across pink, scaley arms. "Would it be, so wrong? That you would reject, even me?" "I'm sorry," I said. "I'm sorry, I don't know anything." And the mermaid closed their eyes, and hugged their tail fin close. And their body dissolved in the water, breaking down into fine sand, precious little stars unseen to the naked eye. I sank to the ground, crying, and begging for them not to leave, don't leave me here, all alone, please, I can't live without you, don't go. I cried to the empty tank. When the saltwater dried, years and years later, I stood to walk away, carrying a single star in my pocket.
20 #1000DaysOfDrabble
09.05.2025 08:11 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to all the Locus Award Finalists! So awesome to see some of my favourites nominated!
And, of course, I'm absolutely thrilled the non-fiction collection I'm a part of received a nomination too!!
😍😍😍 🎉 🎉 🎉
locusmag.com/2025/05/2025...
#WritingComunity #locusawards2025 #booksky
I've got a new book out this month! It's an easy reader biography of lovely local lad Harry Styles, via Bonnier's Studio Press imprint. Out on 22nd May, pocket money price!
03.05.2025 17:08 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It's TWO WEEKS until ASTROPHOBIA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SPACE HORROR releases! I can't wait for people to read these thirteen stories.
astroantho.carrd.co
Lookie! It's me!
28.04.2025 12:15 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0This week, we’re speaking with writer, Vesper Doom, the author of the adult cozy fantasy/folk horror novel, THE BINDING OF BLOOM MOUNTAIN. She takes us from their earliest writing and discovery of Lovecraft to the conception of BLOOM MOUNTAIN and how it became an outlet after their autism diagnosis.
28.04.2025 12:06 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
14 I took a nap then woke up to a boot pressed on my face. I was angry, and kicked upwards in retaliation. My assailant leapt back, he tried to kill me with a buckshot, and I knew for certain his was a terrible grudge, and I hated him too for trying to kill me in my sleep. I was literally, a harmless little kitty. "Why do I deserve this?" I asked, bleeding all over. He simply shot at me again, and I ran fast into the woods.
15 The wings on my back, once strong, beautiful, iridescent--now crumbled and scattered in the wind. It happened while I was in the air, high in the sky. A sun beam pierced my thigh. Then another, my arm. And I was falling to my imminent death. Just my luck. I tore my stomach out and used it like a parachute. Barely worked, and I drifted over waiting dogs on the ground, hungry dogs, hoping to rip into my corpse. Too bad. They will starve for longer.
14 and 15 #1000DaysOfDrabble
17.04.2025 12:23 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This week, we’re delighted to be talking with the wonderful poet and short fiction writer, Caroline Hung, who joins us from Manila to discuss her writing process and the many stories behind her many dark and unsettling tales. She also performs for us a pair of poems, including a new piece, LUNA!
14.04.2025 04:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1This week, we’re talking to filmmaker, Andrew Kasch, as he takes us through his long and varied career, directing and editing everything from his hilarious shorts, docs on the great horror franchises, and work across the DC TV Universe, all while navigating the positive and negative sides of ADHD.
31.03.2025 04:00 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This week, we’re in conversation with author support specialist and longtime book publicist, Sarah Shaw, formerly of Thomas & Mercer, currently of BookedOnSocial, discussing strategies and tips for social media-averse creators! #NDAF
17.03.2025 04:00 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This week, we’re chatting with author, editor, and publisher, Aquino Loayza, writer of DEEP, THE MONOLOGIST, the forthcoming PAPER LION, as well as the editor and publisher of SPECTRUM: AN AUTISTIC HORROR ANTHOLOGY! #NDAF
03.03.2025 05:26 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An illustrated graphic with a trans flag in the back ground. Black text reads My trans and Nonbinary Books #transrightsreadathon. There are 5 books on the graphic with a pink and blue paint smear behind them and a cute green frog holding a trans heart in the bottom right corner. Each book has descriptors as follows: By the Blood of Rowans - YA fantasy, Celtic inspired, Nonbinary protagonist, Ace love interest, Murder mystery, Horses. Waypoint Seven - science fantasy, found family, trans man MC, aliens, theocracy, Afrocentric. Silver Helix - adult aetherpunk, siblings, Finnish mythology, medical research, futuristic Helsinki, city steeped in rotting magic. Anthem for the Chemical Youth - companion novelette, vampire, magic through music, defund the police, righteous vengeance. The Other Me - contemporary YA, South Africa, music, complicated families, school politics, coming of age.
In case you're looking for books to add to your #TransRightsReadathon TBR list, here are mine! Many are currently on special - link below!
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#booksky
This week we're chatting with former animation film exec, caregiver advocate, and author of EVERYTHING NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT PARENTING A DISABLED CHILD, Kelley Coleman, about neurodivergence in Hollywood, in our families, and advocating across all spaces, from schools to the workplace #NDAF
17.02.2025 05:05 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0www.thirdestatebooks.com/store/p/blac...
13.02.2025 18:12 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A bit of what I alluded to on the @ndafshow.bsky.social podcast this week (episode out NOW) about being in #Hollywood alone for a #publishing thing.
Btw the videos I shot there are on Youtube. I'll link them in the comments 🙄
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This week we're chatting with bestselling crime, science fiction, and western novelist, Tony Healey, about the early, wild west days of self-publishing, Healey’s cross-genre versatility, as well as how his autism affects his writing output but also his ability to promote his work. #NDAF
03.02.2025 05:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This was SO MUCH FUN.:)
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