Catherynne M. Valente

Am crazy sick. AGAIN. Love winter with a 2nd grader. They get over it in a day, I feel like I’m dying for weeks.

Back soon. Sorry!

Any time you can find that much grace and class from the fans of a losing sports team you _know_ you're in a good place.

Congratulations, BTW. ;)

Can you absolutely prove that you did not cause the Seahawks win? I think you simply have to recognize that maybe you did bring the Seahawks victory, and those Pats fans were justly acknowledging your awesome football prowess.

What the fuck am I going?

WINNING!

Everyone but four people have left the bar and all of them shook my hand and said congratulations on the way out like I did it by myself oh my god

As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought
The Wood began to move. (Macbeth, Act V scene 5)

I am from Seattle.

I live in Maine.

I am at a bar that by definition is All-In For the Patriots.

Someone just saw my blue & green hair extensions & *recoiled.*

“Cat what the fuck are you doing?”

And Reader, I got to say it. In the right context.

BITCH I AM FROM SEATTLE! #dragrace #superbowl

I knew @catvalente.bsky.social has written a ton of books but seeing it visually makes me realize how few I have read and how many I still want to read. So many great books (and authors), so little time. Plus being a slow reader doesn't help. <sigh>

Myths of Origin [The Labyrinth, Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword, Under in the Mere], Palimpsest, This Is My Letter to the World: The Omikuji Project, Cycle One, Silently and Very Fast, Deathless, Six-Gun Snow White, Radiance, Speak Easy, The Refrigerator Monologues, The Glass Town Game, Space Opera, Space Oddity, Mass Effect: Annihilation, Minecraft: The End, The Past Is Red, Comfort Me With Apples, Osmo The Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, Fairyland [The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home], The Orphan's Tales [In The Night Garden, In the Cities of Coin and Spice], A Dirge for Prester John [The Habitation of the Blessed, The Folded World], Short Fiction Collections [The Bread We Eat in Dreams, Myths of Origin, The Melancholy of Mechagirl, The Future Is Blue], Poetry [Apocrypha, Oracles: A Pilgrimage] MISSING: Music of a Proto-Suicide (not found anywhere), The Descent of Inanna (not found anywhere), A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects ($75 on Amazon)

Partial Bibliography: #BookSky #Books @catvalente.bsky.social

I’m not sure! @printbookstore.bsky.social ?

I am from Seattle.

I live in Maine.

I am at a bar that by definition is All-In For the Patriots.

Someone just saw my blue & green hair extensions & *recoiled.*

“Cat what the fuck are you doing?”

And Reader, I got to say it. In the right context.

BITCH I AM FROM SEATTLE! #dragrace #superbowl

Oh! Look at this family photo!

So many of my babies all in one place!

FYI, I have an arrangement with @printbookstore.bsky.social, my local indie, whereby you can order my books from them & I’ll come in & sign them before they ship!

They have ONE for me to sign, & I gotta take a boat to do it—SO YOU GUYS SHOULD ORDER SOME BOOKS FROM PRINT SO I CAN SIGN EM ALL AT ONCE

Has me remembering the book launch for @catvalente.bsky.social's book, Palimsest.

Which if you've not read yet, I think you might enjoy.

…who then became a shadowy cabal of people who consume children

Who’s the goodest widdle thrall? YOU ARE!

Who’s the most adorable groveling puppet serving their masters & getting absolutely zilch in return? IT’S YOU, BOO-BEAR!

They got you to call a broiled walrus corpse Daddy but sure you were “right.” Aw, the bravest maverick freethinkers ever!

Ps ps ps!

Stop saying the conspiracy theorists were right

The conspiracy theorists were such hateful, ignorant, chan-brainwashed fucks that they gobbled up anything the shadowy powers they claimed to reject fed them & dutifully barked HILLARY! DEMONRATS! to get their little treats from the dopamine dispenser

What?

Wait what

terrifying to remember that this man, who is already a fucking supervillain, described trump as the most evil person he's ever met. honestly nothing we could write in fiction could ever match up

The more that comes out, the more it feels like Epstein was low-key running half the planet to a bizarrely granular degree, until he died, at which point the desperate need to hide that fact kept on running it.

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New photo essay up on Patreon!

This month: bringing a little bit of Oxford home because billionaires can't have every beautiful thing...

(I'm so so excited about this one)

www.patreon.com/posts/denize...

2025 Recommended Reading List Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…

SO PLEASED to see that When He Calls your Name, my summer gothic novelette, made the Locus List! Congrats to all the other amazing works there!

Don't forget to vote in the poll for the Locus Awards! And hey, if you're nominating for the Nebulas, give it a read...

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I want to stress this didn’t come from me.

I said I’d find them a charity if they were serious about it

Once I did all they wanted was to earn more money bc “I only have $25, it’s not enough.”

If a 7yr old can have empathy for strangers in a country they couldn’t find on a map, come tf on, adults

Some time ago, the Childe & I were talking about prejudice/racism/sexism. I gave some modern examples to show these are not just issues from olden times.

Months later, they tell me they want to save all their chore money to give to women in Afghanistan.

Hate is TAUGHT. We’re born to care. To try.

When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...

most of the Dolly stuff at the websire is 50% off rn
also read "When He Calls Your Name" by @catvalente.bsky.social at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and throw it a Nebula nom, ok? that's free www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...

It isn’t, but fucking Moby Dick and Crime and Punishment are.

At least Lord of the Rings is too?

You think that’s a bummer, they want Tess of the D’Urbervilles next

Of course and me too.

a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt that says ted lasso on it ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt that says ted lasso on it

The Childe has asked to me to read Jane Eyre to them (Matilda said she read it in the musical, they’re determined to read all the books in Matilda’s list).

As I got it off the shelf they got all sly & said:

“Put an A on it and you could say we’re in our Jane Eyre-a.”

I mean, it'll never happen? But if it did?

I just don't see how I'd need to accomplish anything else in life. I'd just be solid for the duration.