Maurice Broaddus

Cover for The F&SF Summer 2025 issue, featuring a dreadlocked cyberpunk guy with a sword cane

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Happy birthday to the timeless, ageless, Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social. She's ... kinda alright. #bestbestman

I am finally home for a few days in a row so you know what that means....rant time.

How Booksellers Decide What to Sell: Why Aren't We Getting This Info Out About Libraries?

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A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor "I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"

I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...

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That's been my entire morning...

Flashback Tuesday: in case you were wondering what it's like raising my children (the college years edition)...

Oldest: Hey, can you send me some money? I have some college expenses I didn't expect.

Us: *sends money*

Oldest: Thanks. *sends pic*

(He's the 3rd banana from the right)

If y'all ain't karaoke-ing "Bohemian Rhapsody" with your editors, you're doing networking wrong. With @leeharris.net [To those checking our receipts, THESE ARE OFFICIAL BUSINESS MEETINGS, WE SWEAR!]

On the train to London for a variety of author and agent meetings and evening shenanigans with @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social.

Anyway, thanks to editor @dianapho.bsky.social and @erewhonbooks.bsky.social/ @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social, Hard Times are coming to your town. In 2027!

[Twenty minutes later: There are times when in the moment you have to say to yourself "Self, you are in a room…three black nerds yelling about time travel stories (namely, your hatred of them). Yeah, you’re doing alright." Spoilers, I came around on the idea of time travel stories.]

Spoilers: I beat Giovanni! Not that we explained to Jordan why me and Wayne were high-fiving.

Wayne: Are you ready?
Me: Um, yeah, but…
Wayne: What is it?
Me: I have a big Pokemon battle to do. I found Giovanni.
Wayne: Pokemon Go? I’ve only been playing on the console. Okay, I’ll run in and tell them I need to go to the bathroom. Will that give you enough time?
Me: Yup!

A couple years ago, Wayne picks me up from the hotel to drive us to MonkeyPaw Productions so that we can pitch Jordan Peele. Once we pull into the driveway, here’s what happens:

This new has been a long time in coming, but it’s finally official: Wayne Brady and I are writing a book together! But first (if you want a peek at what the working relationship of me and Wayne is like), a story …

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PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!

This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.

In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook

Available wherever books are sold.

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I'm doing good to get deep, loving reviews!

THIS WAS BEYOND EPIC!

I was asked when did I find community with what I do. My answer was when I found my community of creatives. After a momentary flutter of imposter syndrome, they reminded me that I belonged on that panel. (But the whole weekend has been surreal!)

Rodney Barnes has been my blueprint for how to move in these spaces I find myself in. D.M.C. What? Run-D.M.C. was first (cassette) I ever purchased.

This panel gave me life. Look, these creatives have meant a lot to me. The wisdom and passion of Asia Simone (illustrator of Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Wreck and Roll) and Tony Weaver Jr (I can’t keep his book, Weirdo, on our library shelves).

We also did a panel Wayne had pitched to NYCC, Young, Gifted, and Whack, a deep-dive conversation exploring the intersection of hip-hop, fantasy, comics, and improvisation. This panel would have been my answer to the last time I fanboyed (on the inside, I kept it professional. Mostly.)

Then Wayne and Jonathan Mangum did Nerdvana, their improv show. Someone asked Wayne when was the last time he fanboyed over someone. He said an hour ago when we met Veronica Roth.

I made it to New York Comic Con for the first time! Me and Wayne Brady did a signing for our story “Abagail’s Gethsemane” in The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand. We were joined by editor extraordinaire, @dianapho.bsky.social. All copies of the book sold out!

ABAGAIL'S GETHSEMANE by Wayne Brady and @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social is another story in THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: New Tales of Stephen King's THE STAND that provides insight into a pivotal character.

💙📚🩸📚 #booksky #horrorbooks #bookreview #bookrec

It’s been a whirlwind time at New York Comic Con so far — here are some client highlights we’ve seen! 🧵

@mauricebroaddus.bsky.social was on the fantastic Young, Gifted & Whack panel, covering the intersections of creativity and nerdom among Black communities, moderated by Wayne Brady! #nycc

I am down for the "snatch the pebble from my hand" energy.

Book cover for Pimp My Airship by Maurice Broaddus, featuring a large steampunk airship flying over a dark, urban cityscape with Victorian-style buildings and a car in the foreground.

My bookclub read:
'Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel' by @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social

It's a fight for the culture in Steampunk Indianapolis

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Alright, I'm reluctantly coming to terms with me being post the "Unc" phase of my career, but I don't feel like I'm ready for "Elder" status. Is there an in-between?