Faye Gabriel

...and if you attended our underground-concert-style secret hotel party and listened to me & Brendan do a LIVE PIANO VERSION of the reading, you know we also take requests. 😂 @lynnesargent.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social @anoteinpink.bsky.social @faye-gabriel.bsky.social

Usually, yeah, but also with an overtone of "I have now provided all the information I have; ask someone else next."

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Instax! Super fun and instant gratification; you don't have to do anything but hand it over. Digital and analog options: instax.com/camera/

The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming: An Orchestrated Audiobook Help fund the long-awaited audiobook of this cult-classic fantasy novel, complete with musical accompaniment.

Breaking the social media avoidance to signal boost Sienna Tristen's Kickstarter for an *orchestrated audiobook* of the first Heretic's Guide to Homecoming novel!

I've heard a sample (you can too, below) and trust me, if you like audiobooks, you need this.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...

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i was delighted to illustrate @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue of Baffling Magazine !

Can't wait for this!

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SFWA’s Writing Dates Program runs every Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 PM PST, offering dedicated sessions to help authors meet their word counts and other creative goals.

Volunteer to lead a writing date! You don’t need to be a SFWA member to apply as a guest host. Learn more at sfwa.org/volunteer

UNLOCK - Developing Your Table's Shared Storytelling Skills | Michael R. Underwood Get more from Michael R. Underwood on Patreon

I've unlocked a big essay I wrote this summer about developing your table's shared storytelling skills for games like but not limited to: Daggerheart, Blades in the Dark, Apocalypse Keys, The Between, etc.

www.patreon.com/posts/142374...

🫡 rest in peace.

I hate when metaphors have good timing. It's like okay I GET IT.

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

Can*Con is done, but another event looms! In Toronto!

Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!

You're on fire!!! Congrats!

I couldn't imagine a sharper duo to grab a critique from -- don't miss this!

💀 Eight more days to send us your speculative novellas! 💀

Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy:

COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles
LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone
HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho

I had such a lovely time in Ottawa this weekend! The SFF community up here is truly something special.

I could have talked with these folks for another two hours! I hope you all write those essays you mentioned...

The Ring (US), Midsommar, I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In the House

say hi to me this weekend at can*con please

Today! The continued adventures of my favorite badass Deyeri. Love this cast of characters who continue to grow and change well into the second halves of their lives.

📚 Opening in two days 📚

(If you submitted to us over the summer, we are still reading/considering those manuscripts and hope to get back to you within the next 30 days or so)

Tonight! Join me live on @epicrealms.bsky.social where I'll be talking Castoff, games writing and more. Plus there'll be a Q&A!

7 pm EST / 6 pm Central 🦑

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@epi...

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/Epic_R...

#Booksky #canadian #SFF

Full request; form rejection.

Can't wait!!!

Dungeons of Drakkenheim x Daggerheart | Michael R. Underwood Get more from Michael R. Underwood on Patreon

I'm thrilled to share the news that I am Lead Designer for the new Dungeons of Drakkenheim Campaign Guide for Daggerheart!

An official collaboration b/w @dungeondudes.bsky.social, @ghostfiregaming.bsky.social, and Darrington Press.

More in my own words here: www.patreon.com/posts/140655...

Graphic with a pink background and calendar entries. Text reads: Catch me at Can*Con 2025! 10/18: Panel, 4pm, Collaboration is an Alchemical Partnership, with Corinne Leigh Clark, Brandon Crilly & David Demchuk Celebrating the release of Castoff at 7p at the Four Authors, Four Completed Series: An Epic Launch Party! Feat. Marie Bilodeau, Brandon Crilly, Lydia M. Hawke and Avi Silver 10/19, Panel, 10am: Alanna the Lioness and the Queer Foundations of Fantasy Fiction with Nara Monteiro, Lynne Sargent, & D.A. Straith

Looking forward to my first in-person @canconsffh.bsky.social NEXT WEEK (how did that happen?). I'll be on two panels on subjects I love: collaborative writing & Alanna the Lioness (and other formative queer fantasy works), as well as celebrating the release of CASTOFF by @brandoncrilly.bsky.social!

A stack of five brown cardboard boxes, topped by two books on display. Books are titled Catalyst and Castoff.

And these? These are all BOOKS.

CATALYST and CASTOFF, together for the first time, courtesy of @atthisarts.com.

Most are bound for my launch at @canconsffh.bsky.social (Oct 18!) and the rest will lie in wait for a special November event at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social w/ @thescreambean.bsky.social!

Delicious, finally some good fucking food!!!!

"We read for the flame. Not the heat of arousal (necessarily), but the way a story changes when two forces meet. Both things cannot maintain the same trajectory."

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

UM WHAT our campaign is officially a Kickstarter "Project We Love"! Now more than ever supporting queer speculative art, poetry, and stories is so important—it means a lot that our want to create space for queer artists, poets, and writers resonates so strongly!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Be careful out there!