Fab

*very 👀👀 at your perspective*

I think you’d like it!

Being autistic in space.

Arguably the best Claire North to date.

And it’s not just me saying nice things. READ IT.

Me: tells my grandmother about one of my (queer) authors

Her: are you sure you can’t find a nice man among your clients?

😂😂😂😂

Ok heading straight to the preorder button

Will I ever be able to spell “Caribbean” correctly on the first try? No one knows…

Getting an adhd diagnosis at 5
Going to a book launch at 6:30
The author: this one is for the adhd girlies

I feel perceived

I don’t think I’ve ever pressed the full request button faster. It’s horrifying, it’s beautiful and hey, can there ever be too many cannibal books?

So grateful that this weekend’s editing is a revolutionary, anti-colonial, political fantasy that feeds my rage at the world

This book makes me wish I was still reviewing

Listen to Stew.

screenshot of longlist entry on a black background with For the Road from PS Publishing listed next to No One to Hold the Distant Dead by K.L Schroede

Dustjackets of For the Road, teal cover with a hand surrounded by a chain with a heart in its palm, on a desert background

Absolutely delighted to see my acid-western-queer-romance novella, FOR THE ROAD on the BSFA longlist!

It's a mega year (go check it out) but would be extremely honoured if you'd consider chucking in a nomination towards some of my rawest, strangest writing:

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Argh, glad you caught it and no wonder - it’s so fragile and equilibrium (one bad day messes me up for a week as a recent broken pen showed…)

Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.

Going to Waterstones to look at cannibal books is not something I ever expected to be part of my job

Oooh I’m really curious about that one!

I couldn’t be more thrilled. UTAMA, a historical fantasy about Singapore’s founding myth was one of my standout reads of 2025 and we’ve got big plans!

A Lego bookshelf with a reading figurine on a bed

I guess my sister can stay

Six and a half years of life in the UK and this last trip to Switzerland has shown cars driving on the right now confuse me.

YES! Fingers crossed 🖤

Spending the weekend with friends who have forbidden me from doing anything work related. In theory, great idea but dammit I’m 30 pages from the end of a manuscript I’m obsessed with

The delight when your author tells you they’re comping their new project to one of your favourite books of all time, unknowingly

2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21

Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday!

The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.

There will be no cap.

More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
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Writing retreats are great and all, but where are my editing retreats for agents and editors?

No one’s expecting me to get work done while it’s snowing, right?

Leaving my laptop and notebook in the office over nights has done wonders for my work-life balance, who’d have thought

Knights in Tight Spaces poster

Shadows of Doubt poster

Nivalis poster

Nightfall of Stygies Warhammer cover (an Adeptus Mechanicus story)

Doing work planning for the next six months and looks like I'll have slots available for freelance work, esp around Feb-April. So if you need someone to write STUFF or do narrative /story consulting, HMU!

Things I've worked on over past few years (and am not NDAd about) include!

I for one am glad we get to hear your voice.

And fuck that system.

Yep, I consider authors across the globe

Never thought I’d miss Swiss noise regulation laws