Chris

Two books for spooky season:
COFFIN MOON, Keith Rosson: Best modern vampire story ever (although it's set in the 70s).
THE TWISTED ONES, by T. Kingfisher: It lures you in with chatty good humor (especially about NPR Pledge Week) and a lovely dog...then slams the door and bites you in the dark.

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

Jim Lee confirms DC Comics will not support AI-generated storytelling or art

A RIVER FROM THE SKY art card by Nancy Zhang featuring wheel tracks leading to a large water wheel engine

A River From the Sky book cover featuring a being in a beige robe with hair rising as though in water, framed by koi fish. Colour palette is orange and light blue.

Art card reveal for 🌬️🌊⚙️A RIVER FROM THE SKY 🌬️🌊⚙️

April 21, 2026 from @titanbooks.bsky.social

Preorder the next/last instalment in the Natural Engines duology, you can get this setting art card illustrated by Nancy Zhang (preorder campaign form in my bio) 👀✨‼️🤍

a man in a suit and tie is saying " boom easy as that " Alt: a man in a suit and tie is saying "boom easy as that”

Trans rights are human rights.

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

If you thinking of attending this festival Don't
In a time where the strength of the human spirit is under assault from tyranny and fascism. When the Arist is more vital and important than ever this.abomination is an insult to every writer who ever bled on the page to tell HUMAN stories
Fuck this

Aug. 2, 1924: James Baldwin Born James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York.

"We are living through a very dangerous time. . . The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." — James Baldwin (born #tdih 1924) "A Talk to Teachers" ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” ~ The Fire Next Time
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
Born on this day American novelist, essayist & activist James Baldwin 1924
#Booksky

Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens. My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety.

The White House, via yet another executive order, has announced a plan for the sweeping removal and subsequent detention of people experiencing homelessness.

Instead of investing in proven solutions, the administration is doubling down on cruel and ineffective policies that strip people of their rights, lock them into dangerous institutions, and punish them for having nowhere else to go.

Okay, well.

Queer & especially trans authors of erotica and other content deemed 'nsfw' by major platforms, please drop links to where people can find your stories in the replies.

Everyone else: Repost people's links. Stop worrying about the sanctity of your feed & help the most impacted authors.

PSA

Winner of the CWA Dagger in Translation

'The epitome of the female-led revenge thriller.' Crime Fiction Lover
'Enraging, funny and exciting.' The Times

The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett, is now 99p on kindle.

www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Baba-Y...

Killer on the Road horror novel: a woman’s face with a car slashing across, revealing the skull underneath

The Babysitter Lives horror novel: a house with a tear across it, exposing the giant spider underneath

Today’s the day: two books in one, live. Harper and Charlotte, both trying to fight through to daylight, one out on the open road, one locked in the house next door. Thanks for reading, y’all. Hope to see you, the next couple weeks.

They're nearly 80% funded! Help this couple save a local, indie bookstore in SD.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...

if your response to the loser worldcon panel description that asked 'why are strong women in fiction all lesbians' is 'these authors write strong women who aren't lesbians' you're just reinforcing that the lesphobic statement has validity, babes - the homophobia is the problem!! focus!!!

Screenshot of Worldcon 2025 panel description reads as follows: Strong Woman Lead # LGBTQIA+ Culture/DEl Room 420-422, 9-10 a.m. Have you ever walked into a bookshop and asked for books with strong women leads? Perhaps you've requested that love not be a major plot point? Has the staff excitedly passed you half a dozen books that, though good, have a bit of a repeating theme? Here we ask the question: Why do authors/bookshops assume the only way to have a strong woman lead is to make them gay with a woman love interest and prevent men characters from rising over the background? Isn't it possible to have a book with strong women and men characters in it and not have them fall in love?

I’m not attending Worldcon this year & everything seems to be a mess but this is so mind-bendingly bad on so many levels that I think it’s worth unpacking while I’m in the no-space of airports

Six books on a pale purple background. The words “Dystopian Fiction by BIPOC Authors” is in white font in the middle of the image. The books are The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa; Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi; Fledging by S. K. Ali; Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga; Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler; Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Dystopian fiction is BACK, baby! So here's some dystopian books by BIPOC authors!!

"age verification rules" are a backdoor to censoring all LGBTQ content of any kind from the internet and the process is well underway under many governments. The tactic is part of Project 2025. But nobody fucking believed it could happen and now here we are.

Promo for DEAR STUPID PENPAL Text: Lost. Countless Light-Years from home. Your friends and loved ones are gone. But somehow, He is still there. And always will be.

Cover art by Carly A-F A lone astronaut sits in shadows at the bottom of the cover; glorious green yellow pink and blue lights pixelate up the page from his computer monitor, culminating in the words DEAR STUPID PENPAL across the top of the page.

🎉💀COVER ART REVEAL💀🎉

DEAR STUPID PENPAL, the debut from @rascalhartley.bsky.social is out November 11, & we're so stoked to be sharing this gorgeous art, courtesy of @carlydraws.bsky.social

An existentially terrifying, all-epistolary Cosmic Sci-Horror novel about Weird Love.

As you do🖤☠️

Superman is literally an "illegal alien" by Fox News standards so they can fuck right off with acting surprised at this.

They're the baddies. Always have been.

Re-post & share your work! 🔥📕🔥

Cover of A RIVER FROM THE SKY featuring a being with billowing black hair in a beige robe with wind and water design elements. Koi fish, flowers, and heads float around their head.

Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️

Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥

we ship everywhere! booksmith.com xoxo

screenshots of Martha Well’s NYT article “Want to Escape Reality? Try One of These Books.”

Screenshot of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND mention in Martha Well’s NYT article “Want to Escape Reality? Try One of These Books.”

incredibly honoured to see A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (@titanbooks.bsky.social ) included in this @nytimes.com article by @marthawells.com 😭‼️✨