Akotowaa

I’ve been really, really tired for like 10 years.

Merry Christmas, everyone 🎄🎁❤️

@waterstones.bsky.social & britfantasysoc.bsky.social are delighted to present Sauúti Terrors Short Stories! We're joined by co-editors @genni.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social & Cheryl S. Ntumy in a discussion chaired by BFS Chair @shonak.bsky.social

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Thank you! I saw your WordPress comments. Also, I haven’t watched the 2009 film yet! 😔

Watchmen is Creative Genius Showing Off Part 1: The Comics Note: There are NO spoilers in this section. Photo from a previous @SpiderKidReads Instagram story I first started reading Watchmen several years ago, when I was still in high sc…

Yessir!
So much so that I gushed about it in thousands of words. I should also re-read & re-watch soon!

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Excited to have you! 😂

LOL. Are you watching or reading?

The cover letter to my first submission: August 12, 1971 1381 East 72nd Street Brooklyn NY 11234 Edward L. Ferman The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fistion 347 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022 Dear Mr. Ferman, I am submitting for possible publication the enclosed story, "Gem of the Gods". Too long has Sword and sorcery been dead. I hope this may help revive it. A stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed in case of rejection. Sincerely yours, Scott Edelman

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

I want the tea.

Did I start watching The Diplomat because half the leading cast had Ghanaian heritage? Yes.
Do I have a crush on David Gyasi now? Also yes.

I love how Jesus just started a zombie wave and then moved on with the rest of his agenda.
Like what do you mean a bunch of dead people just started walking out of tombs and re-entering the city LOLOL

I could get so much freer.
What an exciting prospect.

My brain, every 2 seconds: “I would like a ringggg I would like a ring I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger I would like a big and shiny diamond…”

Good rap music is such brilliant literature.

I thought Zohran Mamdani was part Ghanaian. I did not expect him to be Ugandan.

YouTube video by BOJTV LIVE Aerial Shots of St. Elizabeth | Prime Minister Andrew Holness & Other officials tours

Footage of the worst affected area, St. Elizabeth, in Jamaica, which took the eye of Hurricane Melissa. It's a credit to the preparedness efforts, with such devastation, that the loss of life isn't far worse.

If you wish to help, see the link below:

supportjamaica.gov.jm

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I am telling you, this book has now entered my as-yet-undocumented list of All Time Favorite Books.

God, I need a writing residency like yesterday.

It is the kind of novel that makes me feel agitated about the writer I have not yet become.

I am enthralled by Andrea Hairston’s Redwood and Wildfire.
What a novel.

I enjoy my WIP chapter titles so much.

Seeing My Work Through Other Artists’ Eyes 🕸️ Issue 17 How Moses Leo brought the woman-centered magic of my Year of Return novella to the Berlin stage

I cried.
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We’re all about to be in wearable hell I’m rapidly running out of body parts to do my job.

This week's Optimizer is about the very special wearable hell I've been living in recently... and how it's all coming for you too if Big Tech gets its way.

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I need a vacation for like a month. And by vacation I mean my bed and zero obligations. Maybe a claw-foot tub.

If you're attending Flights of Foundry this weekend, you can catch me at 2 events!
I'll be doing a reading from The Year of Return at hour 23 (for me, that's 3pm GMT today, Saturday) and moderating a panel called Honoring Indigeneity at hour 44 (for me, that's 12pm GMT tomorrow, Sunday).

So, in all the online chatter about Netflix's Wednesday when it first came out, somehow it never crossed my timeline that Wednesday's dance uses choreography from the Tag Team music video made for the 1993 Addams Family Values film.

So how is it possible that Saara El-Arifi published 5 books in 4 years and has another on the way?? I didn’t think anyone could frighten me more than R.F. Kuang! What are they drinking?

Why would the word be vicegerent instead of viceregent? 😞

Oh wait, I just remembered I wrote one this year. Under Clarion West-like duress (I had a 48-hour deadline).

I’ve done some revisions of previously drafted short stories, including CW stories. And I’ve done lots of writing for the novel-in-progress. But my brain has apparently put the knowledge of how to send a story from idea to draft into a jammed junk drawer. 2 years. Zero short stories.
This is GHETTO.