Jordan Taylor

Jordan Taylor

@jordantaylor.bsky.social

World Fantasy Award nominated author with stories in Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Deadlands, & others. Introverted human. They/She 🌈 jordantaylorwrites.com

874 Followers 558 Following 122 Posts Joined Aug 2023
1 week ago

Shoutout to every writer out there writing the kind of books fascists keep trying to ban.

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1 week ago

Can someone pls make this vidja game

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2 weeks ago

I've also always wanted to write a (preferably historical) mystery but am such a horrible plotter it feels incredibly daunting!

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3 weeks ago

That little gurgle the moka pot makes when it's done brewing is one of the most beautiful sounds in the whole world.

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1 month ago
Short Fiction Spotlight - Reactor

The Hugos nominations are now open, so I'm going to do a big ol' thread of short fiction. Starting off with my monthly short speculative fiction column where I spotlight 10 stories I loved. These posts will get you started in finding noms. 1/ reactormag.com/tag/short-fi...

#HugoAwards #HugoAward

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1 month ago

When I said now is the time to be really fucking gay and angry, this is what I meant

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1 month ago

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason??

sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

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2 months ago

Lord of the Rings

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2 months ago

Me gifting like

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2 months ago

and to you, the broody morally grey side character of the story, I gift all the coolest lines, nice hair, and being so so sexy

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3 months ago
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 65, “The Duet" by Nilah Magruder: Two women sit at a piano. One is wearing a lilac dress with a locket around her neck, her skin is a dark shade and her hair white. Next to her, the second woman is wearing a red dress, and has black hair worn up in a bun-like style. Her head and hand are not attached to her body, giving the impression that she is not human but a robot of some kind. Both are smiling as they play together. The quote reads: "At a distance, the occupants of the terrarium might be mistaken for ordinary moths, but up close—Freddie fits a brass jewelers loupe to his eye and adjusts the focus—they look quite different."

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Terrarium" by Jordan Taylor @jordantaylor.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

buff.ly/iRFbI66

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3 months ago
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Awards Eligibility 2025 I published one story this year that is eligible for SFF short fiction awards. “The Terrarium” appeared in Issue 65 of Uncanny Magazine, and is eligible for the short fiction Hugo, Worl…

ICYMI: I published one story this year that's eligible for awards. "The Terrarium" appeared @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, and explores the power of queer stories in a world that can seem to have no space for them.
jordantaylorwrites.com/2025/12/05/a...

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3 months ago

Thank you as always for doing this!! Mine is below:

bsky.app/profile/jord...

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3 months ago
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The Terrarium - Uncanny Magazine Freddie Brightwood1 bends to peer at the swarm of moths fluttering in the terrarium, their powdery wings beating against the glass. He glances around to be sure he’s alone, no footmen lurking in the c...

I published 1 story that's eligible for awards this year:
"The Terrarium" appeared in August's Issue 65 of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, and uses a moment between my characters to explore the power of stories and relationships. Plus, I got to use footnotes!

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

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3 months ago

This whole thread is gold jerry

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3 months ago

This is what integrity looks like. "Do it for all of us, or don't do it at all." Let's hope the folks who bought our legacy magazines are shamed into better behavior and we won't have to consider them scoundrels any longer.

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3 months ago
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 65, “The Duet" by Nilah Magruder: Two women sit at a piano. One is wearing a lilac dress with a locket around her neck, her skin is a dark shade and her hair white. Next to her, the second woman is wearing a red dress, and has black hair worn up in a bun-like style. Her head and hand are not attached to her body, giving the impression that she is not human but a robot of some kind. Both are smiling as they play together. The quote reads: "At a distance, the occupants of the terrarium might be mistaken for ordinary moths, but up close—Freddie fits a brass jewelers loupe to his eye and adjusts the focus—they look quite different."

Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "The Terrarium" by Jordan Taylor @jordantaylor.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

buff.ly/BRsjD0X

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3 months ago

Thank god someone said it

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3 months ago

THIS COVER!! 😍 I love it!

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4 months ago

I really like both La Fee Verte and Miss Carstairs and the Merman, but she also has stories like The Parwat Ruby that are a pastiche of Victorian fiction

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4 months ago

Theodora Goss and Delia Sherman both have many!

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4 months ago

Featuring stories from ME(!) and Many Really Awesome People!!

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4 months ago
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a cartoon of a frog saying `` we hates it ! '' Alt: Rankin and Bass Gollum saying `` we hates it ! ''

Why is writing a query letter still the worst thing I have ever done? WE HATES IT FOREVER #amquerying

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4 months ago
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Here Are the 2025 World Fantasy Awards Winners - Reactor Congratulations to the winners!

The winners of the 2025 World Fantasy Awards have been announced—congratulations to all!

reactormag.com/here-are-the...

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4 months ago

One of the best works of American art this century, no I'm not kidding.

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5 months ago
OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

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

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5 months ago

How many "realized" uses is too many in one novel? More than one a chapter? More than one every couple of chapters?

50 times is for sure too many, right? Definitely asking for a friend.

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5 months ago

Loved this one so much

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