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Cover of A Night In The Lonesome October (1stEd) with art by James Warhola

Are any of you going to do that one-chapter-a-day with Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October this month?
Did it once, and it was fun, but not something I picked up as an annual tradition.

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So, me, @sarareads.bsky.social and @dianthaa.bsky.social will be doing a thing over at r/fantasy. Please come join us!

I AM VERY EXCITED AND VERY NERVOUS.

#booksky

I am invested in the argument that authors ruin series by not finishing them.

The #1 current reason series die is because publishers drop promo so much on books 2, 3 etc.

#2 readers not buying because the series hasn't all been written yet - kills far more series than authors do.

#booksky #books

Very well put.
I'd also love to help with updating the Runner's Guide (I don't have much experience with WorldCon, but some with other kinds of events and volunteering), if you end up wanting more hands at any point.

On the Perennial Embarrassment of Worldcon In the interest of fairness, I will begin with something that we already know: running a convention is hard. This is the one concession I will make: running a Worldcon really is hard. It’s hard in …

Welp, time to blowup my notifs!

Thesis: Worldcon COULD be good, but we may have to drag it there kicking and screaming.

My head sounds like that too! On days I feel super productive and/or (usually and) over-people'd
Usually need about 3 days to recover after one of those

I will vouch for the 10 min YouTube yoga videos to a frankly unfathomable amount of exercise 5 yrs later pipeline.

Signed, me

Holy fuck

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books About Black Vampires - Reactor These books take the common vampire trope and look at what happens when race (and racism) get involved.

Books about vampires by Black authors, coming at all you Sinners fans out there. reactormag.com/backlist-bon...

IT'S WEDNESDAY, MY DEERS! 🦌 We have a teaser trailer for @alexwoodroe.com 's messed up fairy tail—er, tale—about a foolish man who tries to capture a fae bride. SHE IS DISPLEASED WITH THIS. He's doe-ing to rue the day he tried this shit... 😈 #TheDeerIsMessedUP

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Very true, not only wrong but unreliably so, exactly what people want from a vetting tool.

So. Let’s look at the damn request. The first line? Not too terrible a start. ‘Scandal’ is an umbrella term and thus too vague to be useful, though. The second line includes examples, but you need to list EVERY SINGLE OPTION or stuff gets left out because the llm will miss ones a human won’t.

So really curious how having to check hallucinations in press articles in foreign languages is saving that much time for the volunteers?
Also not really surprised that this is another one of those things that seems to work out worse for people with non-English names.

that would've been in my favor (I haven't, but I'm a finalist part of the r/fantasy bingo team, so I might've if not for the crushing fear of public speaking)
Then it said I'd been involved in a sex scandal with my students, different person, same last name, different gender. 2/3

Curiosity got the better of me and I tried my name in ChatGPT with Worlcon's prompt.
It turned out no correct information at all.
On the bright side it said I'd edited 2 SF anthologies that another Romanian author with my last name had edited, so if I had applied for panels 1/3

I love it!

OMG I'm up for a European Science Fiction Society Hall of Fame Award. WOW
www.esfs.info/esfs-nominat...
Now wondering how I can get to Åland hahahha
(I've heard it's amazing)

Bring back short shorts for men!

(long shorts should also be available for any genders, pls, I beg, sometimes I want to be sexy sometimes I do not want to leave my thigh skin behind if I have to sit down on a hot bench)

A4 printable design, title is 2025 Hugo Awards, there are 6 boxes on each page, on this page Best Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Series, Graphic novel or Comic. The background is white with purple, pink and blue galaxies, and there are two little figures in space suits, ones is dabbing and the other is excitedly riding a rocket.

Same as previous, on this page Best Related Work, Dramatic presentation short and long, Game, Editor short and long. Again two little figures in space suits, ones is sort of flying and the other one pointing upwards.

Same as previous, on this page Fan and Professional Artist, Semiprozine, Fanzine, Fan cast and fan write. Just one little figure in a spacesuit, but they're both dabbing and riding a rocket.

Same as previous, just 3 categories on this page Poem, Lodestar and Astounding, and 2 notes boxes. The previous little figures riding rockets are back.

I made a printable tracking thingy for myself for reading/ranking of the Hugo nominees, if anyone wants to use them too, they're not all perfectly aligned since I just made it for personal use off a school schedule template I used last year too.
www.canva.com/design/DAGKp... Canva template link too

i just googled "even ironic use of generative ai harms the planet meaning" and you would NOT believe what it came up with!!

come for the boys kissing, stay for the amazingly wholesome forever friendship one of them forms with his aro/ace intended bride while solving murders and bullying each other 🥰

IT IS HERE! today is US publication day for The Gentleman and His Vowsmith!! 🎉🎉

i sat down in late 2020 to write a fun murder romance with idiot boys that i could share chapter by chapter with my friends and now that fun project is a real book!

I think Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead would be a good fit for this too

www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...

YouTube video by Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa DRACULA Wojciech Kilar / Krzysztof Pastor | Polish National Ballet

GASP. The Polish National Ballet has posted their gorgeous adaptation of Dracula online! It’s currently playing in Warsaw, but for those of us who can’t magically attend before the 19th of April:

MY R/FANTASY BINGO TBR! 2025 Hello everybody! I hope you all are happy and that a good book keeps you company! This week, "being tired" is my whole personality, so I went into hibernation for a bit, but it seems like I am slowly coming out of it, and so today I am excited because I can share with you my TBR for the r/fantasy Bingo…

MY R/FANTASY BINGO TBR! 2025

Hello everybody! I hope you all are happy and that a good book keeps you company! This week, "being tired" is my whole personality, so I went into hibernation for a bit, but it seems like I am slowly coming out of it, and so today I am excited because I can share with…

New Right Wing Slate Shenanigans Once again we’ve got attempts at using slates to boost the culture war ambitions of the far right. This time it is Jon Del Arroz again via the “Fandom Pulse” substack but the targ…

Here's @camestrosf.bsky.social‬'s post about what's going on with the Locus Awards. The good news is that the more people who vote in the awards, the less likely the slate will work. Plus the votes of Locus subscribers count double. 2/2 camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/n...

‪As @camestrosf.bsky.social‬ stated in a recent post, it appears some people on the far right are trying to slate the Locus Award, similar to what happened to the Hugos over a decade ago.

Anybody can vote in the awards, so consider doing so before the April 15 deadline. 1/2 poll.voting.locusmag.com

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