Final hours! If you're nominating for the Nebulas, here are the 2025 stories I will be putting on my own ballot.
(Also my novelette "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead" and my novel RED STAR HUSTLE are eligible, but, seriously, check out these fresh stories from awesome authors 1st!!!)
Over a purple background, the words "Emerald City Comic Con, March 5-8 in Seattle, WA." There's an image of the double-sided Apprehension by Mary Robinette Kowal and Red Star Hustle by Sam J. Miller with both authors' photos.
If you'll be at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social next weekend, be sure to say hello to @sentencebender.bsky.social and me. Our panel is on Sunday, March 8. We're talking about plot twists, then signing books. www.emeraldcitycomiccon.com/en-us.html
25.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY
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Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
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Snow piled up on fire escape, face pressed into it.
When the snow is piled up so thick and delicious on your fire escape you can't resist the urge to plant your full face in it
23.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0FUCK THIS IS SO FUCKING GOOD
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Great news for UK readers! Waterstones has selected THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS for their 25% off pre-order sale! Just use the code FEB26 at check-out to get the best price of the year on my dragon.
All three of Garrodigh's heads can't wait to meet you.
Art Nouveau graphic of an elfy woman with a bird perched on her hand and the text: New story sale to Jen Gunnels for Reactor: “I Want You With Me at the End of the World”
“I Want You With Me at the End of the World”: A Novelette A story of broken hearts, rifts in the fabric of reality, and healing as human incarnations of a universe experiencing itself at the end of all things.
“You pieced yourself back together enough to meet me in this time-space reality; I did the same, dribbling molten gold between my fragments so that when the time came, when you came to me, I could meet you.”
I’m absolutely buzzing today to get to announce the sale of my new novelette “I Want You With Me at the End of the World” to @reactorsff.bsky.social! This story is about fractured hearts, rifts in reality, and trying to heal enough to survive a world crumbling around us.
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Four books on a floral bandanna. Glitter + Ashes Unfettered Hexes Luminescent Machinations The Crawling Moon
This “queer tales” series has been a labor of love since we founded Neon Hemlock in 2019.
GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDN’T DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title from…
Happy belated Valentine's Day, I suppose! This is the story that made me want to write short fiction again. I love it dearly. If you read this and like it (or if you hate it, I’m not picky!), consider dropping lgbtbookstoprisoners.org five bucks.
15.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 15 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
Lightspeed magazine cover: a humanoid holding a scythe streaks across a desert
I’m so happy to share my SF horror flash, ‘The Worldbuilder,’ published today in @lightspeedmagazine.com! The story is an homage to Joanna Russ’ ‘We Who are About To…’, enfolding the morbid xenophilic curiosity of ‘Alien’ (hi, welcome to my work 😈)
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
It's never a mistake to listen to Sam...
13.02.2026 21:40 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Another last-year faves was Molly Tanzer's "City of Tears," which is on the Locus Awards preliminary ballot - side note, ANYONE CAN VOTE IN THE LOCUS AWARDS! @mollytanzer.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
poll.voting.locusmag.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Among literally hundreds of other good things in this, you can get my little one-shot generator where drunk girls* in the tavern bathroom get together to help someone
*"girls" here used for trope recognition, characters of any gender can play here!
sarahloch.itch.io/solidarity-d...
Thank you Marty!! Big hugs
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Cover of Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by Sam J Miller. Babt blue cover with white text, title on top, author name on bottom, a boxing glove and a pistol in three concentric circles in the centre.
Not enough of you have read Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by @sentencebender.bsky.social
Gay Jewish love story, tattoo magic, (historical!) Jewish lesbian mobster, 1920s New York City, boxing…and really one of the best examples of novella writing I can think of (suiting story to word count).
GO READ!
The best birthday present I can imagine would be for you to check out these amazing stories I discovered in 2025, including lots that are from authors completely new to me, and to consider them for any awards ballots you might be working on!!
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Over a purple and pink ombre background, a banner that says, "2026 Award Season Eligibility". Then the words, "Red Star Hustle is a NOVEL. Apprehension is a NOVELLA" over a copy of the double-sided book. Then, the bottom text is, "You can nominate both on your upcoming award ballots! by Sam J. Miller and Mary Robinette Kowal."
As you're nominating your favorite works of 2025, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I would like to note that Red Star Hustle is a NOVEL, and Apprehension is a NOVELLA, so you can nominate both on award ballots.
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Sam across the table from me tilting his khachapuri toward the camera while sipping from a green bottle of the Georgian tarragon-flavored soda Tarkhuna. He's wearing a black T-shirt with DISCHORD Records written in white lettering.
Wishing the happiest of birthdays to @sentencebender.bsky.social! Celebrate his latest spin around the sun by joining us for lunch on an episode of Eating the Fantastic, where you'll discover the superpower he developed via decades of obscurity — plus much more. www.scottedelman.com/2022/08/05/s...
07.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1I need every gay man/queer person to PLEASE read Boys, Beasts and Men by @sentencebender.bsky.social. the stories in that book will haunt me in the warmest way for the rest of my life.
07.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Over a purple background with a pink pinwheel, the Emerald City Comic Con logo, plus the words "March 5-8 in Seattle, WA". Next is the double cover of Apprehension and Red Star Hustle by Mary Robinette Kowal and Sam J. Miller, respectively. Photos of each of them are at the bottom.
Seattle: Will @sentencebender.bsky.social and I see you at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social March 5-8? Please say hello! www.emeraldcitycomiccon.com/en-us.html
04.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
So, yes, Small Wonders has just published a brand new poem by me, "Straw Gold."
Free to read here:
smallwondersmag.com/piece/straw-...
A promo image for the post shows a snippet of a cover full of arrows with the title Ranger Danger. It also shows the title of the Patreon post from Stephanie Burgis: Dragons' Book Club: January 2026.
Hooray! This month's Dragons' Book Club is up now. Subscribe to my Patreon at any level from $1.99/month to read my recs for the month and share your own with fellow club members. (And scoop up a free ebook on joining, too!)
patreon.com/stephanieburgis
#romancelandia
New essay from me up at Interstellar Flight Press, about dragons and structured poetry and CT machines:
magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/the-dragon-c...
Hell yes, my debut novella GRIEF EATER is now live on Barnes and Noble for pre-orders!
I would greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word. Thank you!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grief-eate...
@interstellarflight.bsky.social
hello!
new story day!!
this one is a weird western murder mystery set on the back of a jackalope. did i say weird western? i meant WEIRD western.
it's hell living on the back of prey
We're all stuck in science fiction now.
This week: terrifying shape-shifting aliens have swallowed up and replaced millions of us, and they're still spreading.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/they-spread-...
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