Jen Brown (is drafting) ✨

Once-opulence? Space novellas with interesting relationships?? An extremely adept author whose prose swept me away, the first time I read them???

Yeah. My bookshelves are ready.

I’ve read these opening pages yall. They were spectacular. 👀🔥

Traditional illustration of a woman holding out her dress to catch star rain. Acrylics on paper and board. The woman and a few stars are on a separate 3 dimensional layer above the background.

Twinkle, 10 x 16 inches, acrylics on board and paper.
The lady and a few of the stars pop out in 3d :)

It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert — neon hemlock This title was published October 3rd, 2023. An 8” x 5” novella. 145 pages. In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos follows two mages, Althus a...

Today is my favorite person @brentclambert.bsky.social 's birthday! The SFF field is better for his part in it as a writer, a reader, a friend and cheerleader and my life is brighter for sharing his light. If you have not let it bless you just yet, pick up and devour his A Necessary Chaos today.

🥹💕🫂

!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! L absolutely said it best. I am so grateful to live on the same planet as you, and to bask in the joy of your stories & your presence. You are a gift and a light!! ✨

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

It really is!! 🥹 I hope you apply.

🔥🔥🔥

ah look its all our fears

aging Cassandra has been living in my head for a while now, it is time to set her free

#dragonage

Ghost Box IV — Hingston & Olsen Publishing

Did you happen to enjoy my short "Flicker" in Peele's Out There Screaming anthology? Patton Oswalt did, and now it's its own itty bitty limited edition baby in his next Ghost Box set from Canadian publisher Hingston & Olsen

www.hingstonandolsen.com/ghost-box-iv

!!!! The man has GOOD TASTE. 👏🏾 (this whole set/box design is 🔥 too)

white folks love to hear this when it's from black lawyers and professors - they've "earned" the right to not be disrespected - but let it be a negro without a Harvard degree, living paycheck to paycheck and the empathy goes right out the window

This is why we have high blood pressure.

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

On Novel-ing: Clarion West’s Novel Writing Workshop (2025) Seven months ago, I was accepted into the first cohort of Clarion West’s Novel Writing Workshop. (Or NWW, as we’ve lovingly acronymn-ized it.) Seven life-changing months filled with lec…

Ahem...might I offer you some joy, in these trying times? Applications for @clarionwest.bsky.social's 2026 Novel Writing Workshop open soon. So, I wrote about my application experience & programmatic takeaways, thus far.

If you're thinking about applying? Do it. ✊🏾

jencbrown.com/2025/09/27/o...

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

A hand raising a tumbler of wine, another hand holding a book that says "with the best writers in the Bay area!" other text reads: WRITERS WITH DRINKS A LITERARY VARIETY SHOW CHARLIE JANE ANDERS CARO DE ROBERTIS MICHAL "MJ" JONES ANNALEE NEWITZ FRIDA SIERRA RENEE SWINDLE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH STRUT/MAGNET, 470 CASTRO ST. 7PM-9PM

This Friday! Writers With Drinks! Queer spoken word 'n comedy. It's going to be AMAZING.

Here's why I'm so excited about each of these performers/readers...

Also, your public library might even notify you when something has been purchased! (Mine does!)

Don’t sleep on this method!! It can often feel like forms go into a black hole, but purchase requests do get seen. Librarians get excited when folks make their collection development responsibilities a little easier. 🙏🏾

I cannot wait! 👀👏🏾 Your work is always 🔥 out the gate.

I wish we knew!! 😮‍💨

All damn day: *all-consuming, barely stringing sentences together, tiredness*

11:59 pm: *mental backflips, conjuring memories from 15 years ago, I wonder where that random thing is, wired-ness*

🫠

Every day, writing imparts some fresh new horror upon us. 🫠 Solidarity, fam. 🫡

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope|eBook From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transformative visions of the future, fantastical alternate w...

oh hey it's pre-order sale time again at @barnesandnoble.com which makes it a great time to pre-order WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, interviews about activism, protest, and collective action, edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly

are you ready for some big news?

WE ARE OPEN

for BIPOC subs for issue 100!

and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body

💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖

find out more here:

psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be