Eliza Chan
@elizachanwrites.bsky.social
🏴 Fantasy & Weird Fiction🖋️ FATHOMFOLK and TIDEBORN out now 🌊 HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS 2026 👻BFA nominated 🦊 she/her rep Alex Cochran
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Lustre Mining - The Dark Magazine
Poon-Lai jabbed an elbow so her sisters would make more space. The others grumbled but pushed the dog-eared magazine back towards the middle. A British film star grinned at the camera, draped in a fiv...
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The Dark has reprinted my short story "Lustre Mining", originally published in ParSec Mag in 2023.
Inspired by the 1980s UK miners' strike, Mother Shipton's Cave & my parents' generation.
Go read it and the other excellent short stories in the Dec issue!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/lustre-mining/
Inspired by the 1980s UK miners' strike, Mother Shipton's Cave & my parents' generation.
Go read it and the other excellent short stories in the Dec issue!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/lustre-mining/
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Thread.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Thread.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
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"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs."
archive.is/hvRv2
archive.is/hvRv2
January 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM
"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs."
archive.is/hvRv2
archive.is/hvRv2
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ARCs of MORTEDANT's PERIL are moving out in the world and it's always a weird feeling; 'what are readers thinking?' Sadly, it's frowned on in publishing to hire a PI to track them down, kidnap them and bring them to a warehouse for questioning. Which, for the author, is very frustrating.
January 30, 2026 at 9:26 AM
ARCs of MORTEDANT's PERIL are moving out in the world and it's always a weird feeling; 'what are readers thinking?' Sadly, it's frowned on in publishing to hire a PI to track them down, kidnap them and bring them to a warehouse for questioning. Which, for the author, is very frustrating.
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Of recent reads, I thought Fathomfolk by @elizachanwrites.bsky.social was really evocative in its setting -- at times I could almost feel the waters soaking through my socks. And @authorplm.bsky.social's Sisters of the Crimson Vine perfectly conveys the heat of an eerie, sweltering summer.
#SFFChat
#SFFChat
#SFFChat Q3: Name an author or work who/that's exceptionally good at setting, or a scene that stuck with you because of its setting.
January 23, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Of recent reads, I thought Fathomfolk by @elizachanwrites.bsky.social was really evocative in its setting -- at times I could almost feel the waters soaking through my socks. And @authorplm.bsky.social's Sisters of the Crimson Vine perfectly conveys the heat of an eerie, sweltering summer.
#SFFChat
#SFFChat
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Book shop shoutout! I and @elizachanwrites.bsky.social went to @paperandword.bsky.social today to sign some of our books (and of course to buy some books too). It is such a lovely shop with wonderful staff AND it’s totally dedicated to fantasy! Don’t sleep on this gem, folks.
January 14, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Book shop shoutout! I and @elizachanwrites.bsky.social went to @paperandword.bsky.social today to sign some of our books (and of course to buy some books too). It is such a lovely shop with wonderful staff AND it’s totally dedicated to fantasy! Don’t sleep on this gem, folks.
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My Top Books read in 2025 - see image!
📚📅📊
Part 1 - Fiction
(just by author alphabetical order)
@annasmithwrites.bsky.social
@clclark.bsky.social
@themattlacey.bsky.social --> @devinmadson.bsky.social + @rebeccaide.bsky.social
@elizachanwrites.bsky.social
@samuelburr.bsky.social
📚📅📊
Part 1 - Fiction
(just by author alphabetical order)
@annasmithwrites.bsky.social
@clclark.bsky.social
@themattlacey.bsky.social --> @devinmadson.bsky.social + @rebeccaide.bsky.social
@elizachanwrites.bsky.social
@samuelburr.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 12:41 PM
My Top Books read in 2025 - see image!
📚📅📊
Part 1 - Fiction
(just by author alphabetical order)
@annasmithwrites.bsky.social
@clclark.bsky.social
@themattlacey.bsky.social --> @devinmadson.bsky.social + @rebeccaide.bsky.social
@elizachanwrites.bsky.social
@samuelburr.bsky.social
📚📅📊
Part 1 - Fiction
(just by author alphabetical order)
@annasmithwrites.bsky.social
@clclark.bsky.social
@themattlacey.bsky.social --> @devinmadson.bsky.social + @rebeccaide.bsky.social
@elizachanwrites.bsky.social
@samuelburr.bsky.social
This is so much fun!
5-min distraction incoming: my sci-fi comedy flash-fiction "A Troubleshooting Guide to Your Flat-Pack Planet" is now out in Nature Futures. media.nature.com/original/mag...
January 7, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is so much fun!
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What a better way to start a Monday than with the third part of "A Jam's list to 2026 releases"?
Third part of my most awaited titles for 2026 and that I hope to cover in the blog (depending on review copies and all):
jamreads.com/articles/a-j...
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Third part of my most awaited titles for 2026 and that I hope to cover in the blog (depending on review copies and all):
jamreads.com/articles/a-j...
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JamReads - Making your TBR closer to infinite
In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world
jamreads.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
What a better way to start a Monday than with the third part of "A Jam's list to 2026 releases"?
Third part of my most awaited titles for 2026 and that I hope to cover in the blog (depending on review copies and all):
jamreads.com/articles/a-j...
💙📚
Third part of my most awaited titles for 2026 and that I hope to cover in the blog (depending on review copies and all):
jamreads.com/articles/a-j...
💙📚
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OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all!
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
othersidespec.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all!
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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It's time to finally talk about my favourite books of 2025, so I made a list, without any kind of order, that pretty much covers it. It may be great to fill your TBR!
You can check it here:
jamreads.com/articles/my-...
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You can check it here:
jamreads.com/articles/my-...
💙📚
JamReads - Making your TBR closer to infinite
In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world
jamreads.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's time to finally talk about my favourite books of 2025, so I made a list, without any kind of order, that pretty much covers it. It may be great to fill your TBR!
You can check it here:
jamreads.com/articles/my-...
💙📚
You can check it here:
jamreads.com/articles/my-...
💙📚
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If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas!
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
The River Has Roots ebook by Amal El-Mohtar - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The River Has Roots The Sweeping, Magical Solo Debut by the Best-Selling Co-Author of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR" by Amal El-Mohtar available from Rakuten Kobo. Follow the river Liss to t...
www.kobo.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas!
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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🚨ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
For the longest night of the year, here's something dark & spooky: NORDIC NIGHTMARES: The Best of Nordic Horror ed. by Margrét Helgadóttir!
This spooky older sister to NORDIC VISIONS, showcases nightmarish horror tales from 20 electrifying voices! https://bit.ly/4agCxFE
For the longest night of the year, here's something dark & spooky: NORDIC NIGHTMARES: The Best of Nordic Horror ed. by Margrét Helgadóttir!
This spooky older sister to NORDIC VISIONS, showcases nightmarish horror tales from 20 electrifying voices! https://bit.ly/4agCxFE
December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🚨ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
For the longest night of the year, here's something dark & spooky: NORDIC NIGHTMARES: The Best of Nordic Horror ed. by Margrét Helgadóttir!
This spooky older sister to NORDIC VISIONS, showcases nightmarish horror tales from 20 electrifying voices! https://bit.ly/4agCxFE
For the longest night of the year, here's something dark & spooky: NORDIC NIGHTMARES: The Best of Nordic Horror ed. by Margrét Helgadóttir!
This spooky older sister to NORDIC VISIONS, showcases nightmarish horror tales from 20 electrifying voices! https://bit.ly/4agCxFE
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Hey it's that time of year! Where everything is on fire and satire is my only coping mechanism! I'm feeling bitey so it's time for
THE TECH BILLIONAIRE'S WISHLIST FOR THE OFFICE SECRET SANTA
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THE TECH BILLIONAIRE'S WISHLIST FOR THE OFFICE SECRET SANTA
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December 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Hey it's that time of year! Where everything is on fire and satire is my only coping mechanism! I'm feeling bitey so it's time for
THE TECH BILLIONAIRE'S WISHLIST FOR THE OFFICE SECRET SANTA
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THE TECH BILLIONAIRE'S WISHLIST FOR THE OFFICE SECRET SANTA
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Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
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Yesterday I had an “office party” with some of the best colleagues and friends imaginable. Thanks @elizachanwrites.bsky.social , @franceswrites.bsky.social , and @sarahbrooks.bsky.social for touring York with me. (Mainly through drinking mulled wine and having a publishing chat in a pub!)
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Yesterday I had an “office party” with some of the best colleagues and friends imaginable. Thanks @elizachanwrites.bsky.social , @franceswrites.bsky.social , and @sarahbrooks.bsky.social for touring York with me. (Mainly through drinking mulled wine and having a publishing chat in a pub!)
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I'm finalizing my Best YA science fiction, fantasy, and horror of 2025 this weekend. What were your top picks? (Authors, you can rec yourselves lol)
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I'm finalizing my Best YA science fiction, fantasy, and horror of 2025 this weekend. What were your top picks? (Authors, you can rec yourselves lol)
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I am very pleased to announce that I am supporting the wonderful Goldsboro Writing Academy to provide funded places on their courses for writers from low-income and under-represented backgrounds in 2026 and in 2027.
For more details contact Phil Vinter or visit the @goldsborowritingacademy website!
For more details contact Phil Vinter or visit the @goldsborowritingacademy website!
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I am very pleased to announce that I am supporting the wonderful Goldsboro Writing Academy to provide funded places on their courses for writers from low-income and under-represented backgrounds in 2026 and in 2027.
For more details contact Phil Vinter or visit the @goldsborowritingacademy website!
For more details contact Phil Vinter or visit the @goldsborowritingacademy website!
The Dark has reprinted my short story "Lustre Mining", originally published in ParSec Mag in 2023.
Inspired by the 1980s UK miners' strike, Mother Shipton's Cave & my parents' generation.
Go read it and the other excellent short stories in the Dec issue!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/lustre-mining/
Inspired by the 1980s UK miners' strike, Mother Shipton's Cave & my parents' generation.
Go read it and the other excellent short stories in the Dec issue!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/lustre-mining/
Lustre Mining - The Dark Magazine
Poon-Lai jabbed an elbow so her sisters would make more space. The others grumbled but pushed the dog-eared magazine back towards the middle. A British film star grinned at the camera, draped in a fiv...
www.thedarkmagazine.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Dark has reprinted my short story "Lustre Mining", originally published in ParSec Mag in 2023.
Inspired by the 1980s UK miners' strike, Mother Shipton's Cave & my parents' generation.
Go read it and the other excellent short stories in the Dec issue!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/lustre-mining/
Inspired by the 1980s UK miners' strike, Mother Shipton's Cave & my parents' generation.
Go read it and the other excellent short stories in the Dec issue!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/lustre-mining/
"Save what can be saved. Let go of what cannot. Love, love, love, love, *love*.
Live. The future is the only apology you can offer the past, and the only forgiveness you can grant the present."
An astounding review. Thank you for letting me know I'm not just shouting into the void.
Live. The future is the only apology you can offer the past, and the only forgiveness you can grant the present."
An astounding review. Thank you for letting me know I'm not just shouting into the void.
15: Tideborn by @elizachanwrites.bsky.social. Another year, another tsunami of emotion and profound transformative writing from Eliza Chan’s Drowned World duology. To help me I’ve put my summary for my friends’ Discord server here too, but GOD. You are capable of learning. You are capable of change.
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"Save what can be saved. Let go of what cannot. Love, love, love, love, *love*.
Live. The future is the only apology you can offer the past, and the only forgiveness you can grant the present."
An astounding review. Thank you for letting me know I'm not just shouting into the void.
Live. The future is the only apology you can offer the past, and the only forgiveness you can grant the present."
An astounding review. Thank you for letting me know I'm not just shouting into the void.
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I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
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@elizachanwrites.bsky.social immediately referencing the old “If you don’t do politics, what *do* you do?” advert from the 90s which is something that’s always stuck with me in that *everything* is political in some way, from the price of beer to roadworks.
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
@elizachanwrites.bsky.social immediately referencing the old “If you don’t do politics, what *do* you do?” advert from the 90s which is something that’s always stuck with me in that *everything* is political in some way, from the price of beer to roadworks.
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Second panel: Politics in Fantasy with @annasmithspark.bsky.social @hollyrace.bsky.social @thomasdlee.bsky.social @elizachanwrites.bsky.social and Jean Burlesk
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Second panel: Politics in Fantasy with @annasmithspark.bsky.social @hollyrace.bsky.social @thomasdlee.bsky.social @elizachanwrites.bsky.social and Jean Burlesk
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
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If only OpenAI could have foreseen the entirely predictable hazards of irresponsibly releasing this tech. I guess the estate of every dead person will have to individually request a special dispensation to no longer have disgusting videos made by OpenAI’s tools.
OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. | TechCrunch
OpenAI is pausing AI video generations of Martin Luther King at the request of the late civil rights activists' estate.
techcrunch.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
If only OpenAI could have foreseen the entirely predictable hazards of irresponsibly releasing this tech. I guess the estate of every dead person will have to individually request a special dispensation to no longer have disgusting videos made by OpenAI’s tools.
Lovely to be invited back by Womble to share some insights on TIDEBORN, book 2 of the Drowned World duology!
New author Interview - today we invite @elizachanwrites.bsky.social back to the blog to discuss their great novel Tideborn, messy mothers, duologies and more www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2...
Interviewing Eliza Chan — Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! I recently reviewed Tideborn by Eliza Chan a fantastic conclusion to the Drowned World duology where we have a an aquatic themed setting, a glorious mix of mythic folks to meet and s...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Lovely to be invited back by Womble to share some insights on TIDEBORN, book 2 of the Drowned World duology!