Ellen Kushner
@ellenkushner.bsky.social
Author & woman around town. Married to Delia Sherman. Wrote Swordspoint. Host/writer of public radio’s Sound & Spirit. A new gig every 17 years. Back to writing novels. Seeking for further amusement.
I would probably like you.
I would probably like you.
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Ellen Kushner
@ellenkushner.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Paris to Italy, and back again. With poetry for comfort, and a very great loss . . .
. . . and the usual footnotes
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My esteemed spouse Delia Sherman does not indulge in social media to the rapt extent that I do. But you can keep up with our shenanigans here:
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it's fucking crazy how thorough @mariadahvana.bsky.social is with her edits, you're getting a more detailed, deep, exhaustive passthrough with her than you probably would if your manuscript were already at a publishing house beneath the wing of an extremely swamped editor. worth the dosh & then some
Have a couple spots available in my manuscript mentoring/editing calendar! Get in touch with me here if you're interested at all - I can explain more and we can work out a plan for your project. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/manu...
Manuscript Consultation with Maria Dahvana Headley — The Shipman Agency
All Genres Maria is a New York Times-bestselling, Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning novelist, translator, poet, and dramatist whose work unearths hidden meanings, characters, and possibilities in ...
www.theshipmanagency.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
it's fucking crazy how thorough @mariadahvana.bsky.social is with her edits, you're getting a more detailed, deep, exhaustive passthrough with her than you probably would if your manuscript were already at a publishing house beneath the wing of an extremely swamped editor. worth the dosh & then some
Need a break from cold-blooded murder?
This article is both witty & genuinely helpful:
This article is both witty & genuinely helpful:
When people start blooming in yr presence, you’ll discover that some of them make you sneeze…. But this is still progress, because in the Great Hierarchy of Subjective Experiences, annoyance is better than awkwardness—u can walk away from an annoyance, but awkwardness comes with you wherever you go.
How to be less awkward
a three-part treatment for a near-universal affliction
www.experimental-history.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Need a break from cold-blooded murder?
This article is both witty & genuinely helpful:
This article is both witty & genuinely helpful:
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Yes! This is the truth. Medical costs just sent way up, but my meager budget hasn't grown.
Right, @cocopazzo.bsky.social ?
btw for those who don't know why Americans with chronic illness got like 75% more stressed on Jan 1st, it is not just because all the insurance rates blew up.
On 1/1, deductibles reset. which means you have to spend some amount of money (up to $10k sometimes) before your insurance COVERS ANYTHING
On 1/1, deductibles reset. which means you have to spend some amount of money (up to $10k sometimes) before your insurance COVERS ANYTHING
January 7, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Yes! This is the truth. Medical costs just sent way up, but my meager budget hasn't grown.
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Violence is too often sloppy; it spills over. Misogynists kill a lot of men, racists kill white people, ICE in its attacks on immigrants and anyone who looks like them just killed a white US citizen. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a gun everyone is a target.
January 8, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Violence is too often sloppy; it spills over. Misogynists kill a lot of men, racists kill white people, ICE in its attacks on immigrants and anyone who looks like them just killed a white US citizen. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a gun everyone is a target.
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MAGA: "get back to teaching the western canon!"
Also MAGA: "no not like that"
Also MAGA: "no not like that"
January 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
MAGA: "get back to teaching the western canon!"
Also MAGA: "no not like that"
Also MAGA: "no not like that"
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10,000+ people showed up for Renee Nicole Good 🕊️
January 8, 2026 at 2:48 AM
10,000+ people showed up for Renee Nicole Good 🕊️
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they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect
MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.
MPR News is live right now bringing you updates on this. mprnews.org/listen
January 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect
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It’s a hard row to hoe, a string of family medical disasters in 🇺🇸 right now.
I hope everyone had a happy holiday season ❣️
Please read my latest update & repost for me❣️
gofund.me/7706fd20
Please read my latest update & repost for me❣️
gofund.me/7706fd20
Donate to Help Coco Get Through Medical Treatment & Recovery, organized by Coco Pazzo
Dear friends,
Our friend Coco got very sick in 2016, severely limiting … Coco Pazzo needs your support for Help Coco Get Through Medical Treatment & Recovery
gofund.me
January 7, 2026 at 12:34 AM
It’s a hard row to hoe, a string of family medical disasters in 🇺🇸 right now.
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NEW STORY DAY! "The Doorkeepers" is now live (and podcasted) over at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
Unlikely narrators! Timeloops! Humor, but also not!
Super excited about this one being out in the world!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
Unlikely narrators! Timeloops! Humor, but also not!
Super excited about this one being out in the world!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Doorkeepers - Uncanny Magazine
It’s Sunday night, which means it’s our Friday night, which means the Doorkeepers go out and get absolutely blasted. It’s not as messy as it sounds. We’re polite drunks; we make a point of it actually...
www.uncannymagazine.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
NEW STORY DAY! "The Doorkeepers" is now live (and podcasted) over at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
Unlikely narrators! Timeloops! Humor, but also not!
Super excited about this one being out in the world!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
Unlikely narrators! Timeloops! Humor, but also not!
Super excited about this one being out in the world!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
When people start blooming in yr presence, you’ll discover that some of them make you sneeze…. But this is still progress, because in the Great Hierarchy of Subjective Experiences, annoyance is better than awkwardness—u can walk away from an annoyance, but awkwardness comes with you wherever you go.
How to be less awkward
a three-part treatment for a near-universal affliction
www.experimental-history.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:50 PM
When people start blooming in yr presence, you’ll discover that some of them make you sneeze…. But this is still progress, because in the Great Hierarchy of Subjective Experiences, annoyance is better than awkwardness—u can walk away from an annoyance, but awkwardness comes with you wherever you go.
Right, @cocopazzo.bsky.social ?
btw for those who don't know why Americans with chronic illness got like 75% more stressed on Jan 1st, it is not just because all the insurance rates blew up.
On 1/1, deductibles reset. which means you have to spend some amount of money (up to $10k sometimes) before your insurance COVERS ANYTHING
On 1/1, deductibles reset. which means you have to spend some amount of money (up to $10k sometimes) before your insurance COVERS ANYTHING
January 7, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Right, @cocopazzo.bsky.social ?
U.S. cover of the book in the previous post. Goes well with matcha latte.
I'm reading Thomas The Rhymer by Ellen Kushner! I'm really appreciating the slow and melodic pace of the story.
January 7, 2026 at 5:11 AM
U.S. cover of the book in the previous post. Goes well with matcha latte.
I’m so glad I let myself write this book
"I knew that she would come, like bitter winter, like the storm clouds rolling to us dark across the fields."
@ellenkushner.bsky.social
@ellenkushner.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 4:19 AM
I’m so glad I let myself write this book
It’s a hard row to hoe, a string of family medical disasters in 🇺🇸 right now.
I hope everyone had a happy holiday season ❣️
Please read my latest update & repost for me❣️
gofund.me/7706fd20
Please read my latest update & repost for me❣️
gofund.me/7706fd20
Donate to Help Coco Get Through Medical Treatment & Recovery, organized by Coco Pazzo
Dear friends,
Our friend Coco got very sick in 2016, severely limiting … Coco Pazzo needs your support for Help Coco Get Through Medical Treatment & Recovery
gofund.me
January 7, 2026 at 12:34 AM
It’s a hard row to hoe, a string of family medical disasters in 🇺🇸 right now.
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Foreigners stealing our jobs and women? Trains. Gays reading storybooks to kids in the public library with total impunity? You should have a really great train that stops near your house to address the issue. Women having too many abortions? You guessed it,
January 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Foreigners stealing our jobs and women? Trains. Gays reading storybooks to kids in the public library with total impunity? You should have a really great train that stops near your house to address the issue. Women having too many abortions? You guessed it,
Knives Out: Wake Up, Dead Man
Wow.
10 minutes in, and you know you're SAFE : it will be smart and well-acted and well-written and well-shot & everything that annoys you in popular culture that you have to settle for anyway sometimes will be missing.
Wow.
10 minutes in, and you know you're SAFE : it will be smart and well-acted and well-written and well-shot & everything that annoys you in popular culture that you have to settle for anyway sometimes will be missing.
January 6, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Knives Out: Wake Up, Dead Man
Wow.
10 minutes in, and you know you're SAFE : it will be smart and well-acted and well-written and well-shot & everything that annoys you in popular culture that you have to settle for anyway sometimes will be missing.
Wow.
10 minutes in, and you know you're SAFE : it will be smart and well-acted and well-written and well-shot & everything that annoys you in popular culture that you have to settle for anyway sometimes will be missing.
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Comrade I'm a nearly 50 year old SFF fan, I don't think you can expect me to pick just one thing
What's your favourite thing that's been made by an absolute cunt?
January 6, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Comrade I'm a nearly 50 year old SFF fan, I don't think you can expect me to pick just one thing
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My wife Delia, the historical novelist:
"He can barely walk down the street unattended!
:::sputters:::
When George III got like this, they locked him up in a nice palace!!"
#Trump #DonroeDoctrine
"He can barely walk down the street unattended!
:::sputters:::
When George III got like this, they locked him up in a nice palace!!"
#Trump #DonroeDoctrine
January 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
My wife Delia, the historical novelist:
"He can barely walk down the street unattended!
:::sputters:::
When George III got like this, they locked him up in a nice palace!!"
#Trump #DonroeDoctrine
"He can barely walk down the street unattended!
:::sputters:::
When George III got like this, they locked him up in a nice palace!!"
#Trump #DonroeDoctrine
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
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Hey, @aoc.bsky.social - up for a little more bar-tending, for old times' sake?
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Hey, @aoc.bsky.social - up for a little more bar-tending, for old times' sake?
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You gotta admit it's really funny that Trump is cognitively at about the level of a lower beast in one of Aesop's fables.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:35 AM
You gotta admit it's really funny that Trump is cognitively at about the level of a lower beast in one of Aesop's fables.
ICE Accidentally Sends Maduro Back to Venezuela
ICE Accidentally Sends Maduro Back to Venezuela
WASHINGTON — In a stunning instance of miscommunication between departments, ICE agents have deported Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro back to Venezuela just hours after he was abducted by the DEA. ...
thehardtimes.net
January 4, 2026 at 6:00 AM
ICE Accidentally Sends Maduro Back to Venezuela