Erika Swyler
@erikaswyler.bsky.social
Novelist. Garden variety weirdo. Typo queen.
Books: We Lived On the Horizon (Atria, 1/14/25), Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation.
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Books: We Lived On the Horizon (Atria, 1/14/25), Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation.
She/her (all pronouns are fine)
https://linktr.ee/erikaswyler
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Erika Swyler
@erikaswyler.bsky.social
· Jan 14
WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is now out in the world. It's the first "timely" book I've written--wholly unintentional, I assure you.
If you've been thinking about AI, revolution, altruism, the future, gender, aging, and what care is ... it might be the book for you.
If you've been thinking about AI, revolution, altruism, the future, gender, aging, and what care is ... it might be the book for you.
Sarah's books are "must read" for me, always. It's a very very good time to pick this one up.
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Sarah's books are "must read" for me, always. It's a very very good time to pick this one up.
Was going through an old sketchbook for reasons. Here. Have a round rabbit doodle.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Was going through an old sketchbook for reasons. Here. Have a round rabbit doodle.
I suppose the question is always what is the purpose of a government that does not care for its people.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I suppose the question is always what is the purpose of a government that does not care for its people.
Watched Frankenstein because I deserve visually lush things.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Watched Frankenstein because I deserve visually lush things.
Jeez. At this point *I'd* primary Schumer.
(Note: I do not have the disposition for shaking hands or working with people I despise.)
(Note: I do not have the disposition for shaking hands or working with people I despise.)
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Jeez. At this point *I'd* primary Schumer.
(Note: I do not have the disposition for shaking hands or working with people I despise.)
(Note: I do not have the disposition for shaking hands or working with people I despise.)
There's a reason writers keep comparing running to writing: it's the joy of the difficult, the peace that comes from exertion, and the satisfaction of using your whole self.
The goal is genuinely the work and the form.
The goal is genuinely the work and the form.
100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
There's a reason writers keep comparing running to writing: it's the joy of the difficult, the peace that comes from exertion, and the satisfaction of using your whole self.
The goal is genuinely the work and the form.
The goal is genuinely the work and the form.
Oh no. I might have to sketch something today. It's been too long and my brain is locked up in other areas.
So, sketching, baking a layer cake, or doing an embroidery about it.
So, sketching, baking a layer cake, or doing an embroidery about it.
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Oh no. I might have to sketch something today. It's been too long and my brain is locked up in other areas.
So, sketching, baking a layer cake, or doing an embroidery about it.
So, sketching, baking a layer cake, or doing an embroidery about it.
Learned yesterday that one of my coworkers knew both James Watson and Carl Sagan. She had glowing things to say about Sagan.
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Learned yesterday that one of my coworkers knew both James Watson and Carl Sagan. She had glowing things to say about Sagan.
Objectively true.
If you’re baking and using brown sugar, and some of it shakes out in small clumps, here’s my go-to kitchen pro tip…
You eat them.
They’re little treats.
You deserve it.
You eat them.
They’re little treats.
You deserve it.
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Objectively true.
Julia Fine/Margaux Eliot is an A+ human and writer.
Grab HONEYMOON STAGE as a favor to yourself.
tinyurl.com/3av2nrja
Grab HONEYMOON STAGE as a favor to yourself.
tinyurl.com/3av2nrja
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Julia Fine/Margaux Eliot is an A+ human and writer.
Grab HONEYMOON STAGE as a favor to yourself.
tinyurl.com/3av2nrja
Grab HONEYMOON STAGE as a favor to yourself.
tinyurl.com/3av2nrja
I'm going to run a VIDEO GAME TRIVIA NIGHT as one of the MUSEUM'S spring season events.
So from now until May 6th, I'm open to hearing all of your fun obscure —but not TOO obscure — video game facts. 😤
(All museum posts contain random shouting.)
So from now until May 6th, I'm open to hearing all of your fun obscure —but not TOO obscure — video game facts. 😤
(All museum posts contain random shouting.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm going to run a VIDEO GAME TRIVIA NIGHT as one of the MUSEUM'S spring season events.
So from now until May 6th, I'm open to hearing all of your fun obscure —but not TOO obscure — video game facts. 😤
(All museum posts contain random shouting.)
So from now until May 6th, I'm open to hearing all of your fun obscure —but not TOO obscure — video game facts. 😤
(All museum posts contain random shouting.)
Reposted by Erika Swyler
Twin Cities folks! Reminder that its one of the big book events of the year tomorrow and this conversation in particular looks like fire 🔥 . . . already armed with both of these books for some fresh author ink.
People of Minneapolis and Saint Paul!
Join us at the Twin Cities Book Festival on Saturday, where the great @ambersparks.bsky.social and myself will chat about finding family in speculative fiction:
twincitiesbookfestival.com/william-alex...
Join us at the Twin Cities Book Festival on Saturday, where the great @ambersparks.bsky.social and myself will chat about finding family in speculative fiction:
twincitiesbookfestival.com/william-alex...
William Alexander and Amber Sparks
Finding Family in Speculative Fiction Saturday, November 8, 20252:30pm, Veterans Gallery (located upstairs from the Book Fair) ★ This event is ASL interpreted! Two lauded masters in their respective f...
twincitiesbookfestival.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Twin Cities folks! Reminder that its one of the big book events of the year tomorrow and this conversation in particular looks like fire 🔥 . . . already armed with both of these books for some fresh author ink.
"What radicalized you" isn't strong enough for me. It's "what drove you to become Baba Yaga" and the answer is wide-eyed A.I. boosters.
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"What radicalized you" isn't strong enough for me. It's "what drove you to become Baba Yaga" and the answer is wide-eyed A.I. boosters.
Reposted by Erika Swyler
One of my favorite books of the century so far, without exaggeration.
I can't believe I let the entire Louvre heist pass me by without recommending my novel END OF THE WORLD HOUSE, which is what happens when the Louvre heists you instead thankyoubookshop.com/item/rPCoGQ_...
End of the World House by Adrienne Celt | Thank You Bookshop
Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma’s Severance in this “brilliant” (PopSugar) and “exhilarating” (The Millions) comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses arou...
thankyoubookshop.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
One of my favorite books of the century so far, without exaggeration.
That point in thinking about a book when I want to set it on fire and switch to short fiction... until I remember I'm terrible at short fiction.
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
That point in thinking about a book when I want to set it on fire and switch to short fiction... until I remember I'm terrible at short fiction.
Attend if you can! Truly, the Worldbuilding Initiative is a very special and hopeful thing. That it's free to the public and livestreamed? Amazing.
Two weeks from today, the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative will host "Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond," our final workshop of 2025, with speakers @jennahanchey.bsky.social and Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed! Free and open to the public. Join us in-person in Tempe or on ASU Live!
Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond | ASU Events
In this workshop, our speakers will use speculative thinking, literary criticism, and fiction writing to explore what resistance looks like in both our real world and in the imagined worlds that refle...
asuevents.asu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Attend if you can! Truly, the Worldbuilding Initiative is a very special and hopeful thing. That it's free to the public and livestreamed? Amazing.
Gonna keep the vibe going with another donation to a food bank.
Find yours here:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Find yours here:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Gonna keep the vibe going with another donation to a food bank.
Find yours here:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Find yours here:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Hm. Even my county went more blue than I thought it would. (Alas, not my town, but don't worry, we'll all be swallowed by the sea soon.)
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Hm. Even my county went more blue than I thought it would. (Alas, not my town, but don't worry, we'll all be swallowed by the sea soon.)
Man, who knew a day with an election and a really long dental procedure could end up being a *good* day?
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Man, who knew a day with an election and a really long dental procedure could end up being a *good* day?
Attractive people aside, I can't explain exactly why this show is so compelling, and yet it is.
if you are very stressed today what I can tell you is that there’s a new season out of the relatively mildly stressful yet utterly harrowing Physical 100
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Attractive people aside, I can't explain exactly why this show is so compelling, and yet it is.
I voted, and I'm hoping the people I don't enjoy forget to.
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I voted, and I'm hoping the people I don't enjoy forget to.
Reposted by Erika Swyler
"Do we feel better about ourselves and the fact that we are not billionaires, because we can sit here making fun of them?"
@finejuli.bsky.social (Margaux Eliot)'s interview with @awolfson.bsky.social on her new book "Honeymoon Stage” (Little A) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/04/i...
@finejuli.bsky.social (Margaux Eliot)'s interview with @awolfson.bsky.social on her new book "Honeymoon Stage” (Little A) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/04/i...
“Inauthentically Authentic”: Reliving Reality TV in the Aughts with Margaux Eliot (aka Julia Fine) - Chicago Review of Books
When you discover that everyone around you is performing a role, how can you learn to trust anyone at all? In Honeymoon Stage, Margaux Eliot’s debut novel—Eliot is the nom de plume of Chicago-based th...
chireviewofbooks.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Do we feel better about ourselves and the fact that we are not billionaires, because we can sit here making fun of them?"
@finejuli.bsky.social (Margaux Eliot)'s interview with @awolfson.bsky.social on her new book "Honeymoon Stage” (Little A) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/04/i...
@finejuli.bsky.social (Margaux Eliot)'s interview with @awolfson.bsky.social on her new book "Honeymoon Stage” (Little A) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/04/i...
I just realized that when that dude finally goes I'm gonna go on an absolute bender with the baking. Layer cakes for me, for friends, family, strangers, random people I pass on the sidewalk. Random bundts of kindness.
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I just realized that when that dude finally goes I'm gonna go on an absolute bender with the baking. Layer cakes for me, for friends, family, strangers, random people I pass on the sidewalk. Random bundts of kindness.
Good morning. If you're reading this, you've outlived someone who did heinous things. Good on you. It's possible. Keep at it.
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Good morning. If you're reading this, you've outlived someone who did heinous things. Good on you. It's possible. Keep at it.
Alan Cumming.
If you could have any person besides yourself narrate the audiobook of your memoir, who would you choose?
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Alan Cumming.