Jedediah Berry
@jedediahberry.bsky.social
Books, tea, omens, ink. Coming in 2026: KILL ALL WIZARDS (Tordotcom Publishing) and two new volumes of the Wildendrem adventure game setting (Phantom Mill Games).
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My novella Kill All Wizards will be set loose in June. It's a little Jane Austen and a whole lotta bloody barbaric vengeance. If you like Conan, The Count of Monte Cristo, highly opinionated narrators, or old-school adventure, then this is the book for you. thirdarchive.net#killallwizards
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Relieved & VERY grateful for author blurbs for THE LOOM TREE (6.30.26)
Thank you @jedediahberry.bsky.social, Olivie Blake & Lynn D. Jung for your words.
Pre-order link below:
www.kensingtonbooks.com/978164566088...
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Thank you @jedediahberry.bsky.social, Olivie Blake & Lynn D. Jung for your words.
Pre-order link below:
www.kensingtonbooks.com/978164566088...
@dianapho.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Relieved & VERY grateful for author blurbs for THE LOOM TREE (6.30.26)
Thank you @jedediahberry.bsky.social, Olivie Blake & Lynn D. Jung for your words.
Pre-order link below:
www.kensingtonbooks.com/978164566088...
@dianapho.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
Thank you @jedediahberry.bsky.social, Olivie Blake & Lynn D. Jung for your words.
Pre-order link below:
www.kensingtonbooks.com/978164566088...
@dianapho.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
Supporting local journalism is a gift to oneself in so many ways.
February 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Supporting local journalism is a gift to oneself in so many ways.
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In all the discussions about AI cognition, we should at least acknowledge that the dataset these models have trained on includes vast tracts of fiction in which AIs gain sentience. These lines have all been written previously.
Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!
February 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
In all the discussions about AI cognition, we should at least acknowledge that the dataset these models have trained on includes vast tracts of fiction in which AIs gain sentience. These lines have all been written previously.
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Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc
And they aren't all crowing about it on social media, so let's not assume that all the people in hats and buttons passing out whistles are doing nothing else. People - "wine moms," "knitters," who else do you think has ready access to breast milk? - are working behind the scenes for good.
A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.
February 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc
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These brighter ones went up last February and have proved popular. Thanks to everyone who bought them (and donated) we've sold 199 and raised $2,121 for Safe Place International
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January 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM
These brighter ones went up last February and have proved popular. Thanks to everyone who bought them (and donated) we've sold 199 and raised $2,121 for Safe Place International
www.bonfire.com/read-books-p...
www.bonfire.com/read-books-p...
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me whenever i look at the fire in my hand
February 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
me whenever i look at the fire in my hand
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I can verify this is a fantastic read (just finished an ARC yesterday!). Review to come. :) #booksky
My publisher is giving away some advance copies of Kill All Wizards. Enter if you dare: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Kill All Wizards (The Barbaric Ledgers, #1)
SWORDS, SORCERY, AND A SPOT OF TEA Kill All Wizards is…
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February 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I can verify this is a fantastic read (just finished an ARC yesterday!). Review to come. :) #booksky
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I contributed an adventure to this. No ICE in Minnesota, no ICE anywhere. Prosecute ICE.
The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!
Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!
Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
February 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I contributed an adventure to this. No ICE in Minnesota, no ICE anywhere. Prosecute ICE.
My publisher is giving away some advance copies of Kill All Wizards. Enter if you dare: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Kill All Wizards (The Barbaric Ledgers, #1)
SWORDS, SORCERY, AND A SPOT OF TEA Kill All Wizards is…
www.goodreads.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
My publisher is giving away some advance copies of Kill All Wizards. Enter if you dare: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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This novella was great! It comes out on February 17th! Here's what I said about it! @matthewkressel.net
February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This novella was great! It comes out on February 17th! Here's what I said about it! @matthewkressel.net
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New Troika Initiative Cards are coming soon:
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Sign up to the campaign, make us look good, keep updated on progress!
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Get Ready for TROIKA! Playing Cards & Initiative Deck
From Melsonian Arts Council - Get Ready for TROIKA! Playing Cards & Initiative Deck
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February 5, 2026 at 3:41 PM
New Troika Initiative Cards are coming soon:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Sign up to the campaign, make us look good, keep updated on progress!
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Sign up to the campaign, make us look good, keep updated on progress!
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Reckoning reopened to submissions on February 1st! We pay @sfwa.org pro rates, we never charge fees, AND we're piloting a new/improved process for reviewing and publishing submissions, which shows every sign of making our response times MUCH faster. Please submit? Guidelines: reckoning.press/submit/
February 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Reckoning reopened to submissions on February 1st! We pay @sfwa.org pro rates, we never charge fees, AND we're piloting a new/improved process for reviewing and publishing submissions, which shows every sign of making our response times MUCH faster. Please submit? Guidelines: reckoning.press/submit/
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To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...
February 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...
Some fine company there :)
Recent book mail! The world may be on fire, but as long as we have art, we will not burn all away just yet.
@jedediahberry.bsky.social 🪄 @sarahgailey.bsky.social ❤️🩹@mollytanzer.bsky.social 🍄 @isabel.kim 👥 @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 🍎
@jedediahberry.bsky.social 🪄 @sarahgailey.bsky.social ❤️🩹@mollytanzer.bsky.social 🍄 @isabel.kim 👥 @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 🍎
January 31, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Some fine company there :)
Yesterday I spent the morning with my daughter for her first day of pre-school, the afternoon with my grad students for their first workshop of the semester. Saw the whole of my academic life flash by in a whirl of alphabet block manuscripts and Crayola syllabi.
January 30, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I spent the morning with my daughter for her first day of pre-school, the afternoon with my grad students for their first workshop of the semester. Saw the whole of my academic life flash by in a whirl of alphabet block manuscripts and Crayola syllabi.
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Writer in the top 1% of writerly success: "Can't wait to alienate myself from my peers and audience to work with literally the worst boss in the world for a cool 80k a year."
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Writer in the top 1% of writerly success: "Can't wait to alienate myself from my peers and audience to work with literally the worst boss in the world for a cool 80k a year."
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James Sallis was one of the true towering figures, crossing multiple genres and categories, but particularly in crime fiction. His death at the age of 81 is a real loss, but we do have two more books of his to look forward to this year. mailchi.mp/sohopress/re...
January 30, 2026 at 12:45 AM
James Sallis was one of the true towering figures, crossing multiple genres and categories, but particularly in crime fiction. His death at the age of 81 is a real loss, but we do have two more books of his to look forward to this year. mailchi.mp/sohopress/re...
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SFWA folks, I am happy to do this for Game Writing as well should you wish it!
Fellow SFWA members, I hope you won't be leaving the poetry section blank in your Nebula nominations. It's the first year of the award, and important to show that it gets the love it deserves.
If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you
If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you
January 29, 2026 at 5:45 AM
SFWA folks, I am happy to do this for Game Writing as well should you wish it!
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okay if you like Weird Medieval Guys, architecture, gender, bees, and eldritch women, have I got a book for you
(which I also illustrated!)
(which I also illustrated!)
January 29, 2026 at 11:18 PM
okay if you like Weird Medieval Guys, architecture, gender, bees, and eldritch women, have I got a book for you
(which I also illustrated!)
(which I also illustrated!)
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I wrote an adult literary fantasy for my kids & all of us children of borderless fairy tales & cross-cultural myth, about preserving our stories & histories & passing them on, defying those who seek to deny, diminish or erase us.
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I wrote an adult literary fantasy for my kids & all of us children of borderless fairy tales & cross-cultural myth, about preserving our stories & histories & passing them on, defying those who seek to deny, diminish or erase us.
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social
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If you're a @kellylink.bsky.social collector, and/or you have a special place in your heart for The Faery Handbag, the swanky edition of it from Conversation Tree Press (which is like 15km from my house) is open for public orders now. The 500 copy run is half gone already...
The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link
The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link is letterpress-printed and hardbound in quarter cloth and marbled paper from Daniela Prina with illustrations by Rovina Cai. All copies are signed by the author and art...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:07 PM
If you're a @kellylink.bsky.social collector, and/or you have a special place in your heart for The Faery Handbag, the swanky edition of it from Conversation Tree Press (which is like 15km from my house) is open for public orders now. The 500 copy run is half gone already...
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A bunch of Minneapolis authors are coming together to offer incentives for donating. If you DM me proof of donation, I’ll send you a bookplate and a piece of microfiction that is set in the word of The First Bright Thing.
January 15, 2026 at 7:47 PM
A bunch of Minneapolis authors are coming together to offer incentives for donating. If you DM me proof of donation, I’ll send you a bookplate and a piece of microfiction that is set in the word of The First Bright Thing.
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Over the next few weeks @literaryhub.bsky.social will be publishing letters from Minnesotans about ICE’s authoritarian occupation of their home. First up today is poet Dobby Gibson. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America?
Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…
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January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Over the next few weeks @literaryhub.bsky.social will be publishing letters from Minnesotans about ICE’s authoritarian occupation of their home. First up today is poet Dobby Gibson. lithub.com/letter-from-...
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I was looking up something about Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light & came across this 2005 piece @jedediahberry.bsky.social wrote for the Small Beer newsletter.
Cannot wait to get the beautiful new UK edition—looking forward to reading Samantha Shannon's intro.
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
Cannot wait to get the beautiful new UK edition—looking forward to reading Samantha Shannon's intro.
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
January 23, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I was looking up something about Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light & came across this 2005 piece @jedediahberry.bsky.social wrote for the Small Beer newsletter.
Cannot wait to get the beautiful new UK edition—looking forward to reading Samantha Shannon's intro.
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
Cannot wait to get the beautiful new UK edition—looking forward to reading Samantha Shannon's intro.
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
Marisa Calin is fantastic and I'm so glad she was able to take this on.
I'm halfway into the brilliantly-performed audio book version of "The Naming Song" by @jedediahberry.bsky.social, recommended by the equally brilliant and kind @kellylink.bsky.social.
This would be a fantastic "stuck in the house" visual or auditory read.
This would be a fantastic "stuck in the house" visual or auditory read.
What's the best book to read/movie to watch during a winter snowstorm?? Hoping everyone affected by the winter weather in the US stays warm this weekend!
January 23, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Marisa Calin is fantastic and I'm so glad she was able to take this on.