Jo Miles
@jomiles.bsky.social
they/them - writer of optimistic sci-fi and fantasy, including WARPED STATE, an upbeat, thrill-packed space opera. Stories in Lightspeed, F&SF, Uncanny, and more. Get updates: https://www.jomiles.com/newsletter/
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Please, never be shy telling an author you loved their books.
It’s seriously what gets us through.
It’s seriously what gets us through.
January 18, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Please, never be shy telling an author you loved their books.
It’s seriously what gets us through.
It’s seriously what gets us through.
Looks like we got our first bisexual Star Trek captain!
January 16, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Looks like we got our first bisexual Star Trek captain!
My story in the new issue of Analog, "A Chatbot's Guide to Self-Respect," takes on one narrow slice of what's wrong with how we're using AI today.
It includes a therapy-bot based on Eliza, the very first chatbot. Not until writing this did I learn how cool Eliza's creator Joseph Weizenbaum was:
It includes a therapy-bot based on Eliza, the very first chatbot. Not until writing this did I learn how cool Eliza's creator Joseph Weizenbaum was:
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:56 PM
My story in the new issue of Analog, "A Chatbot's Guide to Self-Respect," takes on one narrow slice of what's wrong with how we're using AI today.
It includes a therapy-bot based on Eliza, the very first chatbot. Not until writing this did I learn how cool Eliza's creator Joseph Weizenbaum was:
It includes a therapy-bot based on Eliza, the very first chatbot. Not until writing this did I learn how cool Eliza's creator Joseph Weizenbaum was:
Just finished Skullrunner and, you guys, it's so good.
It's great epic fantasy in its own right, but I esp love how wonderfully, unapologetically queer it is. Not just "here's some queer characters" but deeply exploring queerness in a world of weird magic.
Also, pirates.
What's not to like?
It's great epic fantasy in its own right, but I esp love how wonderfully, unapologetically queer it is. Not just "here's some queer characters" but deeply exploring queerness in a world of weird magic.
Also, pirates.
What's not to like?
SKULLRUNNER is out today! Get your morally-grey sapphic pirates hunting down their stolen memories and fighting a dictator now!
Featuring: queer found family, gods that split via mitosis, sisterhood and sibling relationships, and abominable monsters from the depths of the sea!
Featuring: queer found family, gods that split via mitosis, sisterhood and sibling relationships, and abominable monsters from the depths of the sea!
COVER REVEAL!
Eva, the death-marked foster daughter of a memory-stealing tyrant, joins a pirate crew to expose her father’s deeds and peacefully bring down the regime threatening women like her. But some change only comes at knifepoint.
Pre-order SKULLRUNNER now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSC7MMN8
Eva, the death-marked foster daughter of a memory-stealing tyrant, joins a pirate crew to expose her father’s deeds and peacefully bring down the regime threatening women like her. But some change only comes at knifepoint.
Pre-order SKULLRUNNER now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSC7MMN8
January 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Just finished Skullrunner and, you guys, it's so good.
It's great epic fantasy in its own right, but I esp love how wonderfully, unapologetically queer it is. Not just "here's some queer characters" but deeply exploring queerness in a world of weird magic.
Also, pirates.
What's not to like?
It's great epic fantasy in its own right, but I esp love how wonderfully, unapologetically queer it is. Not just "here's some queer characters" but deeply exploring queerness in a world of weird magic.
Also, pirates.
What's not to like?
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The Uncanny Magazine Patreon has been going in the wrong direction recently. Now is a great time to become a Patron! Help me pay the creators and staff! Get the second part of an issue a month before the Internet! :D
Join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps! There are many ways to SUPPORT UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Or just spreading the word! buff.ly/nnVhujL
January 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
The Uncanny Magazine Patreon has been going in the wrong direction recently. Now is a great time to become a Patron! Help me pay the creators and staff! Get the second part of an issue a month before the Internet! :D
Oh no
December 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Oh no
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ARC signups are open through 12/31 for THE CHAMOS PROJECT! Sign up if you like sad gays in space! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... #WritingCommunity #SFF #indieauthor
December 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
ARC signups are open through 12/31 for THE CHAMOS PROJECT! Sign up if you like sad gays in space! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... #WritingCommunity #SFF #indieauthor
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my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
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I got to read an early version of this and let me tell you all of you who read this are in for a treat (pun intended).
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I got to read an early version of this and let me tell you all of you who read this are in for a treat (pun intended).
So excited to reveal the cover for Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry!
It's a cozy fantasy full of delicious food, magic, found family, and sweet romance (with two queer middle-aged MCs!)
Oh, and tea. Lots of tea.
First in a brand new series! I can’t WAIT to share it with you #sff #booksky
It's a cozy fantasy full of delicious food, magic, found family, and sweet romance (with two queer middle-aged MCs!)
Oh, and tea. Lots of tea.
First in a brand new series! I can’t WAIT to share it with you #sff #booksky
December 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I'm coming up on 48h awake so I don't have the energy to alt-text the un-alt-texted image, but: bog standard rights grant clause, has all the limiters I look for, you cannot run a website without a rights grant clause, zero reason for panic
And now Linktree is wanting to copy and exploit our content. 🙄
Obviously they can’t own the stuff on the websites you link to, but the new T&Cs mean that any content - embedded videos, photos, music, etc. - that you have on your Linktree profile, they can copy and sell on without paying you.
Obviously they can’t own the stuff on the websites you link to, but the new T&Cs mean that any content - embedded videos, photos, music, etc. - that you have on your Linktree profile, they can copy and sell on without paying you.
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I'm coming up on 48h awake so I don't have the energy to alt-text the un-alt-texted image, but: bog standard rights grant clause, has all the limiters I look for, you cannot run a website without a rights grant clause, zero reason for panic
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People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon
ARCs are coming!!! Want to blurb or review my portal fantasy adventure meets anticolonialist ecological sci-fi, aka Narnia in space? Let me or Kevin know and we'll hook you up!
Today our feathers are floofed because we have copy edits back from @jomiles.bsky.social for THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH and we get to prepare the ARCs! Hey: Any reviewers want a look? Any author peeps want to blurb it? It’s SO DANG GOOD
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
ARCs are coming!!! Want to blurb or review my portal fantasy adventure meets anticolonialist ecological sci-fi, aka Narnia in space? Let me or Kevin know and we'll hook you up!
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December 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Happy Small Business Saturday! It's a great day to support your favorite authors -- especially via your local bookstore, Bookshop.org (which supports local bookstores!), or a smaller ebook retailer like Smashwords.
(Mine are on all the stores: www.jomiles.com/books/)
Books make great gifts too! 📚🎁
(Mine are on all the stores: www.jomiles.com/books/)
Books make great gifts too! 📚🎁
Books – Jo Miles
www.jomiles.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Happy Small Business Saturday! It's a great day to support your favorite authors -- especially via your local bookstore, Bookshop.org (which supports local bookstores!), or a smaller ebook retailer like Smashwords.
(Mine are on all the stores: www.jomiles.com/books/)
Books make great gifts too! 📚🎁
(Mine are on all the stores: www.jomiles.com/books/)
Books make great gifts too! 📚🎁
Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?
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Can confirm that InkFoundry is really neat. Possibly even neat-o!
Big shout out to Erin Cairns
@erincairns.bsky.social . If you love short stories (or don't yet know you love short stories) you should check out her Ink Foundry, a tagged search site for short fiction! It is really neat!
inkfoundry.net
@erincairns.bsky.social . If you love short stories (or don't yet know you love short stories) you should check out her Ink Foundry, a tagged search site for short fiction! It is really neat!
inkfoundry.net
inkfoundry.net
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Can confirm that InkFoundry is really neat. Possibly even neat-o!
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Today is my birthday, which you know I always use as an excuse to spoil you! November 14th, everything online is 14% off, no code needed! Just skedaddle on over to the site and get shopping!
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Today is my birthday, which you know I always use as an excuse to spoil you! November 14th, everything online is 14% off, no code needed! Just skedaddle on over to the site and get shopping!
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Ah, it's that time again...
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Ah, it's that time again...
Things are haaaaaappenning!
Seeing art come together is my favorite part, up there with actually holding a book in my hands.
Seeing art come together is my favorite part, up there with actually holding a book in my hands.
We’re just cooking along here, silently* despising fascists and hoping you’re hanging in there.
BUT ALSO we saw some initial cover artwork for THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH by @jomiles.bsky.social and it really floofed our feathers.
*we do shout at news articles a lot so maybe not so silent
BUT ALSO we saw some initial cover artwork for THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH by @jomiles.bsky.social and it really floofed our feathers.
*we do shout at news articles a lot so maybe not so silent
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Things are haaaaaappenning!
Seeing art come together is my favorite part, up there with actually holding a book in my hands.
Seeing art come together is my favorite part, up there with actually holding a book in my hands.
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Our Kickstarter ends in just 24 HOURS! This is your LAST CHANCE to shop our catalogue of new ebooks, author critiques, and exclusive merch before it's gone for good. Check the 🧵 to see our full selection!
Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Our Kickstarter ends in just 24 HOURS! This is your LAST CHANCE to shop our catalogue of new ebooks, author critiques, and exclusive merch before it's gone for good. Check the 🧵 to see our full selection!
Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Audiobook lovers! All three Brennex books are now out in audio, narrated by the excellent Adi Cabral. Available everywhere!
Get your anti-capitalist space opera fix:
Warped State: books2read.com/u/3Jeere
Dissonant State: books2read.com/u/3nBwR8
Ravenous State: books2read.com/u/3RPqAx
Get your anti-capitalist space opera fix:
Warped State: books2read.com/u/3Jeere
Dissonant State: books2read.com/u/3nBwR8
Ravenous State: books2read.com/u/3RPqAx
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Audiobook lovers! All three Brennex books are now out in audio, narrated by the excellent Adi Cabral. Available everywhere!
Get your anti-capitalist space opera fix:
Warped State: books2read.com/u/3Jeere
Dissonant State: books2read.com/u/3nBwR8
Ravenous State: books2read.com/u/3RPqAx
Get your anti-capitalist space opera fix:
Warped State: books2read.com/u/3Jeere
Dissonant State: books2read.com/u/3nBwR8
Ravenous State: books2read.com/u/3RPqAx
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"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge."
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge."
I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, so... that's gross. Instructions on how to cancel your Spotify subscription: app.sosha.ai/s/kvYKdhBX #DontStreamFascism
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
app.sosha.ai
October 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, so... that's gross. Instructions on how to cancel your Spotify subscription: app.sosha.ai/s/kvYKdhBX #DontStreamFascism