Ada Hoffmann
@ada-hoffmann.bsky.social
Spec fic writer, poet, autist. They/them. Philip K. Dick Award finalist, Rhysling & Elgin nominee, & author of the OUTSIDE series. Canadian.
More about me and my books at http://ada-hoffmann.com/
More about me and my books at http://ada-hoffmann.com/
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Ignore All Previous Instructions - Tachyon Publications
A script supervisor for an AI media conglomerate is caught between her intense need for an orderly life and her deeper, darker queer desires. From the creator of the Outside trilogy, a heartfelt inter...
tachyonpublications.com
Okay, so since I bungled this part of the announcement yesterday, here's a proper announcement: Pre-orders for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS are OPEN!!
And if you're in the US, then the best place to get them is direct from the publisher: tachyonpublications.com/product/igno...
#IgnoreThisBook
And if you're in the US, then the best place to get them is direct from the publisher: tachyonpublications.com/product/igno...
#IgnoreThisBook
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I heard about MRM’s terrible contract and I have heard that individuals have negotiated a more reasonable contract. But MRM didn’t change their boilerplate.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I heard about MRM’s terrible contract and I have heard that individuals have negotiated a more reasonable contract. But MRM didn’t change their boilerplate.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
Okay, so since I bungled this part of the announcement yesterday, here's a proper announcement: Pre-orders for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS are OPEN!!
And if you're in the US, then the best place to get them is direct from the publisher: tachyonpublications.com/product/igno...
#IgnoreThisBook
And if you're in the US, then the best place to get them is direct from the publisher: tachyonpublications.com/product/igno...
#IgnoreThisBook
Ignore All Previous Instructions - Tachyon Publications
A script supervisor for an AI media conglomerate is caught between her intense need for an orderly life and her deeper, darker queer desires. From the creator of the Outside trilogy, a heartfelt inter...
tachyonpublications.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Okay, so since I bungled this part of the announcement yesterday, here's a proper announcement: Pre-orders for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS are OPEN!!
And if you're in the US, then the best place to get them is direct from the publisher: tachyonpublications.com/product/igno...
#IgnoreThisBook
And if you're in the US, then the best place to get them is direct from the publisher: tachyonpublications.com/product/igno...
#IgnoreThisBook
WAIT I just realized Tachyon's website has an excerpt AND A PRE-ORDER LINK???
YOU CAN PRE-ORDER! PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE!! AAAAAAA
#IgnoreThisBook
YOU CAN PRE-ORDER! PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE!! AAAAAAA
#IgnoreThisBook
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
WAIT I just realized Tachyon's website has an excerpt AND A PRE-ORDER LINK???
YOU CAN PRE-ORDER! PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE!! AAAAAAA
#IgnoreThisBook
YOU CAN PRE-ORDER! PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE!! AAAAAAA
#IgnoreThisBook
BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER
Oh hey, TIL that @reckoningmag.bsky.social is having a special neurodivergent issue: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...
A Chorus, Divergent | Reckoning
“Neurodivergent folks live with differences and difficulties that shouldn’t be dismissed, but likewise, with determination and daring that cannot be disregarded.... We have been doing, all along, the ...
reckoning.press
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Oh hey, TIL that @reckoningmag.bsky.social is having a special neurodivergent issue: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...
guess what's happening monday
cover reveal for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is happening monday
👀
(This cover is SO CUTE, y'all, I can't wait to share!)
#IgnoreThisBook
cover reveal for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is happening monday
👀
(This cover is SO CUTE, y'all, I can't wait to share!)
#IgnoreThisBook
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
guess what's happening monday
cover reveal for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is happening monday
👀
(This cover is SO CUTE, y'all, I can't wait to share!)
#IgnoreThisBook
cover reveal for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is happening monday
👀
(This cover is SO CUTE, y'all, I can't wait to share!)
#IgnoreThisBook
Hoffmann, 37, lives in a space station in the heart of the Virgo Supercluster where robots crawl in their kitchen and "The Saint of Bright Doors" and Jung's "Man And His Symbols" - two books they were reading while teaching critical AI literacy to undergrads - sit under their sparkly viewport.
Pratt, 48, lives in a lost city in the heart of Antarctica where shoggoths crawl into her kitchen and the Book of Azathoth and and "De Vermis Mysteriis" — two books she was reading while she was writing “Arkham Canto" — sit on her dining room table.
The credulity.
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Hoffmann, 37, lives in a space station in the heart of the Virgo Supercluster where robots crawl in their kitchen and "The Saint of Bright Doors" and Jung's "Man And His Symbols" - two books they were reading while teaching critical AI literacy to undergrads - sit under their sparkly viewport.
Reposted by Ada Hoffmann
Employers are always handwringing about autism accommodations in the workplace and I gotta tell you: ear defenders and quiet workstations are the least of your problems. What autistic people really need is *whispers* for other people to do their actual jobs.
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Employers are always handwringing about autism accommodations in the workplace and I gotta tell you: ear defenders and quiet workstations are the least of your problems. What autistic people really need is *whispers* for other people to do their actual jobs.
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
"The day that Kelli Reynolds got drawn into her ex’s life of crime had started out as a good day."
#IgnoreThisBook
"The day that Kelli Reynolds got drawn into her ex’s life of crime had started out as a good day."
#IgnoreThisBook
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
OK sure, it's a novella, but perhaps you would like to see the opening for THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER? bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
OK sure, it's a novella, but perhaps you would like to see the opening for THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER? bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
"The day that Kelli Reynolds got drawn into her ex’s life of crime had started out as a good day."
#IgnoreThisBook
"The day that Kelli Reynolds got drawn into her ex’s life of crime had started out as a good day."
#IgnoreThisBook
Reposted by Ada Hoffmann
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 5:40 PM
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.
Told my students that I didn't wear a costume today, because professors are already terrifying. 🧙
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Told my students that I didn't wear a costume today, because professors are already terrifying. 🧙
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🔖 I finished @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social’s “The Outside” today, which was a fabulous read from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social.
So much so that I’ll be progressing into book two in November 🤗
There’s some great rep. that’s really involving. Also, Akavi’s a massive knob!
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
So much so that I’ll be progressing into book two in November 🤗
There’s some great rep. that’s really involving. Also, Akavi’s a massive knob!
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🔖 I finished @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social’s “The Outside” today, which was a fabulous read from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social.
So much so that I’ll be progressing into book two in November 🤗
There’s some great rep. that’s really involving. Also, Akavi’s a massive knob!
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
So much so that I’ll be progressing into book two in November 🤗
There’s some great rep. that’s really involving. Also, Akavi’s a massive knob!
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
It's Lucifur. This semester has been a lot...
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It's Lucifur. This semester has been a lot...
Reposted by Ada Hoffmann
No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
Have you ever noticed that you can tell where the midpoint is in a lot of books because it's where the main character literally gets knocked out for a bit so that the narrative can pause
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Have you ever noticed that you can tell where the midpoint is in a lot of books because it's where the main character literally gets knocked out for a bit so that the narrative can pause
I often have one character who cusses and another character who gently chides them for cussing :P
October 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I often have one character who cusses and another character who gently chides them for cussing :P
Thread, up and down.
I don't know how many times in my life someone has become ready to talk openly or think about who they are because they saw me being open about it first. And that's mostly when I wasn't especially trying.
Imagine what can happen if you try.
I don't know how many times in my life someone has become ready to talk openly or think about who they are because they saw me being open about it first. And that's mostly when I wasn't especially trying.
Imagine what can happen if you try.
If you talk instead to the people in the crowd who are hiding because they think they're alone, and you tell them you know they're there and they're not alone, you get instant energy. You can build a group that is big enough to shift the norms in the larger population. Bottom-up change.
October 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thread, up and down.
I don't know how many times in my life someone has become ready to talk openly or think about who they are because they saw me being open about it first. And that's mostly when I wasn't especially trying.
Imagine what can happen if you try.
I don't know how many times in my life someone has become ready to talk openly or think about who they are because they saw me being open about it first. And that's mostly when I wasn't especially trying.
Imagine what can happen if you try.
One of the items I bought from the Ottawa Cat Rescue booth last week was the Considerate Cat Tarot, Volume II - and now that I've got a moment to breathe, I'm getting to know the deck.
Reply with a question and I will tell your fortune with kitties*
(*for entertainment purposes only)
Reply with a question and I will tell your fortune with kitties*
(*for entertainment purposes only)
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
One of the items I bought from the Ottawa Cat Rescue booth last week was the Considerate Cat Tarot, Volume II - and now that I've got a moment to breathe, I'm getting to know the deck.
Reply with a question and I will tell your fortune with kitties*
(*for entertainment purposes only)
Reply with a question and I will tell your fortune with kitties*
(*for entertainment purposes only)
The news story about Rowan would be a crime story - local shady trans man gets busted for smuggling or for a heist he was trying to do.
The news story about Kelli would be, "Beloved television writer turns out to be secretly Problembatic"
#IgnoreThisBook
The news story about Kelli would be, "Beloved television writer turns out to be secretly Problembatic"
#IgnoreThisBook
Writers and TTRPG Players, today's character question!
If your character were suddenly in the news tomorrow, what do you think the story would be about?
#ttrpg #authors #gamemasters #characterinsporation #characterdevelopment #characterquestion #writingcommunity #writersky #writingprompt
If your character were suddenly in the news tomorrow, what do you think the story would be about?
#ttrpg #authors #gamemasters #characterinsporation #characterdevelopment #characterquestion #writingcommunity #writersky #writingprompt
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The news story about Rowan would be a crime story - local shady trans man gets busted for smuggling or for a heist he was trying to do.
The news story about Kelli would be, "Beloved television writer turns out to be secretly Problembatic"
#IgnoreThisBook
The news story about Kelli would be, "Beloved television writer turns out to be secretly Problembatic"
#IgnoreThisBook
Might have gone a little overboard in the Can*Con vendors room this year...
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Might have gone a little overboard in the Can*Con vendors room this year...
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📖 I’ve only just started reading “The Outside” by @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social in 🛌 but opening chapter is giving me “Event Horizon”/“Torment Nexus” vibes 😆 Definitely into this.
This was a @theshadesoforange.bsky.social #BookTube rec. nudged up by @kitvaria.bsky.social 👇
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
This was a @theshadesoforange.bsky.social #BookTube rec. nudged up by @kitvaria.bsky.social 👇
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
October 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📖 I’ve only just started reading “The Outside” by @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social in 🛌 but opening chapter is giving me “Event Horizon”/“Torment Nexus” vibes 😆 Definitely into this.
This was a @theshadesoforange.bsky.social #BookTube rec. nudged up by @kitvaria.bsky.social 👇
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
This was a @theshadesoforange.bsky.social #BookTube rec. nudged up by @kitvaria.bsky.social 👇
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
In 50 minutes I am going to go moderate the Can*Con panel "He's Babygirl: Reclaiming the Queercoded Villain" which I think everyone is THE MOST hype for out of everything I have ever done at a convention, ever :D
(I am also hype!!)
(I am also hype!!)
October 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In 50 minutes I am going to go moderate the Can*Con panel "He's Babygirl: Reclaiming the Queercoded Villain" which I think everyone is THE MOST hype for out of everything I have ever done at a convention, ever :D
(I am also hype!!)
(I am also hype!!)
Reposted by Ada Hoffmann
Getting to actually sit in on a panel this morning at @canconsffh.bsky.social, listening to the insightful @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social @suyidavies.com Luke R.J. Maynard and Sienna Tristen talk the intricacies of Slow Fiction.
#CanCon2025
#CanCon2025
October 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Getting to actually sit in on a panel this morning at @canconsffh.bsky.social, listening to the insightful @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social @suyidavies.com Luke R.J. Maynard and Sienna Tristen talk the intricacies of Slow Fiction.
#CanCon2025
#CanCon2025
Reposted by Ada Hoffmann
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
I don't usually repost these things, but Vale is a dear friend, and I'm already on their Patreon at the highest tier.
Last week was awful. There was a death on my birthday, and I found out my SNAP benefits went from $290 to $23
It was a bad time
So, if anyone wants to join the Patreon or Kofi, even for a month, I'd be thrilled.
There's microfiction, and updates, and tarot/oracle readings. Maybe other things too.
It was a bad time
So, if anyone wants to join the Patreon or Kofi, even for a month, I'd be thrilled.
There's microfiction, and updates, and tarot/oracle readings. Maybe other things too.
October 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I don't usually repost these things, but Vale is a dear friend, and I'm already on their Patreon at the highest tier.