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Erin K. Wagner
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Professor (and wary medievalist) by day | Author by night

Mechanize My Hands to War forthcoming from DAW; short fiction in Clarkesworld, Apex, Bourbon Penn…

Website: erinkwagner.com
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Erin K. Wagner @erinkwagner.bsky.social · Jan 9
Getting my author newsletter up and running if you care to subscribe and hear about what I’m doing or talk writing tips or gush over robots….

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It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Check out this week’s #FreeFictionFriday, “The Middle” by author @erinkwagner.bsky.social , in which a Michelin-starred restaurant installs a robotic sous-chef, and the human staff walk out. Nate, the head chef, is the only one who remains to oversee the transition.

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August 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"Writing is a matter of doing it—again and again and again. It’s not always brilliant and innate talent."

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Success Story with Erin K Wagner - author of MECHANIZE MY HANDS TO WAR
June 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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METS & the medieval scholarly community face possibility of an unthinkable loss
This April, thousands of organizations received word that their federal grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) were abruptly terminated as part of a broader effort to reduce feder...
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May 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Chief Miles Edward O'Brien, who could strangle you with a cordless phone if he wanted to, is pictured. Chief O'Brien, who can kill 2 stones with 1 bird, is facing the camera and winking. O'Brien, who can dribble a bowling ball, is on DS9 station and wearing his classic gold uniform, and has the energy of a man who is walking away from an explosion without looking backwards at it. Closed caption reads, "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."
May 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I hope that by stealing from my books about androids and AI, LLMs face an internal contradiction that leads to deconstruction. This is what sci-fi has taught me.
March 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Banning bookes ys terrible. But cutting entyre fieldes of researche by defunding universityes and closing departments doth also destroye knowledge & freedom. Universityes are the source of bookes on specialized topics. Yf you fighte booke bans, plese consider following news about universitye cuts.
March 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Writing about the locked room mystery of Richard Hunne’s murder in 16th century England in my February newsletter.

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February 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸
February 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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I made biscuits today. And they actually rose; they had flaky layers. Usually, they’re like hockey pucks.

Such a small thing. But a thing today that did not make me mad.
February 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Getting my author newsletter up and running if you care to subscribe and hear about what I’m doing or talk writing tips or gush over robots….

Link at my website: www.erinkwagner.com
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January 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Maybe not the best sign when you start rooting for the villains of Christmas movies….
December 22, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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Join me tonight on YouTube (www.youtube.com/live/GWNdP3q...) or Streamyard (streamyard.com/watch/DgwAPK...)
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December 17, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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Self-promotion runs counterintuitive to how I often work—but, darn it, I’ve got a book coming out in 4 days (or 3, depending on your countdown method…). Join me at the launch!
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Register to join us for a virtual launch party on Streamyard. There’ll be swag!

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December 14, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Register to join us for a virtual launch party on Streamyard. There’ll be swag!

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December 8, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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The best part of baking for the holiday potluck is the few cookies left that you can bring back home….
December 10, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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Register to join us for a virtual launch party on Streamyard. There’ll be swag!

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December 8, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Me: watching the best of year lists come out
My book: biding its time until Dec. 17
December 7, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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If you see this, post a knight.
December 7, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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Authors include @natania.bsky.social, @cupiscent.bsky.social, @greatdismal.bsky.social, @gabriellekorn.bsky.social, @lhmoore.bsky.social, @bethrevis.bsky.social, @alexsegura.bsky.social, @alisonstine.bsky.social, @erinkwagner.bsky.social, @alexwhite.bsky.social, and more!
14 new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out December 2024
A big stack to close out the year with
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December 6, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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The December Clarkesworld aka @clarkesworldmagazine.com includes my interviews with:

author Erin K. Wagner @erinkwagner.bsky.social

artist/illustrator Donato Giancola!

Recent interviews include Nalo Hopkinson & Eliane Boey, RSA Garcia & Indrapramit Das, and more!❤️‍🔥

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cover for Clarkesworld issue 219 with horse/dinosaur like creatures romping across a desert to a pond cover for novel Mechanize My Hands to War, with a cyborg face somewhat obscured by darkness painting of a woman in front of a massive, ornate wooden door - painting by Donato Giancola - "The Doors of Obernewtyn" (1999)
December 5, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society…We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.”

Copyright © 2014 Ursula K. Le Guin
December 5, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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According to @zutsuit.bsky.social, these are the sci-fi and fantasy books you should look out for in December, including work by Alex Segura, Julia Armfield, Alison Stine, and more.
Musical Mechas and the Dystopian Dust Bowl: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
I don’t always highlight SFF sequels in these monthly lists, but I’m trying to be better about doing so, because so many book series suffer in sales if readers are waiting until they’re complete to…
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December 2, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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I can write a novel (sometimes) but when faced with the blank screen of a new social media post…Anyways, hello Bluesky! I followed the trend.
December 3, 2024 at 2:32 AM