Sheila Jenné
@jennelikejennay.bsky.social
Science fiction author & copyeditor. BLACK SAILS TO SUNWARD, THE SEA OF CLOUDS, and BISECTION out now. Support small presses and indie authors. 🚫 AI.
Find my work at https://sheilajenne.com/works
Find my work at https://sheilajenne.com/works
It was a collective trauma the solar system still hasn't recovered from, though it was hundreds of years ago. It's why people don't use electricity in the Imperial Mars universe.
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It was a collective trauma the solar system still hasn't recovered from, though it was hundreds of years ago. It's why people don't use electricity in the Imperial Mars universe.
#sffchat q4
Because it's such a non issue in Imperial Mars, it was hard to see how it would even come up. But I didn't want to be one of those people who was like "oh yeah everyone was secretly queer, I just never mentioned it." So it's mentioned offhand here and there.
Because it's such a non issue in Imperial Mars, it was hard to see how it would even come up. But I didn't want to be one of those people who was like "oh yeah everyone was secretly queer, I just never mentioned it." So it's mentioned offhand here and there.
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#sffchat q4
Because it's such a non issue in Imperial Mars, it was hard to see how it would even come up. But I didn't want to be one of those people who was like "oh yeah everyone was secretly queer, I just never mentioned it." So it's mentioned offhand here and there.
Because it's such a non issue in Imperial Mars, it was hard to see how it would even come up. But I didn't want to be one of those people who was like "oh yeah everyone was secretly queer, I just never mentioned it." So it's mentioned offhand here and there.
#sffchat q1
I have a lot, but Sagan (no first name) is probably my favorite.
They're a valet, allegedly. They're so nondescript they're practically invisible, by design. They have a tiny pistol in their coat pocket. They hate attention, so they use the Prince as a diversion to do some spying.
I have a lot, but Sagan (no first name) is probably my favorite.
They're a valet, allegedly. They're so nondescript they're practically invisible, by design. They have a tiny pistol in their coat pocket. They hate attention, so they use the Prince as a diversion to do some spying.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#sffchat q1
I have a lot, but Sagan (no first name) is probably my favorite.
They're a valet, allegedly. They're so nondescript they're practically invisible, by design. They have a tiny pistol in their coat pocket. They hate attention, so they use the Prince as a diversion to do some spying.
I have a lot, but Sagan (no first name) is probably my favorite.
They're a valet, allegedly. They're so nondescript they're practically invisible, by design. They have a tiny pistol in their coat pocket. They hate attention, so they use the Prince as a diversion to do some spying.
I was reminded that this is a thing people do 😅
Invasive is out December 15th and you can preorder it now!
books2read.com/u/mdJM5R
Invasive is out December 15th and you can preorder it now!
books2read.com/u/mdJM5R
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I was reminded that this is a thing people do 😅
Invasive is out December 15th and you can preorder it now!
books2read.com/u/mdJM5R
Invasive is out December 15th and you can preorder it now!
books2read.com/u/mdJM5R
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
This is from INVASIVE.
This is from INVASIVE.
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
This is from INVASIVE.
This is from INVASIVE.
Have y'all seen the cover for Invasive yet?
I've been quietly uploading it everywhere but this is the official reveal.
This was made by my designer @evensong.bsky.social. She and I worked together to get the Eosian forest looking just as I described it. There are a couple tiny details to find!
I've been quietly uploading it everywhere but this is the official reveal.
This was made by my designer @evensong.bsky.social. She and I worked together to get the Eosian forest looking just as I described it. There are a couple tiny details to find!
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Have y'all seen the cover for Invasive yet?
I've been quietly uploading it everywhere but this is the official reveal.
This was made by my designer @evensong.bsky.social. She and I worked together to get the Eosian forest looking just as I described it. There are a couple tiny details to find!
I've been quietly uploading it everywhere but this is the official reveal.
This was made by my designer @evensong.bsky.social. She and I worked together to get the Eosian forest looking just as I described it. There are a couple tiny details to find!
6. More characters: we get to meet Prince George Konstantin, who sounds intimidating till you realize he's just a well meaning sweetie who blundered into this prince gig. Also Sagan, his mysterious nonbinary valet (aka one of my favorite characters I've ever written).
October 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
6. More characters: we get to meet Prince George Konstantin, who sounds intimidating till you realize he's just a well meaning sweetie who blundered into this prince gig. Also Sagan, his mysterious nonbinary valet (aka one of my favorite characters I've ever written).
For Bisection, this one. I read it as a kid and it was so deeply weird, I wanted to write stuff this weird.
October 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
For Bisection, this one. I read it as a kid and it was so deeply weird, I wanted to write stuff this weird.
AI loves it. I'll see it two, three times in a single post. It can have a period, em dash, or semicolon.
It's often part of its habit of repeating itself.
I don't know whether this was written by AI or not, but I suspect so. Look how every one of the five paragraphs states the exact same thing.
It's often part of its habit of repeating itself.
I don't know whether this was written by AI or not, but I suspect so. Look how every one of the five paragraphs states the exact same thing.
October 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AI loves it. I'll see it two, three times in a single post. It can have a period, em dash, or semicolon.
It's often part of its habit of repeating itself.
I don't know whether this was written by AI or not, but I suspect so. Look how every one of the five paragraphs states the exact same thing.
It's often part of its habit of repeating itself.
I don't know whether this was written by AI or not, but I suspect so. Look how every one of the five paragraphs states the exact same thing.
A friend of mine wrote a book about deconstructing literature she studied and taught when she was Catholic. I'm so excited for it, one of those books that feels like it was custom written for my interests.
October 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A friend of mine wrote a book about deconstructing literature she studied and taught when she was Catholic. I'm so excited for it, one of those books that feels like it was custom written for my interests.
Impossible to be brief and subtle when I have no idea which parts of my experience will hit with you immediately, and which have to be explained.
Sometimes, I know perfectly well you WON'T get my reference and yet I can't bear to take it out because I don't know another way to say it.
Sometimes, I know perfectly well you WON'T get my reference and yet I can't bear to take it out because I don't know another way to say it.
October 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Impossible to be brief and subtle when I have no idea which parts of my experience will hit with you immediately, and which have to be explained.
Sometimes, I know perfectly well you WON'T get my reference and yet I can't bear to take it out because I don't know another way to say it.
Sometimes, I know perfectly well you WON'T get my reference and yet I can't bear to take it out because I don't know another way to say it.
I find autistic writers will heavily reference something niche, like "polar explorers," either not realizing or not caring that most readers know nothing about polar explorers.
October 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I find autistic writers will heavily reference something niche, like "polar explorers," either not realizing or not caring that most readers know nothing about polar explorers.
#SciFiSeptember day 30: LAST DAY!! What's a book or series you've loved with great worldbuilding? Or maybe several, we've got time and I've really been enjoying this month long conversation we've been having 💙
September 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#SciFiSeptember day 30: LAST DAY!! What's a book or series you've loved with great worldbuilding? Or maybe several, we've got time and I've really been enjoying this month long conversation we've been having 💙
#SciFiSeptember day 29: would you go to the world you've made?
September 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#SciFiSeptember day 29: would you go to the world you've made?
#SciFiSeptember day 28
Here's a bit from one of the philosophical dialogues in The Blue Poppy. I don't know if these will make it into the final draft but I just love to write the main couple chatting about what it means to be a person.
Here's a bit from one of the philosophical dialogues in The Blue Poppy. I don't know if these will make it into the final draft but I just love to write the main couple chatting about what it means to be a person.
September 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
#SciFiSeptember day 28
Here's a bit from one of the philosophical dialogues in The Blue Poppy. I don't know if these will make it into the final draft but I just love to write the main couple chatting about what it means to be a person.
Here's a bit from one of the philosophical dialogues in The Blue Poppy. I don't know if these will make it into the final draft but I just love to write the main couple chatting about what it means to be a person.
#SciFiSeptember day 28: a snippet with ARTIFICIAL or something about a robot!
September 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#SciFiSeptember day 28: a snippet with ARTIFICIAL or something about a robot!
#SciFiSeptember day 27: attitude toward robots. Do people love them? Hate them? Think the whole idea is implausible?
September 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#SciFiSeptember day 27: attitude toward robots. Do people love them? Hate them? Think the whole idea is implausible?
Instead they grow as people through experience and the love they receive.
September 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Instead they grow as people through experience and the love they receive.
#SciFiSeptember day 26: can an existing meaning develop intelligence? Or do they have to be made sentient to begin with?
September 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
#SciFiSeptember day 26: can an existing meaning develop intelligence? Or do they have to be made sentient to begin with?
#SciFiSeptember day 25: do robots have rights? What is the legal status of a sentient robot?
September 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#SciFiSeptember day 25: do robots have rights? What is the legal status of a sentient robot?
#SciFiSeptember day 24: AI that isn't in a robot body. Usually TV has androids as much like humans as possible, but if machine intelligence did exist, there's no reason it would correlate with looking human.
Have you got any ship minds or other non-embodied artificial intelligence?
Have you got any ship minds or other non-embodied artificial intelligence?
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#SciFiSeptember day 24: AI that isn't in a robot body. Usually TV has androids as much like humans as possible, but if machine intelligence did exist, there's no reason it would correlate with looking human.
Have you got any ship minds or other non-embodied artificial intelligence?
Have you got any ship minds or other non-embodied artificial intelligence?
Traffic Control spends the first half of the book whining and complaining about how much it sucks to be in a body and not directing traffic. Traffic is the only fun thing in the world for her and she doesn't see the point of living if she can't direct traffic.
September 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Traffic Control spends the first half of the book whining and complaining about how much it sucks to be in a body and not directing traffic. Traffic is the only fun thing in the world for her and she doesn't see the point of living if she can't direct traffic.
#SciFiSeptember day 23: robot characters.
Got any charming robots, computer voices, roombas with personality? Tell us about one!
Got any charming robots, computer voices, roombas with personality? Tell us about one!
September 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#SciFiSeptember day 23: robot characters.
Got any charming robots, computer voices, roombas with personality? Tell us about one!
Got any charming robots, computer voices, roombas with personality? Tell us about one!
#SciFiSeptember day 22: is there REAL artificial intelligence? Not a language model, but a self-aware machine intelligence? How common is it in your universe?
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
#SciFiSeptember day 22: is there REAL artificial intelligence? Not a language model, but a self-aware machine intelligence? How common is it in your universe?