Jo Miles
LightNews LightNews
banner
jomiles.bsky.social
Jo Miles
@jomiles.bsky.social
1.6K followers 300 following 420 posts
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/
Posts Replies Media Videos
jomiles.bsky.social
Two special guests here at Frightreads. I would accept a ride in exactly one of these.
Na na nana nana... Ghost busters! The car. Jurassic Park van. "Don't move! Their visual acuity is based on movement"
September 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
If you're at Frightreads, come say hi! I've got my own new thing in trying: little hand-bound books of my short stories! Aren't they cute?
An assortment of colorful mini books My table, full of books and short stories
September 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
A park near me is doing a special butterfly exhibit, and we finally made it there. Pure magic to have these fragile beauties flying circles around you without a care.

Nature is the best balm I've found against current events.
None of these vivid blue butterflies would hold still even a second, how rude. This was the best shot I got of one This beauty with vivid green stripes on its black wings is called an emerald swallowtail
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
jomiles.bsky.social
Where to find me at #Worldcon today:

Autographing at 3pm

Come say hi, and I'll sign a spaceship for you!
Clusters of colorful origami spaceships
August 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
Folding these lil spaceships to give out at my #Worldcon autographing session, with some expert help from my aunt.

Stop by Friday at 3pm and say hi!
Colorful origami versions of Sunny, the sentient ship from my Brennex books
August 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
jomiles.bsky.social
I made a thing!

If you love Warped State, find me at Worldcon (or any con) and ask to join the Cooperative. I'll give you an official membership card!
Membership card reading: the Cooperative. Fighting corporate greed through the galaxy
August 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
I've been writing nonbinary characters since way before I realized I was nonbinary. (Who could've guessed??)

Two of my favorites are in this series:

Ship, a sentient spaceship who's a POV from Book 1 onward and isn't sure about pronouns, doesn't think they deserve a name until book 2...

(1/?)
Covers for Warped State, Dissonant State, and Ravenous State. Silhouettes with a spaceship in the foreground
July 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
This Langston Hughes poem is the vibe I need for today: poets.org/poem/let-ame...
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.”)
July 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
#Balticon folks! I'm signing books in the 5th for lobby, and I've got books for sale and cookies from Vaccaro's (Bmore's best Italian bakery)!

Come say hi! Don't make me take these all home
May 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
Ebook sale! Queer anti-capitalist resistance (in space!) to give you hope in our current fascist technocratic dystopia. #booksky 🌈📚 #sff
books2read.com/u/3Jeere
$1.99 ebook sale - Activists in space - sentient spaceship with anxiety issues - labor organizing - hijinks galore - M/M interspecies relationship -hopeful and defiant - evil corporation being evil
May 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
Today's mood

(from my novel Warped State: www.jomiles.com/books/warped...) #booksky #sff
“I don’t want it shelved. I want it torched, and the ashes scattered across space!” It came out more angrily than Jasper meant to. His turn for an outburst, apparently. “I don’t want some platinum-hearted executive to decide it’s worth the risk.”
May 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
Oh no it happened AGAIN
Same fluffball, different chair, still lacking a skeletal system
April 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
jomiles.bsky.social
Help please, my cat is broken
A fluffy gray and white cat twisted at angles that defy the laws of physics
April 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
DC is here! Amazing crowd #handsOff
April 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
It's also the day for my favorite meme!

If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"
March 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
By "personal liberties" I'm sure they mean things like freedom to protest, freedom to not get fired from your government job by random techbros, and freedom to use the pronouns and gender presentation that fit you best. Right? Right?????
Screenshot from Washington Post: “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” the billionaire Amazon founder wrote in an email to Post staffers that he also published on X. “We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
Got a surprise package in the mail. Spicy "Resist!" blend packets to share with my DC area neighbors.

I love Penzey's so damn much.
Colorful box saying "resist! Keep America alive" with a message about resisting corruption and sharing tasty food Open box full of spice samples, "love your local and federal government workers"
January 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
Psst! Like heists, sentient spaceships, and rich corporate assholes getting what they deserve?

WARPED STATE, book 1 of my Gifted of Brennex trilogy, is on sale right now for $0.99:
www.jomiles.com/books/warped...
#sff #queeradultsff
🌈📚
ebook of Warped State by Jo Miles, cover featuring a spaceship and male silhouette above an industrial planet
December 19, 2024 at 8:10 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
And I can't not mention my own Warped State, for good guys taking down evil bazillionaires.

www.jomiles.com/books/warped...
October 30, 2024 at 7:53 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
quote with one thing you've written that everyone should read 👀📚

My space opera Warped State is like Star Trek meets Leverage but way more gay:
www.jomiles.com/books/warped...
October 29, 2024 at 11:24 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
Oh, my heart
Orange cat snoozing on back of couch in a Sunbeam, paws stretched out
October 23, 2024 at 5:50 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
I'm ALSO at the newly revived Baltimore Book Festival on Sunday!

I'm on a panel on "What Hope in SFF Means for Our Collective Survival" at 1pm, and I'm signing books right afterward at 2pm.

Will I see you there?
Baltimore Book Festival: Sept 29 at 1pm, Peabody Heights Brewery
September 26, 2024 at 4:41 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
So to celebrate, all three books are on sale! 🌈📚 If you like sentient spaceships, queer found family, and upbeat space opera, I hope you'll check them out:

Warped State ($0.99): books2read.com/u/3Jeere
Dissonant State ($2.99): books2read.com/u/3nBwR8
Ravenous State ($2.99): books2read.com/u/3RPqAx
It's an anniversary sale
September 12, 2024 at 2:28 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
Warped State came out one year ago today! Honestly it feels like way longer than that -- what a year it's been on every front: writing life, personal life, and the world.

The whole trilogy is out now, and I couldn't be prouder of these three books, these three siblings and their found family.
Warped State, Dissonant State, and Ravenous State books lined up on a shelf
September 12, 2024 at 2:20 PM
jomiles.bsky.social
How am I supposed to get anything done, I ask you? Anything at all??
An orange cat snoozing on the couch, with a gray cat asleep on top of the couch's back
September 11, 2024 at 6:15 PM