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okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
January 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
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Announcing my new chrome extension, in the millennials/snake-people tradition, to fix one of the major aesthetic liabilities on the internet right now: "I asked ChatGPT" phrases in posts and headlines. Join me and free yourself by installing My Stupid Friend chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-st...
January 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Announcing my new chrome extension, in the millennials/snake-people tradition, to fix one of the major aesthetic liabilities on the internet right now: "I asked ChatGPT" phrases in posts and headlines. Join me and free yourself by installing My Stupid Friend chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-st...
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Presenting: THE (TOTALLY DEFINITIVE) BEST FANTASY & SCI-FI BOOKS OF 2024!
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https://buff.ly/3BWwbwd
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https://buff.ly/3BWwbwd
The (Totally Definitive) Best Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books of 2024! - Every Book a Doorway
The totally, absolutely objectively, definitely definitive best SFF of 2024!
everybookadoorway.com
December 26, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Presenting: THE (TOTALLY DEFINITIVE) BEST FANTASY & SCI-FI BOOKS OF 2024!
🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆
https://buff.ly/3BWwbwd
🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆
https://buff.ly/3BWwbwd
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It's December, so here are a collection of end of year digital housekeeping tasks you can do while chilling out for the holidays in order to improve your privacy and security for entering 2024 on a good footing. You don't have to do all of them, but they're stuff to consider!
December 23, 2023 at 6:43 PM
It's December, so here are a collection of end of year digital housekeeping tasks you can do while chilling out for the holidays in order to improve your privacy and security for entering 2024 on a good footing. You don't have to do all of them, but they're stuff to consider!
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I've been dreading this. The company had a big downgrade in quality this year while simultaneously nearly doubting the cost of their databases. Service is intermittent and tech support is barely available.
Excuse me while I run in circles screaming in horror.
Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company
The 200 year-old company may soon go public on the back of AI-powered education products.
gizmodo.com
December 26, 2024 at 4:40 AM
I've been dreading this. The company had a big downgrade in quality this year while simultaneously nearly doubting the cost of their databases. Service is intermittent and tech support is barely available.
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On the blog today, just about in time for the gift-giving season, a look back on the queer books I read in 2024:
Books I Loved;
Books I Enjoyed;
Books I Read That Have Some Good Points;
It Hurt Me, But Maybe You’ll Like It;
Books I Still Want To Read, Damnit
lizbourke.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/8...
Books I Loved;
Books I Enjoyed;
Books I Read That Have Some Good Points;
It Hurt Me, But Maybe You’ll Like It;
Books I Still Want To Read, Damnit
lizbourke.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/8...
84. Mostly Starring Women: Queer SFF Books of 2024
At least, the queer books published this year that I read and remember reading. You may need to jog my memory. This piece’s working title was “Queer Books I Read in 2024.” Before I realised that, a…
lizbourke.wordpress.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:55 PM
On the blog today, just about in time for the gift-giving season, a look back on the queer books I read in 2024:
Books I Loved;
Books I Enjoyed;
Books I Read That Have Some Good Points;
It Hurt Me, But Maybe You’ll Like It;
Books I Still Want To Read, Damnit
lizbourke.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/8...
Books I Loved;
Books I Enjoyed;
Books I Read That Have Some Good Points;
It Hurt Me, But Maybe You’ll Like It;
Books I Still Want To Read, Damnit
lizbourke.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/8...
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I really loved this. It applies even if you're not a writer; coming back to a publishing house after freelancing when my kids were younger, it's a totally different game. I have to push hard to be seen and heard, so that's what I'm doing.
If you read one thing today, make it this: briankeene.substack.com/p/letters-fr...
December 15, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I really loved this. It applies even if you're not a writer; coming back to a publishing house after freelancing when my kids were younger, it's a totally different game. I have to push hard to be seen and heard, so that's what I'm doing.
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More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it:
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Man burnout can mess you up for a very long time.
And it can sneak up on you: things can seem stressful but mostly manageable until suddenly they're not manageable.
Self care and vacation are great, but they're guardrails: they don't help when you've already fallen in.
And it can sneak up on you: things can seem stressful but mostly manageable until suddenly they're not manageable.
Self care and vacation are great, but they're guardrails: they don't help when you've already fallen in.
December 13, 2024 at 2:14 PM
More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it:
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
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If you're a Spotify user who is finding the microgenre & geodata of your annual "Wrapped" to be less substantial than usual, there's a reason why.
A year ago, Spotify laid off most of its employees who worked on genre classification, including folks like data alchemist @glennmcdonald.bsky.social.
A year ago, Spotify laid off most of its employees who worked on genre classification, including folks like data alchemist @glennmcdonald.bsky.social.
December 4, 2024 at 3:05 PM
If you're a Spotify user who is finding the microgenre & geodata of your annual "Wrapped" to be less substantial than usual, there's a reason why.
A year ago, Spotify laid off most of its employees who worked on genre classification, including folks like data alchemist @glennmcdonald.bsky.social.
A year ago, Spotify laid off most of its employees who worked on genre classification, including folks like data alchemist @glennmcdonald.bsky.social.
I have this in paperback.
AMAZONS (1979)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 24" x 17"
When doing a cover for an anthology, I usually just had to come up with an image that communicated the underlying theme tying the stories together, and then run with it. 1/4
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 24" x 17"
When doing a cover for an anthology, I usually just had to come up with an image that communicated the underlying theme tying the stories together, and then run with it. 1/4
December 5, 2024 at 3:25 PM
I have this in paperback.
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Out today, my 1st anthology, DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (@mitpress.bsky.social). 10 writers imagine how art forms (and artists) might evolve, devolve, and transform across spacetime near and far, amid the myriad threats to all things creative. (link in 🧵)
October 8, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Out today, my 1st anthology, DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (@mitpress.bsky.social). 10 writers imagine how art forms (and artists) might evolve, devolve, and transform across spacetime near and far, amid the myriad threats to all things creative. (link in 🧵)
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JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i'm VERY concerned about the olympicssss
Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that's nice
Stephen King: i didn't know you followed the olympics!
Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Barker: so you didn't find a new interest
Rowling: i'm VERY concerned about the olympicssss
Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that's nice
Stephen King: i didn't know you followed the olympics!
Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Barker: so you didn't find a new interest
August 2, 2024 at 4:05 PM
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i'm VERY concerned about the olympicssss
Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that's nice
Stephen King: i didn't know you followed the olympics!
Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Barker: so you didn't find a new interest
Rowling: i'm VERY concerned about the olympicssss
Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that's nice
Stephen King: i didn't know you followed the olympics!
Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Barker: so you didn't find a new interest
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Just slipping in before the end of LGBTQ+ History Month with NEWS, HUGE NEWS, news I have been sitting on since May last year -- which is that I HAVE 3 ADULT FANTASY BOOKS COMING and they're weird and queer and medieval!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/golla...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/golla...
Gollancz snaps up three-book deal from Finn Longman in six-figure pre-empt
Gollancz has snapped up The Wolf and His King, a "luscious" queer medieval retelling, as part of a six-figure pre-empt for three books from medievalist Finn Longman.
www.thebookseller.com
February 29, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Just slipping in before the end of LGBTQ+ History Month with NEWS, HUGE NEWS, news I have been sitting on since May last year -- which is that I HAVE 3 ADULT FANTASY BOOKS COMING and they're weird and queer and medieval!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/golla...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/golla...
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Also hello, all artists and writers! Please share widely -- we would love to get a variety of both of you!
Do you like SIENSE? Do you like CREATIVITY? Are you not too horrified at the idea of working with a huge bug? (This is paid!)
Do you like SIENSE? Do you like CREATIVITY? Are you not too horrified at the idea of working with a huge bug? (This is paid!)
February 19, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Also hello, all artists and writers! Please share widely -- we would love to get a variety of both of you!
Do you like SIENSE? Do you like CREATIVITY? Are you not too horrified at the idea of working with a huge bug? (This is paid!)
Do you like SIENSE? Do you like CREATIVITY? Are you not too horrified at the idea of working with a huge bug? (This is paid!)
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Vile.
BREAKING: US vetoes Arab-backed resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
13 in favor, 1 against (US), 1 abstention (UK)
13 in favor, 1 against (US), 1 abstention (UK)
February 20, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Vile.
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Thing I've not seen being discussed much - Tor have another book with an AI cover. And it's... pretty obvious it's an AI one. The book in question is Gothikana by RuNyx, and as soon as you start zooming in... well.
Great tiktok here walking through the details: vm.tiktok.com/ZGeBhuHjy/
Great tiktok here walking through the details: vm.tiktok.com/ZGeBhuHjy/
February 9, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Thing I've not seen being discussed much - Tor have another book with an AI cover. And it's... pretty obvious it's an AI one. The book in question is Gothikana by RuNyx, and as soon as you start zooming in... well.
Great tiktok here walking through the details: vm.tiktok.com/ZGeBhuHjy/
Great tiktok here walking through the details: vm.tiktok.com/ZGeBhuHjy/
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This article is a great read and has also triggered my monthly existential angst & stare at ceiling session re: my unsold contemporary romance novels and the market-narrowing fact that I flatly refuse to set them in the US or the UK.
"I kept receiving the same feedback: that the novel was good, but it was such a shame that I had written it in a way that was so specific to New Zealand because I would never be able to sell it overseas."
To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World
Ten years ago now, when I was teaching English in a German high school, I was checking an eighth grade student’s work and underlined an error. The assignment was to write a profile introducing your…
lithub.com
February 9, 2024 at 2:25 AM
This article is a great read and has also triggered my monthly existential angst & stare at ceiling session re: my unsold contemporary romance novels and the market-narrowing fact that I flatly refuse to set them in the US or the UK.
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The accepted wisdom is that Hugo Gernsback invented sf fandom in the Science Fiction League & in the pages of AMAZING STORIES, and that (per Wikipedia) “a wide variety of Western modern organized fannish subcultures originated with science fiction fandom.”
LIES! ALL LIES!
1/
LIES! ALL LIES!
1/
December 21, 2023 at 4:46 PM
The accepted wisdom is that Hugo Gernsback invented sf fandom in the Science Fiction League & in the pages of AMAZING STORIES, and that (per Wikipedia) “a wide variety of Western modern organized fannish subcultures originated with science fiction fandom.”
LIES! ALL LIES!
1/
LIES! ALL LIES!
1/
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I carefully maintain a list of the funniest images I've ever seen on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Macaulay Library, and today I gift them to you
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608452...
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608452...
ML608452541 Green Heron Macaulay Library
Macaulay Library ML608452541; © Arthur Mercado; Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
macaulaylibrary.org
October 3, 2023 at 4:33 PM
I carefully maintain a list of the funniest images I've ever seen on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Macaulay Library, and today I gift them to you
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608452...
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608452...
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Hee hee hee... cover reveal tomorrow! (And again thank you @megelison.bsky.social for the lovely blurb!)
May 31, 2023 at 8:14 PM
Hee hee hee... cover reveal tomorrow! (And again thank you @megelison.bsky.social for the lovely blurb!)
A serendipitous moment with the blue undercut a few years ago
May 25, 2023 at 1:49 AM
A serendipitous moment with the blue undercut a few years ago
I am a person, I promise. I just haven’t decided which bits of me I want to put here yet. Hi!
May 25, 2023 at 1:42 AM
I am a person, I promise. I just haven’t decided which bits of me I want to put here yet. Hi!