Megan Tayles
@taylesium.bsky.social
Writer and reader--fantasy, sci-fi, horror. Story enthusiast. Occasional engineer. She/her. 🇨🇦
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At the end of each year I publish a community roundup of awards-eligible work for folks to check out! Go add your information so I can put you on the list for 2026.
2026 Community Awards Eligibility Roundup
It's the time of year when I ask folks to share their awards eligibility with me! Send us your information using this form. We'll round up all the eligibility information people chose to share and wil...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
At the end of each year I publish a community roundup of awards-eligible work for folks to check out! Go add your information so I can put you on the list for 2026.
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"I can't afford a cool advent calendar".
Ok well 24 of us got together a few years back and wrote flash fictions for the holidays so you can read a story a day if you want. You have to get it from the authors. I would be happy to send you the ebook if you can dm me your email.
Ok well 24 of us got together a few years back and wrote flash fictions for the holidays so you can read a story a day if you want. You have to get it from the authors. I would be happy to send you the ebook if you can dm me your email.
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"I can't afford a cool advent calendar".
Ok well 24 of us got together a few years back and wrote flash fictions for the holidays so you can read a story a day if you want. You have to get it from the authors. I would be happy to send you the ebook if you can dm me your email.
Ok well 24 of us got together a few years back and wrote flash fictions for the holidays so you can read a story a day if you want. You have to get it from the authors. I would be happy to send you the ebook if you can dm me your email.
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She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.
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Moi: I'm going to recommend a couple of these books to my followers!
Moi:....I CANNOT CHOOSE I ENJOYED SO MANY OF THEM JUST FIND ONE WITH A COVER YOU LIKE AND GO WILD.
Moi:....I CANNOT CHOOSE I ENJOYED SO MANY OF THEM JUST FIND ONE WITH A COVER YOU LIKE AND GO WILD.
📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Moi: I'm going to recommend a couple of these books to my followers!
Moi:....I CANNOT CHOOSE I ENJOYED SO MANY OF THEM JUST FIND ONE WITH A COVER YOU LIKE AND GO WILD.
Moi:....I CANNOT CHOOSE I ENJOYED SO MANY OF THEM JUST FIND ONE WITH A COVER YOU LIKE AND GO WILD.
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Now "browsing" means Netflix compiles your recent watch history and feeds you more of the exact same thing. Or Amazon analyzes your buy history and gives you a list of 15 books with basically the same title. You rarely stumble upon something new or different by chance. It's eroding our curiosity.
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Now "browsing" means Netflix compiles your recent watch history and feeds you more of the exact same thing. Or Amazon analyzes your buy history and gives you a list of 15 books with basically the same title. You rarely stumble upon something new or different by chance. It's eroding our curiosity.
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Tom Stoppard. A seer for our times.
From the end of The Coast of Utopia:
From the end of The Coast of Utopia:
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Tom Stoppard. A seer for our times.
From the end of The Coast of Utopia:
From the end of The Coast of Utopia:
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I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
Good thread.
One new feature is how much this US regime has been antagonising supposed allies. If the US cannot muster the political vigor to throw murderers and megacrooks in jail, is it a place that other countries (like Canada) can deal with seriously?
We have our own problem "elite", but phew.
One new feature is how much this US regime has been antagonising supposed allies. If the US cannot muster the political vigor to throw murderers and megacrooks in jail, is it a place that other countries (like Canada) can deal with seriously?
We have our own problem "elite", but phew.
It's cute, reading all these anguished cries: "when this is all over, these guys need to go to jail!" I remember saying that during Bush I crimes, and during Bush II crimes, and during Trump I crimes.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Good thread.
One new feature is how much this US regime has been antagonising supposed allies. If the US cannot muster the political vigor to throw murderers and megacrooks in jail, is it a place that other countries (like Canada) can deal with seriously?
We have our own problem "elite", but phew.
One new feature is how much this US regime has been antagonising supposed allies. If the US cannot muster the political vigor to throw murderers and megacrooks in jail, is it a place that other countries (like Canada) can deal with seriously?
We have our own problem "elite", but phew.
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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For anyone interested. It's in Norwegian though. Someone saw the solution from his apartment and went outside to solve it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For anyone interested. It's in Norwegian though. Someone saw the solution from his apartment and went outside to solve it.
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Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.
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I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated
do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you!
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2025-2026 Horror Master List Book Submissions
Because I'm out of my mind, I maintain a running list of the year's new horror releases. If you're an author/editor/marketer/publicist/agent who'd like one of your books included, please fill out the ...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated
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Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
The Streisand Effect strikes again
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November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
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In two days! Join me, @valerievaldes.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @gregoryawilson.com as we dive into how Canadian vs American authors are navigating economic and political uncertainty, staying connected across the border, and more.
9 pm EST on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
#Booksky
9 pm EST on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
#Booksky
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In two days! Join me, @valerievaldes.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @gregoryawilson.com as we dive into how Canadian vs American authors are navigating economic and political uncertainty, staying connected across the border, and more.
9 pm EST on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
#Booksky
9 pm EST on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
#Booksky
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Oh, via Instagram Jody A. Lee has listed prints and merchandise (including T-shirts!) with her lovely artwork for sale including many book covers for Mercedes Lackey, Madeleine L'Engle, and a ton of the DAW covers I grew up with! I love her color palettes and Art Deco design details!
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Oh, via Instagram Jody A. Lee has listed prints and merchandise (including T-shirts!) with her lovely artwork for sale including many book covers for Mercedes Lackey, Madeleine L'Engle, and a ton of the DAW covers I grew up with! I love her color palettes and Art Deco design details!
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
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I'm not against the idea that some sort of silicon intelligence *might* arise at some point--we're not even nearly there as far as I can tell--but humans are SO programmed to regard things that do not have human agency as if they do have human agency, that this seems like a necessary move
my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I'm not against the idea that some sort of silicon intelligence *might* arise at some point--we're not even nearly there as far as I can tell--but humans are SO programmed to regard things that do not have human agency as if they do have human agency, that this seems like a necessary move
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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Apple is the one butting its AI head into Scrivener. Here's some more info from Literature & Latte.
A link to the Scrivener article, since the one going around is a screenshot, doesn't have the actual link, AND no alt-text, making it useless.
Please share this.
www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
Please share this.
www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte
www.literatureandlatte.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Apple is the one butting its AI head into Scrivener. Here's some more info from Literature & Latte.
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I am (glacially) working on a game based on the ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY universe and I don't have to talk to Tor about that because I still own my game rights
I can print out tee shirts with the phrase "Space plus bullshit equals death"
(and I will)
I can print out tee shirts with the phrase "Space plus bullshit equals death"
(and I will)
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I am (glacially) working on a game based on the ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY universe and I don't have to talk to Tor about that because I still own my game rights
I can print out tee shirts with the phrase "Space plus bullshit equals death"
(and I will)
I can print out tee shirts with the phrase "Space plus bullshit equals death"
(and I will)
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New writers: DO NOT give away your subsidiary tv/film/merch/derivative rights for a $300 short.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New writers: DO NOT give away your subsidiary tv/film/merch/derivative rights for a $300 short.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
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This story is the best thing: sea wolves raiding crab traps in northern B.C.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiuQ...
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Cameras capture BC sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible ‘tool use’
YouTube video by Global News
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November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This story is the best thing: sea wolves raiding crab traps in northern B.C.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiuQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiuQ...
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deer are cute but ecologically ruinous! we should be eating more of them: thenarwhal.ca/bc-gulf-isla...
Indigenous deer hunt could restore B.C. Gulf Islands | The Narwhal
Research suggests Indigenous-led hunts may be the best way to reduce deer populations, restore ecosystems and support communities on the Gulf Islands
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November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
deer are cute but ecologically ruinous! we should be eating more of them: thenarwhal.ca/bc-gulf-isla...