A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway]
@thesuiway.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🇺🇦 | Nebula winner | Ignyte, Aurora, Sturgeon finalist | rep: Shannon Lechon | THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA (Erewhon Books, 2026) | OUR INFINITE AND INEVITABLE ENDS (ECW Press, 2026)| https://linktr.ee/thesuiway |
wise words from Sam.
Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
My dreams came true and I just found new ways to be miserable.
My fifth novel Red Star Hustle just dropped, and on pub day I did what I usually do on pub day - I swung by Union Square, where there's the Strand and a Barnes & Noble very near one another - probably...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
wise words from Sam.
i need a 10h dial-up screech soundtrack just to feel young again.
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
i need a 10h dial-up screech soundtrack just to feel young again.
really wish my microwave wasn't haunted by the food i microwaved two days ago.
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
really wish my microwave wasn't haunted by the food i microwaved two days ago.
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It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!!
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!!
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
as someone who is writing sci-fi and isn't going to stop any time soon (or i will very soon if my debut bombs, ha!), i find this article simultaneously grim and somewhat,maybe, hopeful?
Romantastic: Romantic Fantasy leads SFF to its best-ever year
In 2024, NielsenIQ BookData’s Science Fiction & Fantasy (SFF) category secured its biggest year since records began when total sales came in at just under £84m – a massive 41% jump compared with its p...
www.thebookseller.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
as someone who is writing sci-fi and isn't going to stop any time soon (or i will very soon if my debut bombs, ha!), i find this article simultaneously grim and somewhat,maybe, hopeful?
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Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
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Simultaneous Times episode 93 is live and available on your favorite podcast player. Featuring stories by Jason P. Burnham & @elianeboey.bsky.social with music by TSG & Phog Masheeen.
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...
November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Simultaneous Times episode 93 is live and available on your favorite podcast player. Featuring stories by Jason P. Burnham & @elianeboey.bsky.social with music by TSG & Phog Masheeen.
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...
i thought the whole point of my grandfather passing away was that i didn't have to explain what a labubu was to a WW2 veteran.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
i thought the whole point of my grandfather passing away was that i didn't have to explain what a labubu was to a WW2 veteran.
bought a fancy, metal birdfeeder, and the birds preferentially will eat from the shitty, plastic ones? like they don't know about microplastics?
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
bought a fancy, metal birdfeeder, and the birds preferentially will eat from the shitty, plastic ones? like they don't know about microplastics?
time is running out!
giveaway ends tomorrow!
giveaway ends tomorrow!
75 physical ARCs of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA are up for grabs in my #goodreadsgiveaway!
there's a long-lost generation ship and a depressed monk. come and get it!
ends November 15th
there's a long-lost generation ship and a depressed monk. come and get it!
ends November 15th
Book giveaway for The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1) by A.D. Sui Nov 01-Nov 15, 2025
Enter to win one of 75 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 01-Nov 15, 2025. Richly layered and intensely compelling from start to finish.” —K...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
time is running out!
giveaway ends tomorrow!
giveaway ends tomorrow!
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Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!
Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications
undertowpublications.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!
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this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin
October 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin
welp. that’s enough day for today.
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
welp. that’s enough day for today.
gotta come clean to you guys. can't keep lying to everyone.
i actually like writing synopses.
i actually like writing synopses.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
gotta come clean to you guys. can't keep lying to everyone.
i actually like writing synopses.
i actually like writing synopses.
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Ends today!
My tropical Gothic horror novel THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is almost here and now you can get a chance at a finished copy before pub date, thanks to this Goodreads giveaway! Entry details below
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ends today!
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Every location has a picket line in front of it. Don’t cross the line.
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Every location has a picket line in front of it. Don’t cross the line.
oh yeah, this one had me ugly crying at 2 a.m.
have you ordered your copy yet?
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"Lush, lyrical, and heartbreaking" - @ivygrimes.bsky.social
"A beautiful meditation on loss and grief" - @acwise.bsky.social
"A visceral and timely tale" - @thesuiway.bsky.social
"This is eco and science fiction at its best" -@lyndseycroal.bsky.social
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👀👀🖤
"Lush, lyrical, and heartbreaking" - @ivygrimes.bsky.social
"A beautiful meditation on loss and grief" - @acwise.bsky.social
"A visceral and timely tale" - @thesuiway.bsky.social
"This is eco and science fiction at its best" -@lyndseycroal.bsky.social
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No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
oh yeah, this one had me ugly crying at 2 a.m.
instead of learning how to use a comma or semi-colon, i just slap an em dash on that bad boy.
What's a bad writing habit you have that you'd like to kick? #WritingPrompt
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
instead of learning how to use a comma or semi-colon, i just slap an em dash on that bad boy.
my two worlds have finally collided. i now receive academic spam from predatory journals and fiction spam in the form of "vibrant reader communities". i feel complete.
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
my two worlds have finally collided. i now receive academic spam from predatory journals and fiction spam in the form of "vibrant reader communities". i feel complete.
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You are looking at Ukrainian books that Russia burnt this morning: Russian drone hit a warehouse of a transport company in Kharkiv where they were stored.
Oh and what a coincidence! among the burned books there are
Oh and what a coincidence! among the burned books there are
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
You are looking at Ukrainian books that Russia burnt this morning: Russian drone hit a warehouse of a transport company in Kharkiv where they were stored.
Oh and what a coincidence! among the burned books there are
Oh and what a coincidence! among the burned books there are
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On the day of Kherson Liberation, do not forget.
Kherson is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
Mariupol is Ukraine.
Crimea is Ukraine.
Kherson is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
Mariupol is Ukraine.
Crimea is Ukraine.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
On the day of Kherson Liberation, do not forget.
Kherson is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
Mariupol is Ukraine.
Crimea is Ukraine.
Kherson is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
Mariupol is Ukraine.
Crimea is Ukraine.
convincing you to read my upcoming novel (February 2026) with the first sentence.
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
convincing you to read my upcoming novel (February 2026) with the first sentence.
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fellow Canadians 🍁!
when you pre-order The Iron Garden Sutra from @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social or Queen Books in Toronto, you receive some pre-order goodies!
A custom button! A bookmark! A signed bookplate!
The Iron Garden Sutra comes out in 3.5 months! where has the time gone?!
when you pre-order The Iron Garden Sutra from @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social or Queen Books in Toronto, you receive some pre-order goodies!
A custom button! A bookmark! A signed bookplate!
The Iron Garden Sutra comes out in 3.5 months! where has the time gone?!
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
fellow Canadians 🍁!
when you pre-order The Iron Garden Sutra from @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social or Queen Books in Toronto, you receive some pre-order goodies!
A custom button! A bookmark! A signed bookplate!
The Iron Garden Sutra comes out in 3.5 months! where has the time gone?!
when you pre-order The Iron Garden Sutra from @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social or Queen Books in Toronto, you receive some pre-order goodies!
A custom button! A bookmark! A signed bookplate!
The Iron Garden Sutra comes out in 3.5 months! where has the time gone?!
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@niadavenport.bsky.social has been an incredible part of the SSF community. She's someone who has helped many others, including myself.
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Donate to Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss, organized by Lindsey Hart
Our hearts are with Nia, a beloved friend, author and advocate who has pou… Lindsey Hart needs your support for Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
@niadavenport.bsky.social has been an incredible part of the SSF community. She's someone who has helped many others, including myself.
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Saskatoon in February.
Which cities did you have the worst time in?
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Saskatoon in February.