Keep watching the skies! My story "The Imaginative Youngster's Handbook to UFOs" is slated to appear in the January/February 2026 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine!

You may know I have a thing for handbooks, so when I came upon this British one, I had to create the one I needed instead.

On the plus side, remember all those jobs your boomer parents threatened you with? They're coming back, baby! "You want to be an embalmer? Grades like that, that's how you end up an embalmer."

It's a good time to have hands, I guess.

Some ghouls at Microsoft have written a paper with a very convenient list of professionals who should probably just turn themselves in at the Soylent Green factory.

The fifth on the list is a real inspiration to me and most of the people on my friends list.

Some thoughts on the long, strange trek for A Scout is Brave:

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Will you be at Readercon and interested in seeing me at a panel or doing a reading? Man, do I have good news for you! Here's my schedule for the weekend. You can also find me at the Shirley Jackson Awards on Saturday evening where my novella A SCOUT IS BRAVE is the darkest of dark horse nominees.

Every so often when the spirit strikes me, I write a Postcard Story for my site:
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Tonight we bade farewell to Truman Cat-pote: will-ludwigsen.com/2025/02/12/t...

Like every other gloomy writer of the mysterious fantastic, I too have thoughts about the loss of David Lynch. Sorry!

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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:

The good news about Matt Gaetz's likely vindictive appointment as Attorney General is that Trump was talked off the ledge for some of his other appointments...once he learned they were dead.

Today is the official release date for A Scout is Brave, though some lucky souls already have their copies from preorder or by attending our fabulous book launch on Saturday!
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Ooh! Harlan and I have something special to reveal on Sunday morning, if you aren't busy at the Esoteric Order of Dagon potluck. Keep an eye out here and elsewhere!

Be careful with your countdowns tonight, people:

I dreamed last night that after a flood downtown, a small dog with its head covered by the head of a doll was running for me. I was desperate to take a picture, but you can’t keep those when you wake up so I had to use Bing. You’re welcome.

I’m convinced that before I die, artists will be expected to pay people to view their work. (It sort of happens now, but I mean overtly, as a matter of corporate or audience entitlement.)

Well, if Publishers Marketplace says so, it must be true!

I like how the programmer of that bright green simulation track is like, “You guys can follow the herd if you want to, but this storm is coming back for my ex-wife in Tampa.”