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the most important thing any novel can have, though, is The Worst Woman In the World

Live in BCS #459: "A Candle for Her Tireless Dead" @louisinglishall.bsky.social "Twelve years, imagining their empire in my mind. Confronting its demons and devising my own antidotes. Fashioning theodicies. Any tool to lead them from the hungry dark." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ca...

"We would spend a lot of our time, such as child’s time is under the weather and light, in the meadow; and in the meadow Tom would conduct his tours." Today on ergot.: 'Rolliecoaster Meadow' by J. F. Gleeson www.ergot.press/authors/J_F_...

Just a heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

If you like sf, if you care about Palestine/Israel, if you dig weird fiction, or if you're just a human, please experience "The Event" A taste: jewishcurrents.org/the-event

We are so excited to be publishing another book by @horrorsong.blog Such a unique and talented author who has done something special with Dead Boys Don’t Cry. Drops in June 2027. Get ready to lose your mind, heart and soul with this one!

This is what Charley does, when he’s not...alone with his endless numbers. He is Britain’s foremost naturalist of human desires. And where better to conduct his study than in Brighton, 1964 Today on ergot.: 'The Professor of Desire Presents' by @ernerker.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Anne...

But editors are priceless; if you take your craft seriously you always need to be working at it, and *in theory* paying venues offer a higher level of editing, which is one of only a few ways I know to get better at this kind of writing.

cameron reed's the fortunate fall is peak cyberpunk, gross and bleak and cynical and maximalist, and without spoiling anything has the guts to give the story the ending it needs. there's intrigue and conspiracy. toxic yuri. haven't read her new one yet but on tenterhooks

Tomorrow on ergot.: a seaside, numbers station puppet show with Anneke Schwob www.annekeschwob.info

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...