I have some feelings about queerness being commodified, and they're complicated.
Feeling one: It is absolutely great that there are a lot of mainstream books with queer characters in them being queer and imperfect and having adventures....
The internet is full of things, and also I sold a couple of novels.
Hey, folks! Some more stuff to share with you today. I have reached the end of Act II in The Origin of Storms. Finally. I just have to write this one...
That David Bowie song about the apocalypse, but make it days.
You know, that one. Well, folks, it's the homestretch here in the US (we hope) and then if we are at all lucky and manage to beat the interference of foreign...
Cover reveal and interview
Hi, folks! First off, we have the cover for "On Safari in R'lyeh and Caroca with Gun and Camera," and a publication date! This will be out November 18th at...
Straw poll
Who’d be interested in some kind of community Discord chat thingy?
MACHINE US Hardcover Out 10/20!
Hey folks! I promise this is the last book launch for the rest of the year! Um, I think. There’s a novelette coming out at Tor.com though. Shhh. Anyway, does...
October Book Club
Greetings, subscribers! I admit it, I haven’t been reading as much as I’d like to. I’ve been trying very hard to get this damned overdue novel rolling up the...
Surprise! It's book day all over again!
I’m thrilled to share some news that it has been killing me to sit on, which is that there is now a second mystery novella featuring Sub-Inspector Ferron of...
The inevitable heat death of Book Week
Hey, folks! MACHINE came out in US/Canadian ebook yesterday and comes out in UK and Ireland ebook and paperback tomorrow, and it feels a little weird to be...
MACHINE launch day!
Hey, friends! It’s US ebook launch day for MACHINE (the first of three, because it’s 2020 and nothing can be simple) and I invite you to both read this...
It's Book Hype Week.
We will return you to your irregularly scheduled intermittent newsletters shortly.
B minus 7 days. Also, a virtual Salon.
Hey friends, Just a brief note to remind you that Machine will be out in the US in ebook on October 6 and in hardcover on October 20 (Covid printing issues...
September Book Club
Howdy, fellow pandemic endurers! It's time for the second edition of the Throw Another Bear In The Canoe book club, where we all talk about what we're...
The perfidy of major appliances
It’s becoming increasingly obvious, dear readers, that this is a farce as well as a tragedy that we’re living through. A farce probably written and...
A very cheap audiobook of Ancestral Night!
Does what it says on the box.
Some Russian and a short delay...
Hey, folks, and welcome to the newsletter I’ve been procrastinating on all week! Email is a thing that I tend to put off and put off some more, especially...
You better get it 'cause it's going soon!
Today, for one day only AFAIK, Ancestral Night is a Kindle Daily Deal in the US! (I think it’s USA only; sorry overseas folks; different publishers here and...
Announcing the Throw Another Bear In The Canoe Book Club
Hey, folks! First of all, an acknowledgement: I'm totally borrowing this idea from my friend Stephanie Burgis, author of The Dragon With The Chocolate Heart...
A journal of a journal of a plague year
Hey, friends, So in the past few months, like many other people, I’ve read both Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and John M. Barry’s The Great...
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy Table of Contents.
Does what it says on the box. Click on this hot hot cover image to pre-order!