Two weeks from today, Trace Elements by @adapalmer.bsky.social and me will be out in the world.
Here are my author copies! Contains the history of SF publishing from Lucian of Samosata on, why I read, an examination of why SF and fantasy might be disguised as each other, lots and lots more!
pamphlet for NYSWI with Martys book dead center
If you're in the Albany area, I'm doing an event with the NYS Writers Institute today at 4:30pm in the UA Campus Center! Full circle moment for me, I hope you can come through!!
The wonderful @tobiascarroll.bsky.social
interviewed me about KALIVAS! for @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social
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Ch-check it out:
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/10/s...
And speaking of speaking of my book here is my book
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On April 22, I'll be doing a virtual event with Jeremy Brett for the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives! We'll be chatting about RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES (out that week!! 😱)
The first 40 books ordered from their store will get a signed bookplate
To register: tamu.libcal.com/event/16519400
ARC of Rabbit Test and Other Stories held up outdoors against a sunny sky and bright green leaves
It is March already. 😱 It is unseasonably warm out. 😱 My first short story collection comes out April 21. 😱😱
Rabbit Test and Other Stories contains all my favorite experiments in scifi and fantasy. I'm very proud of it. :)
Preorder links at samtasticbooks.com/collections
graphic inviting bookstagrammers to sign uo for Tachyon arc list
Email kasey (at) tachyonpublications.com to be added to our galley announcement list!
#Bookstagram #ARCReaders #SFFbooks #booksky
My next in-person workshop! Lyricism and Language at the Queensland Writers Centre
queenslandwriters.org.au/events/lyric...
An old fashioned sailing ship sails on an ocean made of trans flag waves
This Saturday! The TRANS NERD MEET UP is back. 12:30 until whenever at Zeitgeist in SF — anyone who is not cis and likes to geek out about ANYTHING is welcome. We don't gatekeep! Yes you are trans enough and nerdy enough. <3
The ebook of Haunted Legends, which I co-edited with @datlow.bsky.social, is on sale for $2.99 for the whole month of March! Stories by Ramsey Campbell, Catherynne Valente, and many more!
Actually, I do have something of mine that is eligible for awards! That I wrote. With my own words and all.
"A Brief Letter on the Origins of the Harpy Aviary in the Kirani Capital" from WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE AND HOPE!
Powell's City of Books, Sunday, Mar 8, 7pm, two author photos and the cover of Now I Surrender. Extended description below: Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender (Riverhead) radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.” In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to maneuver Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. In our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past. Part epic, part alt-Western, Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue’s most expansive and impassioned novel yet. It weaves past and present, myth and history into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true liberty — and an homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory. Enrigue will be joined in conversation by Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach series.
Wow. Now I Surrender is amazing. Please come out to Powell's Burnside on Sunday night, when I'll be in conversation with Enrique, talking about his new novel. www.powells.com/events/-lvar...
It's been the kind of week where I feel a bit weird doing book promo because of everything that is on fire. Nevertheless book promo is part of my job.
So: maybe it would cheer you up to listen to the IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS official playlist!
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Excited to report that I’m going to be a guest at San Antonio Book Festival in April! Hope to see you there!
New excerpt up on the site: IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS by @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social…
civilianreader.com/2026/03/04/e...
Due to be published by @tachyonpub.bsky.social, on May 12th.
New sonnet on my Patreon: Spring in Time of War www.patreon.com/posts/spring...
I’ve posted so sporadically here that I’m not sure who’s listening, but for those of you who might be interested, my first new novel in ten years is called Forty Million Summers and it’s been acquired by Tachyon Publications. So I’m doing my happy dance today.
HAPPY MARCH!
Coming up on www.kindig.co.uk :
3rd: #HowtoGetAwaywithMurder Rebecca Philipson
10th: #TheOtherYou @carysgreenauthor.bsky.social
17th: #ItEndsHere Heidi Perks
24th: #WolfWorm @tkingfisher.com
31st: #YourBehaviourWillbeMonitored @justinfeinstein.bsky.social
#BookSky 📚💙 🪐📚 ⚡️📚 🩸📚
CENTRAL STATION is published in English by @tachyonpub.bsky.social…
tachyonpublications.com/product/cent...
@lavietidhar.bsky.social
Cover by Sarah Anne Langton.
Afternoon Womble, I'm reading The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy, which I bought from @tachyonpub.bsky.social at World Fantasy Con. Not far through it, but enjoying it so far, especially in showing a diversity of experience and how women might have to work around men.
a combination of all of Marty's work!
With Nebula nominations ending in a few days, a reminder that if you enjoyed any of my work last year, I'd be deeply grateful for your nomination. That work includes:
🦊 Audition For the Fox - Novella
✂️With Only A Razor Between - Novelette
✍️4 Stories w/ Weird Horror, Lightspeed, Nightmare
Cheers!
I've written "A Thumbnail History of Twentieth-Century Fantasy," and you can read it on Fantasy Cafe. Details and a link on my blog.
floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-t...
a glimpse of a goodreads list for books for readers who like to finish a book in one sitting, audition for the fox is there with other short books
By gum, I may never be on a list with George Saunders again, or ANY of these amazing writers, but I'm on THIS list and I'll take it!
www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30...
Actually TONIGHT (as time has passed)
Thank you so much for including me, Roseanna! And this list of novellas is absolutely stellar. What an amazing year for the form!! <3
Just a reminder--this Friday, February 27th. In Salem, Oregon. Weirdlings, assemble.
I'm delighted that "How to Become a Sea Witch"is on the Rhysling Award longlist. In case you need instructions on becoming a sea witch, you can read it here:
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Hey, I’ve got a cool reprint in this issue!! Grimdark is a killer magazine. Check this out:
A photo of a book recommendation shelf. Iris W. has recommended my book THESE FRAGILE GRACES, THIS FUGITIVE HEART.
Thanks to the lovely person who shared this photo from The American Book Center in The Hague. I'm honored! @tachyonpub.bsky.social
