"I have a waterskin at hand, and strip down naked, feeling the uncomfortable pulse of my bladder. I bear my skin to the moonlight, hoping it will be tempting enough, dreading it will be too tempting."
- @lynnesargent.bsky.social in "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs"
Lynne Sargent
A fun little story-behind-the-story... this is my first published work inspired by my dog Kerby! Aka Kerberos. Aka Prince-shrimp-full-bees. Aka (most relevantly) lover-of-flesh-water. He also loves sunbeams. I bet if he could read he'd love this story too. I hope you do!
Over on Whatever, I talk about the legit business email I got that was written with "AI," why I thought it meant the sender's domain was hacked by scammers, and why using "AI" in business emails automatically lumps you in with scammers and frauds. Don't do it!
whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/p...
It's the final “regular” edition of GET LIT! Featuring GG award-winner and lovely human Anuja Varghese discussing A Kiss of Crimson Ash.
1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or pods or: tinyurl.com/mv9xb886 Next week is E500!
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @anuja-v.bsky.social
Last week Reactor announced their "Hidden Gems Book Club" in which folks read from Reactor's "Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century" list. Pretty cool! Check it out if you missed it when it was posted. Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell is on the list!
reactormag.com/the-m...
The Rotting Leaf
even if libraries caused readers to buy fewer books* it would be worth it, in order to live in the kind of society that produces readers and books.
*they don't, and this survey doesn't successfully demonstrate that they do
The other morning I was clearing out the multiple daily emails I get from scammers who have used “AI” to praise one of my books in order to get me to use their “marketing” s…
"Benjamin fires 99...workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000 % productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage...in excess of $50 million [and] $5 million [in productivity loss] from his one remaining employee, who... [now] spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit."
The Cutting Edge ⛸️
Lynne Sargent
John Scalzi
For my TO peeps, The Tiger's Bride at Soulpepper is AMAZING. Yes, it's Angela Carter inspired and whoa is the whole thing INSPIRED. If you love fairytales, if you love weird spiky theatre stuff, please go see it before it closes!
nowtoronto.com/culture/thea...
Jamie Tennant
Lynne Sargent
Lynne Sargent
alix e. harrow
Stelliform Press
Lynne Sargent
Premiering at Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto right now, Tiger Bride is not your average musical theatre show.
You all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
A survey commissioned by the Guild found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription, with readers increasingly turning to low- or no...
"Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 billion in new apartments in places nobody wants them...."
