Karen Lord
@drkarenlord.bsky.social
Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
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do you or someone you buy gifts for love speculative fiction? activism? HAVE I GOT THE BOOK FOR YOU! Getting fantastic reviews already! Out THIS TUESDAY!
Realistically if you follow me there's probably someone in your circle this would make a great gift for! Possibly that person is you!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
do you or someone you buy gifts for love speculative fiction? activism? HAVE I GOT THE BOOK FOR YOU! Getting fantastic reviews already! Out THIS TUESDAY!
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Want to cozy up with some tasty books this season? I cooked up two new ones for you in 2025! Automatic Noodle (instant bestseller!) and the anthology We Will Rise Again co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social (out 12/2!). Have a feast! #booksky #blackfriday
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Want to cozy up with some tasty books this season? I cooked up two new ones for you in 2025! Automatic Noodle (instant bestseller!) and the anthology We Will Rise Again co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social (out 12/2!). Have a feast! #booksky #blackfriday
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I can't believe we've completed 7 years of this glorious pod. It's been amazing to share our opinions with all of you!! @charliejane.bsky.social and I are slowly dreaming up our next project, which we will share with you sometime in 2026!!! For now, farewell and thanks for all the fish.
It's our last episode! We're so grateful to everyone who's listened to us for the past 7 years.
We're using this occasion to talk about the state of science fiction and fantasy in the 21st century — and what has shaped the stories we've loved.
www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...
We're using this occasion to talk about the state of science fiction and fantasy in the 21st century — and what has shaped the stories we've loved.
www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I can't believe we've completed 7 years of this glorious pod. It's been amazing to share our opinions with all of you!! @charliejane.bsky.social and I are slowly dreaming up our next project, which we will share with you sometime in 2026!!! For now, farewell and thanks for all the fish.
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There are a few FREE seats left for this amazing event, next Tuesday in San Francisco @booksmith.bsky.social! Grab 'em quick!
Bay Area friends! Where do we find the hope that fuels our resistance and protests? In stories! On Dec. 2, come out to @booksmith.bsky.social for an unforgettable evening with speculative fiction authors and activists, celebrating our new anthology "We Will Rise Again"! booksmith.com/event/WWRA1125
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
There are a few FREE seats left for this amazing event, next Tuesday in San Francisco @booksmith.bsky.social! Grab 'em quick!
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Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year fundraiser on the 2nd, Giving Tuesday!
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year fundraiser on the 2nd, Giving Tuesday!
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
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Coming VERY SOON (tuesday)! WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about activism that @cxorlando.bsky.social called "An incredibly important book" - pre-order now!
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Coming VERY SOON (tuesday)! WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about activism that @cxorlando.bsky.social called "An incredibly important book" - pre-order now!
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Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year fundraiser on the 2nd, Giving Tuesday!
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year fundraiser on the 2nd, Giving Tuesday!
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
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I'm looking forward to reading and considering, along with my fellow judges, the works of art and fiction that will be coming in. I've even cleared an entire bookcase! 📚😁📚😉📚
2026 World Fantasy Awards Judges Announced locusmag.com/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I'm looking forward to reading and considering, along with my fellow judges, the works of art and fiction that will be coming in. I've even cleared an entire bookcase! 📚😁📚😉📚
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INTERVIEWS continued
Collective Action: A Conversation with @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social by @arleysorg.bsky.social
Marked for Destruction: A Conversation with Moniquill Blackgoose by Arley Sorg
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Collective Action: A Conversation with @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social by @arleysorg.bsky.social
Marked for Destruction: A Conversation with Moniquill Blackgoose by Arley Sorg
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November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
INTERVIEWS continued
Collective Action: A Conversation with @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social by @arleysorg.bsky.social
Marked for Destruction: A Conversation with Moniquill Blackgoose by Arley Sorg
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Collective Action: A Conversation with @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social by @arleysorg.bsky.social
Marked for Destruction: A Conversation with Moniquill Blackgoose by Arley Sorg
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As with pretty much any conversation I have with @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social, this interview was a delight, further enlivened by @arleysorg.bsky.social's excellent interview questions. And you still have a week to pre-order our anthology of speculative fiction about activism!
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
As with pretty much any conversation I have with @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social, this interview was a delight, further enlivened by @arleysorg.bsky.social's excellent interview questions. And you still have a week to pre-order our anthology of speculative fiction about activism!
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Aww! I was going to excitedly be like "Hey the French translation of THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is a finalist for another prize!!" but then I checked my email and no actually it WON! Thank you to the elbakin.net community and judges! 🤩
cc @edlatalante.bsky.social
cc @edlatalante.bsky.social
Prix Elbakin.net 2025 : les lauréats !
Vous les attendiez, ils se sont fait désirer entre incidents techniques et autres joyeusetés de la vie bénévole, mais les voici de retour : c’est l’heure de dév...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Aww! I was going to excitedly be like "Hey the French translation of THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is a finalist for another prize!!" but then I checked my email and no actually it WON! Thank you to the elbakin.net community and judges! 🤩
cc @edlatalante.bsky.social
cc @edlatalante.bsky.social
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Hooray! Automatic Noodle is in excellent company as a "Books We Love 2025" pick from @npr.org
Books We Love @npr.org
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
I espy @tnfalpha.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @tashasuri.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social
@edenroyce.bsky.social
@emilytesh.net
@alixeharrow.bsky.social
@nnedi.bsky.social
@annaleen.bsky.social
AND MORE!
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
I espy @tnfalpha.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @tashasuri.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social
@edenroyce.bsky.social
@emilytesh.net
@alixeharrow.bsky.social
@nnedi.bsky.social
@annaleen.bsky.social
AND MORE!
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hooray! Automatic Noodle is in excellent company as a "Books We Love 2025" pick from @npr.org
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This is next week, 12/2! For the release of the amazing anthology "We Will Rise Again," come hang out with activists and authors @booksmith.bsky.social to talk about hope, storytelling, and resistance.
Bay Area friends! Where do we find the hope that fuels our resistance and protests? In stories! On Dec. 2, come out to @booksmith.bsky.social for an unforgettable evening with speculative fiction authors and activists, celebrating our new anthology "We Will Rise Again"! booksmith.com/event/WWRA1125
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is next week, 12/2! For the release of the amazing anthology "We Will Rise Again," come hang out with activists and authors @booksmith.bsky.social to talk about hope, storytelling, and resistance.
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This book has an incredible line-up of authors and activists, many of whom can be found in this starter pack: go.bsky.app/NsioxDe
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This book has an incredible line-up of authors and activists, many of whom can be found in this starter pack: go.bsky.app/NsioxDe
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Realistically if you follow me there's probably someone in your circle this would make a great gift for! Possibly that person is you!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Realistically if you follow me there's probably someone in your circle this would make a great gift for! Possibly that person is you!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER!
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER!
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Good news we have hot water, bad news this shit was expensive
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Plumber confirmed that the fuses blowing yesterday was due to the water heater and we need a new water heater. I did find the fuse for the water heater itself so we're good heating wise
(last night we had no light or heating in half the flat, which is less fun).
Wheee
Please buy my books?
(last night we had no light or heating in half the flat, which is less fun).
Wheee
Please buy my books?
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Good news we have hot water, bad news this shit was expensive
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
My story ‘Take Three’ is available for your reading pleasure in this free book about the future of the orchestra!
csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...
csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...
Sound Systems: The Future of the Orchestra - Center for Science and the Imagination
A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and art reimagining orchestras as vibrant spaces for connection, shared learning, and exploration.
csi.asu.edu
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My story ‘Take Three’ is available for your reading pleasure in this free book about the future of the orchestra!
csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...
csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...
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for me at least part of that mindset is having mental space to think about the ideas, times when I'm not streaming someone else's ideas into my head via one medium or another. That's perhaps sort of unusual for a lot of people these days and might be another reason it looks like magic.
It's not a magic ability, it's a mindset. You see or hear something that snags your attention, you calculate how you could use that in a book, much as a driver notices a kid with a ball or a dermatologist notices lumps on people's skin. Mindset.
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
for me at least part of that mindset is having mental space to think about the ideas, times when I'm not streaming someone else's ideas into my head via one medium or another. That's perhaps sort of unusual for a lot of people these days and might be another reason it looks like magic.
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I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
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Join EFF at The Booksmith on Dec 2 at 7 PM in San Francisco to celebrate We Will Rise Again, a new collection of speculative stories exploring progressive social change from writers around the world. www.eff.org/event/we-wi...
We Will Rise Again at The Booksmith
The Booksmith is proud to be celebrating the release of We Will Rise Again with Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Reo Eveleth, Cindy Cohn, Andrea Dehlendorf, and Vida James.When:Tuesday, December
www.eff.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Join EFF at The Booksmith on Dec 2 at 7 PM in San Francisco to celebrate We Will Rise Again, a new collection of speculative stories exploring progressive social change from writers around the world. www.eff.org/event/we-wi...
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AMAZING lineup for the in-person SF launch of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative fiction anthology about activism co-edited by @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and yours truly!
Join EFF at The Booksmith on Dec 2 at 7 PM in San Francisco to celebrate We Will Rise Again, a new collection of speculative stories exploring progressive social change from writers around the world. www.eff.org/event/we-wi...
We Will Rise Again at The Booksmith
The Booksmith is proud to be celebrating the release of We Will Rise Again with Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Reo Eveleth, Cindy Cohn, Andrea Dehlendorf, and Vida James.When:Tuesday, December
www.eff.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
AMAZING lineup for the in-person SF launch of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative fiction anthology about activism co-edited by @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and yours truly!
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Hot damn! Congratulations, Nora; and welcome! So well deserved.
To date, @nkjemisin.bsky.social is the youngest person named Grand Master by SFWA, having earned this honour at the age of 53.
The second-youngest is @nalohop.bsky.social, who was named a Grand Master in 2021 at the age of 61.
The second-youngest is @nalohop.bsky.social, who was named a Grand Master in 2021 at the age of 61.
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hot damn! Congratulations, Nora; and welcome! So well deserved.
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I'm thrilled that @electricliterature.com has published this gorgeous story from the anthology WE WILL RISE AGAIN, which I co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social ... you can pre-order the anthology now, or pick it up at your local bookstore after it drops on 12/2!
Full warning: this story made me cry, because of how accurately and beautifully it peels back the layers of oppression, self-censorship, exile, community, rebuilding. A beautiful representative from the forthcoming anthology We Will Rise Again, out on Dec 2!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I'm thrilled that @electricliterature.com has published this gorgeous story from the anthology WE WILL RISE AGAIN, which I co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social ... you can pre-order the anthology now, or pick it up at your local bookstore after it drops on 12/2!
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Full warning: this story made me cry, because of how accurately and beautifully it peels back the layers of oppression, self-censorship, exile, community, rebuilding. A beautiful representative from the forthcoming anthology We Will Rise Again, out on Dec 2!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Full warning: this story made me cry, because of how accurately and beautifully it peels back the layers of oppression, self-censorship, exile, community, rebuilding. A beautiful representative from the forthcoming anthology We Will Rise Again, out on Dec 2!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...