Erika Swyler
@erikaswyler.bsky.social
Novelist. Garden variety weirdo. Typo queen.
Books: We Lived On the Horizon (Atria, 1/14/25), Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation.
She/her (all pronouns are fine)
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Books: We Lived On the Horizon (Atria, 1/14/25), Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation.
She/her (all pronouns are fine)
https://linktr.ee/erikaswyler
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Erika Swyler
@erikaswyler.bsky.social
· Jan 14
WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is now out in the world. It's the first "timely" book I've written--wholly unintentional, I assure you.
If you've been thinking about AI, revolution, altruism, the future, gender, aging, and what care is ... it might be the book for you.
If you've been thinking about AI, revolution, altruism, the future, gender, aging, and what care is ... it might be the book for you.
Please tell me you hummed the tetris music the while time
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Please tell me you hummed the tetris music the while time
May this year bring you the joy and ease you are owed and then some. ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
May this year bring you the joy and ease you are owed and then some. ❤️
Yeah. Getting old sucks. Also, the more sensitive screening gets and the more we use computer assisted" reading of screening images the more additional imaging is required. It's good/bad
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yeah. Getting old sucks. Also, the more sensitive screening gets and the more we use computer assisted" reading of screening images the more additional imaging is required. It's good/bad
This movie *gives*
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This movie *gives*
He punches a snake. PUNCHES. A. SNAKE.
It's a perfect film.
It's a perfect film.
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
He punches a snake. PUNCHES. A. SNAKE.
It's a perfect film.
It's a perfect film.
Today is packing, baking, running, ADDITIONAL IMAGING, cleaning, giving the bunny extra kisses so she won't forget me when I'm away, errands, and cleaning.
Tomorrow is car, boat, car, collapse.
Tomorrow is car, boat, car, collapse.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today is packing, baking, running, ADDITIONAL IMAGING, cleaning, giving the bunny extra kisses so she won't forget me when I'm away, errands, and cleaning.
Tomorrow is car, boat, car, collapse.
Tomorrow is car, boat, car, collapse.
Still riding the high from getting pistachio gelato from the gelato Fiat.
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Still riding the high from getting pistachio gelato from the gelato Fiat.
Yup. It's very hard for people to recognize that what feels like a small act that hurts no one causes real harm once scaled.
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Yup. It's very hard for people to recognize that what feels like a small act that hurts no one causes real harm once scaled.
Yup. Plus, not using libraries messes with communities and access for people outside any one person who wants to read a book. Libraries that don't get used don't get funded (hell, that's still a problem for libraries that DO get used). I'm so tired of trying to talk to people out of pirating.
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Yup. Plus, not using libraries messes with communities and access for people outside any one person who wants to read a book. Libraries that don't get used don't get funded (hell, that's still a problem for libraries that DO get used). I'm so tired of trying to talk to people out of pirating.
Oh, what a beautiful creature. May she be off having wonderful adventures of the kind we cannot know. 🖤
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Oh, what a beautiful creature. May she be off having wonderful adventures of the kind we cannot know. 🖤
I've been on the internet for far too long and know too many people who write for IP to engage in Star Wars discourse.
I'll just be over here in my "really strong opinions about notebooks" corner.
I'll just be over here in my "really strong opinions about notebooks" corner.
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I've been on the internet for far too long and know too many people who write for IP to engage in Star Wars discourse.
I'll just be over here in my "really strong opinions about notebooks" corner.
I'll just be over here in my "really strong opinions about notebooks" corner.
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#TheIslandofLastThings, #StarWarsRevengeoftheSith and #MetallicRealms all arrived in the #LocusHQ recently! Thanks to:
@penguinrandomhouse
#MatthewStover
@Flatironbooks
@emmasloley
@atriabook
@thelincoln
Buy the books at our bookshop link in bio, and visit our site for all things bookish!
@penguinrandomhouse
#MatthewStover
@Flatironbooks
@emmasloley
@atriabook
@thelincoln
Buy the books at our bookshop link in bio, and visit our site for all things bookish!
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Weird year to have a book out! Let's punch this year in the face together!
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Weird year to have a book out! Let's punch this year in the face together!
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An acquaintance's baby was born with basically their adult-sized nose. Everyone was very polite. The parents only realized it when their second baby had a baby-sized nose.
Once the haunted babies are hunted teens, it'll probably be discussed.
Once the haunted babies are hunted teens, it'll probably be discussed.
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
An acquaintance's baby was born with basically their adult-sized nose. Everyone was very polite. The parents only realized it when their second baby had a baby-sized nose.
Once the haunted babies are hunted teens, it'll probably be discussed.
Once the haunted babies are hunted teens, it'll probably be discussed.
That. There are multiple side chats about people's haunted babies
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
That. There are multiple side chats about people's haunted babies
Also, I spy @ambersparks.bsky.social,
who launched HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE deep in our national existential crisis, in an occupied city.
who launched HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE deep in our national existential crisis, in an occupied city.
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Also, I spy @ambersparks.bsky.social,
who launched HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE deep in our national existential crisis, in an occupied city.
who launched HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE deep in our national existential crisis, in an occupied city.
So, @wirobooks.bsky.social continues to be incredibly kind and creates lists that don't look like a lot of others. (Very grateful WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is on here.)
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...
Our 51 Favorite Books of 2025 | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
So, @wirobooks.bsky.social continues to be incredibly kind and creates lists that don't look like a lot of others. (Very grateful WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is on here.)
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...
Seriously though. As people used to say, nothing decays like digital.
Let's do it. Time capsule for human creativity 2026.
Let's do it. Time capsule for human creativity 2026.
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Seriously though. As people used to say, nothing decays like digital.
Let's do it. Time capsule for human creativity 2026.
Let's do it. Time capsule for human creativity 2026.
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This, right here. The publishing industry has become deranged, and nearly every author is anxious about whether they'll ever get another book deal again. Sales are the only metric of success that publishers recognize. Pirating books poses a direct existential threat to authors' careers as authors.
Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This, right here. The publishing industry has become deranged, and nearly every author is anxious about whether they'll ever get another book deal again. Sales are the only metric of success that publishers recognize. Pirating books poses a direct existential threat to authors' careers as authors.
Rita, I'm having a huge case of "Why even bother"
Maybe it should all just be unpublished notebooks that will be uncovered in a dig site by whoever/whatever comes after.
Maybe it should all just be unpublished notebooks that will be uncovered in a dig site by whoever/whatever comes after.
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Rita, I'm having a huge case of "Why even bother"
Maybe it should all just be unpublished notebooks that will be uncovered in a dig site by whoever/whatever comes after.
Maybe it should all just be unpublished notebooks that will be uncovered in a dig site by whoever/whatever comes after.
I'm in a writing funk. I'm sure it's got nothing to do with the tons of articles and posts about how we're speeding toward an illiterate society, and all the people willingly melting their brains with shitty tech that trained on decades of my stolen work that I *may* one day see a $3,000 payout for.
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'm in a writing funk. I'm sure it's got nothing to do with the tons of articles and posts about how we're speeding toward an illiterate society, and all the people willingly melting their brains with shitty tech that trained on decades of my stolen work that I *may* one day see a $3,000 payout for.