Karen Osborne
@karenosborne.bsky.social
Velocity girl. Honey badger. A/V hooligan. Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon finalist. Violin & theremin. Author: THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN from Erewhon ('27), ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY & ENGINES OF OBLIVION from Tor. Ad astra via caffeine. Rep: Dorian Maffei, KC&A
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Erewhon Books Announces The Hollow Crown of Heaven by Karen Osborne - Reactor
A necromancer and a gunslinger find themselves at the center of a centuries-old conspiracy...
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I am ✨twitterpated✨ to announce that my novel THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN will be published by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! This is my Bridgerton Borg Battlestar book, the one I wrote when I decided to stop holding back and started embracing my inner necromancer. 😍 reactormag.com/book-announc...
So let's say I think I broke one of the knuckles in my foot. Do I go to the urgent care riiiiiight now or do I wait until after work?
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
So let's say I think I broke one of the knuckles in my foot. Do I go to the urgent care riiiiiight now or do I wait until after work?
Hello new followers! I'm a novelist with a dayjob and I get an average of five hours of sleep a night. I do algorithmically-correct corporate social media for a living, so what I like to do here is be myself.
Your mileage may vary.
Your mileage may vary.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hello new followers! I'm a novelist with a dayjob and I get an average of five hours of sleep a night. I do algorithmically-correct corporate social media for a living, so what I like to do here is be myself.
Your mileage may vary.
Your mileage may vary.
4am cat cares not for your novel edits
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
4am cat cares not for your novel edits
New writers: DO NOT give away your subsidiary tv/film/merch/derivative rights for a $300 short.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
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November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New writers: DO NOT give away your subsidiary tv/film/merch/derivative rights for a $300 short.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
Never going to forget being on a panel about audio/video production as an event video professional with a real honest to god live video production business and getting talked over the entire time by three old white guys who had occasional podcasts they made in their living rooms
I think science fiction needs a resection/excision. The old white male "fans" are a tumor on the genre. A very malignant tumor.
What do we do with tumors? Cut them out.
Conventions, stop inviting these racist, sexist, hateful people to be on panels. You know who these people are, or can find out.
What do we do with tumors? Cut them out.
Conventions, stop inviting these racist, sexist, hateful people to be on panels. You know who these people are, or can find out.
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Never going to forget being on a panel about audio/video production as an event video professional with a real honest to god live video production business and getting talked over the entire time by three old white guys who had occasional podcasts they made in their living rooms
the other thing I realized while watching HADESTOWN was that I’m probably never going to get the chance to do theater again
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
the other thing I realized while watching HADESTOWN was that I’m probably never going to get the chance to do theater again
The problem with leaving things for Monday Karen is that Monday always comes
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The problem with leaving things for Monday Karen is that Monday always comes
So much of my life makes sense if I look at it through a lens of being a neurodivergent child that was simply never diagnosed because girls in the eighties "couldn't be" neurodivergent -- and as a result spent thousands of hours figuring out how to mask enough to get along (1/?)
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So much of my life makes sense if I look at it through a lens of being a neurodivergent child that was simply never diagnosed because girls in the eighties "couldn't be" neurodivergent -- and as a result spent thousands of hours figuring out how to mask enough to get along (1/?)
Just saw a community theater teen version of HADESTOWN where the entire audience was openly weeping at the end.
I don’t know what else to say but
Art for everyone all the time
I don’t know what else to say but
Art for everyone all the time
November 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Just saw a community theater teen version of HADESTOWN where the entire audience was openly weeping at the end.
I don’t know what else to say but
Art for everyone all the time
I don’t know what else to say but
Art for everyone all the time
Reposted by Karen Osborne
“Is there such a thing as 'Indian' science fiction? A short history and new anthology of speculative writing from India” —
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Is there such a thing as 'Indian' science fiction? A short history and new anthology of speculative writing from India” —
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
This is how you get what you want when you’re a writer with a dayjob and a family. No residencies, no grants, no sabbaticals. Just four ayem, your half-hour lunch, and a little too much caffeine.
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is how you get what you want when you’re a writer with a dayjob and a family. No residencies, no grants, no sabbaticals. Just four ayem, your half-hour lunch, and a little too much caffeine.
Especially in an industry where meeting expectations is often not enough!
I have had a lot of discussions about this. I would just really like a nice midlist that I can live in somewhere. I mean if someone wants to give me lots and lots of money I'm not going to say no but when they whip out the big cash you've got to exceed expectations not just meet them that's scary.
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Especially in an industry where meeting expectations is often not enough!
Reposted by Karen Osborne
"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
THIS
THIS
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
THIS
THIS
Nothing like walking into your office on a Monday morning to discover a couple of mice died right in the middle of the floor sometime on Friday night
a man in a suit and tie is asking if he can leave
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is asking if he can leave
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Nothing like walking into your office on a Monday morning to discover a couple of mice died right in the middle of the floor sometime on Friday night
Ooooh this looks STRAIGHT down my alley
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ooooh this looks STRAIGHT down my alley
I am currently in the process of editing a book that has already sold to a publisher. Yes, they have more edits. Yes, this is expected. Yes, I’m having a good time, because if I wasn’t, getting up at 4am to do edits before work would be torture. There are much easier ways to feel known.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I am currently in the process of editing a book that has already sold to a publisher. Yes, they have more edits. Yes, this is expected. Yes, I’m having a good time, because if I wasn’t, getting up at 4am to do edits before work would be torture. There are much easier ways to feel known.
Reposted by Karen Osborne
Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks.
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks.
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
Reposted by Karen Osborne
I just got my royalty payment and not only do ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY and ENGINES OF OBLIVION continue to sell, they just hit numbers that I consider to be a milestone.
just keep swimming.
just keep swimming.
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I just got my royalty payment and not only do ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY and ENGINES OF OBLIVION continue to sell, they just hit numbers that I consider to be a milestone.
just keep swimming.
just keep swimming.
Reposted by Karen Osborne
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
Mothers in Stefanik's district are now in their third month of living without the childcare subsidies that they desperately need. She has not done a single thing to help them.
Hochul immediately responded by releasing an ad calling Stefanik a Trump ally, saying, `Elise Stefanik is running to deliver New York for Donald Trump and raise your costs,` while donation sites for both campaigns are active
ELISE STEFANIK IS DISLIKED IN HER DISTRICT
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ELISE STEFANIK IS DISLIKED IN HER DISTRICT
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Rep. Elise Stefanik Announces 2026 Run for New York Governor
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik is launching a run for governor in New York, blaming Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul for the state's high cost of living and tying the governor to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Mothers in Stefanik's district are now in their third month of living without the childcare subsidies that they desperately need. She has not done a single thing to help them.
oh my GOD
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
oh my GOD
A big THANK YOU to everyone who is still discovering and reading THE MEMORY WAR. You are making my absolute LIFE right now!!
And a big THANK YOU to everyone who is still discovering and hating THE MEMORY WAR. You read my book! That's awesome!!
And a big THANK YOU to everyone who is still discovering and hating THE MEMORY WAR. You read my book! That's awesome!!
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A big THANK YOU to everyone who is still discovering and reading THE MEMORY WAR. You are making my absolute LIFE right now!!
And a big THANK YOU to everyone who is still discovering and hating THE MEMORY WAR. You read my book! That's awesome!!
And a big THANK YOU to everyone who is still discovering and hating THE MEMORY WAR. You read my book! That's awesome!!
stop calling your heart's work "content"
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
stop calling your heart's work "content"
hey look, it's the editor of THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN! let's goooooooo @erewhonbooks.bsky.social
An associate editor at Erewhon Books, Fetters, who calls speculative fiction their first love, revels in the opportunity to cultivate revolutionary narratives. buff.ly/aeBPOqh
November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
hey look, it's the editor of THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN! let's goooooooo @erewhonbooks.bsky.social