John Wiswell
@wiswell.bsky.social
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
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John Wiswell
@wiswell.bsky.social
· Sep 9
Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS!
Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot.
Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!
Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot.
Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
The "3:10 To Yuma" was his sled??
Watching 3:10 To Yuma for the first time. It's a Western about the largest group of good guys to ever not just shoot the bad guy until you just stop caring if they live. Visionary stuff.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The "3:10 To Yuma" was his sled??
Watching 3:10 To Yuma for the first time. It's a Western about the largest group of good guys to ever not just shoot the bad guy until you just stop caring if they live. Visionary stuff.
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Watching 3:10 To Yuma for the first time. It's a Western about the largest group of good guys to ever not just shoot the bad guy until you just stop caring if they live. Visionary stuff.
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Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Congratulations to everyone on this list! What an amazing spread of works.
I actually just started reading @alixeharrow.bsky.social's EVERLASTING today and am already smitten by its vibes. It's a [redacted] good time.
I actually just started reading @alixeharrow.bsky.social's EVERLASTING today and am already smitten by its vibes. It's a [redacted] good time.
It’s Books We Love day! There are a ton of excellent titles to dig into, and I’m going to link the 8 books I wrote recommendations for in the thread below. apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Congratulations to everyone on this list! What an amazing spread of works.
I actually just started reading @alixeharrow.bsky.social's EVERLASTING today and am already smitten by its vibes. It's a [redacted] good time.
I actually just started reading @alixeharrow.bsky.social's EVERLASTING today and am already smitten by its vibes. It's a [redacted] good time.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
i'm brave enough to say it: the only good star trek is the last jedi
My hottest Star Trek take is that they should court martial whoever decided that holodecks should have an independent power supply that can't be rerouted to essential systems (like life support or even replicators) in an emergency.
Like... WTF?!?!
Like... WTF?!?!
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
i'm brave enough to say it: the only good star trek is the last jedi
Hiring Manager: What is your weakest quality?
Me: I take double damage from lightning, and I get stunned for two turns by ice spells.
Manager: Shit, same. And Claritan does jack.
Me: It does jack!
Me: I take double damage from lightning, and I get stunned for two turns by ice spells.
Manager: Shit, same. And Claritan does jack.
Me: It does jack!
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hiring Manager: What is your weakest quality?
Me: I take double damage from lightning, and I get stunned for two turns by ice spells.
Manager: Shit, same. And Claritan does jack.
Me: It does jack!
Me: I take double damage from lightning, and I get stunned for two turns by ice spells.
Manager: Shit, same. And Claritan does jack.
Me: It does jack!
Vampire's Best Friend has the cutest title screen I've ever seen.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Vampire's Best Friend has the cutest title screen I've ever seen.
Rest in Peace, Udo Kier, you fabulously weird actor.
Loved him ever since Blade.
Loved him ever since Blade.
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Rest in Peace, Udo Kier, you fabulously weird actor.
Loved him ever since Blade.
Loved him ever since Blade.
me too, terumaru, me too
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
me too, terumaru, me too
You Are Men, And While There Are Men, There Can Be No Peace, Charlie Brown
What does an eight thousand pound mako shark with a brain the size of a flathead V8 engine and no natural predators think about, Charlie Brown?
I am the one who knocks, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
You Are Men, And While There Are Men, There Can Be No Peace, Charlie Brown
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Thinking of making a horror movie about a man who keeps discovering 12-inch rulers in his home. It's a found footage film.
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thinking of making a horror movie about a man who keeps discovering 12-inch rulers in his home. It's a found footage film.
Crashing for hours from fever and worrying how I'll afford the next doctor visit, then waking to find the internet aflutter about rampant book piracy.
This is not my favorite night. I'm going back to bed.
This is not my favorite night. I'm going back to bed.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Crashing for hours from fever and worrying how I'll afford the next doctor visit, then waking to find the internet aflutter about rampant book piracy.
This is not my favorite night. I'm going back to bed.
This is not my favorite night. I'm going back to bed.
Founding Fathers (2026) by @megelison.bsky.social
I can't think of what would be the best Hark A Vagrant but everyone should know Kate Beaton
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Founding Fathers (2026) by @megelison.bsky.social
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We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
What people enjoy most about my feed is how professional it is.
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
What people enjoy most about my feed is how professional it is.
*spins this chair around* I heard you kids love getting "all bricked up," so you'll love The Cask of Amontillado.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
*spins this chair around* I heard you kids love getting "all bricked up," so you'll love The Cask of Amontillado.
All great stories share one special ingredient. Epic Fantasy? Steamy Romance? Hard SciFi? Look carefully and you'll find it: someone getting hit with a briefcase full of bees.
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
All great stories share one special ingredient. Epic Fantasy? Steamy Romance? Hard SciFi? Look carefully and you'll find it: someone getting hit with a briefcase full of bees.
I can’t remember the last time a game made me yell, “This kicks ass!”
Ragebound got me to yell it at least four times.
Kept me on the very edge of its ninja mechanics all the way through. Nothing is so rewarding as growing to intuit how the next challenge and then smashing it in the face.
Ragebound got me to yell it at least four times.
Kept me on the very edge of its ninja mechanics all the way through. Nothing is so rewarding as growing to intuit how the next challenge and then smashing it in the face.
Turns out the new Ninja Gaiden rips. I only had time to play the prologue at lunch, but it’s gorgeous and controls like an absolute dream. I wasn’t intending to play this, but I have no choice now.
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I can’t remember the last time a game made me yell, “This kicks ass!”
Ragebound got me to yell it at least four times.
Kept me on the very edge of its ninja mechanics all the way through. Nothing is so rewarding as growing to intuit how the next challenge and then smashing it in the face.
Ragebound got me to yell it at least four times.
Kept me on the very edge of its ninja mechanics all the way through. Nothing is so rewarding as growing to intuit how the next challenge and then smashing it in the face.
Medical status update:
The Transformers Megatron GIF
Alt: The Transformer Megatron fighting to sit up, saying, "Wait! I still function!"
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Medical status update:
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PSA: take your turkey out of the freezer, kittens.
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
PSA: take your turkey out of the freezer, kittens.
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I didn’t realized this had gone live but it seems that you can now read my flash, “What Happened That Night,” at Short Edition.
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
What Happened That Night
Josh is gone, but I see him everywhere. Even now, it's his reflection I see in the puddle as the storm brings me back to reality. I shiver. Seems I'm always cold these days. I need to get my shit
short-edition.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I didn’t realized this had gone live but it seems that you can now read my flash, “What Happened That Night,” at Short Edition.
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
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ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.
My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.
STOP ACTING SURPRISED THAT A MAN LANDED ON THE MOON
i love how bsky posters are so eager to appear worldly and wise that they'll jump to say "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED????" to the craziest shit that's ever happened. if bluesky existed on 9/11/01 you fucking bet these people would out here with "obviously, everyone with a brain cell could see this coming"
does mamdani smell really good in person or something. like he seems very charming yes but what the fuck lol
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 AM
STOP ACTING SURPRISED THAT A MAN LANDED ON THE MOON