Dylan Haston
@glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
all pronouns . assistant to Cameron McClure . literary agent at Donald Maass Literary Agency . closed to unsolicited queries, but check back https://maassagency.com/dylan-haston/ https://QueryTracker.net/query/3919
For my money, the *definitive* year-end round-up.
Had a lot of fun talking to @casella.bsky.social on @mealofthorns.bsky.social about the year - in books, in the editing mines, in genre (and para-genre).
Come for the general themes, stay for the book recs. Or, y’know, vice versa. And ask yourself, Sisyphus-like: what use is a year wrap-up anyway?
Come for the general themes, stay for the book recs. Or, y’know, vice versa. And ask yourself, Sisyphus-like: what use is a year wrap-up anyway?
A Meal of Thorns 40- 2025 Wrap-Up with Dan Hartland
We’re closing out this strange year with a “big-picture” episode: editor & critic Dan Hartland is on to talk about trends and directions—or lack thereof—in recent …
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December 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
For my money, the *definitive* year-end round-up.
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Good thread
There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Good thread
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To restore cosmic balance after the Tor novella sweep, we must engineer a New Directions sweep
I mean ... I do admire the faith in humanity that leads you to believe that Hugo nominators will ever nominate a nyrb book!
May 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
To restore cosmic balance after the Tor novella sweep, we must engineer a New Directions sweep
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An absolutely amazing book. Incredibly well written, weird, atmospheric. Ennes is a writer in complete control of their craft.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
An absolutely amazing book. Incredibly well written, weird, atmospheric. Ennes is a writer in complete control of their craft.
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TODAY'S THE LAST DAY!! Join in the fun before 11:59PM ET tonight!
Book people! Music people! There are less than TWO DAYS left to be part of the #Kickstarter for the orchestrated audiobook of The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming!
If you've backed, THANK YOU!
If you're thinking about it, NOW IS YOUR MOMENT!
Check out the demo here: tinyurl.com/hgth-audio
If you've backed, THANK YOU!
If you're thinking about it, NOW IS YOUR MOMENT!
Check out the demo here: tinyurl.com/hgth-audio
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
TODAY'S THE LAST DAY!! Join in the fun before 11:59PM ET tonight!
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MAD SISTERS OF ESI is one of The Washington Post’s 10 best SFF novels of 2025. In the sheer amount of what gets published each year and what gets lost, this feels like a small, precious miracle ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
MAD SISTERS OF ESI is one of The Washington Post’s 10 best SFF novels of 2025. In the sheer amount of what gets published each year and what gets lost, this feels like a small, precious miracle ❤️
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💀 Eight more days to send us your speculative novellas! 💀
Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy:
COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles
LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone
HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho
Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy:
COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles
LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone
HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho
whoa october is around the corner!
reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.
more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.
more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
October 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
💀 Eight more days to send us your speculative novellas! 💀
Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy:
COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles
LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone
HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho
Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy:
COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles
LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone
HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
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I sincerely think this is the best music video of all time
D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
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October 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I sincerely think this is the best music video of all time
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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
This book is so amazing and I can’t wait for folks to read it!!!
September 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This book is so amazing and I can’t wait for folks to read it!!!
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Big news: I am AGENTED!!
Delighted to announce I'm officially repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at Donald Maass Literary Agency. But most importantly, I've signed alongside my incredible writing partner @faye-gabriel.bsky.social 💜💜💜
It can happen, folks. Just need to find your people ☺️
Delighted to announce I'm officially repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at Donald Maass Literary Agency. But most importantly, I've signed alongside my incredible writing partner @faye-gabriel.bsky.social 💜💜💜
It can happen, folks. Just need to find your people ☺️
September 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Big news: I am AGENTED!!
Delighted to announce I'm officially repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at Donald Maass Literary Agency. But most importantly, I've signed alongside my incredible writing partner @faye-gabriel.bsky.social 💜💜💜
It can happen, folks. Just need to find your people ☺️
Delighted to announce I'm officially repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at Donald Maass Literary Agency. But most importantly, I've signed alongside my incredible writing partner @faye-gabriel.bsky.social 💜💜💜
It can happen, folks. Just need to find your people ☺️
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Trace Elements, a collection of essays about the Project of Science Fiction, by me and @adapalmer.bsky.social coming out March 24th 2026, available now for pre-order from all good bookstores www.amazon.com/Trace-Elemen...
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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September 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trace Elements, a collection of essays about the Project of Science Fiction, by me and @adapalmer.bsky.social coming out March 24th 2026, available now for pre-order from all good bookstores www.amazon.com/Trace-Elemen...
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Notes from a Regicide is still on sale for $3 on Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2xx5bch9 and Kindle: tinyurl.com/9zkt4khd. Sale ends on Sunday, so pick it up now if you want it!
Notes from a Regicide
Check out Notes from a Regicide - <p>“Few capture the grubbiness of intimacy — and the starchy scent of home — as well as Fellman does in his depiction of his characters’ trans family. Magnificent, he...
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September 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Notes from a Regicide is still on sale for $3 on Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2xx5bch9 and Kindle: tinyurl.com/9zkt4khd. Sale ends on Sunday, so pick it up now if you want it!
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Hey hey hey! My new novel Everybody's Perfect is available to preorder with a release date of June 30th 2026! (I'm linking to Amazon but you can preorder it from anywhere good books are sold) www.amazon.com/Everybodys-P...
Everybody's Perfect
Everybody's Perfect - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Everybody's Perfect.
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September 1, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Hey hey hey! My new novel Everybody's Perfect is available to preorder with a release date of June 30th 2026! (I'm linking to Amazon but you can preorder it from anywhere good books are sold) www.amazon.com/Everybodys-P...
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There’s disempowerment in filling kids’ lives w/ stories in media whose vast production costs mean kids have nearly no chance of ever creating one in response. Consuming mainly screen media then trying to reply in prose leaves one floundering w/ unfamiliar tools. Reading empowers reciprocal creation
August 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There’s disempowerment in filling kids’ lives w/ stories in media whose vast production costs mean kids have nearly no chance of ever creating one in response. Consuming mainly screen media then trying to reply in prose leaves one floundering w/ unfamiliar tools. Reading empowers reciprocal creation
Read this book if you trust my recommendations even the smallest amount. It is so good, so precious, so wonderful.
Mad Sisters of Esi by @tashanmehta.bsky.social is finally out today! Susanna Clarke's Piranesi meets Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler in this stunning meta fantasy about the power of stories, belief, and sisterhood ✨🐋🌸
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August 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Read this book if you trust my recommendations even the smallest amount. It is so good, so precious, so wonderful.
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The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do.
My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
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July 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
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Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come.
translatedhugo.org
translatedhugo.org
The Translated Hugo Initiative
Putting the World in Worldcon
translatedhugo.org
July 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come.
translatedhugo.org
translatedhugo.org
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🚨Giveaway Alert! Enter on StoryGraph for a chance to win an advanced copy of Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta and House of Dusk by Deva Fagan. Open US only. Ends 7/18.
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June 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🚨Giveaway Alert! Enter on StoryGraph for a chance to win an advanced copy of Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta and House of Dusk by Deva Fagan. Open US only. Ends 7/18.
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This shortlist is consistently amazing, and this year y’all knocked it out of the park!
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
June 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This shortlist is consistently amazing, and this year y’all knocked it out of the park!
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EXCITING NEWS!!! I am now repped by Dylan Haston @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at Donald Maass Literary Agency!
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June 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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he was Native American too: Comanche. freaking TIRED of us being one of the highest statistics to succumb to homicide.
"U.S. DOJ report: From 1992–2002, the rate of violent crime against Natives aged 25–34 years was more than 2.5 times the rate for all people of the same age."
"U.S. DOJ report: From 1992–2002, the rate of violent crime against Natives aged 25–34 years was more than 2.5 times the rate for all people of the same age."
Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.
I'm so angry.
I'm so angry.
June 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
he was Native American too: Comanche. freaking TIRED of us being one of the highest statistics to succumb to homicide.
"U.S. DOJ report: From 1992–2002, the rate of violent crime against Natives aged 25–34 years was more than 2.5 times the rate for all people of the same age."
"U.S. DOJ report: From 1992–2002, the rate of violent crime against Natives aged 25–34 years was more than 2.5 times the rate for all people of the same age."
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During his graduation speech, NYU student Logan Rozos condemned Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the U.S. role in funding it. The university responded by withholding his diploma, calling his remarks “one-sided” and accusing him of “abusing a privilege.”
May 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
During his graduation speech, NYU student Logan Rozos condemned Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the U.S. role in funding it. The university responded by withholding his diploma, calling his remarks “one-sided” and accusing him of “abusing a privilege.”