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John Wiswell

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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 · 28d

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)!

A cover illustrated by James Fenner. A woman with long red hair and padded clothing sits on the ground, petting the head of a smiling serpentine dragon. But the dragon has more than one head! On the left, a second giant dragon head emerges, frowning, looking at her while wearing a monocle. On the right, a third giant dragon head emerges, jaws wide, screaming in anger. The text is teal, contrasting sharply against the red and maroon of the creatures. The text on the cover reads "THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS. JOHN WISWELL, author of the Nebula and Locus Award-winning SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN."

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 4h

This is what they've done.

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 19h

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 19h

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 4h

This is what they've done.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17h

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 4h

@lynnemthomas.com Happy birthday, Lynne!

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 6h

If Team Cherry patches in letting you pet her, this is hands-down GOTY.

Tyler Is Here 🦎 @wolpard.bsky.social · 16h

Me: how do I have so many hours in Silksong while still in act 2???

Also me:

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 6h

Beautiful. This was the greatest innovation in Lost Crown.

Rosarie Maria🦐 @fatamorgana.bsky.social · 12h

lowkey kind of crazy: someone has made a mod that adds the "screenshot pin" feature from the most recent Prince of Persia game to Silksong www.nexusmods.com/hollowknight...

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 9h

There's at least one good thing in this world.

That thing is that you're in it.

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Scissors @rningscissors.bsky.social · 1d

I love librarians

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13h

Have any Greek critics written or opined about Hades 2? Would love some links.

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 18h

I'm not saying I've got Lists of Queer Adult SFF for Bookshop's free shipping days, but
bookshop.org/shop/queerad...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13h

And happy book day to John Hornor Jacobs's THE NIGHT THAT FINDS US ALL!

John Hornor Jacobs @johnhornor.bsky.social · 19h

If you count a chapbook I released early in my career (which I do), and a novel I wrote pseudonymously (a football novel of all things) today marks the publication of my thirteenth novel in English. It’s called The Night That Finds Us All and is available wherever scary books are sold

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13h

Happy book day to Paul Jessup's CANCER EATS THE HEART!

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 21h

HEY IT'S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY

YESSSS

Cancer Eats the Heart is out in the world! Disabled, dying, and chronically ill turn to vampirism as a cure, only to be hunted by twisted vampire hunters for their bones

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Cancer Eats the Heart

For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren’t the strangest things she’s ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adole…

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13h

If your book can cure a bot of urinary tract issues, I'll take three!

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14h

I don't believe in free will. A good lawyer charges to draft one of those.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 14h

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18h

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

Wearing the Lion

Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

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