I should have posted about this last week, but it took me a while to process. Even after nearly a week I am rather speechless that Black Hole Heart and Other Stories is a World Fantasy Award finalist in the Collection category! Huge congratulations to the brilliant K.A. Teryna, to our publisher Patrick Swenson of [ ]
Planets is officially out today! If you haven t preordered a copy for some strange reason, go get it now! It s available most places, though a couple of audiobook vendors are still behind in making the files available. If you DID preorder it and you read it, would you please take a moment to review it, [ ]
Ahead of the book launch tomorrow, I am doing loads of cool media stuff. Two podcasts dropped between Friday and today where you can listen to me talk about writing humor, Voltaire, and other fun things: Writers of the Future Podcast: Amusing Jews Podcast: Enjoy and don t forget to snag a copy of Planets if [ ]
I am curating a humor Storybundle! It features funny books from some of my favorite authors, and you can get the entire bundle for as little as $30! That s just $2 per book, or the price of a cup of coffee (in 2019). Seriously you can get all of these for the price of like [ ]
Happy book birthday to Unidentified Funny Objects 10! With nearly 1000 copies preordered via Kickstarter, our own website, Amazon, and book stores, this may be the strongest launch in the series yet. The ebook is presently live on all of the platforms below (and I will edit the post as more platforms approve it). The [ ]
I will be a guest at the literary festival in Ruse this coming weekend, where I will participate on panels, do a reading and a kaffeeklatch. If you happen to be in that part of Europe, I hope you will consider attending! https://fantasyriver.libruse.bg
I have a new story out at Nature today. It s about AI, unhinged billionaires, and goldfish. You know; science fiction. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01077-8 ETA: Use the link below to read the story for free, without a subscription: https://rdcu.be/fimZC
The Digital Aesthete, an anthology about the intersection of AI and art (written by humans!) is now available in China from the Shanghai Translation Publishing House and in collaboration with the Future Affairs Administration. The Mandarin Chinese edition of the book is called AI Masters and here s the cover: If, for some reason, you cannot [ ]
The Kickstarter ends tomorrow (Thursday) evening, so this is your last chance to get on board. Backers will receive the ebooks significantly ahead of the release date, with print and audio books to follow as they are completed. Don t miss out on the rewards (and the opportunity to support me as the author as well [ ]
The Best of All Possible Planets has entered its final week on Kickstarter and as I write this we re presently at 71% funded. Kickstarter is all about the first 48 hours and the last 48 hours and everything else is a slog, but it s still tough to watch the numbers climb slowly, not knowing whether [ ]