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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 · 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)!

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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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1h

I would certainly watch another, especially with Crowe and Bettany back. Although I fear it would be a fog of bad CGI.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1h

I enjoyed the movie a lot, but it didn't feel like it needed a sequel. It tells its story. Quite happy they made it at all, as it feels like that era of filmmaking had already ended when they did. What a passion project!

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1h

Turns out it's great!

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1h

hello!!

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1h

IT ME

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1h

The majority of the country couldn't be bothered to vaccinate annually but they're looking at disabled people masking like we're the problem?

Nah, bud. I don't have patience for it anymore.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1h

Minnmax did a video at one of these places. It looked fun!

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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social · 2h

No.

Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".

It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.

And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2h

Is it exclusive to Crunchyroll...?

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2h

This is what they've done.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · 6h

less than a month to go. come get y'all food

Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Aug 11

Preorder links for THE KING MUST DIE, my science fantasy novel about found family, revolution, and second chances are live! Submit receipts via this form to receive a digital poster, drawn by the incredible Eepz.

www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...

Digital poster promotion. The poster, featuring the four main characters of The King Must Die, was drawn by the incredible Eepz! They're on Twitter/X and Tumblr.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 5h

This is what they've done.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 8h

Important content.

Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 8h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 8h

They saved mine.

Serendi Pity @serendipitt.bsky.social · 8h

Novels, stories (broadly - stories we tell, we play, we read in comic form) may save life.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 8h

I know exactly who is getting this as a Christmas present.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 8h

Danny!!!!

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 9h

HAHA THE FAMILIAR IS OUT THE BAG

I got to cowrite AGATHA HARKNESS’ official grimoire with Andrea Hannah!

And maybe… a Scarlet Witch and a Sorcerer Supreme make an appearance…

Christopher Helton @dorkland.itch.io · 9h

What?

@weredawgz.blacksky.app!

Take an exclusive peek inside The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness

www.polygon.com

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 15h

This freshly-hatched horror story has possibly my favorite title of any story I've ever written. I give you....

"Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead"

Free to read, at @nightmare-magazine.com !!

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/cour...

Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine

Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10h

This is what they've done.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 11h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11h

I could really do without this migraine vibrating in my teeth. Doesn't the migraine know I have deadlines?

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11h

Look at you! Remembering her!!

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11h

Read Read Books Books

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 14h

The best thing you can do for your writing is to take good care of yourself. The work comes easier, faster, and better when you've got full bars.

Corollary: The best thing we can do to get more amazing art from our faves is to take good care of the artists.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 15h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 13h

We're all made of stories.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 15h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.