David Jón Fuller 🇨🇦
@davidjonfuller.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Interested in history, knitting, baking, cycling infrastructure, not necessarily in that order. Talar smá íslensku. He/him.
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Some big writing news: my debut novel, VENUE 13, will be published by Ravenstone in 2026!
Read the official announcement here: www.turnstonepress.com/news/in-the-...
Read the official announcement here: www.turnstonepress.com/news/in-the-...
This is absolutely mind-blowing (I say, as someone whose knowledge of soil is generally confined to gardening and/or curbing erosion) and also GOOD NEWS. Thanks, interdisciplinary cooperation! Read on:
An agricultural scientist and a seismologist walk into a bar
Wonderful story of interdisciplinary friendship, inspiration, and innovation
Wonderful story of interdisciplinary friendship, inspiration, and innovation
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is absolutely mind-blowing (I say, as someone whose knowledge of soil is generally confined to gardening and/or curbing erosion) and also GOOD NEWS. Thanks, interdisciplinary cooperation! Read on:
If you follow @jlizhill.bsky.social , you are following an amazing writer who occasionally shares evocative snippets like this:
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you follow @jlizhill.bsky.social , you are following an amazing writer who occasionally shares evocative snippets like this:
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Over on Bookbrowse, I'm doing a Q&A about The Tapestry of Time for the next couple of days: community.bookbrowse.com/t/bookbrowse...
BookBrowsers ask Kate Heartfield, author of Tapestry of Time
Hi Kim! I’m thrilled to be here. This morning, I’m in my favourite coffee shop just outside Ottawa, Canada, with a latte, a friend, and my laptop. It’s chilly! I’m working on the first draft of a nov...
community.bookbrowse.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Over on Bookbrowse, I'm doing a Q&A about The Tapestry of Time for the next couple of days: community.bookbrowse.com/t/bookbrowse...
I recommend this whole thread by @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social regarelss of whether you're working/writing in the romance genre, but this especially hits hard:
And because for all our sakes I'm trying for brevity, I'll finish by noting that, a big part of why romance remains successful is because it foregrounds (primarily) women getting to be three-dimensional people with functional agency. Something many other genres historically don't do so well...
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I recommend this whole thread by @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social regarelss of whether you're working/writing in the romance genre, but this especially hits hard:
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Listen, Gen AI is garbage. If you use it, you should feel bad.
Trans rights are human rights.
Vaccines are GOOD. They save lives.
Libraries are AWESOME.
Drink your water. Take your meds.
Science is the shit.
The arts are the soul of us.
Disagree? Unfollow me and frak off. Capisce?
Trans rights are human rights.
Vaccines are GOOD. They save lives.
Libraries are AWESOME.
Drink your water. Take your meds.
Science is the shit.
The arts are the soul of us.
Disagree? Unfollow me and frak off. Capisce?
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Listen, Gen AI is garbage. If you use it, you should feel bad.
Trans rights are human rights.
Vaccines are GOOD. They save lives.
Libraries are AWESOME.
Drink your water. Take your meds.
Science is the shit.
The arts are the soul of us.
Disagree? Unfollow me and frak off. Capisce?
Trans rights are human rights.
Vaccines are GOOD. They save lives.
Libraries are AWESOME.
Drink your water. Take your meds.
Science is the shit.
The arts are the soul of us.
Disagree? Unfollow me and frak off. Capisce?
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Oh shit viral post, buy my book. It's dark fantasy, with the twist that the protagonist is a dragon:
saffron-drake.itch.io/chained-flame
books2read.com/u/mKMan9
saffron-drake.itch.io/chained-flame
books2read.com/u/mKMan9
Chained Flame by Saffron Drake
Dark fantasy with a dragon protagonist
saffron-drake.itch.io
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Oh shit viral post, buy my book. It's dark fantasy, with the twist that the protagonist is a dragon:
saffron-drake.itch.io/chained-flame
books2read.com/u/mKMan9
saffron-drake.itch.io/chained-flame
books2read.com/u/mKMan9
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Its time! The Beast Breaches is live!
For over 300 years Marrowmont has bound an extra-dimensional beast, now free by traitor's hand. And if the city falls, reality goes with it.
9.2k of WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD!
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/the-b...
huldrahouse.itch.io/the-beast-br...
For over 300 years Marrowmont has bound an extra-dimensional beast, now free by traitor's hand. And if the city falls, reality goes with it.
9.2k of WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD!
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/the-b...
huldrahouse.itch.io/the-beast-br...
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Its time! The Beast Breaches is live!
For over 300 years Marrowmont has bound an extra-dimensional beast, now free by traitor's hand. And if the city falls, reality goes with it.
9.2k of WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD!
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/the-b...
huldrahouse.itch.io/the-beast-br...
For over 300 years Marrowmont has bound an extra-dimensional beast, now free by traitor's hand. And if the city falls, reality goes with it.
9.2k of WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD!
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/the-b...
huldrahouse.itch.io/the-beast-br...
This is an amazing collection. Read it!
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is an amazing collection. Read it!
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Lovely work by @jillbergman.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Lovely work by @jillbergman.bsky.social
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Reposting with Alt text (this one is too good to miss!)
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposting with Alt text (this one is too good to miss!)
Very much worth a watch.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Very much worth a watch.
In the afterlife maybe I'll hang with Dickens and Douglas Adams and we'll just come up with ridiculous names for everyone
learned today that charles dickens nicknamed his youngest son “Plorn”
well, not entirely true. the original nickname was Mr. Plornishmaroontigoonter which he then shortened to The Noble Plorn and then dropped the Noble part and later wrote about how Plorn seemed to have been “born without a groove”
well, not entirely true. the original nickname was Mr. Plornishmaroontigoonter which he then shortened to The Noble Plorn and then dropped the Noble part and later wrote about how Plorn seemed to have been “born without a groove”
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In the afterlife maybe I'll hang with Dickens and Douglas Adams and we'll just come up with ridiculous names for everyone
It's too early in the morning for me be attacked like this, and yet —
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It's too early in the morning for me be attacked like this, and yet —
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#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1
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#Booksky Have you visited DriveThruFiction? Our queer books are part of the Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale! Get your sapphic steampunk, gay gaslamp mystery, piratical and other reads on! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/publisher...
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#Booksky Have you visited DriveThruFiction? Our queer books are part of the Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale! Get your sapphic steampunk, gay gaslamp mystery, piratical and other reads on! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/publisher...
Can confirm, Daniel is a great editor to work with!
The man’s a legend. Don’t pass this up.
I'm available for developmental edits on full and partial manuscripts for a limited time! Full details here:
open.substack.com/pub/danieljo...
open.substack.com/pub/danieljo...
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Can confirm, Daniel is a great editor to work with!
Me last night, printing out my MS so I can do final edits/proofing: dang, running out of toner, better get some in the morning ASAP
Me tonight, printing the rest of the MS: dang, running out of paper, better get some in the morning OH HELL WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS AT THE STORE
Me tonight, printing the rest of the MS: dang, running out of paper, better get some in the morning OH HELL WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS AT THE STORE
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Me last night, printing out my MS so I can do final edits/proofing: dang, running out of toner, better get some in the morning ASAP
Me tonight, printing the rest of the MS: dang, running out of paper, better get some in the morning OH HELL WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS AT THE STORE
Me tonight, printing the rest of the MS: dang, running out of paper, better get some in the morning OH HELL WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS AT THE STORE
Great thread here by @alyssaharad.bsky.social and if you haven't already, order your next book from your local independent bookseller or request it at the library. You get a book; the author gets support to keep writing
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great thread here by @alyssaharad.bsky.social and if you haven't already, order your next book from your local independent bookseller or request it at the library. You get a book; the author gets support to keep writing
Really great thread here from @kateheartfield.com
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Really great thread here from @kateheartfield.com
I love when people recommend books on here, and @kameronhurley.com points to some really thought-provoking reads:
This book has been so soothing. I have probably learned more about the foreign policies that shape the world just in the first three chapters than I have in at least the last 15 years of news media. 🙃 It's helped clarify a lot of the absolutely batshit nonsense of the current timeline. COMFORT READ
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I love when people recommend books on here, and @kameronhurley.com points to some really thought-provoking reads:
@jlizhill.bsky.social Happy Friday, Liz!
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
@jlizhill.bsky.social Happy Friday, Liz!
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I used to think I didn’t like board games or a lot of games really, then I found out that I just don’t like having to learn how to play a game from people who are bad at explaining it. And because some don’t know, you can play a game very well AND be bad at explaining how to play the game.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I used to think I didn’t like board games or a lot of games really, then I found out that I just don’t like having to learn how to play a game from people who are bad at explaining it. And because some don’t know, you can play a game very well AND be bad at explaining how to play the game.
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This is an excellent book that I recommend to people all the time. Get yourself the new edition.
Just want to point out that "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada" has a new edition coming out in the spring of 2026 with a much expanded exploration of administrative definitions of Indigenous folks (and more).
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is an excellent book that I recommend to people all the time. Get yourself the new edition.
Hey english-folklores, new Good Place curse just dropped
this kid is going places. "english folklore" has the same syllables and stress pattern as "motherfucker", not to mention "folk" does the same labial-dental-fricative-to-velar-plosive thing that "fuck" does, and "lore" neatly takes the place of "-er."
My 7 year old just reached for a piece of pizza fresh out of the oven and exclaimed, in the same tone as an adult swearing…
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hey english-folklores, new Good Place curse just dropped