Karen Osborne
@karenosborne.bsky.social
Velocity girl. Honey badger. A/V hooligan. Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon finalist. Violin & theremin. Author: THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN from Erewhon ('27), ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY & ENGINES OF OBLIVION from Tor. Ad astra via caffeine. Rep: Dorian Maffei, KC&A
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Erewhon Books Announces The Hollow Crown of Heaven by Karen Osborne - Reactor
A necromancer and a gunslinger find themselves at the center of a centuries-old conspiracy...
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I am ✨twitterpated✨ to announce that my novel THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN will be published by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! This is my Bridgerton Borg Battlestar book, the one I wrote when I decided to stop holding back and started embracing my inner necromancer. 😍 reactormag.com/book-announc...
It took me 45 years to realize that this poem was about suicidal ideation.
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
(Robert Frost)
🎨 Theodor Kittelsen
#wintersky
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
(Robert Frost)
🎨 Theodor Kittelsen
#wintersky
December 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It took me 45 years to realize that this poem was about suicidal ideation.
So uh someone tell Roger that just because we can see that eggs are $7 a dozen doesn't mean that the prices are coming down
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
So uh someone tell Roger that just because we can see that eggs are $7 a dozen doesn't mean that the prices are coming down
short notice that I can’t nominate or participate in the Nebulas or Hugos this year because I don’t have enough $$$ to be involved in either org. I’m hoping this will change in the New Year but right now don’t waste your time DMing or sending me @s, as I can’t help 😭
December 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
short notice that I can’t nominate or participate in the Nebulas or Hugos this year because I don’t have enough $$$ to be involved in either org. I’m hoping this will change in the New Year but right now don’t waste your time DMing or sending me @s, as I can’t help 😭
Do not ask strangers questions while they’re in the bathroom stall, oh my gawd
NO
NO
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Do not ask strangers questions while they’re in the bathroom stall, oh my gawd
NO
NO
Me: Kiddo has a play date upstairs, I’m ready for three hours of WRITING
Basement: *floods*
Basement: *floods*
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Me: Kiddo has a play date upstairs, I’m ready for three hours of WRITING
Basement: *floods*
Basement: *floods*
at this point if i was making star trek i'd just make what i wanted and not listen to any of the fans b/c no matter what happens they're going to complain
a man is holding a harp and saying may i inquire as to who filled
ALT: a man is holding a harp and saying may i inquire as to who filled
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
at this point if i was making star trek i'd just make what i wanted and not listen to any of the fans b/c no matter what happens they're going to complain
It's just scams all the way down, isn't it.
December 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's just scams all the way down, isn't it.
Heads up writers!
New extortion scam email going round (this was received via a writer's website contact form). I've seen a number of these recently but without the money demand; the translation angle is also a new one
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Heads up writers!
ADHD means that I have to pay for my gas outside even if I go into the shop for coffee, because the act of getting coffee WILL short-circuit my executive function and I will forget to pay for the gas and the counter dude will have to remind me.
It’s not laziness. It’s a real thing.
It’s not laziness. It’s a real thing.
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
ADHD means that I have to pay for my gas outside even if I go into the shop for coffee, because the act of getting coffee WILL short-circuit my executive function and I will forget to pay for the gas and the counter dude will have to remind me.
It’s not laziness. It’s a real thing.
It’s not laziness. It’s a real thing.
aaaaaand we’re locked in for the LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE SEMESTER
I will be comatose all day on the 13th
I will be comatose all day on the 13th
December 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
aaaaaand we’re locked in for the LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE SEMESTER
I will be comatose all day on the 13th
I will be comatose all day on the 13th
Friends. FRIENDS. One pkg firm tofu, 2.5 cups flour, 1 tsp salt, 1 tbsp water. Make dough. Cut noodles using kitchen scissors or knife. Boil 5-7 minutes.
My picky eater noodles only kid never knew the difference. She ate it all.
I AM MOM GOD
My picky eater noodles only kid never knew the difference. She ate it all.
I AM MOM GOD
November 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Friends. FRIENDS. One pkg firm tofu, 2.5 cups flour, 1 tsp salt, 1 tbsp water. Make dough. Cut noodles using kitchen scissors or knife. Boil 5-7 minutes.
My picky eater noodles only kid never knew the difference. She ate it all.
I AM MOM GOD
My picky eater noodles only kid never knew the difference. She ate it all.
I AM MOM GOD
It's Black Friday! Get some cool adventure scifi novels that you'll either LOVE or HATE. Seriously, there's no in-between on Goodreads. You'll be doing Natalie Chan fanart or tossing 'em out. Start here: www.amazon.com/Architects-M...
(sry for the Amazon link, it's the only place it's still avail)
(sry for the Amazon link, it's the only place it's still avail)
Architects of Memory (The Memory War, 1)
Amazon.com: Architects of Memory (The Memory War, 1): 9781250215475: Osborne, Karen: Books
www.amazon.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's Black Friday! Get some cool adventure scifi novels that you'll either LOVE or HATE. Seriously, there's no in-between on Goodreads. You'll be doing Natalie Chan fanart or tossing 'em out. Start here: www.amazon.com/Architects-M...
(sry for the Amazon link, it's the only place it's still avail)
(sry for the Amazon link, it's the only place it's still avail)
So let's say I think I broke one of the knuckles in my foot. Do I go to the urgent care riiiiiight now or do I wait until after work?
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
So let's say I think I broke one of the knuckles in my foot. Do I go to the urgent care riiiiiight now or do I wait until after work?
Hello new followers! I'm a novelist with a dayjob and I get an average of five hours of sleep a night. I do algorithmically-correct corporate social media for a living, so what I like to do here is be myself.
Your mileage may vary.
Your mileage may vary.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hello new followers! I'm a novelist with a dayjob and I get an average of five hours of sleep a night. I do algorithmically-correct corporate social media for a living, so what I like to do here is be myself.
Your mileage may vary.
Your mileage may vary.
4am cat cares not for your novel edits
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
4am cat cares not for your novel edits
New writers: DO NOT give away your subsidiary tv/film/merch/derivative rights for a $300 short.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New writers: DO NOT give away your subsidiary tv/film/merch/derivative rights for a $300 short.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
Not even for legacy mag cred.
Never going to forget being on a panel about audio/video production as an event video professional with a real honest to god live video production business and getting talked over the entire time by three old white guys who had occasional podcasts they made in their living rooms
I think science fiction needs a resection/excision. The old white male "fans" are a tumor on the genre. A very malignant tumor.
What do we do with tumors? Cut them out.
Conventions, stop inviting these racist, sexist, hateful people to be on panels. You know who these people are, or can find out.
What do we do with tumors? Cut them out.
Conventions, stop inviting these racist, sexist, hateful people to be on panels. You know who these people are, or can find out.
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Never going to forget being on a panel about audio/video production as an event video professional with a real honest to god live video production business and getting talked over the entire time by three old white guys who had occasional podcasts they made in their living rooms
the other thing I realized while watching HADESTOWN was that I’m probably never going to get the chance to do theater again
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
the other thing I realized while watching HADESTOWN was that I’m probably never going to get the chance to do theater again
The problem with leaving things for Monday Karen is that Monday always comes
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The problem with leaving things for Monday Karen is that Monday always comes
So much of my life makes sense if I look at it through a lens of being a neurodivergent child that was simply never diagnosed because girls in the eighties "couldn't be" neurodivergent -- and as a result spent thousands of hours figuring out how to mask enough to get along (1/?)
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So much of my life makes sense if I look at it through a lens of being a neurodivergent child that was simply never diagnosed because girls in the eighties "couldn't be" neurodivergent -- and as a result spent thousands of hours figuring out how to mask enough to get along (1/?)
Just saw a community theater teen version of HADESTOWN where the entire audience was openly weeping at the end.
I don’t know what else to say but
Art for everyone all the time
I don’t know what else to say but
Art for everyone all the time
November 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Just saw a community theater teen version of HADESTOWN where the entire audience was openly weeping at the end.
I don’t know what else to say but
Art for everyone all the time
I don’t know what else to say but
Art for everyone all the time
Reposted by Karen Osborne
“Is there such a thing as 'Indian' science fiction? A short history and new anthology of speculative writing from India” —
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Is there such a thing as 'Indian' science fiction? A short history and new anthology of speculative writing from India” —
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...
A new interview with @moneycontrol.bsky.social on the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF and the history of Indian SFF.
This is how you get what you want when you’re a writer with a dayjob and a family. No residencies, no grants, no sabbaticals. Just four ayem, your half-hour lunch, and a little too much caffeine.
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is how you get what you want when you’re a writer with a dayjob and a family. No residencies, no grants, no sabbaticals. Just four ayem, your half-hour lunch, and a little too much caffeine.
Especially in an industry where meeting expectations is often not enough!
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Especially in an industry where meeting expectations is often not enough!
Reposted by Karen Osborne
"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
THIS
THIS
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
THIS
THIS