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Kelly Robson
@kellyrobson.com
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Science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, High Times in the Low Parliament, A Human Stain, Waters of Versailles https://kellyrobson.com/books

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she/her in Toronto, Canada
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · Sep 11
I wrote books. I'm writing more.
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Today is our 37th wedding anniversary! I looked long and hard for a recent selfie that didn't make @alyxdellamonica.bsky.social and me look drunk and/or criminal, and this is the best I could find.
In front of an evergreen dusted with snow, two people wearing glasses (a woman and an non binary person) are dressed in bright red parkas and smile at the camera from under their hoods
January 21, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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So grateful for my big down-filled winter coat this morning. Cold and windy. Ugh. But at least it’s sunny out.
January 20, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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This is the second (of two!) issue of the Deadlands for which I was guest editor for fiction! Stories by Alan Fisher, Marischa Pichette, Dmitri Akers, Jeremy Morris, Joe Koch, Aliya Whiteley, and Sadoeuphemist, and with another lovely, stark cover from @carlydraws.bsky.social
Cover art for Deadlands issue 41, Winter 2026. The cover art by Carly A-F shows a lone figure heading up a twisting path to a giant skull-shaped mountain under a cloudy, turbulent night sky. Author names on the cover are Suttee, Lee, Koch, Morris, lindsey, Akers, Whitely, Pichette, Fisher, Sadoeuphemist, Mani
January 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover drilled into Mars’s Jezero crater and pulled up a piece of mudstone covered in markings that resemble those left behind by metabolizing microbes on Earth. More investigation is needed but still, the finds are incredibly exciting.
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January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it
Screenshot: serialephemera Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part! should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.
January 18, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Sheila is such an important part of our SFF world. There's a link in the Locus article to send her a note, so please do.
jasonsanford.bsky.social Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 8d
If you haven't already done so, please write a positive note or story for @sheilawilliams.bsky.social as she recovers from a brain aneurysm. Sheila Williams is an amazing person and editor. The SF/F genre wouldn’t be what it is today without her decades of hard work.
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Asimov’s Editor Sheila Williams Hospitalized
The Must Read Books Team has shared that Sheila Williams, editor of Asimov’s, has been hospitalized after suffering a brain aneurysm. Asimov’s senior managing editor Emily Hockaday will…
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January 15, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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If you haven't already done so, please write a positive note or story for @sheilawilliams.bsky.social as she recovers from a brain aneurysm. Sheila Williams is an amazing person and editor. The SF/F genre wouldn’t be what it is today without her decades of hard work.
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Asimov’s Editor Sheila Williams Hospitalized
The Must Read Books Team has shared that Sheila Williams, editor of Asimov’s, has been hospitalized after suffering a brain aneurysm. Asimov’s senior managing editor Emily Hockaday will…
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January 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Hamilton friends, Sharp Words is coming up at the end of the month and we're hoping you can come out and visit us. We'll be at the Bridgeworks, 200 Caroline Street North, from 11 to 5 on Saturday, January 31st, with some great small press friends! We'd love to see you there!
January 14, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Every dentist visit I’m reminded. Dental health is health. It should be covered at all levels. People shouldn’t have to choose the cheapest option to *restore their ability to chew*.

Nor suffer in pain until it reaches a threshold their coverage deems "necessary."

I will not be taking questions.
January 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Today I get to unveil the UK cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS!

The art is by the legendary Stephen Player, who has done art for Barker and Pratchett. I adore how he shows off the different personalities of Garrodigh's heads!

It comes out in the UK from @arcadiabooks.bsky.social this July!
The UK cover of THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS. At the center of the cover rises a three-headed dragon. The bottom head is smirking while a redheaded lady pets it; the center head is roaring with flame billowing in its throat; and the top head looks bewildered and afraid that something's gone wrong. Behind them are mountains and cities flying in the sky. White text reads THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS. JOHN WISWELL.
January 14, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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#Booksky 1/2 Real talk: the Press and several of our authors are based in Minneapolis, which is experiencing a significant government-fueled assault on our people, our communities and our local economy. And I have a LOT of bills to pay this month. queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...
Cover for THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT
January 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Yay! Enchanting the Fae Queen is having a book birthday party online, the fabulous Sangu Mandanna & @jessiemihalik.com will be celebrating with me, & you're all invited to attend. Registration is free & comes with a discount code for signed books:

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A virtual afternoon with Stephanie Burgis on Zoom from your living room! Sunday, January 25th at 3:00pm CST. Main Street Books presents Stephanie Burgis's Enchanting the Fae Queen (All's fae in love and war), book 2 in the Queens of Villainy, with special guests Sangu Mandanna (author of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping) & Jessie Mihalik (author of Silver and Blood). Registered attendees will receive: a special discount code to purchase our authors' books on our website; a signed bookplate on purchase of an author's book; a Main Street Books sticker with the purchase of a book.
January 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters
January 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES is also available for pre-order from all finer booksellers and directly via Tachyon

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“In RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES, Mills examines the human spirit with a sharp eye and a gentle heart.” — @foxesandroses.bsky.social
Rabbit Test and Other Stories - Tachyon Publications
“In Rabbit Test and Other Stories, Mills examines the human spirit with a sharp eye and a gentle heart.” —Eugenia Triantafyllou This subversive debut short-fiction collection comes from one of the hot...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Pre-orders are open for my sexy messed up space marines @reactorsff.bsky.social story. Get horny sci fi horror for $1.99! LOOK AT THAT ART BRO! bookshop.org/p/books/deat...
Deathcap: A Tor Original
A Tor Original
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January 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Books to look forward to in the coming year, including "The Children" by Melissa Albert, which I need to pre-order. And also mine! The one that's like Clone High x The Village!
26 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward To In 2026
We are so lucky to have such an incredible year ahead of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative works from a mix of established and debut authors. In an unsurprising bit of kismet, a lot of thes…
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January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Yes but Frankenstein is the exact equivalent of the men who protect their families by collecting an arsenal instead of say, feeding, bathing, and emotionally nurturing for their children.
juliusgoat.bsky.social A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17d
I'd like to see one Frankenstein ever that just grapples with the fact that somebody obsessed with beating death should be working on sickness and the aging process, not trying to re-animate dead tissue, like what did you *think* success would look like, Vic.
juliusgoat.bsky.social A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17d
FRANKENSTEIN is, in my opinion, not half-bad. boxd.it/csMZm7
January 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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okay open call, if you have an SFF romance coming out in 2026, and it's not grindingly heteropatriarchal in outlook and values, please tell me about it! I'm compiling my reading lists!
January 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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I came up with a title and googled it to see how original it might or might not be. Google’s AI claims it’s an ee cummings quote, but that seems to be an AI lie because there’s no discoverable evidence or source. So irritating.
January 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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A gorgeous fairy tale poem and a discussion about writing in English and Finnish with Sara Norja! www.juliarios.com/in-winter-a-...
In Winter, A Wedding: a poem and an interview with Sara Norja
I invited Sara Norja to read her Worlds of Possibility poem, "In Winter, a Wedding" and to talk to me about her creative process.
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January 3, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025

Landline by @kellyrobson.com in @reactorsff.bsky.social
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Landline - Reactor
A woman about to leave on an overseas business trip, calls home from the airport and discovers that “daddy” isn’t there and her six-year-old son is all alone in the dark…
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December 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Years of hard work and putting effort into the community, showing up for other writers, showing you care about the whole ecosystem, not just your damn self
kateheartfield.com Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 27d
They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I wrote about WE WILL RISE AGAIN, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social , for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org 's 2025 Notable Books!
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ARB’s 2025 Notable Books
At the end of the year, we ask ARB’s contributors to pick just one book that they found really interesting this year: maybe already a best-seller or award-frontrunner, maybe something obscure…
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December 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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For anyone in the US or Canada, Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon, Kobo, and B&N for just 7 days, starting today.

Enjoy!

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An image of the North American front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. The tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sarah Beth Durst (New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop) reads: “Full of charm, wit, and magic… I loved it!” Around the image, against a starry night background, are various pieces of text connected to it by arrows. They read: “bi villainous heroine,” “sweet cinnamon-roll hero with a fake identity,” “crow friends,” “found family,” and “flirting with fountains pens.” At the bottom of the image are the words: On sale for $2.99!
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.

Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.

<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.

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The text WHAT ELEGANT STARS on a background of swirling void and glittering stars, amidst two neon-lit inlaid columns. Spaceships with fiery tails behind them in the distance. (An excerpt from the cover illustrated by Lyss Menold). Plus the Neon Hemlock logo.
December 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM