Samantha (Sam) Mills
@samtasticbooks.com
SFF Author | Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon winner | Archivist | Repped by Lisa Rodgers | THE WINGS UPON HER BACK, Compton Crook winner and World Fantasy finalist, out now! (she/her) www.samtasticbooks.com
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Here it is! My 2025 award eligibility post!
"10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care For the End of Days" is a love letter about life under a doomsday cult, and a quick read! I'd be delighted for anyone to consider it for their short story ballots. ;D
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v...
"10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care For the End of Days" is a love letter about life under a doomsday cult, and a quick read! I'd be delighted for anyone to consider it for their short story ballots. ;D
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v...
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My short story collection that includes The Pill 💊 is on sale for $5! Support an independent press and also me, your favorite unemployed author.
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January 17, 2026 at 5:03 PM
My short story collection that includes The Pill 💊 is on sale for $5! Support an independent press and also me, your favorite unemployed author.
Chip in and get these whistles where they need to go!
Thanks y'all, you bought out the entire wishlist! <3
If you still want to help, we have more wishlists here: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
(We also have a GFM that helps cover shipping & other costs, for those who don't fuck with the 'zon)
If you still want to help, we have more wishlists here: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
(We also have a GFM that helps cover shipping & other costs, for those who don't fuck with the 'zon)
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Ways to support people 3D printing and shipping whistles. Each link buys supplies for an individual printer supporting community safety.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Chip in and get these whistles where they need to go!
I am preemptively imagining the 2028 summer olympics unfolding in Los Angeles in the final months of the presidential election and -- my god. We're in for a doozy.
January 15, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I am preemptively imagining the 2028 summer olympics unfolding in Los Angeles in the final months of the presidential election and -- my god. We're in for a doozy.
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the novella is out of the bag!!!
super excited to continue working with @augursociety.bsky.social, but now in ✨longform✨!
check out the novella that nearly broke my brain. yes, you heard it here first— it's in second person! it's about hiking! and yes, it will make you cry!
super excited to continue working with @augursociety.bsky.social, but now in ✨longform✨!
check out the novella that nearly broke my brain. yes, you heard it here first— it's in second person! it's about hiking! and yes, it will make you cry!
✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
![An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below.
Text reads:
ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA
CREST by A.D. Sui
After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together.
But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home.
CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock).
Coming Fall 2027
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC
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January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
the novella is out of the bag!!!
super excited to continue working with @augursociety.bsky.social, but now in ✨longform✨!
check out the novella that nearly broke my brain. yes, you heard it here first— it's in second person! it's about hiking! and yes, it will make you cry!
super excited to continue working with @augursociety.bsky.social, but now in ✨longform✨!
check out the novella that nearly broke my brain. yes, you heard it here first— it's in second person! it's about hiking! and yes, it will make you cry!
Uh $3/meal is $9 a day. Which means a family of 4 spending over $1000 a month. I'm doing better than their best simulation lol.
Also they never account for those weeks where you run out of foil, vitamins, dish soap, and shampoo all at once :p
Also they never account for those weeks where you run out of foil, vitamins, dish soap, and shampoo all at once :p
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 15, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Uh $3/meal is $9 a day. Which means a family of 4 spending over $1000 a month. I'm doing better than their best simulation lol.
Also they never account for those weeks where you run out of foil, vitamins, dish soap, and shampoo all at once :p
Also they never account for those weeks where you run out of foil, vitamins, dish soap, and shampoo all at once :p
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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A forthcoming must read for me.
So it feels very weird to be talking about anything other than the ICE occupation right now, but the ARCs of my new book arrived on Saturday. I'm going to do a giveaway.
January 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
A forthcoming must read for me.
Oh this is rad. Dooo itttt
Friends. The eBooks of our 2025 titles are on sale til the end of the month for just $3 each. Grab @thomasha.bsky.social's amazing debut, or Best Weird Fiction Vol. 1, or Weird Horror 10 and 11. Heck, grab 'em all!
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EBOOKS — Undertow Publications
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January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Oh this is rad. Dooo itttt
Damn I dreamed what seemed to be the perfect sequence of events for my book but when I woke up, it was unrelated gibberish 🥲
January 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Damn I dreamed what seemed to be the perfect sequence of events for my book but when I woke up, it was unrelated gibberish 🥲
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Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.
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Not finished with awards reading, but here is a batch of stories I really loved by @bethgoder.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @reasie.bsky.social, @emlinden.bsky.social, @effies.bsky.social, and @samtasticbooks.com.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
January 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Not finished with awards reading, but here is a batch of stories I really loved by @bethgoder.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @reasie.bsky.social, @emlinden.bsky.social, @effies.bsky.social, and @samtasticbooks.com.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Sam is easily one of the smartest people I know and her gift with words is astounding. Pick this up and everything else she writes. I promise itll be healing in these awful times.
my lord... this one is out April 21... it's packed full of imperfect parents, imperfect sisters, fantastical settings, and feminist rage... my lord, you can find some of these shorts for free at the link if you want a preview...
samtasticbooks.com/short-fiction/
samtasticbooks.com/short-fiction/
January 8, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Sam is easily one of the smartest people I know and her gift with words is astounding. Pick this up and everything else she writes. I promise itll be healing in these awful times.
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery
my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery
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they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect
MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.
MPR News is live right now bringing you updates on this. mprnews.org/listen
January 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect
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This book is awesome.
[most enticing vizier voice] my lord... this one was a World Fantasy finalist and Compton Crook winner... it's about hero worship and deprogramming from your fascist upbringing... and accepting that sometimes your gods don't love you back...
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January 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
This book is awesome.
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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
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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
RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES is also available for pre-order from all finer booksellers and directly via Tachyon
tachyonpublications.com/product/rabb...
“In RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES, Mills examines the human spirit with a sharp eye and a gentle heart.” — @foxesandroses.bsky.social
tachyonpublications.com/product/rabb...
“In RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES, Mills examines the human spirit with a sharp eye and a gentle heart.” — @foxesandroses.bsky.social
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I work in healthcare, and let me tell you that preventing hospitals and healthcare centers from billing Medicaid is DEVASTATING. that is a huge portion of their revenue evaporated, AND they cannot access federal funding. make no mistake, this is an effective ban on gender affirming care for youth
The regime has announced two proposed rules intended to make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need.
Your public comments probably won't sway this transphobic regime, but they will be very important for future lawsuits:
Your public comments probably won't sway this transphobic regime, but they will be very important for future lawsuits:
Submit Public Comments
The federal government has proposed two new rules that could make it virtually impossible for transgender youth to get the health care they need.
act.hrc.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I work in healthcare, and let me tell you that preventing hospitals and healthcare centers from billing Medicaid is DEVASTATING. that is a huge portion of their revenue evaporated, AND they cannot access federal funding. make no mistake, this is an effective ban on gender affirming care for youth
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WRITERS HAVE BILLS TO PAY BUY BOOKS
Just got an estimate from the kids' orthodontist, perhaps you might... buy my books... 🥲
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January 5, 2026 at 9:36 PM
WRITERS HAVE BILLS TO PAY BUY BOOKS
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Rabbit Test and other stories, @samtasticbooks.com, out 4/1. This is a fantastic collection of short stories from Ms. Mills, including the title story that won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus for short stories that was a response to the overturn of Roe v Wade.
January 7, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Rabbit Test and other stories, @samtasticbooks.com, out 4/1. This is a fantastic collection of short stories from Ms. Mills, including the title story that won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus for short stories that was a response to the overturn of Roe v Wade.
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You probably know about some of the biggest trends in genre fiction, like romantasy and cozy fiction. But the trend that surprised me most was stories about people storing and sharing their memories.
My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
The Most Surprising Book Trend Right Now: Memory-Sharing
If you asked someone to name the main trends in genre book publishing from the past year or two, they'd probably mention romantasy, cozy fiction, horror and...
buttondown.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
You probably know about some of the biggest trends in genre fiction, like romantasy and cozy fiction. But the trend that surprised me most was stories about people storing and sharing their memories.
My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Just got an estimate from the kids' orthodontist, perhaps you might... buy my books... 🥲
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/rabb...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/rabb...
January 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Just got an estimate from the kids' orthodontist, perhaps you might... buy my books... 🥲
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/rabb...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/rabb...