Andrew Hiller
@andrewintheclouds.bsky.social
Create. Investigate. Celebrate.
Writer, Producer, & friend of Muppets
Pitter Patty Finds Another Day, 2022 Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest Winner,2019 BFF Author of the Year, #ViableParadise 23
Writer, Producer, & friend of Muppets
Pitter Patty Finds Another Day, 2022 Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest Winner,2019 BFF Author of the Year, #ViableParadise 23
A feast of words should be part of every Thanksgiving.
Don't forget to tip your author.
Don't forget to tip your author.
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A feast of words should be part of every Thanksgiving.
Don't forget to tip your author.
Don't forget to tip your author.
Isn't it strange how often the B-side song is the better song? Sometimes, I think it's because the marketers choose the A-side and the artist chooses the B.
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Isn't it strange how often the B-side song is the better song? Sometimes, I think it's because the marketers choose the A-side and the artist chooses the B.
I discovered so my authors I dearly love by randomly thumbing my way along a bookstore or library shelf.
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 11:50 PM
I discovered so my authors I dearly love by randomly thumbing my way along a bookstore or library shelf.
Also, I just read through the magazine. If you like to support spec arts, buying a @trollbreathmag.bsky.social subscription for yourself or a friend as a holiday gift might provide a welcome relief from the cold of upcoming days.
Thanks to all the crew @trollbreathmag.bsky.social for sharing my essay on the origins of the name Hornytown. I'm not sure I even realized as I was creating my DC suburb of Hell all the reasons I chose the name or that was in part a clapback against prejudice.
I'll post the link when it's available
I'll post the link when it's available
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Also, I just read through the magazine. If you like to support spec arts, buying a @trollbreathmag.bsky.social subscription for yourself or a friend as a holiday gift might provide a welcome relief from the cold of upcoming days.
Thanks to all the crew @trollbreathmag.bsky.social for sharing my essay on the origins of the name Hornytown. I'm not sure I even realized as I was creating my DC suburb of Hell all the reasons I chose the name or that was in part a clapback against prejudice.
I'll post the link when it's available
I'll post the link when it's available
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Thanks to all the crew @trollbreathmag.bsky.social for sharing my essay on the origins of the name Hornytown. I'm not sure I even realized as I was creating my DC suburb of Hell all the reasons I chose the name or that was in part a clapback against prejudice.
I'll post the link when it's available
I'll post the link when it's available
The Tao of Pooh.
I read this during my sophomore year of college and reached a sense of contentedness that lasted for six months.
I read this during my sophomore year of college and reached a sense of contentedness that lasted for six months.
Have you ever been given a book as a gift that changed you as a person?
November 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The Tao of Pooh.
I read this during my sophomore year of college and reached a sense of contentedness that lasted for six months.
I read this during my sophomore year of college and reached a sense of contentedness that lasted for six months.
Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done.
(Until I get any editor's notes)
Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done.
(Until I get any editor's notes)
Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done.
a white cat is standing on its hind legs and giving a fist bump
Alt: a cat partying down because the audiobook has been handed in.
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done.
(Until I get any editor's notes)
Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done.
(Until I get any editor's notes)
Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done.
Yesterday, i crafted a full Thanksgiving dinner: salad, sweet potato casserole, steamed veggies, roasted lamb, and chocolate cake, but the making of the dinner isn't what pleases me.
It's that the clean-up afterwards took less than a half hour!
It's that the clean-up afterwards took less than a half hour!
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Yesterday, i crafted a full Thanksgiving dinner: salad, sweet potato casserole, steamed veggies, roasted lamb, and chocolate cake, but the making of the dinner isn't what pleases me.
It's that the clean-up afterwards took less than a half hour!
It's that the clean-up afterwards took less than a half hour!
To those who celebrate it, whether as a holiday, harvest day, or family day... Happy Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
To those who celebrate it, whether as a holiday, harvest day, or family day... Happy Thanksgiving.
Remember, Jingle Bells is in actuality a Thanksgiving song.
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Remember, Jingle Bells is in actuality a Thanksgiving song.
While grocery shopping today, I walked down the ice cream isle and discovered that Breyers has a flavor called Brownie ala Mode. For some reason, that struck me as funny (or at least a little redundant.)
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
While grocery shopping today, I walked down the ice cream isle and discovered that Breyers has a flavor called Brownie ala Mode. For some reason, that struck me as funny (or at least a little redundant.)
"I am impressed" originally meant that you were being pressed into military service against your will.
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"I am impressed" originally meant that you were being pressed into military service against your will.
Reposted by Andrew Hiller
It’s that time of year when everyone goes ‘Omg I gotta tell everyone all the things they can nominate me for’ and then sits around wondering if anyone actually will.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s that time of year when everyone goes ‘Omg I gotta tell everyone all the things they can nominate me for’ and then sits around wondering if anyone actually will.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
Reposted by Andrew Hiller
If you are an educator or a parent, feel free to download the teaching guides for all these amazing books. :)
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org/read_discuss
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org/read_discuss
Read & Discuss
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If you are an educator or a parent, feel free to download the teaching guides for all these amazing books. :)
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org/read_discuss
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org/read_discuss
Reposted by Andrew Hiller
ICYMI.
If you love cosy fantasy and murder mysteries.
If you love cosy fantasy and murder mysteries.
A cosy fantasy murder mystery series set in the world of Fire Heart.
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
ICYMI.
If you love cosy fantasy and murder mysteries.
If you love cosy fantasy and murder mysteries.
Reposted by Andrew Hiller
A lot of stories I have put on my Kofi. Free to read, of course.
Latest is Red's Heart.
Plant mecha, love and betrayal. Also solarpunkish.
ko-fi.com/post/Reds-He...
Latest is Red's Heart.
Plant mecha, love and betrayal. Also solarpunkish.
ko-fi.com/post/Reds-He...
Red's Heart
Joyce Chng published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A lot of stories I have put on my Kofi. Free to read, of course.
Latest is Red's Heart.
Plant mecha, love and betrayal. Also solarpunkish.
ko-fi.com/post/Reds-He...
Latest is Red's Heart.
Plant mecha, love and betrayal. Also solarpunkish.
ko-fi.com/post/Reds-He...
@skiffyandfanty.com Just wanted to check in. I tried to go to your site using two different browsers and it didn't load.
Are you having problems?
Are you having problems?
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@skiffyandfanty.com Just wanted to check in. I tried to go to your site using two different browsers and it didn't load.
Are you having problems?
Are you having problems?
It's time for a listening party!
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It's time for a listening party!
Signed a contract today. New piece forthcoming :D
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Signed a contract today. New piece forthcoming :D
It turns out my whole life I've been pronouncing the word "invulnerable" incorrectly.
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It turns out my whole life I've been pronouncing the word "invulnerable" incorrectly.
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happy NOVELLAVEMBER to those who celebrate!
these are my novellas!
Run With the Hunted is a series
authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h...
The Drowned Heir and Between the Blood and the Sun each stand alone
books2read.com/DrownedHeir
books2read.com/BetweentheBl...
these are my novellas!
Run With the Hunted is a series
authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h...
The Drowned Heir and Between the Blood and the Sun each stand alone
books2read.com/DrownedHeir
books2read.com/BetweentheBl...
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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All good stories come out of puns! Well, maybe not, but a good pun is definitely worth chasing down the rabbit hole.
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
All good stories come out of puns! Well, maybe not, but a good pun is definitely worth chasing down the rabbit hole.
For me, semantically, it's the difference between "need" and "want."
i swear to fuck if there is one thing i could telepathically beam into everyone's head, it is the disctinction between is/ought. describing reality as it exists does not! imply! endorsement! that it should! be! the way! it exists!
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
For me, semantically, it's the difference between "need" and "want."
Is this up your alley @mruthrobinson.bsky.social and @cassmorriswrites.com?
Still looking for some of these! We’ve said yes to a couple of pitches, but are looking for around 3-5 more for early next year.
We are primarily looking for historians of ancient, medieval, and non-Western figures.
We are primarily looking for historians of ancient, medieval, and non-Western figures.
Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: [email protected]
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- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe
Pitches to: [email protected]
🤗🤗🤗
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Is this up your alley @mruthrobinson.bsky.social and @cassmorriswrites.com?