Jess Hyslop
@jesshyslop.bsky.social
SFF writer. Fiction in Interzone, Black Static, Mirror Dance, and more. Novella MIASMA out now from Luna Press. All views my own.
https://linktr.ee/jesshyslop
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
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Cover reveal - today let’s share the cover for Love Lethal, Death Divine by @jelenawrites.bsky.social a new fantasy coming next year! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...
Cover Reveal - Love Lethal, Death Divine by Jelena Dunato — Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo! For next year mark our getting hold of Love Lethal by Jelena Dunato coming out via Dark Matter Ink 7th April 2026! Love Lethal, Divine Death is a dark fantasy inspired by Slavic folklore...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
October 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Cover reveal - today let’s share the cover for Love Lethal, Death Divine by @jelenawrites.bsky.social a new fantasy coming next year! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...
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Are you ready to experience a story like no other?
Fall into the world of Simon Jimenez multi award-winning novel THE SPEAR THAT CUTS THROUGH WATER.
“a tale made from the threads that weave the world, and all of us, together.” - Kirkus, starred review
Buy now: geni.us/Spearcuts
Fall into the world of Simon Jimenez multi award-winning novel THE SPEAR THAT CUTS THROUGH WATER.
“a tale made from the threads that weave the world, and all of us, together.” - Kirkus, starred review
Buy now: geni.us/Spearcuts
August 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Are you ready to experience a story like no other?
Fall into the world of Simon Jimenez multi award-winning novel THE SPEAR THAT CUTS THROUGH WATER.
“a tale made from the threads that weave the world, and all of us, together.” - Kirkus, starred review
Buy now: geni.us/Spearcuts
Fall into the world of Simon Jimenez multi award-winning novel THE SPEAR THAT CUTS THROUGH WATER.
“a tale made from the threads that weave the world, and all of us, together.” - Kirkus, starred review
Buy now: geni.us/Spearcuts
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Asunder’s paperback is out in two weeks!
Cheaper!
More compact!
Containing exclusive bonus content!*
*exactly one additional comma that got lost during copy edits.
Cheaper!
More compact!
Containing exclusive bonus content!*
*exactly one additional comma that got lost during copy edits.
August 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Asunder’s paperback is out in two weeks!
Cheaper!
More compact!
Containing exclusive bonus content!*
*exactly one additional comma that got lost during copy edits.
Cheaper!
More compact!
Containing exclusive bonus content!*
*exactly one additional comma that got lost during copy edits.
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HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
July 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
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Yet another example of how genAI and its use has leeched money out of the ecosystem that keeps actual human being who write books financially afloat. Appearing in a traditional press outlet can boost sales and library loans and in the UK, the latter gives a tiny bit of money to authors for each loan
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Yet another example of how genAI and its use has leeched money out of the ecosystem that keeps actual human being who write books financially afloat. Appearing in a traditional press outlet can boost sales and library loans and in the UK, the latter gives a tiny bit of money to authors for each loan
Generative AIs are NOT RELIABLE. They are NOT a replacement for human work, human thought, human creativity.
Do your own work, think your own thoughts, create your own art. Don't outsource the things that matter.
Do your own work, think your own thoughts, create your own art. Don't outsource the things that matter.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Generative AIs are NOT RELIABLE. They are NOT a replacement for human work, human thought, human creativity.
Do your own work, think your own thoughts, create your own art. Don't outsource the things that matter.
Do your own work, think your own thoughts, create your own art. Don't outsource the things that matter.
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MAD SISTERS OF ESI comes out August 5th, and is available to preorder now.
May 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
MAD SISTERS OF ESI comes out August 5th, and is available to preorder now.
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Hey! Some news! My father/son road trip through a strange town story, "The Sort," was selected to be in Best American SFF '25!
Thank you to @nnedi.bsky.social & @johnjosephadams.com for choosing this and @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing. Love this one a lot and so happy it's part of BASFF.
Thank you to @nnedi.bsky.social & @johnjosephadams.com for choosing this and @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing. Love this one a lot and so happy it's part of BASFF.
May 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hey! Some news! My father/son road trip through a strange town story, "The Sort," was selected to be in Best American SFF '25!
Thank you to @nnedi.bsky.social & @johnjosephadams.com for choosing this and @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing. Love this one a lot and so happy it's part of BASFF.
Thank you to @nnedi.bsky.social & @johnjosephadams.com for choosing this and @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing. Love this one a lot and so happy it's part of BASFF.
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Writer and colourist @jordanacosta.co has a resource of pictures for writers to use rather than AI rubbish
www.jordanacosta.co/p/more-free-...
www.jordanacosta.co/p/more-free-...
More Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
Because millions of free-to-use images are just the tip of the iceberg
www.jordanacosta.co
May 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Writer and colourist @jordanacosta.co has a resource of pictures for writers to use rather than AI rubbish
www.jordanacosta.co/p/more-free-...
www.jordanacosta.co/p/more-free-...
I’ve started watching Foundation and, after a slow start, I’m enjoying it quite a bit. Especially Lee Pace strutting around looking like something Michelangelo would have sculpted 😅
May 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I’ve started watching Foundation and, after a slow start, I’m enjoying it quite a bit. Especially Lee Pace strutting around looking like something Michelangelo would have sculpted 😅
RJ writes some of the best epic fantasy out there. Treat yourself this May Day 👇🏻
It's MAY, the month of my birth when you are legally required to convince a friend to buy one of my books. I don't make the laws but I don't want anyone going to prison because I didn't remind you. So AGE OF ASSASSINS, GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD, THE BONE SHIPS, whichever, I leave it up to you.
May 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
RJ writes some of the best epic fantasy out there. Treat yourself this May Day 👇🏻
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So in the midst of the chaos and joy of Eastercon, @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I have set up a charity auction: Genre Creators for Trans rights in the UK and South Africa as a small personal response to what's happening in the world. You can bid on cool things here www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans
Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA
Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
So in the midst of the chaos and joy of Eastercon, @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I have set up a charity auction: Genre Creators for Trans rights in the UK and South Africa as a small personal response to what's happening in the world. You can bid on cool things here www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans
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The EHRC guidance isn't just aggressively anti-trans, it's also actively authoritarian and openly anti-LGBTQ+, attempting to break LGBTQ+ freedom of association.
Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.
Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.
April 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The EHRC guidance isn't just aggressively anti-trans, it's also actively authoritarian and openly anti-LGBTQ+, attempting to break LGBTQ+ freedom of association.
Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.
Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.
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New book day!
Forged for Destiny, my fantasy story about a fake chosen one, is out now from @orbitbooks.bsky.social!* Secret schemes, folk magic, the messy art of divination, & a shapeshifting actor take the stage for a story of lies & adventure.
andrewknighton.com/forged-for-d...
Forged for Destiny, my fantasy story about a fake chosen one, is out now from @orbitbooks.bsky.social!* Secret schemes, folk magic, the messy art of divination, & a shapeshifting actor take the stage for a story of lies & adventure.
andrewknighton.com/forged-for-d...
Forged For Destiny
Raul has a destiny: claim his birthright as the last surviving heir of King Balbianus and lead his conquered people to freedom. The signs are all there—his birthmark, in the shape of Balbianus’ halfm...
andrewknighton.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
New book day!
Forged for Destiny, my fantasy story about a fake chosen one, is out now from @orbitbooks.bsky.social!* Secret schemes, folk magic, the messy art of divination, & a shapeshifting actor take the stage for a story of lies & adventure.
andrewknighton.com/forged-for-d...
Forged for Destiny, my fantasy story about a fake chosen one, is out now from @orbitbooks.bsky.social!* Secret schemes, folk magic, the messy art of divination, & a shapeshifting actor take the stage for a story of lies & adventure.
andrewknighton.com/forged-for-d...
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uk! the government is running a consultation on it’s proposed reforms to health and disability benefits which could cut off vital, life saving support to thousands of people. here’s your chance to feedback, or, if disabled yourself, let them know how this will impact you-
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper
This consultation seeks views on the approaches government should consider around reform of the health and disability benefits system and employment support.
www.gov.uk
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
uk! the government is running a consultation on it’s proposed reforms to health and disability benefits which could cut off vital, life saving support to thousands of people. here’s your chance to feedback, or, if disabled yourself, let them know how this will impact you-
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Just finished reading The Ragpicker by @joeldane.bsky.social & would like to urge everyone to read this beautiful, fierce, tender novel. A strange & linguistically innovative work, the language reflecting the broken remembrances & slowly forging connections of its characters & their understandings.
March 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Just finished reading The Ragpicker by @joeldane.bsky.social & would like to urge everyone to read this beautiful, fierce, tender novel. A strange & linguistically innovative work, the language reflecting the broken remembrances & slowly forging connections of its characters & their understandings.
Big congrats to all the Nebula finalists! What cracking shortlists!
March 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Big congrats to all the Nebula finalists! What cracking shortlists!
Saw Mickey 17 yesterday. As a satire I found it conceptually interesting and Pattinson was incredible as the downtrodden protagonist, but sadly overall I felt it was kind of a mess. The female characters were particularly dire in a way that got under my skin. So much simpering/giggling, ugh.
March 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Saw Mickey 17 yesterday. As a satire I found it conceptually interesting and Pattinson was incredible as the downtrodden protagonist, but sadly overall I felt it was kind of a mess. The female characters were particularly dire in a way that got under my skin. So much simpering/giggling, ugh.
Just finished As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann and found it truly compelling - one of the most surprising and tense books I've read in a while, and one of the most compelling and shocking protagonists. I remain baffled, however, by the particular choice of cover for this edition.
March 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Just finished As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann and found it truly compelling - one of the most surprising and tense books I've read in a while, and one of the most compelling and shocking protagonists. I remain baffled, however, by the particular choice of cover for this edition.
I cannot bear to watch the exchange between Zelenskyy, Trump, and Vance. I just can’t believe this is how they are treating him. They should be ashamed, if only they knew how to feel it.
February 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I cannot bear to watch the exchange between Zelenskyy, Trump, and Vance. I just can’t believe this is how they are treating him. They should be ashamed, if only they knew how to feel it.
Just here living my silly little life while civilisation hurtles toward chaos.
February 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Just here living my silly little life while civilisation hurtles toward chaos.
Since there is a poetry category in the Hugos this year, please consider my poem ‘After’, which appeared in Strange Horizons last June: strangehorizons.com/poetry/after... Make sure to read through SH’s poetry archive for more incredible offerings from others, too.
After
I turn to where they are not, / and I nod to them, and they to me.
strangehorizons.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Since there is a poetry category in the Hugos this year, please consider my poem ‘After’, which appeared in Strange Horizons last June: strangehorizons.com/poetry/after... Make sure to read through SH’s poetry archive for more incredible offerings from others, too.
Fantastic essay by Yvonne Singh about a (now) largely unknown Black Victorian editor who spearheaded antiracist critique of the British Empire in the UK at the end of the 19th century: www.thewhitereview.org/feature/the-...
The forgotten angel of history - The White Review
‘My great fear is that we are suffering from amnesia. I wrote to recover the memory of the human rainbow, which is in danger of being mutilated… We are much more than we are told. We are much more bea...
www.thewhitereview.org
January 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Fantastic essay by Yvonne Singh about a (now) largely unknown Black Victorian editor who spearheaded antiracist critique of the British Empire in the UK at the end of the 19th century: www.thewhitereview.org/feature/the-...
I have read so many great books this year - so here is a round-up thread of some of the highlights. (Not all the latest releases, because I don't read that quickly or in that organised a manner. So these are just books I happened to read and enjoy this year, in no particular order.)
December 28, 2024 at 3:09 PM
I have read so many great books this year - so here is a round-up thread of some of the highlights. (Not all the latest releases, because I don't read that quickly or in that organised a manner. So these are just books I happened to read and enjoy this year, in no particular order.)