Mike Chen
@mikechenwriter.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author
Dabbles in time travel and vampires, Star Wars and Star Trek, novels and comics. Former NHL guy. Friend of dogs.
Next: The Photonic Effect, Star Wars: Low Red Moon
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Dabbles in time travel and vampires, Star Wars and Star Trek, novels and comics. Former NHL guy. Friend of dogs.
Next: The Photonic Effect, Star Wars: Low Red Moon
Mikechenwriter on all socials.
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Mike Chen
@mikechenwriter.bsky.social
· Jul 25
The news is out! For fans of underworld stories and the Outlaws video game, Star Wars: Low Red Moon will be loads of fun and have plenty of gut-punching emotional beats as we get to see how ND-5 and Jaylen Vrax became partners. THREAD!
Cannot wait for the spinoff, Text With Jesus Fucking Christ
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Cannot wait for the spinoff, Text With Jesus Fucking Christ
This quote sounds like something Philomena Cunk would say
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This quote sounds like something Philomena Cunk would say
Some of the replies in this thread weirdly go into defending JKR, so if you need more people to block...
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Some of the replies in this thread weirdly go into defending JKR, so if you need more people to block...
Feels like there's a Meatloaf song somewhere in here
No. Just no. Burn it all down. 🤢
(Yes, it's a gift link... please read it, so I don't feel gross wasting one of my ten on Olivia Nuzzi, hah.)
(Yes, it's a gift link... please read it, so I don't feel gross wasting one of my ten on Olivia Nuzzi, hah.)
Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Feels like there's a Meatloaf song somewhere in here
FWIW, I inserted the names of a bunch of pop culture vampire lore into VAMPIRE WEEKEND as easter eggs, and Harold, Chester, and Howie are all in there.
I cannot endorse this enough. The Bunnicula audiobooks are perfect in every way (except Victor Garber doesn't do the final one) and they are a cozy listen that we all still really enjoy across ages.
Since we’re talking BUNNICULA I need everyone to know that the audiobook is read by Victor Garber and he truly out-gays himself. Harold and Chester absolutely come across as the fussy middle-aged couple they were obviously meant to be.
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
FWIW, I inserted the names of a bunch of pop culture vampire lore into VAMPIRE WEEKEND as easter eggs, and Harold, Chester, and Howie are all in there.
Here it is! My shaky, handheld recording of Taliesin Jaffe announcing @criticalrole.bsky.social The Mighty Nein: Stories Untold anthology from last night. Very cool to be namechecked live on the show alongside @rinchupeco.bsky.social. (Plus a corgi spotting!) Preorder now at criticalrolebooks.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Here it is! My shaky, handheld recording of Taliesin Jaffe announcing @criticalrole.bsky.social The Mighty Nein: Stories Untold anthology from last night. Very cool to be namechecked live on the show alongside @rinchupeco.bsky.social. (Plus a corgi spotting!) Preorder now at criticalrolebooks.com
You could watch the morning replay too!
Watch tonight's @criticalrole.bsky.social for more on the just-announced Mighty Nein anthology. Respectfully, I'm having a blast writing a cozy adventure about everyone's favorite shopkeeper Pumat Sol (and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol).
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
You could watch the morning replay too!
I cannot endorse this enough. The Bunnicula audiobooks are perfect in every way (except Victor Garber doesn't do the final one) and they are a cozy listen that we all still really enjoy across ages.
Since we’re talking BUNNICULA I need everyone to know that the audiobook is read by Victor Garber and he truly out-gays himself. Harold and Chester absolutely come across as the fussy middle-aged couple they were obviously meant to be.
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I cannot endorse this enough. The Bunnicula audiobooks are perfect in every way (except Victor Garber doesn't do the final one) and they are a cozy listen that we all still really enjoy across ages.
This is why I'm constantly banging the drum for @runforsomething.net
I know everyone uses social media differently. But during this time of rising fascism, if you have a platform, I'd ask that you pick at least one thing you care about & understand & share practical ways your followers can make a difference in fighting for it. If there ever was a time, this is it.
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
This is why I'm constantly banging the drum for @runforsomething.net
Live look at a very tired guy waiting for school pickup who is 10 years older than the fucko below. Is it my Asian genetics or his association with evil that is tipping the scales???
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Live look at a very tired guy waiting for school pickup who is 10 years older than the fucko below. Is it my Asian genetics or his association with evil that is tipping the scales???
Watch tonight's @criticalrole.bsky.social for more on the just-announced Mighty Nein anthology. Respectfully, I'm having a blast writing a cozy adventure about everyone's favorite shopkeeper Pumat Sol (and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol).
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Watch tonight's @criticalrole.bsky.social for more on the just-announced Mighty Nein anthology. Respectfully, I'm having a blast writing a cozy adventure about everyone's favorite shopkeeper Pumat Sol (and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol).
Very much looking for one of my books to breakout from "decent midlist sales" to "global phenomenon" simply so I could have a themed night at a San Jose Sharks game. Right now the only time they call me is to ask if I want to own season tix again.
Before Rebecca Yarros created a global phenomenon with Violet Sorrengail and friends, she was an #Avs fan and a hockey mom in Colorado Springs.
Her two worlds collide tonight with Fourth Wing night at Ball Arena.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/09/r...
Her two worlds collide tonight with Fourth Wing night at Ball Arena.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/09/r...
Rebecca Yarros, ‘Fourth Wing’ author and Avalanche fan, hockey mom at heart: ‘I don’t think there’s anything quite like it’
For the woman who created Violet Sorrengail, Xaden Riorson and the rest of the dragon riders at Basgiath War College, her home away from home is a hockey rink.
www.denverpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Very much looking for one of my books to breakout from "decent midlist sales" to "global phenomenon" simply so I could have a themed night at a San Jose Sharks game. Right now the only time they call me is to ask if I want to own season tix again.
Respectfully, you should watch @criticalrole.bsky.social tonight to learn about my next project (or go to the Del Rey Instagram, as it just went live over there: www.instagram.com/p/DRARXycATK...
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Respectfully, you should watch @criticalrole.bsky.social tonight to learn about my next project (or go to the Del Rey Instagram, as it just went live over there: www.instagram.com/p/DRARXycATK...
Reposted by Mike Chen
Centrist Democratic strategists have probably done more to prime voters to think of the Party as a vehicle for wokeism than anyone other than Trump or Fox News. And on very thin data that's not causal or predictive out of sample. The extent of the self-own is remarkable substack.com/@gelliottmor...
G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris)
Yeah, centrist Democratic strategists have probably done more to prime voters to think of the Party as a vehicle for wokeism than anyone other than Trump or Fox News anchors. The extent of the self-ow...
substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Centrist Democratic strategists have probably done more to prime voters to think of the Party as a vehicle for wokeism than anyone other than Trump or Fox News. And on very thin data that's not causal or predictive out of sample. The extent of the self-own is remarkable substack.com/@gelliottmor...
Just a couple of cool Star Wars books, hanging out
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just a couple of cool Star Wars books, hanging out
Uh oh, I hope there's not an email in there going "It's-a-me, Mario!"
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Uh oh, I hope there's not an email in there going "It's-a-me, Mario!"
High five, Seattle!
Progressive organizer Katie Wilson has unseated Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, a fellow Democrat, the Seattle Times projects.
Katie Wilson elected Seattle’s next mayor
Wilson took a 1,976-vote lead over Bruce Harrell. With a maximum of 1,320 ballots remaining, it is mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up.
www.seattletimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
High five, Seattle!
Our sexually ambiguous lord and savior has returned
Imagine this fellah 1000s of times bigger and out of focus.
Im not saying i know anything, but, you know… 🤷🏻♂️
Im not saying i know anything, but, you know… 🤷🏻♂️
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Our sexually ambiguous lord and savior has returned
Unlike Chuck Schumer, Macklin Celebrini never disappoints
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Unlike Chuck Schumer, Macklin Celebrini never disappoints
1) The bullshit of the American healthcare system on display
2) This post could be the lyrics to a lost Smiths song
2) This post could be the lyrics to a lost Smiths song
in Paris, I had to see a same-day doctor & I found one. was gravely warned that, as a foreigner, I’d have to pay 32 euros & I laughed & laughed
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
1) The bullshit of the American healthcare system on display
2) This post could be the lyrics to a lost Smiths song
2) This post could be the lyrics to a lost Smiths song
Question for @ukhadds.bsky.social - I went to a concert in a packed 500 person theater. I was front row and had my CO2 meter in my bag. Data showed ~1200 for the duration of the show. Does that mean the venue had decent exchange since it plateaued and wasn't forever escalating?
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Question for @ukhadds.bsky.social - I went to a concert in a packed 500 person theater. I was front row and had my CO2 meter in my bag. Data showed ~1200 for the duration of the show. Does that mean the venue had decent exchange since it plateaued and wasn't forever escalating?
Apparently the Unannounced IP Anthology will get announced on Thursday! All I can say is that it's a new area for me.
I actually have no 2025 releases, which means that I have no eligibility.
But, uh, I have 4 releases next year:
Star Wars: Low Red Moon (Feb)
The Photonic Effect (April)
Unannounced IP Anthology (May)
Of Sorcery And Science (September)
But, uh, I have 4 releases next year:
Star Wars: Low Red Moon (Feb)
The Photonic Effect (April)
Unannounced IP Anthology (May)
Of Sorcery And Science (September)
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Apparently the Unannounced IP Anthology will get announced on Thursday! All I can say is that it's a new area for me.
Here's a micro example: I'm working on a short story for an anthology. I was over word count by 1k. I had to cut and consolidate beats, which led to sharper character moments and overall tigher prose. This required way more work than expected but the story is better for it.
The classic refrain is: constraint is the mother of creativity. Similarly, friction is the father of discovery.
It feels paradoxical when we're conditioned to obsess over efficiency. But the only perfect efficiency is doing nothing.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what it's built for.
It feels paradoxical when we're conditioned to obsess over efficiency. But the only perfect efficiency is doing nothing.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what it's built for.
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Here's a micro example: I'm working on a short story for an anthology. I was over word count by 1k. I had to cut and consolidate beats, which led to sharper character moments and overall tigher prose. This required way more work than expected but the story is better for it.
Felix Leiter got half eaten by a shark so I don't think anyone has to worry about lore continuity in Bond
Spoiler: it’s because he died. The writers of a franchise whose main character has been played by seven actors across sixty years think they have to come up with a plot explanation for the character coming back after dying in the previous movie. radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
EXCLUSIVE: James Bond Writers Reveal Twist That Has Left New Creators With 'Huge Headache' When It Comes to Resurrecting the Super-Spy for Amazon
Bond writers are now racking their brain, trying to move forward with the franchise after the last film's wild twist.
radaronline.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Felix Leiter got half eaten by a shark so I don't think anyone has to worry about lore continuity in Bond
Reposted by Mike Chen
Mike is the best so you should donate to Doggie protective services AND you should buy his books!!! Preorder his newest Star Wars here!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761127...
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Mike is the best so you should donate to Doggie protective services AND you should buy his books!!! Preorder his newest Star Wars here!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761127...