In the latest episode of Wizards & Spaceships, Nick Mamatas goes to war on entire subgenres, rejoices in feel bad fiction, and nerds out with me about 80s music and publishing. Check it out (and buy his books):
Big release day announcements!
Blight is OUT! You should be able to buy it and order it for your local bookstores and libraries in both paperback and ebook.
Amazon: mybook.to/blight
Other online retailers: https://books2read.com/u/mYVl9P
Direct from the publisher: https://bppress.ca/shop/
It’s pretty timely right now, given *gesturing wildly at the state of the world* and I want to get it into as many hands as possible. Buy one for yourself, buy one for a friend (or enemy), talk it up, write a review, invite me on your podcasts—word of mouth is so vital to getting weird, queer, left-wing books out there.
It’s also a new episode day for Wizards & Spaceships! For 4000 years, The Epic of Gilgamesh has influenced mythology, theology, and literature, and its rediscovery in the 1850s is itself an epic tale of war, theft, and Hobby Lobby. A meditation on love and death, rage and grief, civilization and nature, starring two problematic queer frat boys, it is the foundation of so many of our stories. In our latest episode, “The Ur-Pisode: The Queer Heart of The Epic of Gilgamesh, ft. Julian Gunn,” we talk to poet, artist, and essayist Julian Gunn about the story that started it all.
Antifa Lit Journal Vol 1: What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire’s Yacht?
It’s Launch Day for the ANTIFA LIT JOURNAL, Volume 1: WHAT IF WE KISSED WHILE SINKING A BILLIONAIRE’S YACHT? from Not A Pipe Publishing. You can check out the title anthology, by yours truly, along with the work of many other talented authors, artists, and poets.
More info and buy-links here.
Back the Kickstarter for Volume 2 here.
Do You Love the Color of the Sky?
My story, “Do You Love the Color of the Sky?” (which I think is the best thing I’ve ever written) is up to read FOR FREE on Trollbreath Magazine. So if you like dodos and hate colonialism check it out.
Season 2, Episode 1: Blight, featuring me and my book!!!
It’s our one-year anniversary and we’re talking about my new novel on the podcast!
Blight Launch Party!
Join Rachel A. Rosen for the launch of Blight, the second book in her Sleep of Reason trilogy. Rachel will talk about how a fantasy featuring demons and sea monsters and wizards (oh my!) is relevant to life in 2025, speculative fiction as a terrain for resisting fascism, and writing about future events before they become historical events.
There will be a reading, conversation, and Q&A.
The event is free and open to the public. Glad Day serves a delicious selection of food and drink.
When: Thursday, July 3, 2025
When: 6:30-8:30 PM
Where: Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2C6 | Phone: (416) 901-6600
The BumblePuppy Press and Rachel Rosen gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers’ Union of Canada, and thank Glad Day Bookstore for hosting this event.
Wizards & Spaceships and Auroras, Oh My!
Amazing news, Wizards & Spaceships fans! I am so excited to announce on the very same day as our season 1 finale that our little podcast has been nominated for an Aurora Award! You can read up on the Aurora Awards and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association here, and you can see the ballot with us on it (along with the many, many incredible nominees), here.
Thank you to all our listeners for an incredible first year! And if you’re not a listener yet, why not check us out on Wizards & Spaceships, or wherever you get your podcasts?
AI and Transhumanism ft. Robert J. Sawyer
Happy one-year anniversary to us! We’re celebrating with what I think is our best episode yet: Robert J. Sawyer on AI and transhumanism.
That time I got name-dropped by Peter Watts in Forbes
It’s exciting enough to read that there’s going to be an adaptation of Blindsight (one of my favourite all-time books)—that alone would have made my day. But even more personally exciting is that one of my favourite authors took the time to name-drop me—in the same breath as China Miéville and Seth Dickinson, no less—in the interview.
Behind the Screens interview
Ever wonder how the sausage gets made? Zilla interviewed me about my upcoming new book, Cascade! It’s now available for pre-order.