Ada Hoffmann

Hi, new followers! Someone else did a "happy Pride, all my books are gay!" thread and now I want to do it too. First up is IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, just out this May. A sapphic cis woman and a trans space pirate team up to fight genAI, book bans, and censorship. Super queer and super fun!

Renewable energy.

Beauty and the Beast for my 4th birthday in *checks notes* 1991. Yes, the Disney one. I did not have a good time, unfortunately. It was too big and loud and I was too autistic.

Con swag!!

Ninja missed me so much. She had a good pet sitter but it's not the same. She was climbing all over me and purring for most of the night and now she's on my home office desk purring while I drink my morning coffee

Someone needs to write a story, if they haven't already, about the Brookstreet Hotel elevators becoming sentient and declaring war on humanity

I ordered carpaccio from the bougie hotel bar not really knowing what it was and then rolled it up and ate it between pieces of crostini like a sandwich because it looked like fancy sandwich meat. I am a little bit surprised that they didn't kick me out of the hotel bar

Super in agreement with this thread.

YAY new Ada Hoffmann book!!! (I love this book it has CREEPY CTHONIC GODS and MOTHER DRAGONS and RESTORATIVE JUSTICE)

(For the record, if I did change my pen name to sound less feminine, I would not change it to "Ad." I have, at times, seriously considered "Adam" but it turns out that there are a couple very questionable Adam Hoffmans who already exist, so)

Hey Bluesky, help me make a silly decision. I (a) really like the idea of going to the all night write-in at Can*Con but also (b) am an easily tired middle aged morning person who is often in bed by 9 (& has to be back at work at a busy job the day after the con.) Should I do the thing, or

Apparently Canva isn't useful anymore unless you want AI all over everything (why do I always wait to adopt tech until right before it does something like this?) so I have simply created this promo graphic in PowerPoint (Also, hi! See you in a few weeks at Can*Con, if you are going!)

All I'm going to say is I've been watching a lot of James Bond movies lately, so this strategy of "Give us a trillion dollars so our product doesn't destroy humanity!" feels, shall we say, familiar

hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

*clears throat* Apparently even some longtime followers don't know I have a newsletter, so. NEWSLETTER! buttondown.com/ada-hoffmann... Now with a whole bunch of more fiction recommendations that I just sent out today!

The question, which was reportedly intended to be rhetorical, was answered in harrowing detail by Sabeen Bhatt, 46, who began by describing every possible calamity in her immediate surroundings, before moving on to the world at large.

Just absolutely wild to see so many people discovering the massive influence of the rationalists in real time and say things like "I wish I could unlearn what I've learned in the last 24 hours." I, and others, have been researching these people for YEARS. There is so much I wish I could unlearn.

Anyone want to rec a SFF book/story that depicts a process of restorative justice (or any of the other types of non-carceral justice) actually working? Especially if the world of the book is built such that restorative justice processes are the norm (as opposed to a new, controversial thing)

tfw the publisher asks me for comp titles and instantly my brain is empty and i cannot remember reading a book in my life ever

Folks going to Can*Con, and folks looking for cool mostly-Canadian SFFH writers to follow, I made a starter pack with the folks I could find from the program: go.bsky.app/SE8c2SQ #BookSky @canconsffh.bsky.social

I think she (using the pronoun advisedly b/c I was an egg back then) would be very impressed by most of it, somewhat disappointed by other parts, but also just... baffled. Like, by 20 y/o me's standards, my 38 y/o life is just so weird and outré.