Anushree Nande

My first post on here is for those who don't know me from other platforms. I'm a writer and editor from Mumbai. Indie published author. Reader. Longtime Gooner. Lifelong nerd. Tolkienite. Runner. I write a newsletter every alternate Sunday at anushreenande.substack.com Come say hi!

That sure continued the rollercoaster of our Big Gabi emotional journey, didn't it @arsenalvisionpodcast.com?

It's M-E-R-I-N-O. Not Moreno or Marena. FFS.

Setpiece FC is open for business 🔴⚪️ #BoringBoringArsenal

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

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It's such a good book too! You're all in for a treat. Watch out for my newsletter issue at the end of the month for my review.

Last season: Boring boring Arsenal scoring only setpieces. This season: Booo Arsenal for scoring from open play, where are the setpieces? It's not unexpected but still hilarious.

Intergalactic Mixtape lives!!!

Most of the best books are midlist books. "Quietly good, selling steadily" has never once been turned into a marketing budget, and it's still most of what's worth reading.

Justice for the midlist!

I feel that if an announcement needs an explanatory blog for people not to think it's absolutely terrible, a) that explanation should have happened with the announcement and b) are you quite sure it's *not* terrible?

I get the premise of "well this shit's here, how can we best work with it?" but starting from the premise that it *can* be used for good, and not defining how, is just...giving everything away before the negotiations start.

thing is, if this pledge had actually given specific real world examples of ethical do's and don'ts, so that people could assess if publishers etc were living up to them, it could have had some effect. Without that, handing out a "We agree to be nice and ethical" badge achieves nothing.

FYI people watching from abroad, the Society of Authors statement was also signed by Australian Society of Authors The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc The Writers’ Union of Canada The Association of Illustrators

My interview with R.F. Kuang in @thehindu.com this past weekend. Link here if you want to read it online: www.pressreader.com/india/the-hi... #booksky #TaipeiStory #RFKuang

Very sad news. Nobody will ever match his Arsenal tenure...a quite extraordinary life of service to the club. RIP.

We go to print next week to ensure all preorders arrive in November. So, if you have been delaying, delay no more. Order below 👇 My sequel to the Invincible Alphabet, one year on but 22 years in the making. Collaboration with the superb Jason Woods. www.legendspublishing.net/product/arse...

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I don't think it does the field good, in the long term, to elide line-level issues in reviews; & we fail to elevate talent if our analysis doesn't go deeper than the pitch.

Personal hobbyhorse, but thinking about AI in publishing is really making me want criticism to go harder on discussing the actual style & substance of books. If we just talk about plot & vibes, we're leaving the door totally open, & missing out on the good stuff besides. "It's just words on a page."

Untidy but 3 points as @arseblog.com succinctly pointed out. Some magic moments, others that we should have done better at, but phew that is done and we're hopefully back to winning ways. #Arsenal

BRUNOOO. What a finish. What a build up. Now we're talking.

Unicorn is as unicorn does 😌

RICHYYY

Okay, change that to me to the players. C'mon guys.

Arsenal are finally back. Me to me:

Had the lucky chance to make a playlist for @largeheartedboy.bsky.social for the release of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing. Like the book itself, I tried to weave Ursula's musical loves (which will surprise you!) with my own largeheartedboy.com/2026/10/07/d... @ursulakleguin.com

Yesss Bossman Mikel! Here to stay ❤️🤍

think BBC's Sherlock has to win this, adored the first season but the whole thing went downhill with such DRAMA, with such FLAIR that I cringe at the very thought of having ever enjoyed it

In case you missed it. My chat with @davidnaimon.bsky.social for @therumpus.net. therumpus.net/2026/09/28/n...

Goal machine Mikel Merino, is it?

There are others, but this was the first one that popped into my head. Still furious.

Brb gotta go do that knowledge work.

New issue out today with what I've been reading, writing, and watching in August and September. #booksky anushreenande.substack.com/33-nothing-i...

This award in particular means a lot to everyone at SH - it’s so specifically directed towards the goal that underpins everything the magazine does. By which I mean: shucks. 💜

💚💚💚 So delighted, and a warm congratulations to all other winners and nominees. Thank you also to Alter Mag for commissioning a long-form essay on the history of Indian SF as the debut piece in their magazine. It’s available to read for free here: altermag.com/articles/the...

UK folks: THE FIFTH INFLECTION (coming 18th February 2027) is now available for pre-order from Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/the-fif...

"...these three conversations with Ursula, our making of them into a book, and its arrival into the world, changed the trajectory of my life." @davidnaimon.bsky.social discusses with @anushreenande.bsky.social the transformative impact of his work with Ursula K. Le Guin. ➡️ buff.ly/dNW5i8b

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

All of this is too complicated to actually get into with character limits (and because the whole thing is so partisan) but this is for everyone: Rich people do not care about us. They use us. They hate us. Do not celebrate when you benefit from their wealth. They are never, ever, doing it for you.

On the occasion of the reissue of URSULA K LE GUIN: CONVERSATIONS ON WRITING, Mumbai-based writer and editor Anushree Nande interviewed me for The Rumpus about collaborating on the book with Ursula. Our conversation was given the wonderful title "Nothing is Too Small to Contain the World"

I rewatched Troy on a flight recently and wow is this one of Sean Bean's only roles where he's alive at the end when pretty much everyone else from the main cast dies?

Read.

New piece Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to have this chat with @davidnaimon.bsky.social for @therumpus.net about the wonderful @ursulakleguin.com. therumpus.net/2026/09/28/n...

Kate will be focusing on out of print SF. New editions of older texts, like yesterday's piece on Beatrice The Sixteenth, will still appear, too. So pitch in the usual way! AJ's monthly media corner is also additional to not limiting of our coverage - keep pitchin', we'll take as many as you've got!

I think a proper way to reframe the “Arsenal have had six years to build this, other teams are just starting” bullshit narrative we are now getting is “Arsenal have been well run, intelligent, and committed for a long time, while other teams have fucked about aimlessly for the last half decade+”.