K.A. Wiggins (Kaie)

All the 🖤 to @factorfourmagazine.com Ansible Press @blackcatbooks.bsky.social @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social PULPHOUSE(x2) @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for giving 🇨🇦weird SFF/H a home in 2025 (it's been a whirlwind few months~) Read/links: kaie.space/standalones Details in 🧵

Bookstores (& assorted other places that stock books)! I have ONE DAY LEFT of free shipping as a new wholesale supplier on Faire (ends Oct. 26). Get in on it: faire.com/direct/westcoastweirdkawiggins

Immortalizing my 14 DAY STREAK on The Dark (folks who don't live on Submission Grinder, check out all those zero day & 1 day rejects for why I'm marking this momentous occasion!)😭😂

Love a good read-local shop-local team up! LOTS of great indie bookstore partnerships (full map & list: kaie.space/stockists 🇨🇦)

Hello claimants in the Anthropic copyright suit! The parties filed a stipulated agreement asking for an update to the website. In this stipulation, there are two important things (although there are more that might matter for individuals).

🎃🎃🎃HALLOWEEN EXCLUSIVE @fybe-art.bsky.social 🎃🎃🎃 Made my 2 most-award-winning #horror /weird fiction short stories into lil chapbooks/zines w/ cute (hand-sewn) covers & exceedingly questionable sketches! fybe.art/seller/west-...

My god. This is 💔. Big humans are supposed to protect our little ones. But also, I can't wrap my head around the depravity of pediatric specialists everywhere, still pumping out papers blaming lockdown for everything while not even bothering to count & support these kids (see also #LongCOVIDKids).

Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

Okay, ya'll. The Apex Magazine Kickstarter still needs another $8,637 to fund 2027 and we only have 10 days to go. I'm starting to get STRESSED! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Canada can end homelessness. Even cities in the U.S. are showing it can be done. Treating housing as the first intervention in health care makes moral and economic sense, by Dr. Andrew Boozary www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #HousingFirst

The BCNDP has chosen to deprive up to 8,500 severely ill, often bedbound people of telehealth access to one of the only LC clinics in BC. cheknews.ca/b-c-quietly-... Just as COVID is surging again and creating 1000s of new patients. Tell your candidates: lifelinebc.ca

I hate writer Halloween. What do you mean you're going as a <10 min. rejection from The Dark💀

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

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.

Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social is doing their annual Kickstarter and I urge everyone to back one of the genre's most constantly amazing magazines! BONUS: If you share this post you're in the running to receive a signed book from me. Details in thread. 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

The separatists are going to lose today’s vote. But if Alberta’s political class doesn’t stop feeding and inflaming their bottomless sense of grievance and victimhood, we’ll all end up losing in the end. #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/19/o...

PARKSVILLE (Vancouver Island/Oceanside in general... Hi Coombs, Qualicum, Nanaimo folks~) I've been working on THE COOLEST Halloween plans for y'all for months now—🎃👻🎃 Check it out! bsky.app/profile/kaie...

Shoutout to @aanpress.bsky.social for their fair, author-friendly ONE PAGE contracts! I've had the privilege of signing (/sometimes negotiating) a fair number of SFF/H short fiction contracts, and most genre small presses are pretty good these days, but I've never seen one quite *that* succinct!

When you say "cut red tape," I hear "cancel regulations created to protect people."

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender.

We're beginning to prepare for a Kickstarter campaign to fund the next two years of new Utopian fiction, poetry, art, and essays. If you enjoy the darker side of the imagination as well as the lighter it's very worth supporting @nightmare-magazine.com and @lightspeedmagazine.com on theirs!

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

The Pacific Link pipeline moved another step forward last week, marking an expensive truce between Canada and Alberta, @drewanderson.bsky.social writes. Despite the two governments agreeing it would be financed by the private sector, taxpayers were always going to foot the bill.

Canadian indies: anybody have a Canadian printer to rec? Specifically one that's managed to supply a delivery of UNDAMAGED books recently? (I was hearing good things about Bookvault, but now it sounds like they're struggling too?)

Bookstores & bookish retailers! I've been working toward direct sales &... Faire is up now, Fybe coming soon! Stock up on gothic-dystopian dark fantasy for🎃! faire.com/direct/westcoastweirdkawiggins (Q: anyone want handmade chapbooks/zines? IDK logistics, but I'll figure it out if there's demand...)

Our title reveals to China +100 begin today, join us in celebrating Sinophone creativity during ESEA Heritage Month, as we count down to publication day @commapress.bsky.social , which happens around the wonderful time of Mid-Autumn Festival! 1/ #books #sff #chinese commapress.co.uk/books/china-...

Bill C-39 doubles down on habitat offsets, in which companies can "build" new habitat elsewhere to compensate for what they destroy in building a mine, a port, a pipeline or other project. The practice is highly contested by scientists. “This is our worst fear,” said biologist Misty MacDuffee.

10 charts from the Economic Policy Institute showing the impacts of 50 years of wage suppression. www.epi.org/publication/...

It's (almost) time: On October 1, BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5 submissions open! 📣BNW is a reprint-only antho, of pieces published—indie & self—in the previous calendar year. Full instructions to come 10/1📣 Wanna get in the Weird mood early? Vol. 4 is 33% off now in our webstore🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/46pvw69b

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Starred Review: CHILDREN OF OWL by Darcie Little Badger Shelf Awareness: The fourth solo novel for young readers from Newbery Honor-winning author Darcie Little Badger (A Snake Falls to Earth; Elatsoe) is a fairytale, a ghost story, and a striking narrative about trauma, community, and what we owe…

"Doomsday may be slower and more boring that the AI companies want you to believe, but accelerating already existing crises may well spell our doom...not Skynet, but Shitty Skynet." www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...

I am remarkably lazy talking about my own books. I'd much rather yell about how great my friends' are, or the polycrisis, or any of my special interests (mostly books again, TBF) However: I wrote 🇨🇦 books! Gothic-dystopian dark fantasy x ecohorror for teens & up! Book 1 is free! books.kawiggins.com