Sylvain Neuvel

I made an affiliate store at @bookshop.org that you can use to browse all my books (or buy them if you're in the US). Also added a short list of some books I love. bookshop.org/shop/neuvel

Last year, I was struggling with what felt like an impossible task. My son was turning 16 and I had to sing: "Happy birthday..." I like cracking a hard problem but I felt overwhelmed by the range of potential names my son could have. I asked Claude and it suggested "Timmy." I thought it was perfect.

I have created a fortress of solitude and vinyl! (And a heater from Costco. (Still need another curtain on the left where the leaves come in…)

I have created a fortress of solitude and vinyl! (And a heater from Costco. (Still need another curtain on the left where the leaves come in…)

What do you think is the percentage of sentences in that article that have never been written before?

Hi! I want you to THINK about buying my book, THE MANY, for five seconds. Five… four… three… two… one… See, that was easy. Five seconds, every day. You can do it.

Damn. 1:26… I guess my 8-10pm event ran a bit late. Going to bed…

This is a great analysis.

No geese or tiny green cats like Can*Con but Livre And Let Livre _will_ have soot sprites for its 25th edition tonight if you're in Montreal. With guests Véronique Reed and Michelle Franklin.

There's lots of books and movies where aliens show up to wipe us out and the message is that we deserved it in one way or another. Well, I don't know if aliens are keeping tabs but this is as good a reason as any to end a civilization.

Yes. Go @canconsffh.bsky.social and weird green cats. And geese, even if we didn’t do goose things…

Polymarket is taking bets on whether the seven Cornell students accused of raping a student will receive a felony sex crime charge. Among the athletes endorsing Polymarket: LeBron James, Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, Sue Bird, Reggie Bush and Richard Sherman. frontofficesports.com/article/poly...

Hello Author! First let me summarize your own book for you, beginning with "I love how...". Depth. Metaphor. Exploration. Also you should join our group called Super Group Reader Assembly Forum World with 3000 members. I mean... I kinda _hope_ a person didn't write this.

I want more @canconsffh.bsky.social ! Can se start again? We didn’t even do anything with the geese!

If you sit me between brilliant people, I can sort of look remotely intelligent.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

If only there was a common denominator amongst authors being very publicly accused os using AI... Also, Pangram? I mean, I'm all for banning AI slop but using the thing that stole everything to decide is it's been made to look like everything stolen by the everything-stealing thing is... iffy.

Burbugah, a Swedish metal birb band

This weekend—Friday through Saturday—we will be at Can*Con at the Brookstreet Hotel in Ottawa! The vendors room is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC—no con membership required—which means you can come get all your books signed! Meet @kevinhearne.bsky.social & @marissalingen.bsky.social & @chuckwendig.bsky.social!

This weekend!!! @canconsffh.bsky.social @mariebilodeau.bsky.social @julieczerneda.bsky.social @neuvel.net

APPEL À TOUS - OPEN CALL On cherche des artistes de bande dessinée pour notre 2e mini comic convention Livre And Let Livre le 24 novembre à Pointe-St-Charles. Looking for comic artists to participate in our second mini comic convention at Livre And Livre on November 24. DM please :)

Wet birbs

SOOOOOON!

That thing came out 32 years ago and I still half-remember the lyrics to most songs, including the Ukranian folk song on that album… youtu.be/uZSHAPJ1nOs?...

Cassettes…

OMG Milla Jovovich is on Heated Rivalry s2.

I mean, even if you ignore all the bad shit, no one sees your posts anymore. I’d get 200 likes or reply out of 1200 followers on early Twitter, but 7 likes out of 4K people at the end. I was talking to myself, looking at an endless flux of crap. I sure as shit didn’t lose anything by leaving.

I fucking hate online recipes. "5 min easy chicken stuff. … I once walked the Gulfport beach at night, unaware of my time, or the inescapable loneliness of an indifferent universe. (a novella’s worth of that)… Mix the chicken with the sauce. " No quantities, nothing.

- Hey Siri, how can I flush my reputation down the toilet? - I'm thinking...

I’m a 10 minute walk from downtown Montreal so there’s a ton of crap and light in the sky but this isn’t too bad for the city…

Email: "I came across The Many and the premise made me stop and read twice. It starts with Carole biting Booker at a donut shop, and somehow that leads to their minds merging into a collective with Shivansh and Evelyn." Me: So glad you told me how my book started, here's my credit card. Take it all

Can you imagine getting one of those horrible lengthy emails summarizing your own book, but it’s real and from a publisher?!?!

This is next-level depraved. It’s like they watched every movie ever and said we should be the villains.

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Preeti and Cassie, avoid them!!! (They tracked me down via means they should have had no access to.) authorsguild.org/news/claimsh...

Here’s what Hive Mind Game Night at @canconsffh.bsky.social is about. We’re going to play multiple games where you have to sync your thoughts with other people’s. I have, like, a million. I’ll quiz you on while you play so you can will a fur ball and googly eyes. Plus, FREE WINE. What do you say?

I’m not weird… … … You’re weird.

The Quebec PM and the Canadian PM were both goalies for the Oxford hockey team. Weird.

**he wants me to kiss him** **he wants me to kiss him** Narrator: Jimothy did not, in fact, want Barbatha to kiss him.

Come to Hive Mind Game Night at @canconsffh.bsky.social ! Come to Hive Mind Game Night! Come to Hive Mind Game Night! Come to Hive Mind Game Night! Come to Hive Mind Game Night! Come to Hive Mind Game Night! Come to Hive Mind Game Night! Come to Mind Hive ... Night! oooh. I'm tired.

I started commenting on the Quebec election and ended up deleting. I really need a drink.

I have a feeling we're not gonna like this Quebec election...

Barbarha is tired of your BS.