Lauren C. Teffeau

Found out last night my desertpunk fantasy A Hunger with No Name from @utampapress.bsky.social is a New Mexico Book Awards Winner for Best Fantasy Novel!

In the lead up to our Día de los Muertos & Samhain event on Nov 1st at Friday Afternoon Tea, we’re recommending sips and snacks! Title: Accelerated Growth Environment by @teffeau.bsky.social Tea: Jasmine Chun Hao by @fridaytea.com Treat: Cardamom bun from Sea Wolf Bakery Remember to RSVP!

Ominous Thill : HER HORRORWEEN is getting darker in these final two weeks. Catch up everywhere you listen to podcasts ominousthrill.com/herhorrorween

Autumn leaves 🍂

Speaking from my field, environmental law, we actually are making so much progress despite all the news: renewable energies are more affordable than ever before and the technology keeps improving We also DID manage to eliminate the +6, +5, +4 degrees scenarios in 20 years: we need to keep going !!

This weekend is @milehicon.bsky.social--Denver, Colorado's annual SF/F/H convention. Find me on panels, readings and more! Hope to see you there! #MileHiCon

Breath of Cities from the 2025 Skyscraper Competition: This skyscraper is envisioned as a giant air purifier for Ho Chi Minh to help filter the city’s polluted air, reducing air pollution and dust. www.evolo.us/breath-of-ci...

Our 2026 titles are now a bundle! They make a great gift or a nice treat for yourself. Pick up these five queer-normative sci-fi/fantasy novellas for just $85. If you’ve been wanting to read more before the end of the year, this is a great way to get back in the habit! Reading is hopepunk.

Our 2026 titles are now an ebook bundle too! They make a great gift or a nice treat for yourself. Five queer-normative sci-fi/fantasy novellas for just $45. If you’ve been wanting to read more before the end of the year, this is a great way to get back in the habit! Reading is hopepunk.

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Oh hey! One of the subplots from Accelerated Growth Environment! laurencteffeau.com/accelerated-...

This weekend is @milehicon.bsky.social--Denver, Colorado's annual SF/F/H convention. Find me on panels, readings and more! Hope to see you there! #MileHiCon

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

MileHiCon is excited to announce that Lauren C. Teffeau will be a participant at this year's convention. laurencteffeau.com

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 people who closed the Academy of Natural Sciences Public Museum want all of us to get over it and stop talking about it. But we aren't going to do that. Philly kids deserve a world class natural history museum. It’s our job to get it back for them. Take these actions today.

“The triumph of AI will be a crime against humanness. It will bottle our brains in formaldehyde. It will destroy the world as we know it. The men who promote it and profit from it are cognizant of this, and have already made arrangements to exit into another realm.“ —Arundhati Roy

We launched a Patreon for Shiraki Press this week! Now you can easily subscribe to receive all our future ebooks and/or print books automatically as they release, plus access our community Discord, and some other goodies. shirakipress.com/patreon

Help pls Subscribe www.patreon.com/ShirakiPress? Order our books at shirakipress.com or your preferred retailer. Order other books via bookshop.org/shop/shirakipress Ask your library to order them! Share them. Gift them to other readers! Attend our events. Keep believing in better tomorrows!

My story Gray Rock Method is now available in audio through Ominous Thrill's Her Horrorween podcast! ominousthrill.com/herhorrorween

My story Gray Rock Method is now available in audio through Ominous Thrill's Her Horrorween podcast! ominousthrill.com/herhorrorween

Oh, hey, @mashable.com recommends listening to Ominous Thrill #HerHorrorween this month: mashable.com/entertainmen...

We are 5 backers away from unlocking our first stretch goal! And you can back the game for as little as $23 for the complete game in PDF! Come and play! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

News from @morningtransport.bsky.social ! We are delighted to welcome @michitrota.bsky.social to the team as Audience Outreach Director! Michi is a five-time Hugo Award-winning Filipino American writer, editor, and critic.

Save the Date! Our next online Shiraki Press Book Club will be for Accelerated Growth Environment by @teffeau.bsky.social on November 12th at 5 PM Pacific time! RSVP via eventbrite at www.eventbrite.com/e/1998022418...

This was SUCH FUN, what lovely people! Already looking forward to @teffeau.bsky.social's book club day on Nov 12!

Six months ago:

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Had a great time at the 2026 Pajarito Literary Festival! Highlights included my author panel, spending time with author friends Ryley Banks, Erin Kruegar, Ty Bannerman, and Mary L. Grow, and giving a workshop on Staying Motivated. More over at instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DeSQF9wHz0w/

Had a great time at the 2026 Pajarito Literary Festival! Highlights included my author panel, spending time with author friends Ryley Banks, Erin Kruegar, Ty Bannerman, and Mary L. Grow, and giving a workshop on Staying Motivated. More over at instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DeSQF9wHz0w/

Our next Shiraki Press Book Club will be tomorrow at 10 AM! We'll be discussing Light & Earth & Marrow by @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/shiraki-pr...

Seems like a good time to note that Barnes and Noble sells individual issues of Clarkesworld, Apex, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Uncanny, and other zines, usually for under $5 per issue. Beneath Ceaseless Skies sells some "best ofs" for under $5 as well.

We've just posted a quick recap of our whirlwind Portland/Seattle tour last week! shirakipress.com/blogs/news/p... #publishing #smallpress

Sometimes (like all the time) you just have to toot your own horn. We're incredibly proud of the books that we've published this year and we think you should all read them. So we added them to the @sfwa.bsky.social recommended reading list on sfwa.org Go check it out and add your own if you're able!

I cannot stress enough how iconoclastic it is to be opposed to the massive, monolithic corporation when buying books. Especially a book like this.

It’s officially book day! Dear Blind Lady is OUT! 291 pages of as many questions as I could answer. I’m grateful to all my contributors, but most especially Alice Wong who wrote the section on how to work with PCA’s. Buy the book, come to an event, fight ableism.

Our next Shiraki Press Book Club will be Saturday at 10 AM! We'll be discussing Light & Earth & Marrow by @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social WITH Jeannie! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/shiraki-pr...

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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

2026 New Mexico Book Awards file770.com/2026-new-mex...