Reading Report: August 2025
Hello subscribers! This is something of an experiment. I wanted to try a subscribers only post and I figured I'd add a link roundup of interesting articles on writing (and some not). I'm also including what I've been reading, just to get back into the habit of keeping track which I have fallen off on the past few years.
Writing News
- Transfer Orbit - Who won Hugos this year?
- Writer Beware - Spec Fic mags controversial contract changes
- Writer Beware - Gen AI Anthropic class action (check if you are included)
- Bluesky - Writing Motivation
Sparks
- Funranium Labs - What's up with those radioactive shrimp?
- Bluesky - "Poor as a Churchmouse"
- Bluesky - The Best Gravestone and the story behind it
- Bluesky - An excellent weekly poster series
What I've Been Reading
Lots of new books from old series this month.
- The Adventure of the Demonic Ox - Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Lies Arcana - Glynn Stewart (new Starship's Mage)
- Stone & Sky - Ben Aaronovitch (new Rivers of London)
- Wearing the Lion - John Wiswell
- Constant Reader - Dorothy Parker
- The Inheritance - Ilona Andrews
- Rapport - Martha Wells (new Murderbot short!)
- Steering the Craft - Ursula K. Le Guin
- Discount Armageddon - Seanan McGuire
- Enchantment Emporium - Tanya Huff
- The Void Spheres - Glynn Stewart
- The Sound on the Page - Ben Yagoda
