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jrdawson.bsky.social
She/They. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (Tor, 2025). The First Bright Thing (Tor, 2023). Goldie award winner. ✡️🏳️‍🌈🍉Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jrdawsonwriter Rep: Stevie Finegan
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OKAY LISTEN UP. When we hit $5k on the Kickstarter, I will post *my* messed up deer story free to read for you all. 👀🦌It's called "What To Do With A Deer In the Woods" (a brand new Merc horror story! with messed up deer! SET IN THE WOODS... like the meme!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

I ate some of the best food I've ever eaten today at Owamni. I read some of the best writing I've ever read today in @yumewrites.bsky.social 's SALTCROP. It was a good day.

Yes.

Just a reminder if you preorder LIGHTHOUSE from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social , you get a signed copy AND a free enamel pin of the bestest doggie ever that GLOWS IN THE DARK (from @litpinsandco.bsky.social ) moonpalacebooks.com/item/3Czr8Ta...

yes, i DID finish the lego recreation of the Lighthouse from my book. It has been sitting under a cloth on my dining room table for a month. i DID NOT forget about it. i just NEED to ACTUALLY take PHOTOS of it.

Oh the list is long. @rocketjessie.bsky.social is always my rock and made me a great playlist to drive to, @wiswell.bsky.social continues to be a badass, @steviefinegan.bsky.social is so smart and hard working, I am LOVING @yumewrites.bsky.social ‘s next book (I have an ARC MWA hahahahaha)

There are no words for what House on the Rock is.

Hi the local racist losers are already complaining about Ironheart. If you’re interested in Riri or just black girls getting their piece of the story, please support it. Coogler produced it.

Had an AMAZING time giving a keynote at MIBA’s Spring Road Trip!

OH MY GOD

Hands down Goofy Movie. There is no gif of the scene so take this one instead.

I’m never leaving Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/09/c...

Looks like I’ll be at Wiscon!

Wow, I have 9000 words on my Adult Fantasy Dr. Who x Queer Lost Boys from Neverland. Is ... is this an actual draft-shaped thing now? Not a blank page??

I LOVE this new story from @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social . The structure is super cool (pun intended) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...

My next novel is about a grumpy dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon riding academy. So here is my auction item: I'll tuckerize the winning bidder as a dragon rider in the book. I love my trans siblings. www.32auctions.com/organization...

I'm offering a special microfiction piece about your favorite character from either of my books, handwritten on the back of a postcard from either Omaha (TFBT) or Chicago (Lighthouse). Trans rights are human rights. www.32auctions.com/organization...

There’s an unpublished story in the TFBT verse where Mauve looks at all the ways she and Odette and Rin could meet and tries to figure out which is best.

New story day!!! "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" is in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, now available online, and I'm so excited to share it with you! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...

Every day.

A great piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social outlining the specific economic pressures - and modern echoes - of Sinners.

TLDR The First Bright Thing 😂😂

Ohhhh wow @charliejane.bsky.social ‘s new book has an excerpt in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and I see why LJ gave it a star. I cannot wait to read the whole book. Such good lines, the character relationships sing, so so good. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

For those of you who are Gurty fans, today his brother escaped the yard and Gurty tattled on him. Good boy.

Super looking forward to Saltcrop by @yumewrites.bsky.social and Memory Hunters by @itsamia.bsky.social

I simply cannot wait to get my hands on THE GRYPHON KING by @omersarae.bsky.social and THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD by @jrdawson.bsky.social.

Brand new solarpunk story out in @escapepod.org today. "After the Rain" narrated by @isabel.kim. Read or listen to it here: escapepod.org/2025/05/01/e...

Neon Hemlock is putting out some of the most brilliant SFF novellas out there! highly recommend supporting them.

Please share: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Really excited to be doing another book with @mrsteeleyogirl.bsky.social, especially one that feels so very necessary right now. Send us your on-topic speculative fiction stories and let's raise some money for transgenderlawcenter.org and raicestexas.org!

New Newsletter Out Today! Remember, if you want to join the club, you can subscribe on my home page: www.jrdawsonwriter.com

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… no thanks, I’m good.

... it's ... .... gonna .... be .... .... it's gonna be ...

Starred @publisherswkly.bsky.social review for @jrdawson.bsky.social’s “immersive, bittersweet, and wonderfully original” THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD! www.publishersweekly.com/9781250805584 Due to be published by @torbooks.bsky.social (US/CA) & @panmacmillan.bsky.social (UK), in July.

Happy to see my story We Are Burnout, published at Phano Magazine #2, in Charles's list of queer short SFF! 🤩

With @scalzi.com and others curating their spaces to encourage the use of alt text and other accessibility features, here’s a reminder about @veron4ica.com’s “capybara method” and other tools.

Y’ALL. IT GOT A PW STAR!!!!! www.publishersweekly.com/9781250805584

Y’ALL. IT GOT A PW STAR!!!!! www.publishersweekly.com/9781250805584