A.M. Tuomala

Hello to anyone new! I write fantasy stories about loving broken things. My most recent book was The Map and the Territory, a post-apocalyptic picaresque about a cartographer and a wizard trying to get home in a shattered world haunted by a death goddess.

Happy Asexual Awareness Week! Please check out my book The Map and the Territory, which has an aroace protagonist. As an ace person myself, Rukha is so special to me--she's full of love and curiosity and wonder for the world, even when it breaks. bsky.app/profile/amtu...

For #AceWeek, I have book recs! 15 of my favourite ace fantasies! Incl ⛓️‍💥 @wiswell.bsky.social's shapeshifting monster-sapphic! ⚔️ King Arthur's knights in Vancouver by @jesbattis.bsky.social! 💎 The Goose Girl like you've never seen it from @what-eats-owls.bsky.social! buff.ly/uAkQTil

Preview: Visiting America – Fantagraphics to Publish R. E. Burke’s Graphic Memoir Account of Being Unjustly Incarcerated by ICE and the Stories of the Detained Women She Met. @fantagraphics.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/preview-visi...

Happy publication day to THE SAINTS WE MAKE by Josie Kallo (@josiewrites.bsky.social) ! @mollytanzer.bsky.social called it "A bold, beautiful, and action-packed novella!"

I was just lamenting how I couldn't buy a copy of The Saints We Make until my financial situation stabilizes a little more ... BUT! Past me, a genius, backed Neon Hemlock on Kickstarter, so I got a piping hot copy in my inbox this morning!

Ebook sale for Breath and Bone on this week at all the usual places, including www.amazon.com/Breath-Bone-... www.amazon.ca/Breath-Bone-... www.amazon.co.uk/Breath-Bone-...

There are only 5 days left of spooky season, but the all-consuming void is eternal. Buy THE DEVOURING today for a fast-paced, cosmic horror thriller about unending hunger, the monstrosity of man, and the terrible consequences of the power of love. #BookSky 💙📚 amshilling.com/books/the-devouring

I rounded up 13 bone-chilling Indigenous horror reads that’ll crawl under your skin and into your dreams. Stephen Graham Jones is back with Off the Reservation, Never Whistle at Night returns for blood, and writers from Alaska to Aotearoa are bringing the scares. redpopnews.com/13-bone-chil...

You have just a few more days to send flash and poetry to @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social before we close for submissions! For a glimpse of the poetry we've published recently, I've gushed about each incredible poem featured in our summer issue in this thread...

We're in the final 4 days of the Apex Magazine 2021 Kickstarter and we're $4,393 away from our initial funding goal. The time is now! Let's hit our goal and fund Apex for 2027! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

Hmm. Don't like the beta Notifications page. Visually de-emphasizes the information I'm looking for (what specific thing am I being notified about?) and adds a bunch of filters I don't care about. Maybe I'd care more if I were a bigger account, but I'm not!

I do love reading across genres, but the tonal whiplash of going from a gory gothic horror to a fluffy contemporary romance is really strong today

"Games of Thrones meets Mr. Rogers" Step into the City of Spires, where merchant families vie for power through shows of wealth and a little backstab ✨ Bonus: it's a complete series! Four chonky queer fantasy books for your enjoyment. claudiearseneault.com/city-of-spir... #QueerAdultSFF 🌈📚

Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Issue 73 Table of Contents and cover by Alyssa Winans! buff.ly/rmqKkVi

For many, the costs of participating in industry events are barriers. Dream Foundry's Con or Bust program helps to remove them. You can be part of why we get to reply with good news. We'd appreciate your donations to support this program: dreamfoundry.org/con...

5 days to go on the Apex Kickstarter. They're at $16,446 pledged of their $21,000 goal. Times are hard and money *sucks* right now, but if you can drop a dollar in the hat, it would probably help.

Riding that thin line between "this character is an exposition machine" and "this character is infodumping as a self-soothing technique"

This month, my wife and I have gone on a lot of walks. When we started, a mile felt like a long way--but now doing a couple of miles of looking at leaves and Halloween decorations or finding good angles for cloudwatching feels easy and refreshing. I'm grateful to have spent my time like this. 💚

loved this book 💙

Last day for our World Fantasy discount! All our fantasy ebooks are on sale, exclusively at our website. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/product...

FRIENDS: recommend some trans-authored books (including yours!) in the comments! And if you've never read a book by a trans person, browse the comments and you may find your next great read. No time like the present to stick it to the pieces of shit who think we ought neither to be seen or heard

Somehow alive in the death labyrinth

No context: "This decorative hedge maze has fog of war"

Ace Week is upon us!! Everything I write has ace rep so I put a selection of them down 60%! Including the short stories! Hopefully I can make a nice lil graphic of them later but if ya wanna support and get good books 💜 itch.io/s/208981/cla...

A book so good I had to own it in both ebook and print!

I didn’t even know ChatGPT came in tabs

It's so fascinating to read the same author working with different editors--each editorial partnership brings out something different in the author's work.

what if you preordered my book www.neonhemlock.com/books/wolf-m...

Come get yourself a digital copy of The Map and the Territory for $2 off! That's all the post-apocalyptic magical road trip shenanigans your body has room for, at a 28% discount!

Currently at 89 books read so far this year; I wasn't sure I'd make it to my goal of 100, but actually, that's starting to look extremely reasonable now!

As the nights draw in, are you looking for something spooky & short? How about... 👹SINOPHAGIA (Chinese horror) ed. @xuetingni.bsky.social 🐺NORDIC NIGHTMARES (Scandinavian horror) ed. Margret Helgadottir 👻A THEORY OF HAUNTING @pennyvixen.bsky.social ✨IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL @emdashliu.bsky.social

For the morning crowd, my #AceWeek plans got a little derailed, so I present... An informal article on the broad state of aspec representation in (English language) literature and how it's been going. Go forth! Discover book shinies! medium.com/@dovelynnwri...

Poking my own Goodreads page like "When is this author going to release another book"

please feed the artists. there's a green button now

When your friend's writing is so good that you're restless and shaking with it

COVER REVEAL + PRE-ORDER 🥹 I wrote a sapphic monster romance for Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 😭🥳 Regina has spent her life hiding from the monsters that lurk in the dark. Falling for one was never part of the plan. Out July 13 2027! 🔗 bit.ly/TenderIsTheN... 🫶🏾💜

I'm giving away a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind quilt to 1 lucky US based winner who donates to my breast cancer Go Fund Me in Oct! And if you're outside the US, I'm giving away 2 copies of my novella THE UNBEARABLE TASTE OF FRUIT & WINE! Details at link. Please boost! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

Writers, I have updated by comp-finder databases for sci-fi, fantasy, and horror novels, so the old links won't work anymore. I've compiled them all into ONE shiny spreadsheet, and 2026 titles have been added as well! Find it here: www.aealexander.com/resources #Writing #Querying

Here to tell you about my horror fantasy novella set in Manila during the Japanese occupation of WWII where a young rice witch sealing a Famine spirit falls into the path of the IJA's Unit 731 biowarfare medics Of Stolen Pearls and Broken Rice is now available for preorder with Absinthe books

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Whoa. We are only one week away from release day for THE FIST OF MEMORY! Here's a video of some of your favorite authors (and mine) saying very nice things about the book. I hope you'll grab a copy or ask a helpful librarian to stock one for you so you can "have what they're having" 🙂🚀📚

Sadly, we're not at #WorldFantasy, but we're offering a convention discount on our fantasy ebooks, exclusively at our website. Sale lasts through the con! www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/product...