Ben Berman Ghan

today @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social published my book THE LIBRARY COSMIC, 6 interlinked stories that weave in and out of time. it is weird and cross genre and a love letter to so many things. I'm very proud that it is out in the world, anywhere books are found! www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781998...

I think my most contentious take on the publishing industry is that we allowed the term “indie” to shift from meaning being published by small/independent presses to being self-published, and I think this was a bad thing

Teaching comics but not teaching Sandman has left such a hole in my heart. It’s so important, to comics and to me, but at least right now, I can’t bring myself to be the reason that 45 copies of gaimans work gets sold and discussed

Stepping into you can see everything, excited to see a movie drop dong, Oreos I’ve been told

Accidentally went onto Instagram and stumbled onto the epidemic of grifter influencers cherry-picking quotes from contemporary novels to argue “the west has fallen” and then made the additional mistake of opening the comments and ffffff

🩸 COVER REVEAL 🩸 Earth Filled With Blood @afsulli.bsky.social is out June 2027 from Gallery Books ! @cookemcdermid.bsky.social Across Canada, ancient blood-drinking creatures have survived for generations by hiding in plain sight… Preorder here: bit.ly/EarthFilledW... 🖤👻📚

Congratulations to Pip Adam, recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Audition!

Exciting announcement! The next Clarion West Novel Workshop will run from March - November, 2027 and will be led by @premeemohamed.com. Applications will be accepted November 1-30, 2026. For more information, visit www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...

I am so primed to get bad news it is incredible

What is even the point of the writers union of Canada honestly what the fuck are you doing

Haven’t seen anyone make a sound about the current The Deadman book. But it’s very good

Didn’t care for the other books. But Midnight X-Men has that *it* factor. Hickman and Della Fonte at 100%. It’s like an emotional inversion of house of x

teaching Watchmen this week made me remember that doomsday clock is a thing DC comics did a few years ago. it came to me like a jump scare in a horror film. awful, evil

it's hard to balance being excited about writing news (secret) with being sick and anxious about phd thesis feedback

Man I’m so excited. Saint of Bright Doors and Rakesfall were both mind-altering pieces of work, the kind of writing I spend all of my time HOPING to encounter but rarely do

there is too much vomiting in poetry. stop that. take a graval

AI on my phone, on my laptop, in my spreadsheets, in my word processor, in my PDF reader, in my student assignments, in my ads, on my maps I’m going to scream get this shit away from me

Pls send authors nice emails about their work Otherwise it's a wasteland of slopscammers and "Were is the addiobook I want addio" "Wy is ur book not for sale in my nation no one has ever herd of" "I live on Enceladus & I cannot find ur bok"

INCREDIBLE writing news that I cannot speak about publicly just yet. but please know: I am over the moon

WE HAVE DATES! We are delighted to confirm that TriCon Halifax will be returning in 2027! May 21-23 2027 at the NSCAD Port Campus. And TODAY ONLY we are taking EARLY-Early bird weekend pass registrations at the @halconscificon.bsky.social Stories from the Stars book fair!

Muppets The Tempest Willem Dafoe as Caliban send tweet

For all the folk down south of the border having trouble getting their hands on Canadian books, you could also grab my collection of weird stories, THE LIBRARY COSMIC, as an ebook! Here is the Kobo link, but I'm sure Apple and Barnes & Noble and (gags) Kindle all have it too!

Just following this up to emphasize how insane I feel making distinguishing between pre and post-crisis DC character an important part of a university lecture

Most of the hate for the new Wolverine game is so silly to me, BUT something about making Jean Grey have a big blushing schoolgirl crush on Wolverine makes my blood boil

I’m back to doing back squats at 225 (hurray!) I’m making terrible noises in the third and fourth sets (oh no)

Spending World Batman day exactly the way I'm supposed to

Folks going to Can*Con, and folks looking for cool mostly-Canadian SFFH writers to follow, I made a starter pack with the folks I could find from the program: go.bsky.app/SE8c2SQ #BookSky @canconsffh.bsky.social

You CAN find me at @canconsffh.bsky.social this year! See you in Ottawa when the leaves are changing!

Finally caught up on all the Atthis Arts crap. Super depressing! Why does it often feel like spec-lit generates this kind of stuff way more than the mainstream presses? is it just that this is the scene I'm in so these are the scandals I see? Ugh

This segment will air tomorrow, and also tomorrow morning I'll be going on CBC Edmonton's morning radio show to talk even MORE about The Ol' Canucklehead!

For those planning to attend the Montreal Worldcon (the World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal) September 2-6, 2027 (next year), note that the membership rates GO UP on September 30, 2026 — get your membership before they do! montreal2027.ca/en

If you told me at 16 that at 30 the CBC would be asking me to come on to talk about X-Men, I actually think he would have fully taken that in stride

Join me tomorrow morning on CBC Radio's "The Calgary Eyeopener" where you can listen to me say “oh my god did you know The Wolverine is Canadian? Did you know his claws originally came from the gloves? Did you know he was going to be a real wolverine that fell into radiation? And did you know Wolve

I preordered this book, and cannot wait for its release next Tuesday. Klein has always managed to channel both rage and hope, a tough and vital balancing act these days.

You know what sometimes I think more comics should bring back the old Claremont style third person narrator shtick. I fucking love this stuff

prepping a lecture on Claremont and Byrne's Dark Phoenix Saga is crazy for me. I open this book and I'm 4 years old in my dad's basement looking into a milk crate full of dusty comics, and taking Uncanny X-Men 131 out of a plastic sleeve. SF, fantasy, this is where it all started for me

I’m honestly so psyched to dive into this everyone should be so grateful we live in the timeline with a new @premeemohamed.com novel coming out