James L. Sutter

COVER REVEAL! Today on @lgbtqreads.bsky.social, there's an exclusive cover reveal of my new post-apocalyptic gay romance novel, HEARTS AGAINST THE MACHINES, coming in March from @alcovepress.bsky.social! Think M*A*S*H meets Terminator—but as a slow-burn gay romance! lgbtqreads.com/2026/10/14/c...

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Doctors and nurses are voicing their objections. I-638 would require EVERY girl who wants to participate in sports to go through biological sex verification. That means expensive, invasive, and utterly gross examinations. Protect our kids and let them play. Vote NO on I-638

"Charming, but still quite gross and dumb as shit" is exactly how I hope people describe my YA characters. Also my adult characters.

Rashida is brilliant and you should leap on this opportunity.

Some weeks my calls to my elected officials are highly specific policy requests. Some weeks it's "As your constituent, I'd like you to please fuck up these fuckers. You know who I'm talking about—please just pick one and do something."

HEARTS AGAINST THE MACHINES is a Read Now on Netgalley for the next week! (If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it, but if you're a reviewer, bookseller, or any flavor of bookish influencer... go grab it!) www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

ICYMI—New book! Out soon! It will be available in print, ebook and audio, though not all the links for that stuff has populated yet.

Friends hiked up to a serene, picturesque mountain lake and then immediately had to hike back down because there were a bunch of drunk guys up there shooting guns, which feels like a solid metaphor for the United States.

Friend asked "Are you editing or just cringing at your own book?" and I'd like to report a murder. 💀

"Ah, but if someone kills a devil that's been called to the mortal realm, does it leave a corpse? Or does its immortal essence return to Hell?" Some days being a game designer feels an awful lot like being a theologian.

*jerks awake in the middle of the night* "HAVE A FLAMINGO PLAY JAMES BOND IN 'A VIEW TO A KRILL'!" *passes out again*

I always enjoy doing Pathfinder research for a project, stumbling across some bit of fiction or lore and thinking "what is this? who wrote it?"... and then seeing my own name at the bottom. 😂

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams are unionizing! You can sign here to show your support: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the "ts" in a "boots'n'cats" beat is a hi-hat being hit open and then closed with the left foot in time with the snare. (Was just remembering how I spent *years* wondering how the heck to make that noise before finally learning to play the drums.)

I love trad publishing, but it's wild how we tell each other "DON'T WRITE FOR EXPOSURE! GET PAID!"—and then sign contracts where we get 5-10% of a book's price. We do it in hopes publishing will make us famous enough that we can start earning decent money—so in a way, we're all writing for exposure.

Apparently I missed Bi Visibility Day yesterday, but since it's still Sapphic September, maybe you need a queer fake-dating rom-com about a teenage ghost hunter who finds an actual ghost? jameslsutter.com/novels-ghost...

@zackdavisson.com A friend just invited me to a yokai lecture for her birthday and I thought "I bet it's Zack" and then I googled it AND IT TOTALLY IS! Looking forward to seeing you speak!

Making an author read their book after they're no longer able to revise it should be banned by the Geneva Conventions.

There's a dwarf blueberry in our back yard that's been there for nine years. In all that time—despite plenty of water and fertilizer—it's never produced a single berry. This year, for no reason I can discern—blueberries! Tons of them! So don't give up, okay?

This just in: 66% of straight women *missing out*

The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope

Bluesky has been chock-full of book recommendations recently, and I am HERE FOR IT.

Anybody got a good craft book recommendation for writing mystery novels?

Did not expect the second paragraph in this article to mention the time I got China to write for Pathfinder! Fun fact: after he turned in the draft of his intelligent-angler fish society, I had to send a note explaining why we shouldn't call their bioluminescent lures "fleshlights"... 😅

The kids are alright.

"This song speaks perfectly to all my grief around aging and illness, and our attempts to carry on regardless." *loads up music video* *sees cartoon cat vomiting on a keyboard* "That... was a choice."

This whole thread is worth a read.

Just realized I'm the old man out watering the garden in his bathrobe. How did this happen.

Some authors' careers launch like rockets, but for most of us, publishing is like being a lungfish: heaving ourselves out of the sea and gasping "LOOK AT ME!" until we're on the verge of asphyxiation, then flopping back into the water to recharge for the next attempt.

dudes rock

Passed a beautiful and devastating graffiti note, tagged on a sign along a bike trail between cities: To S—, I DIDN'T RUN! They told me you OD'd. Find me at [address]. Still faithfully yours, D—