Kingfisher & Wombat

It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

This is something we get accused of surprisingly often and all I can say is: yes. Good. I am here to destroy the hopes and dreams of husbands who don't think they have to add value to their wife's life.

Pfff, sounds like a skill issue on the part of the husbands to me.

Goddammit.

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 26: Southern Gothic horror the way only @tkingfisher.com can do it? That’s what’s on the menu in A House with Good Bones. Also insects, vultures, and teeth! Kingfisher has that tricky skill of making you laugh and creeping you out in quick succession, which I love.

A reference probably only understood by 3 people in academia, but I think I’ve figured out a way to put my finger on LLM-speech’s ineffable badness: AI can’t smell. @tkingfisher.com

Today @alyalyoops.bsky.social gives us a look at some short reads for spooky season: @tkingfisher.com's Sworn Soldier series! -JI🐉 "Classic literature, ancient myth, and Lovecraftian horror is a winning combination & highly effective." fantasy-faction.com/2026/sworn-s... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #horrorbooks

Thank you, @milehicon.bsky.social! Had a great time, really enjoyed meeting some cool new folks, and @scalzi.com didn’t kill each other hardly at ALL.

Stepped out of the restaurant with two friends, and a woman yells at us. HER: Hey! What band are you in? US: Eh? HER: What’s the name of your band? KEVIN: We’re not in a band? HER: You’re not? ME: We’re just weirdos. And then she began singing “Creep” at us.

no yeah this is great midterm messaging actually, keep it up 👍

It's so much fun sharing our adoration of @tkingfisher.com with her fans. Yeah we sell her books, but we voraciously READ her books too. She spans so many genres from YA to Fantasy to Horror to Romance. One of the reasons we love selling her books is because there is something for everyone.

Anyone sad at missing out on any @tkingfisher.com books who is in the Minneapolis / Saint Paul area... we will be at the Twin Cities Book Festival on November 7th. We may have signed copies of some of her titles! twincitiesbookfestival.com

We all need to make a pact that we're just going to log off. Just get tf offline until the adrenaline high fades as otherwise we won't be fedposting, we'll be fedbaiting, possibly fedfluffing or even fededging. Fedging.

We’re open for business at @milehicon.bsky.social and here all weekend. Come and get your @tkingfisher.com fix (and maybe some Furry books for “your friend who is into that stuff” 😉)

I always do the big important medical ones, so this time I’m just gonna say—long distance calls are free now.

If you’re at MileHiCon, the Sofawolf table has some original Digger omnibuses, AND the original T-shirts! Limited quantities.

Beautiful. Let's do this from sea to shining sea.

Huh. I knew they had tiny brains, but TIL that giant anteaters have one of the lowest body temperatures of any mammal, at a cool 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Neat! They are also adorable, but despite being friend-shaped, DO NOT HUG.

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

It was the Dunning of tymes, it was the Kruger of tymes.

@aptshadow.bsky.social I need you to put down the Lathe of Heaven and back away.

30,000 years ago, a wolf tentatively approaches a fire…

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Science presenter to kids: "Can you imagine a pillbug the size of you?" Me: I have been EMOTIONALLY ATTACHED to a pillbug the size of me, courtesy of @tkingfisher.com.

Cozy Horror is great for two reasons: fans enjoy it, and the haters want art to make them unhappy, so they get what they want, too.

Bluesky pals! I have a sci-fi graphic novel called DRIVE, & it's my favorite thing I've ever done! If you need a long, escapist read at the moment the entire thing is free to read, here: drivecomic.com (THIS PAGE: First Up: Admiral Cayetano Cruz )

this is why you don't comply in the first place because nothing is ever enough for this dipshit of a human. pretty soon he's going to want to rename earth "planet trump"

This one is so good!

OCTOBER RECS DAY 20 Do you like the woods? @tkingfisher.com and e.m. carroll will help you get over that.

Beechdrops are a fully parasitic plant that does not photosynthesize and cannot exist without its host, the American beech tree -- populations of which are becoming rapidly decimated by the introduced pathogen, beech leaf disease. Beechdrops cause little to no harm to their host. #nativeplants 🌿

There is a doofus currently arguing here that no "creative talent" would choose to write tie-ins, and since I just did a panel this weekend on why creative talents choose to write IP, here are a few reasons. Non-financial reasons, for fun and because frankly it usually doesn't pay that well.

*mutters, checks life list*

Generally it's not good for the person in charge of one of the world's two largest nuclear arsenals to have such a thin grasp on reality but in this case him believing the status quo (US keeps its existing military base on Greenland, maybe more) is a new change is in fact fine.

Don't know why people dumped their money in NFTs and crypto when we keep proving that this worldview is the only currency that matters right now.

There are ways around this. They involve trusts. Get your aging parents to talk to a lawyer to keep their assets protected.

Also, from a library worker, those checkouts help us keep our funding. So checking stuff out is one of the easiest ways to help us out!

And for pin collectors, there is a pin version!

Co-signed! That’s what libraries are for, and they do pay us! Never apologize!

Wanna help me pack up native seeds for free distribution across Philly this winter? Join us tonight from 6:30-9pm at Sulimay's Restaurant! If you can't make it tonight, we're meeting again Nov 2nd and 16th RSVP here lu.ma/dgs

I’m on Ditch Diggers with Mur Lafferty on Twitch right now!