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And if you want to catch up on the September issue, you can read my short fiction reviews AND my review of SLOW BURN by @amalsingh.bsky.social : subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

Pic of review, SLOW BURN book cover at the top.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12h

My short fiction review in the October issue of Locus Magazine includes fiction from Fiyah, Small Wonders, Flash Fiction Online, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Kaleidotrope, GigaNotoSaurus & Strange Horizons. subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. The October 2026 Locus magazine, Issue #789, has interviews with Stephen King, Tananarive Due, and Paul Tremblay. The issue includes a feature on horror with spotlights by K. Ancrum, K-Ming Chang, Ellen Datlow, Christopher Golden, Micaiah Johnson, Keith Rosson, and Lisa Wood; commentary by Maurice Broaddus & Dr. Chesya Burke, Cassandra Khaw, and Lisa Wood; and a review by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro. LAcon V, Worldcon 2026 is covered with an extensive report and photos, the Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 18/09/2026

Garner's Red Shift. I still love this book and was obsessed with it as a teen but it SHOOK me the first time I read it. The timeshifts. the multiple timelines interweaving and connecting, the traumatic darkness of it... It did something to my writer and reader brain that left a mark.

Alan Garner's Red Shift. Cover is a moody, cloudy sky behind an ancient tor on a hill. The sun shines through a window in the ruined tor.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 10/09/2026

So thrilled that my story (about VHS tapes and a strange kids' show from the 1970s and the deep dark Swedish woods) "Distant But Unmistakable" from the EXPERIMENTAL FILES anthology will appear on PseudoPod later this year! 🥳

Experimental Files cover. Two hands cutting film with scissors. An Anthology of tales inspired by "Experimental Film" by Gemma Files, edited by Elizabeth Mitchell & Sarah Walker.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 09/09/2026

My review of SLOW BURN by Amal Singh is in this issue, together with my short fiction review column! subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover art by Tithi Luadthong AKA Grandfailure. A figure in a spacesuit with a glowing triangle on the ches walking in green grass.
The September 2026 Locus magazine, issue #788, has interviews with Garth Nix and James Islington, a spotlight on Dmitri Lincoln Mehlhorn & Archipelago of Light, and a spotlight on artist Tithi Luadthong AKA Grandfailure. The Fall Titles section includes reviewers' seasonal picks, US and UK forthcoming books, a spotlight on Chinelo Onwualu, and commentary from Claire North, Tricia Narwani, and Yoon Ha Lee. John Crowley and Dave Nee are remembered with obituaries and appreciations.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 01/09/2026

Brand new essay at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at Ruadán Books: L.E. Daniels gives an insightful editor's perspective on the impact gen AI is having on writers and their craft. ruadanbooks.com/an-editor-on...

A skeleton with a hammer aimed at its temple. Pic of Lauren Elise Daniels in glasses and with a pink cap, smiling. Title: An Editor on Generative AI - Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at Ruadán Books.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 22/08/2026

Or you can read Shimmer or @thedeadlands.com or read the anthology SWORD AND SONNET to see the great work she's done for years and years as an editor.

Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Aurealis Award, and the Ditmar Award.Sword and Sonnet contains twenty-three fantasy and science fiction stories featuring battle poets. A poet in search of the dragon her mother banished. A labyrinth that is the last sanctuary against the hunger consuming the world. A gunslinger who kills with a single word. A machete-wielding poet defending her street against the children of revenge. A spaceship-devouring poet who sings to the stars.With stories from:Alex Acks, C.S.E. Cooney, Matt Dovey, Malon Edwards, Spencer Ellsworth, Ingrid Garcia, Samantha Henderson, S.L. Huang, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Cassandra Khaw, Margo Lanagan, Kira Lees, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Anya Ow, Tony Pi, A.E. Prevost, A. Merc Rustad, Carlie St. George, Victoria Sandbrook, Hayley Stone, Setsu Uzumé, Suzanne J. Willis and A.C. Wise

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 22/08/2026

Or check out her short story collection THE GRAND TOUR: ecatherine.com/the-grand-to... "a collection of her popular circus stories. With nine stories ranging from the first published work within this universe to a previously unreleased piece, this is your ticket to her magical world."

Step right up! Come one, come all, to Jackson's Unreal Circus and Mobile Marmalade. The steam train may look older than your great-grandmother's china, but within her metal corridors are destinations you have only ever dreamed. They're real, friends, each and every one—and yours for the taking.

Witness Rabi, Vanquisher and Vanisher Extraordinaire, who can make coins and the past vanish before your very eyes. Dare to visit the Beauty and the Beast, our conjoined twins who are terrible and tortured by turns. Sample Beth's marmalade, the sticky sweetness containing the very memory of the day you turned sixteen, and your beloved's lips touched yours once and never again.

It's worth the price, traveler. Jackson's Unreal Circus is where you can be whoever or whatever you want. Whether it be a ride on the Ferris wheel, slipping inside a skin that is not your own, or the opportunity to live as you never have before—it is all possible on this, the grandest of tours. The train beckons you—come, come!

For the first time, E. Catherine Tobler has compiled a collection of her popular circus stories. With nine stories ranging from the first published work within this universe to a previously unreleased piece, this is your ticket to her magical world. Welcome to The Grand Tour.

Contains the following destinations:

"Vanishing Act"
"Artificial Nocturne"
"We, As One, Trailing Embers"
"Liminal"
"Blow the Moon Out"
"Ebb Stung by the Flow"
"Lady Marmalade"
"Every Season" (original to this collection)
"Inland Territory; Stray Italian Greyhound"

Also features a special introduction by Hugo-nominated author A.C. Wise!

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 22/08/2026

Or, hey, read all her books and stories about Jackson's Unreal Circus. Her novella THE KRAKEN SEA is a great place to start (soon to be an animated movie!) - ecatherine.com/bibliography...

Fifteen-year-old Jackson is different from the other children at the foundling hospital. Scales sometimes cover his arms. Tentacles coil just below his skin. Despite this Jackson tries to fit in with the other children. He tries to be normal for Sister Jerome Grace and the priests. But when a woman asks for a boy like him, all that changes. His name is pinned to his jacket and an orphan train whisks him across the country to Macquarie’s.

At Macquarie’s, Jackson finds a home unlike any he could have imagined. The bronze lions outside the doors eat whomever they deem unfit to enter, the hallways and rooms shift and change at will, and Cressida – the woman who adopted him – assures him he no longer has to hide what he is. But new freedoms hide dark secrets. There are territories, allegiances, and a kraken in the basement that eats shadows.

As Jackson learns more about the new world he’s living in and about who he is, he has to decide who he will stand with: Cressida, the woman who gave him a home and a purpose, or Mae, the black-eyed lion tamer with a past as enigmatic as his own. The Kraken Sea is a fast paced adventure full of mystery, Fates, and writhing tentacles just below the surface, and in the middle of it all is a boy searching for himself.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 22/08/2026

Maybe you have a craving for SPACE DRAGONS? @ecatherine.com has you covered! THE THING IN THE ICE is one of my favourite Tobler books. www.amazon.com/Thing-Ice-Ka...

In the vast, black emptiness between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres was melting

Buried within the asteroid's core, Ceres Station provides water-ice for an ever-growing system of corporations and explorers, each intent on carving their names into the future of the galaxy. But no one anticipates the secret Ceres harbors.

Ice cutter Flit Navarro knows how to haul ice from asteroids and that Scrabble boards only have six Rs. She's never confronted mercenaries intent on claiming Ceres Station for themselves. She's never plummeted to the lowest levels of the station to confront a secret waking from the ice, a monster of ice and instinct.

But she's about to.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 22/08/2026

Or you might want to check out her hot (so hot) book series about Folley and Mallory which is steampunk with werewolves and ancient Egypt and airships and ALL SORTS OF FUN TIME SHENANIGANS. (I re-read the whole series last year and it is so much fun.) ecatherine.com/bibliography...

A river at the bottom of the world.
A tomb filled with death and peril.
A journey through hell itself.

At the turning of the year, Yule presents Virgil Mallory with the opportunity to gift Eleanor Folley with a journal kept by her father, a journal that leads them to a mysterious tomb near Hatshepsut's temple in Egypt.

It is no ordinary tomb, perhaps the first ever carved in the valley, known to Napoleon and others, but never entirely plundered. Why would such treasures stand untouched? Had anyone breached its darknesses?

Together, Folley and Mallory will enter the tomb, though what they find inside will change everything they have believed of Anubis and the strange shapeshifting world they find themselves a part of.

A mummy bound in honey.
An auction of archaic wonders.
An immortal link to the past.

Beneath the streets of Alexandria, Agent Cleo Barclay stumbled into a catacomb that changed her life. Her arms were taken, transfigured, and something remarkable was revealed — something that will stir an ancient life from the ashes of history.

A serpentine sarcophagus holds clues to Cleo’s past and future. She enlists Eleanor Folley and Virgil Mallory to collect the artifact at auction, to unravel its mysteries and her own. When the sarcophagus falls into the hands of an enigmatic Egyptologist, they find themselves participants in his diabolical pursuits.

Drawn to Alexandria by their friend — and the temptations of a newly discovered ring (oh Eleanor!) — Folley and Mallory will be challenged as never before.

A bungled museum theft.
An ancient Egyptian riddle.
The rumor of strange creatures moving beneath the streets of Paris.

Eleanor Folley knew she was in for a challenge when she accepted the task of cataloging Mistral's archive of purloined artifacts, but she never expected to discover an Egyptian mystery buried in the heart of Paris.

When Anubis and Horus task her with a quest, she cannot refuse the ancient gods, even if it means venturing into the cathedrals of bones that clutter the catacombs of Paris.

A withered body abandoned to the desert wastes.
An ancient and mysterious god.
Four rings opening a portal to the unknown.

As the nineteenth century turns into the twentieth, the world looks to a future of revolutionary science and extraordinary machines. Archaeologist Eleanor Folley looks back to Egypt's ancient mysteries and her mother's inexplicable, haunting disappearance. Agent Virgil Mallory, a man with ghosts and monsters of his own, brings evidence of a crime, taking them both on a thrilling adventure that carries them from Paris to Egypt, and from the present to the ancient past. Uncovering the truth exposes a dangerous game of life, death, and uncanny powers!

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 22/08/2026

For Reasons, I'm spending some time today to spread the good word about @ecatherine.com's books because you should absolutely totally buy them. You can see them all at her website: ecatherine.com

THE GRAND TOUR cover art by Cyril Rolando. A steam engine on the tracks in mysterious hazy purple and one man seen hopping off the train.

RINGS OF ANUBIS cover. A woman dressed in leather raising a lantern. She's wearing goggles on her long red hair and there's an airship behind her.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 20/08/2026

You can read part of my short fiction review column from the July issue of LOCUS in Locus online, featuring stories from Samovar, Giganotosaurus, and Diabolical Plots. locusmag.com/review/samov...

Cover design by Francesca Myman. Cover altered from art by Forestpath. A stylized hilly landscape in pink and purples with small houses on the hilltops.

The July 2026 Locus magazine, Issue #786, has interviews with Naomi Kritzer and Temi Oh. The issue includes the 2026 Locus Poll results. Jane Yolen (1939-2026) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the 2025 Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Seiun Award winners, as well as Subterranean Press's planned closure, the Commonwealth Prize Regional winners and AI controversy, and much more. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "Hell Is Other People". Event coverage includes the Locus Awards, StokerCon, the SFWA Nebula Conference, the Bay Area Book Festival, and WisCon 48, as well as international reports on SF in Brazil and SF in Bulgaria.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 18/08/2026

I have a brand new story in Translunar Travelers Lounge! "The Fall of the Automatous Abbey" is about a small cleaning bot caught up in the destruction of war, and about reaching the end (and beginning) of all things. Read it here: translunartravelerslounge.com/2026/08/15/t...

Cover art with a broken glass overlay. Showing a seaside town that shows as burning in some of the fragments, and peaceful in others.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 15/08/2026

Today is STORY DAY! My sci-fi story "The Fall of the Automatous Abbey" is in the new issue of TRANSLUNAR TRAVELERS LOUNGE and I am so excited to see this story in the world. Read it here: translunartravelerslounge.com/2026/08/15/t...

Cover of Translunar Travelers Lounge 15 with a cracked glass overlay showing a shoreline town burning in one section while the town is pristine and beautiful in the other part.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 03/08/2026

My latest short fiction review is in the August issue of LOCUS, featuring reviews and recommendations of stories from Otherside 6/26; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/26; Strange Horizons 5/4/26, 5/11/26, 5/18/26; Lightspeed 6/26; and Kaleidotrope Spring ’26. subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 03/08/2026

You can read part of my short fiction review column from the July issue of LOCUS at Locus Online: featuring stories from Cast of Wonders, Lightspeed, and Escape Pod. locusmag.com/review/escap... You can buy the issue here: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

The July 2026 Locus magazine, Issue #786, has interviews with Naomi Kritzer and Temi Oh. The issue includes the 2026 Locus Poll results. Jane Yolen (1939-2026) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the 2025 Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Seiun Award winners, as well as Subterranean Press's planned closure, the Commonwealth Prize Regional winners and AI controversy, and much more. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "Hell Is Other People". Event coverage includes the Locus Awards, StokerCon, the SFWA Nebula Conference, the Bay Area Book Festival, and WisCon 48, as well as international reports on SF in Brazil and SF in Bulgaria.

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover altered from art by Forestpath.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 31/07/2026

My cousin's cat. This kitty survived getting hit by a car and being lost for 5 days in Swedish winter. She decided to find a way home after my cousin dragged an old pike dipped in oil through the snow near their house. Beautiful and tough as nails.

Grey and white cat relaxing royally on a puffy green bed cover.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 29/07/2026

Lövångers kyrka, the church in Lövånger. Parts of it are original from the 15th century. Wood sculptures also from medieval times. Tradition says there was a wooden church on the site before the stone church was built.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 27/07/2026

Some real treasures from the box of old LPs at the flea market in Bureå, Sweden.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 19/07/2026

The wood worms left me a secret map underneath the bark.

Intricate pattern carved in silvery grey wood of a fallen log stripped of its bark.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 17/07/2026

I love this place. ❤️🇸🇪

Northern Swedish landscape with blue water and a green lawn. Rocks in the water and glimpses of trees under a blue sky.

Northern Swedish landscape with shining blue sky and glittering blue water. A red house with white trim and a rowan tree in the half distance.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 13/07/2026

One of my favourite Sam Neill things was the 1998 Merlin miniseries. (Isabella Rossellini as Nimue and the rest of the cast was fire too.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_...

A youngish Sam Neill from the Merlin miniseries together with Isabella Rossellini as Nimue. Both looking very fantasy and very very good.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 08/07/2026

Read part of my short fiction review column for the June issue of LOCUS in Locus Online. I read and recommend stories from Otherside, Flash Fiction Online, and Small Wonders! 👀 locusmag.com/review/other... Get the issue here: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

The June 2026 Locus magazine, issue #785, has interviews with Robert Jackson Bennett and Isabel J. Kim, and a spotlight on artist Dante Luiz. The Summer Reads section includes Locus reviewers' recommendations, commentary from Saga editor Nivia Evans and Sheree Renée Thomas, and US and UK forthcoming books titles. News includes the 2026 Locus Awards winners, Daniel Kraus's Pulitzer Prize win, LA Times Book Prize winners, new Transworld imprint 3AM Books, and more. Obituaries remember Tom Clegg, Michael P. Spradlin, and Donald Sidney-Fryer. Reviews include new titles by Amitav Ghosh, Joseph Eckert, Ian McDonald, Christopher Priest & Nina Allan, Rachel Khong, Thomas Elrod, Ra Page & David Sue (eds.), Garth Nix, J.M. Sidorova, Andrea Hairston, Isabel Ibañez, Leslye Penelope, Vonda N. McIntyre, Isabel J. Kim, Jedediah Berry, ‘Pemi Aguda, Munir Hachemi translated by Julia Sanches, M. John Harrison, Lee Young-do translated by Anton Hur, Violet Allen, Andrew Dana Hudson, Kate Milford, Meg Shaffer, Elana K. Arnold, Daisy Pearce, Uketsu translated by Jim Rion, Allen Stroud, Cynthia Gómez, James S.A. Corey, Ann Leckie, Alex Shvartsman, Jeff Noon, Sheree Renée Thomas, and more.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 06/07/2026

Watching over me this morning. ❤️🐶

Very big black dog with soft silky fur watching over me with a concerned yet loving look on his face.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 04/07/2026

⭐️ You can read part of my short fiction review column from the June issue of LOCUS in Locus Online - featuring stories from Night Shades, Strange Horizons, Podcastle, and Escape Pod. locusmag.com/review/night... ⭐️ Get the June issue here: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover art by Nelli Valova.

Black background, a pale bird-like skull, and translucent/luminescent fungi and plants in foreground.

The June 2026 Locus magazine, issue #785, has interviews with Robert Jackson Bennett and Isabel J. Kim, and a spotlight on artist Dante Luiz. The Summer Reads section includes Locus reviewers' recommendations, commentary from Saga editor Nivia Evans and Sheree Renée Thomas, and US and UK forthcoming books titles. News includes the 2026 Locus Awards winners, Daniel Kraus's Pulitzer Prize win, LA Times Book Prize winners, new Transworld imprint 3AM Books, and more.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 01/07/2026

Our latest essay at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk is "Making Magic Chai", a powerful essay by Brook Bhagat on grief, acceptance, writing, and how to make it through the darkness. (Content warning for both pet and parental death.) ruadanbooks.com/making-magic...

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 01/07/2026

My short fiction review column in the July issue of LOCUS features stories from Fiyah, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Small Wonders, Samovar, GigaNotoSaurus, Diabolical Plots, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, and Lightspeed. locusmag.com/2026/07/issu...

Cover in shades of pink and purple with stylized houses on hills in background. Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover altered from art by Forestpath.

The July 2026 Locus magazine, issue #786, has interviews with Naomi Kritzer and Temi Oh. The issue includes the 2026 Locus Poll results. Jane Yolen (1939-2026) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the 2025 Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Seiun Award winners, as well as Subterranean Press’s planned closure, the Commonwealth Prize Regional winners and AI controversy, and much more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Hell Is Other People”. Event coverage includes the Locus Awards, StokerCon, the SFWA Nebula Conference, the Bay Area Book Festival, and WisCon 48, as well as international reports on SF in Brazil and SF in Bulgaria.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 26/06/2026

I am so excited to share this cover reveal for INFECTION POINTS - A WINTER CENSUS OF URBAN PREDATORS by Elena Pavlova. It's a new mytho-ecological twist on vampires, and it's also the first novella I've worked on as an editor at Ruadán Books! ruadanbooks.com/product/infe...

Infection Points
Urban predators hibernate between November and March. At least, they used to.

A mytho-ecologist out of Sofia University, recruited into Urban Predators Without Borders, never imagined being one of the only living inhabitants in Block 10—observing a Bulgarian nest while living in a rundown apartment, tranquilizer gun loaded with silver nitrate by his bed. With a species-collapsing outbreak spreading from nest to nest, any variation in local vampires’ habits is extremely bad news.

Science and politics collide as the symbiotic relationship between predator and prey is forever altered. Between a deadly fungus and a system set on extermination, one burning question emerges. Is this infection just biological—or is it institutional?

In this thrilling novella that’s both outbreak and survival horror, award-winning Bulgarian author Elena Pavlova reimagines humanity’s relationship with vampires, for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series and The Strain.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 26/06/2026

You can read part of my short fiction review column from the May issue of LOCUS in Locus Online, featuring stories from Baffling, Strange Horizons, and Lightspeed! locusmag.com/review/baffl... Get the May issue here: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

The May 2026 Locus magazine, issue #784, has interviews with Emily Tesh and Sunyi Dean, and a spotlight on Locus Awards Featured Local Artist Alyssa Winans. News includes the 2026 Hugo Awards Ballot, M.R. Carey's Philip K. Dick Award win, Christopher Caldwell's Crawford Award win, Hachette's choice to pull Shy Girl over suspected AI use, David Langford's Solstice Award win, BSFA winners, artist Gregory Manchess's Artemis patch design, and more. Convention reports cover the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers & Illustrators of the Future awards, Norwescon 48, and the Williamson Lectureship. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "The Age of Vapor".

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover altered from art by Anastasia Osipova.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 17/06/2026

That one tree at the off-leash dog park...

Bedraggled olaf stuffy hanging upside down in a tree.

Bedraggled teddy bear hanging ominously from a tree branch.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 16/06/2026

Here he is, all puffed up and singing, a few months ago. ❤️

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 10/06/2026

You can read part of my short fiction review column from the May issue of Locus Magazine in Locus Online, featuring stories from Diabolical Plots, Bourbon Penn, and Escape Pod. locusmag.com/review/diabo...

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover altered from art by Anastasia Osipova. Scarlet background with golden text and a golden bird, phoenix-like, rising.

The May 2026 Locus magazine, issue #784, has interviews with Emily Tesh and Sunyi Dean, and a spotlight on Locus Awards Featured Local Artist Alyssa Winans. News includes the 2026 Hugo Awards Ballot, M.R. Carey's Philip K. Dick Award win, Christopher Caldwell's Crawford Award win, Hachette's choice to pull Shy Girl over suspected AI use, David Langford's Solstice Award win, BSFA winners, artist Gregory Manchess's Artemis patch design, and more. Convention reports cover the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers & Illustrators of the Future awards, Norwescon 48, and the Williamson Lectureship. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "The Age of Vapor".

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 06/06/2026

Oooooohhhh, too many to choose from but definitely this one:

Tracy Chapman's self-titled debut album from 1988. Sepia tones and black, her face and she's looking down and to the right.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 04/06/2026

I love my rewards from the Locus 2026 Indiegogo campaign! 😍

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 04/06/2026

Even when she’s fading, she’s beautiful.

Delicately pink rose, soft and fluffy, petals starting to fade and yellow.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 01/06/2026

My latest short fiction review column is in the June issue of LOCUS MAGAZINE, available now: locusmag.com/2026/06/issu...

Cover art with glowing translucent mushrooms and plants, and a stylized bird skull on a black background. The June 2026 Locus magazine, issue #785, has interviews with Robert Jackson Bennett and Isabel J. Kim, and a spotlight on artist Dante Luiz. The Summer Reads section includes Locus reviewers’ recommendations, commentary from Saga editor Nivia Evans and Sheree Renée Thomas, and US and UK forthcoming books titles. News includes the 2026 Locus Awards winners, Daniel Kraus’s Pulitzer Prize win, LA Times Book Prize winners, new Transworld imprint 3AM Books, and more. Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover art by Nelli Valova.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 30/05/2026

Received some excellent book mail! 😍

Cover of Ada Hoffman's novel IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS with a stylized spaceship flying away crom a Jupiter like planet.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 29/05/2026

The Flame Tree antho WERE WOLF SHORT STORIES (ed. Gillian Whitaker, Catherine Taylor & Nick Wells) has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award! This antho contains my short story "Margaery the Wolf" so I'm claiming a bit of the honour this morning! 🐺 www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2026/05/28/n...

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 25/05/2026

pick a Bond villain from the photos you have in your phone

green cheek conure in an imposing stance, shot from below, definitely a criminal mastermind.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 21/05/2026

$Photo of pelican with very large mouth and tumblr post from maverick-ornitography "pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put baby in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in Pelican Mouth. Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. Apelican Mouth yes a place for a baby put baby in pelican mouth can trust pelican for giveing good love to baby. friend pelican"$

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 19/05/2026

My recent reviews of LIGHTSPEED and FLASH FICTION ONLINE are now in Locus Online: locusmag.com/review/light... You can read my full short fiction review column in the April issue of LOCUS: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

The April 2026 Locus magazine, Issue #783, has interviews with Rebecca Roanhorse and John Chu and a spotlight on one of the three Locus Awards 2026 guests of honor, Tananarive Due. The issue includes a feature on speculative poetry, with commentary by Linda D. Addison, Marie Brennan, Brian U. Garrison, Emily Hockaday, Brandon O’Brien, Josh Pearce, Terese Mason Pierre, Tim Melody Pratt, Sumiko Saulson, Holly Lyn Walrath, and Bryan Thao Worra. News includes the 2025 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, SCOTUS's refusal to hear an AI copyright case, the Audie Awards winners, and much more.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 16/05/2026

My favourite rosebush is bringing it at our local park.

Delicately pink rosebud with tiny thorns.

Delicately pink rosebud with tiny thorns surrounded by green leaves.

Delicately pink rose with the softest petals, slightly bedraggled in the rain.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 15/05/2026

"Speed was not only holding me back from becoming the writer I wanted to be, it prevented me from being vulnerable, from fully entering into my stories." New at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk @ Ruadán Books: "A Regimen for Growth as a Writer" by Michael Barrington. ruadanbooks.com/a-regimen-fo...

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 10/05/2026

Morning walk in Lynn Headwaters for Mother's Day. ❤️🌲

Tiny flower white with dark pink stripes on petals.

Tall trees overgrown with lichen and moss.

Brown and beige fungus growing on a log.

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