John Wiswell
@wiswell.bsky.social
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
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John Wiswell
@wiswell.bsky.social
· Sep 9
Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS!
Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot.
Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!
Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot.
Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!
you wouldn't understand 1999
October 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
you wouldn't understand 1999
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Brand new story out at Gavagai. This one’s really close to my heart.
In today's featured Editor Pick: Strange marks appear on her child’s back, and a mother tells herself they mean nothing. But the child is growing into something new she couldn't have imagined. It's Aerial by P.A. Cornell. Read it for free at gavagai.com
October 28, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Brand new story out at Gavagai. This one’s really close to my heart.
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Why is BLACK RIVER ORCHARD three bucks at your chosen ebookmonger? I don't know! But it is! So if you really want to embrace both apple season and spooky season, I have a horror novel about evil apples infecting a small town with their sinister apple magic. I hope you check it out.
October 28, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Why is BLACK RIVER ORCHARD three bucks at your chosen ebookmonger? I don't know! But it is! So if you really want to embrace both apple season and spooky season, I have a horror novel about evil apples infecting a small town with their sinister apple magic. I hope you check it out.
This Friday! For free on the internet! Two authors with professional headshots and one author who seemingly waved at a passing satellite will talk about their love of scary stories!
It's all to support The Braille Institute! Register online for free at bit.ly/4yGl56m.
It's all to support The Braille Institute! Register online for free at bit.ly/4yGl56m.
October 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
This Friday! For free on the internet! Two authors with professional headshots and one author who seemingly waved at a passing satellite will talk about their love of scary stories!
It's all to support The Braille Institute! Register online for free at bit.ly/4yGl56m.
It's all to support The Braille Institute! Register online for free at bit.ly/4yGl56m.
I'm doing an event on Friday and just saw the poster. I don't know where they got the photo of me, but it is... just hilarious.
October 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I'm doing an event on Friday and just saw the poster. I don't know where they got the photo of me, but it is... just hilarious.
Breaking News: scientists say indigo is not really a color, and confess, “It was all a scam to sell more dark blue markers.”
October 28, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Breaking News: scientists say indigo is not really a color, and confess, “It was all a scam to sell more dark blue markers.”
i just did the Homer Simpson "land of chocolate" daydream but with cheese
Imagine if you were in Wisconsin.
October 28, 2026 at 4:28 AM
i just did the Homer Simpson "land of chocolate" daydream but with cheese
I'm old enough to remember when the internet insisted Graham Platner was the only person who could defeat Collins.
Maine - Senate Polling:
🔵 Jackson: 51%
🔴 Collins: 44%*
Echelon / Oct 23, 2026
(Republican Pollster)
🔵 Jackson: 51%
🔴 Collins: 44%*
Echelon / Oct 23, 2026
(Republican Pollster)
October 28, 2026 at 2:21 AM
I'm old enough to remember when the internet insisted Graham Platner was the only person who could defeat Collins.
Happy book day to Wole Talabi's THE FIST OF MEMORY!
The day is finally upon us!
THE FIST OF MEMORY is officially out NOW in the US and Canada.
This near-future story of assassins, aliens, astrophysicists and ancestors that I started 15 years ago, is finally out in the world & it still feels a bit unreal.
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-...
THE FIST OF MEMORY is officially out NOW in the US and Canada.
This near-future story of assassins, aliens, astrophysicists and ancestors that I started 15 years ago, is finally out in the world & it still feels a bit unreal.
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-...
October 27, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Happy book day to Wole Talabi's THE FIST OF MEMORY!
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I absolutely loved @wiswell.bsky.social's The Dragon Has Some Complaints and Zura Johnson's bravura audiobook narration. Dragons aren't often my thing (Tooth & Claw being another exception), but I adored all three personalities of this three-headed dragon. (I might love Upperhead most of all?)
October 27, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I absolutely loved @wiswell.bsky.social's The Dragon Has Some Complaints and Zura Johnson's bravura audiobook narration. Dragons aren't often my thing (Tooth & Claw being another exception), but I adored all three personalities of this three-headed dragon. (I might love Upperhead most of all?)
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I have made An Graphic to commemorate my first trade review for ERAH, please clap
October 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I have made An Graphic to commemorate my first trade review for ERAH, please clap
File this under: stuff that makes a weirdo author's day.
I absolutely loved @wiswell.bsky.social's The Dragon Has Some Complaints and Zura Johnson's bravura audiobook narration. Dragons aren't often my thing (Tooth & Claw being another exception), but I adored all three personalities of this three-headed dragon. (I might love Upperhead most of all?)
October 27, 2026 at 8:55 PM
File this under: stuff that makes a weirdo author's day.
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Just finished this last night. It's pretty amazing. The line "Shesheshen did not know how to go on a date. It was easier to regrow her severed limbs, but perhaps that was because she had experience regrowing lost parts of herself" made me feel deeply understood.
I’m best known for Someone You Can Build A Nest In, which won the Locus and Nebula awards. It follows a shapeshifting monster who *accidentally* falls in love with the human who’s hunting her.
It's also explicitly about realizing you're ace, and realizing how much of your life you don't want.
It's also explicitly about realizing you're ace, and realizing how much of your life you don't want.
Someone You Can Build A Nest In
**Nebula Award Nominee****Hugo Award Nominee** *Featuring all-new exclusive material for the trade paperback: an author's note, reading group guide, and teaser for Wearing the Lion!* “This unusual que...
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October 27, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Just finished this last night. It's pretty amazing. The line "Shesheshen did not know how to go on a date. It was easier to regrow her severed limbs, but perhaps that was because she had experience regrowing lost parts of herself" made me feel deeply understood.
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Trans rep, queer kinship, non-toxic masculinity, and the hard work of consciously making oneself into a better person--even after committing sins so deep you can ever again be the same person you once were
This is a fantastic book and I deeply loved reading it!
This is a fantastic book and I deeply loved reading it!
Wearing the Lion follows a Heracles so traumatized by what the Furies made him do that he refuses any more violence. This makes his upcoming twelve labors… tricky.
But on the plus side: he starts building a found family of monsters.
(Yes, we've got a few ace gods and monsters in here.)
But on the plus side: he starts building a found family of monsters.
(Yes, we've got a few ace gods and monsters in here.)
Wearing the Lion
"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. Wearing the Lion establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantasy landscape." —T. Kingfisher, Hugo Awar...
bookshop.org
October 27, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Trans rep, queer kinship, non-toxic masculinity, and the hard work of consciously making oneself into a better person--even after committing sins so deep you can ever again be the same person you once were
This is a fantastic book and I deeply loved reading it!
This is a fantastic book and I deeply loved reading it!
It's Asexual Awareness & Acceptance Week!
So... hi! I'm an ace author who lives in the woods. Asexuality isn't a lack of joy; I just find joy elsewhere. I love Horror, and Fantasy, and kaiju, and puns, and most of all: books.
Do y’all like books?
So... hi! I'm an ace author who lives in the woods. Asexuality isn't a lack of joy; I just find joy elsewhere. I love Horror, and Fantasy, and kaiju, and puns, and most of all: books.
Do y’all like books?
October 27, 2026 at 6:07 PM
It's Asexual Awareness & Acceptance Week!
So... hi! I'm an ace author who lives in the woods. Asexuality isn't a lack of joy; I just find joy elsewhere. I love Horror, and Fantasy, and kaiju, and puns, and most of all: books.
Do y’all like books?
So... hi! I'm an ace author who lives in the woods. Asexuality isn't a lack of joy; I just find joy elsewhere. I love Horror, and Fantasy, and kaiju, and puns, and most of all: books.
Do y’all like books?
@zzclaybourne.bsky.social Happy birthday, man!
October 27, 2026 at 5:06 PM
@zzclaybourne.bsky.social Happy birthday, man!
A friend sent me a shelfie from PDX showing that THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS is a staff pick at the Powell's there!
I can't believe how pretty this shelf talker is!
I can't believe how pretty this shelf talker is!
October 27, 2026 at 2:59 PM
A friend sent me a shelfie from PDX showing that THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS is a staff pick at the Powell's there!
I can't believe how pretty this shelf talker is!
I can't believe how pretty this shelf talker is!
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She’s 40 feet long.
She weighs nine tons.
Her bite crushes bone.
And she’s coming to your bookshelf.
Tyrant Lizard Queen
My latest book
art by @korybing.bsky.social
poster by @emmalerae.bsky.social
Out now.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
She weighs nine tons.
Her bite crushes bone.
And she’s coming to your bookshelf.
Tyrant Lizard Queen
My latest book
art by @korybing.bsky.social
poster by @emmalerae.bsky.social
Out now.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
October 27, 2026 at 1:46 PM
She’s 40 feet long.
She weighs nine tons.
Her bite crushes bone.
And she’s coming to your bookshelf.
Tyrant Lizard Queen
My latest book
art by @korybing.bsky.social
poster by @emmalerae.bsky.social
Out now.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
She weighs nine tons.
Her bite crushes bone.
And she’s coming to your bookshelf.
Tyrant Lizard Queen
My latest book
art by @korybing.bsky.social
poster by @emmalerae.bsky.social
Out now.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Even among people who use AI, nobody wants somebody else's slop. They like using AI to get out of doing work for other people. Use it for them instead of doing work, and they're not so happy.
China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend.
By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago.
www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago.
www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
China’s First AI Feature Flops At The Chinese Box Office
Bona Film Group’s AI experiment struggled to attract attention, months after the humble 'Niu Lai’ turned online ridicule into almost $10 million in sales.
www.cartoonbrew.com
October 27, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Even among people who use AI, nobody wants somebody else's slop. They like using AI to get out of doing work for other people. Use it for them instead of doing work, and they're not so happy.
People praise my dedication, but by that measure, this migraine is a hero.
October 27, 2026 at 4:58 AM
People praise my dedication, but by that measure, this migraine is a hero.
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And "The Goatkeeper's Harvest" in audio if that's your thing:
PseudoPod 816: The Goatkeeper’s Harvest | PseudoPod share.google/7Dkuo6gZdasG...
PseudoPod 816: The Goatkeeper’s Harvest | PseudoPod share.google/7Dkuo6gZdasG...
PseudoPod 816: The Goatkeeper’s Harvest | PseudoPod
The wind shrieks its displeasure as it rattles the house, rattles it like a child in the throes of a tantrum, and we, little gnats in this container of brick and mud, tumble from our huddle by the…
share.google
October 27, 2026 at 12:58 AM
And "The Goatkeeper's Harvest" in audio if that's your thing:
PseudoPod 816: The Goatkeeper’s Harvest | PseudoPod share.google/7Dkuo6gZdasG...
PseudoPod 816: The Goatkeeper’s Harvest | PseudoPod share.google/7Dkuo6gZdasG...
@marissalingen.bsky.social Hey, you're great.
October 27, 2026 at 2:49 AM
@marissalingen.bsky.social Hey, you're great.
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perfect, no notes
October 26, 2026 at 7:57 PM
perfect, no notes
If you have a five star scale with half stars, then you have a ten star scale.
October 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
If you have a five star scale with half stars, then you have a ten star scale.