Re-upping this post!

I'm creating a guide to Mastodon for SFF folks and am including a list of cool people they should follow. If you're cool people see the post for the form to add yourself.

#BlackMastodon #BIPOCSFF #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #IndiePublishing

https://wandering.shop/@tempest/110832974732431439

A little new intro for the new folks.

Welcome! I'm Sonia, writer of spec fic inspired by Palestinian folklore. You can find my stories at ArabLit Quarterly, Beladi, FIYAH, Lackington's, and other places.

My work has been nominated for: Pushcart, Lammy, Palestine Book Award, and Best New Weird Awards.

I'm a First Reader for Strange Horizons, and edit an antho of Palestinian spec fic for Roseway.

My writing is called 'beautiful' a lot.

#Introduction #BipocSFF #Palestine #Folklore #SFF #SFFH

Muneera and the Moon: Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore is live.

This collection includes several previously unpublished stories, along with old favourites!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVR6J83W/

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Publishing date TBA: My first collection of short stories inspired by Palestinian folklore will be available for ARCs and DRCs soon. LMK if you'd like to get your hands on a copy in exchange for a review. 🧿

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Autumn Child is my big gay Canaanite godpunk story. Dabeb owes a life debt to Hirupanu, the Autumn Child. The bond between the two, man and god, proves to be truly unbreakable.

You can read it here, as an exclusive Kindle single:

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVGNYFM7

I'm reissuing some of my short stories as singles on Amazon, starting with 'From Whole Cloth:'

A Queer retelling of the Palestinian folktale 'The Story That Begins and Ends with Lies.'

Prince Noor has to marry. He desires nothing more than to spend his days with a woman who can tell stories that are nothing but lies. When he meets the woman that seems fated to be his match, how with their story end? More importantly, who will write it?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTXNKHX9

#asexual #bookstodon #BipocSFF

Just posted my last substack newsletter of the year and feeling a little emo! https://aychao.substack.com/p/festive-greetings

Freedom from lockdown and connecting and reconnecting with people was probably the thing that gave me the most joy in 2022. Still living off the adrenalin high of #viableparadise and selling a trilogy. Thank you 2022 for all the blessings.

Looking forward to more adventures in 2023.

Signing off for the holidays, and see y’all in the new year!

Alice x
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I'm working on another application package. I need some help deciding between which of these two stories will make the cut for the writing sample. Links to both stories will be in the comments, if you haven't read them already.

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A little new intro for the new folks. Welcome! I'm Sonia, writer of spec fic inspired by Palestinian folklore. I don't have any books to plug, but you can find my stories in various genre magazines.

My writing is called 'beautiful' a lot.

Current projects include a novella(?) inspired by this energetic vampire critter from Palestine known as the Bride, but make it Queer.

I'm editing a Palestinian spec fic anthology for Roseway too.

#Introduction #BipocSFF #Palestine #Folklore #SFF #SFFH

Yeah, so I now have a playlist for a new... novella? Novel? that takes that energetic vampire bride from Palestine and asks "but what if aroace horror?" 👀

Do I have time to write this? No.
But do I have the discipline not to write this. Again, no.

#WritingCommunity #Palestine #BipocSFF

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You can now read 'The Mandrake Loves the Olive', my Pushcart nominated story inspired by Palestinian folklore, for free online here:

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#Asexual

https://soniasulaiman.com/the-mandrake-loves-the-olive/

“The flowers of the water hyacinth are just the colour of our canoe, and that pleases me. I hope it looks nice in our footage. Impossibly white birds occasionally float over us as if a flake of the sky has detached itself to glide along the river.”
Moments ago, the narrator’s camera crew were attacked by tiny carnivorous ants in a forest clearing filled with selfie backdrops, merch vending machines and drone landing pads.
This collection never ceases to entertain and thrill me.
https://kobo.com/en-AU/ebook/the-gollancz-book-of-south-asian-science-fiction-volume-2?utm_campaign=TextQuotesIOS&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=App_Acq
#scifi #AmReading #AmReadingScifi #ShortStories #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #BIPOC #BIPOCsff #sff #SouthEastAsia #DiverseReads #Diversity #DiversifyYourShelf #FictionCollection #ShortFictionCollection #ScifiAnthology

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"The Mandrake Loves the Olive" is a queerplatonic tale steeped in Palestinian herbal and arboreal folklore. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

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#Asexual

https://www.speculativelyqueer.com/collections/all/products/xenocultivars-stories-of-queer-growth-ebook

What is the word on authors making substantial revisions to stories in their collectioned works vs. the original publications?

Am I over-thinking this? It's my first rodeo, as it happens.

#WritingCommunity #ShortStories #SFFH #SFF #BipocSFF

Whenever I think I know what the near future looks like, I have to ...adjust course.

I just heard back from a publisher I had queried in a desperate attempt to get my collection of short fiction published when I don't have any novels, or a Name etc...

It's a revise and resub! :ablobcateyesflip:

#ShortStories #BipocSFF #SFFH #SFF

@bookstodon @shortsff And to complete my 7 short story touchstones list, here's here you can find each of them:

Mr Hadj's Sunset Ride is from Saladin Ahmed's collection of short stories Engraved on the Eye. The Last Truth, from LeVar Burton Reads. The rest are from Fantasy Magazine/Lightspeed.

#LitMag #ShortStories #BipocSFF #SFF

I'm a short story kinda gal, so... instead of 7 books, here are 7 short stories that are touchstones, in no particular order.

*The Things My Mother Left Me - P. Djeli Clark
*Black, Their Regalia - Darcie Littlebadger
*Mr Hadj's Sunset Ride - Saladin Ahmed
*Ti-Jean's Last Adventure, As Told to Racoon - KT Bryski
*The Litigation Master and the Monkey King - Ken Liu
*The Clockmaker and His Daughter - Tobi Ogundiran
*The Last Truth - AnaMaria Curtis

@bookstodon #SFF #BipocSFF #7Books

New eligibility post! The only story I have out this year is a finalist for the Best New Weird Award, and is eligible for nomination for the Nebula.

Please take the time to read it, and nominate it if you so desire!

"What the Ghouleh Said on Thursday of the Dead" is a gothic horror piece inspired by Palestinian folklore (specifically, ghouls, and the Cult of Tombs).

#BipocSFF #SFFH #Horror #Gothic #SFF #EligibilityPost

https://www.seizethepress.com/2022/10/12/sulaiman-issue5/

It has to be said, after my experience with the whole *gestures vaguely* major awards thing, I feel demoralized by the process. I think I'm on the fairly loud end when it comes to self-promotion, and I'm still having a hard time getting the word out.

So much has happened since my Bad First Hugo Experience that I'd forgotten about it. But that feeling is coming back with award nominations season bearing down on us.

#SFF #SFFH #BipocSFF

For the new crowd, my latest (and last for the foreseeable future) short story is out in Seize the Press. "What the Ghouleh Said on Thursday of the Dead" is a gothic horror piece inspired by Palestinian folklore. Contains: ghouls, cult of the dead references, all against the backdrop of the Nakba.

@shortsff
#horror #SFFH #BipocSFF #ShortStories

https://www.seizethepress.com/2022/10/12/sulaiman-issue5/