Locus Awards have been announced. Go check out the results, and a big congratz to all the winners.

Nebula winners will be announced at the end of the week. Exciting times!

https://locusmag.com/2026/05/2026-locus-awards-winners/

The newest entry in my monthly short story writing challenge is now live. Click here to learn more about 'Collective', my newest short story... oops, I mean, novelette. Halfway through this project, and cannot believe I've written 6 stories in 6 months.

http://jaydeholmes.com/2026/06/01/monthly-writing-prompt-challenge-6-collective/

Filled the 'Starts With J' tile on my #BookBingo card with 'Japanese Gothic' by Kylie Lee Baker. An intense and unsettling time travel story dressed as a ghost story that had me hooked. Super gory, great characters. Brilliant.

#reading #readingchallenge #bingo #JapaneseGothic #Horror #Books

I am not a very good librarian.

#games #LibrarianTidyUpTheArcaneLibrary #ArcaneLibrary #ImmatureHumour

I completed a 'You're Fired' run of 'Librarian Tidy up the Arcane Library', and personally, I think the shelves look better this way. Much more lively.

#games #librariantidyupthearcanelibrary #arcanelibrary

This week I completed the OoT Final Battle Lego and damn it looks so good. I have it displayed on a shelf in line of sight from my chair, so I can keep my eye on the goal while playing OoT randos.

#lego #legendofzelda #gaming #legobuilding

ICYMI My May Monthly Story is 'Allure', and you can read it for free. What horrors are laying in wait out in space, and can regular humans resist their call? Will you be changed once you've heard about Allure?

#shortstory #selfpublished #horror #spacehorror

https://jaydeholmes.com/short-stories/allure/

Award Season is in full swing. Here are my thoughts on most of the short stories nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards this year.

#shortstory #books #SFF #HugoAward #NebulaAward #LocusAward #fiction

http://jaydeholmes.com/2026/05/15/the-2026-hugo-locus-and-nebula-nominated-short-stories/

#BookBingo Update! Continued April Daniels's Nemesis series with 'Sovereign' for my Own Voices square. I Love this series so much. Great characters, and great superhero fight scenes.

And don't forget: Trans Rights are human rights!

#reading #books #superhero #readingchallenge #SFF

My May Monthly Story is out now. Check out 'Allure', my first crack at horror this year. Is it safe to be sharing the information discovered in this story with the world? Probably not, but enjoy anyway.

https://jaydeholmes.com/short-stories/allure/

#fiction #horrors #horror #cursedknowledge