ArmadilloCon: Austin's convention for SFFH readers & writers!
@armadillocon
Austin's Annual SFF Community convention for readers & writers! More info here: www.armadillocon.org Sponsored by a nonprofit fan group ().
We are super excited to be welcoming award-winning @artistarielburgess.bsky.social as our ArmadilloCon 48 Artist Guest! Start working on your art show budget now, as she's making plans on what to pack! Join us! armadillocon.org
ARMADILLOCON - SEPT 11-13 SPECIAL CYBERPUNK GUEST BRUCE STERLING Bruce Sterling is an Austin-born science fiction writer and Net critic, internationally recognized as one of the forefathers of the cyberpunk movement. He has won a John W. Campbell Award, two Hugo Awards & an Arthur C. Clarke Award.
ANNOUNCING: ARMADILLOCON #48 AUTHOR GUEST OF HONOR MICAIAH JOHNSON Compton Crook & Carl Brandon Award-winning author of The Space Between Worlds. Sunday Times Bestseller, NYT Editors' Choice, NPR Best list. GET YOUR BADGES N0W AT: armadillocon.org
Sneak peak - Armadillocon #48
Another 2025 book we really love: @joshrountree.bsky.social 's Summer in the House of the Departed! #BookSky #Horror #GhostStories
What have been your don't-miss 2025 books? Here's one that you might have missed at ArmadilloCon when all the copies flew out of the dealers room! This one includes stories by a bunch of people we like: Mark Finn, A. Lee Martinez, Adrian Simmons, and more! #FanFavorite #amreading #giftideas
John Picacio's talk about The Invisible Parade at ArmadilloCon 2025 was one of this year's highlights. This is a gorgeous amazing book, with so much heart. #FanFavorite #giftidea #awards
We have confirmed dates for ArmadilloCon 2026. We'll be back at the Austin Southpark Sept 11-13, 2026! Celebrate the joy of "the hotel contract has been signed" season with us! ✅ Mark your calendars! We hope to see you there! ✅ Maybe go crazy and reserve your room?! armadillocon.org
This holiday, we are celebrating the arrival of confirmed dates for ArmadilloCon 2026. We'll be back at the Austin Southpark. ✅ Mark your calendars! We hope to see you there/ ✅ Maybe go crazy and reserve your room?! armadillocon.org
Save the date! Get wild and reserve a room?! armadillocon.org #austin #sciencefiction #writing #reading
A huge THANK YOU to all the amazing artists who participated in this year's ArmadilloCon Art Show! Our Art Show Director put checks in the mail to you at 10PM last night. If you have any questions, please reach out to our Art Show Director at artshow@armadillocon.org or info@armadillocon.org
Thanks for helping get the word out! We can offer you this. :-)
Really, who doesn't want get up on a sunny Saturday morning to come talk about vampires and robots and books and movies and games? ArmadilloCon is going to be so much fun! Check out the awesome schedule: panels.armadillocon.org/ko/ Register: armadillocon.org/d47/register/
We are so excited that @juliavee.bsky.social ("writes about monsters and dumplings") is coming to ArmadilloCon!
We are taking a vote. The colors in our 2025 schedule look like: A) Sour Patch Kids B) Skittles C) Froot Loops (We're not hungry. You're hungry.) Check the ArmadilloCon schedule carefully before you decide: panels.armadillocon.org/ko/
Thinking about coming to ArmadilloCon? We hope so! The deadline to reserve a room in our convention block is now Friday, Sept 5! armadillocon.org/d47/hotel/
Will you be joining us at ArmadilloCon? If yes, consider coming early for the Screen Writing Workshop! It;'s Friuday Sept 12, starting at 10AM. Workshop Info: armadillocon.org/d47/screenwr... It's all part of AmradilloCon 2025: armadillocon.org/d47/
Beginning and developing writers, mark your calendars! To participate in this years ArmadilloCon Writers' Workshop, you need to submit your manuscript by midnight on Wed Aug 6! Reminder: we have sponsored seats for those in need! Workshop info: armadillocon.org/d47/writers-...
Oooh! Here's a new book we are excited about! A “passionate and playful anthology of stories inspired by her work…The result is both a fitting tribute to a master and an enchanting compendium in its own right.”—Publishers Weekly essentialdreams.press/books/storyt...
ArmadilloCon 47 is coming up Sept 12-14, 2025. We will be convening at the Austin Southpark. If you are booking a hotel room, please support the convention by booking as part of the ArmadilloCon room block. Thanks for supporting ArmadilloCon! armadillocon.org/d47/hotel/
Join us today for a popup Book Swap! We will gather near the community lounge inside Wheatsville's South Lamar store (4001 South Lamar), starting at 3:30. Get a tasty treat and chat with fellow writers and readers! P.S. Book swapping is optional. If you can't let anything go. We understand!
What are you reading this weekend? Any recommendations?
Excited! "Coming in September is a “Hansel and Gretel” picture book with prose by [Stephen] King and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Maurice Sendak’s set and costume designs for the 1997 staging of the opera by 19th-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck." www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
This week's episode of #Murderbot is such fun. We love Murderbot so much!
Throwback Thursday. We've been thinking about the brilliance of Martha Wells' writing this week, because wow, we love Murderbot. The new Murderbot show is awesome, and we really did need a laugh this year. Read her backlist, too: torpublishinggroup.com/author/marth...
This new collection of stories by Neal Shusterman sounds cool. It will include new stories set in the world of Arc of the Scythe. Also, this book looks amazing and we are now obsessed by the artwork of @maxloeffler.bsky.social. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
PREORDER TIME! On May 27, Mulholland is bringing back ZERO SAINTS, the killer first novel by @gabino.bsky.social. It's a gritty dark gem of a book. If you haven't read it, this is your chance! #Booksky #HorrorNovel #ThrillerReads #BookCommunity www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/gabin...
Wow! Can we quote you on that? ❤️
Over at LitHub, they are celebrating "Short Story Month." This is a great reminder to go read this Locus and Nebula-winnning story by P. Djèlí Clark. And after that, make plans to come meet the author at ArmadilloCon! lithub.com/one-great-sh... #amreading #horror #awardwinning
F.A.C.T.’s book discussion group meets online on the first and third Monday of each month at 7PM. To get the link for an upcoming meeting, send an email to reading@fact.org. Tomorrow's book: The Cautious Traveler’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks! fact.org/event/readin...