• Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Books
    • The Art of Starving
    • Blackfish City
    • Boys Beasts & Men
    • Destroy All Monsters
    • The Blade Between
  • Stories
    • Audio Versions
  • Other…
    • Smokefall – A Video Game
    • Kid Wolf & Kraken Boy
    • Photos & Drawings
  • Interviews
  • Contact
  • School & Library Visits
© 2024 Sam J. Miller
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Books
    • The Art of Starving
    • Blackfish City
    • Boys Beasts & Men
    • Destroy All Monsters
    • The Blade Between
  • Stories
    • Audio Versions
  • Other…
    • Smokefall – A Video Game
    • Kid Wolf & Kraken Boy
    • Photos & Drawings
  • Interviews
  • Contact
  • School & Library Visits

An illustration of a mammoth in a twilight city alley.

 

Oh hey hi there. Thanks for taking the time to check out my website!

I write science fiction, fantasy, and horror, much of it gay as heck. My debut novel won a Nebula Award, and was one of NPR’s best books of the year. My second was a “Must-Read” in Entertainment Weekly and O, The Oprah Magazine. My books and stories have been published in translation around the world, which is awesome because it gives me an excuse to travel all over the place.

I also like to draw monsters & dinosaurs & hot dudes in peril. And I take a ton of pictures. All the images in the slideshow, above, are my own – except for the ones of my book jackets. Those were created by professionals, which is why they are actually good.

Learn more about my novels here – and you can read lots of my short stories. I also have a blog with updates about things like new publications, upcoming events, and recent achievements.

Also? You should totallyย follow me on Twitter, where I say smart or funny things on occasion, and follow me on Instagram for more of the aforementioned photographs.

If you like anything I’ve written, holler at meย on social media orย write to me.

Follow me:

Twitter Goodreads Instagram Facebook

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

  • “Planetstuck” is in the awesome anthology NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA.
  • A Bram Stoker Award nomination for “If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak.”
  • Announcing the winning stories from the Imagine 2200 climate fiction competition.
  • Teaching Clarion for a Second Time!
  • Announcing SMOKEFALL.

Search me:

My Instagram

sam.j.miller

What a find! An unopened pack of the legendary - i What a find! An unopened pack of the legendary - incredibly gory - Dinosaurs Attack! trading cards from the 1980s - complete with 26-year-old stick of gum - at the awesome Economy Candy on the Lower East Side. I don't know what baffles me more - how they thought this was ok for kids, or how I, a dinosaur obsessed kid in the 1980s, never heard about it back then!
When they're cleaning the scaffolding up above. When they're cleaning the scaffolding up above.
The vibe in the room during the Olympic gold medal The vibe in the room during the Olympic gold medal match in men's water polo.
Lovely moon over the lake last night. Lovely moon over the lake last night.
The Olympic cauldron soaring high and burning brig The Olympic cauldron soaring high and burning bright above the Seine.
Paris's incredible queer bookstore LES MOTS A LA B Paris's incredible queer bookstore LES MOTS A LA BOUCHE @les_motsalabouche is absolutely worth a visit - I was super honored to see the new translation of KID WOLF & KRAKEN BOY from @lebelial was a staff pick, and to sign copies!!
Never seen water polo in my life, but the gold med Never seen water polo in my life, but the gold medal Olympic match between Croatia and Serbia was a pretty great place to start! Merci @juancy.r for getting us excellent seats! #olympics #paris2024
Paris really is the future! They have SPARKLING WA Paris really is the future! They have SPARKLING WATER in the water fountains in public parks AND PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING??!?!?๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ
So exciting for our first Olympic event to be the So exciting for our first Olympic event to be the gold medal match in women's football! Team USA took the gold, but I was low key rooting for Brazil ๐Ÿคซ who I thought played an overall better game. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿฅ‡ Here were some of my favorite weird little moments you don't see on the televised version. Happy belated birthday @juancy.r
I had so much fun reading "Planetstuck" last night I had so much fun reading "Planetstuck" last night at @housingworks bookstore, as part of the 2023 Analog & Asimov's Magazie Readers' Awards Celebration! Thanks so much to all the awesome folks who turned out, as well as the other readers and the organizers of the event! And thanks for the awesome photo @juancy.r
THIS IS TOMORROW! As a finalist for the Analog/Asi THIS IS TOMORROW! As a finalist for the Analog/Asimov Readers' Award, I'll be part of this event at 6pm at @housingworks bookstore in NYC!!

I'll read from my story "Planetstuck," about a far-future outer-space rent boy.

Would love to see you there, if you're able.
๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ I am thinking of my beloved broodmate ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ I am thinking of my beloved broodmates in the Clarion class of 2012 - how tf has it been 12 years already??!? - I miss these folks, and the magic we made, not just as artists but as people, every day of my life.

๐Ÿฅน๐Ÿฅน๐Ÿฅน I am thinking of my beloved students in the Clarion class of 2024, who are entering the final third of their own magical journey, and will soon contend with the grief of returning to the real world - and who will transmute that pain into transformed lives and reinvigorated art the same way we did.
I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING It was an honor an I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING 

It was an honor and a joy to teach week 1 of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop (pictured here; The Last Supper, I mean Workshop, and the magnificent zine they made me); these 18 incredible writers will absolutely be transforming the genre in the years to come. 

Very sad to have left them but very excited for the journey they're on with future instructors @jefford000 @mdbell79 @nalohop @crashwong @visyap
San Diego!! Come through Wednesday, as I'll be rea San Diego!! Come through Wednesday, as I'll be reading at Mysterious Galaxy with the awesome awesome Clarion class of 2024 in attendance! @mystgalaxybooks
DON'T JUDGE ME, I KNOW I LOOK ROUGH, I WOKE UP AT DON'T JUDGE ME, I KNOW I LOOK ROUGH, I WOKE UP AT 4:30AM TODAY but it is so worth it because I am back in San Diego for one of the greatest honors of my writing career - teaching the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!!๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†•๏ธ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿซ 
So grateful to have "If Someone You Love Has Becom So grateful to have "If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak" selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and annual editor Hugh Howey for inclusion in BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2024! My twisted gay addict monsters will find a whole new flock of victims mwa ha ha
I was sad to miss StokerCon! The pictures of so ma I was sad to miss StokerCon! The pictures of so many magnificent horror monsters gave me major FOMO, but I was in beautiful Argentina and that more than made up for it. Next year, hopefully!

And while I didn't win the Bram Stoker Award, that bit doesn't sadden me too much - the nomination was such a huge honor from my horror peers, and I'm super happy for that whole awesome slate of winners! 

THANK YOU @thehorrorwritersassociation !!!!
Sky whales of Buenos Aires. Sky whales of Buenos Aires.
Happy happy book birthday to WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT Happy happy book birthday to WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT, an incredible queer YA monster story anthology!! It contains my story "Boys Who Run With The Boars," but - more importantly - tons of other magnificent monsters I can't wait to meet!! @runningpresskids @cloudbusterpress
Celebrating my healthcare hero. Celebrating my healthcare hero.
Load More... Follow on Instagram