Droughts. Fires. Earthquakes. Sinkholes opening up and swallowing entire streets. Once-in-a-lifetime storms happening every other week. In any other age, folks would declare these omens and start assessing what in their lives needed to change
Mallison Ick
@allisonmick.bsky.social
fart noise maker (mouth and butt) HUMBOLDT CUT 🌲🪓 out now DIVE 🩸🎤 out Nov 2026 DARK WAVES 🖤🌊 out Jan 2027 horror/comedy/animation writer. she/they making sicko shit. Books repped by JJBaker Anim repped by SamGoff https://linktr.ee/allison.mick
You will, however, not be entirely safe from opinions about metal and ska
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Big thanks to The Line Up for including HUMBOLDT CUT on their list of forest horror books to read this summer! the-line-up.com/forest-horro...
Forest Horror Books to Read In Summer
Horror books that take place in forests and evoke a primal fear.
the-line-up.com
jpbrammer is the only one out here asking the important questions like "Does Ithaca run on Dunkin?" substack.com/home/post/p-...
'The Odyssey' Is the Song of the Summer
But should you lash yourself to the mast, or invest in beeswax?
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insane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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had a good old fashioned tv binge this past weekend with monarch: legacy of monsters. it's a fun show that does a lot of ambitious stuff with messy family dynamics (+ all the monster stuff). big swing to posit that being unethically polyamorous is epigenetic
Y'all, how're we over halfway through 2026 already? Not to worry; we still have some of our Best & Weirdest incoming: MIDWESTERN CHROME BY @beardedbetts.bsky.social YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM DIVE by @allisonmick.bsky.social See anything you've missed? Let's fix that: store.tenebrouspress.com
Indeed's ads about putting the humanity back in job searching
I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
ALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
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New substack about my new book Dark Waves, which you can preorder now.
"Alexa play Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, max volume" preorder DARK WAVES 🖤🌊 wherever books are sold
Low stakes dystopia prediction: a woman named Trish but it's short for Nutrition
We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away
My multitalented pal @allisonmick.bsky.social has another fantastic cover...but the true otherworldly mystery is how she's publishing three books in the space of like 14 months??
Mallison Ick@allisonmick.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW BOOK NEW BOOK NEW BOOK reactormag.com/cover-reveal...
Two sisters escaping foster care encounter the entities of the North American Great Lakes on an otherworldly quest to the matriarchal commune where they were raised… We're delighted to share the cover for Dark Waves by @allisonmick.bsky.social, a gothic horror emerging March 30, 2027!
Revealing Dark Waves by Allison Mick - Reactor
A supernatural adventure arriving March 2027
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Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I had a book on hold with Libby that suddenly became available because the library bought more copies. Libraries are awesome. ❤️
DIVE by @allisonmick.bsky.social is a passionate, warts'n'all vision of what it's like to be an artist in a world that is actively resisting art. It's hilarious, filthy, heartbreaking, violent. + the most fucked up episode of BEHIND THE MUSIC ever + vampires Out Nov. 17th store.tenebrouspress.com
@allisonmick.bsky.social only writes bangers. In this case perhaps bangers with fangs.
Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · last mo.DIVE by @allisonmick.bsky.social is a passionate, warts'n'all vision of what it's like to be an artist in a world that is actively resisting art. It's hilarious, filthy, heartbreaking, violent. + the most fucked up episode of BEHIND THE MUSIC ever + vampires Out Nov. 17th store.tenebrouspress.com
Have you heard the joke that only k!lls c0ps? DIVE by @allisonmick.bsky.social Out November 17. Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com
Buckle up, buttercups. Got the feeling this is going to be putting the 'fun' in weird.
Young Ones - Vyvyan Basterd
Alt: Young Ones - Vyvyan Basterd
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Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · last mo.WELCOME TO THE LIZ! Last call never actually comes. Now pry your face off that sticky bartop; drink up w/the musicians, wanna-be comedians, hangers-on—& a vampire?!—& let @allisonmick.bsky.social be your guide thru these filthy, hilarious, horrifying tales. Preorder DIVE: store.tenebrouspress.com
WELCOME TO THE LIZ! Last call never actually comes. Now pry your face off that sticky bartop; drink up w/the musicians, wanna-be comedians, hangers-on—& a vampire?!—& let @allisonmick.bsky.social be your guide thru these filthy, hilarious, horrifying tales. Preorder DIVE: store.tenebrouspress.com
There’s a lot that artists could learn about praxis/process/work ethic/whatever you wanna call it from athletes if they weren’t too busy pretending to be better than them and calling it sportsball. tinyurl.com/4epjxut4
Big thanks to The Line Up for including HUMBOLDT CUT on their list of forest horror books to read this summer! the-line-up.com/forest-horro...
Forest Horror Books to Read In Summer
Horror books that take place in forests and evoke a primal fear.
the-line-up.com
