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Holly Hefner
@hollyhefner.bsky.social
I’m Holly. I write strategy for ad campaigns. Sometimes I write weird spec as H. Hefner and romance as Selene Grande. Work in Epic Echoes, Bothered Stories, and Last Girls' Club; forthcoming at Pseudopod, Ominous Thrill. 💖💜💙 Bi-furious.
My local book shop is hosting a PowerPoint night and I want to pitch “Monster Smut is Wholesome Actually.”
This is apparently the single oldest non-photo image in my Photos library. My babies are super old now, but @hollyhefner.bsky.social and I used to quote this to each other all the time when they weren't. Thank you @katebeaton.bsky.social
The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).
Used lunch to tackle revisions and feeling really good about this story. 🧙♀️
@juxentente.com got himself a Trapper Keeper for work with his adult money and I am jealous.
I want to see the Odyssey. I am excited it’s an adaption of Emily Wilson’s translation. But that also means I can get the @overduepod.bsky.social boy’s iconic “and then she pours hotness all over Odysseus” description of Athena whenever I see Zendaya in costume.
The story I’m working on for the Scylla antho is with the crit group this weekend, so I am pointedly not touching it until I can look at all the feedback all together. But the demons want to edit the words just a little...
I love being in the spec genre where the feedback is “Yes, this is very nice, but make it *weirder.*” Yes, ma’am.
Don’t worry, I still own the complete Animorphs and Remnants, and he has just completed reading the former.
Did I just buy a complete set of Everworld books from eBay for my child because I foolishly donated my set to the local library as a teenager? Yes. (But! My set was in rotation on the YA shelf for years!)
I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )
D.J. Kirkland@ohheydj.bsky.social · 4w agoTHE KIDS ARE BORED BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO OR ANYTHING TO DO!
✨️LAST DAY TO SUBMIT!✨️ Give us delectable, sumptuous, absolutely FILTHY speculative erotica to enjoy over the weekend 😈 It's like Gollum said: we want it raw and wriggling 🐙💦 #erotica #monsterfucking
AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
bona-books.com
I am delighted to share that my sapphic dark fantasy “The Lycanthropy Is Not a Metaphor” has been acquired by Ominous Thrill podcast. I cannot wait for you all to meet Sienna and Channing!
Fiction publications! Submission Grinder and @inkfoundry.bsky.social have a new collaboration to help fiction pubs that meet certain criteria reach new readers! Read more here! www.diabolicalplots.com/new-feature-...
New Submission Grinder Feature: Market Story Links! – Diabolical Plots
diabolicalplots.com
My sad, resilient magical girls are featured on Bothered Stories for July! ✨ www.botheredstories.com/post/how-to-...
Finished the first draft of a story for Scylla Publishing's Monstrous and Divine call at 3k and riding the high of "Oh, I am pretty good at this!"
Recommended reading for #Animorphs fans! 🧊🦎 This is a great behind-the-scenes look at how @davidmattingly.bsky.social created those iconic book covers, written by the artist himself.
How I Did the Animorphs Covers
Photoshop and Elastic Reality
myadventuresasanillustrator.substack.com
Yesssss 🦑
NYGEL 🐙@nygelmag.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs Queen Hilary Duff once said, "life is lifing and pressure is pressuring," which is to say we are extending our submission window until ✨️JULY 10!✨️ June got really busy so we want to make sure that everyone who wants to submit has plenty of time to do so! 🌈🥰 www.nygelmag.com/submissions
Oh, it’s up! Read “How to Cope with the Revelation Your Wife is a Former Magical Girl” at Bothered Stories ♥️🧡🤍🩷💜 www.botheredstories.com/post/how-to-...
How to Cope With the Revelation That Your Wife is a Former Magical Girl
When a long-held secret comes to light, two women must reckon with the cost of being truly seen.
botheredstories.com
Just got word from the editor my magical girl story is planned for this month! ✨ I cannot wait to share Alex and Sadie with the world.
Woke up this morning with 500 words of a horror short about masking, Catholicism, and performative femininity 😱
Do I understand all of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s latest book? No. Am I enjoying it? Immensely so.
I made the mistake of posting to (what used to be a relatively safe sub-) reddit to ask for advice and… I should not be surprised by the number of people deciding I am a Karen for asking for help with a child dealing with test anxiety.
Knocked out a handful of last-minute submissions before I turn off all comms to the outside world for a week. Still need to finish up revisions for my were-cow story. I've got four days and it's surpassed 5k. 😱
