Maybe I should mention my third collection, kindly blurbed by @paultremblay.bsky.social @brianevenson.bsky.social and Nathan Ballingrud, is available for just $4 in eBook. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/all-t...

All the Things We Never See - EPUB — Undertow Publications

COVER ART: David Álvarez Distilled through the occluded lens of weird fiction, Michael Kelly’s third collection of strange tales is a timely and cogent examination of grief, love, identity, abandonme...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 13h ago

Oh, hey, looks like another story, "The Night is Cold and Starless and Suffocating," will appear in issue 63 of Supernatural Tales this December.

The publisher behind the popular product 'Video games' has cancelled all production of video games. Again. For like the third time this month. It's absolute madness, and all of it because the dumbest motherfuckers who have ever lived are betting society itself on glorified autocorrect.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 13h ago

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Oh I just used a little AI in creating the book” That’s like saying “Oh I only have a little bit of Ebola, it’s OK you can still kiss me it should be fine”.

Re-upping! Editors and publishers only, for now.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3w ago

Are you an editor or publisher with an original short fiction project of weird fiction out this year? Anthology? Magazine? Collection? Get it in for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

Fingers crossed that this all just leads to a single webpage with the words "YOU CAN'T" written on it in large, friendly letters.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 3d ago

UKIE has partnered with law firm Sheridans to provide an AI Compliance and Accreditation Service, enabling studios across the UK games industry to use AI lawfully and responsibly www.gamesindustry.biz/ukie-partner...

Luxuriate in small pleasures: • Putting one's feet up. • A nicely bound hardcover book. • A hot drink on a chilly day. • A cat who will tolerate your presence. • The turning of the colors of the Autumn foliage.

On the Goodreads page for Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers....I can think of worse comparisons (And thematically not entirely inaccurate...)

Hundreds of authors, including Patrick Ness, Damian Barr, Nikesh Shukla and Juno Dawson have signed an open letter in support of Sally Rooney and Faber following the news that Faber will no longer supply her works in the UK. Read more 👇

Sally Rooney: Hundreds of authors sign letter in support of author and Faber

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Ludacris' name is actually short for "Ludonarrative Crissonance"

We recently announced our newest anthology, UNCERTAINTIES 8. Anthologies are among the hardest projects to finance, but worth doing because it's a great way to showcase contemporary writers. Ordering a copy is the best way to show your support for these writers: swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/un...

Uncertainties 8 | Swan River Press

Estimated to ship in December 2026 “Who is the third who walks always beside you?” – T. S. Eliot “Ghost stories,” as Elizabeth Bowen observed, “are not easy to write—least easy now, for they involve m...

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Nordic Nightmares Review: Margrét Helgadóttir’s Terrifying Winter of Fear https://gnofhorror.com/nordic-nightmares-by-margret-helgadottir-review/

Nordic Nightmares Review: Twenty Tales From the Cold North

Our Nordic Nightmares review: Margrét Helgadóttir’s uneven but rewarding horror anthology, with standout stories from Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.

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My 17th book is a month old today! It's been a stellar few weeks of excitement and chills since THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT released, and to celebrate my cursed film novel, I've made a @letterboxd list of all the movies mentioned or referenced across the book 📽️ boxd.it/TMsMu

Luna Abyss Moon's haunted. Kind of a Doom 2016-like set in an eldritch megastructure on the moon. The art direction, writing and character design are fantastic, and really carries the game. There's also a lot of gender going on in this one, and the protagonist is nonbinary. Highly recommend.

The British Fantasy Society does not allow the use of generative AI in any of its spaces. For more on this, read the interview with outgoing chair Shona Kinsella from earlier this year. This position has not changed since last week's AGM. ⬇️ britishfantasysociety.org/its-a-cheat-...

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · last wk.

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

I don’t know why Threads served me up this bullshit, but I’ve never hit block so fast in my life. If you use AI to emulate actual artistic talent, poorly you’re none of these things. You’re a hack killing the planet in an attempt to seem like you’ve got a skill you never worked at.

Questions people ask when they find out you "Do writing" (and the appropriate responses):

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

There is no "ethical use of AI in the creative industries", so jot that down for starters.

RELEASE DAY! YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, featuring New Weird Cosmic Horror from 30+ trans & gender nonconforming creators, is OUT NOW WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD. Direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com Prcoeeds benefit the Trans Doe Task Force & Trans Legal Services Network. Hail the Weird🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

I'm going to elaborate on this in as calm and reasonable way as possible, but sincerely: fuck off

Absolutely bizarre to me, this. Avoiding AI *systems* (e.g. the non-generative kind that have been around for decades) is impossible, but for an organisation like the SoA to specifically champion use cases for *generative* AI is, err... whack. A word salad full of excuses won't save livelihoods.

sorry but the ghost story you wrote is too sad. what if it was about an alive person instead :) and the importance of family :D

I always walk away thinking, “*that’s* what you’re willing to destroy so much for?”

Kaleidotrope@kaleidotrope.bsky.social · last wk.

The sad, tired, unimpressive sameness of generative AI’s output isn’t even top of my list of reasons not to use it, but oh man does it always look sad, tired, and unimpressively the same.

This is my concern. Every time anyone says I want bleak horror someone pops up to say can't we have both? YES you can but the hopeful horror is not being censored and pushed out and being told to be rewritten or dropped. THAT'S THE ISSUE. The number of calls I see saying we do not want bleak work.

FLANAGAN: We asked ourselves, 'Why would a man wear his mother's clothes and stab a woman in a shower?' After, all, Norman says he wouldn't hurt a fly. We wanted to reconcile that contradiction. CHOTINER: Soviet mind control is not a solution I'd have thought of. FLANAGAN: [smiling] Thank you.

More of you should be playing this. It does one of my favourite things in games - telling a very un-videogamey story through the medium and language of videogames. Other examples I could give are Transistor and Iconoclasts.

kylie b@roguesquirrel.bsky.social · 2w ago

In 10 days it'll have been a month since Roman Sands released and i think itd be really cool to try and hit 100 reviews before then!!! we're only 14 away!! if you played it & enjoyed it, let the ppl know!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/Roman_Sands_REBuild/

Adding: this snark is never for audience benefit. If someone thinks the sci-fi is too weird or the horror is too discomforting, they can make their own jokes. Art doing that itself is to prevent others' jokes. The artist says "I'LL laugh so YOU can't make fun of me." And it's so spineless.

Keter-Class Kobold@koboldred.bsky.social · last yr.

bringing this back around

congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

British Fantasy Society@britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 2w ago

And the full list of winners can be found on our blog: britishfantasysociety.org/who-won-the-...

All Hail The Brick

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 2w ago

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick