tonia ransom
@missdefying.bsky.social
horror writer. IGNYTE and World Fantasy Award winner. producer of NIGHTLIGHT (horror written by Black writers) & producer/writer of Afflicted horror thriller audio drama (Lovecraft Country meets True Blood) toniaransom.com
We are so grateful and excited to be returning to LA WEBFEST🚀🍿🎬It’s an honor to be recognized among so many other amazing fiction podcasts. Thank you for letting us be a part of this event and for the amazing awards noms🏆🏆🏆🏆 Let’s Friggin Go! #podcast #audiodrama #awards #filmfestival
Are you an emerging artist or writer? Because our annual contest is back! Submit between April 7 to June 2. And the best part? We upped our prize money! 1st Place: $1500 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Writers: dreamfoundry.org/wri... Artists: dreamfoundry.org/art...
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Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast is back for it's 8th season and I'm honored to kick it off with my story, "The Spirit Bed", 1st pubbed in WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE? @omgjulia.bsky.social & @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, eds. Read by @missdefying.bsky.social and free to listen! nightlightpod.com
Casting call for new VAs. Carnival horror sounds like fun & I can’t wait to listen!
Law of Names Media@lawofnames.com · last yr.CASTING CALL *unpaid* Welcome wanderers & wonder-seekers, strangers &star-gazers! Professor Pandemonium's Peculiar Panoply is a connected anthology of carnival horror. VAs of all experience levels encouraged to audition! Auditions open from March 3 to 8am Pacific March 17. shorturl.at/ygtpf
Get early access to the season 8 premiere of award-winning horror fiction @nightlightpod.bsky.social by subscribing on Patreon where you can listen to my story “The Spirit Bed” read by the amazing @missdefying.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/122002.... The public release will be Feb 18!
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NIGHTLIGHT Podcast@nightlightpod.bsky.social · last yr.We’re baaaaaack! Get early access to our season 8 premiere by subscribing on Patreon! Listen to “The Spirit Bed” by @edenroyce.bsky.social and find out whether a slumbering woman is in a dream or nightmare. www.patreon.com/posts/122002... The public release will be next week on Feb 18!
Wanna hear a spooky story written by a Black writer for #BHM? Subscribe and listen now!
NIGHTLIGHT Podcast@nightlightpod.bsky.social · last yr.We’re baaaaaack! Get early access to our season 8 premiere by subscribing on Patreon! Listen to “The Spirit Bed” by @edenroyce.bsky.social and find out whether a slumbering woman is in a dream or nightmare. www.patreon.com/posts/122002... The public release will be next week on Feb 18!
Wanna hear a spooky story written by a Black writer for #BHM? Subscribe and listen now!
NIGHTLIGHT Podcast@nightlightpod.bsky.social · last yr.We’re baaaaaack! Get early access to our season 8 premiere by subscribing on Patreon! Listen to “The Spirit Bed” by @edenroyce.bsky.social and find out whether a slumbering woman is in a dream or nightmare. www.patreon.com/posts/122002... The public release will be next week on Feb 18!
If you are near London, I am jealous. Go see this on my behalf and tell me all about it!
The Amelia Project @theameliaproject.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're performing live... in London... on a boat! A tale of death fakery on the high seas 🌊🎭⚓️ Join @alanburgon.bsky.social Hemi Yeroham, PipThorne, Oystein Brager, Julia C. Thorne & guests for an evening of comedy, suspense and immersive storytelling. 31st May, ticket link below👇
ICYMI, @nightlightpod.bsky.social is returning next month with an amazing story I’ll announce as soon as the contract is signed. Meanwhile, consider signing up as a patron so you get access before the public!
tonia ransom@missdefying.bsky.social · 2y agoHey, so @nightlightpod.bsky.social is coming back next month! More details: www.patreon.com/posts/nightl...
I’m at 11% of my absolute minimum goal! Almost half of one month’s expenses taken care of! Thank you all so much 🖤
tonia ransom@missdefying.bsky.social · 2y agoIn other news, I’m going back to school because tech is literally killing me with the stress of the constant search for work. I’m a Black single mom with PTSD and ADHD and could *really* use your help bridging the income gap. Please help? gofund.me/db894df3
Tonia is awesome. Help her. out if you can, because she deserves all the support the universe can bring her.
tonia ransom@missdefying.bsky.social · 2y agoIn other news, I’m going back to school because tech is literally killing me with the stress of the constant search for work. I’m a Black single mom with PTSD and ADHD and could *really* use your help bridging the income gap. Please help? gofund.me/db894df3
Please help Tonia out if you can... She's one of the good ones.
tonia ransom@missdefying.bsky.social · 2y agoIn other news, I’m going back to school because tech is literally killing me with the stress of the constant search for work. I’m a Black single mom with PTSD and ADHD and could *really* use your help bridging the income gap. Please help? gofund.me/db894df3
My friend is going back to school to be a paramedic! She's a single, disabled mom who has had a lot of struggles with unemployment. I'm really excited for her to take these next big steps, but she needs some help! www.gofundme.com/f/toniascome...
Donate to Empower Tonia: A Single Mom's Quest for a Stable New Career, organized by Tonia Ransom
Hi! I'm Tonia. I'm a single mom with PTSD and ADHD, and an un… Tonia Ransom needs your support for Empower Tonia: A Single Mom's Quest for a Stable New Career
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Hey remember me saying how great @nightlightpod.bsky.social is? The creator could use a little help going back to school for a more stable career. I think we all have friends who can testify how brutal tech burnout is, and how much difference even a little help while recovering can make.
tonia ransom@missdefying.bsky.social · 2y agoIn other news, I’m going back to school because tech is literally killing me with the stress of the constant search for work. I’m a Black single mom with PTSD and ADHD and could *really* use your help bridging the income gap. Please help? gofund.me/db894df3
Have y'all listened to NightLight? It's phenomenal. I like to recommend folks start with The Power by Linda Addison or Malaika Descending by Sheree Renee Thomas
tonia ransom@missdefying.bsky.social · 2y agoIn other news, I’m going back to school because tech is literally killing me with the stress of the constant search for work. I’m a Black single mom with PTSD and ADHD and could *really* use your help bridging the income gap. Please help? gofund.me/db894df3
In other news, I’m going back to school because tech is literally killing me with the stress of the constant search for work. I’m a Black single mom with PTSD and ADHD and could *really* use your help bridging the income gap. Please help? gofund.me/db894df3
Donate to Empower Tonia: A Single Mom's Quest for a Stable New Career, organized by Tonia Ransom
Hi! I'm Tonia. I'm a single mom with PTSD and ADHD, and an un… Tonia Ransom needs your support for Empower Tonia: A Single Mom's Quest for a Stable New Career
gofund.me
If you’re going to do the David Lynch memorial meditation tomorrow, may I suggest Raphael Reiter (both YT and podcast available!)
My story "Recipe for a Zombie" made Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year Recommendations List (2023). This story is from Blackened Roots: An Anthology of the Undead published by @mochamemoirspress.com. Thank you @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social & @missdefying.bsky.social who accepted it!
I haven't logged into BlueSky in forever. Thanks for all the new follows! I'll get around to following the folks I know back, and after the new year I'll be posting here more often. I'm still taking a little mental health break, and hope you're all taking care of yourselves <3
I'm slowly resurfacing into the world of social media. Is BlueSky threading stuff right so I can tell a story on here, or is that still a hot mess? 😂
Y'all. Crowdfunding is hard these days. Please give whatever you can to this fellow @fableandfolly.bsky.social show. And if money is tight, spread the word to anyone who will listen!
Monkeyman Productions@monkeyman.bsky.social · 2y agoIt's time! If you want to help us make our new audio drama series, the campaign is open! Check out the trailer, maybe donate if you're feeling it, share the info around ... it all helps us to tell our next story! crowdfundr.com/waitingforoc...
Finished this great one Risen by Tonia Ransom @missdefying.bsky.social. Enjoyed Alexandra's sense of humor in the face of life and death and death! She also writes the Afflicted podcast. Go listen!! afflictedaudio.com
Hey all, I've started a new column at Atlas Obscura! It's called "Eerie Feeling," and it takes Mark Fisher's definition of the "eerie" as a jumping off point to delve into some of the weirder aspects of history. You can read the first installment, on the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Illinois, here:
Airing Out the Mystery of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon
What a strange spate of "gas attacks" tells us about what was really lurking in mid-century America.
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Let me say it again: practice relentless positivity. Celebrate everything. The harder they hate, the harder you work. Support those who deserve it. You have two hands: use one to climb and the other to help those behind you. It makes life better. Be good. Spread love. Stay cool.
My Southern Gothic horror story “The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm" is up at PseudoPod for their 2023 Anthology and Collection Showcase. Thanks to the production team & @missdefying.bsky.social for her fantastic narration of this sticky, dirty tale. Monsters or family, which has the strongest claws?
PseudoPod 🎙️@pseudopod.org · 3y ago“Daddy called tobacco a quick and dirty crop.” The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm, by Eden Royce Narrator: Tonia Ransom Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Chelsea Davis This story was originally published in Vastarien and reprinted in the 2023 collection Who Lost, I Found
