What a gorgeous cover, I bet there will be some really great stories in here... 👀

Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW@tallimorgan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Your submissions to EXQUISITE UNDEAD were so good and so plentiful, I'm doing something crazy. Introducing: LOVELY TERRORS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF VAMPIRIC HORROR, coming to BackerKit as part of @the-book-bazaar.com in October! Follow for project updates as we approach launch! tinyurl.com/lovely-terrors

Read "Poem for my Empire" in ANMLY's amazing Autistic Protest Poetry folio here!! anmly.org/ap41/sarah-c...

ANMLY@anmlymag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to ANMLY's Best of the Net nominees in poetry for 2027! @sundresspub.bsky.social @bestofthenet.bsky.social Callie Jennings Christopher Leigh Silverberg Cavar t.r. san Nicole Arocho Hernandez Rebecca Hawkes Read their work at anmly.org

I'm pleased to say that I have a new piece forthcoming in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social! Keep an eye out for my story "Bodywork" in their Winter '27 issue, it's one of my favorites and I'm excited to finally get to share it

Memories, folktales, glimpses, and sparrows. "Three Stories From My Grandmother" is out in Bourbon Penn now!

Bourbon Penn@bourbonpenn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bourbon Penn 39 is live! Featuring new fiction from Corey Farrenkopf, Mari Ness, Rich Larson, Nick DiChario, Ruth Joffre, T. L. Xue, and Charles Wilkinson. @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @mariness.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @tixanfy.bsky.social

The only people funding Antarctic expeditions anymore are private investors from old money who belong to weird social societies. These rich guys are just obsessed with recreating some expedition from the 30's that only found a couple fossils. I don't get it.

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Are there any Cthulhu stories that reflect how much budget cuts have affected collegial investigators our there? Seems like a rich vein

I love this story so much, I made my wife read it last year and then shared it with our whole writing group, the discussion went on for days

Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out 10/26)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tiddies by RS Benedict

Had a dream that I received a glowing acceptance from a fiction magazine I love and overslept trying to hang onto the feeling. So if anyone has one of my stories in their queue and wants to make my dreams come true...

Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist.

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I KNOW preorders are super important for books, but they're also not how consumers find products, so like... just remember the long tail. People want to go into a place, pick up a thing, and enjoy it. Build more infrastructure around the period of time when readers can actually be consumers.

My wife has a story in this issue! "Yes Chef" has everything: freaky body horror, haute cuisine, class commentary divorced isopod Gordon Ramsey--truly one of my favorites

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag@penumbricmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's here!!! Check out the June issue of #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

My latest is now available to read for free with God's Cruel Joke. Things haven't been the same for Emma since her fall, but at least she has her daughter Jane to take care of her now. There's nothing quite like the love a daughter has for her mother, the way Jane loves Emma. Nothing in the world.

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine@godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read 'Nearest and Dearest' from @olliews.bsky.social A sudden memory came to her, of pressing her own lips to Jane’s forehead as a little girl, to test for a fever. Whatever Jane was afraid of, at least they had each other. No one could take this love away. www.godscrueljokelit.com/swasey-neare...

I was having too much fun to take many pictures but here are a few from Pride weekend in Ptown! Thank you @visitptown.bsky.social for this amazing experience, this was literally the best Pride ever

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 4mo ago

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

Happy pub date to Pharmacopeia Obscura from JayHenge Publishing, featuring a reprint of my epistolary historical horror story "From The Journals of Dr. Arthur Sweetly." Available now as an ebook, hard copies coming soon! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXGVZMYS

Welcome to episode 731. We have one tale for you this week, about a woman trapped in a time loop, in an endless fight for her freedom (and the truth). talestoterrify.com/episodes/731-corinne-engber

The line at the bakery near me that sells these was too long when I went yesterday so I thought well how hard could it be?

I take forever to finally watch/read things so when i do it's like wow has anyone heard of this critically acclaimed and universally loved piece of art?? Anyway I have finally seen all of lord of the rings and, surprise, they're as great as everyone says!

I caught a screening of this at the Brattle in Cambridge last weekend and was totally swept up in its moody vibes and great needle drops, definitely a new favorite of mine

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Almereyda's NADJA is a low-budget 90s shoegaze Dracula remix focusing on the latter's angry queer daughter. A delightful artifact, quite comforting to me, even with its challenging blend of lovely B&W w/ stretches of voyeuristic pixellated murk reminiscent of tiny RealPlayer video windows.

For #tdov consider supporting a trans writer by checking out some of my weird bleak fiction! Links to all my published work can be found in this masterpost on my writing blog: www.tumblr.com/metaphorford...

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New tattoo courtesy of Jared at Regeneration in Allston

Just finished my annual baking bonanza, final total of 300 individual cookies across 5 varieties (not pictured: white/dark chocolate bark with pistachios and dried cranberries) Between yesterday and today I've spent about 7-8 hours baking, and probably 5 more making doughs throughout the week

I wrote about how wealth isn’t just “more time to write,” but resource-having in a way most of us can’t even imagine lillyluwrites.substack.com/p/wealth-acc...

Wealth, Access, and Writing

or, we need to talk about socioeconomic privilege

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Rita Hester was a beautiful soul and a fixture of the Boston queer community who lived large and unapologetically. Her unsolved murder sparked Transgender Day of Remembrance, but her story is often forgotten. Today, we celebrate her life and continue the work to end violence against trans women.

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Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective

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Lately a lot of writing has felt like trying to pick a piece of popcorn out of my teeth, or dig a stubborn splinter out of my foot--feeling like I almost have it, not quite getting it but can't stop trying, bleeding a little as I try to cut out something that I can't even fully see the shape of

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Thrilled to share that my story "Butterfly Stitch" is out today in GCJ5! Following a conviction for performing illegal abortions, a disgraced transsexual surgeon turns to backalley work offering gender affirming surgeries to those with nowhere else to go. www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

We just came back from an awesome double feature of Ghost Ship and The Fog screened on the deck of the USS Salem in Quincy, definitely one of the coolest @thecoolidge.bsky.social events I've ever been to

Hard to overstate how psyched I am for this issue, no one is doing it like GCJ. Look for my new story "Butterfly Stitch" when this comes out next week--if you think you can stomach it.

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine@godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · last yr.

It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors! Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.

My new story "Newshawk's Crawl" is out today in Bewildering Stories! Thank you to Don Webb and the rest of the Ed staff, it's a pleasure to have this piece out in the world. bewilderingstories.com/issue1106/ne...

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