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Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgeisler.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
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It's a new day, a new month, and we continue to seek joy. Announcing the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, coming November. Details: bio.site/bestweirdfic...

HEYYYY 😁 So, The Night Ship is coming! Remember those stories about how neighborhoods had to be razed because of radioactive contamination? Well, this is "what if it came from The Unknown Elsewhere and it was an entire country" With some dictatorship and magic and so much nihilism(positive).

Fab! For some reason I was thinking just the other day “I wonder if there is a SKIN playlist...” 👀 And I first picked up SKIN after loving the descriptions of the sculpture in THE CIPHER and thinking “I would love to read an entire book on this” and the universe delivered?? Weird! In a good way! 📚 🖤

Fantastic shortlist! Congratulations all! 🤩 📚 👻

the only way i'm letting you make me give lessons after my death is if you play my voice on a phonograph and use my actual corpse. no bloodless light puppets or video. in person only. i want it to be uncomfortable for all involved. i want everyone to feel the transaction costs of what they're doing.

So so grateful to have such an amazing agent! 🙏🏼

Apropos of nothing at all, I am once again gonna mention that Flights of Foundry registration is open. Just gonna slide this across the table and remind folks, conventions don't have to be awful and have multiple face-palm moments a year. I promise.

Alrighty folks, it's the countdown to the @aurealisawards.bsky.social ceremony on Sunday so here's a new episode of Behind the Curtain. This time, with Nathan Phillips, one of the key folks behind the most recent Awards... www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8ame2...

Genie: okay I’m a one wish genie so better make this cou… Me: WANNA DANCE LIKE TOBIAS IN GHOST RATS VIDEO Genie: Did you hear about it being just one.. Me: DANCE LIKE RATS VIDEO

You as well

Share your favourite smile from a horror movie 😁🖤 (A short film but the unsettling smile game is A+!)

Kafka cinematic universe.

Sure, enemies to lovers is great, but how about them near-miss love stories which don’t work out and leave everyone involved with lingering, unresolved regrets

I have an excellent squishy bracelet made by 4yo and 8yo! 👦 👧 💖 Bonus Snorlax found by 8yo in Pokémon Go and Canberra wanderings 🦘

It’s funny, we don’t think of ourselves as a *store* proper, per se; but if you order direct from us you’ll get cool packaging and swag and stuff; so, screw it, support Tenebrous alongside all the other rad bookshops this #indiebookstoreday 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

Happy Indie Bookstore Day, everybody! Love seeing photos from all over the country.

I get a lot of my books from Space Cowboy Books, which is run by SFF's own Jean-Paul L. Garnier. SCB runs a podcast, virtual readings, and other events—and they ship books!

What’s a line delivery you think about a lot?

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Hey everyone! I made it out of the ENCOUNTERS mailbox alive...There were a lot of cryptids in there! If you've sent us a story, you should now have received a receipt for your sub. If you've not had one, check your junk mail and get in touch 🖤 Subs close June 9th, so get those monsters in!

WE LOVE THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! Pre-order now! And those in Scotland, come out for Lindz's events if you can! It will be *magical*

Without downloading any new pics where are you at mentally (The headful of creepy things comic is very relatable!!)

Voting for the British Fantasy Awards is open! All members of the BFS, Fantasycon 2024 and World Fantasy Convention 2025 are invited to cast their vote by 9th May. Visit the website to find further details about how to vote and to volunteer as a juror britishfantasysociety.org/voting-open-...

How I arrived on Bluesky

Join KATHE KOJA NOW for a live stream discussion of her classic #queerbodyhorror: SKIN is back in print today after way too many years! With a new intro by no other than Eric LaRocca! https://smpl.is/a5u95 @kkoja.bsky.social

You are fantastic. You are a quote attributed to the correct person. You are a weatherworn puppet warbling at a dying god. You are an attic mannequin performing an interpretive dance about teeth. You are a cosmic rat king rolling through space, collecting planets and stars.

Kathe Koja's #SKIN is out next week! Stop by the #Blogtour to enter our $25 giftcard giveaway and to keep up with reviews, excerpts, interviews, and more! We'll be going live with Kathe on our Youtube channel April 22 at 7 pm EDT. https://smpl.is/a5luq

Update! We will be closing to submissions on April 30, 2025. Right now, we have 1,000 submissions pending, so we are going to close while we get caught up. We will re-open once we have gotten through our pile. Thank you to all the strange authors that have trusted us with your work.

Congratulations all! Stellar shortlist! 🤩 📚

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quote with your favourite villain 🗡️ (so tricky to pick just one!)