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makes things 🏳️‍🌈 | RIVERS (Android Press, Apr '23) | EVERY DARK CLOUD (@ghostorchidpress.com Mar '25) | Rep: @amycollins.bsky.social | Stonecoast MFA '21 | HWA & SFWA 🐉 | https://linktr.ee/mariscarp
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In great company with @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social & @strangewildspress.bsky.social 🌒

2025 is all about nature and eco-horror and there are some very fun and intensely spooky books coming to your TBR. Make sure you've snapped up these titles. 💙📚🧵 Pictured: 🌲Haunted Ecologies by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social (Feb. 14th) 🌲They Bloom At Night by @nvtran.bsky.social (Mar. 4th) 1/3

Listening to @podcastle.org while I clean today and I fell in love with this queer, foodie story by @marisca.bsky.social!

Check out this episode! @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social did a great job with my story, "Press Release from a Utopia on the Way Down" 🧹 Always happy to share airspace with @ericfomley.bsky.social 🚀

Delighted that I got to narrate @marisca.bsky.social's lovely story for this episode! Give it a listen!

Simultaneous Times episode 84 is live! Featuring stories by @marisca.bsky.social and @ericfomley.bsky.social with music by TSG and Phog Masheeen. On your favorite podcast player or at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

Check out this episode! @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social did a great job with my story, "Press Release from a Utopia on the Way Down" 🧹 Always happy to share airspace with @ericfomley.bsky.social 🚀

My SF short story “The Thing You Never Were” is out today from @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social Simultaneous Times Podcast, paired with a wonderful story by @marisca.bsky.social! Give it a listen for free here: www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

Living in a post-climate disaster world protected by a layer of artificial cloud, Mallory knows every shade of darkness. Every Dark Cloud will be available in March 2025. Pre-order now via our online shop: https://bit.ly/everydarkcloud

Our first event! The Gray Public Library in Maine has invited a few of BOREAL's authors over for an afternoon panel to discuss the anthology! If you're in the area, come hang out with @emroy.bsky.social, Nicole Lynn, @marisca.bsky.social, and @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social. We'd love to see you!

That marketing, name recognition and distribution are what often lead to "hits." No shade but we've seen people saying hey maybe try to nomimate a couple books for the Hugos not by Tor? It happens with magazines too. Uncanny often dominates awards list and attetion. Again no shade BUT+

Speculative Poets: sound off! If you published any poetry in 2024 that's eligible for the Best Poem Hugo, link your stuff here! Feel free to share the speculative poems you've read last year that are worthy of a nom, too--lift each other up here so people can read and nominate your amazing work!

Hugo nominations are open & poetry is now included!! All the poems below are eligible for nomination 🧚‍♂️

I have a new poem out in the March/April issue of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social! "You said you would die like this. You said you would fold into another story for me to write." Pick up the issue to read "All the space we have left" 📖 www.asimovs.com/current-issu...

Hugo nominations are open until March 14! Below are my awards-eligible stories, published in @podcastle.org @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omgjulia.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @angrygablepress.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social @dragonsroost.bsky.social & more

Including my flash piece, "Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24-∞" 💀🪐

what if we kissed beneath the Psychopomp 2024 award eligibility post? 😳😳 psychopomp.com/2024-award-e...

I have a new poem out in the March/April issue of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social! "You said you would die like this. You said you would fold into another story for me to write." Pick up the issue to read "All the space we have left" 📖 www.asimovs.com/current-issu...

Reviving my list of poetry recs to remind people to nominate them not just for the Rhysling but also the Hugo! 🚀

i have a third which is if you're new to speculative poetry spend some time with the lists speculative poetry people are putting together, there's a wealth out here for the special Hugo and the field is eager to show you things you haven't encountered.

Yes! I didn't know spec poetry was on the Hugo ballot this year. Please vote for it!

ICYMI 🍄 ☁️

Hugo nominations are open until March 14! Below are my awards-eligible stories, published in @podcastle.org @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omgjulia.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @angrygablepress.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social @dragonsroost.bsky.social & more

Hugo nominations are open & poetry is now included!! All the poems below are eligible for nomination 🧚‍♂️

ICYMI 🍄 ☁️

Looking for a silver lining? EVERY DARK CLOUD is here ☁️ Publishing March 25, 2025 🔥 ghostorchidpress.square.site/product/ever...

Marisca's book is here! (I illustrated the cover!)

Looking for a silver lining? EVERY DARK CLOUD is here ☁️ Publishing March 25, 2025 🔥 ghostorchidpress.square.site/product/ever...

Seeking magical winter stories #booksky? Grab this #indie antho and enjoy my #fantasy story “A Grave Welcome” following Melinoe, the goddess of ghosts. @marisca.bsky.social ‘s story “Thread & Needle” is one of my favs in the collection. Lmk your favorite story in the collection!

Here's my watery piece! 'Across the Waves' inspired by a story by @marisca.bsky.social, and commissioned for the cover of @bafflingmag.bsky.social #art

New story in the world! "The Last Harvest" is free to read in issue 2 of Phano 🐄 "The people wrapped everything up, closed doors & windows before they went. It was almost as if they followed a script, some distant memory drawing them away. 'Again, again,' Mourning Doves cooed in the naked trees."

New story in the world! "The Last Harvest" is free to read in issue 2 of Phano 🐄 "The people wrapped everything up, closed doors & windows before they went. It was almost as if they followed a script, some distant memory drawing them away. 'Again, again,' Mourning Doves cooed in the naked trees."

My first story of 2025 is out!!! "We Are Burnout" is in issue 2 of Phano Magazine and free to read. It's an anxiety-ridden and fast-paced science fiction tale of giving yourself to the maximum for work and hyperproductivity. I suggest reading it in one sitting. ⚡ www.phano.co/articles/we-...

ICYMI, ☕Grab your coffee ⚡Turn on your Spinal Hub 💻Get to work work work ⏳Aim for zero unpro time (unproductive, unprofitable, unprofessional, unprosperous) 🐶Don't forget to feed your dog! 🍔Or to eat 🍽️But maybe you can skip the dishes today WE ARE BURNOUT! Out now at Phano Magazine #2

January 2025 sub stats as it snows 🌨️ poems accepted: 2 poems published: 3 stories accepted: 2 stories published: 1 bonus: first anthology invitation received 👀 Not a bad start to the year 🐍

The Locus Recommended List is live! locusmag.com/2025/02...

Look at that blurb! Looking forward to this one from @marisca.bsky.social