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Rosarium Publishing is open to submissions for their PLANET BLACK JOY anthology. We’re looking for spec-fic stories between 3-7k words about joy and pleasure by women and nonbinary folk who identify as Black, African, or Afro-descendent. Deadline is July 1. rosariumpublishing.com/planet-black...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Today, we were metalsmiths! @bmok.bsky.social and I took a fantastic workshop with Sol Search Jewelry and made textured, stackable rings. Always fun to play with fire and metalsmithing tools. 😛

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It's been a lovely creative day. 😊 @b_mok and I visited Serj Tankian's coffee shop in Eagle Rock, Kavat, and got a little sketching session in. Fast forward to now, and I'm hanging out in a park while Bryan does his volunteer orientation with Pasadena Humane, getting words down on a story...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Lebanese food + a comedy show + this handsome guy = date night. 💕

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What I don't get, and will never understand – if you're hellishly rich, why would you NOT want do mad stuff to make the world better? I mean, just do it for the ego Surely "man who fixed poverty and saved the climate" is better than "man who bought app and ruined democracy for share value."

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

🎉book release day!!!🎉 Thank you so much to @eerieyore.bsky.social @brettkent.bsky.social and @undertakerbooks.bsky.social for helping make this come true 🖤 And thank you to everyone who has preordered, read, plans to read, and cheered on The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions 🌊

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

If you feel sick about what is happening in the US right now: that's healthy. Your moral immune system is working. You're rejecting cruelty and tyranny. Your soul is building antibodies. Take time to process. This is not normal. Do not accept it as normal.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

One more week for our BIPOC-only short story collection call! We haven't received many submissions yet, and we'd love to read yours. If you've been going back and forth about submitting because you're not sure your book will be a good fit, send it in anyway: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Vegetarian meatloaf (from scratch), broccolini, and pepper jack mashed potatoes. 🤩

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 4 days ago • 134 comments

Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

My work-provided computer mouse started malfunctioning, so I bought an upgrade, an ergonomic mouse, and OMG, why have I not been using this my entire career?!?!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

In honor of the late great David Lynch, @imtherealcatlady.bsky.social and I would like to discuss one of his films on an upcoming episode of Horror in the Margins! Which iconic film should we watch and discuss? ERASERHEAD or MULHOLLAND DRIVE? Sound off in the comments!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.

submitted 7 days ago • 200 comments

Impromptu date night. 💕

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

You are fantastic. You are a Halloween-themed breakfast cereal. You are Medusa's favorite hair-snake. You are a hatching moon. You are a Scholastic book fair for cryptids in an ancient forest.

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

Can we please talk about these snail earrings @bmok.bsky.social got me for our anniversary?!?! They're copper since that's the traditional anniversary gift for seven years. Arrived yesterday from Latvia. Etsy for the win! 🐌🐌🐌

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I found out by chance that an audiobook version of Coup de Grâce is happening?! Coming this August!!! AAAAAAAAhh!!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

My forever Valentine! We celebrated with Captain America: Brave New World + Dolly Parton cheesecake. Hope you all had a lovely V-Day! 💕💕💕

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

@thatdana.bsky.social, you are the big winner! Congratulations! I'm about to send you a message to coordinate your prize. Whoo hoo!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

There's still time to enter! And your odds are fantastic! I only have a handful of entries right now. And you get to share a short story we should all read, too? Come on now! 🖤🖤🖤

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Happy Valentine’s, Monsterfuckers! Submissions are OPEN for Wet Screams, an erotic anthology of creature feature delights! Bring us your bump-in-the-night stories of encounters with fur, fangs, and more… Open now until April 14th. Guidelines & link here: www.littleghostsbooks.com/wetscreams

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

I may have been a little angry for my @dreadcentral.bsky.social article on the unseen (and unpaid) labor of Black female characters in horror and their usurped strength. Let your future characters rest I beg of you! www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/5...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Just sent an email to the Park Service asking them to reinstate language about transgender individuals and activism. You can't have Stonewall without Marsha P. Johnson. 🏳️‍⚧️ You can also provide feedback on their webpages. "Was this page helpful?" "No, because it excludes the transgender experience."

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I dread this day every year. There are always tears and grief-fueled panic attacks, because this loss continues to hurt so damn much. It's been 3 years, but I still miss you every day, Biscuit. I'm endlessly grateful I got to be your mom. You taught me so much, made me better, changed my heart. 💙🐾

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Hey! Did you miss my reading on last night's @storyhour.bsky.social with Penelope Flynn??? Do you still want to hear me read about Swamp-Thing-esque conservation problems and Weird seaside Eco-Horror? If so, you can catch the recording here: www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...

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FINAL CALL!!! All you gotta do is share your favorite horror short story in the comments below for a chance to win not one, not two, but THREE BOOKS - How Lovely to Be a Woman: Stories and Poems, Tales of Sley House 2024, and Nineteen Little Stab Wounds. 🖤🖤🖤 I'll pick a winner tomorrow!

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New Horror in the Margins podcast drop! Pod People, we went to a film festival! Well, kind of. As we did last year, @imtherealcatlady and I bought virtual Sundance Film Festival tickets this year, we had the chance to catch Didn't Die, an apocalyptic zombie flick directed by Meera Menon...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I won a copy of How Lovely to Be a Woman last year so I’m gonna boost this. It’s excellent by the way. But my favorite horror short story is The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca. www.guernicamag.com/the-quiet-boy/

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I have so many favorite short stories and it is so hard to shut up about my love for them and now here’s your opportunity to introduce us all to YOUR faves. So go! And who knows? Maybe you’ll end up with a sweet little bundle just for talking about something you love.

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Reposting this again because these collections are all straight fire. Tiffany is among the best storytellers I know, plus ToSH 2024 may be our best antho to date. And then Alexis’s collection is the single best collection of flash fiction I have ever read. This is a humdinger of a giveaway.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments