Do you like podcasts? Do you like deep talk about awesome books? Then don't miss CONNECT THE PLOTS WITH ERIK & CYLIA! Catch the first episode (an interview with @matociquala.bsky.social !!) where podcasts are podcasted, or on Youtube at: youtu.be/bB6DPXkvjrc

Portlanders! Are you pining for a brain-melting discussion of weird and terrifying mushrooms? Then join @lauracranehill.bsky.social and I at Powell's (Burnside location) at 7 pm tomorrow to discuss her amazing debut novel, WIFE SHAPED BODIES. www.powells.com/events/laura...

I have thought and talked more about popes this year than any time I wasn't taking a history class!

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Hundreds of thousands of people with Temporary Protected Status followed every rule and built lives here. Now Trump wants to deport them anyway. Tell Congress: stop these cruel TPS deportations and codify these protections immediately.

So happy and excited to see that @sentencebender.bsky.social's wonderful story "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead" is a finalist for the Locus Awards!! And truly delighted to see that LIGHTSPEED MAG is up for Best Magazine, along with @johnjosephadams.com & I for Best Editor.

Submitted an unsolicited story to a market this morning. I'm pretty sure it will get rejected, and it's a great feeling. It's nice to participate in the old rituals of being a normal-ass writer!

If you didn't know what sort of publisher Skyhorse Publishing was before, well, now you do. #WritingCommunity

Hideous stuff, and important reporting from a new journalism project here in Oregon.

Sure it's late but not too late for a blog update horrorsong.blog/2026/04/13/t...

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

Support Locus and you support writers, readers, reviewers, and publishers in the spec fic world.

Spring has sprung and it’s the perfect time to go mushroom foraging and check out these fungal horror stories by authors like @bitterkarella.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, @silviamg.bsky.social, @tkingfisher.com, and @wnwagner.bsky.social

Powerful people in the US are working day and night to convince us that Trump is unstoppable and he’s never even cracked 50% at the polls. This can absolutely happen here. Granted it would help if Democrats got on board instead of being in the way.

Every win, no matter how seemingly small, no matter how far away, is a cool refreshing drink after crawling through the desert of evil we’ve witnessed this last year and a half. Fuck the fascists. Freedom for all.

BREAKING: Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has called Péter Magyar to concede defeat in today's election. With 53.45% of votes counted, Magyar's TISZA looks set to secure a super majority. A defeat for Putin, a defeat for Trump, a victory for Europe, and above all, a victory for the Hungarian people.

PREORDER PREORDER THIS SOUNDS SO GOOD

Some days you just have to make a microwave S'more, even if the only crackers you have are Milton's Crispy Sea Salt.

People often posit that the future is dependent on what we do today. And that may be the case. But I am thinking more and more that what we do today actually depends on our image of the future. When I apply this to our current library fight, this crystallizes.

this morning was a whirlwind, let me properly flail now!! HI YES I'm honored that "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" is available over at @lightspeedmagazine.com! it's a tragic sapphic space knights story with SO much mess. it's fine!! ✨ 🪐 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sain... 🪐

Imagine not understanding the grossness of "only people who pay a lot of money will have access to child actors".

Better than March Madness: this awesome HIVE MIND BRACKET BATTLE. Get in there and vote!

If you are a nerd in PDX, note that The Secret Pizza Society Montavilla has a Pizza Week pizza called THE TAUMOEBA. everout.com/portland/eve...

{endless fucking howling}

The new short story up at NIGHTMARE this week is "The Final Girl Trap" by @acwise.bsky.social -- it's sexy, it's scary, it's bloody! Don't miss it. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

"We firmly believe that dark fiction is a bulwark against the forces of the world eager to reduce our human experience to dollars and cents." From the NIGHTMARE April editorial: www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

This is hilarious!

Oh man. eluki wrote a ton of the formative works of my youth. A massive loss.

Stop using this shit, please💥

Anybody want a highly realistic, life size human skull made from a 3d scan of a 14th century archaeological site in Visby, Sweden? I make and sell these. DM for details.

Let's talk hive minds! The Many comes out 4/21 and it's a hive mind story from the perspective of the "hiveminded" (think reverse Pluribus). First question, what are your favorite hive minds from any kind of fiction? (books, movie, tv, games...)

I posted my latest round of little book reviews, covering my reading in February and March, with stuff I liked by @wnwagner.bsky.social and Ray Nayler and @scumbelievable.bsky.social and @qntm.org and Bora Chung and @joerlansdale.bsky.social (there's also some "life update" stuff at the top)

Despite what North Carolina DOT says in this chart below, biking, scootering, skateboarding, walking, and running are all legitimate, reliable, ADULT ways of commuting.

I think people who are not cyclists do not quite understand how often those of us who bike are told that we deserve to die because we have chosen a mode of transit that isn't a car

The BBC is sharing video of Iranians rallying around power plants and on bridges. Heart-breaking stuff. bbc.com/news/videos/...

!! MISSING TRANS WOMAN IN NEW ORLEANS !! quinn, the girlfriend of a lovely member in my trans org, has been missing for a couple of days. she is not from new orleans. she is at significant medical risk. if you see her, please reach out to nyx

Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

Just finished calling my reps. Tell your reps to get back to Congress and pull this genocidal monster out of office. This is not a "wait and see" day. This is not a "will impeachment succeed" day. They have a job and lives are at stake.

Already lost track of the number of times I've checked Aljazeera today.

Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.

Who knows where or whether Feminae moved? The University of Iowa made the regrettable decision to stop hosting this incredibly useful database of articles, reviews, essay collections, etc about medieval women, and I'm really hoping that someone migrated it 🙏

"According to the Authors Guild’s most recent income survey, which queried 5,699 book authors in 2023, the median book-related income for traditionally published trade authors was between $15,000 and $18,000." yep. when writers say we do not make very much, believe us.

it's always "Google Chrome isn't your default browser" and never "Google Chrome hasn't earned the right to be your default browser"

then why the fuck are you, @microsoft.com, putting Copilot in Word, where people write books that are not, actually, for entertainment purposes only

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

you guys look at this coral fungus 😳

My new story "Classifieds," is up at Nerd Horror Stories/YouTube for you to listen to. This is probably one of my favorite stories I've written and touches on paranoia, racism, fake news, and an unraveling mind. Go give it a listen!