I'm on the cover of this month's Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social! If you get a copy, you'll get to read an interview with me and one with Joe Hill, as well as industry news, book reviews, and much more! BTW, does this mean my new nickname is "Atmosphere of Disturbia"? #booksky #Blackbooksky

432 words yesterday, after a long relaxing celebration of my birthday. Among my many lovely presents was this absolutely beautiful collection of ukiyo-e prints! In addition to that, my sister also sent me some grown up lipstick that stays put under an N95. Thanks sis!

2091 words. They were for homework, but still. Dunno what my writing goal is going to be for this month, but I know there are some precious story outlines I really wanna fill in. I am three or so stories away from a coherent collection, and about 8 poems away from another coherent collection...🤞🏽

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

New Writing Prompt from your favorite Co-editors at The Cookout! #writingprompt #horror @tco-anthology.bsky.social

Post something random or you’ll have an awful November. There’s no sense in tempting the universe.

I did. It know this, and I’m glad I know it now.

My dad’s cousins are my aunts. My mom’s best friends are my aunts. The pretty Punjabi ladies that used to live across the street, no blood relation at all, who would give me sparkly bangles to wear, were All Auntie! I feel sorry for people who don’t honor community family, but this is distraction.

Excellence at something nondestructive.

In the face of AI grinding out all sort of fictional dross... I believe all writers should stress the fact we're doing the work on our own. From now on all my work will be known as "hand-crafted, artisanal fiction for the discerning and intelligent reader."

Midway thru my 1st experience editing an anthology (with an awesome team- thanks @press-android.bsky.social and @tco-anthology.bsky.social crew!) ... ... I am eating these behind-the-scenes editing stories UP! Query: would you buy and read "Terror in Text: Collection of Scary Publisher Stories?"

When chauvinist trekkies don't know any women at all-

This time next year, I will have graduated, I will be a professor, I will have two more books sold, and I will go home in the evenings and REST at least twice a week. Which is three times a week more often than I am allowed to rest now. Grinding is a butt sometimes. But the end is nigh:

What’s your favorite “old” movie? #FilmSky 💙🎬 Auntie Mame (1958)

So I wanted to share the links for @roguestarmag.bsky.social's #kofi page, but it's still pulling my old information--as you can see below. The link works though! ko-fi.com/roguestarmag

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I wrote an Ars Poetica about shitty chickens. I am sophisticated.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if you feel like it)

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He thicc.

I’ve been discovered!!! Thank you to @roguestarmag.bsky.social for this lovely review.

See one of our @tco-anthology.bsky.social’s editors work in this special issue!

Manifesting this for myself…

Subscribe to @psychopomp.com and get the goods on the latest red flag wearing, toxic love, nec-romantic star... "Garden of the Bloodpotter" by Erin Brown.

I think people need to consider logging off a bit. These are almost all going to be peaceful parades. We're not strapping up to storm the Bastille here

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

#ICYMI @tco-anthology.bsky.social edited by me, @babblewocky.bsky.social, @emmaliawrites.bsky.social, and @pcverrone.com; to be published by @press-android.bsky.social Kickstarter pre-launch page is up and running: www.kickstarter.com/projects/and... #spreadtheword

We did it!!! Android Press has picked up our upcoming anthology! Click on link for details about the project, sub calls, who all gone be there, everything!

I am “I practiced folding paper maps of the California highway and used an almanac to press flowers” years old.

MA Creative Writing programs that alienate and bully speculative fiction author students are part of the reason our country is so messed up right now, and it’s beyond time they examine the white supremacy and white privilege history of “literary fiction.”

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Enjoy this moment I was a guest on Joseph’s land at Wallowa.

Prince and Mariah Carey have an incredible conversational style to their lyrics that is pure genius. That said- hip hop had unmatched lyricists. Period. I wouldn’t even know where to start with that list.

All I’m saying is, all these live action remakes and NO LOVE for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

I’m a child of the 80’s. Undiagnosed ND and poverty kept me from seeking my Bachelors until I was 15 yrs older than most of my classmates. In my written finals I had two blue books filled and was out the door with an A essay while they were still trying to find mechanical pencil refills for pg 1.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Join a non-competitive dodgeball league. Also, therapy.

AI at its peak

I agree!

Passive resistance is rarely portrayed as powerful, and when it’s done correctly, it truly is. People decided not to ride a bus for a few months and crippled a whole city. They downplay the effect because it’s their only defense against it in an arena where perception matters. Protest SMART.

What a great question!

I’m honored!!!

Me: I’M A HORROR WRITER! Also Me: Prickle, prickle, tippy toes Something POKEY this way goes! Crown of green and needle skin, Funny, sneaky, scratchy friend! Thin of limb in purple clad Come to bring you tidings glad Cactus Fae, so sweet and free Sings to all, “Step carefully!” #nationalpoetryday

Halloween Season Poetry: A mummy who’s thoroughly dried But handsome, will date you with pride! But if you must smoke, Move far from the bloke Unless you like your boyfriends fried!

"Aww, come on! What's a few missing body parts... between friends?" "Garden of the Bloodpotter", by Erin Brown, a novelette, now available on @psychopomp.com. Subscribe for a free copy!