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Here's a little cartoon for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙

...and contains my body-horror story "Like An Arm Outstretched, Reaching"! Check out the whole fantastic issue, or just click for a bit of squick: www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/lik...

Scifi body horror and October, name a more iconic duo

SO excited to reveal that my short body horror story "Like An Arm Outstretched, Reaching" will be in issue 11 of @radonjournal.bsky.social! Let the countdown begin!

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Weird fiction is always needed but it's more crucial in these strange and horrible times than ever. Back 3LBE if you can!

This week's #BookReview is a twisty, witchy mystery! ringreads.com/2025/08/12/o...

As an ardent lover of em dashes and not a computer, I really appreciate that my favorite punctuation mark has finally broken its silence. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

If ever there was a book that said, "Come, weary traveler, and rest," it's The Alchemy of Flowers by @lauraresau.bsky.social. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/07/29/a...

Happy weekend! I'm excited to announce that my flash story "From This Beating Heart, From This Fractured Mind," originally published in @apexmag.bsky.social, has gotten the audio treatment from @cbdroege.bsky.social. Check it out here: podcastaddict.com/episode/http...

Sequels can be hit or miss, but Tricks of Fortune by @linachern.bsky.social is even funner than its predecessor. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/07/01/f...

It feels weird to use the word "delightful" and The Nightmare Box by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social in the same sentence, but it was a pretty darn delightful collection of horrifying tales. Full #bookreview here: ringreads.com/2025/06/03/n...

22 hours later, it's been revealed by the Chicago-Sun times that the books are indeed Fake

We stand together or we all fall. - NO AI audiobooks - NO AI covers - NO AI book trailers - NO AI character drawings - NO AI marketing copy - NO AI “research” - NO AI editors - NO AI translation - NO AI at all

I am in no way paid by or representing @thriftbooks.bsky.social but here's a PSA: they're having a massive sale on kids and YA books. I just filled in a ton of the holes in my personal library and I am positively GIDDY about this. www.thriftbooks.com/b/kids-summe...

Not to gush but Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker is already one of my favorite reads of 2025. Terrifying? Check. Entertaining? Check. Set in the pandemic but doesn't use lockdown as a gimmick? Somehow also check. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/04/29/b...

Will I fail without using AI if everyone else is using it? Depends on your definition I guess. But failures can be building blocks for many other things. Being unwilling to fail is being unwilling to grow. And I will fail differently than the people who cede their thinking to the mimic machine.

And say it with me now and forever: high needs people of all stripes are just as valuable and loved as low needs folks Any differences physically, mentally, developmentally and so on must be protected. When one is attacked, all are attacked eventually

As I've revisited @kaaauthor.bsky.social's Animorphs through the years, I both wonder who thought they were appropriate for children and feel grateful for whatever lapse in publisher judgement allowed me to think about war and sacrifice and morality from such a young age.

Just a few more hours to back Utopia! They do phenomenal work and we need them more than ever in These Continuously Unprecedented Times. Throw some bucks their way if you can!

I keep thinking of this

Hello, everyone, welcome to another week of The Horrors (TM), and also here's a nifty graphic with my two awards-eligible stories from 2024 if you'd like some reading material in your blanket bunker

Happy story day to me! My spooky little flash story "Safe and Warm" is out in the world over at PulpAsylum. Check it out here! www.pulpasylum.com/safe-and-war...

Had a meeting in Day Job yesterday that was so long and so boring that the one thing I really came away learning was that I would be really bad at talking with ents.

Find something you love like my kitten loves eating plastic

This thread is gonna help get me through today and this week and longer, I just know it

So yeah, it’s real bad. Just remember: 1) they’re going to fuck it up 2) but not all of it 3) do what you can when you can 4) do nothing when you need to 5) posting is not doing something

Could there be a more relevant week for a discussion about death of the author - or, should I say, Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social? Full #bookreview here: ringreads.com/2025/01/14/d...

One thing that is true for me is that I've always been an attention hog, so social media in its various formats has rarely been a burden to me; I think it's fun, and the "building the brand" part comes as a side benefit. This is, however, not the same for everyone. www.vox.com/culture/2024...

Do you know how many little treats I, a millennial, could purchase with $181k/yr

It's books we love day and I'm stuck on a train without wifi??

Someone convince me that reading through a short story WIP and finding it terrible is good, actually

Will be responding to "How are you?" or "How's it going?" with finger guns for the foreseeable future, thank you for understanding

Can confirm, this book is spectacular, magical, delightfully dark, and unexpectedly heartfelt - and it's short enough you can get your heart broken in an afternoon. I loved it!

How far would you take your October revenge against small town high school bullies if you had an animated scarecrow to do your bidding? Find out in this @castofwonders.org original written by @elisabethring.bsky.social, read by yours truly. www.castofwonders.org/2024/10/cast...

New story alert! My short story about being bullied in a small town and an animated scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern head is now live on @castofwonders.org! Read the text online, or listen to the podcast, narrated by the excellent @danooli.bsky.social. Check it out! castofwonders.org/2024/10/cast...

I may be late to the party, but Someone You Can Build A Nest In by @wiswell.bsky.social was a perfect read for both spooky season and #aceawarenessweek! Full #bookreview here: ringreads.com/2024/10/22/n...

Just when I think I'm seeing the light at the end of the book hole I've dug for myself*, the library informs I have multiple holds that are ready for pickup. Again. *the mixed metaphor is not the issue here

Pleased to announce that the honor of a short story wrecking me for the first time in 2024 goes to "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus" by @rachaelkjones.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com. I'm going to go sit quietly for a moment. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...

Come to North Woods for the beetle erotica, stay for the romantic ghost story. Hope you like apples and trees, because there's lots of that, too. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2024/01/09/n...

Starting the new year strong with the My Father, the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang. Sometimes heard to read, but always worth the page turn. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2024/01/02/p...

Does bskt have the same kind of drama as been going on over at the (formerly known as the) bird app or does it need more time to mature before we can talk about Book Bluesky Drama?

I'm working on some edits for a short story that'll hit early next year (👀) and the editor has left some reaction comments that are giving me liiiiifffee