If you want to read one of our books but can't afford it, just ask. We'll send you a free ebook.

I've learned a lot about writing from Barbara. Her class is going to be fantastic. Take it if you can!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

For many folks, money is tight and about to get tighter with the manufactured SNAP benefits crisis. As such, between now and the end of the month, I'm donating all Cursed Morsels store proceeds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. Buy a book and support unhoused folks: www.cursedmorselspress.com

Check out this amazing interview with my incredible musician friend Khatch! It came out so good, with clips of his beautiful music and voice. It is wonderful www.kqed.org/news/1206090...

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever. I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/138349...

If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.

I'm happy to say my story "Chasing the Sky Whale" is in this issue! I wrote the story when I was grieving for my grandma, so it is full of grief. I'm glad it found such good company here

“Birds of Fortune” by @KelHuttonAuthor from @zooscape_zine, “Diary of a High School Necromancer” by @spencerorey (@spencerorey.bsky.social) from Worlds of Possibility, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social -

wow wow check it out! my "Diary of a High School Necromancer" story got an incredible review by @cypayseur.bsky.social in @locusmag.bsky.social this is so wonderful! thank you! locusmag.com/2025/08/diab...

The second Worlds of Possibility Anthology is alllllll poetry, and you can get the ebook free through August 20th! www.juliarios.com/worlds-of-po...

I'm glad the museum isn't too badly damaged! It's such a treasure of a place

–BUT I have also vowed to resist the devaluation of art with every fiber of my being. So. Please support your favorite human creators, and support nonprofits that support the arts, including @reckoningmag.bsky.social, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and @strangehorizons.bsky.social

It came to my attention that a very prestigious magazine posted my collection, Different Kinds of Defiance, as an example of having used AI for its cover art. First of all, any tools that point this are not foolproof and have a lot of false positives, as any illustrator can check with their own art.

Got a novella under 30,000 words? I'll offer detailed developmental edits on it for a flat $300 if you book with me today.

Where are my #zine freaks at? We now have the ZINE FREAK BUNDLE in our store. It's $3 cheaper than buying all of our bundles separately, and you get all 15 of our horror and Weird fiction zines shipped to you. Tons of great stuff in here. Check it out! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...

My evil mermaid story "A Poison of Bodies Beneath the Water" is back! It's in the latest episode of the Flame Tree Myth and Fiction podcast "Strange Stories of the Sea" It was my first published story! Now it's also my first story in audio. It's really cool to hear something of mine narrated. wow

BCS is dropping opening lines to their stories in a thread (and links to the stories) if you wanna see some top tier openers and read some cool tales And when i say "if" i mean get in there and read!!

my "Diary of a High School Necromancer" story is part of this amazing double issue! I'm so excited for all these stories and poems. And the covers are gorgeous

my story "Diary of a High School Necromancer" is out today in Worlds of Possibility! this is a story ripped from my heart, a voicey epistolary YA heartbroken necromancer story with many bones and jokes and goo and heartbreak and also many more bones! link below, followed by more grateful gushing

Found your book in Copenhagen @mhayinde.bsky.social! Yay!

my latest story "When You Lose the Race, Death Takes Your Bones" is out in the April issue of Sally Port Magazine! It's about skeletons who drive cars made out of their own bones in high stakes downhill races against Death. It is ridiculous and emotional and one of my favorite stories. Link below

Curious what our previous zine bundles have looked like? Want to nail down my editorial preferences before you write something? Or just want to read some damn good stories? Snag a free digital copy of our second zine bundle here and see what it's all about: dl.bookfunnel.com/mk8nnv897b

Seems like a good day for anti-fascist fiction. Snag a free ebook: dl.bookfunnel.com/rtl56fi074

I had 5 stories published in 2024. My best year ever so far. Here they are: "A Self-Guided Manual for the Despondent Necromancer," December 2024, The Archive "Gig-Heroes for Hire," November 2024, Tech Bro Terrors, Cursed Morsels

Look at that gorgeous cover art! And please take a look at Swallow, my little tale of desperate subterfuge

Listen closely and take comfort in "The Year of the Humming Turban" by Kiran Kaur Saini in our issue 12:

My story "A Self-Guided Manual for the Despondent Necromancer" is available now at The Archive! I hope you love it and aren't worried about a slightly haunted book or a little blood magic getting in the way of your resurrection projects Read it here: www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...

My story "A Self-Guided Manual for the Despondent Necromancer" is scheduled for publication at The Archive on December 13! Check out the cool promo cards they made for it

For you SF fans, Jo Walton is a fantastic writer and reader. I’ll be trying to find many of these recs.

The Tech Bro Terrors issue of the Cursed Morsels zine might be one of the most anticapitalist things we've put out in a hot minute. It also features super imaginative, fun, and horrifying speculative fiction. Snag a copy along with four other rad zines! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/curs...

Just a heads up - the deadline to recommend works for the Otherwise Awards is this Friday, 11/15. Anyone can submit a recommendation! otherwiseaward.org/award/2024-o...

My gig-worker firefighter story is out and ready to scare you about our near future! Yay! And there are so many other good stories here too

Rad. Get your creature in the bathroom stories ready

Yeah, alright, no. No don't this. I'll do you a few fucking better and teach you right here and now how to do this: You game? Blurb and lesson time. Got you. First up, a SPOOC. This is one technique that can be expanded (gonna give you examples too). WRITING LESSONS AHOY: 🧵

I've posted my GOH speech from #WorldFantasy2024, about indie zines not paying editors limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. It's a call for discussion how to change that, like devising pay standards for editors. 1/2 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/n...

I loved writing this story, and I hope it will haunt you all in the best of ways

Very excited to be hosting the Speculative Poetry Challenge at Flights of Foundry! Write a new poem each day of the convention, and enjoy the support and community of other poets ✨ The launch is Friday Sept. 27 at 10am pst. I'll have some prompts ready for inspo. Can't wait to see you!!

I'm building a starter pack of ESL SFFH/Spec Fiction authors! If you are one (or know one) please let me know so I can add you. go.bsky.app/m3iw7U

I also created this one for Brazilian SFF authors already published in English in some form! go.bsky.app/7eE7MC4

Will climate fiction save us? In this new essay, @mollytempleton.bsky.social draws on discussions of genre: the border between science fiction and reality, and the border between literary fiction and our fears for the future. reactormag.com/coming-to-te...

Okay everyone, I started a Flash Fiction Starter Pack. It's short right now bc I couldn't remember who wrote flash specifically and who wrote longer short stories, so if you want to be on the list, just ask! bsky.app/starter-pack...

These lists are great. Feels like the writing community is forming and flourishing

The last episode with Vajra Chandrasekera was amazing, and now we get this one too?? So good.

I've made two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines and podcasts - on Bluesky. I hope they make it easier for people to find & follow a whole bunch of great spec-fic venues. I'll keep adding as I go. Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/4FbEmZU Starter pack 2: go.bsky.app/ASWSvfZ

I'm looking for culture/language/history advisers. Can pay. 1. Haitian creole and folk tales, 2. Sephardic Judaism in Portugal during the Inquisition, 3. Islam in Portugal during the Inquisition, 4. Hawai'i during WWII, 5. The Mali Empire/Mandinka. If you know someone can you pass this on?

Q&A with Sofia Samatar on publishing, writing, publicity, and her new book Opacities (which I'm half way through and finding both painful and fascinating; painful b/c she doesn't hold back from the aspects of publishing that are terrible): lithub.com/sofia-samata...

Hey, science fiction writers. A request to make. Normally it's unethical to discuss a story we didn't buy. But years later, there's a "one that got away" I still think about, and I REALLY want to know who wrote it. Did YOU write about space snails taking over the anglican church? (Read on...)