This book is so wild and fun and you need to read it!!!!

If you're struggling with the weight of life inside the belly of the beast, consider checking out my first novel, a surrealist take on Hobbes' Leviathan as both sea-beast and state power, and the cannibalistic nightmare foisted on all us lost souls drifting at sea.

want some testimonials? here's some from talented writers and cool people @rlsummerling.bsky.social and @danielmiller.bsky.social

Pause before you pluck those blackberries from the brambles on the side of the road, and consider what's nurtured them. Read "The Lure of Blackberries" by R.L. Summerling in our issue 21:

New Patreon post! Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social tells us why she loves "The Monsters of Heaven" and "Sunbleached" from Nathan Ballingrud’s collection "North American Lake Monsters"

"The lectern of the conference room is emanating darkness. Profits are down. I know this because we all know this." Surprise after surprise at this hilarious and horrifying marketing conference, we're so fired up to feature @johnchrostek.com's latest, Inclement Weather this week! Bring a jacket!! 🧥

Have you read my award-winning story "The Power Company Detective"? Okay, okay; you got me. I'm lying. The only award it won is in my heart. www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/t...

you are now afflicted with: Breaking News (curse) every time you check social media, receive 2d6 psychic damage and take -2 to all WIS and CHA rolls for 1 hour

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

Please read this short story by me. It's about growing up neurodivergent in the Scottish Borders. And Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada, June 1994. www.bruisermag.com/mcpherson_ti...

We also have a book cover release. Brief Ecology Press is publishing @benlockwood.bsky.social's upcoming book, Ecologizing Society, which now has a cover design www.briefecology.com/p/the-eco-up...

Hey, I’m writing a book and it’s got a cover

Weekend reading: The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Weekend reading: The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison

It is Friday my dudes, and I am bound by fate and these lean and vicious times to promote my books without a marketing team. So please, check 'em out, which unlike fruit do not go bad on your shelf, and consider sharing this post, reviewing the books or grabbing a copy. Thanks if you do 🙏🍻

Thrilled to announce “Nature Cards” - A Naturalist’s Guide, collectable set conceived as an accompaniment to Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. Ltd to 30 sets, signed, featuring flora and fauna from the book. Includes exclusive short prose. thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-NC/

I've noticed a tendency to say "Everything is awful right now so here's a lovely thing." The first clause undercuts the second. We know about the awfulness. I reckon you can just share the thing.

My flash "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero" is free to read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social today! What happens after a hero grows old ... and has to babysit his granddaughter? (My first reprint!)

"If art always felt good, everyone would do it." Leigh's message in this video is brilliant and also drives home why AI has no place in the artistic process

OUT NOW: my debut novella with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ! The coral reef becomes sentient and invades the surface world, mutating all life. 🔥🪸🪸🔥 Pick up your copy today! store.tenebrouspress.com/products/ree...

New on the blog today, my thoughts on A NOTE IN MUSIC by Rosamond Lehmann. An exquisitely observed exploration of two loveless, unfulfilling marriages & the shifts in dynamics that occur when two captivating visitors enter this stagnant world. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/a...

I’m very behind on submissions reading at the mo, so if you’re writer who’s sent something in and it’s been over 30 days I haven’t forgot about you, I’m just drowning in reading and will get back to you as soon as I can. Sorry for the wait.

Sharing my nightjar press chapbook again! Plus a little snippet about a mysterious missive that begins the story. Available to buy here nightjarpress.weebly.com/through-narr...

Sharing my nightjar press chapbook again! Plus a little snippet about a mysterious missive that begins the story. Available to buy here nightjarpress.weebly.com/through-narr...

"FEAST... invokes Hobbes for this hellish modern age. A ferocious and surreal novel, as beautiful as it is dread inducing... Full of strange magic, deception and sinister cults, this book sucks you out of the tempest and straight into its dark, labyrinthine guts." - @rlsummerling.bsky.social

I went into a fugue state for the recording and you couldn't pay me to listen to my own voice, so I have no idea if this is good or bad, which kind of makes me the John "Control" Rodriguez of this podcast

They say "use AI!" now, "it'll make your art, summarize your books, respond to you", but at the end of your life, when you think "I wish I had taken the time to make art. I wish I had read books. I wish I had listened to people." they will not be there to give you back the life you wish you'd lived

“I stumble through a carnival of horrors.” —Anne Rice

A Snoopy/Berserk commission

I will be tweeting about this several times this weekend, so mute me now to escape the pitch! Just a dollar for an ebook - ebook for sale!!

Apologies again for the lateness of Remains 3. We're trying hard to solve the latest problem caused by a run of bad luck to hit the issue while at press. Many thanks for your patience! (Meanwhile, as I write this, we only have one copy left of Remains 2.)

we're live baby! send em if you got em 🙏

When I was at Anglia TV about 25 yrs ago, a girl in our office sent out a team email that said, “It’s been a crap Monday, who wants to come to my flat for a smoke?” Sadly she sent it to everyone in ITV. Melvyn was one of the first to reply with “That sounds lovely but sadly I’m filming in Newcastle”

I believe this may be one of the most important artistic endeavors of our time

Okay, we've established that Yes! people do buy books; furthermore, that buying books makes you more sexy.

What I'm reading for #spinsterseptember. My first Brookner!

hello! we @ hex hope you are well & hope you will consider us for your speculative flash fictions and prose poems! It's such a treat that I get to do this with two people I love and look up to very much, and get to read all of your wonderful submissions. I can't wait to see what you have for us!

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇

Shameless Self promotion! This story came out a week ago! Some folks have given it some great compliments. Give it a read! My ego thanks you. www.baublesfrombones.com/westward-i-r...

At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.

Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'! Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

This show has been such a comfort to me over the years! Always a go-to when I can't sleep. Won't be the same without Melvyn's terseness!

My absolute favourite thing about Melvyn Bragg is his singular attitude of No Mucking About. Literally every episode starts like “HELLO IN 1492 COLUMBUS SAILED THE OCEAN BLUE WITH ME ARE TWO EXPERTS OK TELL ME RIGHT NOW WHERE THE FUCK IS GENOA?”

DISCO MURDER CITY. Out Today. For those who pre-ordered, I would commit extreme violence on the dance floor in your honor. For those about to order, there’s always room for 666 more. Snag your copy: shop.maudlinhouse.net#disco-murder... My eternal disco love to you all 🖤

happy feast day of the beheading of st john! read my retelling of oscar wilde's salomé, an ode to the daughter of abomination, the mother whore of babylon, and the floating head prophet

Yes, Sebald and latex. @rlsummerling.bsky.social knew how to get to the good stuff. I really enjoyed these super kind, super thoughtful questions. Long live Seize the Press.

New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social, author of glitter-gore fest "Disco Murder City". We talk about identity, art and fucking up genre conventions. This may be the only time you see W.G. Sebald and latex mentioned in the same sentence.