So many bunnies in the dark, creepy, and uncanny! 🥀🐇🖤 I’m thinking Bunnicula, Donnie Darko, Monty Python, Lynch’s Rabbits, Peele’s Us, that scene in Fatal Attraction, and these book covers here… Scissor-like ears, unblinking eyes. Killer instincts from the bottom of the food chain.

Tucking into Kristen Zory King's LADIES LADIES LADIES (@stanchion.bsky.social) and my third caramel apple pop of the day 👌

#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎 You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by... Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is going on tour! Hopping to a city, mountain town, or sun-drenched stretch of desert near you... 🗺️🐇

Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is going on tour! Hopping to a city, mountain town, or sun-drenched stretch of desert near you... 🗺️🐇

In case you missed last night's @storyhour.bsky.social, it's now up on YouTube for—forever? Till everything crumbles, takes the internet with it? I read "We Will Weather One Another Somehow" and @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social read "The Ballad of Starburst Smith" ❤️ Watch/listen: youtu.be/u56vj3Cg-Ts

Lovely to see my space fantasy piece The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home recommended by @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social at @reactorsff.bsky.social's Must Read Short Speculative Fiction for August 😍 So happy you liked it, Alex! reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Themes of potential and loss run through these two stories from @kristinaten.bsky.social and @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social. If Kristina's makes you cry, don't worry; David's will make you laugh. This is one of the episodes that shows what stories can do. You can still watch! youtu.be/u56vj3Cg-Ts

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

Still can’t get over the s-t-u-n-n-i-n-g tarot cards that artist Paige Wetherwax made for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine. Here’s each one next to the story it’s inspired by.

Awesome to see this shout-out for @kristinaten.bsky.social's fantastic novelette "Bunny Ears," which ran in the August issue of Nightmare Magazine.

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

OMG this is my postman! My story is in this omgomgomg

So cool to see "Bunny Ears" (@nightmare-magazine.com) on this list of August must-reads. Thanks, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social!

Kris distilled the essence of nostalgia and search for identity in this emotional essay and it's no different than her collection.

This is a gorgeous, thoughtful essay by @kristinaten.bsky.social (with incredible accompanying photos) that stays with you. 🖤

An essay by @kristinaten.bsky.social, whose short story collection, Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine, is out later this year. @olgaz.bsky.social

On nostalgia and more by @kristinaten.bsky.social "The acquisition of the hundred-plus children’s books from my mom’s basement wasn’t exactly in keeping with this plan. So naturally I loaded them up [...] and set them up that day." puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/w... @olgaz.bsky.social

Wrote a photo essay for @puncturedlines.bsky.social about nostalgia, Soviet-era children’s books, speculative fiction, and a recent trip to the country of Georgia. Come for the picture of baby-me talking into a mall phone. Stay for Svetlana Boym 💗 ➡️ puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/

Tonight!

You are GOING to want to go to this! @kristinaten.bsky.social is a genius storyteller and every story she writes is an absolute banger.

This week, we present the Story Hour debuts of David Marino and Kristina Ten! Expect beautiful prose, expect to be moved—but most of all, expect to be surprised. Wednesday, September 17! 7:00 p.m.! Join us! @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Midweek story time! Tomorrow evening, come sit criss-cross applesauce, or however's comfortable, for an hour of livestream stories told by @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social and me 🖤📚

The Fox is free! Today my debut, Audition For The Fox, is officially out in the world. Magic. Fables. Time travel. And the many ways even a goofball can resist oppression & fight tyranny. Thank you to everyone who had a paw in bringing this into the world & supporting it. Forever grateful, I am 🦊💜

TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS today! 13 coming-of-rage stories including the return to print of "Benny Rose the Cannibal King" about the monstrousness of adolescence and those who will do whatever it takes to get away, or get even. Out now from Titan Books! 😈 tinyurl.com/prhdemons

I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

It's Mailbag Monday!! I've spent the last two weeks housesitting and came home to a wonderful bevy of books! Golems and alchemists, valleys in the east and valleys in the west, short stories and deep histories, empires old and new. Can't wait to dig in! What looks good to you?

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.

Grateful for this generosity from Kevin Brockmeier, who knows about playfulness and discomfiture in fiction, whose The Ghost Variations is my around-the-campfire, scare-'em-off-their-logs favorite, and whose craft essay in WSR nudged at something in my heart I didn’t yet have the words for.

At the pre-release phase of chatting with booksellers about stocking my debut, and it's been so uplifting. Booksellers are a goddamn miracle (as if y'all didn't already know), and all we're trying to do would crumble without them. 3 weeks till Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine! Booksellers ILYSM.

“The most valuable thing to me in terms of my mental health is to read a poem or see a painting or listen to music which speaks to me, which breaks me open for a moment, and where I feel an experience honestly & delicately portrayed. That’s another reason AI can never create anything artistically.”

New beauty from @laraehrlich.bsky.social and @redhenpress.bsky.social: saltwater soup for the rusalka soul.

"It is limiting, to be from somewhere small—you feel it even when you like it." New gorgeous, rhythmic, perfectly bite-size work from @filiphdz.bsky.social: "The Place I Came To" in @lightspeedmagazine.com.

Join @kristinaten.bsky.social and I next Wednesday, the 17th, for a lovely night of stories! Thanks to Story Hour for putting this together.

The Tell Me Yours tarot cards are back from the print shop and aren’t they pretty?? Each one’s inspired by a story from the collection and artist Paige Wetherwax captured their very spirit. So bright and beautiful in person, and standard tarot size, so they’re ready to shuffle into your magpie deck!

Giveaway for some great books—including @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS!

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

wow look! Fantasy Magazine back issues for your reading pleasure. do us a favor: share/like/engage with that post so everybody sees it? also, if you could, support us in this small press publishing work? link's in the post below! 🩶🗡️

Umm, apparently my publisher had to restock on friendship bracelet materials to keep up with preorders. Didn't expect that. Thank y'all so much. (And if you didn't know, all preorders of Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine come with a friendship bracelet that doubles as a bookmark 💫)

Virtual reading one week from today! Me and @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social. It's free, and you don’t have to change out of your house slippers or brush your hair or anything. That’s 10pm for us East Coasters. See ya there!

Get a signed copy of TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE if you preorder in the next 2.5 hours! Hate signed copies? You’re gonna have to wait till after midnight cuz all the day’s orders before that are getting signed!!!

Today's the day... 🌺🌼🌸🏵️ Happy BOOK BIRTHDAY to SILK AND FOXGLOVE: A BIPOC EROTIC ECO-HORROR ANTHOLOGY, unleashed and waiting for your outstretched hands and straining eyeballs NOW 👀 Thrilled to have my own erotic tale (my first...published), All Her Darling Little Ones, included in this killer TOC

It’s my birthday! Everyone who preorders Tell Me Yours from Stillhouse Press today (9/9 till 11:59pm ET) will get a signed—and, if you want, respectfully doodled in—copy! And one lucky duck will also snag this sexy, sparkly “cool S” pin. iykyk!

If you're on the fence about submitting to the 2025 Literary Awards, read about Lilly Dancyger's experience from when she won the 2019 Literary Awards with her memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE! With 6 DAYS left to submit, check our complete guidelines here: buff.ly/AMZ2510

ICYMI, I have a new story out in Lightspeed Magazine about lovers aboard a doomed science vessel!! It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food. Check it out: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

Hoy es el cumple de @kristinaten.bsky.social. Happy birthday, Kristina! 🎂 Si aún no la conocéis, aprovechad para descubrir hoy a esta joven y prometedora escritora gracias a su inquietante relato "El terrible monstruo exclusivo de Starosibirsk". cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/e...

And, speaking of, what are the weird fiction collections from the last few years (or whenever) that I should feed into Profane Illuminations? Trying to maintain a mix of current and less-so releases there, and I’m burning through candidates rapidly because I’m looking for a Very Specific Affect

2025 New Releases for Your TBR @kevinbachar.bsky.social @jamiedeangibson.bsky.social @brianpinkerton1.bsky.social @kevharrison.bsky.social @spookywv.bsky.social @timwaggoner.bsky.social @pfracassi.bsky.social @crystallake.bsky.social @chrstnabergling.bsky.social @gravesidepress.bsky.social

Coffin Moon is out today. Thanks to everyone that's reviewed the book, preordered it, told their friends about it. We had a sold out event at Hollywood Theatre last night, and Broadway Books sold every single copy of Coffin Moon they'd brought. I'm so lucky. Thank you all.

Happy Birthday to the amazing writer of this playful book 👀 Now you can snag a copy too!