Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'! Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

Truly a beauty!

Applications are OPEN for our 2026 Fresh Voices Fellowship! FV supports one emerging writers of color who do not have an advanced writing degree. Winner receives: - $2000 & publication - A year-long editorial fellowship at Epiphany Submit below. Apps close 11/1! epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

Australia joins UK and Canada in formally recognising Palestinian state

One interesting thing to me about the writing scene is that it's not that different from business -- it seems the most efficient way to get more opportunities is to give the impression that you're already doing well. Like realtors driving BMWs.

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

Hey! I'm reading in SF this Thursday! Et al. Gallery at 6pm with @milesklee.bsky.social @spookymeatball.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social, Colin Winette and Lucy Corin

I recently listened to a Tori Amos album I haven't heard much since my pre-internet youth, and I looked up the lore about a song I thought was about hiding kids during the Holocaust...turns out it's about being asked out by Anthony Kiedis.

It's my birthday!!! Buy one of my spooky books!

It’s Latine heritage month September 15 - October 15, which means it’s a really great time to support Latine creators. I’m one, but there are many others. Look for our work. Mine can be accessed through my linktree in bio. #latineheritagemonth

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.

Those are people who are burning. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, and babies. People whose homes & lives were already destroyed, often multiple times, and who’ve endured worse suffering and indignities than most of us could ever imagine, let alone bear. This is Israel’s legacy.

reposting this review because I can't stop smiling over the damn thing; check it out at The Blog Without A Face: theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/09/11/r...

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

Hey everyone, the secret's out: I'm a part of this and truly had fun writing about the Concepción Sisters and their botánica

Just learned about Tove Jansson's illustrations for the Swedish edition of The Hobbit. Extremely cute. lithub.com/take-a-look-...

Will begin shipping copies of Hellarkey over the weekend. Order a copy and you get some spooky stories to read, help us recover some of the costs, and get a free zine in the bargain! malarkeybooks.com/store/hellar...

Blueskyism is reposting your own posts just to feel something

"Jules said it was straight Cronenberg and I said Ito then we both shut up as the hole in the man’s thigh opened wider on the screen. After, I ran to Mom. Tears withheld, questions pouring out of me." Today on ergot.: 'PIAMF' by Tom W. Raymond linktr.ee/tomraymond www.ergot.press/authors/Tom_...

A book that must be read!

Big thanks to Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social for talking with me about my upcoming, debut novel 'The Veldt Institute'! More Info: double--negative.com/003-the-veld... Pre-Order: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

one week from today!

"As far as I can tell, all the doctors at the Institute are - each in their own way - mad and you shouldn’t take what they say too seriously. Of course, that doesn’t mean that what they say isn’t true." -interview with @perfidiousscript.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

TIM SIX + NYOKA SHOJE -Portals (SHIELD-005) CD Over the last few years, we made this international collaboration of soothing and transformative electronic music. "Portals" will lift you out of your worries into a cosmic field of possibility. shieldmaidenstore.bandcamp.com/album/portals

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

Happy Book Birthday Today for this amazing novella by @hazelzorn.bsky.social!

got a new story out about a gigantic hexagon—hope you’ll check it out minorliteratures.com/2025/09/09/w...

Sure, that's fine, you can have my soul. I can probably grow another one.

They need $3677 in 63 hours.

no movement today! let's get more eyes on this!

Ends Monday morning!

The eBook for Ivy Grimes' southern gothic novel The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion will be .99 on US and UK Amzn thru Monday! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXC9G1J...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

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!!

Happy Shakespeare Sunday! Exit Ghost is my debut novel! modern witchy girl Hamlet at the Jersey Shore with a very good dog named Yorick (who does not die) available in hardcover and ebook (including HOOPLA) books2read.com/ExitGhost

It's undeniable: The Laken Riley Act violates immigrants' constitutional rights.

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!!

"Sickness bore down on him. Age and gravity too, heavy, impossible to defy...Where are my Things? I am in my Things. I endure in my Things and my Things endure in me. " Today on ergot.: 'Things' by Jon Doughboy linktr.ee/doughboywrites www.ergot.press/authors/Jon_...

An opportunity to tune in and sample this great collection by Erik McHatton! Tonight only!

Straw World is available now!

"...there is at least one story of mine...that I do believe is truly evil. It honestly feels like it was placed in my mind and willed itself to life." -interview with @erikmchatton.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

Leonora Carrington : Bird Bath, 1978 Color screenprint 70.9 x 55.6 cm | 27-15/16 x 21-7/8 in

Understand this fact—Trump isn’t just anti-science or anti-vaccine—He’s something far worse: Pro Structural Eugenics. Once you realize his every policy is ingrained in Structural Eugenics, you’ll see the Goal is mass death of Black, brown, & low income people. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-is-e...

My friends, wrap your minds around this: Many Black people who were born during the Jim Crow era, the era of fully legal segregation & racial discrimination, have yet to reach retirement age.

"Straw World" launches tomorrow, and I couldn't be more excited. The next day, however, has me almost equally excited as we'll be having a book launching event hosted by the always amazing PLM! Come join us for fun and prizes! Sign up now! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-echoes...

Happy book bday to Erik McHatton! Erik is a student of the Weird and frequent CHM collaborator. His debut collection STRAW WORLD AND OTHER ECHOES FROM THE VOID is out today and it's fantastic! Celebrate the release on Friday with a reading and prizes: https://bit.ly/480DUa9

Soon, The Night Ship is touching down, and I need your help. As an editor, the task below the bottom of the list is always promoting my own work, even though it means so very much to me. So if you think you'd like to review this, or blurb it, or heck, catapult a copy at your enemies? Hit me up.

Leaf blowers: nobody likes them

If you would like to read excerpts from 'The Veldt Institute' check out this thread: