⭐️ WIP ALERT ⭐️ I’m so excited to finally share THE DESERT KEEPS HER DEAD, my weird western fantasy heist WIP featuring: ☀️ a death-obsessed paleontologist ☀️ her bounty hunting ex best friend ☀️ a fossil worth stealing ☀️ a desert worth saving #WIPPit #A #F #LGBT

Foxfire: A Folk Horror Novella, Now Drafting When Jubal and his sister Sariah see green lightning strike the swamp which surrounds their farmhouse, their family begins to change. Jubal must keep his sister safe, from their own family, from the house, from the swamp itself. #WIPPIT #H #G #A #W #HF

The Expanse X The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet X Mass Effect CULLING A Sci-Fi horror Space-opera follows a group of outcasts scrambling to stop an dimensions-splitting enemy set on annihilating their galaxy. 🚀ALIENS 🔪Misfits and Outcats 🪐Political Fall out 💥Found Family #WIPPIT #E #A #SF

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror (currently drafting) 🌲 💀 🐇 Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes. #WIPPit #W #H #A

MENDING GLASS ☀️💾🌼 When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down the legendary garden of her hero with the help of an old world engineer—but discoveries about her idol make her question everything. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby love interest #WIPPit #A #SF Currently drafting!

ELIA IN ISOLA: THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH: Elia sees ecstatic visions. Plus, he's secretly transmasculine. When he's deemed unmarriageable, his parents give him to the convent. But it is Carnival in Venice, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister walls. #WIPPit #W #H #YA

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

Ok everyone. I know we all write books. There are many books to be purchased. But, I am kindly asking that you consider pre-ordering my book. The book features 27 beautiful portraits/artwork of rural queer young adults in full color. TABL26 at upcolorado.com for 40% off.

so I wrote a short story set in the foothills of Appalachia with a character whose brother turns into a cicada- what are some good markets for something that spans horror and speculative short fiction forms?

Our entire government is comprised of the people who used to leave me Jack Chick tracts instead of a tip.

"what was the regulated height of chopines in 1660s venice for noblewomen vs courtesans" (image: Cesare Vecelli's Renaissance Costume Book, habiti antichi et moderni de tutto il mondo) #mememay

Cicadas. Just... Cicadas and their life stages. #horrorwriterschat

If a violin plays in the woods and no one is around to hear it, is it playing?

you crack open an unusually large acorn and these guys all come tumbling out

hey that’s me, reading my short story “Watching Over Me” fabulistmagazine.com/watching-ove...

I read a short story I'm working on, "Birth Trauma," for the Atlanta Horror Writers Association this past weekend. It's at the 5:28 mark, but don't skip @galenbunting.bsky.social's fantastic "Watching Over Me." It's more than worth the listen (and actually published) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQw3...

Now's a great time to support LaVonnia Moore, a rural Georgia librarian who was fired because she approved a library display (set up by community members) that included a book featuring a transgender character. Her legal case enters the mediation process this week. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/help-lavon...

Northern Yellow Warbler 💛🪶 This was at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve. Birds in the desert will stop wherever they can find water, including a water feature in a nature preserve.

This is disappointing because I used their research center for an article I wrote. I found it really interesting!

Hathitrust is not shutting down their website with digitized material. They are closing the research center that did trainings in text analysis www.hathitrust.org/about/resear...

“The price of outsourcing the university’s work to AI will be paid not only in diminished critical thinking in the university but also in a diminishment of civic life itself.”

I guess I'm glad this is out there, but also I am infuriated that people have to spend their time doing this. OF COURSE synthetic text extruding machines are going to output something that *looks like* but is not an analysis. >>

"the only body of writing on the subject available in an emergency is science fiction"

You may have heard the phrase ‘surveillance capitalism’. The site in the quoted post below doesn’t cover all of what that means, but trust me, unless you work in this field you will be surprised by what it tells you in plain English. Seriously, click on the link, and read.

Let me just say as a school librarian… Right now the only task at hand is getting kids to read ANYTHING versus mindlessly scrolling. That battle is won or lost in grade school and no one book, genre, or style wins. What works for one kid, won’t work for another. We need every kind of book.

Mild Injury in Venice

Welp, we ain’t getting real scientific guidelines for a while.

To be clear, this is what I’m going for:

pitching my next story your undead name: strangers by Ethel Cain X Night of the Living Dead

Got interviewed about the art of Fomoria here, if you are curious!

in my spicy opinion - a lasting legacy of generative AI will be the way it has bred distrust among creative people, especially the way it’s affected our ability to appreciate creativity in other humans, one of the gifts we give each other.

Lovely Ursula Le Guin. ❤️

Looking for your next read? Check out our curated SFF reviews, author interviews, and upcoming releases in Locus Magazine. Start your literary adventure today! www.locusmag.com

how's this for a plot twist? #camprevpit #crplyrebirds

Hell Followed With Us x Beautyland: A young trans man cursed with healing powers flees his mother's cult and picks up a man who caught a meteorite. They’ll have to outpace the cult trying to reclaim their Chosen One. 🏜️PROMISEDLAND: A Southwestern Gothic #QuestPit #questpit #Q #U #YA #S #amquerying

After a young trans man cursed with healing powers flees his mother's cult, he picks up a hitchhiker who caught a meteorite in his bare hand- but he'll have to outpace the cult as it pursues him to reclaim their runaway Chosen One. 👽🕯️🛣️ #QuestPit #questpit #Q #U #YA #S

Hell Followed With Us x Beautyland: A young trans man cursed with healing powers flees his mother's cult and picks up a man who caught a meteorite. They’ll have to outpace the cult trying to reclaim their Chosen One. 🏜️PROMISEDLAND: A Southwestern Gothic #QuestPit #questpit #Q #U #YA #S #amquerying

When a trans faith healer flees his mother's cult and picks up a UFO-hunting hitchhiker, he embarks on a supernatural roadtrip across the country, with the cult in hot pursuit, eager to reclaim their runaway Chosen One. #questpit #Q #U #YA

THE EVERWINTER KING Querying Soon! Desperate to find his oldest friend, the missing sun god, a former holy king returns to the home he abandoned and the people he betrayed to reunite with his god and prevent an endless winter. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #AgentsGuide

After a young trans man cursed with healing powers flees his mother's cult, he picks up a hitchhiker who caught a meteorite in his bare hand- but he'll have to outpace the cult as it pursues him to reclaim their runaway Chosen One. 👽🕯️🛣️ #QuestPit #questpit #Q #U #YA #S

#QuestPit #Q #F #RF #NA ⚔️🥀GOLDSPINNER 🥀⚔️ ❄️ fae domain of eternal winter 🥀 forbidden/doomed romance 🔮 magically binding deals and bargains 🌲 royal court intrigue 🪡 fate based magic system

When a trans faith healer flees his mother's cult and picks up a UFO-hunting hitchhiker, he embarks on a supernatural roadtrip across the country, with the cult in hot pursuit, eager to reclaim their runaway Chosen One. #questpit #Q #U #YA

1. I had a 40k draft knocking around until I wrote about 60k more in 2 months 2. my characters have been hanging out in my drafts since 2016 or thereabouts 3. no locations are based on real life locations

Last day of spring classes!

thank you so much!!

A senior staff scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, Alexander Lerchner, argues in a new paper that no AI or other computational system will ever become conscious.

It’s amazing what a few shelves can do. @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming Undead Media Lab collab with @drtlwagner.bsky.social is starting to look like a real place folks can tinker & research!

CU folks: if we don’t blow away tonight, remember we’ve got Jess Whyte speaking in our “Media Necromancy” series @skeuomorphpress.org tomorrow—“What the Disk Remembers: Traces, Forensics, and Care in Media Recovery" ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/...

as someone who edits really quickly and sight-reads, I'm constantly afraid of being accused of using AI. sorry for being good at my One Skill, I suppose

Cannot wait to attend the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as TinHouse) for their YA writing workshop, where I’ll be workshopping part of my weird southwestern gothic novel! #mwcspringya