Oh frig it's awards eligibility post season! Had a few things come out but what I'd like to focus on is my debut novella FEEDING THE WHEEL (Dead Sky Publishing, July 2025). If you thought it was cool, *I'd* think it was cool if you suggested it for long fiction or debut categories or whatever. Party

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

ICYMI 🌟 Lofty Pigeon Books is hosting a ✨FREE✨ ECO24 launch party with @louisevans.bsky.social and @kayv.bsky.social on Nov. 18th @ 6:30! Enjoy a night of readings, book signings, a Q&A and reception! Seats are limited! Reserve your spot at the event link below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...

And here’s another! 😃

We're here! www.briefecology.com/p/annoucemen...

It's that time of the year 😜 Find links to all short fiction on my site: akislinardos.com/short-fiction/

We are open and would love to read your work!

Something romantic but body horror for halloween

Getting there, give it some more love www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

✨ 2025 Publications ✨ A thread of links to read and access everything I have published in 2025, updated as new stories become available.

Our backer-exclusive horror movie watch party is THIS SATURDAY, Oct. 25th at 12 PM EST! 🍿🎃 Join @retreasure.bsky.social and @lesleyconner.bsky.social for the 80s cult classic, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS! This event is exclusive to backers, so be sure to donate before Saturday if you want to join us! ⬇️

Another contributor copy on my doorstep What a lovely cover 👀 @jessicacarver.bsky.social thanks again for including me in this, and with some great company @reasie.bsky.social @madalenadaleziou.bsky.social @cjtavares.bsky.social

COLLAB ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🪐👽🌈 We have an exclusive interview with the editors of @othersidespec.bsky.social OUT NOW on Kickstarter! 🗣️💬 We love the Otherside team and are so excited to see their project succeed! If you want to see us chat about queer SFF, short fiction and more, check it out here! ⬇️

There are so many amazing stories and poems in the new Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope!

My poem "Dice Rolling Eternal" has been shortlisted Brilliant Poetry contest 👀and with some great company @reasie.bsky.social You may find a blog about the competition celebrating Quantum Science here: quantum2025.org/news-link/br... And read the 10 finalists: www.thebrilliantpoetry.com/2025

There’s a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope, if you’re into that sort of thing. www.kaleidotrope.net

A birdie told me it's National Dark Poetry day, so here's one to celebrate, about a boy whose touch inflates things. Even flesh. 💀 kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...

This week I'm on Tales to Terrify: talestoterrify.com/episodes/714... Plott Hound: plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf... and Kaleidotrope: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/... Pick your poison 🖤

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

If you read one thing I published this year let it be this one. 🐺 ☀️

"After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun" by @linardos.bsky.social free to read online! "Man wanted the sun, and he’d have sucked it dry, turned it to tall towers of glass and more machines. So I swallowed it, to protect it from the Man.” plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf...

Welcome to episode 714. We have two tales for you this week, about guardian eldritch horrors (by @amadolaila.bsky.social, read by @jimmyhorrors.bsky.social) and the risks of messing with time (by @linardos.bsky.social). talestoterrify.com/episodes/714-laila-amado-akis-linardos

A break from social media was refreshing. Productive weeks, completed a new novella at 40k words (pending edits) and I had two lovely acceptances in the meantime. More to follow. 🖤

It's gonna be an absolutely no-social-media month, my love to everyone, off to use my block-site apps again

Hazbin Hotel season 2 just had its teaser and I'm so ready

"Back then, we died and we liked it. A shorter life enriched the short life lived." That poem goes hard👌

In October, we always publish horror-focused articles at the magazine. We love retrospectives, anything in our focus on underrepresented voices, and just anything weird and spooky. Pitch us: www.interstellarflig...

The Apex Magazine team is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter for 2026 begins OCTOBER 1ST!! 🎃🍁 We're keeping all the rewards you love, adding exciting new rewards for readers and writers alike, AND reopening submissions! Mark your calendars, and we'll see you at the graveyard smash! 👻🌙🐈‍⬛📅

is the sci-fi genre dead? i don't know. but i do have a very much sci-fi, very much alive book up on Netgalley right now that you should request 👀 comes with classic sci-fi tropes such as: big ship doesn't like you, passive aggressive men, and cool religious fashion.

If you'd like to give us a birthday gift, here's 3 ideas 🎁 1) Share a story from our latest issue & tell us why you love it ❤️ 2) Pick up a couple of past issues in epub or pdf 📚 3) Become a subscriber, and help us keep this whole glorious show on the road! ⭐️ inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

What I'm realizing through writing long-form is I'll always return to shorts as well. Long is a commitment, but shorts is where I get to experiment more liberally, re-discovering my writing and voice with each tale.

"2nd" draft done, and by 2nd I mean some sections were edited like 7 times and others just once and 32k words were eliminated entirely. Not sure what cursed number of draft it really is, but the story is down. What's left is the prose polish and an editor to roast me into re-thinking it all.

‪Really excited to to say my story "Ashes of My Father" is being published in the up coming anthology "Mmeory" from Air and Nothingness Press. Thank you for being my first publication @aanpress.bsky.social

Presenting the TOC authors and stories for "Mmeory", our memory manipulation anthology. 659 submissions to 21 chosen authors. More info soon, projected publication month is November. Excited to bring this book to life.

And with that, I'm going back to my book. Goodnight everyone.

Contract signed: "Our Books Have Tongues" will appear in Mmeory anthology by @aanpress.bsky.social 📖👅 "Remember why our books have tongues. The long strips of translucent, soggy papers protruding from between the pages are not for bookmark convenience."

I'm making another appearance at Flame Tree next month 🥂 www.flametreepublishing.com/robots-past-...

Halfway through Fudoki and just got my new reads for September 📚

Playlists range from pagan folk music, cinematic, and lofi while writing for atmosphere to heavy metal and KPOP during the research dayjob where I need to feel alive 💀

It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year. Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it. gofund.me/ca0c2b7d

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Novel's 2nd draft aaaaalmost done, and not even sure I can call it that given I cycled over some sections 5 times and others only once. Maybe it's simpler to define the draft done by when I allow myself to get an ice cream reward.

Today I discovered the word 'Weltschmerz' which stands for world weariness / a profound sadness at the state of the world. Know any tattoo artists?

Had stories in two anthologies sold at WorldCon's exhibit hall. Apparently the Neurodiversiverse was selling like hot cakes 👀

Hmm not a selfie person so I'd need to recall all others that might have snapped photos with me and aggregate that shit

This. Please listen to the finalists on how they want their masthead to be read and if there are any rules on your part make them clear early on. Also: pronunciation guides. They make us, people with non-Anglo name feel respected and make the presenter's lives easier.

panel highlight: pro-AI lady going "they won't notice because I don't have the most discerning readers" and Neil Clarke on the other side struggling not to vomit his soul on the table

Con brain insomnia is a thing apparently 😬

Socially burnt out at WorldCon and loving it ✌️

Story Discussion Time: Link to your favorite spec 100-~2,000-word short story by someone else from the past 10ish years. Let's go!