“Blacula” is now available to read for free on @nightmare-magazine.com! 🦇🩸🖤

Big THANK YOU to @debutiful.bsky.social for including RABBIT, FOX, TAR on their Most Anticipated Debuts of 2026! I’m over the moon to see my novel alongside so many exciting new reads. It’s going to be a great year for book lovers!! 📚🐇

Intrusive thought of the day: Mrs. Doubtfiring on all cylinders.

happy cover reveal day to @pcverrone.com RABBIT, FOX, TAR is beautiful — out in June 2026 on @catapultbooks.bsky.social

COVER REVEAL!!! My debut novel will be hitting the shelves on June 2! How gorgeous is this design by Emily Mahon (art direction by @nlcaputo.bsky.social)? 🐇🦊 #DebutNovel #Booksky #CatapultBooks

THE COOKOUT: speculative fiction from the African diaspora, launches February 1! Our top pledge gets you copies of the anthology, a ticket to the online launch party, a digital recipe book, and more. Launch notification at www.kickstarter.com/projects/and... @tco-anthology.bsky.social

Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

Very proud of everything I put out this year. Here’s hoping next year will be even more spooky and queer!

Self-promotion doesn't always get easier in publishing. This nominations season--for the Nebulas, or any other award--PLEASE take pride in your work. Voters will ask about eligible works for their consideration, and we hope every SFF writer feels empowered to answer the call. Invest in your success!

Latest editorial is up at Nightmare: "We might be out of spooky season, but December is the time when our thoughts are often in communication with legends & lore." www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Happy December

Another Cookout Co-editor making his mark in @nightmare-magazine.com ! Way to go, @pcverrone.com . Just look at this dreamy cover…

What does a Queer, Black immortality look like? Check out “Blacula” in the latest issue of Nightmare Magazine! Started the year with some vampire fiction, so I’m excited to end the year with a vampy poem 🦇 @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com/issues/dec-2...

Want to support BCS but don't need ebook subscription? We're a 501c3 nonprofit; we take support as donations. You can do recurring subscription-style Paypal donation: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/support-bcs/ Or recurring donation on Patreon (and get free ebooks): www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...

Will your cookout focus on the fantasy fare of one fine heritage? Or will it contain all the cuisine of your multiethnic cosmos? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue. Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.

This series should be required reading for theater professionals. I’m so grateful for these incredible artists offering their wisdom & vulnerability

*sips blood of enemies* *sets cup down* *smiles*

This issue absolutely rips. Fantastic stuff through and through.

🎉🙌🏽

Join us for The Cookout, coming in February! @tco-anthology.bsky.social

Tis the season! Who wants a writing prompt for spooky foodies? #HappyHalloween #Booksky

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Campaign started for @roguestarmag.bsky.social. If we meet our $1200 goal, we'll be able to pay authors SFWA pro rates for fiction (one previously unpublished story quarterly) starting January 2026. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... (re-posted w/corrected link) #signalboost #writers #authors

See one of our @tco-anthology.bsky.social’s editors work in this special issue!

My cornbread recipe involves tracing dad joke sigils into the batter. What about yours?

My creepy gay 70’s Hotep horror story dropped just in time for Halloween. Check it out (alongside some other amazing stories) at @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social!

I’ve been discovered!!! Thank you to @roguestarmag.bsky.social for this lovely review.

We're Launching on November 1, 2025!

Never have I agreed so aggressively with a headline

"I don’t think there’s a cryptid or monster more sexy or seductive as vampires can be." Ryan Coogler explains how he settled on vampires as the bad guys for Sinners (and what monsters didn't make the cut): reactormag.com/werewolves-v...

Got the first pass pages of my novel and I am deliriously excited! Now I know what the font looks like!!! And the chapter titles!!!

Please everyone else if you haven't yet read @pcverrone.com's TREMENDOUS vampire tale "The Husband," please fix that asap! Learned of it through @arleysorg.bsky.social and just loved this story SO MUCH! 🩸

As this country crumbles, Indigenous rights and sovereignty are going to come to the forefront, as well as States Rights. Be prepared to advocate for Native tribes and people. We are the front line and we hold the answers to lead a new way.

You're invited to The Cookout @tco-anthology.bsky.social, an anthology of speculative fiction from the African diaspora! Both the campaign and submissions launch in February 2026. #readers #readingcommunity #authors #writingcommunity

Want a spooky read? Try my vampire story “The Husband” on @podcastle.org. This is basically the vibe 💋🩸 podcastle.org/2025/01/14/p... (Image by Stephen McDermott)

Rest in Power, Miss Major ❤️

#ICYMI @tco-anthology.bsky.social edited by me, @babblewocky.bsky.social, @emmaliawrites.bsky.social, and @pcverrone.com; to be published by @press-android.bsky.social Kickstarter pre-launch page is up and running: www.kickstarter.com/projects/and... #spreadtheword

We did it!!! Android Press has picked up our upcoming anthology! Click on link for details about the project, sub calls, who all gone be there, everything!

We’ve been working around the clock and I’m so glad to share we’ll be launching the Kickstarter for our anthology from @press-android.bsky.social soon, so sign up to make sure you don’t miss it!

📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025. www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

My thoughts anytime I see another ad about how I’ll never have to write another heartfelt letter to my mom. Thank goodness, how inconvenient that has been!

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

She advocated for creating a better relationship with our world until the day she died! RIP 💚

Submissions for our next unthemed issue are now OPEN 📣 Tell a friend! Everything you need to know is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

I am ecstatic to share that Bad Medicine will be premiering in Santa Fe Playhouse’s and Native Voices’s 2026 Seasons! I’m looking forward to collaborating with some incredible artists that both these theaters to bring this daring, spooky, and Native AF story to the stage. #Theatersky #SpookySeason

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours and remembers the children who were forced into Canada's Residential School system. It was first observed as Orange Shirt Day in 2013 and was elevated to a statutory holidy for federal workers in 2021.

Orange shirt on for Day for Truth and Reconciliation