The lightning strikes. The pen starts moving. The phone pings. Ten minutes later the idea that felt electric is gone, replaced by someone else’s urgency. That starts off this week’s post: Protect Your Lightning authortunities.substack.com/p/protect-yo...

Have you read Silk and Sinew!? Highly recommend but don't just take it from me ---> It's nominated for a Bram Stoker Award!!!

Coven of the East is a Foreword Indies Finalist! This genre-bending anthology features 22 writers from the Asian Diaspora, reimagining Asian Women's magical histories! www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...

#HorrorCommunity #PoetryCommunity #DraculaDaily 🧛‍♂️ 🦇 ⚰️ 🖤 #ICYMI “DRACULA BEFORE STOKER” - new episode posted. 🔖 Bookmark Alert 🔖 @hwany.org @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @leannareneehieber.bsky.social greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com

🧛‍♂️ 🦇 🩸 Ep. 1 — Prequel: DRACULA BEFORE STOKER: Thoughts from Transylvania @hwany.org @gnofhorror.com @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @bibliophile99.bsky.social @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @alpbeck.com greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/ep-1-prequ...

Contributers on Bluesky: @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @chaweonkoo.bsky.social @garnetonwinter.bsky.social @mudangjenn.bsky.social @samwilket.bsky.social @sonyarhen.bsky.social @ayidashonibar.bsky.social @muteddragon.bsky.social

And Chasing Moonflowers by @paulinechow.bsky.social, a novel I had the privilege of mentoring through the HWA program, is also a 2025 Foreword INDIE Finalist for Young Adult Fiction!

Coven of the East — the anthology I co-edited with @paulinechow.bsky.social and published with Authortunities Press & Ghastly Goings-On Press — is a 2025 Foreword INDIE Finalist for Anthologies!

Creators are quietly holding the line, not with barricades but with poems, essays, desks, paintings, songs, and stubborn drafts. New essay: Hold the Line... Why creators must keep the signals lit 🔗 authortunities.substack.com/p/hold-the-l...

Most acts of creative resistance don’t look dramatic. They look like someone sitting at a desk on a Tuesday afternoon continuing to work on a rough draft. New essay: Hold the Line Why creators must keep the signals lit 🔗 authortunities.substack.com/p/hold-the-l...

To Know. To Dare. To Will. To Keep Silent.New essay live. To Know. To Dare. To Will. To Keep Silent. The fourth builds culture. February’s theme closes with this idea. Read it here: authortunities.substack.com/p/you-have-p...

February’s theme: Leave No One Behind. Tomorrow’s post closes it with permission and why creation is always collective. Fires don’t stay lit in secret. They burn when we give them air.

As I draft Thursday’s essay for Authortunities, I’m thinking about participation. Every dollar moves something. I want to be defined not by what I reject, but by what I nourish. Today that's supporting Yanaimi Noise on Bandcamp for mutual aid in Southern California. Link to the album in comments.

Yesterday I asked: How do we keep our fire alive? Today feels like one answer. Silk & Sinew, edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social / Kristy Park Kulski, made the Bram Stoker Award® final ballot! Congratulations! Anthologies are ecosystems. This is what circulation looks like. 🔥

The creative apocalypse doesn’t arrive in spectacle. It turns us into the creative undead... alive and clicking, but no longer making. That’s the danger that unsettles me. How do we stay awake? (Edgar, my resident dead poet, is reading Dark Matters.)

Corporations are built for extraction. Ecosystems are built for circulation. One concentrates value upward. The other moves it sideways. I’m less interested in boycotts and more interested in participation. Today that looks like putting money directly into a local artist’s hands. Small steps.

I never thought I’d cancel Kindle Unlimited but I started asking myself... Where do my dollars go? Who do they nourish? Extraction pulls upward. Ecosystems circulate outward. Our attention, time, and money are signals. Escaping the Extraction Machine: authortunities.substack.com/p/escaping-t...

Thinking about my August release. Trying not to “100% OFF MY ENERGY” myself before I even get there. 💀 Slow, steady steps. What are we building toward in 2026? Sustainable > spectacular.

“Leave No One Behind” isn’t emotional labor. It’s emotional architecture. Compassion without structure burns out. Structure without compassion hardens. Design both. #Systems #Leadership #CareInfrastructure

Tiny leaks can sink big ships… and big visions. Open loops. Unclear roles. Half-promises. This weekend I’m patching a few small energy leaks. What’s one “leak” you’ve fixed lately?

🍷 “After Happy Hour at the Undead Lounge” from VAMPIRE VERSES - - because Valentine’s Day can be enjoyed even in the afterlife. 🧛🖤 @hellboundbooks.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @hwany.org @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @juleigh.bsky.social

Not every door needs to be open. Sometimes love looks like a closed door. What are we keeping safe?

anOther Nemesis spotlight! 💞 @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social , @meerkatpress.bsky.social, @aijiang.bsky.social, @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social, @cybergodwrites.bsky.social spacecowboybooks.com/new-book-spo...

Greetings new followers! We're not just an independent bookstore bookshop.org/lists/space-...

New Book Spotlight mini-interview with @aijiang.bsky.social @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @genni.bsky.social and @cybergodwrites.bsky.social up on the blog today spacecowboybooks.com/new-book-spo...

New Authortunities is live. If we don’t pause to breathe first, we collapse. Burnout spreads faster than inspiration. Rest isn’t a reward. It’s part of the structure. Chupacabra has been enforcing this policy all morning. authortunities.substack.com/p/we-must-br...

Before we fix anything, publish anything, or rescue anything… We breathe. Most burnout isn’t a workload problem. It’s a regulation problem. Tomorrow I’m writing about this. But today: What changes when we pause first?

Blog tour to celebrate anOther Nemesis by myself, @aijiang.bsky.social, Eugen Bacon and Maxwell I. Gold! Giftcard giveaway and more! Thx @meerkatpress.bsky.social meerkatpress.com/another-neme...

More than ever, representation matters. SILK & SINEW, ed. by Kristy Park Kulski. lareviewofbooks.org/article/silk...

Happy New Year! The first Authortunities of the year is all about how and why we should rewrite our realities… authortunities.substack.com/p/rewrite-yo...

Coven of the East is in Germany! Vielen Dank fürs Lesen.

It really gave me a deep sense of „Wow, this was actually written for me, these are my sisters &mentors, this is kinfolk“ and I don‘t know how to properly put into words how powerful of a spell you all have casted with this book. It‘s a devastatingly healing read lol I cried a lot, thank you, 10/10

Join me for answers and an art challenge! What happened to my Substack, with Amazon and how do I handle it? Answer Key: Nothing, a tragedy and move on and make art ❤️‍🔥😂🥳 authortunities.substack.com/p/november-m...

Learn how to work with illustrators, the process, and what to expect. With Ken James Reaume, a graphic designer and illustrator from Peterborough, Canada. Free event in the Authortunities Hub. Join our community! authortunities-hub.mn.co/posts/917546...

Again, this reached less than half of you. In case you missed it, “The Artist and the Arsonist: A Maker Manifesto” this week on Authortunities. authortunities.substack.com/p/the-artist...

🎃❤️‍🔥My final message as President of the Horror Writers Association: horror.org/halloween-ha...

Just received this from Substack… Authortunities is in the top .93999% of publishers. I didn’t know there was anything about 1% 😂

Sneak peek at what’s ahead in November! Thanks to @Karen Bayly for the suggestion to share a poem (this was the one you missed) and @Pixie Bruner for listening in… and Jordan Francis for hosting another great open mic in the Authortunities Hub! substack.com/profile/3191...

Tech Gremlins Delivery issue! Missing your Authortunities? You can find “Fear Points to Your Genius: The direction you resist most is where your brilliance is waiting.” here. authortunities.substack.com/p/fear-point...

I have a poem up for the HWA’s new TERRORS OF TODAY poetry blog where I talk about what scares me lately (and how I try to deal with it). Thanks to poetry editor Sumiko Saulson for doing this! horror.org/terrors-of-t...

This week is all about Partnering With Your Imposter: Turning Fear into Creative Fuel. authortunities.substack.com/p/partnering...

63 hours left and full of gratitude, appreciation and love. THANK YOU! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ang...

Congratulations to Dan Bugbee!🎃The Carnage Kitchen Presents: Table For Ten, A Horror Anthology amzn.to/4ong0KV

Thank you to everyone for all your support! We are beyond grateful! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ang...

"Authors of the stories in [Coven of the East] explore their ancestors's practices and their cultural background through fiction and non-fiction, showing how rich and diverse #witchcraft is when we move our sight from Europe and the US to other parts of the world." Goodreads Review #booksky #magic

For those who missed the #SWSWQR on October 3, here's the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNCD...

Six days left and we are officially a third of the way. Progress for our Coven of the East Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ang...

6 Days left and 1/3 of the way funded! Thank you to all our Final Hour Supporters! We can do this! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ang...

Calling the Coven! Our Kickstarter is in the final week! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ang...

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