we live in hell

I wrote the first draft of this book in 2021 and it will be in readers' hands in only 30 days! I'm so excited gooped gagged thrilled about it! My debut novel! out July 7! How crazy is that!

on a roadtrip— trendy coffee shops in the middle of country are really pushing coconut water + espresso as THE summer combo

Congrats also to Stephen Graham Jones for winning a Nebula and a Stoker for this book within the same hour

Country music concert and horror convention happening on the same night. Immaculate timing.

my SFF pals: which SFF-relevant or adjacent newsletters do you read and love? (and a second, much vaguer question: what do you wish was out there that isn't?)

Emily has done a tremendous amount to shape the landscape of modern horror publishing, both through her brilliant critical work and her staggeringly thorough monthly cataloguing of upcoming horror novels. Mark my words, this is going to be fucking tremendous.

Oh we are so fucking back!!

I subscribed today. Here’s to horror, long may it reign.

I am SO AMPED FOR THIS 😈😈😈

God I love my gay little LIFE

Oh shit!

this is very cool

hell the fuck yeah happy pride to the horror gays and specifically meeeeee

Could not be more excited for this. Any new outlets covering arts should be celebrated. ❤️

More indie outlets? Yes plz.

Could not be more perfectly timed, wow and congrats!

HELL YEAH

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Some blurbs for THE RED SACRAMENT that have me chewing on rebar / absolutely beside myself with excitement and gratitude:

"A magnificently operatic debut for those who prefer to read by candlelight. If you love Hilary Mantel's prose, Tana French’s darkness, or Silvia Moreno Garcia’s imaginary worlds—you need to put this on your to-read list. Now." — @mollymcghee.com, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

Now replying to every email sent to me with AI "Thank you for wasting my time—and our planet's limited resources."

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

Bot activity is picking up again. MAGA accounts (many of them automated or coordinated) are flooding social media with AI photos and videos right now. Two things they’re pushing hard is fake crowd shots to make massive protests look empty, and fabricated imagery to make peaceful demonstrators

Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr

Recently attended a movie at the Alamo and ordered something that was marked allergen safe on the menu, only to be served something contaminated. Lost three days to something that would have never happened if they still staffed people. Tech overreach is a nightmare.

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

I watch things like this and I really really wish that more people were helping folks to connect the dots about why/how this is all happening.

Men in navy wearing adidas gazelles spotted in Midtown. Groundbreaking!

People in comics & the British fantasy scene! If you were around in the 80s-90s & are willing to speak on or off the record about Gaiman, please DM me or reach out on email. I will put you in touch with someone working on a longform piece. They are wondering why no one, so far, is willing to talk.

Moon cracks open like an egg. Big Dragon comes out, flies down and makes new home in the Atlantic ocean. Before we learn anything about it the president bombs that, too, and four months later the carcass washes up on the shores of New Jersey. ”Who could have prevented this tragedy,” headlines say

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

The next Murderbot is out on May 5 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/platform-d...

one of the many things I find very dispiriting about the present moment is that everyone agrees that someone should do something but the "something" almost always feels wholly inadequate (retired presidents write op-ed) or wildly implausible (general strike)

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

i think we should be clear that just because the astronauts did not immediately declare the moon haunted, does not mean it is not haunted it may mean that the astronauts are now themselves haunted have we prepared for this eventuality and if so how

extremely bad time for an astronaut to find out he's a werewolf

We’re back! @mollymcghee.com talks about labor exploitation, the language of class discourse, and her fantastic book Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind. Give it a listen, she’s a gem!

I think one of the things about bluesky is that for a lot of its users, it represents a kind of retirement from social media. Like I’m tired and I want to get out of the game

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

In other news, I am really excited to share some new initiatives we're launching at The Rumpus including increased pay, writing and editorial fellowships, and microgrants. therumpus.net/2026/03/31/e...

o where art thou outrage farm

just stunning clickbait. what a headline!

I talked to Julia Ringo and Naomi Huffman of the very cool small press HAGFISH that focuses on literary resurrections of underread women authors. countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...

Ok mail from Deep Vellum saved me

WATCH: More than 80% of U.S. children attend public schools. Some of the Education Department’s ultraconservative advisers, led by Secretary Linda McMahon, want to change that. Here’s an inside look at their dismantling of public education:

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