I too have made an Awards Eligibility graphic. I had to install new software. Go me. Here it is. I would like three of my stories from 2025 considered in 2026.

My two favourite notes that I’ve left for myself are “funky behemoth,” and “big, luscious stank.” One was scribbled in the margins of a draft, the other left in bold, block capitals and highlighted at the bottom of a word doc. I did, eventually, figure out what I meant by each 😅

Yes, this forever!

“Rain patters. Sleet pummels,” l mutter to myself, realizing there’ll be no leaving the house today.

How I'm walking out of 2025

For your general consideration....we published eight novellas this year. Three issues of Baffling. And a short story collection by Christopher Caldwell. (Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)

My ADHD don’t want none unless you got buns, hun

Two heads are better than one…?

voting for the #IndieInkAwards is open! i'd be so grateful to y'all for showing this book more love and voting for it. i think it's especially deserving of ace rep, best cover, side character MVP #QueerAdultSFF #IndieAuthor #booksky #romancelandia 🌈📚 indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...

They should go further and make a separate dictionary for men which is much heavier but contains fewer words

All my awards-eligible 2025 publications!! It’s been a good publishing year. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social @spotifyforauthors.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com @crepuscularmag.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @khoreo.bsky.social @horrortree.com for sharing my stories & essays with the world! 🖤🖤🖤

Update: Uggi has bitten another book to add to the giveaway! We are going to see if he feels up to biting a couple more later today.

Describe your BlueSky account in a single image

bisexual, because I'm always down to leave an event (and go to sleep)

You’ve just opened up a Star Trek-themed restaurant What are you calling it? Uncle Tuvok‘s Family Fedbag

I'm also just somewhat befuddled by someone trying to "break in" at a fantasy convention in the 2020s. like, what is the imagined scenario here, rappelling down from the ventilation shaft to hijack somebody's three-martini lunch and wow them with your elevator pitch

Distract yourself from holiday stress with my books!

No literary agent who is going to get you a deal is going to charge you upfront. They make a percentage. That is how it works. If someone says otherwise or tries to "upsell" you, they are scammers.

Ask and you shall receive

Here's a thread about my novels, in case you have a gift card burning a hole in your pocket or are just looking for your next library borrow. All of them have audiobook, ebook and print versions.

I know it's hard to make yourself start a series if you don't know that it'll actually get finished with Learn to Howl, you don't need to worry! all three books in the trilogy are out!

She is concerned about all the freezing rain and sleet outside and wondering what, exactly, I plan to do about it.

✨✨Seasons Greetings!✨✨ Here’s a selection of my favourite ancient Egyptian blue hippos seen on my travels. Now where’s William? 🦛❤️ 📷 by me #Archaeology

Going into 2026 like

it’s a Christmas miracle! Benji normally abhors other dogs, but she has finally become friends with Honey, my mom and dad’s little terrier mix. It only took a little over a year! 😂

This dog takes road safety very, very serious

So my amazing sister-in-law managed to get me the hugely-coveted WĀHINETOA 2026 Firefighter Calendar for Christmas and I am losing my whole everloving mind AHHHHHHHHHH SO HAPPY 😭🤩😍🥳😎🥹😆

Merry Christmas from Yoshi and his new squirrel plushie that Santa Paws brought him

A festive Fizz ❤️

Merry Xmas from Meep and friend

it's dog o'clock

Starbuck wishes a very Merry Thursday to all those who celebrate!! And to everyone, generally speaking 🌟🌟🌟

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, stood by himself against his hills, holding darkness within; he had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.

everyone on here is 38 years old and loves star trek deep space 9

5 perfect movies • Mad Max: Fury Road • Gremlins • Run, Lola, Run • Fargo • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Tonight is Christmas Eve, when we in Iceland open presents. All the Yule Lads have already come down from the mountains, but tonight the Yule Cat arrives and he will eat all the children who weren't gifted any new clothes for Christmas. My daughters both got woollen socks so they are safe 🙏

ONLY YULE

search your first name + “glamour shot” What in the 80’s Glam Kathy Bates Annie Oakley get yer gun?? You know what? This works for me. I love it.

#Pokeday sketch #0762 Steenee IT’S SUGAR PLUM FAIRY TIME

EEEEEEE it arrived! Merry Christmas to me -- my FIRST EVER appearance in the wonderful BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR, edited by @datlow.bsky.social ! My story THE NIGHT BIRDS was originally published by @undertow.bsky.social in NORTHERN NIGHTS, an anthology of Canadian horror. :)

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and so forth. If you ask me, a completely impartial observer, I think you should spend the holidays with my very queer Portland magical girl rock band books! They're in ebook, print, and incredible audiobook versions! Find 'em at magicariot.com/buy

for dog o'clock, we're being very good and waiting for santa paws ✨

And Tiny Tim, WHO COULD NOT DIE, crawled on under the glare of the dying sun

Sitting pretty (for offscreen bacon)* *(yes, she got the bacon please don’t @ me about the bacon)

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

SUPERVISOR: I need to speak with some of you in my office ME: [filling the water cooler with spaghetti] whomst

Found your Christmas present

UPDATE: Oh myyy!