Best answer, hands down.

My TBR pile always gets bigger around my bday and xmas. Got some great additions with the added bonus of a Godzilla to rampage and knock it all down from time to time🦎📚❤️ @datlow.bsky.social @chucktingle.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social

Yeeessss!

Support them if you can. Unless you don’t like great stories. Then maybe support them anyways, you weirdo. The world needs great stories written by humans now more than ever. ☠️

I snort laughed out loud. I can totally relate.

Preordered a little something for myself. Really can’t wait for it to come out! ☠️💕 @datlow.bsky.social

Another trip around the sun and last night I got to drink good beer and discuss a horror novel with a lovely bookclub while dressed as Freddy Krueger. Doesn’t get much better than that ☠️👻🪦❤️❤️❤️

It’s one of those days where you want to tell everyone to fuck off as you open a portal to another world that contains exactly zero assholes.

Today’s random spam text: “Do you want to tour the villa today?” This is either the beginning of a romance story or a horror story.

If you love fantastic speculative fiction, show Apex some love by supporting them! ❤️

I hope that’s what happens with something I write someday. 😆

I need to watch this. Need to.

“Dear editor, I asked an algorithm designed to mimic patterns it had learned through the plagiarism of billionaires if it could spit out something that looked convincingly like the stories it had stolen, and it burned through an ocean to deliver whatever this is. Thank you for your consideration.”

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀 buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon! please like + RT this to help spread the word psychopomp.com/the-deadland... behold!

Opened an email about a submission expecting yet another rejection. Not quite. Just letting me know this story made it out of the slush pile to the editors. Not accepted but that still made my day. It’s the little victories. 🥰🤞🏻Back to writing!

Yay!!! Book delivery from @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social Super excited! May need to flip a coin to decide which one to read first ❤️☠️👻 @hildur.bsky.social @tananarivedue.bsky.social

That feeling when you barely sleep all night and you’re awake before your alarm goes off at the crack of dawn… ugh

My dinner today was challenging (ordered spice level at 2/10 and got more like 9/10) and my fortune cookie was… umm… I’m getting mixed signals from this restaurant.

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Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

Share one of your favorite black and white movies.

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

Absolutely loving this book so far!!! Perfect vacation read 🥰❤️ @undertow.bsky.social

Going into that weird headspace of both looking forward to my vacation and dreading it. Packing… ☠️

Super excited!!!

Bought myself a little tech organizer bag for all my myriad cords, chargers, dongles, headphones, etc when I travel. Serious game changer. Will my plane take off on time? Will my luggage get there? Who knows! But I’ll know where all my goddamned chargers are!

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Wow, it's the 5th anniversary of the #9ReplyGuys thread on Twitter, posted by me & @shrewshrew.bsky.social. #WomenInSTEM who post about harassment & sexual misconduct get a lot of misogynistic replies. We (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵

Fun tip: what looks like efficiency is sometimes just assholery.

Today is a lot. Everyone needs everything absolutely right now. And it must be perfect. Right now. What’s taking so long? Hurry up!

Finally started writing that story thats been creeping around in my brain for a while now.

Oh no!!! I love these 💔😭

Reasons to buy a new refrigerator. 1. The freezer drawer insulation is not working. 2. It appears to be haunted.

Wait, this isn’t about me, is it?

Currently reading: Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein. Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again by Shigeru Kayama (love the cover art!)

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

This week should really do the polite thing of crawling off into a corner somewhere and dying a nice quiet death.

Having a seriously hard time getting myself to write or revise. Rejection dread hovering. Existential dread lurking. So many flavors of anxiety dancing around in my brain right now.

Look what I found lurking in my mailbox today. Exciting!!! @undertow.bsky.social

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are. Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz

When a someone uses the word “communication“ about a thousand times too many in one conversation, they are communicating to you that they are probably very bad communicators.

It’s Monday. Again.

I don't know what to tell ya, fam! Our open submission period closes in two days. Two whole days!! (Aug 11th) So if you got something good, get that good gotten to us while the getting is good. (This sentence somehow makes sense because English is the true horror.) pseudopod.org/submissions/

Construction going on at the house while trying to write. I’m not getting much done needless to say.

More submissions. More waiting. More opportunities to be rejected. Writing!

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Ways to hurt yourself as a kid: -Fall off a bike/swing/monkeybars -Trip while running full speed -Shove something large up your nose/in your ear Ways to hurt yourself as an adult: -Stand up -Sit down -Wake up