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"What I love most about the world of Plague Birds is how many dreams and ideas it contains." 💬 @jasonsanford.bsky.social and Apex Managing Editor @darianbianco.bsky.social discuss the origins of PLAGUE BIRDS in a new three-part interview series, out now on the Apex blog!

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks. One is rent. The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.

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Working on a spec project that I always describe as BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA, but with the kids all grown up. Spent all December resting, now it’s time to jump back in!

We really need to bring back a focus on reading comprehension

On a totally unrelated note, did I mention I wrote a book?

You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

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I don't want AI. I want to stop filling out my entire medical history every time I go to the same doctor

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

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New Patreon Post: "Apex in October 2025" 🧛🎃👻 Check out the PACKED lineup of events we have in store!! And get all the info about our 2026 Kickstarter, guidelines for our open submission period, and the COVER REVEAL for our October issue of Apex Magazine! 🖼️ You don't want to miss this one!! ⬇️

APEX MAGAZINE OCTOBER ISSUE COVER REVEAL!!! 🎉🎃🌳 Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart. For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...

All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives

Do you remember.... m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design

I’m afraid to say this is very attractive. Got to love a passionate nerd. He knows his shit.

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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Psst, Lexington peoples! We're throwing a party at the Loudon House later this month -- free and fun will be had! (Shiny graphic by @joshaboldt.bsky.social!)

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

Being an artist is like "when i finish this art project i am going to reward myself for working so hard by making this new art project" Over and over until you die.

Once more some mammoths

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

It’s my birthday and in true hobbitish fashion, I want to give a gift to you! Like, reskeet, and follow to win a signed copy of COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES. After all, it’s not a party without great games and delicious drinks. Cheers!

1. Every once in a while I’ll read about or be told about or see nominated for an award a novel that, when I read it for myself, I don’t understand what the fuss is about; it’s something I don’t find particularly interesting or worthy of the praise. And when that happens, do you know what I do?

The fog has cleared. The gates are open. Welcome to THE MAP OF LOST PLACES. ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK. ☠️☠️☠️ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

Thank you to author @cristinajurado.bsky.social for sitting down with Apex Managing Editor @darianbianco.bsky.social to chat about her recently-published ecohorror novella, CHLOROPHILIA! Purchase your copy of CHLOROPHILIA here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/chl... Watch the interview below! 📺⬇️