Here is the beautiful cover reveal for Z.A. Pappas "George and the Dragon Who Couldn't Fly" Presale info forthcoming!

Our imprint Kumquat Books is releasing a new title! GEORGE AND THE DRAGON WHO COULDN'T FLY will be out this Spring, and we'll be doing a special, limited-edition presale during Valentine's week. Stay tuned for more info . . . and the COVER REVEAL, which is COMING TOMORROW!

*head desk* *endless screaming* *Gen X face*

ICE went to the home of a 61-year-old man with poor health and after his family informed ICE agents that they needed a warrant signed by a judge, dozens of ICE agents instead showed up in an armored vehicle with a battering ram and flash grenades and took him by force.

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

Send your music poems to me and @jessicawalsh.bsky.social , @ceemartinez.bsky.social , Jasmine An, and Jennifer MacBain-Stephens for this anthology!

This is essentially an email watermark—adding a space here, making a typo there, and similar subtle changes to track leaks.

Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated rather than shared directly from the source. Stay vigilant.

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

One thing I’m seeing is people saying “I’m not leaving Substack just because there are people there I disagree with.” Ok but Substack is PAYING those people to be there. They are paying Bari Weiss, for example. It’s not like Wordpress which is just a host. Substack is making editorial decisions.

ME: *sits at desk and works* Just focus. Just focus. Don't look around. Do NOT look around. THE NEWS:

A little dance theory research.

#2025Pit We Cut Tongues For Ourselves. Like if Robert Eggers made a film called THE SELKIE. Set on a mysterious Scottish island at the peak of the Highland Clearances, a young man’s arrival heralds doom for the locals, their beliefs and for the Gaelic girl who falls in love with him. #A #HF #LF

LADY MACBETH x PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST Outwardly compliant with her cult upbringing, Francesca wants to escape an arranged marriage, and elope. Prayers to God haven’t helped; but maybe summoning a demon will? Gothic, feminist bildungsroman inspired by Canto V of Dante’s INFERNO. #A #LF #SPF #2025Pit

#2025Pit INSTRUCTIONS For more details, please check out @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social more detailed posts about this unagented writer pitch event. Good luck to all involved 📚 #WriterSky #WriterCommunity #AuthorCommunity

a paranormal Sharp Objects Plagued by ghostly visits from the decaying corpse of a small town murder victim, Lillian must solve the case to regain her peace. But will Lillian's history as the sole survivor of a notorious serial killer derail her investigation and her sanity? #2025Pit #A #PH

SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS x THE LOCKED TOMB Dr. William Savage is a disgraced priest resurrected on the eve of war, and tempted into political games with powerful people by a strange tourist plays political games, but he's not worried. He's the best there is. #a #2025pit #f

'CROWSTONES' BLY MANOR X THE BEGUILED 👭Female led 👻Ghost story 🗡️Murder mystery 🏔️Remote location ❄️The hardest winter on record “Here lies a poor distressed maid. Just in her bloom she was snatched away, Her clothing made of the cold earthen clay.”’ #2025Pit #H #HF #A

A Gen-X suburban mom's sick neurotic mental state is put on full display when a home intruder stumbles into her home. AMERICAN PSYCHO + HEATHERS #A #S #T #2025Pit

STIR OF ECHOESXSHARP OBJECTS Lillian, sole survivor of a notorious serial killer, has a quiet, small town life until she finds a bloody stray dog and dead body. As Lillian is pulled into the mystery, her ghostly visions threaten her sanity. Her sleuthing threatens her life. #2025Pit #A #H #DN #LF

In apocryphal texts, an angel gave women makeup and was cast out. Today, could this demon help a trapped teenage girl seeking bodily autonomy? FRANCESCA is a gothic, feminist bildungsroman inspired by Canto V of Dante’s INFERNO. Sandra Newman’s JULIA + James Joyce’s PORTRAIT. #A #LF #SPF #2025Pit

Writers post your pitches! #2025pit 8am est - 8pm est Up to 3 times Recommended likes only from agents and editors If you want to support your colleagues repost their pitch to improve visibility Good luck! Have fun! Make friends today! I’m so proud of you!

Francesca (17f) falls in love with Percival, but her religious parents select an older man from The Church to marry her. As it becomes clear that praying to God & Saints won’t save her, she turns to demonic forces instead. Dante’s INFERNO + James Joyce’s PORTRAIT + feminist af. #A #LF #SPF #2025Pit

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

I Was an Undocumented Immigrant. I Beg You to See the Nuance in Our Stories. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...

Yup, it works. Want a book the library doesn’t have? Ask ‘em for it.

Puppy love 😘

Rereading for the first time since I was seventeen. Oof.

Fiery tulips in January aren’t really answer for anything. Except 🤷🏻‍♀️ sometimes, they sort of are. 🌷🧡

this has always been my favorite picture set of david lynch

The best newspaper ad in the history of movie marketing?

Announcement: Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine WELCOME BACK, FANTASY! full details here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Currently reading this stellar work of true crime/historical nonfiction. I haven’t seen large-scale detail so well rendered around one particular incident this well outside of a good novel (e.g., Alais Escobar Henri’s ‘The Voluptuaires’).

For writers this is mostly legitimizing theft that has already taken place (most of my stuff is already training data, taken from shadow libraries) but in any case it’s another blow to artists of all kinds, dealt by a British political class that seems to have always hated art

Sinéad maybe got more out of the NightBitch movie than I did 😂

Something that made me smile bright this year was CONSUMMATE appearing in Witch Craft ( femalerage.substack.com/p/consummate ) which after a long & fabulous run is drawing to a close this year. Thx @saderotica.bsky.social for letting me be part of this super cool, dark, weird mag you created. 🤍🩶🖤

Well done RollingStone for reporting it accurately.

Hey, free virtual launch reading hosted by @agapeeditions.bsky.social with me & so many others, like @hillaryleftwich.bsky.social & Jay Halsey & @rebeccajoneshowe.bsky.social & Alais Escobar Henri!!! Here is an image! & here is the link to register, which u can do right now & get access on Dec 19th!

SEND US YOUR CHAOTIC OUTLIER/HOT MESS/PUNK BITCH POEMS, BB WEIRDOS XO

Finally saw Heretic and it fucked me the fuck up. Teach your daughters to get violent when someone’s acting creepy.

My daughter was sitting at the dinner table, pizza in hand, when she suddenly said, "Once upon a time, there were no polka dots and no joy anywhere, but then I was born,"

EiC @chansondemelusine.bsky.social has a poem out today in Issue 102 of Rogue Agent. This poem is part of a larger envisioned collab between Fox and Cee Martinez. Fox's poetry will complement Cee's illustrations dedicated to women made famous thru violent crime. www.rogueagentjournal.com

I figured my first BlueSky post should share some of what I’ve been up to this year. These are the books my press published in January, February, April, and June. More cool stuff coming later this year . . .