Only a couple more weeks until we find out for sure whether we can crack on with SATURDAY MOURNING TV this year or not. Watch this space!

This story was originally written for @sliceduppress.bsky.social 's "Saturday Mourning" anthology. It didn't get in, but I put it up anyway because I think horror stories need more deformed PROtagonists.

And Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes from SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! is on the shortlist along with many more brilliant poems - the Rhysling anthology is stacked with great stuff!

In the wake of the Anthropic suit, here's a bit about copyright in our publications. Copyrights for all stories & poems we publish remain with the writer, this is a standard clause in all our contracts. We're based in the UK so works don't have to be registered here to be copyrighted. BUT! 1/3

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

a reminder that you can still sign up for the settlement if they stole your work www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there. Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Hoping to have some news re. the future of our SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION anthology over the next 3-4 weeks.

Received the 2025 Rhysling Anthology in the post today. Reading through it this evening and there's some stellar poetry in there - including of course Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes, which we were proud to publish in SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! alongside many more brilliant queer horror poems & stories. 💀🌈

On a different note we figured out the whole ID thing, so the UK ain't keeping us from talking about our books on here for now!

Thanks for all your kind words everyone, and your understanding. This will mean I can't run the yearly LGBT+ writers grant either unless things turn around, but watch this space, I hope to not let all *waves hand* this keep me down for too long. - Ben

Due to an unforeseen change in my personal circumstances I'm not going to be able to publish SATURDAY MOURNING TV this year. Once things are back to normal I'll make a further announcement. The affected authors have been emailed and I'm really, really sorry to have let anyone down. - Ben

Moving submissions back and forth between the MAYBE and ACCEPTED piles for Saturday Mourning Television like

Just over 70 more submissions to go through for SATURDAY MOURNING TV, this is a very long shortlist! Thanks everyone for your patience so far, we will get back to you by the end of the month. 💀📺

Please keep your eyes on our website for updates, as on 25th July the UK is mandating that users of social media provide a face scan, ID verification or a payment card and we might not be able to do that.

Many people have said this far more eloquently than me today but fuck the 'zon, if you need to shop online, do it elsewhere on "prime day" and ANY day.

I have read and re-read 46 short stories and 4 poems today - this is me now:

A reminder that Pa(i)ncakes from SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! is in here alongside tons more brilliant poetry!

@lanna.bsky.social‬ you're the winner of our Pride month giveaway! Please DM us your postal address so we can send you your goodies! 🏳️‍🌈

OK! Subs are now CLOSED for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION. Anything received up to now will be considered, but anything else... *wags finger* you'll have to wait for the next sub call! Acknowledgments/rejections this weekend, then we'll get into the meat of the shortlist over the next few weeks. 💀📺

These last minute subs for Saturday Mourning TV are killing me in the best possible way. I know I always say "we're going to have to make some tough decisions" but - well - we're going to have to make some tough decisions! 💀📺

i am once again stricken with the stupid urge to start a new anthology project before this one is even wrapped up, someone slap my hands with a ruler please

Subs for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION close on Monday! This weekend is your last chance to send us your weirdest and best kids-TV based horror story/poetry! Go go go! 💀📺 sliceduppress.com/submissions

Subs close for SATURDAY MOURNING TV in just over a week! Things we haven't seen yet: - entries inspired by those traumatising kids safety adverts from the UK - much about adverts at all - much about current kids TV/online shows 1/2

Let's do that Pride giveaway we mentioned before! Just comment Happy Pride 2025 on this post, and we'll choose one lucky winner who will get a paperback of SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! plus whatever random queer goodies we decide to throw in as well. Open worldwide, entries close 30th June 2025! 💀🌈🏳️‍🌈😘

2 more weeks to send us your kids TV-inspired horror for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION! 💀📺 Details here: sliceduppress.com/submissions

By the power of caffeine & sugar, we've just got through the latest batch of subs to SATURDAY MOURNING TV. You still have until the end of the month to send us your kids TV-inspired horror fiction/poetry. More details you say? Click on through! 💀📺 sliceduppress.com/submissions

To celebrate Pride month we're giving away the ebook of SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! for free. 🏳️‍🌈💀 Check the links here to grab yours (some prices may not be updated yet): books2read.com/u/3yMeyV

Appreciate the mention of SATURDAY MOURNING TV in here! 💀📺

If you were wondering whether we're doing our LGBTQIA+ writers grant this year, the answer is yes! It will just be later than usual, probably last quarter of the year. Earlier if we can!

You've got just over a month to send us your kids TV-inspired horror for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION! We've had a lot of "kids are spoken to by an evil entity inside the TV" entries, try going waaaaay outside the box on this one and don't be afraid to make it WEIRD. sliceduppress.com/submissons

There are a lot of worthy charities out there in need right now, amongst which are the RNLI - we get regular updates from them after putting out Sand, Salt, Blood with Elle Turpitt and May is their main fundraising month. Please consider donating or sharing their fundraising links - rnli.org

Adding a clause to our contracts stating that we don't condone the use of accepted submissions for training AI/LLM software, because fuck genAI forever. The same goes for anything you submit to us. We only ever put human eyes on your work, and will never feed it to the slop machine.

Some great stuff coming in for this, and you have until June 30th to get your early morning TV inspired horror to us! Standard reminder to *please* read the guidelines in full and stick to them, we take no pleasure in rejecting subs that don't fit the requirements. sliceduppress.com/submissions

Ohmygodohmygod you can now order all of our paperbacks in the UK via Waterstones! This is massive for us! www.waterstones.com/book/slay-an...

Never thought I'd need to say this, but we DO NOT expect writers to pay us to consider a story for publication. Money flows *to* the writer. Our fiction pay rates aren't the highest, but we're not a vanity press. We pay *you* for any stories/poems we choose to publish, simple as that.

Oh hey, Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes from our SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! anthology is in here! Massive congrats to Dex and all the many other brilliant finalists!

Every day is indie press day in this house! We even have a handy list of some on our website: sliceduppress.com/publishing-links

Three word wishlist for submissions to SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION: More Queer Stuff sliceduppress.com/submissions 💀📺

Well hello new followers!

Some paperback copies of SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! have slipped out with wonky formatting during our move away from Amazon distribution - this has been corrected and the properly formatted version should be available again soon. (in other words I messed up then fixed it)

Why yes, you CAN buy all our titles in paperback from B&N now! Just search 'em up at barnesandnoble.com Or check out the links at sliceduppress.com/books

Shooting our shot and approaching a couple of writers about submissions for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION - we've had some great entries so far, but inspiration struck this weekend about some folks we'd like to feature if we're lucky enough. 💀📺

ALL of our paperbacks are now delisted with Amazon while we wait for new distributors to approve files and set up revised listings. This might take a few weeks. Ebooks are all still available though! sliceduppress.com/books

my phone bill came out on an unexpected day and I'm $295 overdrawn but I won't catch a fee if I put the money in by 5 #UrgentNeed #MutualAid paypal.me/popelizbet or cashapp $popelizbet #MutualAidRequest #HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2025 #ShowUpForWishes

OK, getting properly into the swing of reformatting our paperbacks for non-Amazon print distribution now, so hoping to get this done faster than expected!

With SLASHERTORTE now moving away from Amazon's printing/publishing services, next it's the turn of BODIES FULL OF BURNING. Paperbacks will be unavailable until sometime in May, but the ebook is still out there! Here are all the places you can buy a copy: books2read.com/u/4NxrPW

We've received quite a few submissions for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION that don't meet the brief - we always try to be polite about these when rejecting, but to give yourself the best shot of not going straight to the recycle bin, please read the guidelines in full! sliceduppress.com/submissions

I have some unexpected availability for #editing this month, so if you have a manuscript - short story/stories & collections, novellas, novels etc - and are looking for an #editor, send me a sample. Main genres are #Horror #Romance and #fantasy but have worked in many more

If you'd like to get in on our newest novella series as well as a short story collection from Christopher Caldwell, we'd love for you to check out our latest crowdfund at Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...