“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”

What a fantastic list! 🌟 Short SFF and speculative poetry are such gems in the literary world. Excited to discover new voices! Keep shining! ✨ #SFF #SpeculativePoetry

My recommendations for short SFF and speculative poetry, 2025! By no means comprehensive, even I can't read everything, but gosh there's been good stuff: marissalingen.com/blog/?p=4317

Full story is now free to read!

Hooray! My sapphic romantasy short story "Five Reasons Why I am Absolutely Not in Love with my Nemesis" is available as an ebook now. Just subscribe to my Patreon at any level from $5/month upwards to snap up this & a whole bunch of other stories from me: patreon.com/stephanieburgis #romancelandia

If you have a newsletter, please tell me where I can sign up for your newsletter! I am trusting The Socials less and less for getting me news of what my pals, colleagues, and parasocials are up to. Tell me where I can find you! Mine is: buttondown.com/MarissaLingen

blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/ been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor

Look what arrived: my author copies of (the US edition of) Enchanting the Fae Queen! Aren't they beautiful? You can preorder your own copy now: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen And I'll give away an early copy in my next newsletter! stephanieburgis.com/newsletter #romancelandia

my name is cow and wen its nite and when a star is shiyning brite and three wise men give me the nod i walk up close I lik the God

Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings

It isn’t easy being a fairytale granddaughter in @marissalingen.bsky.social’s charming new story “What a Big Heart You Have.” kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

i see so much love for inclusive detective stories, nick & nora spouses, and solid whodunnits and yet i can get no traction for my series that is all that and more. can you PLEASE help people know about Viviana Valentine? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...

All day I've been singing that classic Santa Lucia song "Spanish Pipedream."

Catching up on some of what I've missed in short fiction, and I'm really glad to have run across Anjali Sachdeva's April piece in @strangehorizons.bsky.social : strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

If you haven't come across these before, give yourself a treat and read all these posts about @marissalingen.bsky.social making lussekatter every year back to 2006 And definitely read this year's post marissalingen.com/blog/?p=4308

Glad Lucia Dag, friends: marissalingen.com/blog/?p=4308

imagine trying to convince me that I should "get used" to AI bc it's "here to stay." honey mitch mcconnell has been my senator since before i was born, do you think i don't know how to lock in and hate for the long haul

SFRevu calls @marissalingen.bsky.social’s story “What a Big Heart You Have” (Autumn ‘25) “Amusing and delightful.” www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-i...

Am I the only one who periodically sings "You did the best you could, I guess, and some of these gorillas are okay" throughout December when, um...let's say when compromises have been made?

Absolutely thrilled to see THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS on Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated SFFH Books for the Spring! But I'm far happier to share that list with great writers like @isabel.kim @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social and @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app. Next year looks rad.

TFW an old friend you haven't seen since you were a literal teenager finds you on the socials and you look at his posts...and they look like your adulthood friends' posts. \o/

I am one of Naomi's friends who had shingles! I had it while I had appendicitis, so I got to say to the triage nurse, "I have shingles on my neck and left shoulder, and my abdominal pain is worse than my shingles pain." I got seen quite quickly!

Look, I promise not to rave about my apple Advent calendar every single day but also but also I just ate a Northern Spy apple and the angels ascended and descended How could they fit this much happiness in one admittedly gigantic apple

It's the last month of 2025, & this year, I published two short stories, one novella, and one novel. ❤️ My short story "Mail-Order Magic" is one of the most personal pieces I've ever written, and it's free to read at @morningtransport.bsky.social : www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...

New essay! "The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children’s Fantasy" by Marissa Lingen! buff.ly/mjYuNZh

Ohhh this @marissalingen.bsky.social short story is the loveliest romantasy story I've read in a long time, and the ending made me tear up in the best possible way. Read it: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1... #romancelandia

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WHAT WE ARE SEEKING got a starred review in Library Journal! A perceptive one, too. Bujold's ETHAN OF ATHOS is definitely a book I thought about while writing it

Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social. Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy

Holiday deal alert! the paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just $10 on Amazon! In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...

Sentences that tell you the precise subtype of nerd we are here: "Oh shoot, I would have bought M this Fall of Rome Scented Candle if it had been a Fall of Rome Unscented Candle."

For those who mourn, for those who connect despite struggles, @r-emrys.bsky.social has a new story with @reactorsff.bsky.social : reactormag.com/all-that-mea...

Stole this from the Cedar Cultural Center’s page since they aren’t here. ♥️♥️♥️

December’s giftable What I Love & Where I’ll Be is up at the patreoblog for all subscribers! Contains details on December’s 2 free write-in sessions, goal/intention setting workshops, & a list of nifty gifty things. Not signed up yet? Come on over & check it out! www.patreon.com/posts/144927...

MARCH 10 2026 BE THERE OR BE SQUARE Covers are by @fringe-element.net who did an awesome job Editions will include introductions plus bonus short stories There will also be a preorder campaign--more details on that later.

I've been waiting for this @japrenticewrites.bsky.social story to go public on @apexmag.bsky.social so I can share it, shaping our own stories: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Loved this @michellezj.bsky.social story in @clarkesworldmagazine.com , social bonds and probability: clarkesworldmagazine.com/jin_12_25/

New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children's Fantasy. My wheelhouse? Yeah. Definitely my wheelhouse. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

It arrived two hours ago and I still can't believe a bunch of my friends banded together and bought me an apple Advent calendar. AN APPLE ADVENT CALENDAR. Rarely have I felt so seen.

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

Happy December! If you're in the US, you can snap up my cozy-spooky gothic rom-com novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c, today only: www.amazon.com/Marriage-Und... #romancelandia

Last of the Vertigo Project stories! The Torn Map is a fantasy of uncertain terrain, something those of us with vertigo know all too well: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...

✨!! SALE !!✨ THIS WEEKEND, through December 1, EVERYTHING in my shop is 20% off. Now is your chance to snag sparkly things for yourself and your loved ones! Earrings and necklaces featuring new, vintage, and reclaimed stone, glass, crystal, and shell. www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

Read this, it is lovely.

Today's Vertigo Project post is a story of mermaids and finding your way in a shifting world: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...

Hitler was bad. An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.

Loved this language-rich poem by Angela Acosta in @samovarmag.bsky.social : samovar.strangehorizons.com/2025/07/28/h...

Last and most straightforward of my Vertigo Project poems, Preparation: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1... More stories to come!

Tomorrow through Monday, all print books on our site will be on sale, 25-50% off! Your support of a small press that employs real folks & never uses AI for anything will not only make a great gift but give a nice middle finger to billionaires