wouldn’t blame the cicadas for emerging and being like not this and going back underground for 17 yrs

Imma make some people angry and I don’t care open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

Let's kick off Women in Horror Month with an interview with Jess Hagemann, author of MOTHER EATING! See what she has to say about horror and how it helps her navigate the world. www.timberghostpress.com/blog/wihm-20... #WiHM #WiHM2026

Happy Women in Horror Month! To kick it off, I'm diving into these small but mighty reads: We Came from an Island by Cynthia Pelayo Three Days in the Pink Tower by EV Knight Midnight Blue by Grace Reynolds #WIHM2026

I'll be running new interviews on my Substack for Women in Horror Month. Meantime, a rerun of 2025 interviews with Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social, Sapphire Lazuli @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social, Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social, Emma E. Murray @emmaemurray.bsky.social, and Mae Murray (thread)

Happy Women in Horror Month! Here's a roundup of some of the fabulous interviews, spotlight series, and events that are happening throughout March and beyond! www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/roundup...

My book selections for Women In Horror Month Don't know if I'll get to them all this month, but I'm definitely excited to read each and every one. Full list in replies but books by @gemmafiles.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social & more! #WIHM 💙📚🩸

Today, my poem in the March issue of @nightmare-magazine.com is out, “Zooming Past Shotgun Houses,” on preview, and I need to acknowledge how meaningful this is because I did not think I would be here to see it, and I have. The entire issue is wonderful: www.nightmare-magazine.com 🖤🖤🖤

Today’s the day! In Minnesota? Check out one of the indie bookstores listed here for the #AuthorsForMinnesota Day Event. We’re raising $ for Immigrant Law Center of MN & the Women’s Foundation of MN Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. I’m at Once Upon a Crime in Mpls from 12-4. Come say hi!

Looking for something bookish to do today? Come on by and chat horror with us.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

This over the course of 5 days, disrupting lives now and endangering them going forward any time they need to show licenses or IDs. This while marauding ogres are demanding arbitrary identification or else they lock you up for as long as they like. And it's the year of a major federal election.

This is extremely dangerous for those who use wish lists for organization & mutual aid. Please share far & wide.

where is justice for Nurul Amin Shah Alam? when will those charged with holding the guilty accountable demand that justice?

The official announcement is out! My book, WOMEN RUNNING FROM HOUSES, will be out in the world February 2028! It’s my nonfiction deep dive into the vintage Gothic Romances widely known for the damsels with great hair running from a dark mansion! I’ll be posting bits and pieces so keep 👀

Every year we open for a special Anthologies and Collections call, specifically to highlight stories published in those books during the current awards year (and we’ll open again soon). We’re delighted to see several works we selected in Stoker Awards Final Ballot 🎉 locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

I got the call from @laneheymont.bsky.social this morning, but this is the first time I've seen it in print: GIRL IN THE CREEK is a Stoker finalist for Best Novel! I have to look at it again, because it's almost impossible to believe my eyes. locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

To my dear terrifyingly talented contributors--look what glorious things we have wrought together. Thank you Bad Hand for always being 1000% percent behind this project and to the HWA for this honor. Congratulations to all the fabulous nominees. And to everyone who dares to write stories.

I am honored and honestly a bit stunned that CYANIDE CONSTELLATIONS is officially a Bram Stoker Award finalist! What do you mean my little book is nominated alongside the powerhouses of Hailey Piper, Gemma Files, John Langan, and Clay McLeod Chapman?? Wild. Huge congrats to all of the nominees!

TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS is a Bram Stoker Award Finalist! 🤩😈 I'm ECSTATIC to see my demons nominated and overjoyed to be on the ballot with the wondrous Sara Tantlinger, John Langan, Gemma Files, & Clay McLeod Chapman 🎉 congrats to the Fiction Collection finalists & everyone on the final ballot!

Absolutely stunned but Global Indigenous Horror has made it to the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot! Thank you to everyone who believed in this book, and congratulations to everyone on the final ballot! bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/h... @upmississippi.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to see Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora on the final ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards. Huge congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, all of her brilliant authors, and to all of this year's nominees. Read it: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

In honor of black horror month & women in horror month (March), I’m kicking off my weekly WIHM features a week early! 1st up is @lmariewood.bsky.social Her book, The Tryst: The Red Thread Saga Book One, is available now! Wood also recommends you check out @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social 🖤 (🔗s in 🧵)

To celebrate Black History Month (US) & LGBT+ History Month (UK) this Feb, we've curated 2 additional reading lists (on top of our usual monthly list). First, we're sharing some fave nonfiction books exploring Black horror (film & beyond): holpublishing.com/grimreader! #BlackHistoryMonth #booksky

Another publisher behaving badly. If you’ve been affected by this pls contact Writer Beware (anything shared with us is confidential). [email protected]

The next interview in my series for BULL FICTION is horror author, Laurel Hightower. If you haven't read Laurel, you should. This one was a lot of fun 🦫💖 @laurelhightower.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social Copy the link below mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

I had a blast chatting with Scotty (he always asks great questions) on the Horror from the High Desert podcast! It was a delight to reflect on stories in Cyanide Constellations, and to talk about everything from nature to grief to evil garden gnomes, and The Neon Demon! linktr.ee/horrorfromth...

Join me and HWA Lifetime Achievement Award winner and SFPA Grandmaster Linda Addison in Santa Fe on Sunday where you can pick up Dual Cosmologies, a limited-run chapbook exclusive to this event. Only 60 copies. I'll have 6 reprints, never collected, and two new poems exclusive to this chapbook.

If you love speculative fiction, check out these Indigenous book recommendations! For more recommendations become a member of my reader community boozhoo.binderybooks.com

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ

So very honored by Eliza’s kind words! open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

If you've been waiting to get a copy of my Southern Gothic PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE - a historical fiction novella set during Reconstruction about navigating grief while finding self, here's your chance! Feb 16 - 22, the eBook is on sale across all retailers for $2.99. #Blackbooksky #booksky

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS! Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

Today's the last day! Good luck to all!

I always used Valentine's Day on that other site to promote Love for Slaughter, so I might as well do it again here 😆 If some #horrormance poetry is your thing 🖤🩸 www.amazon.com/Love-Slaught...

The Hugo nomination period is officially open, which seems like a good time to remind folks about my links post gathering eligibility and recommendations from others. I'll continue to update through the nomination period so keep sending links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

Jon Stewart on MAGA: "These people... are so triggered by someone singing in Spanish for 20 minutes, they needed to create their own safe-space alternative halftime show"

Unbelievably delighted to see SLEEP ALONE mentioned in “6 Horror Romance Books That Will Rip Your Heart Out” @the-line-up.bsky.social! Thank you to @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social for the kind words and boost on a gloomy Monday. This is an excellent list—THE CIPHER is included here, hell yeah!

OUT TODAY @titanbooks.bsky.social ! So grateful to tell the stories those who came before me couldn’t or were not permitted to. I do believe we are here for ourselves and for our ancestors. Writing is more than a book for me. THANK YOU READERS! Grab a copy www.barnesandnoble.com/w/maria-the-...

ARE YOU READY FOR OUR FIRST DATE? OUT TODAY FROM DATURA BOOKS, anywhere books are sold! Paperback, ebook and audiobook. But please: this is NOT a love story. It is one of the nastier things I have written in a while- sorry about that. Or am I? 💔🌹🔪❄️👇 daturabooks.com/product/firs...

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

I'm thrilled to share the cover of INCARNATE, my next horror novel, coming 9/22

SEEING THINGS, LITTLE PARANOIAS, and WITHOUT CONDITION are now available as ebooks from @bookshop.org! I appreciate your support of indie bookstores. bookshop.org/beta-search?...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Today, all Cursed Morsels store proceeds that would normally go to me will instead go to rent relief for 16 St. Paul families affected by ICE detention and occupation. Check out our store if you love weird horror and supporting neighbors during times of fascist terror: www.cursedmorselspress.com

Submissions for our zine call have been a little slow, so I've extended the call to February 14th. Check out our themes and guidelines here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

COVER REVEAL, alt text edition 🖤 In 1994, 3 girls go to the movies. Only 1 is ever seen again. 30 years later, something hunts the 1 who got away. THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT opens September 15 📽️ let's all go to the movies and never come back 😈 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-movie...

Submissions to open for HORROR LIBRARY, VOLUME 10: February 23, 2026 through March 9, 2026! Details here: www.darkmoonbooks.com/Submissions.... (*PRO TIP: Read this week’s released volume, #9, to get a sense of material that is selected!) #theHorrorLibrary #EricJGuignard #Submissions #DarkMoonBooks

Hello everyone! Putting our workspace Crowdfundr back in your timelines again. We've come a long way, but still have a ways to go. Any amount helps, if that's not in the budget, every share helps! Thank you all so much for your support! 🤗🧡👻 @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social fnd.us/littleghosts...

The cat is out of the bag! The hardback limited edition of IN THE WOODS ONLY THE TREES HEAR YOU SCREAM will return in Avengers: Doomsday. Okay, maybe not, but both are out in 2026! I’m very proud of this queer, eco-horror, poetry collection from Rooster Republic Press, which you can order now!