i wrote a 2025 reflection on a brand new journal today because it's a tradition of mine to wrap something up on a blank slate and to remember that everything that will happen in 2026 is the product of all the works i've done the year before.

i started writing short stories again. this one is a little murder mystery cyberpunk that i decided to write the beginning and the ending first before i write the middle (which i will do tomorrow). i feel like i need to get to the #point of the story before i can extend it to a whole thing.

@nhambird.bsky.social bestie you need to let me know when you open commission again because your art is insane!! can i also include you in the cover portfolio i will send to my publisher?

INTO THE DARK IS OUT NOW! my story is in this and i hope you guys will check it out ☺️

As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work. (2/?)

yes, i have a new story coming out today. yes, i made my substack bilingual. yes, it took me an hour because i'm a mess. anyways, happy birthday to @awwlitmag.bsky.social's INTO THE DARK anthology.

let's go writing wrapped!

this one is so so special!!

My horror short story, featured in Reactor Mag, is eligible for awards this season! Read it for free via The Dark Magazine's website

I’m 10 thousand years late to this but Akiho’s MS carved itself a place in my heart and it will stay there forever. it’s a joy to watch this MS grow to its full potential. it’s whimsy and personal and also makes you question everything about soulmates at the same time

ADDIE LARUE x WATER MOON A lonely immortal runs a shady soulmate business as a front for reincarnating the friend she lost centuries ago, until her new assistant with his own agenda turns out to be the latest reincarnation 🌷cozy/whimsical 🌷memories, regret, and grief #roundtablementor #F #A #UN

After losing her friend, immortal Mikoto continually meets his reincarnations over centuries. None ever remember her, but she’ll scam and use humans to bring his memories back. 💔a (shady) soulmate business 🌘morally gray aroace MC 🌷platonic friendships ✨whimsy/cozy #roundtablementor #F #A #UN

WATER MOON x ADDIE LARUE An immortal mage takes bribes and fakes results for her soulmate business. It’s all for her goal: reincarnate the friend she lost centuries ago. 🌷morally gray aroace MC 💔a (shady) soulmate business 🔬whimsical STEM-based magic #roundtablementor #F #A #UN

Have you heard of the European Dancing Plague of 1518? I hint at that strange outbreak in my dark fantasy story “The Red Shoes” which will be published in @awwlitmag.bsky.social 🎉 They’re doing a great kickstarter, you check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

As we are coming closer to the end of @awwlitmag.bsky.social ’s kickstarter campaign, I’m excited to share a snippet in my short story INTO THE SHADOW. If you're still looking for something to read this spooky season, we will lead you Into The Dark 🌑 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

showed people at my job my beautiful dashboard with the statistics of all the books i read, a masterpiece i’ve been recording since 2020. they looked at me and went “you did this in your own free time and with your own free will?” i feel betrayed.

#PreDV #DVpit

Hiii I will be around for #preDV! When I was querying, I received ~16 agent likes on my pitches, so I hope what I've learned would be useful for you. I will be looking at #F #A but if you're writing other SFF and you're Asian (especially SEA), do like this or link your post and I will be THERE 🫡

dusting off this account with my newest author’s headshot 💛

new character art alert! let me introduce you to Phong, the mc of #codewip. al managed to capture his stubbornness, his determination, and also his unkempt hair so well, like this *is* him. this is the boy!!!

THIS COVER IS GORGEOUS I NEED THIS BOOK IN MY HANDS NOW

ALERT: PRODIGAL TIGER cover + shiny release date of March 17, 2026! Thank you to Kelly Chong for this brilliant illustration, Kaitlin Yang for helping design the cover, and of course @penguinteen.bsky.social‬ for sharing! I WEPT when I saw this cover. (Actually first I screamed. and then I wept)

sent my newest book to my agent! first time doing so since i got agented. does anyone know what i’m supposed to do now? please don't say rest.

i was playing a silly dating game and suddenly now i’m reading about magical realism and hyperreality, and how representations of reality through images had gradually led to a dissimulation of reality—and implicitly, to society's alienation from it.

Two weeks until #SEAsianPit 2025 👀 Have you scheduled your pitches? Do you still have questions? Ask anything below 👇

Here’s a preview of our upcoming Dark Fantasy anthology, Into the Dark! www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...

i’m in this 🤭

What to expect from GENERATION ZOMBIE, my 86K YA thriller/horror: 😬 Chronically anxious main character 🤬 Toxic father-daughter relationship 🕵️‍♀️ Journalist enemies to lovers 💀 Armageddon-causing cult 📲 Social commentary like BLACK MIRROR #QuestPit #W #YA #T #H

A new #agentsguide for my revised version of A FEAST FOR LAMBS(made by @authorkateduarte.bsky.social) coming back to agents inboxes real soon 👀 🏳️‍⚧️Transmasc MC ❤️‍🔥Poly monster romance 🥩Cannibalism 🩸Religious horror 🫀Body horror 🔥Trans rage #questpit #A #H #RF #querying

Brian’s MS got me staying up at night reading. it’s SO SO SO good. @ agents watch this space !!

BLACK MIRROR x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever. GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror. #QuestPit #W #YA #T #H

Into the Dark Anthology 34 character-driven dark fantasy and fantastical horror stories by some amazing authors! Throw off the shackles of the safe and mundane and delve Into the Dark. Kickstarter coming soon!

you won't want to miss this 🙂‍↕️

Join a selection of RTM mentors TOMORROW for a panel on debuting! The panel will stream to our YouTube channel!

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

it's long overdue but (almost) a year ago, i re-entered the query trenches and made it to the other side. maybe it's time for a HIGMA post?

“until the very end, i would’ve loved to be on your side.” revealing the art of my Martial Arts fantasy set in 1920s Hanoi !! art by the talented @shizunpilled.bsky.social

BEYOND thrilled to announce @helenzdong.bsky.social and i will be mentoring @brianbyrnewrites.bsky.social & his absolute feast of a YA horror manuscript for @roundtablementor.bsky.social Brian’s MS got us screaming in our DMs since the logline. Many congratulations to all applicants this year! 🎉

Here are our mentees from the Young Adult category:

IT'S HERE!!!! Our newest Round Table Mentor cohort has landed—and we're excited to get started. Remember to browse the whole thread for the full list of mentees, and please check your inboxes for next steps from your mentor. Congratulations! Here are our mentees from the Adult category:

ONE. MORE. DAY. Are you excited? We're excited!!! Our mentors are buzzing, and we can't wait to open our doors tomorrow, Feb 1!

i'm physically holding myself back from changing the law of physics so Feb 1 would come faster.

happy lunar new year 🎊 in the vietnamese zodiac, it's the year of the snake, more specifically fire snake (Phú Đăng Hỏa) aka the bright fire from the lantern. wishing everyone a bright year ahead!

If we're gonna date, you may have to defeat my seven unfinished WIPs

as Tết (lunar new year) is approaching, i'm going back to my layout from last year 🧧 i'm not in the country to celebrate it this year but still just as red, still just as lucky 😙

back in germany, slept for 12 hours, brain churned out a whole synopsis. sometimes you just have to step away from the screen to refuel, even if it's a jam-packed 40 hours of conference & team building activities in 4 days.

okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES! I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books. (details below)

fascist governments ban apps

i love being able to read multiple languages 'cause wym i just read a Viet folk horror book where people in one village just got haunted the shit out of them because their ancestors did something wrong

CHECK YOUR INBOX (and spam folder) BECAUSE REVERENT ANTHOLOGY ARC IS RELEASED TO THE WILD 🪽🎉 If you haven't signed up, ARC applications close THIS SUNDAY and I know you don't want to miss out 😉 check @itsquinnli.bsky.social 's bio for more the ARC form.