We are happy to announce our very first anthology is coming out on November 24th! Rough Seas & Strange Yarns captures short stories, poems, and visual art of fifteen Pen & Pier members, all focusing on the theme: Ocean. You can pre-order the eBook now www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY715J2...

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I am so happy to announce that my story 'How to get distracted while writing an essay' will be part of the Saturday Mourning Television Anthology by @sliceduppress.bsky.social . Can't wait for it to come out next spring!

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Only day you can post this

A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is

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A band find their gigs take on a terrifying new significance when they start singing about supposedly fictional Northern gods of mishap & mayhem... New horror/fantasy It's Not A Cult by Joey Batey (you know him as Witcher's Jaskier & The Amazing Devil band!) is out today! 💙📚🪐 #horrorsky #NewBooks

My short story, "The Perfect Mummy" is now available in a horror anthology by Dragon Soul Press! Come and check it out! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

In the footsteps of Anthropic: a new class action (not yet certified) against Salesforce for using pirated books for AI training. There will be more of these

It’s Halloween season and we haven’t seen enough mummies! If you feel the same way and want to mummify your bookshelf a little, might we recommend our Modern Mummies horror anthology? Its pretty cool and loaded with mummies. www.cateyepress.com/modern-mummies

Great art for a great small but mighty outfit.

Fun times with fellow writers! @bsmbooks.bsky.social @mdornish.bsky.social @kevincarver.bsky.social @katherinebonn.bsky.social @katelynsweigart.bsky.social @journey-on.bsky.social , among others.

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more! Store details below!

I'm seeing an increasing number of scams like the one below, leveraging the widespread problem of publishing scams w/ a faux service promising to fix problems author is having w/ the original scam but really to hit them up for more $$ (note the "Amazon partner agency" claim: there's no such thing)

As we fly right past 200 submissions for our FLESH zine, I encourage folks to check out our previous horror and Weird fiction zines, all of which rule. You can get 15 of them for $15, plus shipping! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Hello! It's Pen & Pier. We finally decided to join social media. Our group's been meeting regularly for 2 years. We do things like annual retreats, critique groups, in-person & online meetings. We're just a bunch of writers helping each other out. Come check out our website and join us on Discord.

These folks are doing it right!

Re-upping this one!

I'm heartbroken to learn of Jane Goodall's passing at age 91. The world is darker with her gone. www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4...

Believe it or not, I am in this! My story in Obsolescence is how this wild writerly journey began.

Reposting condor to give yall some feels that aren't anxiety

This is a project I spent considerable time on lately. I would love for you to check it out, if it is in your wheelhouse!

If you like spiders, there is a truly adorable spider pic in there. If you don't like spiders, do not be afraid!

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers: NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints. and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

This is a project I spent considerable time on lately. I would love for you to check it out, if it is in your wheelhouse!

When Pen & Pier writers get together, it's always a fun time. Featuring @bsmbooks.bsky.social , @mdornish.bsky.social , @kevincarver.bsky.social , @journey-on.bsky.social , @katelynsweigart.bsky.social @katherinebonn.bsky.social , among others, & also my awesome @shortwavebooks.bsky.social T-shirt!

Thank you for reading! And thanks for hosting us!

Someone else worth checking out!

PUSHING DAISIES was a work of genius, cast with absolute geniuses, showrun by a genius, and I deserve three more seasons damnit.

There’s something slightly ominous about @uteorgassa.bsky.social’s “A Day at the Beach.” Also, I love this encapsulation of #nostalgia: “I wish I could live inside this picture. Partake once more in that perfect day when everything was still all right. I can’t.” epistemiclit.com/current-issu...

Another cool picture from a friend of mine.

Social media fun: Trying to interpret whether posts like this will turn out to be nothing or be how we discover World War III.

Whoa. Did not see that coming.

I have a story in this issue. And I am in such esteemed company there. The whole magazine is a great read.

Went to the DMV today with my daughter. The whole place was packed. The two of us were pretty much the only ones masking.

👻📚 Seen at the excellent horror bookstore Little Ghost Books in Toronto!

Next up, #Fiction contributors! A nice mix of new and former: Ute Orgassa - @uteorgassa.bsky.social Chris Cottom - @chriscottom.bsky.social Gary Finnegan - www.instagram.com/finnegan6893/ Barbara Reese Yager - www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraya... Bethany Cutkomp - @bdcutkomp.bsky.social Contd —

I wrote a horror story about exactly this scenario 2 years ago. It is published in issue # 2 of Alternative Milk Magazine. It doesn't feel good to be right.

The Mummies are out! Happy book birthday! You can read my story 'Going Home' among these 13 tales. It is in deliciously hair raising company.

Look what I got my grabby hands on today! @cateyepress.bsky.social

Whenever you think reality can't top fiction, it does.

Fire at the Kellogg factory. #eggo #SanJose

Check out this amazing anthology of modern mummy stories! I am reading some rave reviews, and I happen to know at least one of the stories is to die for! @uteorgassa.bsky.social, talking about you! excavatinghorror.com/2025/08/15/m...