I have to go with apples, simply because I love apples but after 40 years my body decided that we were allergic to them (and most other tree fruits). I dream about being able to eat apples again.

Saturday morning read. This book is incredibly unsettling. I'm really enjoying it.

Dear Diary, can you keep a secret? 🤫🖊️🔒 Members of the Apex Patreon get access to exclusive interviews, first looks at upcoming Apex issues, an invitation to our secret Discord server, and more! For as little as $1 a month, surely one little peek won't hurt... 👀📚 👽 www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

Nine days and counting before Plott Hound opens to submissions! One of our submissions editors would love to see more stories about • parasites • giant ground sloths • terror birds • bugs (the extincter the betterer) • ordovician invertebrates Check us out!

I went the used bookstore while Pax was at the groomer and ended up getting a copy of The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin. Have you read it? Is it good? I love Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives. I've read both multiple times. I'm hoping this is just as stunning.

Unfortunately small presses close all the time, and their baby bird books need to find a new nest. My fledgling sun-vampire queer cannibal novella, SUNBATHERS, now needs a new home, as does my sapphic pirate novella QUEEN O'NINE TAILS. If you know a toothy little home for either, please hit me up!

"Roo had needed a big rig, and the only big rig in the Hundred Acre Wood was the CR and the only big rig driver in the Wood was Piglet." 🐷🚚🍯 New fiction today by @mariahaskins.com: "Piglet Delivers" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

I decided at the beginning of the year to really lock in and read the books I own. I want my books to fit on my bookshelves, not be stacked higgledy-piggledy. So far I've read 10 books off my shelves and half of those have been donated. I feel like that's a good start, but I have so far to go.

Story day! My story "Piglet Delivers" is now available to read online in Apex Magazine! I am so excited to share this strange story of my heart with the world. If you grew up with Milne's books about the Hundred Acre Wood, you might feel (somewhat) at home. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

ICYMI Plott Hound Magazine publishes all kinds of animal POVs and protagonists. We've seen a lot of cats, dogs, crows, and dragons. But we love a wide variety of mammal, avian, reptile, arachnid, fish, amphibian, insect, parasite, dinosaur, mythical, (animalistic) alien species, and chimera.

I was right! It was fucking Dave!

Saturday morning reading with Pax.

Me, 30 pages into a mystery novel: Watch out for the neighbor! It's the neighbor! I don't trust Dave!! (The set up for the mystery hasn't even been fully set up yet. Dave could be just fine ... But he does seem pretty shifty.)

@apexmag.bsky.social is open to nonfiction pitches. We would love to hear about your thoughts and experiences within speculative fiction. Check out the full guidelines on how to submit here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

My story "Piglet Delivers" (where Piglet is a hungover truck driver) is in this fabulous issue of Apex. My first publication in Apex so you bet I'm freaking excited!

As EiC I don't have favorites but ... I will never get over how absolutely amazing Lindz's story is. Congratulations, Lindz! This is so deserved!

in all this blathering about AI being (insert whatever it is today), i wanna talk a bit about my most recent short story publication which i'm linking below. it's called "Unsettled Nature" and it's in @apexmag.bsky.social the voice in it is something i worked on SO HARD to be "western noir" ctd

Why does this dog insist on licking my furniture!?! I can't tell you how many times the words "Stop licking the couch!" have come out of my mouth. Then he just looks at me like this, as if to say "Why? I like licking the couch."

Just finished scheduling the original fiction for @apexmag.bsky.social issue 153 and WOW! This is issue is *heavy*. The stories are all fantastic, but I feel like I should apologize ahead of time for all of the heartache.

New @apexmag.bsky.social issue is here! New fiction by @jordankurella.com and @mariahaskins.com and lots of other good stuff: weightlessbooks.com/apex-magazin...

Every time I get up, I come back to Pax begging for belly rubs.

In an effort to keep up with submissions and be open on a consistent schedule, we've decided that @apexmag.bsky.social will be open to short fiction subs on an every other month schedule. We will be open in Jan, March, May, July, Sept, and Nov. We're closed the other months.

A friendly reminder that submissions CLOSE for our upcoming issue this Saturday. Keep them coming! Share with a Black SFF writer in your circle 🖤🖤🖤 Guidelines here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

We Who Hunt Alexanders is on the longlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards in the Best Shorter Fiction category! Many thanks to everyone who loved the novella and all the members of the British Science Fiction Association who nominated it! @apexmag.bsky.social www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Listen: if you haven't read this story of mine yet, you should. There might be an Important Reason that I can't talk about yet and to bear under the weight of such an exciting secret, I'll have to live vicariously through my readers. MYSTERIOUS STUFF HAPPENING

"I found an old god in the woods, shivering, starving, forgotten. With eyes of gold, skin the color of old loam hardened and wrinkled as time, fingers the roots of trees, and a tongue of moss, tā begged for help." A lovely lyrical story from @montelin.bsky.social, Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social

Anxiety is absolutely walloping me this morning. To the point that I'm questioning whether I took my meds last night. I remember taking them ... but holy wow, it sure doesn't feel like it.

Crystal clear prose transports you into the story and small, unique details make the characters feel alive! If you haven't read it yet, I recommend you do.

A friendly reminder for HWA members: the deadline to recommend/nominate works for the Stoker Awards is January 15! Get your recs in now! bramstokerawards.horror.org

@apexmag.bsky.social made me a pro, and now they’ve made me an essayist as well :). So excited to have my essay “Not a Scab, but a Wound,” set to appear in their February issue! I hope you’ll all check it out once it’s available and let me know what you think of it.

This is the face of a dog who ate all my blueberries. He keeps coming to check if I have more. Sadly, I didn't run to the grocery store and come home in the 30 seconds since he last checked.

My friend has a co-worker who invited everyone in their office to a Zoom presentation of what they read in 2025. It included a slide show and statistics and can I say I have never wanted to be friends with someone so fast! I want an invite to the 2026 Zoom presentation!

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

I'm trying to not buy new books but every time I see something I'm interested in, I add it to my cart and then not check out.

Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines… blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday! The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026. There will be no cap. More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Your friendly independent bookstore breaking into your timeline to tell you to take a couple hours this weekend, put your phone in like, a box, or something & read a book. All of this <waves hand> will be here when you come back.

My 'w' key is starting to be finicky. It still works, but you have to hit it just so ... Which means when I'm typing quickly, it's dropping a lot. That's fun.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

For health reasons, I've been gluten and dairy free since Thanksgiving. It's been ... okay. Not great, but I'm fine. Except tonight. Tonight I would kill for a slice of pizza from our local place. I need that pizza!

Me, whispering: Taking time off for the holidays was worth it. My inbox:

My next book, Multitude, is open for pre-orders from Apex Books. Paperback pre-orders will receive a cephalopod keychain! Direct order link: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/mul... More information on the book: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

Completed my 16th platelet donation for the year. Rewarding myself with Thai food for dinner.

What's that sound on the roof? Oh, it's just Father Krampus leaving gifts for our Patrons! 👹🎄 Give yourself the gift of Apex and join our Patreon! Participate in flash fiction theme polls, get access to our secret discord, read exclusive short stories, and more! 🎁🐐 www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

I'm still so proud of this story—it's sad and glorious and queer. One of my best, I reckon!

We're reopening to submissions on January 1st. Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.

My love for chunky, 8K+ word stories that absolutely wreck the @apexmag.bsky.social issue word counts has become sort of an inside joke among the Apex team. Each time I fall in love with another, I despair about how I'll make it fit, but I always do! Here are a few of my favs:

Hungarian #SFinTranslation

I'm not sure who needs to see this, but I just found out that Monster High makes an Alien collector doll and she is gorgeous! She's also $240, but she's so pretty!