My story "In the Zone", about a young woman with a special power that allows her to rescue immigrants, is now available to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com. Check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...

This week's Monday snippet is from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which is out now in ebook and paperback! books2read.com/honeymoonGrave And if you haven't yet read the first cozy-spooky novella in this series, you can snap that up now, too: books2read.com/UndeadInconvenience #romancelandia

Dismissing and minimizing the process, in any art, is partially what has led to widespread acceptance of AI generated art and writing. When your focus is on the result, you are not partaking in art. You are a bystander.

Read this!! (Also, buy a copy of Thomas’ book if you can)

Tatsuki Fujimoto on the importance of setting goals as artists (go watch the new Chainsaw Man movie--it's funny and bloody and surprisingly poignant).

November submissions are OPEN! The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS! We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

New podcast time!! Here's ep. 375A: Vanessa Fogg discusses THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS, a set of fantastical tales exploring relationships, love, passion, and connection across space and time. @vanessafogg.bsky.social @interstellarflight.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/11/06/t...

in case you missed it! our latest is up and free to read 🖤

IngramSpark was like "make this Share & Sell link and you get entered automatically to win a $500 marketing package" so here's the link buy my book (US and UK buyers only because...IngramSpark I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

I'm on a podcast! Thank you to @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social for having me over to talk about stories, the 90s, and The House of Illusionists at the @splturnthepage.bsky.social podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXwd...

Thank you to Alex Brown for including Countess on this list. It's especially wonderful to be on it with @brentclambert.bsky.social and @ebonidunbar.bsky.social who I 🖤 I knew I took risks when I wrote Countess. But my goal as an artist is to be bold. Its heartening to see that appreciated. 🔥✊

I have a new flash story out today! “How To Set Up Your Mourning Robot” is now free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...

Best Books of the Year Author Talk: Join Silk & Sinew Editor Kristy Park Kulski and Author @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for an insightful discussion on the anthology Register here: www.nypl.org/events/progr... #nypl #silkandsinewantho #leemurray #kristyparkkulski #besthorror #bestbook

Now available for pre-order, CLUB MAGRITTE by Nicola Lombardi "If you're a fan of psychological body horror, this is the short story for you. It's gross, twisted and the ending will definitely haunt you." www.interstellarflig...

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Thank you everyone who came yesterday to the online launch party for The House of Illusionists! Thanks, @interstellarflight.bsky.social for putting it together! I loved meeting you all! (Also, I hate hearing my recorded voice, but for those who don't, here's some clips from last night)

Put up a Goodreads review for @vanessafogg.bsky.social's new collection THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS and then read the early reviews by ARC readers and found it really heartwarming and revealing how people love a true array of stories. So many good flavors! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

We are heartbroken to hear about the passing of Celeste Rita Baker, a wonderful writer and human. It was our joy and privilege to publish her story “Me and Seed Sheself” in our magazine in 2022. Our deepest condolences to her loved ones, may she rest in peace. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/me-a...

So happy to be interviewed by the brilliant @rati.bsky.social !

I have a book launch today, and because I like making lists of books and talking about other people's books, here are some OTHER book launches now and coming up! Threading~ 📚😍📚

Join me on November 12th as speculative poetry takes over Electric Sheep! Readings by: Brian U. Garrison Ai Jiang Oliver K. Langmead Angela Liu Mari Ness Brandon O’Brien us02web.zoom.us/meet...

My new book is coming TOMORROW! I made a post about it (this is on Patreon, but it doesn't need a subscription) - www.patreon.com/posts/142750...

Cake for book birthday (actually, my husband made it last night but I can have another slice today!) Basque cheesecake with macerated strawberries.

Eeee, it’s Nov 3! Happy book birthday to me! 📖🍰

So, folks, I have a New Thing out It's a #poetry chapbook called "All the Wayward Angels: Dream Sestinas" thru Bottlecap Press & it's got keys & stars prophecies & sobbing candles ghosts & fox gods oracles & barn skeletons beasts & floods and of course wayward angels bottlecap.press/products/all...

Dang! I keep misspelling the title: HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS! By @vanessafogg.bsky.social! Published by @interstellarflight.bsky.social!

This deceptively simple-seeming short story packs a strong emotional punch. It does so by implying the emotion and never showing it, making a truly strong story. Recommended reading. @thomasha.bsky.social #AmReading #AmReadingScienceFiction #Dystopia clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/

The delivery guy arrived amidst the trick-or-treaters last night and brought me this treat! (I loaded the delivery guy up with candy in return.) It’s @vanessafogg.bsky.social ‘s short-story collection THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS. This collection is *wonderful*

If stories are like magic tricks, then Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link are magicians. The two masters of fiction and horror talk shop in this conversation from our fairy-tale issue (a.k.a., perfect mood reading for this spooky week).

Some other fave sights: Arcadia Overlook and Port Betsie Lighthouse in northern Michigan

Husband and I went Up North to enjoy the fall. One of our favorite finds: Glen Park Mineral Springs in Onekama. Once the site of a hotel resort where guests came to enjoy the mineral springs. You can still dip your feet in (but it was too cold for us!)

AI stories feed into the fantasy of shedding the physical body, the inconvenient emotions, the "wildness", the "irrationality"; the myriad ways in which we are dependent on & shaped by our physical surroundings, our relations with others, our physicality and limitations (2/?)

Made a kimchi jigae for the first time tonight and my god, why didn't I do this sooner? Best cold-weather comfort food ever www.koreanbapsang.com/kimchi-soond...

Walk in the rain

New story day! "Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.

#Bookmail! REALLY looking forward to this read by the brilliant @yiizzy.bsky.social and John Yu Branscum!!! I’ve been super excited for this since it was announced. #starsthatpause #yiizzyyu #johnyubranscum #asianufoencounters

a hard truth: it's not easy being undead it takes a whole skeleton crew and the creative force of some AMAZING writers and above all it takes YOU our readers and hey, buy a coin if you can? keep us undead a little longer? 🙏🖤 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

If you can, please donate to help one of our regular contributors in this time of need.

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today! This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic. In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook Available wherever books are sold. #booksky #Blackbooksky

Happy belated book birthday to @yiizzy.bsky.social and John Yu Branscum! An extraordinary, genre-slipping and genre-defying book. A "UFO" book unlike anything you've seen before, a book about psychology, culture, myth, history, science and more. www.amazon.com/Stars-That-P...

re Sirens in Watermyth: I made a whole other mythology/history about them in relation to the merfolk and how the merfolk treat them. Some of that can be read in my BCS story. There'll be more conflicts and tensions as the series develops. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/when...

Hello everyone. Talented artist, reviewer, and beloved member of our community Archita Mittra is going through some really hard times currently. If you can spare a few $ it would make a world of difference ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-archi...

Look what just arrived in the mail! The House of Illusionists, a short story collection ​by @vanessafogg.bsky.social - lovely human, dear friend, and one of my favorite short fiction writers. Find out more at www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...

<totters out onto porch> <settles into rocker> <thumps cane a few times> Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

Autumn walk

There are people whose behavior I can accurately predict. And yet, their minds remain utter black boxes to me.

It's time to celebrate Spooky Season on @storyhour.bsky.social! Next week, I'll be reading alongside @nadiabulkin.bsky.social. Join us then, and check out all the other fabulous and spooky readings every Wednesday at 7pm PST/10pm ESt. www.storyhour2020.com

Absolute dream speaking with @chelsead.bsky.social for @electricliterature.com about the great Dorothy Allison, the agency in body horror, my perpetual motion sickness, where people-pleasing gets dangerous, being your own absent babysitter, and more.