I'm starting to see book recommendation lists again full of trad publishing horror books. Keep an eye on some of your favorite indie publishers and authors who self-publish and see what they're up to! Here's a few you can check out for starters: 🧵

Time for my annual PSA! Many public libraries in the US do have a summer reading club for adults! Participating helps boost stats and you can usually earn prizes or enter for giveaways. If you're not sure if your library participates, ask anyway so they register patron interest!

Slightly diminish a book Spookymart (Grady Hendrix) #amreading #books #horror #horrorstor #literature

This is Nugget. She has many nicknames, like Nuggetron, Nugget Ronald, Nugget Ronald Reagan's Tushie, Nigot the Bigot, and Pissbag. We love her and her singular braincell. #cats #nothoughtsheadempty #pets #sillylittledudes #orangecat #caturday

You LOVE to see it, good work everyone, keep up the relentless dunks on AI, all these bros deserve a wedgie/swirlie combo and they are not allowed to sit at our table ever again.

#BookCon was great! Overwhelming, for sure, but a good experience. I got a bunch of books (surprising, I know) and only one journal (which is actually surprising). Tons of stickers too! Supporting writing and reading fills my heart with glee. #amreading #amwriting #newyork #literature #bookhaul

So as not to echo the great responses here, I’ll just add this: No, you’re not talking too much about your father’s passing. We in the U.S. don’t talk enough about grief. It makes grief lonelier and heavier. It diminishes both us and the person we lost. Grief is just love. Let’s talk about it!

I wrote this whole article about this, but I love how "glitch" comes from the Yiddish word "glitsh," which means to slip and fall. culturemachine.net/wp-content/u...

Did you know that Autistic people are at a 9x or greater risk of dying by suicide as compared to non-Autistic people? It’s true 😔 It was true even before *gestures outwardly, with great fatigue* all this happened We deserve to know regardless of perceived ability/need Adult diagnosis matters.

Looks like I missed #AsexualVisibilityDay . . . But I'm still here, still ace, still working to be a better person in a better world. Oh, and I'm getting some significant work done on that circus novel. Keep an eye out for new short stories too. #ace #asexual #queer #lgbtqia #amwriting #horror

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

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My name is Amanda Nevada DeMel, and I write a lot of quiet-ish horror about grief and trauma. As someone with lived experience in grief and trauma, I find strange comfort in writing it. It makes me feel less alone. It also gives me a sense of control over SOMETHING. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

Thank you! I am honored. And now my list of (just five!) inspiring women in SSFH: @jennykiefer.com @jolietoomajan.bsky.social @rebeccakaras.bsky.social @authorterribruce.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social #wihm #womenwriters #sffh

I'm less interested in the 1st vs 3rd argument, more in the entitlement happening for someone to walk up and say this at a signing as if the author messed up the reader's hamburger. Okay? Go away then? There are people in line behind you who want to engage with art, not demand extra pickles.

Time for a new introduction post, I suppose. It is #womeninhorrormonth after all. Howdy. I am Amanda Nevada DeMel, a queer, neurodivergent, woman author of #horror and speculative fiction. I have a few short stories published, and I'm hard at work on my #debut novel. #wihm #women #womenwriters

#talkingheads #moth #stopmakingsense #1980s #music #davidbyrne #ilovelamp

David Byrne during "Naive Melody" in Stop Making Sense (1984):

i included this in my syllabi this year

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

RIP Bud Cort. My favorite movie of all time, hands down forever, is Harold and Maude. I wish we'd gotten more films for him to showcase how wildly funny, sharp, and truly singular he was. But most actors don't even get ONE performance like Harold and Maude, so that counts for 100. I love you Bud.🖤

Here, have some levity on your feed. This little man is fifteen years old today. #happybirthday #levity #leopardgeckos #sweeneytodd #reptiles

It's #NationalHatDay! Here's some excellent headwear (and moustaches) from an album of 19th-century Ottoman fashion. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/19th-century-album-of-ottoman-fashion/

Rest easy, Bob Weir 💛

The Empire State Building honors Bob Weir.

H) As I said above, execution is all. Start with a prologue if you want, start with a dream if you want. Sprinkle your story with footnotes, yank that god out of the machine, put some tinsel on your squid and place it proudly on the mantelpiece, whatever. Just aim to do it as well as you can.

"The growing presence and use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in our industry raises difficult and complex questions." No it doesn't. Don't use or support the use of the brain-smoothing planet-destroying plagiarism machine. It's actually quite simple.

I'm currently working on a novel and at the end of an average day, I'm wiped out. The sheer amount of analysis, synthesis, making of connections, layering of prose, deepening of characterization, supplemental research... all the mental work is intense and exhilarating. Which is just to say, fuck AI.

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism. That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

This entire weekend

GORGEOUS.

My newest short story is out in the world! Thank you, @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social , for bringing "To Scorn the Power of Man" to print! Read more about it here: mailchi.mp/74f6ad420c8f... #amwriting #amreading #horror #publishing #macbeth #shakespeare #ecohorror

The Woman in Black. Original unpublished illustration I made for the book by Susan Hill. Crosshatch pen & rolled printing ink. Some yellowing where masking fluid was applied & removed to leave areas of ink free paper. £200 + P&P. I ship worldwide but will need to adjust costs to counter TariffBoy

In case my previous posts weren't clear, #fuckai Do not use my work to train your answering machines.

My first completed freehand drawing in way too long. I like him. What do you think? #artattack #freehand #mixedmedia #doodle #drawing #hesokay #portrait

"AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources. That is the opposite of what librarians do, and teachers do, and scientists do, and experts do." 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

This is a beautiful and poignant speech. I love libraries so much. I grew up in a house behind my town's library, and now I work at a different one. They're magical place for community growth, personal growth, intellectual pursuits, and just plain fun.

This promo picture just gave me all the giggles. It looks like a photo for LA LAW or something...

Not my image, but I stand by this. #Halloween #trickortreat #freecandy #autism #neurodivergence #nonverbal #trickortreating #happyhalloween

The simple truth is people love this stuff and will watch it if you let them, not by putting it behind a premium fee. I fell in love with these cartoons as a kid because they used to be on TV all the time so I could, ya know, watch them lmao.

"What's the first web page archived in the Wayback Machine?" We get that question all the time. There's no singular first page. There is, however, a first collection, and it's a really important one ⬇️

Even the ideas of “low support needs” and “high support needs” create/contribute to misunderstanding. They’re the answer to “How much do you inconvenience and challenge these systems ability to justify themselves?” They’re not really about the person with autism.

"If this is so, which it is" is the most accidentally Orwellian thing this man has ever pounded into his stupid fucking phone with his stupid fucking fingers

C'mon, people, let's do this! ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Daniel Arthury, "Where's my Breakfast II," 2025.