there is a lot t think about here. h/t to @jonathanwood.bsky.social for showing me this substack.com/home/post/p-...

What an Olympics for the home country! And it's only Day 5.

The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign is base goal funded (Thank you!) (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 86% to SG1 & 75% to SG2. Have some tea and crumpets to celebrate. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

$24 to go. Then with a bit of buffer, time for Stretch Goals and extra authors added. You all are wonderful.

So close! Let’s get this book funded!

Loving the close drone shots at the Olympics.

The latest Starfleet Academy was such a love letter to DS9, my favorite Trek. ❤️

cover AND blurb AND pub date!

For the overnight crowd, we are a KS Project We Love campaign which means we are on the front page of the Publications section. At a touch under 80% for our base goal, the campaign rolls on with your support - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #booksky #sciencefiction #tea #coffee

75% base funding in one day is incredible. Let’s keep it up, friends! Support indie presses. Support artists, writers, and editor!

It's time to apply for the second annual DAG Prize, celebrating innovation and supporting sustainable careers in the arts — $20,000 apiece for a writer, a musician, and a visual artist! Last year's winners were @michaelzapata.bsky.social, Elizabeth Ziman, and Ziba Rajabi. Please share widely! ✨

75% base funding in one day is incredible. Let’s keep it up, friends! Support indie presses. Support artists, writers, and editor!

I'm such a fan of @aanpress.bsky.social ! Whenever Todd announces a themed anthology, as he did last year for potential 2026 books, my brain starts percolating with ideas. This book looks and sounds great. Live on Kickstarter today. Come join me in supporting one of our great indie presses!

Mark your calendar! This week, the marvelous Justin C. Key returns—and so does the legendary Pat Murphy! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PST! @justinkey.bsky.social @pat-murphy.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Elmer Benson was the 24th governor of Minnesota (1937-1939) and also happens to be my husband's great-grandfather. Here is a thread of his most pertinent quotes to current times: 🧵1/6

I'm such a fan of @aanpress.bsky.social ! Whenever Todd announces a themed anthology, as he did last year for potential 2026 books, my brain starts percolating with ideas. This book looks and sounds great. Live on Kickstarter today. Come join me in supporting one of our great indie presses!

☕⭐🌍 Hard SF submissions are open for Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity. ✔️ All 3 elements required ✔️ 2k words max ✔️ Pays $0.08/word 🚫 No AI 📅 March 1–31, 2026 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... Brought to you by @aanpress.bsky.social #HardSF #WritingSubmissions

GUESS WHAT we are OPEN for 2025 AFTERLIVES: The Year's Best Death Stories subs!! BUT (and this is SUPER IMPORTANT) we are asking EDITORS to send us work this time so WRITERS, be in touch with your editors and READ ON for more info: psychopomp.com/afterlives-2...

Three days to launch - Feb. 3rd. Hoping you will join us as a backer. I know times are tough . You will be supporting worthy, talented authors and a small indie press fighting the good fight with kindness, respect, and decency towards all in our community.

tell your friends, your frenemies, your favorite writers & publishers... only a couple days left to send us the best nature-based speculative fiction you published last year! We're reading 2025's ecohorror, clifi, solarpunk, anthropomorphic, ecoweird, dystopian, utopian, anti-utopian, ecofuturism!

We are elated to announce the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners, Class of 2025! This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird. BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July. Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/47f6tt48

And here we go. DS9. S1E1.

Finished my Voyager rewatch today. Took a little over a year. I started it after watching the final ep of Lower Decks. It was a wonderful and emotional journey. Second time I’ve rewatched the series. It’s not one of my favorite Treks and yet there’s something compelling about the journey.

ICYMI!

One of the projects I am very excited about in 2026 is the anthology, ANIMAL NOIR from Little Key Press. Born out of a silly Discord discussion about killer geese, a bunch of authors decided to write stories about anthromophic animals in the same city setting, New Growl. Cover reveal below!

Introducing... The Dream Foundry Monthly Market Report. We are DELIGHTED to be bringing a monthly report straight to your inboxes with data from The Submission Grinder about market openings, closings, and other changes. Here is this month's report dreamfoundry.org/202... 1/2

Thrilled to share a TOC with so many talented, fun, and collaborative authors!

One of the projects I am very excited about in 2026 is the anthology, ANIMAL NOIR from Little Key Press. Born out of a silly Discord discussion about killer geese, a bunch of authors decided to write stories about anthromophic animals in the same city setting, New Growl. Cover reveal below!

It's hard to believe it, but the day is finally here! Ballad of the Bone Road is officially out in the world!

For the @strangehorizons.bsky.social 2026 Criticism Special, I wrote about weird fiction being constituted by weird reading, vis a vis Sederholm and Woofter’s The Weird and @undertow.bsky.social’s The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1., in tribute to Maureen Kincaid Speller. It’s a long one.

Having fun at the #MDPLS Local Author Fair today.

The light is on for LindaAnn LoSchiavo! @ghostlyverse.bsky.social💡 “Cedar Waxwings in the Hospital’s Playground” is a beautiful, poetic meditation on life and death. You won’t want to miss LindaAnn’s gorgeous writing over at the site!

I’m excited to be part of the 2026 #MDPLS Local Author Book Fair! Join me and 80+ local authors at the Main Library on Saturday, January 24, 11 AM – 5 PM for author presentations, family programs, publishing tips, book signings & more. www.mdpls.org/author-fair

This book is now a British Science Fiction Association awards longlister! Get it while it's hot! (it's always hot)

I’m excited to be part of the 2026 #MDPLS Local Author Book Fair! Join me and 80+ local authors at the Main Library on Saturday, January 24, 11 AM – 5 PM for author presentations, family programs, publishing tips, book signings & more. www.mdpls.org/author-fair

ICYMI 👀 Our submission portal has re-opened! We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” Learn more👇 buff.ly/auE6ZFe

En•Trance Journal is currently opened for submissions of poetry and artwork with the theme "altered states" until May 1. For more information, see my interview with editors Dion O’Reilly & Addie Mahmassani with a link to submission guidelines below. buff.ly/IYFcYFU #poetrycommunity #litmags

All my books are entirely written by me, a human, with cover art by humans! Help me keep Ben in biscuits and blankets!

Psst...have a cool short story you don't have a home for that fits this description? Submit it!

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in the new season of Euphoria??? That's HBO royalty right there. Let's fucking go!

🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥 Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down. Weird is strong🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8

My library event this weekend was fun. Didn't get much people despite really trying to get the neighborhood out, but it's always good practice to get in front of people and read with confidence and clarity. I will be part of a Local Author Fair later this month at the main library downtown.

My library event this weekend was fun. Didn't get much people despite really trying to get the neighborhood out, but it's always good practice to get in front of people and read with confidence and clarity. I will be part of a Local Author Fair later this month at the main library downtown.

This is today!

So, I'm starting a review blog. In this saturated market, you might ask? 14 stories every week, you may scream? ARE YOU WELL? Well read. I'll be well read. ;) www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...

New series up at the thing. Hope you dig it. Hope you sign up. Hope you have a great afternoon. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/real-horro...

Miami friends, acquaintances, and nemeses, I will be doing a reading at the Miami Springs branch library this Saturday, January 10th at 1:30pm. I will be copying the format of my launch event with a brief discussion, a reading, and then Q&A. Check out a cool poster the library made for the event.

Miami friends, acquaintances, and nemeses, I will be doing a reading at the Miami Springs branch library this Saturday, January 10th at 1:30pm. I will be copying the format of my launch event with a brief discussion, a reading, and then Q&A. Check out a cool poster the library made for the event.

A "skip" button for boss battles.

Make a Bond movie casual AlmostFall