Meet Basilica. She's not like other v̶i̶l̶l̶a̶i̶n̶s̶ heroes. 1/ Basilica is your teammate in my new interactive novel/text RPG, POSTHUMAN: Guardians vs PSION from @choiceofgames.com You can meet (or date) Bas & choose from 20+ powers when you play POSTHUMAN. #videogames #rpg #posthuman #comics #superhero

Meet Pi. She's not like other heroes. 1/ Pi is your teammate in my new interactive novel/text RPG, POSTHUMAN: Guardians vs PSION from @choiceofgames.com You can meet (or date) Pi & choose from 20+ super powers when you play POSTHUMAN. #videogames #rpg #posthuman #comics #superhero #xmen #muslimhero

It's here! POSTHUMAN: Guardians vs PSION is my new release from @choiceofgames.com. It took several years to write & it's twice as long as Drag Star! Would you play/read/experience this interactive work of fiction? Play here www.choiceofgames.com/posthuman Art: @rabidblackdog Editor: Mary Duffy

My final post in my series highlighting the SSBA 2025 Finalists and winners! Today, I am ending with the winner in the Fantasy category - Evan J. Peterson. @specawards.bsky.social @evanjpeterson.bsky.social www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2026/03/evan...

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

me: you think somewhere there's a taxidermist who uses a stuffed pig as a piggy bank? wife: we don't actually have to talk about every thought you have

More glimpses into the new project, releasing in April. Meet Saturn. They're not like other heroes? Villains? Heroes. #superhero #interactivefiction #rpg #comics #nonbinary

I don't think you're ready for my next big project. Watch this account for news leading up to an April release. #superhero #fiction #rpg #interactivenovel

This was such a great interview! You can watch the replay now!

ALMOST TIME! I'll be interviewed live at 1pm Pacific today, discussing my Small Spec Book Award-winning noir fantasy novel, BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY. Sign up at this link to be notified when we're going live. Thanks to the SSBA voters, to my publisher Broken Eye Books, and to Indiosyncrasy!

The SSBA winner in fantasy, @evanjpeterson.bsky.social, will be live with Saffron Asteria today at 3pm CST on BOOKED! Come join the conversation! www.youtube.com/live/ZeAtXMA... #SSBA #SSBA2025

Loved this one! Occult noir weirdness in an almost-too-familiar Seattle. Endearing, weird, and well worth the trip. The monsters are, as advertised, incidental. @slgable.bsky.social @evanjpeterson.bsky.social

Wrote a quick blog post highlighting some of my favourite books from the @specawards.bsky.social! Feat. four very good independently published fantasy books from four very different fantasy subgenres. leoastrum.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/s...

Now that we’ve announced the ✨winners✨ of the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards, @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social & @millieabecassis.com are starting to plan for 2026. Do you want to join us in celebrating small & indie press writers? Why not join our team at the @specawards.bsky.social? 💙 #SSBA #SSBA2026

I enjoyed this strange little book.

Apply here: forms.gle/Hixv4s2mJSnP...

Do you like to read sci-fi, fantasy, and/or horror? Do you want to volunteer to support authors published with small and indie presses? Apply to the SSBA today! We need a lot more volunteers if we are going to make the 2026 awards season work, so please share this post!

How cool! Got interviewed by L.N. Holmes about my weird mushroom book You Will Speak for the Dead (Stelliform Press). We talk about hoarding, fungus, death, and lighter-stealing ferrets, so give it a look! lnholmeswriter.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/a... @stelliformpress

SSBA influencer Ben G. Bronson had a fantastic conversation with @evanjpeterson.bsky.social, author of BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY, over at Mixed Media Magazine. Read their conversation about Evan’s book here:

Bookish Collaborations interviews the SSBA finalists, including @evanjpeterson.bsky.social for Better Living Through Alchemy. (Which won, in case you missed the news!) Go check 'em out! armedwithabook.com/2025-ssba-fa...

Another interview from SSBA Founder @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social, this time with SSBA 2025 Fantasy Winner @evanjpeterson.bsky.social. Read about gangster-scientists amassing occult knowledge, the smell of lies, and folklore versus fakelore. lnholmeswriter.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/a...

Latest editorial is up at Nightmare: "We might be out of spooky season, but December is the time when our thoughts are often in communication with legends & lore." www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Yas! Better Living Through Alchemy has won the Small Spec Book Award. Now time to take drugs and be gods in the monster-infested streets of Seattle. (Congrats, @evanjpeterson.bsky.social!)

Congratulations to the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards winners! ✨BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY by @evanjpeterson.bsky.social (@slgable.bsky.social) ✨YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD by @rabusby.bsky.social (@stelliform.press) ✨EMPRESS OF DUST by @alexyquest.bsky.social (@wctracy.bsky.social) #SSBA #SSBA2025

I won? I WON!!! Immense gratitude to the Small Spec Awards and to my editor/publisher, Scott Gable at Broken Eye Books. I'm glad you like it Weird, cuz I've only just begun. Sequel in progress! @slgable.bsky.social

Find your next favorite #horrorbook here! @crystallake.bsky.social @evanjpeterson.bsky.social @williamfgrayfic.bsky.social @stevestred.bsky.social @daniellemuething.bsky.social @kevharrison.bsky.social

For all those folks getting their Frankenstein love on, check out MetaFlesh by @evanjpeterson.bsky.social It's very good. arusentertainment.com/product/meta...

I miss Krakoa. Art by @_sadmeat. #krakoawasforlovers #scogan #xmen

i took tylenol while i was autistic and now my son is pregnant

This has been such a wild year, most of us barely remember half of what's happened. Like it was just a few months ago the script for an unmade fourth Nolan Batman movie leaked called The Dark Knight Fucks. And nobody even talks about it now.

Today's example of whyte G3n0c1dE: the pumpkin spice cold brew i got at trader joes's is unsweetened. It's just like nutmeg in black coffee. They want to erase our culture.

At @hplff.bsky.social this week in PDX? Check us out: SUN 9/21 Sonder Bar, 41 Ave 2PM Readings with Francis Pai Ippolito Cody Goodfellow 3PM Queering Lovecraft @casskhaw.bsky.social, DB Spitzer, @theoddra.bsky.social 4PM Reanimate THIS: Reclaiming the Mythos Khaw, Ippolito, @andrewsfuller.com

Exciting news from recent weeks, @evanjpeterson.bsky.social's Better Living Through Alchemy novel is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards in Fantasy. Also, @andrewpennromine.bsky.social's The Mosquito Fleet is a semifinalist for Sci-Fi (but no graphic for that yet).

💅💖

Huge thanks to @specawards.bsky.social for advancing my novel to their semifinalist pool! Congrats to all the authors!

I would play the shit out of that game:

Announced: my novel, BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY, is one of five finalists for the Endeavor Award for SFF! I am over the moon. Congrats to all finalists, & we'll know the winner in October at OryCon! Thanks again to Jim Kling and the judges and Scott Gable at Broken Eye Books. lnkd.in/gzDezSaq

Had a great time at Worldcon. For anyone who attended the Cosmic Horror panel on Sunday, if you're curious about the SCP stories I mentioned, here's a link to get started: scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics... #WorldCon #CosmicHorror #SCP

This weekend, I got a short story rejection, an essay acceptance, and a speaking invitation all within 12 hours of each other. This is a business that keeps you on your toes -- so never give up!

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.

Got to chill with @nmamatas.bsky.social and @evanjpeterson.bsky.social

Queer Fear aka Queer for Fear @evanjpeterson.bsky.social

Blood and Steam: Effective Sex in Dark Fantasy @evanjpeterson.bsky.social @gwendolynnix.bsky.social @berlynnwohl.bsky.social

Come get a book signed! I'm on 3rd floor at @seaconvcenter slingin hooks and signin books until 2:30. @seattle2025worldcon #scifi #fantasy #horror #queerhorror #writersofinstagram #alchemy #witchy

WorldCon, day 2: come to REANIMATE THIS! @ 1;30 in rm 345 &see me + @usmantm.bsky.social @mattruff.bsky.social @sadiehartmann.bsky.social &Nelly Garcia Rosas discuss what to do now w Lovecraft& cosmic #horror & who's doing it splendidly

Coming to WorldCon @seattlein2025.org? I interview the brilliant Dr. Heather O. Petrocelli & discuss their book, @queerforfear.com QUEER FOR FEAR: HORROR FILM AND THE QUEER SPECTATOR. The Doctor interviewed 4000+ horror-loving queers. What'd they say? Sun, Aug 17. 9-10 AM. Rooms 435-436.

Saturday at 10:30, I'll be on THE X-MEN PANEL with @evanjpeterson.bsky.social, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, and Sara K Ellis! Since the panel is light, I'd love it if @wilralston.bsky.social could join. He's yet another X-Men faguette.

Good news + ways to make a difference: It's @clarionwest.bsky.social annual Write-A-Thon fundraiser; long story short, this is an incredible organization that changed my life for the better. Would you please donate to them this week? My personal goal is to raise 500: givebutter.com/2025cw-write...

Last minute invite: #Pride isn't over yet! Join me for one more hurrah at the Big Queer Talent Show @fridaytea.com in Wallingford. *all proceeds benefit Lambert House. *18+ *Respiratory masking required (keep the tea Covid-free) www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-tale...