We are so grateful and excited to be returning to LA WEBFEST🚀🍿🎬It’s an honor to be recognized among so many other amazing fiction podcasts. Thank you for letting us be a part of this event and for the amazing awards noms🏆🏆🏆🏆 Let’s Friggin Go! #podcast #audiodrama #awards #filmfestival

Are you an emerging artist or writer? Because our annual contest is back! Submit between April 7 to June 2. And the best part? We upped our prize money! 1st Place: $1500 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Writers: dreamfoundry.org/wri... Artists: dreamfoundry.org/art...

Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast is back for it's 8th season and I'm honored to kick it off with my story, "The Spirit Bed", 1st pubbed in WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE? @omgjulia.bsky.social & @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, eds. Read by @missdefying.bsky.social and free to listen! nightlightpod.com

Casting call for new VAs. Carnival horror sounds like fun & I can’t wait to listen!

Get early access to the season 8 premiere of award-winning horror fiction @nightlightpod.bsky.social by subscribing on Patreon where you can listen to my story “The Spirit Bed” read by the amazing @missdefying.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/122002.... The public release will be Feb 18!

Wanna hear a spooky story written by a Black writer for #BHM? Subscribe and listen now!

Wanna hear a spooky story written by a Black writer for #BHM? Subscribe and listen now!

If you are near London, I am jealous. Go see this on my behalf and tell me all about it!

If you aren't already supporting @missdefying.bsky.social and the @nightlightpod.bsky.social on patreon, sign up to get more details on the amazing return of the Nightlight podcast with new story, and support the campaign Tonia is doing to raise coins for a new program of study

ICYMI, @nightlightpod.bsky.social is returning next month with an amazing story I’ll announce as soon as the contract is signed. Meanwhile, consider signing up as a patron so you get access before the public!

I’m at 11% of my absolute minimum goal! Almost half of one month’s expenses taken care of! Thank you all so much 🖤

Tonia is awesome. Help her. out if you can, because she deserves all the support the universe can bring her.

Please help Tonia out if you can... She's one of the good ones.

My friend is going back to school to be a paramedic! She's a single, disabled mom who has had a lot of struggles with unemployment. I'm really excited for her to take these next big steps, but she needs some help! www.gofundme.com/f/toniascome...

Hey remember me saying how great @nightlightpod.bsky.social is? The creator could use a little help going back to school for a more stable career. I think we all have friends who can testify how brutal tech burnout is, and how much difference even a little help while recovering can make.

Have y'all listened to NightLight? It's phenomenal. I like to recommend folks start with The Power by Linda Addison or Malaika Descending by Sheree Renee Thomas

In other news, I’m going back to school because tech is literally killing me with the stress of the constant search for work. I’m a Black single mom with PTSD and ADHD and could *really* use your help bridging the income gap. Please help? gofund.me/db894df3

Hey, so @nightlightpod.bsky.social is coming back next month! More details: www.patreon.com/posts/nightl...

If you’re going to do the David Lynch memorial meditation tomorrow, may I suggest Raphael Reiter (both YT and podcast available!)

damn that is cold 🤣🤣🤣

My story "Recipe for a Zombie" made Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year Recommendations List (2023). This story is from Blackened Roots: An Anthology of the Undead published by @mochamemoirspress.com. Thank you @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social & @missdefying.bsky.social who accepted it!

I haven't logged into BlueSky in forever. Thanks for all the new follows! I'll get around to following the folks I know back, and after the new year I'll be posting here more often. I'm still taking a little mental health break, and hope you're all taking care of yourselves <3

I'm slowly resurfacing into the world of social media. Is BlueSky threading stuff right so I can tell a story on here, or is that still a hot mess? 😂

Y'all. Crowdfunding is hard these days. Please give whatever you can to this fellow @fableandfolly.bsky.social show. And if money is tight, spread the word to anyone who will listen!

Finished this great one Risen by Tonia Ransom @missdefying.bsky.social. Enjoyed Alexandra's sense of humor in the face of life and death and death! She also writes the Afflicted podcast. Go listen!! afflictedaudio.com

Echoing Laurel's love for RISEN by the amazingly talented @missdefying.bsky.social and encourage folks to buy a copy if you haven't already -- bookshop.org/p/books/rise...

Hey all, I've started a new column at Atlas Obscura! It's called "Eerie Feeling," and it takes Mark Fisher's definition of the "eerie" as a jumping off point to delve into some of the weirder aspects of history. You can read the first installment, on the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Illinois, here:

Let me say it again: practice relentless positivity. Celebrate everything. The harder they hate, the harder you work. Support those who deserve it. You have two hands: use one to climb and the other to help those behind you. It makes life better. Be good. Spread love. Stay cool.

My Southern Gothic horror story “The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm" is up at PseudoPod for their 2023 Anthology and Collection Showcase. Thanks to the production team & @missdefying.bsky.social for her fantastic narration of this sticky, dirty tale. Monsters or family, which has the strongest claws?

If you haven't bought BLACKENED ROOTS the zombie anthology edited by @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social and @missdefying.bsky.social, YOU ARE MISSING OUT! It's a *phenomenal* anthology of Black creators taking back the zombie and doing brilliant things -- my review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

this. and remember, podcasts that publish short fiction have even higher expenses, but we’re often forgotten in favor of magazines for support, reviews/word of mouth, and awards.

Podplane is my monthly newsletter spotlighting podcasts by trans, nonbinary, and non-cis creators. You should subscribe! podplane.crd.co

Please consider a donation. Just 2 weeks to save these gopher tortoises by buying this lot. Relocation is a terrible option with a significant mortality rate and listlessness because they imprint on their original territory. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-6-gop...

The POST STRIKE SCREENPLAY MARKET YouTube video is live. Please watch and share and like and subscribe it really helps a free screenwriting resource! youtu.be/JJVxegrsfx8?...

Writer lift! Please share! GUYS!!! Can I become a best seller? My ebooks are rising in rank and I need help. Buying my YA dystopian novelsfor FREE! YOU COULD MAKE ME #1. HELP! What a cool problem to have. Book 1: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B.... Book 2: www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7R5C5W....

We're $8 away from unlocking a 10th story selected from The Map of Lost Places open submission period. You can get the digital edition of The Map of Lost Places for $8. Coincidence? Absolutely, but so perfect! Unlock that 10th story AND get the ebook now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

IT'S PUBLICATION DAY!! I got the idea for The Reformatory TEN YEARS AGO, when I heard that I had a great-uncle, Robert Stephens, buried at the Dozier School for Boys. The research was sad and took me years. I wanted to give Robert Stephens a different story. And I added ghosts.

When Kilner and Samantha are sent to a remote, virtually-abandoned outpost to fix a blown gina gasket, they find a little more than they bargained for... Featuring peril, running and a misbehaving arc welder. Free to our patreons and for purchase on Gumroad! wefixspacejunk.gumroad.com/l/derelict

Any best of year list that does NOT have THE REFORMATORY by @tananarivedue.bsky.social on it is not a reliable list. For any genres. I reviewed this MASTERPIECE in June's Library Journal. The rest of you finally get to experience it tomorrow!!! I am very jealous www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Austin area friends! I'll be at the Cedar Park Library THIS SUNDAY at 4 to read from RISEN, followed by an AMA. Not sure if you want to come heckle...err cheer me on? Check out the images below for the first sentence of Risen, and bestselling author @paultremblay.bsky.social's thoughts on the book!

@colindickey.com out of the blue question: do you accept mentees? i’m working on a non-fiction book and i admire your writing so much 🖤 i’m open to working around your schedule. if not, no worries at all! my grandma always said closed mouths don’t get fed, so i always ask!

My second of three ghost stories for you this month: I went in search of Maryland’s bizarre cryptid, the Snallygaster (the name comes from the German “schnell geist,” or quick ghost), and found a truly disturbing story. For Atlas Obscura

and i’ll piggy back on this to remind y’all that @afflictedaudio.bsky.social exists and is basically if Lovecraft Country and True Blood had a baby.

There are 12 days remaining in The Map of Lost Places Kickstarter and we're only $325 away from $13K. That's only $2,325 from funding! AND there are still loads of cool add-ons! If you back at the $3 Plotter reward, you get access to them all! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Austin area friends! I'll be at the Cedar Park Library THIS SUNDAY at 4 to read from RISEN, followed by an AMA. Not sure if you want to come heckle...err cheer me on? Check out the images below for the first sentence of Risen, and bestselling author @paultremblay.bsky.social's thoughts on the book!

friendly advice: with the rise of AI, and considering how much Twitter's new owner loves AI, we would strongly advise against participating in any kind of public pitching (like pitmad). you are literally providing free story prompts for any of these services to recycle.

Austin area folks! I'll be at the Cedar Park Library reading from RISEN this Sunday @ 4 PM! There will be a Q&A after, so now's your chance to ask me an embarrassing question in public!

14 days left in The Map of Lost Places Kickstarter and we are $3,318 away from our funding goal. Can you help us make sure this anthology happens? I'm super excited to work with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social to bring this to life, but we have to fund first. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

GIVE THIS MAN A KICKASS BIRTHDAY PRESENT