I just found out about this site/app called Notion, a productivity and note-taking app that’s really helping me organize & plan my projects better. I HIGHLY recommend - www.notion.so/product?utm_...

Day 21 of Spooky Season is Black Horror (If you need recommendations, start with Horror Noire!) Our pick is a new fave: Black queer writer/director Bill Gunn's GANJA & HESS, which we discussed with @brotherghoulish.bsky.social earlier this year

I sat down with Sean King O’Grady (We Need to Do Something) to discuss The Mill (2023) - creepycatalog.com/a-scary-dyst...

Just finished reading There's Something Wrong in Morrington County after hearing @brotherghoulish.bsky.social on the Girl That's Scary podcast. It's great and if you're in the mood for a scary anthology with queer protagonists, check this out!!

Hey! I had a chance to sit down with the writer and director of Appendage, Anna Zlokovic. She shared her inspirations for the new body horror movie and gives advice to filmmakers working towards their first feature-length film - creepycatalog.com/a-scary-come...

If you’re a fan of The Twilight Zone, I’ve been covering the series on TikTok - www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8Mcj5Qs/

Hey! I wrote a new piece, and it’s right on time for the release of Talk to Me on Blu Ray today - horrorpress.com/movies/4950/...

Bone Collector Mermay

Digging back in to Bram Stoker’s Dracula 🖤🥀

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I'm quoted in today's Toronto Star article about trying to survive as an indie press. https://bit.ly/43YyfMl

Ever wanted to be part of the reading team for an SFF mag? I'm in the market for a couple more readers for next month's reading period. You can apply here: https://fusionfragment.aidaform.com/reader-application-form

I’m fighting to finish these articles so I can continue outlining my novel. I’m going supernatural, and I’m actually pretty excited

Let people like things. A blockbuster movie. A popular book. A strange glowing orb in that clearing in the forest

Speaking as Mom of a dog who is terrified of fireworks and thunderstorms, I laughed too hard at this.

You know what's great? Horror.

Saw this over on Threads, resharing for my fellow specfic writers 👉🏾 31 Publishers that Accept Direct Submissions of Speculative Fiction https://authorspublish.com/31-publishers-that-accept-direct-submissions-of-speculative-fiction/

Now I really wanna write a ghost story for an open submission, so let’s do it

Okay, I finished and submitted an article today. Let’s see how this goes 🤞🏾

📚 Horror Bookmail (w some awesome covers, too!) -Excited for this @Valancourt_B reissue of a "modern horror classic," according to their wise curators: @thomastessier.bsky.social's THE NIGHTWALKER -Also excited about this short story collection that sounds fantastic from @brotherghoulish.bsky.social

James Baldwin was born August 2, 1924 in Harlem.

As a recovering people pleaser & validation junkie, learning to sit alone with myself is helping me heal tremendously.

Day 525,600 of figuring out how to survive on making TikToks and writing queer horror stories

Queer authors and authors who write queer protagonists, secondary characters, and queer-norm worlds, I have a Google form in my linktree! Please add your 2023 books 🫶🫶🫶.

I’m currently working on making my paperback available outside of Amazon. I’m a little less than a year into being an indie author, but from what I know now, this feels like the right move.

When I moderated the StokerCon 2023 panel, A Decade of Black Women in Horror, I gave the audience homework -- read my “required reading” list of works created by black women. I have included the list at TAMIKA TALKS TERROR. Enjoy! https://www.tamikathompson.com/tamika-talks-terror/required-reading

Poets! PLEASE REPOST! Uncanny Magazine will be OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 7 to August 21! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

I’m happy to announce, after deleting and rewriting my opening paragraphs over the last few days, it looks like this story’s actually gonna happen.

I'm busy today prepping the perks for the Blackened Roots: An Anthology of the Undead indiegogo campaign. I'm so thankful for our backers. Diverse horror is an important part and adding our voices is one of the things we do at Mocha Memoirs Press and Nightlight Podcast. @missdefying.bsky.social

#Whistpr is a daily #prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity: art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, gifs, photos, etc. #author #writingprompt #art #writingcommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 28, 2023: NECTAR

Once again, Teen Vogue is doing a better job covering politics than most other mainstream publications: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Hey, folks, Flame Tree Publishing is looking for African ghost stories, sweet spot 2,000-4,000 words paying SFWA rates Deadline: Aug 27 https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/african-ghost-submissions-0

The Book of Lilith is a great read for anyone curious about her lore. I finished it in a day.

I’m writing some folk horror tonight and it has me thinking about growing up in MD, and how folk horror was all around me from the Bunnyman to the Blair Witch after the movie came out. Even the Exorcist Steps isn’t far from me, in Georgetown.

Can't stop, won't stop making feeds! Where are my fellow #horrorwriters at? This feed will pull in posts with any of the following: #horrorlit, #horrorbook, #horrorwriter, #hwa or the emojis 📚😱 in this combination

I'm posting this here first!!! OMG y'all I've been publishing for a long time, but I don't often get nominated for big genre awards. This is so thrilling!!! And Other Terrors is such a great anthology -- you should check it out! Congrats to all of the nominees! I can't even find a link to post yet!

The Gap by Ira Glass is the perfect less than 2 min. pick-me-up for any creative who’s feeling a little discouraged - https://youtu.be/91FQKciKfHI

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I started my publishing journey with There’s Something Wrong in Morrington County, a QPOC-centered horror short story collection. The 12 stories include flesh-eating pixies, killer thighs, people microdosing zombie blood, and more if you’re interested 🐍 https://linktr.ee/brotherghoulish

For my horror writers, there’s still some time left on this open submissions call (July 1st, 2023, to July 31st, 2023) - PYRE PRESENTS: ELDRITCH HARVEST AN ANTHOLOGY OF COSMIC FOLK HORROR Let’s get it ✍🏾 https://www.pyremagazine.com/anthology-submission-call

“With a horror movie, you’re making a metaphor. You’re making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist,” Jordan Peele on translating paranoia into film for Get Out Source: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/02/jordan-peele-get-out-horror-movie-racism/

The history of Elon’s X from PayPal to Twitter is a straight up horror story, and this is coming from a cinephile of the genre.

Brainsss