Looking for something to curl up with this fall? Check out our newly released Augur Issue 8.2! ✨ Also, you can find 2 FREE samples on our site! 📚💫 🔗 Link in bio!

GASP! The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World ebook is a Kindle Goldbox Deal on November 9th as part of the Top Rated Books Goldbox. This means that the ebook is $2.99 across all retailer sites (not just Amazon) for the day!!!!!! THREE BUCKS!!!!!

issue 98 is out in the world and yours to read! read it here for free! and hey, if you love what you find, consider subscribing. every sub helps us to keep bringing you the kinds of stories and poems you love 💖 psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

This book was an absolute delight, and also as a bonus, it’s full of delicious descriptions of cheese!

In honor of this spooky rainy Oct. 30, here's a list of my favorite dark fairy tale retellings from 2025! :) Novels by @nassos.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @freyamarske.bsky.social; short stories by @cislyn.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com and @adsui.bsky.social medium.com/@katefrancia...

There's just 4 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we're SO CLOSE to hitting our 20k goal! Our full catalogue of critiques, ebooks, merch and more will all be gone on Halloween. Don't miss out on these limited edition items and donate TODAY! 💜👽🎃 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

We're SIX DAYS AWAY from the end of our Kickstarter and 75% FUNDED 🚀✨ Remember, it's YOUR donations keeping us a proudly pro-rate magazine, which financially compensates the skilled authors who bring Apex to life. Help artists thrive in 2026 and donate TODAY 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to fund Apex Magazine in 2026, and we JUST unlocked our 70% reward!! The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩 🎃 Help us reach our funding goal and donate TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever. I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

We're only $1,064 away from the halfway mark!! Thank you SO much for all of your support so far! 💜👽 If we manage to hit $10k by the end of today, we JUST might squeak in under our deadline 🤞 It's scary cutting it so close, but we're no stranger to scary! 🛸 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

It’s a great day to back Apex’s kickstarter if you haven’t checked it out yet! Apex published my tiniest, strangest microfiction piece a few years ago; they are awesome to work with and such a cornerstone for the SFF community!

As the nights get longer, I'm putting together all my favorite short stories and novels and novellas from 2025 so far (...sooo many). I've decided to do a series of themed recs, because I love thinking about how stories connect and are in conversation with each other...(1)

WE HIT 250 BACKERS!! +1 exclusive sticker for everyone who either added a sticker or backed at a tier with sticker rewards! That is our last backer goal! We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

It's here! @apexmag.bsky.social issue 151 is out now and contains my story "Ghosts of Summer"!!! The end of summer and the beginning of spooky season collide as two witches try to beat the summer heat. But high temperatures and magic are a dangerous combination. 👻☀️ Check out the full issue below:

Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!

Hey. Hey. On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

Preorder my book, get freebies! If you preorder A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE (release date: 10.21.2025) you'll get beautiful art prints and other freebies! Go to millieabecassis.com/preorder/ to learn more about the campaign and fill out the form. Available worldwide! Free stuff! Beautiful art!

It makes me SO HAPPY that Otherside is fully funded and already passed the first stretch goal on DAY 1!! Here’s to funding even more queer stories and art for the next two years! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

✨Cover reveal!✨ I'm thrilled to present you the cover of my upcoming novel, LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE It will be released in April 2026 by Dark Matter Ink Cover art by Mona Finden.

Otherside kickstarter is live!!

In less than a week — six days! — the Canarviers will arrive to steal your hearts! Make sure you catch your thieves! RSVP to an event near you (it MATTERS!) Preorder, do those magical library holds. The thieves are counting on you! www.penguinrandomhou... 1/2

Yesss I have been looking forward to this for so long! If you're not yet following Otherside's Kickstarter, they're launching tomorrow!!

I'm obsessed with this description; thank you so much @nadawn.bsky.social!!

Thank you so much, @jelenawrites.bsky.social!!

Live right now in BCS #441: "Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth" by @katefrancia.bsky.social "The wind wailed around the tiny pile of stones at the base of the blackthorn tree. She stood for a moment, eyes closed, willing herself to move." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holl...

Thank you so much @aimeeogdenwrites.com! I was so excited to appear in the issue with you, and I loved your story too—such a cool twist on Beauty and the Beast; the horror of what it would really be like to be turned into a piece of furniture/cutlery, being trapped by magic and also by class/power

Thank you so much!! @marissalingen.bsky.social

The ebook of the BCS issue with my story in it is out now! I’m so excited for people to read this one 😊

It's finally September! Do you know what that means??? Flights of Foundry is THIS MONTH. Register: flights-of-foundry.o... Let's gooooo! 🪽🪽🪽

My Nebula Finalist short story "The Witch Trap" is now free to read in The Dark! The entire issue is stunning and I'm so pleased to have a place in it! www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-witch-tr...

My new book, A House Between Sea and Sky, is an Amazon First Reads pick for September! If you're a Prime member, you can acquire it for free; other people can get it for $1.99! So, what's it about? Well... amzn.to/4lb2R73 [promo link]

The cover is OUT!!! So stoked! Pre-orders now open at Undertow/Amazon/B&N. The Gillan foreword and @kellylink.bsky.social's kind words blew me away. Also you can see more of Ove Tøpfer's wild surreal oil paintings at his IG below. Can't wait until Sept!! 🥳 www.instagram.com/p/CeBHuBKoGtI/

This novella was so much creepy fun! Highly recommend

Flights of Foundry, our annual virtual conference, returns this fall! From September 26 to 28, we'll be hosting around-the-clock panels, discussions, readings, workshops, and more! Don't miss it! Join in the fun and register: flights-of-foundry.o...

So excited for another year of Uncanny! Four more days to hopefully hit some of the stretch goals too!!

Happy release day to my debut THE ELYSIUM HEIST! FAQ: - stand alone - multi POV first person narration -spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ -rep: bi, ace, lesbian, Jewish - not a traditional heist, heavy on the romance It’s a digital first release so your best price is the ebook (3.99) but there’s POD too! Links in bio.

Hi 👋 If you're new here, I have a fairytalesque novella with Tordotcom called BUT NOT TOO BOLD about a monstrous spider woman with a taste for human brides 🕷🗝 You can find it in your favorite online bookshop, or order on the link below: linktr.ee/hachepueyo

What if Atlantis was on the drowned land that's now Dogger Bank? What is the last resentful descendants of that vanished golden age clung to the shore under the eye of callous gods ready to drown them for a new lease on life and memory?

I really want to do better about promoting the books and stories that I read and love...starting by catching up on all my favorites from 2024! medium.com/@katefrancia...

I have FOUR things in the Locus recommended reading list this year, in case you are interested! :) (Novel, novella, novelette, AND short story! And two of those things are also up for Hugos and/or Nebulas!) BIG YEAR FOR LARGE SKITTERING BUGGE

Voting for the Locus Awards is OPEN! As a nonprofit, Locus Magazine champions authors of all kinds, from big names to indies and small press. Subscriber votes count double! Voting ends April 15—make your voice heard! Vote here: poll.voting.locusmag... #LocusAwards

New story day! I'm pleased to present my @clarkesworldmagazine.com debut! This story began as a spinoff of my PhD dissertation, right when I started to veer toward translation studies. It's been very hard to balance my academic & creative sides, but here, I felt for the first time like I did it. 🥹

I’m also offering a manuscript edit up to 6000 words as a backer reward—still available! The kickstarter closes today, so check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...

Want to give your writing some real historical vibes? I’m doing a medieval history consult for the Augur kickstarter and it’s still available as of right now!

Today is the last day of the Augur kickstarter and they’re sooo close to opening their SFF press to novella subs!! Still lots of rewards available, so if you haven’t checked them out yet, today is the day to do it!

My story “Poets of Painswick” is in this month’s issue of @augurmag.bsky.social! It contains: two sisters, a Gothic Romance novel, and a Poet who is Not to be Trusted. Read an excerpt here: www.augurmag.com/poets-of-pai...

I’m so excited to have a story in this issue of Augur!