In Amber Sparks' "The Case of the Girl Who Was Already Dead" a living dead agent should be out hunting the cryptid known as the Bray Road Beast, but then a young girl, the daughter of a dead father and living mother, asks for some help with her ghosts.This story has a very Wisconsin Death Trip feel!

Three days left to support the Kickstarter for THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY anthology! #noir #horror #specfic #callforstories www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

The Book Club Industrial Complex, Speculative Detectives, Remembering Maxine Clair, and Other Sunday Sundries, from @thelincoln.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/counterc...

Only 4 Days Left to Support the Kickstarter! Meet one of our writers, Heather E. Ash, of STARGATE SG-1 fame. #5amwritersclub #specfic #callforstories www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

As a longtime admirer of both @richienarvaez.bsky.social and @latinxfiles.bsky.social and as a lover of short stories, it is a dream on more than one level to acquire The Speculative Detective Agency anthology, and with so many amazing contributors! This is gonna be good.

Hey everyone, Please check out and support this super cool anthology: The Speculative Detective Agency on Kickstarter. If you love mystery, speculative fiction, and creative storytelling…I’d love your help making this a reality! Learn more & back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Only 6 Days Left, #specfic fans! Please support THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY Anthology kickstarter! #5amwritersclub

Cheers, Bluesky! Very proud to share that my Debut Crime Collection TALES FROM TERREBONNE is being published in 2026, courtesy of Rock and a Hard Place! Thank You Everyone on here who’s supported my writing! Thank You @robdsmith.bsky.social and the @rhppress.bsky.social Team for the dream come true!

Author Highlight #6: Monique Laban: "Anomaly Fixed" For people like Paulina who have trouble finding their place in the world, ghosts are a walk in the park, but a structural haunting, now that is a real challenge! 6 DAYS LEFT TO GO! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... www.moniquelaban.com

Attention, #specfic #scifi #urbanfantasy fans! #latinxheritagemonth #only7daysleft www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Does Tylenol use during pregnancy cause autism? "There's no definitive evidence that Tylenol causes autism, and multiple medical groups have reiterated that it remains safe to use during pregnancy." www.snopes.com/news/2025/09...

Only 8 Days Left! We're 1/3 the way there! Please chip in to support the Kickstarter for THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY Anthology! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

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A correction officer shared real-time information with federal immigration officers about the release of a man detained at Rikers Island in violation of New York City sanctuary law, a new probe has found.

Great way to stop pain - release the Epstein files!

FYI #5amwritersclub

Only 9 Days Left to support the funky, international, multigenre anthology THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY. www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

And check out our call for stories!

ONLY 10 DAYS LEFT! Help support the Kickstarter for THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY Anthology. International. Multiethnic. Multigenre. All in a shared fictional world. Featuring authors such as Megan Chee, Monique Laban, Lincoln Michel, & Amber Sparks www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Author Highlight #3: Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos Stephanie’s short story for the SDA “The Silver Woman” has all the things that make a great speculative detective story, Faraday cages, remote viewing, aliens, Greek islands. So good! Come and join us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Today's #writinginspo The Bobbettes - "I Shot Mr. Lee" (STEREO) youtu.be/dT_Yvpt2Jjw

feels like a reallllly good time to repost this piece. It's specific to vaccine misinfo, but applicable to all of the nonsense from today.

Author Highlight #1: Megan Chee’s “Office Party” The life of a speculative detective can be a bit lonely at times, moving from one city to the next, one strange case to the next... @richienarvaez.bsky.social @cayetanov.bsky.social @meganflchee.bsky.social

Check this out! This is a super fun project where each contributing writer creates their own detective character within a shared world of supernatural entities. I'll have a story in this and there's an open submission call too!

Cayetano Valenzuela created all the fantastic images for the Speculative Detective Agency. It's always a joy to work with Cayetano and we are grateful for the beauty he brings to the world! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... @richienarvaez.bsky.social @cayetanov.bsky.social #kickstarter

Weird little #flashfiction piece is live in issue 18 of Etched Onyx! Saw this little guy a few days after my acceptance email. onyxpublications.com/new-yorkers/ #writer #pubday #writingcommunity

Pre-order: ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER: A CLIMATE CHANGE CRIME FICTION ANTHOLOGY Edited by Curtis Ippolito. W/ stories by Kendall Brunson, me, Mary Franzen, CW Blackwell, Michael Downing, Puja Guha, Colin Brightwell, Priscilla Paton, Zakariah Johnson, Meagan Lucas, + more www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRB4RWY5

This week, we present the Story Hour debuts of David Marino and Kristina Ten! Expect beautiful prose, expect to be moved—but most of all, expect to be surprised. Wednesday, September 17! 7:00 p.m.! Join us! @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Today's #writinginspo Philip Marlowe Red Wind Raymond Chandler Murder Mystery | Classic detect... youtu.be/B_5yI4C_Z8U

Come and support our Kickstarter! THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY takes cases that deal with the strange and the supernatural, fantasies that come to life and science fictions that walk the streets at midnight. We trust the mystery. We take the hand of the monster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBU7...

Freedom of speech means the government can't restrict what you say. It doesn't mean you are free to live without consequences for the things you say.

Please support our Kickstarter for the Speculative Detective Agency anthology. This is going to be a fantastic book and in donating to the Kickstarter you also get the book at a discount. And maybe some swell rewards. www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Excited about this upcoming anthology. It is also open to submissions at this moment, so send your words! Thanks to Matthew David Goodwin and @richienarvaez.bsky.social for championing this project. www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

New York governor issues order to bypass Trump administration's COVID vaccine limits reut.rs/42jfipt

Check it out: “Solving the Patriarchy: Female Detectives and Feminism in the Mystery & Crime Genre”, featuring acclaimed Mystery/Crime authors Delia Pitts, Laurie R. King, and SJ Rozan www.youtube.com/live/aHTYOWs...

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Hershey’s hikes prices ahead of Halloween. It gets worse from here I think.

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Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: “Together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know who were regularly in the Epstein world.”

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

LATIN AMERICAN SHARED STORIES, edited by V. Castro. I'm lucky enough to have a story in this upcoming collection, out in October, but is now part of a pre-order campaign. All B&N members receive 25% off upcoming releases by inputting code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/latin-amer...

"Mr. Plinkett's What Happened To Star Wars?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeM...

#WhatIAmReading finally got hold of this book: #ResistingAI, an anti-fascist approach to AI by Dan McQuillan.

In 2025, there were major developments in dozens of ongoing #copyright lawsuits against #AI companies, including Bartz v. Anthropic & Kadrey v. Meta. Explore these AI cases & more in this mid-year review blog! copyrightalliance.org/ai-copyright...

"Book Review: Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope by Matthew David Goodwin, Alex Hernandez, Sara Rivera, eds," by @arleysorg.bsky.social : "You need to read this book." www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/b...

Honored to be part of this new anthology, DOUBLE CROSSING VAN DINE. In each story, writers break one of S.S. Van Dine's 20 Rules for Writing Detective Stories. #fairplay #mysteryfiction #5amwritersclub Order now! crippen-and-landru.myshopify.com/products/dou...

Today is the official release date of DOUBLE CROSSING VAN DINE, an anthology where rules are broken! And perhaps, rebroken! Honored to be included with so many other great writers! Edited by Donna Andrews, Greg Herren, and Art Taylor! From Crippen & Landru Publishers!

There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.

These data centers don't add value to society at this point.

Hello world! Provincetown Stories. Out March 1, 2026. You can advance order anywhere books are sold or click here: www.shawmutpeninsulapress.com/books/provin...