Me. In Absentia TW for death of a parent. This is a story ripped from my experiences.... I'd say enjoy, but it's me so um thanks if you get the chance to read! Also thanks to The Dark Magazine for publishing it. They've been a supporter of my work for years.🖤 www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-absentia/

Thrilled to have made the Preliminary Ballot for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® in the category Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection! If you are an Active or Lifetime Member of the HWA and want to read my debut solo collection for consideration, DM me! 👻 #horror #horrorwriter #stokers 🍔💁🏻‍♀️

Hey hey, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Pals! We're looking to expand to help provide workshops, book clubs, signings, Q&As, and Vendors to the community! Every little bit helps, and there are some cool rewards! fnd.us/littleghosts...

One of your New Year's resolutions is to read more books, right? RIGHT?? Why not get an early start by discovering some local horror authors? @hwaontario.bsky.social is hosting a New Year's Levee on Jan 6 2026 at the Caledonian, 6:30pm. Put it in your calendar now! 💀🎊

We’ve teamed up with @hwaontario.bsky.social to host a Selling Short Horror Fiction Seminar in the bookshop! Get ready for those big 2026 publication goals with insights from local writers and editors on pitching, query letters, and more. Sign up in advance www.littleghostsbooks.com/events

Publication announcement: E L Chen's book with the amazing title of "One of us is Already Dead" will be coming your way in Fall of 2026! Keep an eye out for it! Follow her here: @elainechen.com www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...

Now for something completely different! Lydia Peever presents Pumpkin Carving with Photoshop! All the usual pumpkin carving fun but none of the mess. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ixj...

Read E. L. Chen's story on The Dark Magazine - Mother's Teeth. www.thedarkmagazine.com/mothers-teeth/

Shake, Rattle and Rotting Corpses: Horror Trivia hosted by Andrew Awesome with Tarot, Tequila, and Tunes! There will be prizes and surprises. Sweaty Betty's, 13 Ossington Ave, No Cover, 7pm Trivia, 9pm Tunes! Hosted by @andrewawesome.bsky.social Tues. Oct 30

Check out Suzan Palumbo's story "Laughter Among the Trees" - free to read at The Dark Magazine! www.thedarkmagazine.com/laughter-amo...

Check out Lydia Peever's story from The Wicked Library as part of their Halloween special: www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the...

Between now and Halloween, we will be spotlighting some cool free-to-read horror fiction by our members! First up: Lockers for Life by David J. Thirteen www.seizethepress.com/2022/06/14/l...

today. My jacket has a dragon on the back.

This weekend is the first annual Little Ghosts Fest at Little Ghost Books in Toronto hosted by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social . Two of our members will be on a panel on Saturday! @andrewawesome.bsky.social and @sillysyntax.bsky.social www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...

A real life interaction with one of my fellow @hwaontario.bsky.social pals! Excited to dig in to The Knave of Graves!

This weekend the HWA Ontario Chapter will be at Fan Expo hosting two panels - one on Sinners and Vampires and one dedicated to Queer Fear! As well, Sephera Giron is hosting 3 writing workshops! Come check us out!

My new dark fantasy novel 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒 is now available in ebook and paperback. If you're looking to read about graverobbing, night hags and magical palindromes, this book might be for you! #newrelease #fantasybooks #darkfantasy #theknaveofgraves

Tune in for a panel I’ll be on 8.30pm ET, Saturday 27th September 👀‼️✨

Indie bookstores in Canada are so important to the literary community in here in the true north. Help me find more to add to my starter pack! #Books #Booksky #BuyCanadian #TrueNorth

An interview! 👀🙆🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

Got to spend the afternoon writing about Elizabeth Engstrom's When Darkness Loves Us. I must never forget how lucky I am that this is my life.

Ah okay the sale just randomly finished so thank you everyone for sharing! But it's back up to close to regular price. I appreciate you all.

Here's a great review of my upcoming novel 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 from Steve Stred. Check out the full review at the link!

Contract signed! After 30 submissions, ya girl is finally going to have a story forthcoming in @clarkesworldmagazine.com for the first time!! 😭🙇🏻‍♀️🤍

Guys my Lesbian doppelganger sex story is in this. I'm screaming because this is probably the horniest thing I've ever written and I was hiding. Thank you for including me Ryka and Charles. 🖤🙏🏽 A lot of my fave here as well.

Every 18 months or so the Other Andrew Sullivan publishes something very stupid. This has happened for most of my life. He will die before me. I am Andrew F. Sullivan. I write horror about reckonings and rot. And I have never known defeat. So buy a book.

OH GET MY BOOK CHEAP ON KOBO! Hi Canadians, Countess is now $3.99 CAD. That is the cheapest price I've seen. Also US friends I'm seeing that it's $3.99 USD in the US store right now too. Nebula, Aurora and Locus nommed! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/... www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️ Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥

My upcoming dark fantasy novel 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒 will be released July 24. Today I'm featuring a wonderful blurb I received from the original garden goth, Suzan Palumbo / @sillysyntax.bsky.social‬, author of Countess. 🙏 #darkfantasy #tkog

a day trip to Montreal for an event at @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social with @sofiaajram.bsky.social 🥺✨‼️ and a writer’s first on the bingo sheet to have so many copies of PALACE placed on a store window display! 😭🤍🙇🏻‍♀️

After a too-long hiatus, I am resurrecting the HWA Ontario Bluesky account. Follow along for updates from our members and chapter. I've started a list of HWA Ontario members (and related accounts) (below) - if you know of any I am missing, let me know and I'll add them. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Three poems of mine achieved liftoff today! "Unchaste Virgin," in which I think about Vestal Virgins as a metaphor for women in work; "Salt, Caramel, Chocolate," a seasonal sestina about ghosts who haunt a chocolate library; & "Borne Upwards From the Sea," a Sapphic crime/noir recalling lost love.

TAKESHI'S CAT is live today over at Third Estate Art! "... a hilarious fable about the hoops we go through for #affordablehousing. And let's be real — who among us hasn't had their life changed by a giant white cat?" www.thirdestateart.org/decap-volume...

freshly signed batch of THE MARIGOLD at the Spacing store downtown.

Re-upping in case you're looking for 2 great short story collections.

Green Fuse Burning made the Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Books of 2023 list! So exciting! Thank you Alex Brown for being a champion for this "transformative Indigenous eco-horror novella"! www.tor.com/2023/12/13/t...

Ontario horror represented! Congratulations @timmcgregor.bsky.social and @afsulli.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

It’s a lovely evening to gather your children around the fire (or in the fire if it’s been that kind of week) and read my traditional* Ukrainian story, Anoushka the Christmas Spider: www.unfortunatelylitmag.com/2021/12/16/a... (*with a few tiny adjustments)

It's here! And it's quite a beauty.

An audiobook of Premee's excellent novella is on the way! (and it's got my art on it :-D)

Our friends @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social are open for novella submissions. Check out the guidelines and good luck! www.littleghostsbooks.com/submission-c...

There's a review of Skin Thief: Stories in Lightspeed magazine that will be free to read on Dec. 14 in which @arleysorg.bsky.social says among other things I'm going to let myself accept: "...if we want to use the word "genuis" properly then let's apply it to Palumbo's story telling -

Oh hello! Release day for Best Canadian F and SF! Lots of great work here. 🖤

How wild to see LINGHUN on CBC Books’ Best Canadian Books of 2023: Fiction list among so many amazing books! 😭🙏🏼🤍 www.cbc.ca/books/the-be... 📸: CBC’s ig @darkmattermedia.bsky.social

Thank you for doing this again! I publish under the same name as my handle here (Ariel Marken Jack). I'm mostly eligible in short fiction categories, and my eligibility post is here: arielmarkenjack.com/2023/11/19/2...

TIS REAL A REAL BOOK Although not in my house (my editor took this photo and it is in fact his book, HI DAVID @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social ) But it DOES EXIST! BEHOLD!!

Out today. I have a wee tale in there.