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...

Congrats on all your hard work, Andrew! This is amazing news and I'm honored (and stunned) to be with DarkLit Press AND to be mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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...

Phenomenal list of queer horror reads from @tcparker.bsky.social -- I'm calling on folks to buy all that @neonhemlock.bsky.social puts out, read @sillysyntax.bsky.social (NOW!), @ethereallad.bsky.social, Andrew Joseph White's latest, Book of Queer Saints Vols1 & 2, and more!!

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.

It's the first picture of the new Arboreality in the wild! The new version has a silky matte cover, gold foil title text, and aged and distressed Ursula K Le Guin Prize and Philip K Dick awards medallions + more! This book would make a beautiful gift. www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...

Ah, you got it. One editor's rejection, is another's acceptance.

In June 2024, my novella 'When I Look At the Sky, All I See Are Stars' will be released through DarkLit Press. I've heard preorders will open soon! This novella is related to my Splatterpunk nominated series 'Father of Lies.' Of hoof and horn, rejoice!

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez; The Marigold by Andrew Sullivan; The Saint of Bright Doors by Vijay Chandrasekera; Linghun by Ai Jiang

I have time to read one (maybe two) more books before the end of year. I want them to be BANGERS. Drop your absolute favorite books of year here (that aren’t written by you). The more off-the-beaten-path they are, the better.

FANTASTIC!

watching the boys roll up on the hot dog cart outside Canadian Tire. the natural world is beautiful and we must respect and maintain these habitats.

Publication announcement! I'm beyond thrilled to have three poems about deeeeath and ghosts upcoming in WHISPERS FROM BEYOND from Crystal Lake Entertainment. @crystallake.bsky.social.

Hi there, #horrorwriters, tag us in your 2023 awards eligibility posts, and we'll happily repost. Happy awards promotion season! #Horrorfam

HWA-ON friends, please join us tonight if you're able!

Reminder to members: our next chapter-wide meeting is TONIGHT Nov 21 at 7 p.m. EST on Zoom. We'll be solidifying plans for the holiday reading/panel. Plus, bring your ideas for 2024! Check email or DM Monica S. Kuebler for the link. See you there! #HWAOntario

I'm not going to post this a lot, but I did decide to make an awards eligibility post for the handful of original short stories I got published this year. I'd be delighted if anyone wanted to read them. arielmarkenjack.com/2023/11/19/2...

Hi! Would you like to visit Goth Book Club and talk about "Skin Thief: Stories" with me and de club? Well you could do that, you know?! Is free! First rule of participating is Goth Book Club Talk, is signing up for Goth Book Club Talk. The link is in the quote tweet. It'll be a gay goth time. 🖤