Thrilled to have my story "Love for the Artist" out in Strange Pilgrims: www.strangepilgrims.com/p/love-for-t...

Writing speculative fiction, a lot of my effort goes into providing enough details for the reader to happily suspend disbelief. Funnily, I've noticed that it is always the elements directly lifted from reality that people challenge most. I guess life is often stranger than fiction?

For a girl who eats up dramatic storytelling, days that start with quiet narratives only to devolve into unhinged laughter are the ultimate, flavorful experience. What is one to do but embrace one's absolute delight in horrific chaos? 😅

The half of my desk that lets me pretend for just a lick of a second I am a serious person. [Posting as a reward for meeting my daily goal]

Personal objective: Finish Novel #3 before July 14 Quest level: Impossible (like all good goals) Protocol: Ignore all distractions Side Quest: Maintain human form (hahaha as if)

Saw this exhilarating urban art show today: We Are [Still] Here. What moved me most was how some of the contemporary pieces were hidden within the historical collection. It made for a sweet treasure hunt.

As I grew up devouring a large number of regency romance novels among my first english reads, odd turns of phrases are part of my linguistic idiosyncrasies ↓

Belatedly getting myself "Platform Decay" by Martha Wells 😁 So excited to go back to that universe!

Got my first acceptance of the year last night (thank you Summer Solstice?)... and gosh, am I excited for this story to get out into the world so very soon!

Pushing through to finish the current novel, whilst another story tries to colonize your whole mind, dropping new plot twists in your lap every other moment, is a heroine's journey

How I fancy myself after one hour and a half of fencing practice:

Spending several hours to figure out a character's "original wound" only to realize, damn, it's that one toxic misbelief you thought you personally defeated years ago... but sure enough, here it is again 😅

When your GM texts you, you're going to need your teddy for the grand finale of the campaign... 😱

1012 words for #1000wordsofsummer fueled by a shameless amount of looping Pacific Rim OST. Dirty draft but it exists!

Today felt like pulling teeth but still got to 1056 words of climax! Only thanks to #1000wordsofsummer: a little accountability goes a long way.

Started #1000wordsofsummer two days late, but with a joyful heart and a sense of possibilities. Today's reason to hit the target resonated deeply: "to create new opportunities." Got to 1010 words for the first time in months 😊

When Brain gets too loud, playing Tetris feels surprisingly like a manual reboot. Glad to have that option 😅

Our Anthologies and Collections call is still open. We’ve seen several amazing Collections – we’re a bit lighter on anthologies. Are you a publisher with a 2026 anthology lurking around the place? We’d love to see it! We’ll feed it and pet it and everything. Send us the whole book – link below 👇

Got so engrossed with my story today, I almost left the house wearing slippers. That, or I need to eat more protein

The urge to write the new shiny project instead of finishing up the main WIP 😬... Well, let's make drafting time a reward for each significant edit

I'm just one person trying to compete in a busy algorithm but still hoping to remind you that 1000 Words of Summer starts this coming Saturday, May 30. Our ninth year of writing 1000 Words a day alongside thousands of other people for two weeks straight. 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/about

Slightly meta craft thought: what if the gap between romance and love lies in the difference between storytelling and conversation?

Pop-Up Submission Call!! In... 6 hours. Submissions will be open for one hour tonight/tomorrow morning (?), Wednesday, May 20, from 4am-5am ET (so, 1am-2am PT, and a more convenient hour for those of you outside the US). havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35651...

Every so often, I remember the Blaschka Glass Flowers and how eerily real they appear. Looking at them, you can almost feel the softness of the petals under your fingers. No wonder I built a whole magic system around them :D www.hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers

Rediscovered some old Placebo songs - Pure Morning, Infra-red, Nancy Boy - and the vivid, sensory way the writing captures emotional texture dug a small hole in my stomach. It's like falling down a fever dream of complicated feelings. Also, their version of Running Up That Hill is a treat.

Received my 33rd rejection of the year today, which is quite on track with my 100-rejections-a-year goal. So obviously, I sent three stories back out into the ether 🤞

Very important question after my umpteenth rewatch of the BBC Pride & Prejudice: who the heck told Lady Catherine de Bourgh about Darcy's wish to marry Lizzie (and how do we thank them hahaha)? Who could have even known!? [I have a working theory ↓] #PrideAndPrejudice

Taking a break from editing my "medical gaslighting of women" horror novel to see this is a whole mood (read rage). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Wrote a micro today, the shortest piece I've ever written, clocking in at less than 100 words. Felt both good and unsettling to work within this constrained form. Unexpectedly, the tightness rendered out everything that was not pure, messy feelings. Didn't know I had that in me.

Writing mood: "When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am."

Sometimes I know early on that a beat or a scene is "untrue" to a story, but my brain won't address it, not until I am utterly blocked. But then, pop! it unknots on a random day, and wow, the bliss of that breakthrough. Do you have these "it's untrue" murmurs? How do you handle them?

If you submit fiction and poetry, and want the latest market news on what's open and closing this month, check out April's Market Report! dreamfoundry.org/202...

Excited to share my new piece “Wintering” out today in Lost Balloon! Sweet anecdote: I started writing this story while in college, about seventeen years ago. Recently, I rediscovered that first draft and decided to revise it to life!

For your general consideration....we published eight novellas this year. Three issues of Baffling. And a short story collection by Christopher Caldwell. (Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)

A thrilling first: an award eligibility post! I offer: "Carmilla, or, the Making of a Girl” in Baffling Magazine XX, July 2025, (Short Fiction, 1200 words, horror) - a teen girl is consumed by hunger as she sails across the ocean aboard the Demeter. Thanks! www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Just discovered my story is on this list and wow, nothing compares to the feeling of having your work so thoroughly understood! Thank you @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social!

My story "Carmilla, or, the Making of a Girl" is out in Baffling Magazine and I am both thrilled and humbled! This is my very first story making its way into the world. You can read it here: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Going forward, the SLF wants to highlight those who made it to our final round of jury deliberations. Here is our shortlist for our 2024 Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants!

Thrilled to announce I'm now represented by @aiden-png.bsky.social at @ldlainc.bsky.social ! Their enthusiasm and vision for my subversive “Beauty & the Beast meets Dangerous Liaisons” novel is everything I hoped for. Can't wait to unleash my hideous Lorelei and her insatiable hunger onto the world