I wrote about how Heated Rivalry is just the latest case of how publishers, with all their data, are still not able to predict what will be the next sensation. lithub.com/get-ready-fo...

This weekend, we hunker down. Next weekend, we gather. Central IL, join us for Lions in Winter at EIU. thekeep.eiu.edu/lionsinwinte...

While I tend not to get swept up by the Oscars, I am still sitting with wonder and delight that the film now holding the most nominations in the history of the awards is an R-Rated - 140 Minute - $100M - Period - Black - Horror - Musical.

Not sure if Mike is on here. But so excited to have him on the team. His weird books are a perfect fit for me!!!!!

Dr. Mike McClelland is newly represented by @helenlane.bsky.social - thriller lovers, this is one for you! Read more: www.ki-agency.co.uk/post/dr-mike...

maybe the 6 month old they tear gassed was driving right at them, maybe think about that before you pass judgement

It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com

So I’m honored to have a Ghost Jesus story in the gorgeous Penn Review, which was one of the first literary magazines I ever submitted to. It’s a super quick read and I hope it makes you laugh. Link in bio/hiding inside an abalone shell at the bottom of the sea.

Good news in your teens: eat cake Good news in your twenties: drink champagne! Good news as a newlywed: a weekend trip away! Good news as a parent: take an uninterrupted shower, maybe light a candle?

We're double-digits! To our readers, @mbwwelch.bsky.social writes, thank you for your continued trust and support. It’s been a beautiful ten years of talking books with you, and the best has yet to come. Here’s to decade two of the Chicago Review of Books! chireviewofbooks.com/2026/01/05/t...

Finally, one part of parenting I've always been a natural at!

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

the goal is killing kids and we should say so

This is, to be clear, an insane decision. No recommended flu or RSV?

“I had mistaken many people for friends, for kindred spirits, not understanding they had chosen to leave conventional life, and I’d been thrown out.” – Nate Lippens, Ripcord

Some folks are in sandals or barefoot. Please help if you can.

Rereading this classic today and I’m reminded how lyrical and devastating Kathe Koja’s prose is. Each book she writes is a scathing hymn, a merciless tone poem. She’s a true artist with a singular vision.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

Read one get one free! (ROGO?) Both fiction editor @magicmikewrites.bsky.social and EIC Colleen Abel appear in the newest issue of Crab Orchard Review! www.siucraborchardreview.com

I’m so excited to have a short story in the new Ink Issue of Crab Orchard Review. Thank you to legendary editor Allison Joseph for including the piece, and I’m so happy to share a ToC with my friend, poet genius Colleen Abel. It’s a quick read and has had such a funny trajectory. Link below!

"pent up demand for rail options" also explains much of the success of Heated Rivalry

The thing about @sethwade.bsky.social is that he just crushes it every time. So stoked we have this new story for @hexliterary.bsky.social, which is, in turn, human then monstrous. Don't miss this wonderful new creeper, up now on the hex site!!!

me, editing one of my stories: make it gayer! gayer!!! GAYER!!!!!!

TF Publishing is now open for all general submissions. For the first time, art books & comics are also now being considered! Novels/novellas outside of the preferred 30k-120k range can also be queried. Check out our submission guidelines and criteria here: www.tfpublishing.com.au/submission-g...

Years of this, it must end. But for now let’s help @nurseehammamingaza.myatproto.social while we can.

Ramzi in Gaza is raising money for his family to eat and pay rent on their tent plot. chuffed.org/project/1319...

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

This woman is a violent criminal (like the actual kind not the kind she puts behind bars). She shouldn’t just resign she should self-deport. But who would want her?

A fun fact about this collection is that it contains my earliest published story. It also, out of my books, contains the most never before published stories.

Interested in interviewing me about my upcoming book, Every Galaxy a Circle? I can talk about writing speculative fiction, why short stories are the best, monsters, baking, outer space, and more. Wow what an interviewer's dream!

Honored that SHE'S UNDER HERE is on @npr.org's list of 2025 "Books We Love."

In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

I think something I’m learning at this stage of my writing career is that sometimes you are simply working with the wrong people. And those people might work really well with other people, and that might hurt! But everyone can survive and move on and do beautiful work in different partnerships.

I got the most lovely fan mail today! (from an AI bot about a book I didn’t write, but whatever!)

Excellent writer, powerful book, good dude. What's not to love?

Perfect day to catch some fall rays

Happy Halloween, from us, and Katherine Oung, and the blood moon!! 👻 🎃 🩸 🌑 💀 https://www.havehashad.com/ll0sy

Omg this satirical tweet has me wondering if I may actually be a bot 🤯😭

As a Halloween treat, you can now listen to my iconic nasal timbre as I read my Halloween time-loop story “Not Another Time Loop!” at beautiful Short Story, Long (founded and edited by my favorite @aaronburch.bsky.social).

Two things: 1. Psyched for it to almost be November and still have We Lived on the Horizon hanging in alongside these absolute powerhouses. Endless appreciation to Adam Morgan and his taste. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

!!LAST DAY!! I'm raffling four 4"x"4" hand-painted tattoo flash (on my good paper), $4/ticket, 100% of proceeds (all raffle entries+$50 from moi) to the ACLU, which exists to help so many who need it. I'm beyond stoked with what we've raised already! Drawing tomorrow morning!

this @magicmikewrites.bsky.social gem is SUCH a great, fun Halloween x time loop mash-up experiment tale! ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/not-anothe...

Was trying for Link in the Fire Temple but ended up closer to prison jumpsuit. Either way, I’m fighting evil!

So confused. I thought IT: Welcome to Derry was a Derry Girls spinoff involving the IT sector

Jean Shon's art "lingers between the thresholds of legibility and illegibility, rupture and relation, and fact and fiction to sustain connection through loss". Find her piece WALLPAPER (1887 FRANK SR. AND FLAVILLA BELL HOUSE): GUSSIE in our OCTOBER ISSUE: buff.ly/aFCu7pp

planning my UK trip

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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