Lately I’ve become addicted to these Turkish style breakfasts

He sure does love being tucked in for his iconic 7:30 nap

I continue to be frustrated and disappointed with Bluesky's algorithm. Not only do I get zero engagement, but I also barely ever see posts from a lot of the people I care about while my feed is clogged with strangers

Just received my contributor copy of The Joining: Scenes of Wedding Terror edited by @jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social ! This is a wonderful, star-studded anthology featuring lots of great writers whose work I admire. Get it from @crystallake.bsky.social

I started this newest novel on January 2nd, and finished it just now on February 1st. 63k words long. Dieselpunk dark fantasy/horror with trains, planes, and abominables, vaguely in the mold of In the Mountains of Madness.

BCS 2025! "Vanya and the Dog Witch" @walterwriter.bsky.social BCS #447 "early in spring when his father killed Mishka the three-legged dog. For savaging one of their few hens he said. Yet Vanya had seen toothmarks on neither flesh nor bone." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/vany... #BCSof2025

With an introduction by Dr Graham Robert Scott. And I’ve just re-located @jduckwriter.bsky.social and @melisfluous.bsky.social here 👏 Available from publishers @stanchion.bsky.social #AHAAP @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

BCS of 2025! "Bloody Muddy Water" by @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #439 "Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect against conja." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo... #BCSof2025

#BCSof2025! "For Those Who Sink and Those Who Float" @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #426 "Lim hesitates in the shallows, her courage evaporated in sight of the gray ribbon of the shoreline and the pale sky above. She has never been to the dry world" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/for-...

Massive news, everyone! I've just signed an agreement of representation with Harry Sherer at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social! What a great feeling to have such a massive and storied agency at my back. Here's to a big and eventful 2026!

Having begun it July 31st, I've finally finished the first draft of this novel which turned out to be two novels. 242k words--I think I'm going to lie down now.

This is a really awesome book—it was wonderful collaborating with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social on our oneirophage story!

How the Bubbles Stole Thanksgiving

You guys! Jonathan has written some of my favorite short stories! (This is at the top of my list.) pseudopod.org/2020/07/03/p...

Hey look at that! My story “Bloody Muddy Water” is featured by Locus Magazine!

“Bloody Muddy Water” by @jduckwriter.bsky.social from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, “To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter” by @spacevalkyries.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social

Cover reveal! Here’s the early mock-up of the cover for my second collection of horror stories, Noctivagants, coming early 2027 with @lethepress.bsky.social !

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

Meet my new office assistant

The first page of Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory is a literary slammajamma of an opening

Big news! My second collection of horror stories, NOCTIVAGANTS, is coming out in 2027 with Lethe Press! Cover reveal coming soon!

If you have a writer in your life and you'd like them to know that you care about their ambitions, may I suggest ordering a copy of my collaborative craft anthology, An Honour And A Privilege, as a Christmas present? (trust me, you'll get the MOST brownie points)

This one is pretty wild. If you’re a fan of gothic fiction, fin de siècle aesthetics, and materialist critiques disguised as horror, this one’s for you

Heigh ho! The 4th story in THE JOINING is told from a marrow-sucking marital bed. What's sweetest in life lies nearest the bone, after all... Thanks to @jduckwriter.bsky.social for submitting this excellent (and oddly romantic!) story! THE JOINING comes out 12.12.25 from @crystallake.bsky.social!

I am begging fantasy authors to actually look up how much swords weigh. I get the impression most of them believe a great sword weighs 50 lbs, when the average weighed more like 8

It's cover reveal time! From @crystallake.bsky.social, THE JOINING comes out 12.12.25, including twisted tales from... @jduckwriter.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @jacklothian.bsky.social @jawmccarthy.bsky.social @gordonbwhite.bsky.social ...and a host of others!

Current read: Empire of the Vampire

Curious to see: what word processor do you use to write? I've always used MS Word and probably always will, but I'm curious what else is out there.

It’s really telling how all the commercials for AI products like Gemini infantilize their consumers.

Today Dandelion the book cat is being The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social

Thanks, Gabino! Get on THE EL wherever you stop for books. Happy #FridayReads! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738830...

ICYMI, my newest short story came out earlier this week with Beneath Ceaseless Skies! "Bloody Muddy Water" is a fantasy detective story where spellbreaker Rugg and his alligator mount, Tugboat, must solve the mystery of the Headsick plague spreading through the swampy canals of Blackvill.

Live in BCS #439: "Bloody Muddy Water" @jduckwriter.bsky.social "Rugg read her. The knit of the veil was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo...

I have a story out in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social today!!!! It's about a letter than demands itself to be delivered through a war torn country, about service and community and more! ✉️

“how coalmine the canary / how cathedral the heart’s chambers / how crow the call / how bright the under” Really exquisite poem today from @jduckwriter.bsky.social

The sequel to my Best American SFF story “Bruised Eye Dusk” is out today in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Come down to Perish to have another adventure with Rugg the Spellbreaker and his gator mount, Tugboat!

My newest published poem, "Armature," is out today in an absolutely STACKED issue of the Bennington Review: www.benningtonreview.org/fourteen-duc...

@nicolaz.bsky.social I’m not the only one in this house enjoying your truly excellent second entry in the Hild series

A lot of creative writing pedagogy takes for granted processes that may be uniquely effective to the individual instructor but may not work for everyone. I share what works for me with students, but always with the caveat that we must each discover our own best process for creating work

Our backyard chickens have produced their first egg of many!!

New reading desk. Soft but a little on the small side, can’t fit much more than a single book

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Excited for folks to read this story Lindz and I cobbled together!

Let me put my money where my mouth is; for the next 11 days, I'll drop the first line of a story featured in An Honour and a Privilege, my collaborative antho coming in December. "Carefully, as if she were unspooling delicate silk, Cordelia drew the duchess's nightmare out from her mouth."

This is from 'By Which Flesh is Crost', the story that @jduckwriter.bsky.social and I collaborated on. It's gothic, it's simmering class anxiety, it's eating other people's nightmares and getting paid for it.

People didn’t “used to be fine” without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*. According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Got a novella under 30,000 words? I'll offer detailed developmental edits on it for a flat $300 if you book with me today.

Dirty rice for dinner

Enjoying my new house (first time homeowners, woo!) with tea and cucumber sandwiches (with home baked bread)