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)

HERE WE GOOOOO! I'm unbelievably excited to bring you such a wildly ambitious craft book; each month for the last *year* I wrote a story collaboratively with an amazing writer, accompanied by a non-fiction piece about how and why we wrote what we did. It's both a tremendous collection of fiction &

This is one of the coolest projects I’ve ever been part of!

Anyone who is more afraid of riots than the crushing, militarized response those riots will meet should not be trusted, neither their minds nor their hearts are in the right place.

And I loved Bruised-Eye Dusk by @jduckwriter.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social 🐊 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/brui...

New bookshelf setup in my new office in my new house!

I am SO excited for this project to emerge from its coccoon! Over the last year I collaboratively wrote (and am writing) 11 stories with 11 authors as well as a non-fiction essay/interview about how we did it & the craft techniques we used. I hope this craft book will be both educational *and* fun!

Pics from my morning jog

Popular/iconic authors you really don’t have time for? For me it’s James Joyce.

Unwrapping my first published short story 😀 Buy @fraidycatpress.bsky.social shorturl.at/nndPp I tried to tag everyone @marigoldrowell.com @jduckwriter.bsky.social @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social @ps-nissim.bsky.social @jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social @kathybruce.bsky.social @czwrites.bsky.social

Got my contributor copy of this awesome themed issue of Fraidy Cat Quarterly!

Sneak preview, part two! @jduckwriter.bsky.social explores family commitments, loneliness, and self-deception at a shady government facility in the cosmic-tinged “Threshold” in FCQ5. #indie #horrorlit #smallpress #cosmic #paranoia