If I had a nickel every time an Ancient Tradition turned out to originate in the eighteenth century,

ESCAPIST FICTION is a demented Choose Your Own Adventure style horror-comedy by Bram Stoker Award nominee Grace Daly, with cover and illustrations by Bert SG. If you lie to the narrator, there will be consequences. February 2027. agitapublishing.com

ESCAPIST FICTION is a demented Choose Your Own Adventure style horror-comedy by Bram Stoker Award nominee Grace Daly, with cover and illustrations by Bert SG. If you lie to the narrator, there will be consequences. February 2027. agitapublishing.com

Block and move on. Block and move on. Block and

Also re: heat stroke. I just learned this recently: your survival rate is determined by how fast you cool a body down. It's that simple. If you're a coach and a player passes out and you're not sure why but it's hot outside cool that player down. Do not wait for EMS (call them though)

QUEER TASTES is "a joyous text that empowers queer horror fans to ignore the cultural consensus and ask instead how their favorite horror films intersect with their individual identities" according to @macabredaily.bsky.social ! This is such a lovely review. www.macabredaily.com/articles/ske...

QUEER TASTES is "a joyous text that empowers queer horror fans to ignore the cultural consensus and ask instead how their favorite horror films intersect with their individual identities" according to @macabredaily.bsky.social ! This is such a lovely review. www.macabredaily.com/articles/ske...

OUT TODAY! And we mean out. Cat Voleur's QUEER TASTES: UNCONVENTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN HORROR FILMS. Get your copy at agitapublishing.com

A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Three years since F&SF accepted my story. Still no contact from the old or the new owners. But the planet will explode before I withdraw the story.

I learned most of my vocab from reading books, so learning that some people think there shouldn't be novel words in books is very weird. I don't know what words you don't know. That is not my problem.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

We learned while camping in the rain that both the popup camper and the emergency backup tent have major leaks.

"Ruptures in the earth are also ruptures of the self." - Thalia Allington-Wood

Will never stop beating the drum that “right” and “wrong” is an ineffective way to think about grammar. Grammar is loaded with an enormous amount of expressive power and information that can be made visible to a reader once they let go of the idea that it’s a punitive surveillance game.

Can someone with 2 hours and 21 minutes to spare watch this video and let me know if Paul Giamatti mentions my ebay store, It Came from Beyond Pulp? Because he's been buying books from me for years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAcF...

"ISBN? No Thanks and Other Notes Before Starting a Publishing House" - A fresh new Public Collectors booklet from Eric Schierloh of Barba de Abejas! Eric drops tons of wisdom in this generous list of thoughts, positions and ideas. Just $6.00 from: halfletterpress.com/isbn-no-than...

I understand the motivation of the first dozen or so commenters on something. Odds are good you can say something that nobody else has. I don't understand, say, the 32nd commenter, except to believe that they have not read the previous 31 comments.

Today is a good day to cancel your Authors Guild membership.

Do you know what horror is? Placing a delivery order and immediately receiving three emails and two texts about it. WHY

Agita Magazine is opening for weird flash submissions on July 1 for its second issue, "Music." This time we have O F Cieri (@ossuary.bsky.social) as guest editor! Check out the guidelines at agitamag.com/submissions

Agita Magazine is opening for weird flash submissions on July 1 for its second issue, "Music." This time we have O F Cieri (@ossuary.bsky.social) as guest editor! Check out the guidelines at agitamag.com/submissions

If the Horror Writers Association flies me to StokerCon next year, I will volunteer to live-skeet the awards as they're announced.

Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun.

This vapid piece is rage-bait, but perhaps deserves some response because it's trying to locate a feeling I'm sure is present in some movie-goers these days, a feeling of alienation from the dominant genres in cinemas of recent years. A few thoughts... 🧵

Read more Lucretius.

This looks amazing. Whomst among us can't relate? Nonest of us.

I realize this is probably the wrong crowd to be excited about this, but: Haki Madhubuti is going to blurb the poetry collection we're going to announce in about a month. Seriously one of my heroes.

I realize this is probably the wrong crowd to be excited about this, but: Haki Madhubuti is going to blurb the poetry collection we're going to announce in about a month. Seriously one of my heroes.

Holy shit. Online spec fic magazines, get in here!

I made the mistake of reading an interview with James Ellroy, whose new book is about how the Red Scare was justified, Joe McCarthy was right, and the Hollywood Ten were "the biggest criminal conspiracy at the time."

Congrats to everyone who worked to get to this point. Voluntary recognition of the union is a big step

The Kickstarter for SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM is kaput, which is too bad, but we're still doing the book. You can help out by pre-ordering the paperback. agitapublishing.com/catalog/side...

What are the experiences of authors of color in the publishing industry, you ask?!? Find out here - arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe... This came up a few times over the weekend, so I thought I'd repost to socials!

The Kickstarter for SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM is kaput, which is too bad, but we're still doing the book. You can help out by pre-ordering the paperback. agitapublishing.com/catalog/side...

For Pride Month, I am proud to be a bisexual publisher of books and stories by members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

If anyone is looking for essays/commentaries/any other paid work for a film critic with 15 years of experience, please let me know? A series of unfortunate events has led to a serious financial rough patch, and I’m eager to work even more and get back on my feet!

Here’s some cool news: @70sscifiart.bsky.social is writing a new book about SF art! Where his first (excellent) book was centered on the 70s, this one’s about the whole history of art. I interviewed him about what to expect: www.andrewliptak.com/adam-rowe-sc...

Introducing @darkertimes.bsky.social - a new worker-owned website for cultural criticism about all things horror! www.darkertimes.com

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

The Vault is closing FOREVER (for submissions at least)! Don't Go for the Vault's extended window for underrepresented voices closes this weekend on May 31. Deadline is at midnight last place on Earth. Get your stories in while you still can! Learn more: www.cateyepress.com/submissions

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Okay since I made that query post a few days ago, people have been asking—here's my Easy Guide To Writing A Query, broken down into three sections! I've seen them done in other ways but (in my experience) these have received the most positive reception and had a good success rate. #querying

My debut full-length poetry collection, TIME TRAVEL IS EASY, has been nominated for the 2026 Elgin Awards!

“There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.” — direct and very real quote from JRR Tolkien

Kids, gather round and hear a tale of the olden times.

Decided to read this instead of Graham Masterson. Just finished the first story, "Wormspace" by @lcvonhessen.bsky.social and it's one of those tales that leaves you wanting more in the best way.