There's a small tangent I want to raise regarding this. And I want to be clear I am in no way calling out Bona Books or their response to this, I think it was reasonable. But I think there's another potential loss here that is not immediately visible. 1/

Incredible.

"A chorus of flames. I search for evidence of my adrenaline in the rubble." Very pleased to see another "adoration" - "Adoration of Winning" - from my next book, The Adorations, published. This time on @adamclay.bsky.social 's new journal, Autocorrect: autocorrectmag.com/03/goransson...

Could be us

HUGE NEWS!!! The Writhing, Verdant End earned out its advance!!! I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who picked up a copy!!! @ericraglin1992.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and I put our hearts into this weird work of eco-horror. We appreciate all the support!!!

Met a big frog

Only took fourteen years of dreaming & heeeeerrreee it is! Friends, I'm thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel with you all. The most desi haunted haveli ever! Haunted places. Haunted people. And some very haunting stories Preorder link in the thread

I did a podcast interview yesterday, and I went on my little rant about how the arts are not a competition, and everyone who keeps making art is a winner.

I'm seated.

ICYMI: final edits on this while still steamed about Cave Mountain? perhaps!!

Without getting into how it came up in the chat, when Author Feast Day comes around next time, who do you want on the menu? Who's the author you think would taste the best? Yes, I know a lot depends upon the chef, but just assume they're reasonably skilled and submit your pick before The Harvest.

STAY ON TARGET. KEEP WRITING. IT'S NOT SHARING SIZE.

In 2014, I published the very first dedicated book about found footage horror and its history, and have been waiting for a sign that I should do a revised second edition. Gonna call it and say WHOA NELLY is this a goddamned sign 💜💜💜 (Whole thing is at archive dot org if you were curious!)

My poem "Mothercraft," published in Haven Magazine, was torn apart by a poetry podcast bro. He said that my poem, referencing Frankenstein, voodoo, witchcraft, and Literal Physical Childbirth, was too violent and bloody to accurately portray "the inherent softness of females, especially mothers."

Having a totenkopf tattoo would get you kicked out (at a minimum) of a mosh pit at any punk or hardcore show and I don't think we should have lower standards than that for the Senate

Art

Today, in place of a new piece of writing from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, here's a word of explanation from publisher @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social as to why we felt we had to remove a poem from the issue: reckoning.press/ai/

Why are you as a literary publication not paying writers for their hard work?

(Alt text: outdoor sculpture of giant mosquito) So about ten minutes ago I was leaping inside the door to avoid a mosquito and thought damn, they should make a big sexy guy like mothman except he's a mosquito because those dudes can't get enough of me.

This was the matriarch goddess I was raised to know when I was growing up, so when the far right women say “be in your divine feminine”, this is the instruction I am receiving.

Are you sure you want me to be in my divine feminine, because it involves wearing the skulls of my enemies around my neck and their limbs as a skirt.

It’s in the alt text but she’s Kali, the Goddess of Time, Destruction and Sexuality, destroyer of evil and wife of Shiva the Supreme Destroyer (the God who is under her feet, he put himself there because he is exactly where he wants to be).

STP Issue #14 is out! With stories about eating children; guys turning into telephones; malignant grimoires; 'The Connoisseur'; and resurrecting the 9/11 hijackers in order to publicly execute them.

Because men.

You've heard of force femming may I sicken you with force clowning (blame Seán, not me)

Really sort of highlights a queer acceptability hierarchy, doesn't it? At the top, obviously, white cis gay men, bonus points if they're straight-passing. At the very bottom, it's trans women. It's always trans women.

It's finally here!! An article on trans faggotry, powerful and orientating queer affects, gender formations that don't or can't map neatly onto essentialist binary hierarchies, and the Lou Sullivan archive(s)... among other things.

when i was a teenager, the kids in my high school were all using oxycontin. this novel, negative space, is the only one to truly capture what being so surrounded by death feels like when you are so young. aftermath.site/negative-spa...

Given that impermanence is a fundamental state of being, mutability is good, actually. This wisdom permeates my collection CONVULSIVE and you should read it while you can. www.apocalypse-party.com/convulsive.h...

The Wingspan of Severed Hands is a feminist take on the King in Yellow mythos and an exploration of identity-formation following the metaphor of lepidoptera development. There's also a sentient weapon grown in a lab. weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/the-...

The animal within me is convinced today is Friday

Something's really wrong with the reflecting pond, maybe it's the colors

Look at this little freak (complimentary)

Filling the timeline with books to block out the bad

For me, this book and @haileypiperfights.bsky.social’s A GAME IN YELLOW are far and away the best KIY stories since the OG. They take the KIY mythos and push it into new and interesting (compelling, obsessive) nightmares.

Read The Wingspan of Severed Hands. It looks great when digested.

Pretty sure my review of this is on twitter so adding it here: "Challenging, visceral, and deliberate, reading Joe Koch is an exercise in rethinking what horror and Weird and literature can be. If you open yourself up to the process, you will be deeply rewarded. And maybe a little grossed out."

Good morning, Bluesky-kateers. I have read this item—and give it my stamp of "Oh my goodness" approval. Highly recommended. #WeirdFiction

"Perhaps the scariest aspect...is the way in which it begins...to unmoor you—from time and history, from plot structure and genre, and from your own senses and feelings about your body; a nauseous literary approximation of vicarious gender dysphoria." heavyfeatherreview.org/2024/06/21/i...

The Wingspan of Severed Hands is a feminist take on the King in Yellow mythos and an exploration of identity-formation following the metaphor of lepidoptera development. There's also a sentient weapon grown in a lab. weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/the-...

Given that impermanence is a fundamental state of being, mutability is good, actually. This wisdom permeates my collection CONVULSIVE and you should read it while you can. www.apocalypse-party.com/convulsive.h...

america, fuck yeah

we probably shouldn't even have a branch of the government that can revoke the civil rights of certain types of children

It pleases me to learn that William Gibson has a perfect orange cat.

They truly could not have picked a worse issue to radicalize me, a cis woman. Oh someone with longer legs than you won the long-leg-having game? Should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we invite my collection of field day participation ribbons?

And let's not forget Clarence Thomas is a sex pest.

Gender disphoria is only "mutable" in that it abates with gender-correcting hormones & surgery and is only "the object of psychiatric treatment" because the only way you can legally access the hormones & surgery is by getting the psychiatric diagnosis. Yes, we call that a Catch-22.

Guys, does this look like AI bullshit to you? I'm thinking probably?

Are you a reviewer on Insta or Tiktok (where I dare not tread) interested in an ARC of DEAD BOYS DONT CRY when it's available? Let me know!