ive seen some folks lately talkin on NEGATIVE REVIEWS and how to deal with them as authors or artists. personally i have not cared about reviews for several decades. negative reviews do not bother me in the slightest and buds often ask me HOW. ill explain a bit here and why this applies to everyone

If you're interesting in indie publishing with real numbers, charts, and a bit of a marketing breakdown, check out my article on my first 3 months of selling THE CORPSE PRIEST. carsonwinter.com/on-selling-b...

Beautiful and slightly alarming flash from @nightshadesmag.bsky.social out today. This feels particularly timely because my entire critique group has become obsessed with horses lately. Weird westerns, weird fantasy, give me all the weird horses! 🐎

Stop what you’re doing and buy this book. @thomasha.bsky.social has done something really remarkable with this collection!

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

Really enjoyed seeing Hokum tonight. Damian McCarthy is proving himself a master of weird cinema by not overexplaining his scares and letting the unsettling atmosphere of his setting speak for itself. The weird elements don’t all cohere neatly, but they rhyme in such a satisfying way!

Great resource for reading free stories, including several from the master @lairdbarron.bsky.social

Love this mash up of science and fantasy from fellow Portlander @bugthewriter.bsky.social!

art by francisco fonseca -- just luscious colors plus magical lighting

It's Friday the 13th!🩸🔪💀 Uhh...preorder some Weird horror books? Or maybe stock up on some of our titles that your bookshelves are desperately missing? I dunno, we didn't really think this one out ahead of time. Link, BOOM: store.tenebrouspress.com (nailed it🖤☠️)

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Happy Women in Horror Month! I urge you to read books by women not only this month, but every month. Let's celebrate and spotlight the many incredibly gifted authors that grace our libraries and bookstores, and shelves. (I've read the top two, here, and am reading the other two.) What you got? WiHM

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

art by marina ho

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Also, ICYMI, our 2 main 2025 titles on sale as a bundle. Both on the Locus Recommended Reading List. And @thomasha.bsky.social 's UNCERTAIN SONS is a Philip K. Dick Award Nominee, and NYPL 'Best Of' 2025. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

Thousands of peaceful protestors including families, kids, and elders were tear gassed in Portland today. Abolish ICE isn’t enough, ICE must be prosecuted.

I write fiction about contagions, but there's nothing fictional about the reemergence of dangerous, near-eradicated diseases in the US. Protection from childhood vaccines can wane. I had my titers run last year and found out I'd lost my antibodies against measles. Go get tested and boosted!

This is a huge crisis that we must do our part on by rejecting generative AI. The more it infiltrates our systems, the more fucked we are over time.

Fabulous essay from @megapolisomancy.bsky.social in @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org on weird fiction as a metaphor and tool for confronting received ideologies and envisioning a better world.

The world is on fire but I got a rare piece of good news last week. Found out that I placed first in my group of ~40 entries in the first round of the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story flash contest! I had a great time this weekend writing another piece for round 2. Hoping to share these later!

Fatal viruses that lie dormant for years. Arachnids living on your eyelids. Dead twins buried deep inside your body. Learn about these and other true medical horrors in "A Brief Lexicon of Maladies", an illustrated supplement to my piece "The Night Clinic". marrowmagazine.com/a-brief-lexi...

Lift up your voices and sing so even the stones join in. "Songbook for the Jovian Resistance" by @prioryruins.bsky.social is a shout into the darkness for dark times

Question for writers: what hosting service/site builder are you using for your personal website? My experience with Wordpress was terrible so I'm looking to make a switch.

Thrilled to share that my debut publication is out today in Marrow Magazine. "The Night Clinic" is a weird tale of medical horror about contagion, hypochondria, and the search for a diagnosis. Check it out here marrowmagazine.com/the-night-cl... with stunning art by @thomasriesner.bsky.social

Just submitted my first round entry to the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story contest! Who else is participating? What was your group's prompt? #nycmidnight

New Hybrid Pub Scout episode is out! I spoke with Rex at @ellipsus.com about what makes their writing program unique and about their principled stance on generative AI. hybridpubscout.com/episode-81-e...

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Hello world. I go by Atara and I'm a visual artist, scientist, and writer of horror/weird fiction from the Pacific Northwest. I'm seeking the strange and wondrous in this troubled world. Looking to connect with fellow creatives and fans of the weird and uncanny. #art #weirdfiction #horror