My 'adolescent romp' (previous rejection by unnamed market) 'The Scent of Lightning', a fungal-horror coming-of-age story, is out in Chthonic Matter Quarterly 11 (Fall 2025), along with stories by other amazing writers such as @horrorsong.blog 😀https://chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/chthonicmatter/

It is done 🥳I at last submitted my MA diss last night - referred to as a diss cause I'm dissing Simon Baron Cohen, the pathology paradigm and misconceptions about divergent languages such as sign languages

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

One of my favourite stories I ever wrote, in a beautifully designed and edited book 😊

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

#OTD in 1993 I visited a child psychiatrist who missed that I was autistic despite my seeing (specific different) dinosaurs in most Rorschachs

Tomorrow (the 21st of June) is Pride in our Community, in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh. AMASE Chair @fergus.oolong.co.uk will be one of the speakers, talking about the indivisibility of the struggles for queer, trans and neurodivergent liberation.

Sharing this here to get the word farther

Happy Autistic Pride day to all. We hope you all get time to do something you love today and if you’re in Edinburgh why not take a selfie of yourself with the Autistic Pride Day flag outside St Andrews House and tag us in! This is the 20th year of Autistic Pride: a time to reject shame and celebrate

Oh, I think that's pretty easy for me, at least until I think of an important one I've forgotten!

Very happy that this slightly off-kilter story of mine found a great home with the amazing God's Cruel Joke!

Comrades! Now the audiobook's finally out, I have five codes for free audible copies of *Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism*. If you want one just like and share/quote this post. After 48 hours I'll pick five sharers at random to send the codes to.

Exciting news: this year's Weird Pride Day (4th March) is 47 days before the first Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring equinox - and you all know what that means, right? Yes, folks... this year, #WeirdPride Day is *also* PANCAKE DAY! Next Weird Pride Pancake Day isn't until 2087.

My first physical contributor copy! The excellent 'Stasis' anthology by the excellent @bellpressbooks.bsky.social, with my story in which a ‘retirement’ counsellor takes on a job at a mining compound near titular 'Coketown, Mars', which changes his view of human and non-human drones–and his life

Our next anthology, STASIS, is coming soon! Featuring #scifi short stories by these 13 contributors #indiepublishing

hey all— i had an appointment yesterday to confirm i'm a good candidate for sterilization! while my insurance helps, i'll be paying a lot $$ out of pocket. this is HUGE for my gender transition + safety in a red state. if you can help: venmo: haleystrass DM for paypal surgery will be in early 2025:)

It's 1st December, so only 25 or is it 24 until Xmas Day, or more as it is known around here, my Birthday!! So authors and publishers, what is the one book of yours you would like people to gift to another this year? Drop a link and description below and repost, lets try and generate some sales!!

I have a drabble in the excellent Halloween issue of tiny frights! 🎃

tiny frights Halloween 2024 issue has dropped! tinyfrights.com/2024/10/31/t...

@lighthousebks.bsky.social @argonautbooks.bsky.social

Really enjoyed this event despite being a fashionable five hours late, hoping for a repeat - thanks for organising 😊

My brother would have been 45yo today. But he died from leukemia when he was 9, two years before I got to meet him. For kids like my brother, a blood/marrow transplant can mean life or death. Please consider joining the national registry (US). You could save a life. www.nmdp.org/get-involved...

SUNWARD SKY, my sci-fi drama set in low Earth orbit, is launching (heh) on Kickstarter on October 5! And what's this? A hidden cover? To be revealed, mayhaps? Sign up to get notified of it going live here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hen...

It’s been a year since my first stand-alone publication! Spooky Tartan noir novelette “Malice in Chains” about a murder in Edinburgh is still available for $0.99 at Godless: godless.com/collections/... As I'm not great at promoting, I'll just quote a few reviews to m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶b̶u̶y̶ ̶i̶t̶ celebrate! 1/4

We’re very disappointed with the recent statement regarding AI from #nanowrimo & wholeheartedly stand with writers saying enough is enough. It’s a real shame this established writing community found itself using such deeply troubling language in regards of a topic impacting all writers. Not cool.

Friends, I am a very silly person, but giving compliments and mailing letters are two of my favorite things ever. Will anyone be interested in this? Probably not, but gosh it's gonna be delightful if someone is. ko-fi.com/s/59d96bbd25

Happy to be in this collection of Body Horror released by @baynamhorror.bsky.social with writer friends Gideon and Cassandra and other great writers. My cosmic/body horror story is inspired by a very weird childhood illness I had involving an ear abscess and how kids have big, strange feelings.

I'm proud to have a story - about (autistic) masking taken a bit too literally - out in this body horror anthology released by @baynamhorror.bsky.social today as ebook (included in Kindle Unlimited) and paperback www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Horror-...

Woo, I've got a tiny fright about OCD in this! 🔥 issues.tinyfrights.com/webpub/tiny-...

BACKLIST TIME! (It's not a thing but I'm making it a thing) SFFH people: What's a story you've written that you are particularly proud of or want more people read? Caveats are: - It can't have won any awards - It has to have been published 2022 or before

You can now be haunted/chained by my debut novelette "Malice in Chains", a spooky Tartan noir story about bullying and murder in Edinburgh, for just $0.50! The ebook is published by D+T via Godless and can be bought here godless.com/collections/...

My story "Malice in Chains" about a murder in Edinburgh will be published on Monday, 18/9, by D+T via Godless (godless.com/collections/...) - for anyone who fancies a grim half-hour-ish read for the cost of less than two Freddos* ($0.50) *UK prices are measured in anthropomorphic-frog chocolates

Calling all creatures of the night! The TL;DR Press 2K Terrors flash fiction horror competition is coming. Consign your soul to the void for a chance to win cash prizes and a spot in the winners collection! Registration opens 25th September.