"Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman is NOT Cursed" in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, 2400 words: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...

I was rooting around old issues of @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, and I just realized this month they hit their 15th year (Issue 1 was Feb 2011)? That is awesome. www.bourbonpenn.com/issue

- @mariahaskins.com in @locusmag.bsky.social on Clelia Farris's "Threehearts and Me," tr from the Italian by yours truly, in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/thr... #SFinTranslation

My new collection, The Pandemonium Waltz, will be on the loose tomorrow, Feb. 15th. 17 stories, cover and inside front and back cover art by Derek Ford, and an interview with me conducted by Kelly Link. Buy early and often. If you're so inclined, spread the word.

In my short fiction review column in this terrific issue, I feature stories from @fantasymagazine.bsky.social @podcastle.org @castofwonders.org @bcsmagazine.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com @smallwondersmag.com and @bourbonpenn.bsky.social!

My Year In Review has stories from @strangehorizons.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @castofwonders.org @escapepod.org @podcastle.org @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social @psychopomp.com and a novella by @essahansen.bsky.social!

My 2025 Year in Review column + my latest short fiction review column are both in the February issue of LOCUS -- get it in digital or print: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

Three stories to get to know my writing Quote & share your own 1. The Charcoal Sovereign at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the... 2. Crumpled at @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... 3. The Ballad of Easy Deaths at @3lobedmag.com www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

If you're reading over coffee this Saturday, this novelette is temporarily available online again for the next month or so. Thanks if you check it out. undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

Won't bombard w/links, but the collection's afterword notes loose ties to 2 older stories. So if you enjoy the father/son or weird strains they are: "House Traveler" in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, audio in @pseudopod.org, and "The Sort" in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, new audio in @wilwheaton.net's pod.

I know issue 12 isn't even out yet—soon—but revel in the glory of the cover and contributors of issue 13 (Summer). Art by James Hutton. Design by Vince Haig. I'll be doing a big pre-order push soon on our 2026 titles to try and secure some much-needed operating funds.

A sample of my short fiction reviews in LOCUS! @fantasymagazine.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social and @tasavvurnama.bsky.social .

“Trader” by Sam Asher from Bourbon Penn, “Late Night Conversations” by Ramsha Farooq Raja from Tasavvur Magazine, and more short fic recs from Maria Haskins

Spotlight on Michael Kelly & Best Weird Fiction locusmag.com/2026/01...

Check out Clelia Farris's "Threehearts and Me" (TR by yours truly)! Italian #SFinTranslation

I’m Simon Strantzas. I write horror but also sort of don’t. It's complicated. I wrote the collection Burnt Black Suns and edited the anthology Aickman’s Heirs. Last year I published a new collection called OTHER SIDES that I really think you might like. www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...

We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS. Congratulations, Thomas!

Some good news: we're excited to announce that we've increased our payment rates for fiction. Our paid subscribers made this possible, and we are so grateful. Thank you!

Fab review of Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 in Rue Morgue! "When an anthology contains "Best" in its title, you expect a certain level of quality, and The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 absolutely delivers." —Monica S. Kuebler, Rue Morgue Magazine Grab issue 228 to see the review

Ahhh!! My Canadian lady pirate & shark-thing love story is listed! Give Them No Quarter, Tell Them All Lies pubb’d @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/32/giv...

Very happy to find out four of my stories made it onto @datlow.bsky.social’s Best Horror recommendations. Congrats to everyone else on the list, and thanks to those who published my stories! @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @swanriverpress.bsky.social @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social

I had fiction published in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social (A CLOCKWORK GUN) @kaleidotrope.bsky.social (MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY) @mythaxis.bsky.social (SOMEDAY SOMEONE'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON) with forthcoming stories next year in both Bourbon Penn and Kaleidotrope fictionaljosh.com/fiction/

Hey! Last bit of news of 2025 before I crawl away and convalesce. Contract's signed, so I can say I'll be returning to @bourbonpenn.bsky.social in the new year w/a short story, "Middle Song." An honor to sell here and very glad this one's housed w/sibling story, "In That Crumbling Home" (Issue 28).

Just very thrilled to make it to @acwise.bsky.social excellent list of Favorite Short Fiction of 2025 acwise.net/favorite-sho... In case you want to read the mentioned story, Idle, Inc is at Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/idl...

Friends! @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is 3-months old today. Time flies. Please consider grabbing a copy of this stellar debut. Thanks to all who have bought a copy. Really appreciate it. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...

Do you have plans next summer? My first horror collection, MIX TAPES FROM DEAD BOYS, is coming June 2026 from @journalstone.bsky.social.

So thrilled to be writing short fiction reviews for Locus Magazine! My first column is in the December issue which is available now in print and digital format. 📖 subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

Just remembered I've got a book coming out in 2026. Crawl Space will be out from @journalstone.bsky.social in January. Expect weirdness.

contract signed! so happy that my weird little cryptid story “The Jelly Heart” will appear in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social next year 💙

Hey, folks, please consider grabbing a copy of this anthology. I hope to keep it going.

We just need a few more subscribers and we'll be able to raise our fiction payment rates in the new year. Help us out. We're so close!

Best mag out there. Go!

We just need a few more subscribers and we'll be able to raise our fiction payment rates in the new year. Help us out. We're so close!

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

@thedeadlands.com already has 50 submissions in the queue—can you imagine if all 50 people also signed up for our Patreon? $5/month supports our mission to explore death in all forms. It keeps us paying authors and staff. www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

So, yes, I'm in LOCUS, reviewing short fiction! 👀 My very first review column is in this issue and I am so FREAKING EXCITED to be part of the Locus team and this magazine!

Arcs for The Pandemonium Waltz, my collection due out in February, should be available fairly soon. If you are a reviewer for a publication, drop me a line. Cover art by Derek Ford. And there is an interview with me by Kelly Link. TOC in 2 Comments below.

Read this issue last night from start to finish. Surreal, beautiful, unsettling, wrenching, and just SO MANY FEELS.

and the issue 99 COVER ✨ Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb

Me reading “Threehearts and Me”:

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

I've had the pleasure of hanging out with Sean in Ottawa, Niagara Falls, and Toronto. Good people, doing good work. If you can, please consider joining their Patreon to help keep the lights on at Psychopomp.

"Uncertain Sons and Other Stories," by @thomasha.bsky.social is a New York Public Library's 'Best Of' 2025. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

PSA: The Year's Best Weird Fiction (Vol. 1 / 2024) is a revitalizing tonic, a reminder of just how good and strange and fun speculative fiction can be. @undertow.bsky.social has a keen and expansive eye—I look forward to many many installments to come. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

A Friday evening surprise. The first audio version of "House Traveler." Incredibly well done by Preston Buttons. With great audio by Chelsea Davis (the trippy voice for the Liar is particularly cool!) And hosted by Scott Campbell! If you missed it last year in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, check it out!

3LBE Issue 46 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by K.S. Walker, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Corey Farrenkopf, Premee Mohamed, and Katie McIvor. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/

Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. "Jamie found the book in our second year at art school. I remember this because he never made it to the third." The Charcoal Sovereign published at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the...

-"A Clockwork Gun" (www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/a-c...) in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #35 -"Microcosmus of Mystery" (kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...) in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Spring 2025 - "Someday Someone's Gonna Steal Your Carbon" (mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/som...) in @mythaxis.bsky.social #42!

As others have noted in the quotes, if you like the story, you may also enjoy House Traveler in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social and The Sort in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, which may share some loose ties with the novelette. www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/34/hou... clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_08_24/

Today's read is a fun story of Legos gone awry, a nice bit of epistolary weird fiction written by @breewernicke.bsky.social, and published by my fave mag @bourbonpenn.bsky.social Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it. #weirdfiction #indiepublishing www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...