Whatever you can do to make other people's lives a little easier or more joyful, or make them feel more comfortable, supported, or welcome, do it--especially for folks from demographic backgrounds that are being attacked. Check in with people, have grace, laugh together, trade resources, tap in. 💖

#ClipOfTheDay: For this Conduit Club event in London, Egyptian Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad discusses his debut memoir, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Knopf), and reflects on “the dangers of using language for the unmaking of meaning.” at.pw.org/OmarElAkkad

ICYMI! Last minute reading for the Nebula Awards? Try the short story "A Stranger Knocks" by Tananarive Due! @tananarivedue.bsky.social It is on the Locus Recommended Reading List! You can read it here! https://buff.ly/4be398C

man, yeah, this Owl Crate edition, it's got so many special features. if it were a car, it'd have side-pipes, a spoiler, mags, sport mirrors, bucket seats, hood pins, and probably four on the floor and an extra carb or two to boot. or whatever the 19th c. analogues for/of those might be . . .

Here’s the waitlist link! www.owlcrate.com/pages/horror...

If you're repping a epic fantasy/secondary world fantasy with either zero romance or a B-plot romance, could you send it my way PLEASE? #mswl

Join us for a Smithsonian talk on Sleeping Beauty on 2/25, 6:45PM ET! “Sleeping Beauty” has a complicated past, filled with goddesses, astrology, and atrocities.⁠ We delve into the story, changes it has undergone, and how it has been retold in recent times. smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...

Not interested in hearing about the price of eggs (or anything else) unless you're actively doing something to make this trash economy better for people. Stop telling people how much eggs cost and start building mutual aid networks and supporting the labor movement.

This is a recording of the first in a series of excellent trainings on mutual aid, the second of which is coming up this Wednesday. Highly recommend! #Activism #MutualAid #ArtActivism #Training www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2K...

It has occurred to me that reading Lovecraft is not altogether unlike reading Seuss at times. The gugs in the gulf, the web-footed wamps, the glibbering of the ghouls, etc. If Seuss had written dark fantasy/horror, I imagine it would've sounded like that. #Lovecraft #Seuss #SFF #Horror 📚💙 🩸📚

To this end, highly recommend Bassem Youssef's memoir, REVOLUTION FOR DUMMIES: Laughing Through the Arab Spring. He was a doctor who started a YouTube satire called Al Bernameg ("The Show") in the vein of The Daily Show, taking Jon Stewart as his model. 📚💙 www.harpercollins.com/products/rev...

Laughed with several colleagues this week about the absurdity of our dystopian survival horror, which I think we all needed. Satire is such an important tool for times like these. We can laugh our way to a re-mythologization of our present and a better future. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 🤘

Honored to be included among these incredible Latinas including my agent hermana @jenrofe.bsky.social whose work and passion for advocacy in and out of the publishing industry is work I admire. 💕 latinamedia.co/latinas-in-p...

I know it's hard to write when the fear of book bans & soft censorship looms over all BIPOC & LGBTQ writers. Especially middle grade authors who can't get into schools to promote their books anymore. Book bans are doing exactly what they want-stopping us from writing. DON'T LET THEM! KEEP WRITING!

Someone asked: "So... public domain cosmic horrors that aren't Lovecraft. What do we got?" The tradition that gave us Lovecraft & co. is rich and deeply weird. While they aren't all cosmic horror, they all informed it. So. 1 like = 1 public domain weird story that isn't by H. P. Lovecraft.

Finally put batteries and distilled water in my desk fountain. ❤️⛲😌

the february horror new release list is live! feat. new books from @emmaemurray.bsky.social, @eveharms.com, @hachepueyo.bsky.social, @leilataylor.bsky.social, V. Castro, @rebelsam94.bsky.social, @kojiadae.bsky.social, @angelaslatter.bsky.social, @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, and many more!

School Librarians Are The Heroes We Need!!! We must protect them, respect them, and celebrate their vital role in schools. While we're at it, let's work to ensure that every school in America has full-time, certified, professional school librarians. ❤️📚 @slj.com @penamerica.bsky.social

A9: If you've got interests beyond what you're doing and you want to make them part of your business, why not explore them? And to toot my own horn: If you want 1:1 guidance to help you with that, I work with lots of editors who want to try out new things. tanyagold.com/coaching-for... #ACESChat

As I'm starting back in book publishing, I'd like to know of Black (& POC) freelancers w/ experience copyediting, proofreading, editing, design, marketing. The imprint I'm at is creating a #freelance database, so if you have website/LinkedIn, which every #freelancer should, lemme know. DO NOT DM ME.

@thenation.com calls The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls “an ode to close reading.”

Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place? romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...

Epic pranks gone wrong: Japanese folklore edition. -> matthewmeyer.net/blog/2024/10/31/a-yokai-a-day-the-man-from-saiki-village-in-tanba-province-who-became-an-oni-while-still-living

Calling all Malaysians! We are special unicorns of the internet 😆 Please spread the word. If I accidentally added u, let me know! If u want 2 b added, BOLEH. I know I'm missing people.. @premeemohamed.com @singingtotigers.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Q8517ww (did I accidentally add Weird Al Yankovic)

A must-watch for horror fans and easily one of the best genre docs I've ever seen. ❤️

BREAKING: Major publishers, alongside the Authors Guide, bestselling authors, and others, have filed a lawsuit against Idaho's draconian book ban bill, claiming First and Fourteenth Amendment violations. bookriot.com/idaho-hb710-...

Escape Pod, Worlds of Possibility, and Samovar: Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur locusmag.com/2025/02...

The Folklore Fellows' Communications (est. 1908) is peer reviewed monograph series in folkloristics, comparative religion, cultural anthropology and ethnology. See what's going on 👉 www.folklorefellows.fi

🚩THIS WOULD IMPACT THE IOWA WRITERS' WORKSHOP🚩 "The bill...would prohibit the universities or any of its employees from requiring or incentivizing faculty to use or participate in DEI or critical race-theory practices." 📚💙 📚🌎 #WritingCommunity #DEI #Iowa #IA www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

Focus, rest, and relaxation are harder to come by these days, but I've found that ambient or instrumental tracks can really help. Here's the one I'm listening to today while reading. 📚💙 www.youtube.com/live/EW34rZV...

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

“A chilling new documentary at the Sundance film festival examines the phenomenon of book banning in US schools, which flourished in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ordinary heroes who fight them on the local level.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

If you’re participating in #FollowFriday You can check out this starter pack ✨ go.bsky.app/9ZAuBdY

😂 #Satire

Lila Shapiro reached out to 300+ people and re-read Neil's backlist for the piece. How did she do it? Psychoanalysis five days a week and the support of a professional team willing to have to her back. Thank you both, @drewsof.bsky.social and @lilashapiro.bsky.social.

The fightforthefirst.org platform from @everylibrary.bsky.social is a really great resource for grassroots organizing around protecting the freedom to read. They use bullying tactics to make us feel alone and scared. We must build community and stand together!

This is such an excellent collection, and makes me proud to work with #TeamPRH

Hey all readers and writers! Join our Patreon to unlock monthly giveaways, digital issues, rare author content, ad space for your business or project, and at the higher tiers: short story critiques, invites to exclusive industry events! patreon.com/locus?ut...

If you need a break from doom scrolling this weekend, we have two great titles on sale on Kindle for just $2.99 each, our second groundbreaking volume of World Horror Stories, and a delightful '80s paperback from Hell by Michael Talbot.

Elyse Graham (@elysegraham.bsky.social)'s BOOK AND DAGGER: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II is currently on sale. #BookSky 📚💙 www.harpercollins.com/products/boo...

Survival struggles, factionalism & descents into chaos are absolute staples of the genre—not original concepts that one creator can claim as their own. There’s even a fancy French term for this: scènes à faire—situations/incidents that naturally flow from a particular premise. tinyurl.com/yc8mvseu

#Egyptian edition! Highlighting Egyptian creators. Introduce yourself with: One book 📖 - Deena Mohamed's SHUBEIK LUBEIK (published by #TeamPRH) One film 🎥 - FROM JAPAN TO EGYPT One album 💿 - Riverwood's SHADOWS AND FLAMES (Egyptian folk metal) One show 📺 - PARANORMAL (Netflix) #BookSky 📚💙

I'm beginning to roll out new genre feeds and features for #booksky! 🩸📚⌛️📚💙🪐📚🌶️📚💡 Check the directory below to find the new feeds.

PDF is free until Feb. 13th! 💙📚🩸 #Horror www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Welcome to the Horror Books feed! 🩸📚 1️⃣ save/heart the feed if you're enjoying it 2️⃣ repost to help us find more nerds 3️⃣ use 🩸📚 or 📚🩸 to post to feed 4️⃣ add a 💙 to post to the main BookSky feed too 5️⃣ more BookSky genre feeds on my profile FAQ 👉🏻 bit.ly/bookskyFAQ

You should also join AABB, like damn. We have model letters for you to read, media training, and we can let you know when we NEED those letters WHICH IS CONSTANTLY (and will only get worse ✌🏽) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Not many submissions yet, but the call is still going until the middle of February. BIPOC writers--I'd love to read your horror/Weird fiction short story collections! cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Your periodic reminder that when you buy a book here: - I keep no record of what you buy - I collect no information about you (except your credit card number, and that's a reason you should use cash) - The book will still be yours tomorrow; I couldn't remove it from your possession

We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn