got my adhd upgraded to ad4k

I’m visiting family for holidays and EVERYONE is regularly using AI. Absolutely bleak.

One of the things that gets me about this whole "replace people in publishing with AI" thing is that people in publishing (translators / editors / copy editors / authors / etc) are among the worst fucking paid people out there.

Burned out.

I love this skeleton that is clutching their flowers so, so much.

Hey, I'm launching a Patreon! You may have heard that it's just a little bit hard to make a living as a writer these days, so if you like my culture writing, please consider subscribing 🖤 My first essay, live now and free to all, is on Elem Klimov's Come and See www.patreon.com/posts/143805...

“Can I send you my manuscript?”

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She's Publisher's Marketplace official! ♥️🇵🇸 If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

Convincing you to read my new novella by the first few sentences. Share yours if you want! So begins Dead Weight (which comes out in May).

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

The bar next to my building has ERUPTED into cheers 🥹🍾

FUCK YEAH NEW YORK!! That’s my city!! That’s my MAYOR!!!

Waiting for these election results is excruciating

Happy November 1st! Welcome to second October. Things are dying. Night comes sooner, hungrier than in the summer. The cold is here. Things haunt the woods. Snow can trap you, Donner Party your plans. Colds and flus awake, go hunting. Yeah, it’s still spooky season. It’s always spooky season.

Happy Halloween, ghouls! 👻 Offering up an assortment of the spooky books on my Nightfire list, with a special shoutout to three originals that pubbed this year 🕯️✨ Can’t wait to keep adding to this pile 😈

i am so excited to announce that POPPY CREEK will be published by tor nightfire in spring 2027!! 🔥 thank you to everyone who has helped me get here—but especially my agents @stutitelidevara.bsky.social and pete knapp, and my editors kristin temple and jo thompson ❤️ 🔗 to know more below!!

We’re thrilled to announce Poppy Creek, the debut novel by Ivy Fang! This darkly funny twist on a haunted house tale follows Laurel Meng, a Chinese American con woman posing as an exorcist, and will be published by Tor Nightfire in 2027. reactormag.com/book-announc...

The news is out!! I can't wait to invite you all to Poppy Creek.... you'll never want to leave

i wonder if haunted houses ever dream that they could have  been more than a vessel less than a haunting something that grew and changed shouted loud its shape never had to whisper never had to wither never once sealed off its hallways from footsteps and instead shone brightest in the toothless dark

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

When we were deciding on a cover for Dead Weight, there were a few colour options to choose from. My only input was that it had to be a colour that looked nice with Uggi’s fur, because I know my audience. (PS this is an arc, not the finished copy)

Might get to share some publishing news tomorrow 🤔

do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you! forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...

Someone on threads expressed bafflement that horror becomes popular during trying political times but it's pretty simple as far as i'm concerned: engaging in horror you control by walking away or fast forwarding or turning it off is a way of controlling fear versus a world that blasts you with it.

now that she's real, she gets to sit in the hallowed place between my terrarium, hot peppers, and the skull i found in a creek last month thanks to @tornightfire for getting them to me so quickly! cover art by the incredible @emeraldbarkley

Thank you to creepy woods connoisseur @wnwagner.bsky.social for her stellar review of MORSEL! Her novel GIRL IN THE CREEK was one of my most anticipated reads this year. It did not disappoint!

Bunch of new followers recently, so here’s a quick rundown of stuff I work on: I WROTE A BOOK. It’s about isolation and madness and our desperate need for human connection. You can buy it. I also read the audiobook and venture to say I do it very well torpublishinggroup.com/your-shadow-...

When I first published a little horror chapbook called "Mother" a decade ago, I never thought I'd be typing something like this, but I'm so thrilled to share that my newest novel, THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE, is a Top 100 USA TODAY Bestseller. @torbooks.bsky.social

Anyway, it's a horror/thriller about two women who become unlikely friends and then have to get rid of a dead body, and there is a cat and a lot of blood (but! important caveat – it's human blood!) and if you think you might like it, even though Uggi clearly does NOT, you can preorder here!

Just got some early bound manuscripts of Dead Weight in the mail and I was gonna take cute photos with Uggi to share on social media but … I don’t think he likes my new book?

A massive THANK YOU to everyone who ordered or preordered my newest novel. Was very gratifying to see that little orange flag for the Kindle edition this morning. THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE is now available wherever you buy books!

TOUR STOPS THIS WEEK: LOS ANGELES - BOOK SOUP - FRI, 10/3 with Brian Evenson booksoup.com/event/2025-1... SAN DIEGO - MYSTERIOUS GALAXY - SAT, 10/4 with Brian Asman www.mystgalaxy.com/10425AsmanFr... ENCINITAS - ARTIFACT BOOKS - SUN, 10/5 with Cody Goodfellow artifactrarebooks.com

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

What ppl think editing is like vs. what editing is actually like

Today’s cool, crisp, Fall air might have just cured my depression HAPPY HALLOWEEN SEASON, GHOULS 🧡🎃

THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE is now available wherever you buy books! For US: bit.ly/macmillanaut... For UK: bit.ly/blackwellaut... For tour dates and signed copies: pfracassi.com/newsandevents

Shut it down. Shut it all fucking down. Trump has the losing hand here & he knows it, so he's trying to blame his shitty shutdown on the dolls, hoping spineless dems will sacrifice them on the altar of civility. Fuck anyone who crosses to help him. Fuck them and primary them and hassle them to Hell

New Yorkers! There’s a very real possibility Schumer & Gillibrand will throw trans people under the bus to help Trump & keep the government open. Call them & tell them no! Script below.

Just did this. It took ~5 minutes. Left a voicemail for Schumer and actually spoke to someone in Gillibrand’s office. Go call!! If someone like me (with massive phone anxiety) can do it, so can you.

Three more lines to make you want to read MORSEL!

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

ONE WEEK! AUTUMN SPRINGS releases 9/30! Signed and Personalized copies are available from stores around the country. Links at pfracassi.com/newsandevents Or preorder from any bookstore to get the book day-of release!