Join myself and 5 other women & non-binary authors for a tasting menu of science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories. We’ll have 8 minutes to tempt and tantalizing you with our readings. Listen in and earn freebies! #swswqr #uncommonuniverse #booktok #bookreadings #readercommunity

Alexander Calder, Portrait of a Man, New York, c. 1928 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136799

Hey, it’s #MondayReads time! Think of it like a key party, but you know, with books! Repost this post and tell us what you want reposted. Me, I have a new publisher! Soon my books will again be available everywhere. Until then, get ‘em here! vortexbooksandcomicsonline.bigcartel.com/category/bea...

#MustRead horror kicks off 2026 like this: The Lineup choose the best indie & small press books of 2025, @bloody-disgusting.com explain the horror references in the #StrangerThings finale (caution: spoilers!), @whatsleepsbeneath.com look back at the most terrifying scenes of 2000 film The Skulls 1/2

Looking back at 2025 because you can’t rush me into a new year, I got to work with artist @cuttledreams.bsky.social on an illustrated horror short called Rest- excited to share later this year.

Curled up and cozy reading the incredible The Heaven and Earth Geocery Store with Sunny on this rainy rainy day. Whatcha reading #booksky?

Happy New Year! THX for #FridayReads! My Gaslamp Fantasy, DEAD RINGER, coming this fall, doesn't have links up yet, so we'd LOVE for folks to keep discovering our critically-acclaimed non-fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781356...

It’s the first #FridayReads of 2026! Hope it brings you good things. Anyway, let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) little monster full of friendship, magic, and ghosts. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950, 1950 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134545

This. And as always an excellent time to share how to spot a stroke in a loved one (but if you are playing the “is it a stroke?” game just go to the hospital, because time is brain).

Hi I’m 3 clots in my brain.

A single crow flies in front of the 97.8% waxing gibbous moon tonight. 🪶

@merriam-webster.com Thanks!

Unfinished manuscripts. Q3 #horrorwriterschat

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! I'm Rami Ungar, I write horror and dark fantasy, and if I were forced to haunt somewhere, it would be some place entertaining. A library, a theater, anywhere I could not spend the afterlife bored. Either that, or the White House. You can guess why.

Written and deleted five answers, so I’m going to go with- that time I couldn’t decide so the decision made itself. Q2 #horrorwriterschat

hey #horrorweiterschat I’m Kimberly Davis Basso. I suspect I’m too lazy to haunt anyone, but there are a few people I might be willing to make an effort to destroy. Heads up - my profile pic is how I will appear, all faded & mildly pissed off in case you see me (unlikely as you are all lovely). Q1

So, Irish exit on 2025 right? #newyearseve

RELEASE DAY! My short story - 'Traveling Wilbury' - that will appear in the 2026 'Who's Satan Inside?' anthology is officially out today - December 30th! If you love horror & heavy metal, I invite you to check this out! 🇨🇦 link here - www.amazon.ca/dp/B0G8LDZZ2T

Just about out of days for #invertfest but that's okay, I'm just about out of invertebrate plushes. Obviously I need to make more! This is Legslegslegs the millipede. Three feet and 72 legs. :D

2,195 word short story off for publication. Feels good.

Hi everyone! We are aware that our site is down and are looking into it. Thank you for your patience as we get it back up and running 🩵

One chapter in and already madly in love with this book. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. I was in such a reading slump, now I don’t want to do anything but curl up with this book on this overcast day with the wind whistling by the windows. Loki approves of this plan. #booksky

Look what came in today! Updated covers to MEXICANS ON THE MOON! I want to thank everyone who took a chance on this book. Much love!

Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025

Your worst idea, your worst, garbage, good lord let no one ever see this what was I thinking idea— is better than the slop machine.

It would not be "inevitable" if the AI companies didn't insist on forcing it into everything & others would stop saying "this is inevitable" Generative AI: -is ethically wrong -only exists due to theft -is inaccurate/lies -depletes resources -causes mental instability HOW IS THIS EVEN A DEBATE???

and frankly, if your response to "they're shoving this broken fucking technology into literally every tool we use" is not, "so how do we stop them?" but instead "so how do I avoid this impacting my awards eligibility?" then I don't think we're having the same debate.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

“I peeled my orange That was so bright against The gray of December That, from some distance, Someone might have thought I was making a fire in my hands." Gary Soto, "Oranges" #poetry

My review of @almakatsu.bsky.social’s Fiend, from @putnambooks.bsky.social, is now up at @locusmag.bsky.social. locusmag.com/review/fiend...

Bizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic Ocean

Mary’s here. Best present ever.

Did you learn your craft? Are you still learning? Does it take work and effort and mistakes and frustration and elation and time and did I already say effort? If you are a writer or artist of any medium that is dedicated to 100% human work please let me know, recs welcome.

Loki would like you to know he is willing and ready to take care of those holiday leftovers for you. Just say the word.

2026 TBR plan #booksky 1. Join me on @thestorygraph.com it’s woman owned, not attached to a mega retailer, and really fun 2. Join my 2926 reading challenge, I guarantee you can do this! (prompt one is “a book with words”)

Here’s to being left behind by AI in the new year 🥂

Remember my stroke? Me neither. Grab my most popular book for $1.99 today. “I got as far as the dedication and peed myself” (author not responsible for dry cleaning). Thanks for a great year Gabino & #FridayReads 🖤 a.co/d/3JShBeF

Thanks so much, Gabino! If people's book vouchers are burning a hole in their pockets, maybe they need a story about fire gods burning holes in evil politicians! 🔥🔥 My new book, Pyres has you covered! 💀 books2read.com/pyresnovel

I don’t want to brag or anything but my pajama pants have pockets.

Released this year, my best collection to date! It’s weird and horrifying. And illustrated! Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99! Amazon bit.ly/4lZImtq Bookshop bit.ly/41USpIQ

It’s the last #FridayReads of 2025 AND folks have book money, so let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a festive little monster full of magic, violence, friendship, revenge, and ghosts. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

Just heard Miss Piggy sing Santa Baby, so on that note- peace and joy to you all.

Krampus, Zarbustibal (me), Watercolor Pencils/Pencil, 2025

Sketch of some Ravens Ink on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart

William Holbrook Beard Santa Claus, ca. 1862 Oil on canvas

Whatever I give to the Girl she’s likely to burn my house down so probably something I could use like a fireproof jacket or an extinguisher. Q2 #horrorwriterschat

I’m Kimberly Davis Basso, I write horror across genres, and for Christmas horror I favor the classic ghost stories by Dickens- yes A Christmas Carol but he wrote loads of them. Weird Women is an anthology I also associate with the holidays for some reason. #HorrorWritersChat

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.