Do the thing that makes you want to die the most. Go write your book.

Me and the kids enjoying @johnhornor.bsky.social's latest novel

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

just write stuff that no one will ever care about, forever

Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it

HP Lovecraft: what if you you saw a cosmic horror and it made you go crazy August Derleth: what if you saw a cosmic horror and HP Lovecraft wrote it Robert W Chambers: what if you saw a really off-putting shade of yellow

Love this

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD. Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

weekly reminder that i am not chuck schumer

Waking up every day in 2025

You're fine. You're just in the beautiful bullshit ass journey part or something

Just write words. They don't have to be good. In fact, the less you feel about them the better off you will be. Preserve yourself. You're going to be doing this for the rest of your life.

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

There are times I do bristle a bit, and a little voice in the back of my mind whispers "not all men." But I tell that little voice to shut the hell up, because if the sum of a woman's life experience leads her to think "all men," the last thing she needs is me going, "oww, you hurted my feewings."

COVER REVEAL: Feral & Hysterical: Mother Horror's Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women by Sadie Hartmann -Page Street Publishing August 19th, 2025 Cover Artwork: María Amaya/Design: Rosie Stewart www.behance.net/amayamaria Pre-Order: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feral-hyst...

what if I lay down on the ground and start screaming and called that a book

But I'm the one with imposter syndrome.

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those that celebrate.

maybe we could all use a moment of zen (volume up)

welcome to the NOvember challenge. if you were thinking about doing something, don't

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Show us yout pet's baby picture (or first times with you)? This is Fizz on her second day with us--it's one of my favourite pics of her. 🥹

BOOK DEAL: Today we're excited to announce we've signed @Sarah Langan's excellent and highly entertaining novella, PAM KOWOLSKI IS A MONSTER. I've been thinking about this one since I read it and am excited to get a chance to be the one to publish it. rawdogscreaming.com/book-deal-sa...

She's so pretty when she's mad 🖤

This Washington Post report haunts me every day

Apex Magazine is currently open to submissions from all authors. We will remain open through November. After that we will remained closed until I can get caught up on submissions and see if we need more stories for 2025. Submission details here: apex-magazine.com/submissions/

"Lucas Mangum is the Shudder of the horror community, he offers a wide variety of horror, thriller and supernatural fictional content…there’s always something good on." - Mike Rankin, Horror Bookworm Reviews horrorbookwormreviews.com/2024/10/11/h...

I loved this book. Buy it on sale now and support @fiascothecat.bsky.social (also @premeemohamed.com)

It's funny how prominent men have to prove again and again that they're shallow thinkers before anybody believes it and smart women have to prove every day of their lives that they aren't and get treated like they are anyway

Let’s be clear about some stuff. Submission fees? Classist. Super expensive conferences in fancy hotels that don’t offer scholarships, don’t have interpreters, and completely ignore accessibility? Classist and ableist. Asking writers to write? Neither of those things.

I'm just going to attach this to every example I can find until I get annoyed with myself

JUMP AROUND JUMP AROUND JUMP UP JUMP UP AND GET DOWN and then fall asleep immediately

I hear people say “Wow, horror is having a moment right now!” and also “Horror is more diverse than ever right now” and I truly hope they see the correlation.

Your campaign slogan is your last name and the last text you sent: Eiss: Jfc it's Friday afternoon already

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI

"childless woman" is such a 19th-century-ass insult. what else you got. do I render inferior tallow? do my cabbages grow pale and blemished? does the quality of my sock-darning bring shame upon my father's name?

Fiasco haves crunchies Fiasco haves wets Fiasco haves treats Fiasco haves pets But hims not haves What him wants most: Big Friend's eggies and Big Friend's toast :(

this is good advice for everyone, not just vet techs

I pre-ordered this (of course!), I'm a third of the way through and loving it so far. Such a weird, captivating premise.

gotta love how contemporary publishing is 30000000 beautiful, deeply felt, finely crafted books with 7.5 readers each whose authors are just barely making a living, and like 4 books that financially support the whole apparatus, each of which has comprehensively and unforgivably destroyed society

Issue 4 is a special issue of longer stories. Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🚀 speculative stories about our inner lives 📝 2,500-5,000 words 💸 no submission fee 💷 pay £0.02 per word General subs open 15-31 July www.inner-worlds.org #SFF #Fantasy #Horror

No matter how grey the day is, its a good day when you vote. #voting #happy4thofJuly

Nervous mouse, he helps carry your worries.

Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.

Read a book and its soul will be siphoned directly into your face

It's CINDERWICH release day! Huzzah! Go show author @cmpriest.bsky.social some love! www.apexbookcompany.com/collections/...