This weekend, I read Laura Eppinger’s essay, “When the Hermit Appears” (Alien Buddha Press). It is a beautifully written essay that reads like a short story. An exploration of dysfunctional relationships and desire. This is one I will come back to more than once. Recommend 100%.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long the sale will last. www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...

What do you need for poetry month? You need this reading for @notatawp.bsky.social featuring @chiaradilello.bsky.social @mgarrigan.bsky.social and Elizabeth Sylvia on April 27th at 730pm est. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Fuck yeah book mail! Really looking forward to this one by @aaronburch.bsky.social from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social!

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

New flash in Milk Candy Review today! Check it out if you have a minute: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/02/05/t...

Friends, one week left before our submissions close. It has been a balm to read all the words set before us, and an honor, every one. These words matter. It matters. Keep creating in the eye of this great storm. Lay not your hope at the feet of despair. heroinchic.weebly.com

Jeez. I'm proud of my friends. One was out protesting in Minneapolis today. Two more heading up an LGBTQ+ book & arts festival in FL. Good folks outnumber the rest, and not by a little.

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Sharing this monster full of violence, friendship, magic, monsters, ghosts, and revenge again because it’s on sale and…storms! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

Thanks for a fun mash-up at #WriteStuff @writestuff.bsky.social and @kww.bsky.social!

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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

This totally tracks. Mr. Crowley was my most listened to song. RIP Ozzy. 😢

I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...

This December let’s give ourselves permission to sit & read a good book for a half hour when the mood strikes. Even though we have so much to do. Even though work is a lot. Just set down the phone, put aside the to do list, & give yourself this gift. 2025 has been hard. We deserve a treat. ☕️ 📚

I have two reviews in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025. Up today at LitHub. Congrats to all these amazing writers and small presses!

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House cancels votes next week, including vote on Epstein files.

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

who am i to argue with The Southern Review of Books' placing The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife as a Best Southern Book for October 2025? 😊 southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/24/b...

This past year, I have been reading gobs of novels and short story collections published by small presses. I nominated three for inclusion in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025. If you shared your novel with me, thanks! I enjoyed reading all of them. #100SmallPress

Gus has joined the resistance.

thinking about knitting her some leg warmers next

Today is the day! My Gothic & sapphic historical fantasy novel is available everywhere ebooks are sold! #Fantasy #Booksky

The old typewriter must be here somewhere…

If anyone is interested in typewriter history, I will share more later.

I wrote a little scene today. It includes a typewriter, so I researched which ones were popular in the US in 1900 and how they worked. Then I remembered I have my great grandmother’s typewriter. Solid possibility it is similar. Will dig it out tomorrow! #HistoricalFiction #Writing

This is SUPER COOL

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Good Intentions Aren’t Enough in Publishing Deals: How Creators Can Protect Themselves

If you're at SFO and you stop by Green Apple Books, you'll find signed copies of Redshirts, Kaiju and Moon. Go get them!

My first draft writing process is like playing Tetris but I'm slamming the blocks down as fast as possible.

colleen j. mcelroy PAINT ME VISIBLE from her collection, Blood Memory

I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop

Writing #HistoricalFiction involves getting choked up over people who have been dead for six hundred years, risking life and limb in library compact stores to access obscure journal articles, and repeatedly asking yourself why close to 25% of your characters are technically named John. #amwriting

i love randall horton... AND @jdpaden.bsky.social - theyve each blurbed or shown early support for at least two of my four collections. i wasnt even aware of this new blurb from him for Fisherman's Wife... both he & jeremy are excellent writers (poets or essays) - please check for their works.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

nothing like a really good opening line break to pull a reader into the poem

Okay, Matt Kendrick compiling where you can find excellent flash fiction classes is the gift we didn't know we needed.

At a concert…

Feeling very dark about this world & then I saw this little pretty thing & I was reminded the world is imbued with meaning & goodness. It’s all around us even if the evil is too.

Hashbrowns trending on Threads. Hashbrowns. Logging off of everything for the day.

My TBR to start the month…

To help out public radio & television

Good news: every clumsy embarrassing fumble forward counts towards writing

I have an article in this issue! Big thanks to Greg Michalson, @crystalwilki.bsky.social, and @davidjoy.bsky.social for sharing their advice on writing difficult scenes.

First bean pod of the year! I forget what I planted where. This is either black bean or red. I have been tending to my garden every day. Sunlight is so good for the mood!