Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions! From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website: www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi... 🖤👻📚

A pleasure to read this review. Available for preorder over at @stelliform.press !

Pitch: someone calls an anonymous tip into ICE about a house full of illegal immigrants. ICE starts watching the house and decides to do a night raid. The immigrants are all vampires. The vampires called in the tip.

I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

Okay I am NOT updating this graphic any more (go buy THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST so I can feed my cats tho) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I'm editing a new anthology of sci fi written by sex workers for @workinggirlspress.bsky.social. It's called Liquid Silver (after the club/brothel in Tank Girl) and I'm so excited to see what my SW babes are writing!

Hey netgalley folks-- my collection THE OTHER SHORE is available to you guys. It's all about the Salish Sea, and the special kinds of beauty and weirdness you might find there. Forthcoming from @stelliform.press in October!

gonna try to post tomorrow so last call

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

This list! This project is always an absolute highlight of my year, but what joy in this year in particular to see so many books so interested in community, in how we live in this wild present and future, in making new choices and forging new paths. A million congrats to these brilliant authors!!!

So... *kicks dirt nervously* ... whatcha up to Monday night? Wanna come out to a fantastic queer horror bookstore and spend some time getting spooked?

Each morning brings new atrocities. I'm trying my hardest to not let it change me; to not become as bitter and hate-filled as they are. My heart goes out to everyone suffering real trauma. My deepest respect to everyone fighting for justice and equality each and every day.

Have to agree, this was a really fun afternoon. And I came away with a bunch of new books, which was kind of inevitable.

This will be a must buy. If you haven't read "Arboreality", do it. It's a beautiful book.

The cover for THE OTHER SHORE, my short fiction collection, forthcoming in October from @stelliform.press. Kerry Pagdin's art is so familiar-- like the kinds of dreams I had as a kid reading (and re-reading) Watership Down. Which is, of course, the landscape of my heart, and these stories.

I was so excited when I saw the cover of my collection of short stories, I went out and bought a print by the artist.

Last weekend: cycling around mid-island and reading Arboreality by @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social. Sitting by this creek that feeds K̓wal̓uxw (Englishman River), 20km from the site of the 2023 Cameron Lake fire and in the middle of the (speculative) fire zone of 2055 and thinking about resilient futures

Thrilled to reveal the cover for @thomasha.bsky.social's astonishingly original debut UNCERTAIN SONS. Cover art by Ove Tøpfer. Design by Vince Haig. Foreword by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social. Praise from Kelly Link. Importantly, pre-orders open now. Get in! undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

What if we didn’t focus on scaling our pedagogy so as to cram hundreds of students into each course taught by a single instructor. What if scaling meant taking much better care of more minds, not hurting so many of our students the way we currently do?

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

This one also has "Pathways of Desire" in it, which is snarky and sad and hilarious on what middle aged women become when the world no longer knows what to do with us. It's such a good story.

I’m honoured to be guest editor for the war issue of Reckoning, which I’ve titled It Was Paradise, after Darwish. Details on the call for submissions here: reckoning.press/special-subm...

🩸🍒 Want to be one of the first to read Sour Cherry by @nassos.bsky.social ? “If you love Kelly Link, Angela Carter, and Carmen Maria Machado, then Natalia Theodoridou is your new favorite author.”—Benjamin Percy Enter now! 🩸🍒 bit.ly/SourCherryGa...

*clears throat* Also, before I start work for the day, REMINDER to please apply for the Banff Centre science fiction literary arts residency in 2025! If you write sci-fi, it's a great chance to focus on it for a couple weeks along with me, @aijiang.bsky.social , and @amalelmohtar.com !

Applications close this Friday!

THIS THIS. I've been on this. Please take the chosen one narrative and put them aside.

If I can recommend some beautiful books flying under the radar. The Talosite by @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social Among the Lilies by Daniel Mills, I Would Haunt You if I Could by @seanbirnie.bsky.social The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie by M. Rickert. Just $2 each!

Many bivalves can see! Scallops have hundreds of eyes, which they can even use to resolve simple shapes, to help them navigate while swimming. Giant clams and some other cockles have them too. Juvenile oysters have an eyespot for navigating in the larval phase #clamFacts 🧪

"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.

We're getting to the time of year when I start wincing at "Best Of" lists that are entirely big 5 titles. Come on, we don't really believe that, coincidentally, ALL the year's 'best' books were published by the biggest companies and zero small presses, do we?

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

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

Just a heads up - the deadline to recommend works for the Otherwise Awards is this Friday, 11/15. Anyone can submit a recommendation! otherwiseaward.org/award/2024-o...

📣📣📣 SUPPORT QUEER ART 📣📣📣 "Huldra House is a queer, Canadian self-publishing press producing speculative romance/erotica/horrorotica/monsterfucking." This looks rad—happy to support such a cool project. I hope you'll join me!

I'm starting a thread of state and local victories from last night, because it's easy for those to get lost. Here's my start, but feel free to add your own: Here in Maryland, Angela Alsobrooks defeated Larry Hogan for our open Senate seat.

Congratulations Kate! Love that. TWO TRINIDADIANS on the cover of Locus??? Has that ever happened before??? Socal SFF, yes. I love that @rsagarcia.bsky.social and I are in the same issue. She is like family.

I can finally share the exciting news that I've been sitting on for a while now. I'll have a new novel, The Ballad of the Bone Road, coming out in January 2026! www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...

To me, this is foundational to being a great writer, a great literary citizen. Whose books do you read and share? Who do you support and lift up? Imperative stuff.

Yup. As a small indie publisher I love my fellow indie publishers: @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social @psychopomp.bsky.social and more. Check 'em out! Show them some love.

Friends, The Dark magazine needs one more reprint for the November issue. Please see the guidelines here: www.thedarkmagazine.com/submission-g...

ICYMI, featuring original work by writers from around the world; @samitbasu.bsky.social @vajra.me @aliettedb.bsky.social Ganzeer, Cassandra Khaw, @lavanya.bsky.social @architamittra.bsky.social @sloanesloane.bsky.social @bruces.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @lavietidhar.bsky.social:

Later today I will be accepting the prestigious Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and doing a reading of my winning story, 'Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200'. This is an absolute dream come through for me and I can't wait! Hope to see you there! sfcenter.ku.edu/2024-sturgeo...

Congratulations to Anne de Marcken, recipient of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over!

this place will never be complete without a really excellent ghost story/weird shit that's happened to people thread or two, please make that happen

Massive congratulations to @premeemohamed.com for winning the World Fantasy Award. We are ecstatic. Congratulations to all the nominees, especially @undertow.bsky.social comrade @tobithedreamer.bsky.social

“Sometimes I feel like this is not real life—that this can go on and this degree of suffering is allowed to happen in this world.” —Dr. Mohammed Tahir, speaking to Al Jazeera about today's Israeli attacks on the refugee camps at a school in Nuseirat and on the grounds of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

I remember people saying things like “you can’t fix an empty page” as an explanation for why writing a shitty first draft is better than no writing, but it’s not because it’s easier to edit than draft. It’s because the act of drafting tells you about the shape of the story.

SO honoured to have a story in this tremendous anthology and also is it weird that just from reading reviews of it, I'm like SALIVATING to read my contributors' copy? I'm like "OMG everybody wrote A MUCH SCARIER STORY THAN MINE." And so Canadian! :D