always thinking about…her (tower of terror ride architecture in japan)

Honoured and overjoyed to learn that Bury Your Gays won a British Fantasy Award!! 🙇‍♂️ I’m so grateful for the opportunity to have worked with @ghoulish.bsky.social and our incredible contributors. Thank you to everyone involved in the British Fantasy Awards!! Kicking my heels in glee.

Back at urgent care (second time this week!) cause of post-op bleeding from hysterectomy. Got to go in a CT scan for the first time. Big xray donut—neat!

The outpouring of support from readers & colleagues is overwhelming. I can't imagine them coming together like this for a "problematic" trans woman even five years ago. If you want to help me make up the lost income from comics work, you can subscribe to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

Gretchen Felker-Martin on Charlie Kirk and violence in a public post on her Patreon an hour ago, link in replies:

I've moved my newsletter to beehiiv! Check out the updates enclosed, and consider subscribing? Thanks for sticking with me! JAW Unhinged - Horror & Other Weird Fictions with J.A.W. McCarthy jaw-unhinged-jaw-mccarthy.beehiiv.com/p/jaw-unhing...

Finally home from hysto surgery after 13 hours at the hospital 🥲 I feel like dogshit but the surgery went well and I’m excited to be pain-free sooooon!

At the hospital for my hysterectomy! Pray good things! 🥺💕

New author pic! 😘 my last one was 3 years old so it felt like time for a refresh.

Anyway, buy trans books.

USA TODAY BEST-SELLER BLACK FLAME, debuting higher on the list than CUCKOO ever made it God, I'm so grateful to all of you. Thank you for making it possible for me to have this career I've been dreaming about since I was fourteen.

Grinning quite proudly (and joyfully!) at this CBC Books recent mention! A feature that thrilled my parents but not as much as meeee!

self-portraits on 35mm. It’s been fun getting back into old hobbies.

Can anyone share scenes from books or short stories that depict overstimulation / autistic meltdown well?

In London for a couple days. Got to see HADESTOWN with Len this evening and it was fun! I love an Underground Railroad setting.

🌈📚 📖 Coup de Grâce by @sofiaajram.bsky.social REACTOR BEST BOOKS OF 2024 | BARNES & NOBLE BEST HORROR 2024 Bookshop Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... ebook bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #queerbooks #lgbtqia #booksky #horror 🇨🇦

Currently feeling a heavy dose of Strong Existential Dread while reading Coup de Grâce by @sofiaajram.bsky.social 🥰

I first read The Haunting of Hill House when I was 27, a richly complex blessing of a book that moved me on a soul level so sincerely that I made a necklace (Her Cup of Stars) inspired by it. It’s a beautiful feeling to have things come full circle—I am now a Shirley Jackson Award nominee.

Shirley Jackson Awards streaming tonight!

The nine picture books cited in Mahmoud v. Taylor are not pornography. Nor are they obscene. "What is obscene is a Supreme Court decision that denies the basic humanity and equality of LGBTQIA+ people."

HOW I WISH I COULD SEE THISSS

Very sad I couldn’t be at Readercon this weekend *but* am consoled by the fact that Len and I got to visit the most delightful museum of Gilded Age fairgrounds in Paris & we got to ride the last Velocipede carousel in the world (human powered bike carousel) from 1897!!!

Lisa made a handy list of Readercon program participants! @readercon.org

A STARRED REVEIW?!! FROM PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY?? FOR MY QUEER ECO/BODY HORROR SCI-FI THRILLER ABOUT CONSPIRACIES AND THE OCEAN AND CARNIVEROUS CORAL AND A DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR DURING THE APOCALYPSE????? Write your weird book, y’all. 🤠 ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

I finally finished Coup de Grace by @sofiaajram.bsky.social, it only took so long because I would find myself holding my breath to get through a paragraph and I'd have to recover. It was like running an emotional marathon, with the accompanying runner's high. If you can safely read it, you should

I kinda felt sheepish when speaking up on the lack of trans/queer panels at StokerCon this year (and for my spur of the moment lil “it’s not DEI, it’s just good” remark in my Stoker acceptance speech) but not so much right now.

When my name was called for a Stoker Award I felt like my heart was going to burst. I wanted so badly to share the moment with Len but for anxieties on crossing the border as a trans couple, I travelled alone. The next best thing to being at the ceremony together was coming home to this surprise 🥹

Assortment of books I loved over the last few years which also have stunning covers, but I only own the ebook and can’t take a shelfie for social media. Found this in my canva drafts from a year ago (!) and decided to update and post! Do you spy any faves? 📚 🖤

Catching the flu in 100+ degree summer weather feels like I’ve unlocked true hell

And yet another Stoker winner, @sofiaajram.bsky.social, was here a few months back to talk about 1999's HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. redcircle.com/shows/41a2d4...

Got some book mail today! @sofiaajram.bsky.social’s reading at StokerCon was one of the best and this book sounds amazing.

BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani. apnews.com/article/andr...

New Yorkers, rank Zohran no. 1, Lander no. 2, and don't rank Cuomo! Better things ARE possible!

COUP DE GRÂCE is the winner of the 2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction! Congratulations @sofiaajram.bsky.social! 🏆 See the full list of winners here: https://tinyurl.com/yh6mwba6

BURY YOUR GAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRAGIC QUEER HORROR is a British Fantasy Award finalist!!!

When I tell you I am so in love with this man—

If you’re in the Montreal area, I highly recommend checking out Joie de Livres on June 22, where @aijiang.bsky.social and @sofiaajram.bsky.social will be hanging out, signing and talking of Ai’s latest, A PALACE NEAR THE WIND! Two Stoker winners under one roof! 👀 📚

Truly, block him into infinity

Belated congrats on your Stoker Award @sofiaajram.bsky.social I meant to say congrats in person at the after party but crashed out early.

A story in 4 parts

I'm a proud editor tonight.

Congratulations to all the Stoker Award winners! Including @sofiaajram.bsky.social, @edenroyce.bsky.social, @emilyhughes.bsky.social, @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social, @pedroiniguez.bsky.social, and @coraliefargeat.bsky.social!

♡ "ITS NOT DEI ITS JUST GOOD" amazing, congrats @sofiaajram.bsky.social

@sofiaajram.bsky.social just brought home the Stoker for COUP DE GRACE, the best novella of 2024 by a country mile. Fuckin a right.

I loved COUP DE GRACE by @sofiaajram.bsky.social , which happened to come around right at the same time as I started watching FAKE DOCUMENTARY Q—which it reminds me of a little, but with a deeply personal heart. I can’t recommend it enough! Like. Srsly read it!