Friends, I have just spent the last hour shouting and cursing at my computer, editing/updating my web site, and it no longer looks like a seven-year-old created it on their grandpa's old laptop. It now looks like an eight-year-old did so. cynthiasaysboo.wordpress.com if you want to see what I mean.

ICYMI: I recently announced the Native Horror Index, a directory for all Indigenous creatives involved in horror. Film/TV, video games, literature, comics, painters, theatre, podcasters, VO artists, you name it! Now open to submit your own profile. nativehorrorindex.com #Indigenous #horror

I told you we LOVE THE IGNYTES in this house.

Cemetery Dance Review - IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND - www.cemeterydance.com/extras/revie...

Oh, your pickles have lost their flavor? Dill issue. 🙄

So, um, this is real: people.com/people-s-mus...

"We" did not such thing.

Do we love stabby sapphics around here? What do you all think?

I've heard such things about this book.

(Reposting with the prompt: Ten acts you've seen, female lead singer edition) Cyndi Lauper Lhasa de Sela Gloria Estefan Janelle Monáe Sarah McLachlan Neko Case Ani DiFranco Julieta Venegas Gaby Moreno Emmylou Harris The Jets

Stoker attendees! I made two different hotel reservations (one at the Westin and one at the Drury Plaza) and won't be needing them :( If you might use them, DM me and we'll talk. Figured I'd extend that option before just canceling them.

may I interest you in a car chase scene involving a Renault 4 tailing a topolino, pages 96-99 of this book that I coincidentally know very well bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Spidey.

In which Muñeca has been mentioned in the past week by... Book Riot: bookriot.com/queer-horror... The Lesbrary: lesbrary.com/muneca-by-cy... NPR: www.npr.org/2026/05/19/n... And you can read an excerpt here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...

I've mentioned that we love the Ignytes in this house, yes?

Happiest of book birthdays to my friend @tkrex.bsky.social and The Wildcraft Drones! I wrote that "T.K. Rex’s gentle prose is dense with sly humor, sharp metaphor, and an abiding love for the natural world."

Bay Area folks, Muñeca's is in just over 2 weeks! Friday, 6/13, Pegasus Books, Berkeley. @Tamika Thompson will be discussing; I am *SO* looking forward to her questions. This is likely my only local event until September, so I hope you all can make it :) pegasusbookstore.com/gomez

This was a dark and surprisingly complex treat. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ten-...

I’ll be teaching “Tension and Terror: Evoking Fear To Elevate Your Fiction” at San Diego Writers, Ink this summer! DATE: Saturday, July 11, 2026 on ZOOM TIME: 10 AM – 12PM PST More info: writeyourstorynow.org/classes-work... #writing #writingtips #writingclass #genrefiction #sandiego

OMG

With a howl, they ripped their metal slats from the ground, their painted iron morphing into arms and legs, into faces with shining eyes. They lumbered through the park, looking for her, and that walk that she had. They had become something hungrier than benches. They had become men.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Café Tacuba La Misa Negra Rage Against the Machine Ozomatli Pearl Jam The Rollins Band Nine Inch Nails Smashing Pumpkins Sleater Kinney Cowboy Junkies

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan. A queer time travel adventure of sapphic longing, Chinese immortals, and Artist4Magician Old Man Yaoi, this novella utterly charms. Our drink is a mocktail: The Dragon's Daughter.

The irony is deep here, folks.

Sooooooo Muñeca is also an audiobook, and I've been able to get a sneak peak at it, and the narrators are soooo good. And it's a Libro.fm bookseller pick? libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Zombie bees??

One of the many reasons Lindsay rocks.

The FCC wants a giant "OFF" switch for queer characters on TV. Here's how to tell them that's a terrible idea: glaad.org/FCC

This book is also grinning up at my from my TBR... check out this lovely review.

In which there are 15 books on this NPR "Books our critics can't wait for this summer" list and Muñeca is one of them! www.npr.org/2026/05/19/n... She releases two weeks from today. You can read an excerpt here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...

@isabel.kim's SUBLIMATION is a riveting psychological thriller AND a reflection on migration AND packed full of intertextual play AND switches from second to third to first person so deftly I didn't even notice the first time it happened until two chapters in? SHOOT IT INTO MY VEINS. Out June 2

Haven't even heard of this book, but that's such a wonderful feeling, isn't it? Wanting to stop everything and read?

Adding a general recommendation for Ancillary Review of Books, as all the best weird fiction I've read over the past few years has been recommendations from ARB or from people who have written for them - big thanks to @megapolisomancy.bsky.social for this wonderful site ❤️ ancillaryreviewofbooks.org

Screenshotting this bootlicking bullshit about how workers making median income in one of the world's most expensive cities shouldn't get a 5 percent raise. That's not what a union man says, my dude.

Worse, you're supposed to be grateful that you even have a job.

"If you’re a fan of both folk horror aesthetics and unionizing your workplace, definitely check out Morsel!" WELL. Why, yes, I am! www.thegothiclibrary.com/review-of-mo...

CW: White supremacy This is where both fucking teams should have walked off the field and refused to play the rest of the game and the fans should have booed those fucking assholes out of the stadium.

ICYMI: the 3rd part of my novella's out, a dark fantasy where folk hero Kelwas helps a half-feral girl lift a curse that turned her brothers into ravens and reunite with her family while the shadow of Old Gaunt looms over them all Y'all like stories within stories? buttondown.com/crosshatches...

Ey, mi gente, check out my gushing review of Pedro Iniguez's amazing poetry collection, The Build a Monster Workshop: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

In which Muñeca somehow has 92 reviews on NetGalley?? Also, here's a little snippet, if you like that sort of thing. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Submissions to @bafflingmag.bsky.social will open up again on June 1st. We'll be reading for unthemed stories as well as on the theme of "gossip" for the upcoming issue edited by @bendibarrett.bsky.social. 🪶 queer speculative stories 🪶 <1200 words 🪶 8¢/word

This book has been burning a hole in my TBR for months now.

But then how will they collect data for their case that white men are being passed over for promotions?

MY COPIES OF MUÑECA ARRIVE TOMORROW

The five-alarm fire? That we need to be really upset about? That we can't normalize? That not enough people are screaming their heads off about? Yeah, I might have.

Sharpen thy quills, friends...

So my book launch for Muñeca is a month from today!! Friday June 12, Pegasus Books, 7 p.m. I will be so happy to see your faces there! pegasusbookstore.com/gomez

"What are the Six Genders? wrong answers only" Scream One, Scream Two, Scream Five, Scream Three, Scream Six, Scream Four And that's it because they didn't make any Scream movies after Six, unfortunately. Such a shame.

Any indies have SF/F/Horror books coming out in June? I'm building next month's new release post, and there's room for new titles! Please submit your book info using the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #writingcommunity #indiebooks #booksky

And while @glennvotesblue.bsky.social didn't like me telling him so, I leave it up to you if you want to tell him so and/or block him of your own accord.