I had the privilege of reading an early copy of @spicycloaca.bsky.social's collection. Raw and often bloody, this is - as the title suggests - a primal scream in verse Check it out!

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Ooooooh.

The idea that everyone who lives in the U.S. would somehow deserve any "blowback" is collective-punishment logic and it's odious as fuck, and I'm tired of seeing people say so, especially when they should know better.

OMG the truck across the street has had its car horn stuck for NINETY MINUTES straight. Non-stop. Yes, the neighbors have called the police. No, they have not come. No, I can't think anymore. Yes, my brain is now an empty room with the sound of car horns blaring blaring from now until forever.

Yup.

I have a story in this anthology! And, as is my wont, it involves a doll.

I'm working on a freelance project that will fund a few stories for our upcoming food systems horror and Weird fiction anthology. If you'd like to fund a few more and get some sharp editorial insights along the way, book me to edit your horror/Weird fiction this May: ericraglin.com/editing-serv...

As happens with @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social 's stuff, this got me from the first paragraph. She does so well at writing horny and fucked-up characters.

Oooooh.

In which Out South Florida has a nice list of Summer Thrills Written by Women, and they include Muñeca! (Also, The Man by Laura Sims seems.... really intriguing.) outsfl.com/hot-off-the-...

Depluralize a movie: A thing in a place somewhere one time.

Depluralize a movie. No White Females. www.imdb.com/title/tt0105...

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

Do you love exorcism horror but wish it didn't always end up reifying Catholic dogma? Or do you just wish it was gayer? THIS IS MY BODY, about a lesbian single mom who fears her daughter is possessed, has you covered! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789598...

Also, re: Something Very Bad is Going to Happen... Not only is Rachel's character written as to be so naive and gullible as to be misogynistic, but the entire concept of "soul mates" is retrograde bullshit.

Happy 52nd birthday to the book that started it all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_...

Hey, everyone. I’m opening to queries on a very limited basis using the link below. I’ve narrowed my genres during this time to Adult Crime/Mystery, Adult Fantasy & Sci-fi, and YA Fantasy & Sci-fi from BIPOC, Asian/AAPI, Latinx, SWANA, and LGBTQIA+ writers only. QueryTracker.net/query/ErnieC...

I cackled.

I'm sorry but I have to keep this up for another episode. "Hi, I'm a young woman getting married in the middle of nowhere in 5 days. I'm very detached about where I left my WEDDING DRESS but I'm not going to look for it myself or call the friends where supposedly I might have left it behind."

It is indeed good to shout out about books you enjoyed. So: I really dug Blood on Her Tongue by @johannavanveen.bsky.social . Bloody and queer and transgressive and simmering with feminine rage. Just my jam.* *Body horror pun not intended.

If I were in charge of society, one of the things we'd have is a whole lot of agreements around shared public space. Like, no, we don't play our phones on speaker in restaurants and no, we don't play music at home so loud that nobody else can enjoy their own. Sigh.

I've heard good things about this book... here's one more.

If you didn't make it to the livestream, here's your chance!

I have been *so* eagerly awaiting the chance to share the word about this! CM puts together killer anthologies, and the "surveillance" theme is so topical, and I get to have a story in this one! Also, mine is... not dystopian or grim at all. It's actually pretty fun. And there are dolls.

Crimson Peak in a housing crisis? !!

In which I think @therealjackfinn.bsky.social for including Muñeca on this #WomeninHorror TBR (okay, I'm a week or so late to this post) and for the long list of titles to check out. You can pre-order Muñeca here: bookshop.org/p/books/mu-e...

This is the way. Every time.

In which I have cackled and chortled and all the other laughter synonyms.

Renan Bernardo gifted these lovely words about T. K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. "Wealthy people seem to be reading dystopias as rulebooks ... Instead, I'd say for people to read The Wildcraft Drones as a rulebook of how to live in community and find a healthy path to our future." Thanks, Renan!

Including cat pics!

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Breaking news: we've just signed a once-in-a-lifetime loan agreement to bring rural England's most iconic artwork home for the first time in 1,000 years. Introducing our 2027 major exhibition - Bayewe Tapestry: the Fight to Wool England.

Started watching the new Netflix horror TV show and a character proposed something so mind-numbingly foolish (and also ineffective) that I actually don't know if I want to keep watching. Please hire better editors, TV people.

I am loath to do this, but I need your help. My 20+ year marriage has unexpectedly imploded. There's a kid involved. Aside from Lupus, Autism and a shitty 2009 Mazda, I have nothing. Things are fairly desperate right now, so if you can help out now in any way at all I'd be really grateful ❤️

On Trans Day of Visibility/last day of Women in Horror Month, how about some horror by trans women? Sundown in San Ojuela: Inland Empire Gothic. I called this book "luminous and so, so dark." Teenage Girls Can Be Demons: Just *blistering* with rage, empathy, and hella blood. What would y’all add?

Happy book birthday to @tamikathompson.bsky.social! I picked up The Curse of Hester Gardens on Sunday morning and by Sunday night had already burned through 100 pages.

WHA

In which I announce: Muñeca (pitched as "'Bound' meets 'Mexican Gothic,'" if you're curious) gets to have an audiobook (squee!) to narrated by Elena Rey and Frankie Corzo (double squee!) I already knew Corzo's work & was really hoping she'd be involved; Rey is new to me. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Every single movie or TV show where people don't get a lawyer? Even when they absolutely should? That's effectively copaganda. Lawyer up.

INTRODUCING: Haruspex Audio, an indie audiobook production company started by yours truly. Killer titles will be revealed over the next couple of weeks!

So I wrote "Huitzol and the Rope of Thorns" b/c it's cathartic to write about two brutal cops who just might have messed with the wrong Chicano graphic novelist and his favorite character, the god of war and revenge. oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S1... (Your library may vary.)

"My work doesn't have politics or a 'message,'" is in fact a political statement, and it's almost never a good one. Hope that helps.

Look. I know it’s probably mid-to-late afternoon wherever you are. I know it’s Friday and all you want to do is go home and support some indie horror publishers this weekend. But, friends, you can do that *now* through the power of the internet. It’s easy! www.kickstarter.com/projects/165...

The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo; it was tense and atmospheric and also ***MODERATE SPOILERS*** some monsterfucking.

So Ancillary Review of Books does great stuff, and they're putting out a call for reviewers of a whole buncha books. Including Muñeca! Hit them up if you're interested: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/03/02/c...

Forget the Final Girl trope. The real power in horror right now is in the hands of women writers. Here are 16 releases by diverse female authors that prove the genre is alive and screaming. gnofhorror.com/modern-horro...

How about -- and I'm going out on a fucking limb here, just going wild -- they just make airplane seats wide enough for everyone to sit comfortably, regardless of size? Instead of humiliating people who already get humiliated enough? Just spitballing here, folks. www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

In which Rachel Eve Moulton, @okokno.bsky.social, and @carolinaflorezc.bsky.social say wonderful things about Muñeca. And these folks know their Gothic, and their books about female rage.

My take on the cursive discourse is that everyone should be taught cursive and typing.