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.

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Poe: joanne was explaining death of the author Poe: what do you think, mary Shelley: death of the author eh? Shelley: [brandishing swicthblade] i think it's a good idea Rowling: i Rowling: i have to go

SZA's album "Z" is brilliant and this song is glorious. That is all. tidal.com/track/277997...

We love the Ignyte Awards in this house.

Just a week left for our surveillance horror/Weird fic submission call. Read the submission guidelines here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

So it seems that Muñeca is -- corrected from earlier error -- 25% off if you pre-order through Barnes and Noble!

We are currently open for reprints from Anthologies and Collections published, or due to be published, in 2026.* Books only, not magazines or periodicals. Anything up to 6000 words (we like flash!) escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/... (*Strictly 2026. We’ll open for general subs in August)

Phoebe and I highly recommend picking up @jawmccarthy.bsky.social's SLEEP ALONE! Even if you have an older edition, this new one has an extra story in it! 🖤

Hausu fans, take note!!!

I read this in a single feverish glance.

In which I seriously rethink traveling within this country.

Trump doesn't care about whether it goes well or not. No skin off his nose, and no accountability or even mild rebuke either way.

Flowers in the Attic. Like half of the horror writers I know.

If you're reading for the Hugo Awards, the Locus, or the Ignytes please consider "Blanquitos" - my short story about childhood friends, old neighborhoods and his nostalgia can be a boomerang www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/

Re-upping this for Saturday morning: looking for a stamp designer :)

💙📚 I just sent the latest Stardust Dispatch! I've got some personal updates & I review @tkrex.bsky.social's brilliant SF collection, The Wildcraft Drones, and @jomiles.bsky.social's scrumptious fantasy, Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry 🫖 stardustnews.magicrobotcarnival.com/stardust-dis...

Artsy people of Bluesky! I am looking for someone who could craft for me a custom stamp -- or maybe the drawing to make a stamp from -- for me to use for a little extra flair when signing copies of Muñeca. Image of a little-girl doll (IFKYK.) Can you point me to someone who might do such a thing?

Shadows Over Ravenkirk - a modern day Gothic horror serial featuring a trans disaster lesbian and all manner of creepy, kookie characters. If you enjoy The Addams Family and Knives Out, come visit Ravenkirk! books2read.com/SOR1