I'll be reading at the event at the end of the month, along with several other horror writers. It has been a rainy, mild winter so far; maybe our words can conjure up some snow for February. ❄️☃️

I'm starting 2026 with my first publication of the year! My poem about the death of David Bowie, "heroes," is in Not of One Us #85. (Coincidentally, this month is the 10th anniversary of Bowie's death.) The issue also includes work by Sonya Taaffe, Jennifer Crow, Devan Barlow, and more.

I thought the Iraq War was a real low point in America imperialism it it turns out we hadn’t seen nothing yet

This is an illegal intervention in a country that poses no threat to the United States. Trump is trying to distract from the fact that he tanked our economy and kicked millions off their health care. Congressional Republicans need to rein Trump in before he gets American troops killed.

All 11 songs my friends and I recorded are online now as a 22-minute album. If you try it and hate it, at least it’ll be over with quickly.

My thoughts on the current discussions in the SF/F genre over writers using generative AI (LLMs). In particular, I love the essays shared by @chuckwendig.bsky.social and @fozmeadows.bsky.social. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/147102...

2025 was the year I started reading new stuff again. Thanks, existential dread! The Works of Vermin - weird, wonderful, more than a little slimy. @richardleis.com , you might like this one! The Locked Tomb - my impression of these books was very, very wrong. Which made them SO MUCH FUN!

SpecPoVerse, Vol. 1, Issue 3 is LIVE! specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

This was one of the most interesting New Yorker articles of the year... newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rT56lu

LPL grad student Kayla Smith and I submitted our first paper together today on brown dwarf habitable zones. The literature on this topic is surprisingly thin and no one has really done it right yet. We move the ball forward and look forward to sharing more in the future.

Any writer who thinks their cover is "nonessential" is in for a very rude awakening when they try to sell their book to readers. At point of sale, I would argue the cover is the most essential element, next to a great blurb/description.

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

#poetry. My poem "To Skeptics," first published in F&SF in 2019, has been reprinted in Solstitia :-) For the curious - written 12/2017 - accepted by F&SF in 3/2019, published there in 7/2019 - nominated for the Rhysling Award - accepted by Solstitia in 12/2025 - has both dragons and cats! 🐉🐈✏️

Tonight's story comes to us from Mala Jay Suess about the "can't lose" opportunities friends and family may share with you this holiday season... #Yule2025 #KingInYellow

Two more new songs Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3uqCLz... Apple: music.apple.com/us/album/pop... Amazon: music.amazon.com/albums/B0GB2...

Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/

HiPOD: Banded Terrain in Hellas Planitia This image shows a portion of an enigmatic formation called banded terrain, which is only observed in the northwest of the Hellas basin. This basin was formed by a giant impact around 4 billion years ago. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_068559_1405

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

2/2 Nor, when it comes to writing awards, will I nominate or vote to award, a piece of work partially or wholly written by LLM. Awards are for writers who make the effort, not those who offload the difficult aspects of creation to a program mining the work of others. Do the fucking work, people.

1/2 Apropos of nothing in particular, I guarantee I will never write a piece of fiction with the "help" of a large language model because a) I spent too many years developing skills to just fuck off now, b) I don't plagiarize other authors, whether intentionally or by way of statistical matches.

Francine Rubin's poem "Gravity" is a beautiful meditation on how you might prepare to leave Earth.

Give the gift of adventure with award-winning author @pedroiniguez.bsky.social's Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories, a cross-genre collection. Available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook. Learn more: www.starsandsabers.com/books/echoes... #books #fantasy #scifi #SFF #givebooks #giftideas

My latest collection includes military SF, Lovecraftian Cyberpunk, fantasy, magic realism, sword-and-planet adventure stories, and more!

When everyone else is chasing AI as the "new thing", Firefox's "new thing" could be providing a browser to render HTML on the Internet instead of chasing the crowd. Let Firefox remain what it IS, instead of wishing that it was something else. I'm on Firefox PRECISELY because I want a 2019-era app.

Forgive me for tooting my own horn, but this is kind of a big deal for me. This is the first Author Proof I have ever received for a work of original fiction. This story will appear in the upcoming issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly. I'll let all y'all know when you can get a copy.

New book launch alert over on my blog, with links to where to buy Poisoned Soup! diebooth.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/p... @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social #booksky #horrorsky #horrorbooks #nostalgichorror

More new music streaming at the big three now. Hopefully streaming at other services too. music.amazon.com/artists/B0G5... music.apple.com/us/artist/sc... open.spotify.com/album/0d1Ic6...

Fabulous review of Poisoned Soup! "From cover to cover, the anthology feels like a chance to reconvene with long-lost friends for one last set of ghost stories, told around a bonfire of fading memories." You can preorder here: doylestownbookshop.com/book/9781963... #booksky #horrorsky #horror

Happy release day to Poisoned Soup! I’m so grateful to be included with my first ever creative non-fic piece. I hope it gives everyone the feels🖤

Soup’s on. Happy release day to Wendy and Grace and all the authors who came to the table.

I posted more details on my website about my new poem "Los Fantasmas en Su Boca" and where to buy Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane (Brigids Gate Press.)

Paperback available today for purchase or order wherever books are sold!

Do you think Steven Spielberg was pissed about all the clicky talking in Alien: Earth?

Today is the release day for the next ZNB #SFF anthology SKULL X BONES! Don't forget to grab it as a gift for all of your SF&F pirate fans! Kindle: amzn.to/48rReUR B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/skull-x-bo... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #fantasy #urbanfantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #pirate

Daniel Dawn Lewis (youngest clone) Daniel Day Lewis (middle clone) Daniel Dusk Lewis (oldest clone)

Tucson Poetry Festival raises money in January with a trio of free workshops and the opportunity to donate if you can. Here's the list of excellent teachers and topics for January 10, 17, and 24 in 2026: www.tucsonpoetryfest.org/2026-winter-...

Our members are creating art, writing, editing, publishing, and participating in local literary communities. Here's the November 2025 HWA Oregon member news and announcements, along with club activities we held in October: oregonhorror.com/news/member-...

Good art comes from making a lot of terrible art. It’s in the process of improving and learning and making choices that breakthroughs happen. I hope we all keep making really, really bad art. Fill your hard drive, notebooks, sketchpads, canvases, and life with the worst you can do.

Look Out For ... Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane, edited by Wendy Dalrymple and Grace R. Reynolds, releasing this month!

BTW, my poem "The Last Man on Mars" on The Brazen Head has a professionally recorded audio version Check it out! brazen-head.org/user_content... 🪐📚 #BookSky #sff #scifi #specfic #speculative #poem #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #alliterativeverse

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Fresh new music from Scrappy without the S.

We're raising money for another packed year of programming at Willamette Writers. From online critique groups, productivity meetings, and write-ins, to monthly chapter meetings, guest speakers, and the annual conference, there are events for writers at every stage: www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

I ended up with "My Best Friend's Exorcism" by Grady Hendrix, which I've been wanting to read. Bonus, I also ended up with a paperback copy of "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. I've read the story a few times, but I didn't have a copy on my bookshelf at the moment. Now I do!

"Los Fantasmas en Su Boca," a poem about my great-grandmother protecting me from ghosts, arrives December 16 in "Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane" from @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social. Edited by Wendy Dalrymple and Grace R. Reynolds, the anthology can be pre-ordered now.

This Sunday, Dec. 7th at 4 p.m., join us for our holiday gathering. We will be hanging out at @theheistpdx for food, drinks, and an optional book swap! Book Swap Info: If you would like to participate, please bring a wrapped, preferably used book to share. Keep reading and writing, Horroregonians!

Some great events and reading coming up for @hwaoregon.bsky.social in December. Plus, at our next chapter meeting, I'll be showing poets and prose writers alike how writing horror and speculative poetry, even if just for practice, can help improve their craft.

Update from the poetry front. My poem "Chilean Sea Bass" has been published in Constellations. For the curious: - first draft written in 2012 - accepted in 12 days - rejected 14 times - my 7th poem in Constellations - it's one of a small set of poems about cooking with my then-young daughter ✏️🐟

Raising $72 + gas money to load car with 60 gallons water for caravan delivery to Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs this weekend. 💧 Send to my PP www.paypal.me/andrewsfuller or Venmo. 💧More info about the water crisis at CTWS. warmspringswatercoalition.carrd.co

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists, including LPL Assistant Professor Sukrit Ranjan. news.arizona.edu/news/new-loo...