gAI is like someone saying instead of using a calculator to do math calculations, try asking a magic 8 ball what 2+2 is and the magic 8 ball tells you a recipe to drink bleach

Publication announcement: E L Chen's book with the amazing title of "One of us is Already Dead" will be coming your way in Fall of 2026! Keep an eye out for it! Follow her here: @elainechen.com www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...

We’ve teamed up with @hwaontario.bsky.social to host a Selling Short Horror Fiction Seminar in the bookshop! Get ready for those big 2026 publication goals with insights from local writers and editors on pitching, query letters, and more. Sign up in advance www.littleghostsbooks.com/events

Back after a brief hiatus due to unexpected illness! Check out my final post featuring the SSBA semi-finalists: JR Creaden's Moon Dust in my Hairnet and Em Reed's More Bugs. @jesscreaden.bsky.social @dayofthemutants.bsky.social @specawards.bsky.social www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2025/12/smal...

This one!

On Small Business Saturday, think of the small indie presses doing their best to publish interesting anthologies and support worthy authors - aanpress.com. We ship quickly. #scifi #fantasy #smallbusinesssaturday

#BookReview: DEAD FAKE by Vincent Ralph 📱🩸 AI “death” videos, a town full of murderers in the ground, & a girl whose infamous uncle turned her life into a true-crime footnote. Campy premise, strong characters, & a lot of heart. horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... reviewer: @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social

So many retellings by me, all in one place! Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!

You can ask your library. Heck, you could offer a review in exchange for a copy - a lot of small authors might agree. You can also look for legit free giveaways, wait for charity sales, etc. There are plenty of ways to get books legitimately for free/cheap without stealing.

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You guys wanna see a dead body?

Speaking to my heart as a woman who doesn't wear makeup.

I vow to never use this

I recently released a psychological horror visual novel! Gavriil and Yeva, strangers who met by chance on the same train, in the same cabin, and when their train derails in the middle of nowhere- they're suddenly forced to work together to survive. Download page: gelppy.itch.io/vacation-ter...

Just tried Welcome to Derry. Has an unnecessarily gross scene and near cartoonish horror at points. Still making up my mind, but willing to give it a couple more episodes.

The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78K...

Part 3 of my mini-interviews with the semi-finalists of the @specawards.bsky.social Today's posts features 3 of the sci-fi semi-finalists: K. C. Aegis (@kcaegis.bsky.social), Terry Jackman, and Rosie Oliver. Links in bio and www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2025/10/smal...

I hate the clocks going backwards and forwards. When I was young, we didn’t even have clocks. If we got hungry, we ate each other. We were poor, but we were happy. Good times. Not that we had time. It hadn’t been invented. We had to make our own time out of string and cholera.

Check out Suzan Palumbo's story "Laughter Among the Trees" - free to read at The Dark Magazine! www.thedarkmagazine.com/laughter-amo...

Check out Lydia Peever's story from The Wicked Library as part of their Halloween special: www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the...

#CanCon2025 day 2 coming soon!

Between now and Halloween, we will be spotlighting some cool free-to-read horror fiction by our members! First up: Lockers for Life by David J. Thirteen www.seizethepress.com/2022/06/14/l...

First CanCon workshop completed... sorta. I signed up to write an entire story in a busy weekend... what was I thinking? Lol #CanCon2025

I have arrived safely in Ottawa for CanCon! Excited for tomorrow! #Cancon2025

Part of why we quit Nanowrimo was because they supported genAI writing. And a lot of us are hunting for alternatives. ProwritingAid's Novel November, a company that uses gen AIis not the answer. A better answer is FirstDraft Fall weeknightwriters.com/firstdraftfa... Post your alternatives below.

Who else will be at CanCon this weekend? Look for me and say hi - I'll probably be wearing my Cobra Kai shirt. Or my Back to the Future Hoodie. www.can-con.org

I have just joined the brand new writing platform Gavagai. Look for "Melody E. McIntyre" and follow me there! Right now it's invite only. I've also posted my first story :) www.gavagai.com

Part 2 of my series featuring the Small Spec Book Award semi-finalists is up! Featuring: J. A. Mortimore, Penelope Hill, @scriblit.bsky.social, and @samflynnwrites.bsky.social. @specawards.bsky.social www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2025/10/smal...

Draft2Digital is changing how and when authors get paid from @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social Starting Nov 1, 2025, new minimum payout thresholds will apply to all payment methods. See how this affects your royalties 👇 🔗 horrortree.com/draft2digita... #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #SelfPublishing

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

The first of my posts featuring the semi-finalists of the Small Spec Book Awards is up! Featuring: @carsonwinter.bsky.social, @emnays.bsky.social, and Damien Casey. @specawards.bsky.social www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2025/10/smal...

Creatives aren't anti-technology. They are anti-THEFT! Especially when the people stealing from them have millions and they don't even know how they are going to make rent if they can't get another gig.

Gonna be real upset if this one isn't about sentient goats! ;) www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adri...

The SSBA semi-finalists have been announced. I'll be doing a series of blog posts featuring these awesome authors over the next several weeks. See below for more information and to follow along! Follow the awards in general: @specawards.bsky.social www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2025/09/smal...

As someone who can't play (most) first person games, I understand why different settings are needed and often not provided

New review - The Castaway and the Witch by Ioanna Papadopoulou www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2025/09/the-...

This weekend is the first annual Little Ghosts Fest at Little Ghost Books in Toronto hosted by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social . Two of our members will be on a panel on Saturday! @andrewawesome.bsky.social and @sillysyntax.bsky.social www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...

People who are facing the current news really should reas both this and We Who Hunt Alexanders by Sanford. It really helped me put words to my thoughts on these things.

Someone asked me how I form sensible opinions about current affairs. So here's an absolute beginner's guide to assessing news stories: 1. Ask: -who is telling me this? -how objective are they? -why are they telling me this? -why are they telling me this NOW? 2. Think 3. Think again. That's it.

Just saw the adaptation of Stephen King's The Long Walk. It was a really good film. A solid adaptation. There are some changes for book fans, but I get most of them. What really surprised me was the message of hope and love that shone through in such a dark movie. Well done.

Working on my Sisyphus WIP and stumbled into this, uh, suggestion from Google Docs. Now that would be an interesting scene.

Polyphemus after Odysseus doxxed himself

When you say someone’s existence is up for debate, you are saying that your hobby is hurting them.

Reeling from having just watched this. If your creativity needs a fire lit under it, watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU0I...

On a happier note, we got a new kitty! Meet Cobra Kai, our little ninja boy.

Love this time of year 🥰