my impressions of London after being here for 24 hours: everything smells like bacon... unrelatedly, we are staying in a little apartment just above a brunch restaurant.

some personal news... Beth and I have moved to Europe, as of 7am (local time) this morning. we'll be living in Spain for the next few years... your regularly scheduled Psychopomp stuff should be largely uninterrupted, as there's an amazing team in place. hello from London!

Happy Friday! May I present for your consideration: buy my book? The reasons you should do this are: it's my book, and it's very good, and it has a radish and her fox wife whom she adores and also a rock determined to live her best life even if maybe she wasn't meant to have a life to live.

looks so good!!

hey quick Q are there currently any well known genre zines that use a logo/icon of a LANTERN? trying to crowdsource some knowledge here, please tell me either way (yes/no) so I can get a sense. thx!

Thank you so much to everyone who nominated WADTW, thank you to @seanmarkey.bsky.social and @ecatherine.com and everyone at @psychopomp.com involved in making this thing A Whole Thing! 💜👻💜

brains b like: oh, i have an event to go to in 4 hours, I can't POSSIBLY get anything done until it's over, better sit here and fret only...

i hope you buy a copy of OMR because it's SUCH A GOOD COLLECTION OF STORIES i also hope you buy it from non Amazon because they have been shitty to us (and you know... shitty in general) i'm working on getting this book @ Kobo and Bookshop's new ebook thing thanks 4 the support everyone but AMZ

single-handedly raising the search volume of the word Psychopomp (vermont is where I [and psychopomp] are based) lol 💪💪💪

can I build the media company I want to build and sell books @ Psychopomp only and not ever have to deal with Amazon? do I need permission for this or, like... is everyone that loves us just on board with this? can I just do this??? i think I can just decide to do this...

you can just do things...

wanna subscribe to support this free, weird story-letter? I got you babe; it's super easy:

Also reminder we are coming up on my Toronto launch party for ONE MESSAGE REMAINS with @psychopomp.bsky.social ! 🤩 Free but pls RSVP so they know numbers! We can nerd out about empires and resistance, as one does

hey look it's me talking about publishing ...in this current issue of Clarkesworld (a magazine I used to do some work at, which is just one of the many things you'll read about in this interview) if you're into/curious about Psychopomp and the TWO magazines I publish, you might enjoy this :)

it's so cool to watch someone experience for the first time a work of art you deeply love. even MORE COOL when they articulate in one shot what makes it so good/powerful/unique in a way you never thought about before. i love this channel and this vid was 10/10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qjD...

i want to wake up in the morning to an inbox full of pitches 🙏🏻 pubishing blog content @ Psychopomp was my favorite, i'm so happy i can do it again NOW WITH FANTASY CONTENT

I just learned that Michael Jackson allegedly would get up and set down tracks whenever the thought came to him because he was afraid if he didn't do it asap the muse/God/etc would give it to Prince instead and if this concept is true I have some work to do.

publishing is so great me: hey, how many books are we selling on preorders, so know how much of @premeemohamed.com's amazing, HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BOOK to have printed. distributor: idk... me: uh... how do we find this out?? d: it's a mystery, it is unknowable. :/ so I'm just guessing.

i have such a hard time typing "psychopomp" -- which is unfortunate because I have to type it about 87,000 times per day. i think it's because I'm left-handed, and that last "hopomp" -- esp the "pomp" is particularly tough, as the last few fingers on my stupider hand are particularly stupid. 🤷

me: WHY WON'T THIS HOUSE WARM UP cats: (fully bread-loafing the the heater vents): IDK...

phew. this launch was so much work i need 37 pizzas and a birthday cake so excited to add this amazing magazine to the list of cool things I get to publish :)

current mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoGg... on repeat

staying at a wildlife park in Quebec and got a GREAT photo of an arctic wolf just outside our accommodations. amazing

the only christmas song allowed www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXxu...

My dear Fin's brother needs help. Can you chip in? gofund.me/5a18181c

hello friends, I wanted to give you a quick update: 1. scooter, the cat, lives. it was a very very close thing, but it tunrs out he ate a wax earplug and it became an intestine plug 2. he is recovering from major major surgery but is doing well (1/3)

publishing b like: hey, distributor, how we doing on pre-orders, i want to make sure we have enough books printed and in place! distributor: Amazon is kinda vague about it, & Ingram doesnt give out preorder numbers, sorry. ok cool. I'll consult The Orb, I guess...

OH NO

we've run out of degrees here in vermont absolutely no degrees left...

damnit i love seeing stories we published end up on lists of favorite stories so satisfying, and I love it for @dimafic.bsky.social, @aimeeogdenwrites.com, @foxesandroses.bsky.social, and @premeemohamed.com -- the four deadlands/psychopomop authors mentioned + @ecatherine.com editor for all.

have I accomplished my goals for this year? no. but did I eat well and exercise often? not in the least. but did I mature relationally and as a person? listen,

back at the vet with Orange Cat admitting him through Monday for terrible pancreatitis poor guy. I’ll be functional again eventually but prolly not today…

sorry for the slowness on things related to @thedeadlands.com, @psychopomp.bsky.social patron stuff, fundraiser stuff, etc. my cat very rudely tried to die several times since the 23rd by stubbornly not eating FOOD, A THING HE LOVES 5 vet visits later and things are slighlty looking up... 🤞

vermont #snowmont

sometimes i have the urge to post about starting a small press/being a small press because there's just NO FUCKING INFO out there about it but are there any people dying to hear this? lol mostly I think it'd feel like yelling into the void/complaining, and that's not really my vibe... thoughts?

we’re figuring it out

If you're a trans woman in the US hit me up and we'll send up to 10 copies out

back from FL after an epic two day, 19 hour drive (though we were in the car for much longer) the Florida beach was beautiful but there's no place like home...

running a zine + an indie press = i have zero time to read most things I want to read, so I cannot take advantage of Club Serpetine here HOWEVER i want to support @neonhemlock.bsky.social so: reply to this with your Ferryman Coin # and I'll random draw a winner to receive digital club serpentine

moonlight + beach ( + apple low-light image detectors)

the HARDEST PART of being a publisher (besides general expenses involved and the constantly increasing price of postage lol why won't wages ALSO increase???) is all the waiting with secrets I'm sitting on AT LEAST two amazing, energizing, can't-believe-I-get-to-do-this secrets ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐

it's me, sean mackey, come join my Kaffeeklatsch if you're attending WFC and you also have questions about publishing a death magazine (or other questions i don't even know what you would like to ask me) 10:00 AM Friday not sure how many open spots there are but heres the link!

one of the best things in life: picking honeycrisps in the orchard and then eating the honeycrisps picked from the orchard

want to shout out @locusmag.bsky.social real quick. being an small, indie publisher is hard af. like, you don't even KNOW--I've run into so many organizations/institutions that just don't give us the time of day. but here we are in LOCUS, getting our first novella reviewed. it means the WORLD 😍

i wanted a different kind of cover for this one--something stark, something that grabs your attention... something where, when you see it it jolts you a little bit and you're like damn. what's up with this cover??? what kind of stories are inside a cover like this?! cont. below:

come say hello to @ the @psychopomp.bsky.social booth if you're @ #readercon where I am selling books! and in between selling books, I am working on my novel about... a book seller that gets bit by... a radioactive book? and becomes... A RADIOACTIVE BOOK that bites other people and books...

I just finished @lmanusos.bsky.social's forthcoming novella From These Dark Abodes (from @psychopomp.bsky.social). It's creepy and mysterious (the kind of superb mystery I just can't put down!). And when the mystery unfolds...It did not disappoint! Can't wait for this one to be out in the world!

art goes super hard

If you go to the press and talk about how the computer can feel, your computer license should be revoked. Elephants call each other by their names. Life is too precious. We don’t need the computer that drinks water

Very proud that my novel, Wonders of the Invisible World, was selected for CNN’s list of books for this year’s Pride month! www.cnn.com/cnn-undersco...