ICYMI. The sheer number of submissions I’ve received so far suggests very few of you have missed it, but just in case. 😉

Hallowed Ground - An Afterlife Horror Comic Anthology A 100+ Page Horror Anthology. Twelve stories of HELL, PURGATORY, and HEAVEN, from LGBTQIA+ Creative Teams!

Only hours left to back a star-studded queer comics compilation all about the Afterlife www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

Ten Years of Sword & Kettle Press An anthology of queer & intersectional speculative literature

IT'S LIVE!!!

Support a tiny queer worker-owned cooperative press by backing our ten-year anniversary anthology of queer and intersectional speculative literature!! it features over 200 pages of poetry and prose, a cover we are OBSESSED with, and editor introductions to each piece!

Please share!!

Dune is the real would you still love me if I was a worm

My story is free to read today! This one features a French Bulldog puppy who is a very good girl (oh, and witchy stuff)!

I have never met an uncanny valley I didn’t want to nest in.

Well. I just finished something this might be a fit for. Or I gotta write more fucked up sapphics. Win win for everyone I suppose!

I've been working hard with @scyllapublishing.bsky.social and we're delighted to announce our title for the upcoming submission call for the sapphic goddesses and monsters anthology you've all been waiting for!! 🥳👏🎉

Please do share & comment if you were initially interested in this pitch.

In the distance, smoke embraces the air.

Week One Update! We are so grateful for all of the support so far, and to be a Kickstarter Project We Love 💜💫 Each and every dollar counts. Link in bio!

Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2026 by Locus Publications - Indiegogo Celebrating and uplifting authors, artists, and story -- the guide to the world's imagination.

Here’s the link to their campaign 🐉 www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

Anathema: Spec from the Margins Relaunches Anathema: Spec from the Margins, a speculative fiction magazine “by and for queer people of color,” has announced that it is relaunching after a four-year hiatus. We’re committed …

Thank you @locusmag.bsky.social for highlighting our relaunch 💜 Their IndieGoGo for their annual budget closes on Tuesday. Please support this vital print space!!

locusmag.com/2026/04/anat...

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

Honestly really surprised to be a Locus award finalist in two different categories?! Best First Novel (for Song of Spores - initially they put it in Science Fiction, but then I think they realized it was my first) AND Best Editor?!

Congrats to the finalists!!

Fantasy Homepage - PSYCHOPOMP.COM FANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy-dark fantasy, contemporary

Original flash fiction...
Original short fiction...
Original poetry...

Plus interviews with seriously cool people!

We published three issues in 2025! Give them a read!

psychopomp.com/fantasy/

We’re almost a week in! Please help me spread the word! The details for the call for submissions is in the comments.

My blog will ALSO feature disabled authors and/or books on disability, with a focus on intersectionality (BIPoC and/or queer authors who are disabled and/or write disabilities).

IDK how I will work that last bit out tho. RIP.

The Truth About Wolves - Uncanny Magazine They will tell you lies about wolves, My darling: that you contain just two And can feed only one, and this shapes you. No. Not you. You are full of wolves, The whole pack, tumbling pups, Grizzled eld...

Oh, and when you're done reading John's story in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social , someone else has a poem there, too: The Truth About Wolves, which I wrote for my younger godchild, is out today! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Book cover and Happy release day! A new political thriller pulled from the headlines. Told by the woman who started it all. The only spin you can’t control is what they say about you after you’re dead

Book blurb with marketing graphics Kidnapped and Do not negotiate.

It’s been a really rough month. I haven’t had the energy to talk about my debut thriller, Five Minutes Past Midnight

New story day.

This story was deeply personal. It gave me the courage to keep resisting.

Thank you @lightspeedmagazine.com for publishing this story.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hell...

this morning was a whirlwind, let me properly flail now!!

HI YES I'm honored that "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" is available over at @lightspeedmagazine.com! it's a tragic sapphic space knights story with SO much mess. it's fine!! ✨

🪐 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sain... 🪐

Oof, so...guess what? Due to a very frustrating mistake, I had to temporarily "unpublish" my preorder option for A Waltz of Sinister Import (#3 in the Unexpected Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven)...which lost every one of its 200+ preorders! 😱

I am SO sorry for the inconvenience and frustration. 1/2

Tiny story day!

I didn't do this in March, but I'm back! Drop a comment in the thread and get a tiny story just for you. If you'd like a prompt, feel free to riff off of any sort of transportation.

I'll get to these through the rest of the month, and hopefully you'll get something fun to enjoy.

Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2026 by Locus Publications - Indiegogo Celebrating and uplifting authors, artists, and story -- the guide to the world's imagination.

Locus Magazine is an essential institution for anyone who loves SFF books. They only have two days left of their fundraiser and they're still 50 percent short of their goal:

www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

Please support them if you can! Any amount helps! <3

Also HAPPY FRIDAY I would really like for people to pre-order my magical spy weird city novel!

It's not coming out in the UK because the one (1) offer we got for UK rights was like "Ugh ugh bleh THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST barely sold, why would we WANT UK rights"

But! If pre-orders?? Maybe LOVE???

Right, one last push. @rebellionunplugged.bsky.social is launching a new edition of TUNNELS & TROLLS on Kickstarter *right now* and to support that launch I'm running several demo sessions of the game at @eclecticgames.bsky.social in Reading (the one in England) tomorrow! Do come along!

This promo image for the OwlCrate limited edition of Enchanting the Fae Queen shows the first side side of the reversible dust jacket. Against a vividly pink background, flowers blossom and a small brown bird perches in a bush beneath a glittering tiara. The painted edges of the book show falling leaves and a tent made out of cobwebs. On the back cover of the dustjacket, being read by the bird, is a note that reads: Make it matter.

This promo image for the OwlCrate limited edition of Enchanting the Fae Queen shows the second side of the reversible dust jacket. This time, Lorelei and Gerard are pictured together in luscious painted detail. The front cover shows her standing in the front opening of a large cobweb-silk tent, looking down on his kneeling figure with one hand under his chin, offering him a sword. On the back cover, they're kissing passionately against a woodland background.

This promo image for the OwlCrate limited edition of Enchanting the Fae Queen shows the foiled hardcover case. Against a pale pink background, illustrated swords, birds, chains of roses, and a crown surround the title of the book on the front cover. The same framing illustration is on the back cover, but this time it surrounds a snippet from the book: “I may be a mere mortal, but I do not break my vows.”

Hooray, the news is out: OwlCrate is publishing a limited edition of Enchanting the Fae Queen, and it's going to be GORGEOUS. Here are just a few pics (that don't even include the beautiful illustrated endpapers or the specially designed signature page or the bonus scene I wrote for the end!):

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana... ❤️

Emily O'Malley Liu's gardencore romantic fantasy WINE FOR ROSES comes out April 14! Preorder now at shirakipress.com/wfr

“A lushly written novella full of intriguing magic and love of all kinds.” —E. H. Lupton, author of the Wisconsin Gothic series. They say the stolen rose blooms best. When Ethan Keating Mendoza is hired as a gardener at an old Victorian residence in central Indiana, he has one clear mission: make the roses bloom. Ethan's life is roses--he's the son of a hedge witch and a partner in his father's rose growing business--but he has no magic himself. The Kilbride estate is wild and overgrown. The roses have not bloomed in decades, and Ethan fears he may be in over his head. Worse still is Louis, the peculiar trustee of the property, who lives under a bloodthirsty curse that ties him to the garden. But Louis gives Ethan a chance, and Ethan is determined to do right by the suffering roses. As Ethan and Louis grow closer, Ethan becomes increasingly desperate to save the man he loves from the garden's curse. But the garden isn't letting them go without a fight.

Calling all #librarians! Emily O'Malley Liu's gardencore romantic fantasy WINE FOR ROSES comes out April 14.

Available via Ingram, Overdrive, and Hoopla. More info at shirakipress.com/wfr

Ancillary Review of Books: Year 7! Questioning power, imagining possibility: ARB provides thoughtful criticism of speculative fiction. Help us pay our writers and staff!

Big news! ARB's first fundraiser is officially live! We're shooting for the very modest goal of $1k, with lots of stretch goals in mind. Your support is of course appreciated, and any help in spreading the word would be wonderful!