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ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, edited by Marissa van Uden

Cover Art by Marcela Bolívar

Cover Design by Mikio Murakami

ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, edited by Marissa van Uden Cover Art by Marcela Bolívar Cover Design by Mikio Murakami

We're over the moon to reveal the cover of Violet Lichen's second annual eco anthology edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌙✨🪐

ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, blooming onto bookshelves November 17!

Cover Art by @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design by Mikio Murakami, Silent Q Design

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A little under 30 hours to go, less than $500! Let's goooooo!

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Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility to all my trans friends, colleagues, and students!

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A new anthology – and a submissions call We're about to publish Hidden Shadows: A Milford Anthology on behalf of the longrunning Milford Workshop, a professional writer's organisation with many multi award winning and multi published writers in its ranks. With stories by Jaine Fenn, Al Robertson, Heather Lindsley. David Gullen, Fiona Moore and many others, it's packed with 340 pages of high quality science fiction and fantasy.

A new anthology – and a submissions call

We're about to publish Hidden Shadows: A Milford Anthology on behalf of the longrunning Milford Workshop, a professional writer's organisation with many multi award winning and multi published writers in its ranks. With stories by Jaine Fenn, Al Robertson,…

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Can't go wrong with free, awesome books! #TransRightsReadathon

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Happy book birthday to WRETCH! 🎉

I had the pleasure of reading this early and called it "A gripping, mesmerizing descent" but more than that, IMO this is Eric LaRocca's best book 🔥

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Submission Calls Special sub call (open now through march 31st) Later this year, we’re putting out a surveillance horror/Weird fiction anthology. I’ve loved the stories I’ve solicited and their di…

Just a week left for our surveillance horror/Weird fic submission call. Read the submission guidelines here:
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I know we will! I read it last month, and I was blown away. So excited to reread and discuss it!

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Have you preordered yet? You want this goopy erotic book!

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Background is black with spiders and spiderwebs around the edges and corners. Against the background there is white text which reads: Horror Book Club Pam Kowolski is a Monster! by Sarah Langan Tuesday, April 14th, 7pm Heirloom Rustic Ales, 2113 E. Admiral Blvd. Tulsa, OK 74110

Background is black with spiders and spiderwebs around the edges and corners. Against the background there is white text which reads: Horror Book Club Pam Kowolski is a Monster! by Sarah Langan Tuesday, April 14th, 7pm Heirloom Rustic Ales, 2113 E. Admiral Blvd. Tulsa, OK 74110

Join us for Horror Book Club at Heirloom Rustic Ales! April 14th at 7pm. We're reading Pam Kowolski is a Monster! by Sarah Langan from @rdspress.bsky.social.

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Lol, yes! I ended up sorting into all green and not green for my photos.

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They are!

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-You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White: (just started) Love the premise (a hive mind made of a mass of flies and worms?!). White's adult horror debut!

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-The Book of Queer Saints, ed. Mae Murray (reread): I'm rereading some of my favorite stories by trans contributors!

-Convulsive by Joe Koch: (3 stories in) such visceral imagery in this collection! I keep finding myself reading passages aloud

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-Model Home by Rivers Solomon: This has been on my TBR for ages! This haunted house novel is also our horror book club book for May

-I Believe in Mr. Bones by Max Booth III: (over halfway through) bizarre yet grounded, Booth is making me uncomfortably aware of my own skeleton

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Herculine by Grace Byron: (I'm about 25% through) I picked this one up for the demons, and Byron's language is leaving me spellbound

-They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran: (read!) Love, grief, trauma, and body/ecohorror bloom like the mysterious red algae that's overtaken Mercy, Louisiana

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-The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw: (a reread) perfect for fans of dark fantasy and mermaid horror

-Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai: (just finished!) a modern retelling of Frankenstein unlike anything you've read before

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Four books, from top left to right: I Believe in Mister Bones by Max Booth III, The Book of Queer Saints ed. Mae Murray, Convulsive by Joe Koch, You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White

Four books, from top left to right: I Believe in Mister Bones by Max Booth III, The Book of Queer Saints ed. Mae Murray, Convulsive by Joe Koch, You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White

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Five books, from top let to right: The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai, Herculine by Grace Byron, They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran, and Model Home by Rivers Solomon

Five books, from top let to right: The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai, Herculine by Grace Byron, They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran, and Model Home by Rivers Solomon

What I've been reading for #transrightsreadathon

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SoCo Women in Horror Festival 2026

Just grabbed my virtual ticket!

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Only 10 days left to vote in the Locus Awards (which anyone can do!)

Whatever happens later, it's been an honor to have my collection TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS and its novelette "The Many Sins of Clara Greenstone" on there alongside so many wonderful works of speculative fiction 🫡🖤 thank you

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YAY also contains my story SINKING ALL THE WHILE! One of my favourite things I've ever written in short form. 😍

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March 15 the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot closes at midnight U.S. Pacific Time, and Global Indigenous Horror (UPM) is included on the Final in the category of long non-fiction. 😃

HWA voting members will be able to access a digital copy of Global Indigenous Horror for consideration.

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I'm not sure how I was able to get in an anthology about Love. But if you want to read my tale about learning that your ex just passed away, it'll be found within the Dichotomy of Love, releasing March 15th.

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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses

Your reminder that I'm giving away 3 autographed copies of my novella, 'The Unbearable Taste of Fruit & Wine', to 3 lucky contributors to my breast cancer Go Fund Me during the month of March!

An update & details are at the link. Please feel free to share widely!

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It's Friday the 13th! I just ordered some spooky books from @ghoulish.bsky.social, and you should, too!

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The Patchwork Girl - Uncharted Anna doused the dolls in lighter fluid and fed them to the flames. They burned quickly, spitting out toxic clouds of smoke as plastic warped and blackened. Beside her, Mary and Lily shifted and wrinkl...

"The Patchwork Girl" is up on @unchartedmag.bsky.social!

Join Anna, Mary, and Lily as they turn to witchcraft for answers when their friend, Cora, disappears.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/the-...

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Thank you!! That means so much, especially coming from you!

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Thank you!!

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The Patchwork Girl - Uncharted Anna doused the dolls in lighter fluid and fed them to the flames. They burned quickly, spitting out toxic clouds of smoke as plastic warped and blackened. Beside her, Mary and Lily shifted and wrinkl...

"The Patchwork Girl" is up on @unchartedmag.bsky.social!

Join Anna, Mary, and Lily as they turn to witchcraft for answers when their friend, Cora, disappears.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/the-...

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