Excited to share my new piece “Wintering” out today in Lost Balloon!

Sweet anecdote: I started writing this story while in college, about seventeen years ago. Recently, I rediscovered that first draft and decided to revise it to life!

"Mom, how many times do I have to ask you to knock before you come in?"

Books covers on a spooky gold and black trippy background: THE OBLIVION BRIDE THE COSMIC COLOR REDUNDANCIES AND POTEMTIALS DEATH VALLEY BLOOMS THE DREAMING OF MAN THE DEAD WITHHELD THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS NO SUCH THING AS DUTY CALL AND RESPONSE

For your general consideration....we published eight novellas this year. Three issues of Baffling. And a short story collection by Christopher Caldwell.

(Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)

I would love to be added to the list:

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Thank you so much!

A thrilling first: an award eligibility post! I offer:

"Carmilla, or, the Making of a Girl” in Baffling Magazine XX, July 2025, (Short Fiction, 1200 words, horror) - a teen girl is consumed by hunger as she sails across the ocean aboard the Demeter.

Thanks!

www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Just discovered my story is on this list and wow, nothing compares to the feeling of having your work so thoroughly understood! Thank you @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social!

My story "Carmilla, or, the Making of a Girl" is out in Baffling Magazine and I am both thrilled and humbled! This is my very first story making its way into the world. You can read it here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Congratulations to you both!

Going forward, the SLF wants to highlight those who made it to our final round of jury deliberations. Here is our shortlist for our 2024 Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants!

Thank you Colleen 😊!!

I only need enough to help me "suspend disbelief", so I don't get distracted from the story, trying to figure out the mechanics. And I am happy to follow the author as long as I feel grounded in the immediate location, most often through sensory specifics.

Thank you 😁

Moodboard saying "Good fortune was for pretty girls" with flames, orchid flower, chandelier, girl in a mask sewing, woman in a ball gown, vague female form in a bath, potion flask and glass blowing

Thrilled to announce I'm now represented by
@aiden-png.bsky.social at @ldlainc.bsky.social ! Their enthusiasm and vision for my subversive “Beauty & the Beast meets Dangerous Liaisons” novel is everything I hoped for. Can't wait to unleash my hideous Lorelei and her insatiable hunger onto the world