in my opinion *anything* can become a gothic idea if it haunts you hard enough!!!
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in my opinion *anything* can become a gothic idea if it haunts you hard enough!!!
Okay kids, gather round, it's time for another posting-into-the-void thread about my #writing industry observations.
Let's talk about networking, and community-building, and starfucking.
Obligatory disclaimer that these are my perceptions, others can disagree, and that's welcome! 1/?? 🧵
Huge congrats, I am SO sat for this!!!
Incredible story! So many Pooh remixes disappoint me as someone to whom those stories were load-bearing childhood entertainment, but this one is going to stick with me for awhile.
New story out today in @clarkesworldmagazine.com ! "Person, Place, Thing": go, read, enjoy! clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_03_26/
IT’S HERE ‼️ And yes I cried when I hit send on the issue for subscribers. I hope you love this issue as much as we do.
Today is the last day to submit your Nebula ballot! Don't forget to vote in the things you loved in 2025!
i will never stop yelling about how gorgeously and perfectly evelyn’s cover captured the mood of my story!! her work is incredible and deserves all the love and support 🫶
From left to right: Abi Stevens's FF#24 cover (a psychedelic and colourful space whale dwarfing an observatory, amidst planets and a rocketship), Nickolej Villiger's FF#25 cover (featuring comic-book style art of 9 different scenes from the issue's stories), and Evelyne Park's FF#26 cover (a painting of a woman's face surrounded by shards of glass and fragments of a noh mask, all containing different eyes).
For awards season, I'd like to take a moment to hype FF's 2025 cover artists. FF's cover art is commissioned, based on stories from each issue, and @abistevensart.bsky.social @almosthomefree.bsky.social and @evelynepark.bsky.social did an incredible job of bringing these stories to life!
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icymi!!!
PM deal announcement against a background of line art tentacles. Announcement reads: "Amanda Helms's THE UPPER TENTACLE, pitched as a horror comedy mash-up of EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE with H.P. Lovecraft, in which the admin for a corporate retreat and a body splitting alien team up to solve the murder of the company's president at a closed ski resort before their alien overlords inflict dire consequences for humanity's collective insubordination, to Mika Kasuga at Union Square & Co, by Paul Lucas at Regal Hoffmann & Associates (world)."
It is I, joining the ranks of those for whom design is their passion
Very happy this weirdo novella found a home with Union Square and Mika Kasuga! Thanks to @canonizer.bsky.social for connecting us!
A birth announcement for a book! Including the book cover, the size of the book (14 by 12) and weight of book (567 grams). There are faint, blue starts surrounding the book which is displayed against a light blue, watercolour background.
A.D. Sui (caucasian person with short, brown hair) is wearing a grey top coat and jeans, pointing to The Iron Garden Sutra on a bookstore bookshelf and smiling.
and we're live, folks!
THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now out everywhere books are sold! if you pre-ordered a copy, you should be receiving it soon (or already have) and if not, it's not too late to purchase the yellowest book in all of history!
deleted my last post bc of all the typos 😅 so anyway, promo take two! “skin deep” is out, with shapeshifting and sapphism in the suburbs (feat. samuel taylor coleridge and about one william mosquitos)! get it right here in the new issue of @havenspec.bsky.social!!
havenspec.com/fiction/skin...
Our ✨February 2026 Issue✨ is now free to read online!
Find it here:
havenspec.com/issues/issue...
Or get the PDF and EPUB:
ko-fi.com/s/805c9b3a99
In it, you'll find five stories and five poems for your reading pleasure. Please spread the word!
baby’s first fountain pen
I saw so many favorable reviews of it as a beginner’s choice, and I see why! It writes beautifully and was so affordable, I love it!
baby’s first fountain pen
i have officially entered my fountain pen era
best queer horror that the author refused to endorse as queer…but seriously shirley there is no heterosexual explanation for some of this 👀
Between The Ministry of Time and The Last Place on Earth (1985), I do believe that this is the year I finally become a polar exploration girlie (gn). Was not on my bucket list but hey, I’m always up for a new historical fandom to partake in
I haven't, but MoT makes me want to! I need to see what the hype about this Graham Gore is about
Between The Ministry of Time and The Last Place on Earth (1985), I do believe that this is the year I finally become a polar exploration girlie (gn). Was not on my bucket list but hey, I’m always up for a new historical fandom to partake in
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
Absolute DREAM come true to be reviewed in Locus!!! Many many thanks to @mariahaskins.com for the kind words about "Singularities" 😊
An excerpt of the short story "Skin Deep" by Cressida Roe, in Issue 22 of Haven Spec Magazine (February 2026). The text reads: We started shifting in sixth grade. It wasn’t hard, just a simple slither sideways into another skin, more invisible beneath pelts and exoskeletons than in running shorts and t-shirts getting too tight in the wrong places. Easier to bark in a circle, run up trees after squirrels, scuttle beneath a tilted horizon. I had a rodent phase early on and guiltily gorged on scraps of mac-and-cheese. That’s how Mom found out. She’d been trying to sweep me out the front door with a broom when I shifted back. Of course, she had a meltdown and demanded I tell her who I picked up ... The background is the issue's cover art, titled Harmonies of the Harvest, by Matthew Spencer. It shows a figure with a human body and a deer head.
👀February 2026 Fiction👀
"Skin Deep" is a short story by @eggandcressida.bsky.social about shapeshifting (and surviving the suburbs). Read this one for its transcendence and transformation.
Subscribers can read it Monday!
havenspec.com/issues/issue...
Absolute DREAM come true to be reviewed in Locus!!! Many many thanks to @mariahaskins.com for the kind words about "Singularities" 😊
“Singularities” by @eggandcressida.bsky.social (Kaleidotrope, Autumn ‘25) “is a love story….[that] has a gentle, emotionally resonant quality that elevates this story to another level.” 🥰
Since the Hugo Award nominations are now open, we need to talk about the #Lodestar. I'm going to give you some tips on how to nominate appropriately - in other words, to nominate Young Adult, not Middle Grade or adult crossovers. bsky.app/profile/lawo...
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#HugoAwards #HugoAward
As Hugo noms are open, I'd be honored if you considered nominating my work!
I'm eligible for the Astounding Award (2nd yr), and I have 2 stories eligible: "Mrs. No Face" in @fusionfragment.bsky.social and "Singularities" in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social (given a rec nod in Reactor). Threaded below!
"Singularities" is a slipstream fantasy featuring:
💫 parallel universes
📖 meta-commentary on story-as-life
💔 seeking love and connection across fragmented experience
🔥 echoes of the ballad "Tam Lin"
kaleidotrope.net/archives/aut...