@jessicapeter
Horror writer, Poetry Editor of Haven Spec, editor of Howls from the Scene of the Crime. Social worker, health researcher (under a slightly different name), health policy PhD student. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://www.jessicapeter.net
I haven't seen "The Bride!" yet and I'm sure this movie reviewer otherwise knows what they're talking abut.... but 5 times is too many times to mention the '1920s' setting in a movie that is actually set in the 1930s. And that's not a flapper dress. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
I'm stoked that the Humble Bundle of my and @annaleen.bsky.social's books from Tor has raised nearly $5000 for the TGI Justice Project and Miss Major/Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center.
www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
Let me tell you about when I went to the TGIJP's anniversary party
They want me to give a talk at the university next month so I have 20 minutes to tell the kids that incarceration is inextricable from capitalism and is the tool it uses to extract labor and sustain a permanent underclass.
Thanks so much!
Look at this!! One of my favourite horror novels of recent years and it's coming out so pretty.
I have a new short story published! It's kind of Toronto finance bro comeuppance by way of Edgar Allan Poe. Check out "Come Back" in @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/come...
I've got extra scaries! And I'm also off Tuesday!
The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS is $175 away from our base goal (97% there) (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 83% to SG1 & 73% to SG2. 5.46 backers to go. Will you be one of those backers (or .46th of a backer) to help? #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel Thursday, February 12 at 7pm ET
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
The first page of two journals - one is titled Garden 2014 and the other says 2026 Garden
I started a new garden journal this weekend! Such a time capsule to look back at my last one that started in 2014 when I was still gardening in containers on my tenth floor balcony, to now in my backyard (and every year since!). Still an obsession.
A sign says “bookstore” above a window, inside the right shelving is all black and the left is all pink. One side of the window says Hopeless Romantic Bookstore, the other sports the Little Ghosts ghost logo on top of a stack of books.
The rumours are TRUE!
There is a Romance x Horror bookstore PopUp in Union station running from now until May 31st. This great little space, shared between us and Hopeless Romantic Books, is the pink/black bookstore of your dreams.
Come by say hi on your next commute!
🖤📚👻💕
Solidarity to Minnesota, and to all Americans who are keeping up the fight
Covers of 9 books: All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes, King of Ashes by SA Cosby, Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis, To Desire a Devil by Elizabeth Hoyt, Rick Steves’ Italy for Food Lovers by Rick Steves & Fred Plotkin, Fog and Fury by Rachel Howzell Hall, Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington, Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty
Check out my 2025 writing update, my top reads of 2025, and what's up next in my writing world, at my newest newsletter! mailchi.mp/b2f576eacacd...
Or check out the sneak peek of my top 9 reads (they fit better in an image than a top 10) right here!
And now Silent Night (2021)! What a strange, darkly comedic, and very grim take for a Christmas movie. Loads of terrible posh folks, some smart one liners, and a bit of deep thoughts too
Silent Night (2023) done! It was fine. Very John Woo with gunfights and slow-mo (good) but a surprise with pretty much zero dialogue - I didn’t realize the silence was literal! A lot of Joel Kinnaman brooding (complimentary) but a bit too much lead up. Like a movie that’s 2/3s training montage.
Screenshots of 2 movies, both named Silent Night, from 2021 and 2023
Screenshots of 2 movies, both named Silent Night, from 2012 and 2020
It’s Silent Night night! I think I’m going to start with the 2023 (it’s what I was originally searching), but then see if I can hit the 2021 too…
These two are on the list! I just haven't gotten to them yet. But one other I've always dreamed of singing on stage is Self-Esteem by The Offspring...
Ha, two songs I haven't *yet* sung at live band karaoke cracked my top 5 songs on my YouTube Music Recap! 👀
Thank you! 😊
I'm thrilled to join Haven Spec as Poetry Editor! Excited to dig into the beautiful mountain of spec poetry - the vivid, the emotional, the lyrical, the strange, the dark, the climate-conscious, the bittersweet, the idea-driven, the magical, the otherwordly, the weird. . . and everything else!
Congrats! It's going right onto my TBR! I loved A Haunted History of Invisible Women.
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Oh no, what!? That would be not great for my day job...
Grouchy writer rant: don’t put this in your guidelines if you want me to take you seriously “Simultaneous Submissions: Don’t. This is the fastest way to get on our list.” Especially from a token or nonpaying market. If. You dont want sim subs, fine, but sim subbing writers are not criminals 🙄
He also gives an excerpt (and bread recipe!) from Sami Tamimi's Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables From My Palestine, and there's an offer of a signed copy and tote bag if you donate to one of the Gaza relief organizations newsletter.wordloaf.org/sami-tamimis...
Seeing my favourite bread newsletter (@wordloaf.org) post about the starvation in Gaza made me tear up - important to see food writers as well advocating for Palestinians (also includes some links to where you can send financial support on-the-ground) newsletter.wordloaf.org/bread-not-as...
So I vaguely recalled in the wake of Sweeney jeans ad discourse (which I was genuinely trying to avoid) that at some point I thought I learned that Black people gave us jeans — I just couldn’t recall the source until today. There is a doc which this article summarizes, with sources cited. Cheers.
We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
I've seen 2 Hamilton Fringe shows & they were both bangers!
--> The Pole Shebang - touching, funny, interactive, IMPRESSIVELY athletic memoir via pole-dancing
--> Ugly Privilege - standup comedy that really hit for me. On autism, queerness, & being a weird little guy
Going through Sun! #HamOnt
Today's newsletter: The Wall Street Journal says ChatGPT had a "stunning moment of self reflection." NBC says Grok "issued an apology." This lazy language isn't just bad writing — it's helping tech companies dodge responsibility for real harm. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...