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Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer, manic pixie night hag. Copy editor @thedeadlands.com. Cohost @storyhour.bsky.social. Website & newsletter signup at pronouncedlahra.com. HWA, SFWA. BLM. She/her. Photo: Jodi Foucher. Rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
Anyway HAPPY FRIDAY I paid a bunch of bills (yay!) and I would like you, YES YOU, to read about resistance far from the battlefield, about malicious compliance, sabotage, personal devils, bone-gallows, death, Death (in her beautiful gown), and anger.
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Congratulations to all with work shortlisted for the BSFA Awards—including Story Hour guests @taracampbell.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @foxesandroses.bsky.social, and @wtalabi.com, plus upcoming guest @genni.bsky.social! You are awesome! #BSFAAwards2025 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
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Writing about Tatjana Wood today. If you knew her, worked with her, or were influenced by her, please drop me a line!
Often short story collections don't even get reviewed so we were especially excited when THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN received a starred review from Library Journal! You can read the full review here: www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-h...
I'm still kind of choked up. You can still watch!
Maybe I'm crazy. I believe books and art can change the world. I'm going to try to find out. I'm going to try to make it happen.
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All this plus I’m not sorry.
plus allowed people to DDoS all sorts of art publishers with unmanageable amounts of useless slop
That last part is the only part that counts. Anybody who uses AI trained on your stolen work should be hiring a human to do that work instead. Or else doing it their own human self.
Actually, I do have something of mine that is eligible for awards! That I wrote. With my own words and all.
"A Brief Letter on the Origins of the Harpy Aviary in the Kirani Capital" from WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE AND HOPE!
The following is the text of the email that Penelope Hegseth sent to her son, Pete Hegseth, on April 30, 2018, as he was in the middle of divorcing his wife, Samantha. One sentence was redacted by The New York Times for privacy reasons.
Son, I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out.. You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. I am not a saint, far from it.. so don't throw that in my face, but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out.
Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as "unstable" for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith. I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care) Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women
![We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted]
And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply)
I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But...
On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself...
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We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted] And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply) I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself... Mom
a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever
Sad high five.
This, plus stole my work
This was a killer program. Story Hour will post the YouTube link when all the post processing mumbo jumbo is done, sometime tomorrow. Thank you, Randee and Jennifer!
In like fourteen minutes! Join us!
Oooh! With food?
Happy anniversary to you and your husband, Becca! Have a great time!
This is a great pairing for tonight's Story Hour reading! Go watch 'em at 7pm PT! I'll be packing for my 20th anniversary trip instead, so go on my behalf!
Help support the Weird Tales Graphic Novel Kickstarter and as an add-on reward, you can get a copy of WT #370 signed by me! Has a new Kolchak story I wrote.
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Damn, that cover is gorgeous! And such a mood, too.
This is going to be FAN. TASTIC. As in I am a fan. Join us!
This sounds amazing, Maria! Congratulations!
Get your tickets to the Locus Awards in May! Guests of Honor are Nnedi Okorafor, Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due, we are so excited to be partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley!
Tickets at locusmag.com/2026-lo... or via the link in our bio!! C U there.
Of course we all want our favorites to win the cool trophy. But you know, we should also be happy for all the authors who can put "nominee" in their bios forever now, and happy that our genres are thriving so much that they support such different works. There's room for all of us.
I told a nominee this the other day — you already won.
Do you know how many people write in this genre their entire life and never get nominated? What you accomplished is huge, amazing, be proud!
Once you’re a Bram Stoker Award nominee you’re that forever. Include it in your bio, book covers.
What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?
That's fantastic! Congratulations, Eugen!
Grateful to see my smol essay on the self and identity, the politics of belonging, is a BSFA Awards finalist. 🥹
Congratulations to all finalists! @strangehorizons.bsky.social , @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
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Seeing those watching Only Murders in the Building on Hulu, too, along with all the "Don't forget your pneumococcal vaccine!" and "Do you have age-related memory loss?" commercials. Ugh.