California, you have the chance to do the funniest thing now.
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California, you have the chance to do the funniest thing now.
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
I met Durgin a couple of times. This sounds very Lynchian!
Word Horde is proud to announce Desert Radio, the debut novel from author Pamela M. Durgin. Get ready for high strangeness, mysterious radio transmissions, government conspiracies, weird rituals, and liminal spaces in the 1990s California desert. Things are about to get very weird this Fall.
We live in a cartoon hellscape.
It takes a village to make a book, so we’d also like to take this opportunity to give shout-outs to cover artist Matthew Jaffe, cover designer Scott R. Jones, and copyeditor Shannon Page.
Thanks to all the HWA members and Stoker jurors who recommended it and congratulations to all the other Stoker nominees! It’s an outstanding ballot this year.
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Super excited to see that @johnlangan.bsky.social’s Word Horde collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. Congratulations, John! 🥳
A graphic saying that if you buy Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders in audiobook via Libro.fm, your purchase will directly benefit booksellers facing emergency financial, medical, and mental health service needs.
Booksellers are total heroes who keep us falling in love with reading. They are vitally important to our communities.
So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰
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I’ve theorized that “AI” is actually a series of “Mechanical Turks”, and again and again stuff like this seems to prove my hypothesis.
Books covers of four Dim Shores anthologies with a large notice saying “FREE E-BOOKS”. The anthologies and their covers are: Looming Low Volume II (cover art by Yves Tourigny) - A bright white/orange sun/eyeball rises over a dark orange and brown desolate landscape. A crumbling tower and tiny human figure are in the foreground. Looming Low Volume I (cover art by Yves Tourigny) - A dark teal and black moon/skull rises over a mysterious, misty landscape with clumps of trees. A small car driving down a small road with headlights on is moving towards a silhouetted figure in the foreground. Dim Shores Presents Volume 1 (cover art by Mr. Anthrope) - A shrouded semi-transparent figure with no face and clasped hands in shades of purple, blue, and gray is seen from the waist up, superimposed over twisted trees in a dark forest. Dim Shores Presentds Volume 2 (cover art by Russell Smeaton) - A large humanoid creature crouches on top of a mountain. It has long bulky arms and legs, and a curling trunk or tentacle for a head. Purple clouds swirl behind it, with a swarm of small black birds on the upper right.
Seems pretty trivial given everything else going on right now, but a quick notice to say all Dim Shores e-books are now free until further notice. Just ask and I will send you a ZIP file with all four anthologies released to date, no DRM.
Enjoy it!
Now more than ever - and for reasons besides that it's just the right thing to do - credit your artists, credit your translators, credit your designers and layout people. Credit any and every human hand that works on your project wherever you can.
Also on the subject of Stranger Things, something that Raymond Lawrason observed during the series’ first season still resonates: “It’s 80s nostalgia, by and for people who weren’t there.”
Slight spoiler territory, but while I enjoyed the Stranger Things finale, fifty minutes of denouement was perhaps a bit excessive. In comparison, The Return of the King’s endless endings only go on for 27 minutes. That said, I did like the Reality Bites homage.
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
"Creepy, crawly, and host to macabre beings, with the old school flair of a late-night stroll through the video store, Notes from Underground sits squarely in the upper echelons of world-building horror."
Some kind words about my latest in a far-ranging roundup at Heavy Feather Review!
Getting featured in a list of the Best Horror Books of 2025 was a nice way to close out a year where I didn't publish very many stories.
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If you're buying things during Give Us Your Money Week here, a reminder that I always appreciate it when you buy my things, such as my latest book.
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"If you haven’t read #Stonefish (just a favorite of all time for me) or Drill I would also highly recommend them. Scott R Jones is incredibly under read and deserves more readers." says reddit user. You know the #DRILL, #bluesky. #drillnovel www.amazon.com/Drill-Scott-...
I would watch this.
"Orrin Grey loves monsters and movies more than anyone. By the time you’re done with this book, so will you."
Another glowing (no pun intended) review, this time of GLOWING IN THE DARK, from a longtime reader and booster.
"This is Grey’s most unified book, a capstone to his museum-of-monsters vibe that threads his obsessions into a single, durable rope."
A vivid, insightful review of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND that says many very nice things and seems to get exactly what I was going for.
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
Did I make it into @reactorsff.bsky.social's Reading the Weird? Well, not directly. But my mention in @johnlangan.bsky.social's "Errata" did.
A photograph of a woman reading an issue of Weird Tales, taken by Allan Grant.
Today is my birthday, and the best present you could get me would be to buy yourself a little something from among my @wordhorde.bsky.social books!
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Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle by yours truly, art by Matthew Revert.
Tomorrow is my birthday, and you'll likely see a post similar to this then, but if you want to get me a present AND get yourself a little something, it's a perfect time to buy my latest book (or any of my other books):
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California, don't forget to vote on Prop 50. Turnout is expected to be low, and we can't afford to unilaterally disarm while rightwingers pack congress.
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Copies of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, stacked on a kitchen counter in front of a black cat vase wearing a witch's hat and full of seasonal flowers.
Today is publication day for NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from @wordhorde.bsky.social, so it seems serendipitous that I also got my author copies today!