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29.12.2025 16:10 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0ICYMI
29.12.2025 16:10 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0New York, this moment belongs to you. Please join us for the Inauguration of a New Era on January 1, 2026.
21.12.2025 15:27 — 👍 7293 🔁 1089 💬 95 📌 731/2 Apropos of nothing in particular, I guarantee I will never write a piece of fiction with the "help" of a large language model because a) I spent too many years developing skills to just fuck off now, b) I don't plagiarize other authors, whether intentionally or by way of statistical matches.
19.12.2025 18:54 — 👍 1207 🔁 113 💬 20 📌 6
Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines…
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
19.12.2025 19:32 — 👍 407 🔁 104 💬 11 📌 15
Tales & Feathers...on a podcast? 👀
It's true! Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection interviewed our former Co-EIC @yilinwriter.bsky.social and current Managing Director @andregeleynse.com about cozy fantasy & slice-of-life fiction! It's a wonderful discussion, we're honoured to be on the podcast!
HELLO I'm on a podcast?? This is very exciting but also listening to my own voice is physically painful actually? How do people do this on a regular basis and survive??
17.12.2025 18:21 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Reddish brown background showing detail of an ornate wood carving. Foreground is text that reads: "The Villa, Once Beloved is a tale of eerie legacy, one branded with the mark of colonization and the haunting of family...Manibo steeps us deep in Filipino heritage, hierarchy, and history, crafting a tale that will keep your lights on at night." Markus Redmond Actor, screenwriter, and author of Blood Slaves Below the text is an image of the hardcover for THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED by Victor Manibo On the lower left and lower right hand corners are the logos of Erewhon Books and Kensington Publishing respectively
Based on true events, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a contemporary gothic horror set in a cursed manor on a coconut plantation—it’s got ghosts and witches and creepy crawlies and demons, plus a sexy gravedigging scene—and it’s out now
More info ⬇️
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
10.12.2025 22:32 — 👍 33887 🔁 10743 💬 528 📌 322If you can't tell, yesterday's announcements have made me incredibly hype for @laworldcon.bsky.social!
02.12.2025 20:07 — 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0This is going to be amazing. Join us!
01.12.2025 23:41 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to our anthology launch tomorrow, and this event on Thursday!
01.12.2025 14:13 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
ALL US SAINTS now has a gorgeous cover and is available for preorder wherever you get your books!!
01.12.2025 13:30 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
This short story by @breewernicke.bsky.social is so bizarrely wonderful, especially if you think *stepping* on Legos is painful ... 👀
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
Victor Manibo wearing a black turtleneck with a sparkly beetle shaped brooch on his chest, seated behind a table holding upright a copy of THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED. To his right are stacked copies of the same book, and to his left are his three novels, THE VILLA, THE SLEEPLESS, and ESCAPE VELOCITY. Background is a red step-and-repeat backdrop of Strand Bookstore logos.
After a long journey, we have finally arrived at THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED. I’m so grateful for getting to tell this complex and horrifying Gothic tale, and especially proud as I think this is my best work to date. I hope you all fall in love with it as much as I have. … ⬇️
26.11.2025 16:10 — 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
PLAY NICE made the final round for the Goodreads Choice Awards 🥳 Another banger year for the genre & these titles are all exceptional 🖤 Also, it’s mostly women 💅
Thank you to everyone who voted so far!! Final round here ⬇️
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
Finally added 2025 eligibility to my website, with a couple of flash & short stories at the top & my full 2025 bibliography below. I'd be honored if you consider any of these for your awards noms. ☺️
24.11.2025 13:44 — 👍 38 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 0TONIGHT TONIGHT
24.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
the cover of THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS is off to the left of this image. the rest of it is text on a dark blue background. it says: AWARDS ELIGIBILITY The Death of Mountains from Lethe Press ELIGIBLE FOR: the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, and other novella etcetera LISTEN: if you want to think of this book during awards season? great! thank you very much! are there too many things to think about right now? of course there are. way too many things. i am making this graphic while also internally screaming and procrastinating dinner. so. i get it.
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
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Also got interviewed by the delightful @marissavu.bsky.social ❤️ I always appreciate the research and thoughtfulness she puts into her interview questions!
20.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
hello friends, Romans, countrymen, I am back in Lightspeed with a new story about unhinged teenage girls www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...
20.11.2025 19:25 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
If you want to get involved, please check out Equality Florida. Since the State of Florida is the origin of so many hateful bills, I urge you to join us here. Equality Florida has accomplished amazing successes in the midst of so much awfulness.
www.eqfl.org
"Interview with Author Leah Ning, By Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine, Issue 151"
"The biggest piece of writing advice I always keep in my brain is that anything can work if you can make it work." 🪸💬
New interview by @marissavu.bsky.social: Interview with Author @leahning.bsky.social"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Apple is the one butting its AI head into Scrivener. Here's some more info from Literature & Latte.
19.11.2025 20:57 — 👍 29 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 0
Transparency is a core value for us at OTHERSIDE... and with that in mind, we now have sample contracts available on our website! We believe in supporting and protecting authors: no AI, no rights grabs, quick payment. Let us know if you have questions!
othersidespec.com/sample-contr...
I can't wait for this book to come out into the world. I wrote an essay titled "Curating Creativity." My co-contributors are amazing anthologists and I thank @dancoxon.bsky.social and Pete Sutton (as well as @lunapress.bsky.social ) for this opportunity.
19.11.2025 20:03 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0I am thrilled and honored to be a part of this project. Haralambi Markov's work is transformative and powerful. This collection will blow you away.
17.11.2025 23:27 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Go read this sweet taster from my upcoming anthology with coeditors @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/where-memory...
Look what dropped today. A little background Sis’ Bouki: the Hyena Gifts, my poem in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
I wrote it during the height of the pandemic at a time when I was under a lot of pressure, dealing with a serious health crisis and family.
