Joey | Horror Writer

OUT NOW: 'The Beating of a Hideous Heart'

My little eco horror about a global 'Tell-Tale Heart' phenomenon.

Read for free here: the-dread-literary-review.ghost.io/january-2026...

Spec Fic for Newbies Spec Fic for Newbies by co-authors Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan is a beginner's guide to writing various subgenres and major tropes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This page provides informati...

Final corrections for *Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3* by @tiffaniangus.bsky.social & I have been dispatched to @lunapress.bsky.social today! 😀 It will be officially launched at Eastercon in April! 🥳 But, while you're waiting, grab a sneak peak at its TOC by scrolling way down here...

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@vallescurarule.bsky.social and I just sent the final corrections for Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3 to @lunapress.bsky.social! It comes out the end of March and launches at Eastercon.

We've got so much cool shit in this one and are so excited to share it with you all! So stay tuned!

Submissions are now open for Issue 6: Craving until February 1st.

We welcome horror poetry and prose that explores longing, appetite, absence or desire in its own way.

Guidelines here: divinationsmagazine.co.uk/submissions

Here is sweet tripod girl Ripley, hard at work in what is usually Sia’s cat bed on my desk. Happy #caturday. Abolish ICE.

2025 - For Your Consideration: Psychopomp Award Eligibility - PSYCHOPOMP.COM 2025 was a year of big changes around here, and we can't imagine where 2026 will take us. Before we do, let's look back at what we did in 2025. We did some

we are so proud of all we did in 2025!

and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀

give this post a look!!

find something amazing to read

and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤

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Theme reminder! For Issue 6, we are interested in fiction and poetry that engages with 'craving' in any form. Whether that's through the vampiric, zombies or another unusual form, we love it!

Submissions open January 15th through February 1st: divinationsmagazine.co.uk/submissions

2025 Writing Wrapped 🥰

My Year in Books 2025
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My Year in Books 2025
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To the left, the cover (red and black) of "Spec Fic For Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror" Vol 1 by Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan. To the right, a list of the topics covered by the book: "Learn about writing… Spaceships, Aliens, Big Dumb Objects, Robots, Military SF, Utopia, Dystopia, Apocalypses, Cyberpunk, Solarpunk, Folktales & Fairy Tales, Witches, High Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, Grimdark, Historical Fantasy, Steampunk, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Time Travel, Gothic Horror, Supernatural Horror, Vampires, Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Zombies, Suburban Horror, Splatterpunk, Techno Horror, and Cosmic Horror!"

To the left, the cover (blue and black) of "Spec Fic For Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror" Vol 2 by Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan. To the right, a list of the topics covered by the book: "Learn about writing… Space Opera, Astronauts, First-Contact Stories, Climate Fiction, Pandemic Fiction, Uplifted Animals, Submarine Stories, Mysterious Islands, Biopunk, The Multiverse, Mythic Fantasy, Fairies, Goblin Markets, Enchanted Clothing, Dragons, Cryptozoology, Body Swaps, Portal Fantasy, Comedic Fantasy, Carnivalesque, Folk Horror, Ghost Stories, Werewolves, Possessed/Cursed Items, Animals That Attack, Evil Children, Ecohorror, Gendercide, Places People Shouldn’t Go, & Last Person Left Alive Stories!"

Thinking of writing more Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Horror in 2026?! 👽 🧙‍♀️ 🤡 If so, then maybe you want to check out what's on offer in the two standalone volumes of *Spec For for Newbies* published by @lunapress.bsky.social! Start your adventure here: www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...!

Symbol of Microsoft Co-Pilot

Would love to be able to figure out how to remove this hate symbol from my Word screen.

Congratulations! 🎉👏

Hyped for my work to be in this! 😎 Excited to see what everyone else wrote too, it's such a fun theme 🥰

✨ Received an exciting email yesterday✨

BLOG POST: ajsharpe.co.uk/2025/11/07/a...

My dark fable 'Whitherward?' will appear in this year's Aberystwyth MA anthology, available from Broken Sleep Books!

An uncomfortable tale of self-doubt, 'Whitherward?' follows a nameless pilgrim who finds evil lurking at a blank signpost.

PRE-ORDER HERE: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

👇LOOK! IT'S MY STORY👇

Just waiting on the last couple of signed contracts to come back, then we'll let you know what and who you can look forward to in the book. There will be 24 stories, 17 original and 7 reprints. Most of those 7 reprints were not in venues where many folks would have seen them. Very excited.

The Clothier of the Sunless - PSYCHOPOMP.COM In this black-lanterned valley, only wraiths blossom in lotus-white, bemoaningtheir wind-shaped cloaks, which bind them to the eternal ensemble of the bloodless.  […]

our rollout of issue 39 BEGINS, beloveds 🥀

"In this black-lanterned valley, only wraiths
blossom in lotus-white, bemoaning
their wind-shaped cloaks, which bind them
to the eternal ensemble of the bloodless."

The Clothier of the Sunless by @armori.bsky.social

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

👇 I'm in this🥳👇

The Deadlands - Issue 39 | Psychopomp Arda Mori, Amanda Cecelia Lang, Michael Hessel-Mial, Daniel Oluremi, RJ Aurand, Kelsea Yu, Olufunmilayo Makinde, Beth Goder, Elizabeth Wing A. J. Sharpe, Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi, Ashok Banker

hello

friends of the deadlands

guess what today is

IT IS

ISSUE 39 RELEASE DAY!

our patrons got this issue yesterday (surprise)

you can check out the issue page below

and also, pretty PLEASE

if you <3 us and our deathy magazine

join us as a patron

you'll get full issue IMMEDIATELY

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FICTION continued

Miles To Go Before I Sleep, by @bethgoder.bsky.social

Little Trinkets, by @undeadmind.bsky.social

One More Episode, by Ashok Banker

well would you look at that! it's toc'o tuesday! 🌮💀

and let me tell you, issue 39 is a stunner!

just check out that toc:

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Very fun movie, a few lines that could have been made more natural I feel 🧐

Ready for Clown in a Cornfield 🌽🤡🌽 #clowninacornfield

I read these four for the trans rights readathon in March and enjoyed them! 😁

A hardback copy of Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking by Alice Vernon. The cover features a ghostly image on a staircase in black and white, with the word 'Ghosted' in the middle in red font.

I have an actual physical copy of Ghosted! It looks absolutely fantastic, and I can't wait to share these spooky, sad, funny and perplexing stories of ghost-hunting with you all. Available for pre-order in all formats now, and published in September!

Got this signed beauty on Hay-on-Wye yesterday ❤️ So happy 🥰

READ NOW: www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-s...