JL George

international Womens day to the best undead mare!

Pre-orders for ebook editions of The Summer Goddess are now up at The Usual Places!

Short fiction You can find my short fiction in magazines and anthologies, and in various places around the web. “The Last Days of Don Juan Jenkins”, Cthulhu Cymraeg: The Night Country (February 2026)…

I don't have much to share this week, but maybe read one of my short stories if you're in the mood? Lots of them are free to read.

jlgeorgewrites.wordpress.com/short-fiction/

Ooh, I like this, really atmospheric and poignant.

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This is not the joyous renewal you're looking for...

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I do get quite energized by spite, so not gonna name any of the books that have made me go "Ugh, I hate this, I'm going to do my own, better version". 😅

But on the "Damn, I want to be that good" level, at the moment it's Mariana Enriquez and Gemma Files.

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Does searching for your roots, shedding your human skin, and slowly turning into a fishman count?

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I feel like timeslip fantasy was huge when I was a kid, but it's not something I see much of anymore and I always appreciate it when I do. Something about the eeriness of seeing a familiar landscape slightly changed, I think.

Hello! I'm Jess, a writer of dark specfic from South Wales.

I love a good necklace but hate the feeling of actually having something around my neck, so it's an eternal struggle. I do have a fidget ring I wear all the time, but that's more necessity than fashion.

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It's women in horror month!

No way. I don't want my work alongside the plagiarism machine.

It's your chance to support our very own Trip Galey's brand-new queer AF post-apocalyptic science-fantasy novel set in a world full of drag balls, weird science, magic, and...GASP!...Polari!!

We can't wait to see how this turns out.🧐

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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The pipeline from "this makes me uncomfy" to "this is not allowed to exist" is dangerous and REAL. There is value in sitting with discomfort and confronting/unpacking your own biases. People are so afraid of their own "icky" feelings that they would destroy art and other people to remain "safe."

A sequel image of Little Mari and her dragon friend making toast (thanks to a friend giving me a prompt)

It's time.

Colin, the comrade running the shelter-in-place food program I'm working at, told me that this week he's had to turn down asks from schools to supply food directly to their sheltering families. The reason? There's not enough money coming in for that amount of food.

Let's change that.

Hello! I'm Jess and I write weird/gothic/queer stuff.

Tommy Tester from The Ballad of Black Tom is one of the great asshole protagonists.

Gotta love a classic Carmilla, but I'm also fond of the version from Kat Dunn's Hungerstone. And Beth from Manhunt, she feels very real.

#HorrorWritersChat

25 - Reverent by Leah Ning. noon and midnight are lovers running out of time. the references to weaving and spinning were really exciting to me (fiber arts fiend) podcastle.org/2025/12/30/p...

Wait I've read this one it didn't go well www.serenbooks.com/book/the-mea...

‘We’ve been paying for happy endings for Andrew for years’: the inside story of a royal disgrace, by his biographer Andrew Lownie spent years investigating the greed and excesses of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson for his book Entitled. Here, the writer reveals the barriers he faced in getting to the ...

thinking about all the disabled people I know on PIP who have to regularly go through the government mangle to get their measly allowance to scrape by & survive while Andrew was paying for a regular stream of sex workers on government money on official trips www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Screenshot of text from the linked story overlaid on a photo of a village pond.

Jack's Pool.
The first ever Willerby story.
Two village newcomers wake an old dark thing of blood and water.
willerby.substack.com/p/jacks-pool

In Gaza, hunger invades homes, leaving children to sleep hungry, louder than the bombs. We need food, safety, and the world’s attention. Please don’t look away from our pain. 💔

gofund.me/d14cbe76

Again, I got gentle pushback saying it wasn't solely erotica that was being demonetized. Which was true, but erotica was the one getting hit the hardest. Finally, yesterday, Booklinker issued an official statement confirming what I had been telling them for weeks. This is from their announcement: Amazon has implemented a significant policy change: product-level "ASIN" data will no longer be provided for products Amazon classifies as "unsafe." From our initial checks, the impacted books tend to contain mature themes, including sexual and violent content.

I have no idea what's going on behind the scenes at the Big River

But I know they're owned and operated by a MAGA-leaning billionaire desperate to appease a fascist govt in his home country

And while I don't write erotica, I know I - like other horror queers - probably DO write "unsafe" content

BSFA - Fission

🚀 Fission #6 - Submissions close at 11.59pm Feb 27th.

We're looking for sf stories (including all subgenres/hybrids) between 1k and 5k words that have not been published before in an English language source. Find out more:

"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people

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An upcoming publisher closure means that 3 of my books are now currently unavailable. The best way to support me rn is to get Cosmic Dykes or Bound In flesh from ghoulish.rip , lil guts via lil ghosts, or directly thru ko-fi.com/lormaggot 💖

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