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Stephen Graham Jones’ New Horror Novel 'Off the Reservation' ‘Stole’ His Sleep — See the Cover (Exclusive) PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Stephen Graham Jones' next horror novel, 'Off the Reservation.' The book, due out this fall from Saga Press, brings back a character from the author's 2020 b...

On the bookshelves October 13th. Hope y’all like it:

submissions are open over at Agita! Looking forward to reading your dark sf and horror stories about BAD SCIENCE!
agitamag.com/submissions/

A description of a prestigious exhibit Booth

I'm on thin ice with my credit card company

Just make up a literary arts organization and max out a credit card and you too can be a Literary Writer

Stephen Graham Jones’s Favorite Slasher Books

13 slashers on the page, by me:

Screenshot of Goodreads page for Rider in the Widow Lands: A Sword & Sorcery Short Story. Description reads: A Short Tale of Sword & Sorcery A forgotten age when god-lore and magic drove warriors on quests of blood and gold. The Rider, the progeny of ghoul and man, escorts a small, crumbling ossuary atop his Friesian. His destination is a hidden dale in the Widow Lands, where, temple monks claim, widows of the Great God Scar breathe life into bones long dead. How else does one speak privately with a priest who died a thousand years ago? For he is the man in the charnel box, and the secret he possesses isn’t to be shared with necromancers or moribund gods. A 30 Minute Read

When Children of the North Sea ask how came The Rider by the Scepter and Golden Greaves of Scar, tell this tale. And rejoice. Check it out: mybook.to/widowlands

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

“astrology for men” was too generous

Subs open on March 1st! Hope ya'll are getting some BAD SCIENCE themed sf/h flash ready for us!

I forgot about it. Surely it was nonsense.

Blackwater founder Erik Prince has joined the drone-warfare fray in Ukraine, SEC filings reveal Battle-tested Ukrainian startup that advertises a ‘Killbox’ drone recruited Prince as non-executive chair

I guess Mr Murder Mittens did in fact escape the DRC.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Taking a small break for getting angry about small press malfeasance to say:

The Long Con is right now just £5.99 at the NBP store - so if you want a hefty, 3-books-in-1 sapphic thriller read this weekend... you know what to do!

The Creative Joy of a Cold, Dead Winter Val McDermid’s new book evokes an earlier Scot’s love of the bleak.

"If Burns is the poet laureate of Scotland, then McDermid is the laureate of the lascivious. She writes of killers and sexual deviance. Her novels are smart, sinister, and often comic. Like Burns, she is drawn to winter’s mysterious whispers."

Congratulations!

So honored to be among these great writers and fav people @meganabbott.bsky.social @blacktopkid.bsky.social @michaelconnelly.bsky.social @aceatkins.bsky.social

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes - Honorees and Awards Ceremony The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes celebrate the best books of the last year at our awards ceremony.

Wow, honored to have Buffalo Hunter Hunter here in TWO categories:

Iowa House bill would impose new restrictions on minors at public libraries, create criminal penalties for librarians - Little Village Despite some librarians and advocates’ warnings that a bill passed by a House subcommittee Thursday would endanger the continued existence of public libraries across the state, supporters said the mea...

"The measure also establishes that “willfully” disseminating or helping a minor access material deemed “harmful” without their parental consent would be a crime... possibility of imprisonment of up to a year, and a fine between $500 and $2,500."

I. TOLD. YOU.

littlevillagemag.com/iowa-house-b...

Money Honey by Russell Thayer from The One That Got Away: a Pistol Jim Press series

I'm sorry she's such a cynic, but she's not sorry. Not at all.
pistoljimpress.substack.com/p/money-hone...

Perfection

Noisy Creek - Staff News Writer Job Title: Staff News WriterCompany: Noisy Creek (The Stranger)Location: SeattleSalary: $70,000-$80,000The Stranger, Seattle’s award-winning news and arts publication, aims to cover Seattle in smart, ...

The Stranger is hiring a staff writer. recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

Two great novels available later this year!
First BLOODFIRE BABY by Eirinie Carson a moving and sometimes harrowing study of a young mother battling post partum depression
Then THE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN a funny and emotional look at the modern black evangelical church
Get them!!!

A Conversation with Kevin Burton Smith about everything PI ...

Today on Substack, I have an exciting conversation with Kevin Burton Smith, the brain behind the brilliant Thrilling Detective Web site... of course we talk about all things related to Private Investigators. Have a read! meproctor.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

Great read

So absolutely honored to have this dark little musing published in @brownhoundpress.bsky.social!

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

This morning I sent @joeyhedger.bsky.social stickers to put on my books at the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social AWP table since I won’t be there this year. Be sure to go say hi and buy a bunch of great books. There will probably be other cool Malarkey merch too. (P.S. I’ll be back next year!)

I had a blast as an Authors on the Air guest host interviewing three of the greatest writers of short crime fiction on the planet.

Episode coming tomorrow!

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

you know what would be REALLY punk rock for literature? buying and reviewing my books.