Wendy N. Wagner 🎃

I hope it's a fun read!

More attention here please.

YouTube video by Jennifer Willis Reading With Jen 001: The Girl in the Creek, by Wendy N. Wagner

Ever thought it would be nice to sit and read quietly with someone kind while you listened to some peaceful music? My friend @jenwillis.bsky.social has a new channel on YouTube where you can do just that! Bring your own book and get cozy!
youtu.be/JglqWK_MLoI?...

TEAM AWESOME!!!!!

So happy to get to work with you again, Marty!!!

the opening snippet of Marty's new story, "Eight Ball," it begins, "There's an eye in the back of my husband's head. It opens only after he's fallen asleep, lid splitting silent as a dream in the night."

Happy August! A lil sneak peek of a new story out later this month @nightmare-magazine.com & @wnwagner.bsky.social!

You can read it now if you're a subscriber; a true delight to be appearing with @kristinaten.bsky.social & @angelaliu.bsky.social & thank you Wendy for giving this tale a home! 👁️🎱

A Hugo thread! (Oh no! Or Oh yeah! depending on how you feel.)

Based on what John said in his parenthetical, I want to talk about my idea re: centralizing the Hugo Awards specifically. It's a GREAT IDEA.

Every day I get a new email from a publicist trying to convince me to hire them to promote my novel. Some of them sound really good at their job! I just can't imagine being able to afford them.

I am seeing a lot of dunks these days, so many dunks. But remember the golden period, when we blocked chodes instead of circulating their pablum. Vaporized them instead of infecting our circles with names and faces no one needs to know. Let it all die in silence, begging ya.

I think about this often and it’s not just good in the Corporation for Public Broadcasting sort of way. It’s programs necessary for the long term health and wealth of the country like funding for the NIH and NSF. The impacts of this era will be felt for a long time.

Limited edition benefit shirt for World Central Kitchen from Bikini Kill Limited edition benefit shirt for World Central Kitchen from Bikini Kill

just fyi for t-shirt lovers, Bikini Kill is selling a one-day-only shirt to benefit World Central Kitchen's work in Gaza today:

Same here.

Why the US is burning $10m worth of birth control | Moira Donegan With action after action, the Trump administration has made clear it does not value women’s health, their dignity, their aspirations

The Trump administration is burning $10 million worth of contraceptives, slashing birth control grants, and turning federal family planning funds toward boosting the birth rate: I wrote about the attacks on Title X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de...

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.

If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

So while Stripe and PayPal should keep getting calls, Stripe has said that their banking partners are giving them issues. Who are they?

• Fifth Third Bank (!!)
• Evolve Bank (!!)
• Goldman Sachs
• Citibank
• Barclays (UK)

Sources:
techcrunch.com/2020/12/03/s...

stripe.com/treasury

Keep calling.

Give people community and a sense of purpose and it'll shake out fine for the most part.

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“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Trump stuns with shocking nuclear announcement after Russia threat President Donald Trump traded nuclear threats with former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev via Truth Social Friday."Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitr...

Welp. I suppose a thermonuclear exchange would be *a* way to get people to stop talking about Epstein.

A large koi and some of its smaller buddies swim beneath waterlilies. The dark shadow of a tower interrupts the sky's reflection on the surface of the water.

Old fashioned gold foil text on a glass window reads: WRITING AND READING ROOM at Tampa's Plant Museum.

Making friends and being touristy in Tampa this morning.

That would have been great! I spent the morning noodling around town, having a lovely time.

Writers should never modify their own prose as a reaction to what stupid fucking generative AI is doing -- that shit stole from us, and it stole poorly, incompletely, and has none of our magic and zero of our humanity, our experience, our wonder and fear, and it never ever will. Fuck AI. You do you.

Publishing hot take: traditional publishing is really hard, and self-publishing is really hard, and everyone deserves a sandwich and a nap.

That would be AMAZING!!! I'm only going to this one because they footed the bill (which is totally unbelievable), but SOME DAY, Keith. SOME DAY.

I made it to Florida in one piece!!! <3!!

Oh my gosh, cool!!!!

Just me, hanging out in the airport, editing a story and trying not to cry.
The October issue of @nightmare-magazine.com is going to be a banger!

Land of the free

From your lips to the movie gods' ears!!

Too deliciously creepy!!