Steve Neal

Just had our health insurance switch to United and... yeah, I get it

Nadir Magazine Open Call Open call for weird literature submissions July 15th

REMINDER: Today is the last day for the open subs, extended to August 15th for BIPOC authors.

Closes at midnight, last place on Earth. But really, I'm not gonna check to see if you submitted a minute after midnight on the Baker Islands. Just don't take the piss.

Full guidelines: nadirmagazine.com

Aw fuck

There's something especially stinky about receiving rejections on a novella that lost its home.

I KNOW this book is good enough to be published, it had a contract for pete's sake, the self doubt isn't logical, but it hits hard regardless.

I'm going to be heartbroken if you're not wearing an oak leaf crown at voidcon

Why is nothing ever as good as Silent Hill? Why can't more things be Silent Hill?

Are the neurotypicals okay?

"The cherry on a shit sundae" isn't something you hear on a federal contracting call every day.

Open now! Send me your most unhinged tales!!

Full submission guidelines: nadirmagazine.com

I also 100% will get something published under the name Lance Pittman in the near future.

I've been receiving emails for Lance Pittman for a solid month now and I really can't remember if I used a fake name to sign up for something or if someone has pulled a dastardly prank upon my inbox.
Perhaps it was I, the dastard.

A YEAR IN REVIEW What losing hope taught me about writing

I made a substack post about my tumultous past year and what it taught me about writing as a creative outlet and as an industry. It'd mean a lot if you checked it out

open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...

As we're about a week away from opening up I want to clarify:

We believe trans kids have a right to exist, no one is illegal on stolen land, and in a free Palestine.

This is to say if your socials or story have right wing bs, the sub is getting deleted without consideration or response.

Figure I'll throw it out here too - if any publisher feels like putting out a creature feature novelette, get at me.

A swamp, airboats, and plenty of body parts floating around, what's not to love??

Two weeks away from opening up! Bring me your weird, your deranged, your sad, your horny, make me worry about how tf I'm going to edit your story.

My neurodivergent ass has finally learned that "hit me up if you need anything" and "feel free to reach out in the future" aren't meant sincerely.

You people know you can just NOT say that, right? Shit's confusing.

Thanks, Scott!

Nadir Magazine's call for weird literature opens July 15th

Super excited to announce we'll be opening for subs in a few weeks. Bring us your weird!

Full guidelines here: nadirmagazine.com

Nadir Magazine Open Call Open call for weird literature submissions July 15th

I've started a magazine! @nadirmagazine.bsky.social
If you want to know more about me and why I've started one, go here: open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...
If you want submission guidelines, go here: nadirmagazine.com

Decided to fuck around and query an agent before bed, should make for easy sleeping.

I have this completely irrational fear that one day I'm going to sneeze so hard that all of my top molars explore out of my gums and I'll try to explain what happened and blood will just dribble out of my mouth.

And I don't know, I just felt like telling the internet this.

Cover to Mark Jaskowski's Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth! Black and white photo of an abandoned building with an overlay of tentacles coming up from the ground.

Mark Jaskowski's Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth! is out today! Shit rips. Body horror weirdness wrapped in a 'what happened last night' mystery involving desperate folks doing low-level crimes.
Get it from Weirdpunk or wherever.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com

Happy birthday boss

Obviously, I won't be at Stoker, but I do want to remind people that Stamford is having a No Kings protest on the 14th and think that'd be real neat if people showed up.

Does anyone still put together a monthly sub calls list? I remember there used to be google docs floating around and such.

Should probably put this here as well.

Gonna be launching a weird fic mag this year. Just a little thing, but there needs to be more homes for strange tales so I'm making one.

More details to come in July once I get all the admin stuff done, but yeah. It's happening.

Finding a new publisher for a book that lost its home is a whole new level of difficult.

Been in SF 10 minutes and seen someone shit on a car so this tracks

I can't believe John Denver wasn't from Denver. Next you're gonna tell me Jack London wasn't even English or something