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GETTING IT RIGHT: Balance telling stories that honor the truth while still being entertaining as hell. A 5-week online course with @nkolakowski.bsky.social on avoiding info-dumps and making your writing shine. Class starts March 15th, sign up today:

NOW ON PATREON: Our conversation with @marythor.bsky.social, author of A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME, available for pre-order now: bit.ly/4r1u8KU Listen to the podcast here: bit.ly/4bazv4n Patreon subscriptions start at $5/month!

Sure, we saved the daylight, but at what cost?

Editorial: March 2026 - Nightmare Magazine As violence, corporate greed, and international tension rise, we are all asking: What’s really going on beneath the surface of our society? Are we really as safe as we have been led to believe? And ho...

From the March Editorial, Nightmare Magazine:
"Holy crap, how fucked up is everything, really?"
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

How cool is this? THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS made it onto this amazing @gizmodo.com list of anticipated SF/F/H books releasing in March.

Link to the full list in comments. Apologies to your tbr!

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#BookSky

NOW ON PATREON: Our conversation with @marythor.bsky.social, author of A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME, available for pre-order now: bit.ly/4r1u8KU Listen to the podcast here: bit.ly/4bazv4n Patreon subscriptions start at $5/month!

Piglet Delivers Piglet was still hungover when he got to Pooh’s house. Not even the morning breeze dancing through the few remaining trees around...

It's been out for a couple of weeks and I'm still shouting about it: my story "Piglet Delivers" in @apexmag.bsky.social is my (dark?) take on Piglet, Pooh, Kanga, Owl, Rabbit, Eeyore and the Hundred Acre Wood.
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Screenshot of a Facebook memory that says “on this day 6 years ago” and the post has a purple background of cats lounging with text over it that says “good morning I just had a dream a cat was leading a seminar for raccoons called ‘Domesticate Yourself for Fun and Profit’”

Happy anniversary to this dream

Next class from @rhppress.bsky.social !!

www.dognameddogpress.com

My latest story Burning Shadows came out this week in Dog Named Dog Quarterly. Lot of creative fiction inside. You can pick it up here.
a.co/d/0dRvqR7Z

Women in Horror: Gwendolyn Kiste The author of The Haunting of Velkwood discusses horror and horror writing

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I have an interview with @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social, and she talks about her new book with @rdspress.bsky.social, THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN:

open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

Getting It Right: Research, History, and Writing Crime Fiction Nick Kolakowski leads a Rock and a Hard Place Press course on using research in fiction. 3.15 - 4.12. Live Zoom + Discord. $200.

GETTING IT RIGHT: Balance telling stories that honor the truth while still being entertaining as hell. A 5-week online course with @nkolakowski.bsky.social on avoiding info-dumps and making your writing shine. Class starts March 15th, sign up today:

Fantastic collection of stories. Highly recommended

Guinness the black cat sits on a cupboard, gazing regally upwards. The photo is taken from a low angle, emphasizing his tallness and majesty.

BEHOLD ME

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Escape Pod 1035: We Who Live in the Heart (Part 1 of 3) Ricci slipped in and out of consciousness as we carried her to the anterior sinus and strapped her into her hammock. Her eyelids drooped but she kept forcing them wide. After we finished tucking her…

Fresh today @escapepod.org, my story WE WHO LIVE IN THE HEART, delightfully narrated by Ibba Armancas
escapepod.org/2026/03/05/e...

Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights? - Nightmare Magazine The Idiot looms like a tumorous moon in the morning sky as Morris County Animal Control Officer Bailey Butler passes Stantonsville’s last operating gas station and turns off onto Franklin Road. For a ...

For your weekend reading - my new story about a small town civil servant just trying to find her neighbor’s dog … while an eldritch abomination floats like a mountain of diseased flesh in the sky and its shadow poisons the land. Fun! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/will...

Punk Noir Press The Only Crime Is Getting Caught

Punk Noir Press's online series, "Find what you love and let it kill you," kicked off today with wistful, witty, memorable stories by some terrific authors, including @carlottadale.bsky.social and @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social. Don't miss it!!

punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...

CRONE.
9/22/26 via Random House.
Cover by Aarushi Menon.
Preorders live now.

US: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760819...
Signed/inscribed copies: broadwaybooks.net/book/9780593...
UK: www.waterstones.com/book/crone/9...

STONE'S THROW IN MARCH: They say you don't know someone until you go on a trip with them. Find out more in this month's killer story from C.E Ó Conaing: bit.ly/4u3g1HI

Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

Submissions for the next issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge open soon. From March 15-21 is reserved for writers of color; from March 22 until April 15 is general submissions for everybody. We are looking for speculative fiction up to 5,000 words. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Thank you so much for this review, @kjcharleswriter.com!

Locus Awards Announces Guest of Honor Stephen Graham Jones locusmag.com/2026/03...

Issue 40 | New Flash Fiction Review Featuring new work by Nadia Born, Bethany Bruno, Sherry Duggal, Rachel Hollis, Tess Kelly, Rosaleen Lynch, Patience Mackarness, Mandira Pattnaik, Tarmo Rajasaari, and Rob Walton.

It's here 🎉 Welcome to Issue 40, with brilliant stories from:

@nadiaborn.com, Bethany Bruno, Sherry Duggal,
@rachelmhollis.bsky.social Tess Kelly, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
@patiencemackarness.bsky.social @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social Tarmo Rajasaari & Rob Walton

newflashfiction.com/issue-40/

Often short story collections don't even get reviewed so we were especially excited when THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN received a starred review from Library Journal! You can read the full review here: www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-h...

A Women's Guide To True Crime | Rock and a Hard Place Press Get more from Rock and a Hard Place Press on Patreon

I got to hang out with @marythor.bsky.social and @smccaffery.bsky.social on the @rhppress.bsky.social Patreon podcast, where we talked about Mary’s new collection, A WOMANS GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME. It was very fun, and we promise you’ll enjoy listening to it!
www.patreon.com/posts/womens...

Elizabeth's essay really delves into the way our culture fails to see women's voices as authoritative, important, or deeply relevant -- and why that makes it so hard for women to be as read within the horror genre.

Need a read for Women in Horror month? GIRL IN THE CREEK is excellent!