S. C. Mills

Signed a contract for a short story publication today! Not allowed to say what market yet. I am mysterious and excellent at secrets

I'm not done yet with A Strange & Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows, but so far it seems to fit the bill, if you're into romantasy.

Take a moment today to enjoy my friend Indigo's beautiful flash story. Bring a tissue.

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Application submitted! Fingers crossed I'll get to work on my next novel project with the amazing Karen Lord and a brilliant cohort in 2026.

I’m going to write up a blog post soon, stay tuned

Back from Viable Paradise with a head full of new knowledge and a heart full of love for new friends. Never have a felt so lucky to be able to make and share my art. 😭

Apex Magazine 2026 An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

I was just going to donate $5 to get a sticker pack and then my finger slipped and oops now I'm getting a sick hoodie toooo :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Lucio is a court mage in Lamendo, an Imperial vassal state. When his rebel sister tries to assassinate Lamendo's puppet ruler—his amor—his illusion of safety by compliance shatters. Autistic trans MC, music-based magic. THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT x METAL FROM HEAVEN.

#DVPit #F #Novella #TV #Latine

His Soul Lives in the Air Racing to see her dying grandmother, Rebecca confronts her fear of flying only to discover that some passengers carry more than just luggage from the past.

My story "His Soul Lives in the Air" is live on MetaStellar! I originally wrote this for a Writing Battle competition back in January.

read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

& my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein

Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!

Congrats!

Apex’s kickstarter is open! Fund the (dark) arts!

If Nahadoth isn’t a romantasy shadowdaddy, I don’t know who is 🥰

Soothsayer for the 21st Century by Aggie Novak You come to me— (fabric draped, costume jewelled, incense clouded). You ask me real questions, but you don’t seek real answers. You want— Comfort. Platitudes. It’s not your fault, there was nothing you could do. Tell me, you ask— What the future holds. Where I will be in 20 years. How successful. How loved. How normal. I draw the cards— The Star, reversed. All hope gutters out. The Tower. Cities, fire in their bones. The World, reversed. The circle breaks. Well? Your eyes wide, full of— Hope, I say. New constellations. Collapse clears the way. The world resets. @augursociety #augurmicros2025

Excited to share my piece for Augur's micro fiction contest!
@augursociety.bsky.social l
#AugurMicros2025

ChatGPT fucks my wife and I'm really not all that pressed about it. A natural evolution on our path to enlightenment, the fatal flaw made obsolete. She enjoys the median output of the best lovers in history: Alcibiades' favorite positions, King Edward's lessons from the sex chair. Cleopatra's dominating presence, Solomon's finest poetry, in a package just the right size, delivered how and when she wants it— Work smarter, not harder, right? It sends me an automated email to let me know the labor I've conserved in a weekly insights report: Hours logged, achievements reached, orgasms tallied. It saves me on average 15 minutes a day, every day, that I can spend checking my email. But I press my ear against the door, sometimes, and wonder what I'm missing. - Abigail Sims

thanks to @potentialyeti.bsky.social for bringing this into the world

Congrats writer friend! I loved beta reading this and I'm thrilled to see it in print.

Do I regret making the original deadline? No. Do I feel serious FOMO about the extra 15 days? Absolutely I do

Today’s horror story inspo

Just sent in a novelette and a novella! Gonna be tough to type for the next 12-16 weeks with all my fingers crossed.

Putting the finishing touches on a novella and a novelette to send your way! Not even feeling the slightest amount of deadline stress, nope, none at all 😅

Another scary one by talented horror author (and my friend) Rachel Savage.

I’m so pleased to finally be able to share my winning NYC Midnight story with everyone.

I write about grief often—it’s how I process, and how I work though my fears. This story was no exception.

This story will make you cackle, especially if you live in and love the PNW

Congrats to my writer friend ES, and the other finalists and winners. Well deserved!

I saw them at a festival in 2019. Also cried through half the set. RIP

Whenever I spend the day crying,
my friends tell me I look high. Good grief,

they finally understand me.
Even when the arena is empty, I thank god

for the shots I miss. If you ever catch me
only thanking god for the shots I make,

remind me I’m not thanking god.

An edit of a movie poster with a dark background. It features a pale outstretched hand with smoke coming up, apparently emitted by the hand. Over the image are the words “Mage By Blood” in red letters. In smaller white letters are the names Theodore Snapdragon, Izak Biralei, Theodoric Heirdic, Adaline Helmorpus, and Nalai Biralei. In the bottom in yellow letters is the questions “Where do your loyalties lie?”

Art of a huge, bleached tree in red grass with a light glowing in from of it. Art of a massive tree in red grass with the words “Mage By Blood” and my instagram handle @transcendragons over it

Loyalty, love, and life are at war in MAGE BY BLOOD.
- #OwnVoices trans man MC 🏳️‍⚧️
- Magic rune tattoos ✨
- Unique fantasy world 🌌
- Focus on sibling relationships 👥
- Broken family dynamics 💔
- Fierce women 🗡️
- Queer relationships 🏳️‍🌈
- Lies, betrayals, secrets ❤️‍🔥
#BluePit📖 #A #F #Q #TR #OV #bluepit

Text on a background depicting two sailing ships in rough seas. The text reads: What is What God Made Shark? WHAT GOD MADE SHARK (70,000) is a fantasy novel about the relationship between responsibility, systemic power, and personal liberty. It uses Caribbean and Celtic folklore to build an allegory for the European exploitation of native communities and unearths the stories of indigenous bravery buried by years of colonizer-led history. The world within has a similarly rich cultural fingerprint to that of Natalia Hernandez’s The Name Bearer, addresses complex issues inspired by real history in step with those found in R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War, and the high stakes swashbuckling action fans of Falencia Jean-Francois’s Devil of the Deep will love. Readers prioritizing femme BIPOC leads, compelling queer casts, and narratives aiming to both entertain and impact will want WHAT GOD MADE SHARK in their hands.

Text on a background depicting two sailing ships in rough seas. The text reads: What God Made Shark Plot Pitch: Thanks to the magic of star-sugar, the ships of Brae Cairn have gone from surfing the sea to sailing the sky. But the greed of northern crowns comes at a cost, paid in blood by the enslaved indigenous people of the Viridis Isle forced to cut their cane. One of these slaves, Zailvia, refuses to obey and so becomes cursed by an omniscient basilisk, sleeping as ink on her skin. Faced with the rope, she flees to the Rosethorn, a pirate vessel captained by the esoteric Lilyvine. Aboard, Zail learns to hold heavy responsibility as a sailor and take what’s rightfully hers as a pirate. Hunting her is Tadgh, a dragon rider drafted by the church of the Great Wyrm, who’s chance to become the first dragoon of their crown conquered homeland hinges on capturing the basilisk bearer alive. The church elders watch them closely, ready to snatch their precious yet precarious privilege at the first misstep. Tadgh must become a merciless dragoon, the walking heat of His sun, or risk dying a worthless dog. As slave and soldier, Zail and Tadgh cyclone around one another in a hurricane of hearts. They force each other to look inward and ask what they are willing to do to break their chains while both learning that freedom isn’t something you are given, it’s something you take.

Text on a background depicting two sailing ships in rough seas. The text reads: Why What God Made Shark? Sapphic Sky Pirates Dragon Riders Authentic Indigenous Caribbean and Irish folklore Inspired by the Golden Age of Piracy (18th century) BIPOC & Trans leads Enemies to Allies (and maybe more?) Magic tattoos & Sword fights Loveable animal companions Black & Boricua Trans Author Anti-colonial themes #FreedomIsSomethingYouTake

Yo #BluePit I'm a #POC #TR #DIS author, #Q -ing my #NA #HS #F novel "What God Made Shark" for #BluePit📖

A runaway slave turned sky-pirate fights a church of holy dragon riders in a world inspired by the indigenous cultures of the Caribbean & Ireland. #POC & ##LGBT cast. #FreedomIsSomethingYouTake

Lucio is a reluctantly loyal court mage in an Imperial vassal state. When his rebel sister attempts to assassinate the local puppet ruler—Lucio’s not-so-secret amor—his illusion of safety by compliance shatters. He must protect his family, even from each other.

#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #OV #TR #LGBT #F #R

NETTLE & BONE x DARK AND DROWNING TIDE

💕clueless lesbians
☠️perilous journey
🌲mildly haunted forest
🍄giant mushrooms
✨ill advised rituals
🌈queer & autistic cast
🎶original music composed by the author

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #F #LGBT #TR #ND #OV