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Screenshot of a book cover showing an illustration of a crow perched on an "ICE" jacket lying in the middle of a snow-lined road under the light of a full moon. The cover reads "ICE Out " by Charles de Lint. Text to the right of the cover reads "ICE came to Newford. Big mistake." and "Download for free!"

Urban fantasy author Charles de Lint just published a new "novelet" and released it for free, his stories of myth and magic and community and found family are full of so much love and hope and we could all use some of that right now

www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html

A noir-toned background image of a rainy city skyscape, birds flying with a backdrop of smeared neon lights, with a detective standing on a rooftop in long coat and hat with one arm raised. Right-justified text on the image reads "open call for novellas, opens: 4.01.26, closes: 4.30.26." The Ruadán Books logo is centered above the text.

We're opening to novella manuscripts on 4/1/26! We're looking for dark thrillers, crime noir, & dark speculative fiction—if you've got a complete novella (25k-40k words) that fits, we want to hear from you.

Submission guidelines coming soon: links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs

#WriterSky #AuthorSky

Best is relative. Go to thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
And search for publications by genre, word count, and pay scale.

This Friday at 7pm at Bold Coffee & Books in Portland, I’ll be reading about my royal silkie chicken! Come here me and other awesome authors like @meganleebees.bsky.social and @shedric.bsky.social

Plott Hound Magazine is open to submissions!

Short stories, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and our new category RETOLD TALES (reprint fiction up to 10,000 words).

If you're writing animal, we'd love to see it.

plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...

From St Louis for 4

The writing. I don't recognize the person

#4 looks like David Harvey or Harris maybe?

Our call for our CL Moore tribute issue opens today! Guidelines here: https://bit.ly/4iA6H8u

Your post & website submission guidelines say up to 10,000 words for retold tails , but the Moksha submission says the limit is 5000 words for the reprint category and rejects any word count over 5000.

Is this a technical glitch or are reprints capped at 5000, too?

What a week it’s been! I had a new story release, my second in February, and I turned 46 yesterday.

The billionaire philanthropist making hundreds of Londoners homeless He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

I cannot recommend enough reading these 3 pieces in order from @jim.londoncentric.media and his team. Unbelievable story and reporting. This is what journalism is for.

1. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
2. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
3. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

It's really a regional/generational thing here and perhaps not surprisingly usually at places with seaside boardwalks - thinking of you Coney Island - and the like. Vinegar is not a ubiquitous condiment across the US

Sitting around, waiting for polyurethane to dry...

One of these days I'm going to do a thread about how my writing "process" is a lot like my approach to refinishing projects - one being I leave space at the start for a lot different possibilities and they narrow as the project nears completion

digital painting of an anthropomorphic White Park bull. He wears a sharp three-piece suit.

The star of my little story in Animal Noir, Ian.

Kaleidotrope will re-open to fiction and poetry submissions on April 19. (It's currently open to artwork submissions.)

I should say that stories accepted this year have a very good chance of being published next year. Meanwhile, poems accepted this year might be published as early as this year.

Vintage Books Live! Reads Animal Noir YouTube video by Vintage Books

Last night's reading for Animal Noir was essentially a virtual launch event. It was so fun. The snippets of stories everyone read were unique and tantalizing. I haven't read the book yet myself, but it's up next on my TBR.

But I encourage you to take a look and listen to the recording below.

YouTube video by Vintage Books Vintage Books Live! Reads Animal Noir

Yesterday was pub day for Animal Noir anthology& @vintagebookshop.bsky.social hosted readings by a bunch of authors. Give a watch to see if any of these crimes butter your bread:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MuqS...

You might find these teasers are the bees knees, maybe discover a new Sam for your Spade

Argh. Spent so much time fighting autocorrect on Fanilae, then on Kaleidotrope that I missed it turning Luvs into Live.

It's Courtnee Luvs Rock Stars.

I do know the titles of my own stories I swear I do

Happy to be on this list and if you want to read the stories, they're:
Courtney Live Rock Stars
Emma Media Res and
Friend of the Fanilae

Find all Kaleidotrope's authors & their stories at
kaleidotrope.net/archives/all...

New story out today! "Wolves Always Howl Twice" where a rabbit PI gets the client of their dreams and a nightmare of a case

books2read.com/animalnoir

The origin of Animal Noir is a strange one. It started with some silly jokes about killer geese on a Discord server until someone said, "Hey this could be a book." Well, that silly dream has become reality. This book features my story, "Two Sides of the Truth."

Amazon link below:
a.co/d/02llNY8I

Tomorrow is today!

Even cats use the metric system

Vintage Books Live! Reads Animal Noir | Vintage Books Vintage Books is part of a thriving small business community in Vancouver, WA. We offer community-focused activities such as book clubs, author signings, and other events.   Vancouver's local ind...

Reminder that this is happening tomorrow (Tuesday) night.

A pen and ink illustration of an anthropomorphic rabbit in a suit, holding the skull of a small rodent in one raised hand. The rabbit has splatters of blood on her shirt and face. The text reads "Animal Noir, The Perfect Victim, by megan lee bees"

The front cover of an anthology reading Animal Noir: anthropomorphic noir mysteries, edited by Elizabeth Mitchell. The cover has a number of photographed animal heads superimposed over human bodies in limited pallets, with a muted city scape behind them

My wicked rabbit makes her debut in Animal Noir, out tomorrow with Little Key Press!! That skull is her writing partner and accomplice, and they'll do anything for the cat she loves.

Submissions Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes two speculative stories per month. Night Shades is OPEN I'll let you know when we're closing! Night Shades opens sporadically and for in...

🛸🛸 big news 🛸🛸

just updated the guidelines. for a lot of reasons i can get into later, NS is switching to 2 stories a month (instead of 4) but that means

🛸🛸 rates are going up 🛸🛸

NS now pays $75 flat for a max of 500 words. that’s min. $0.15/w

NS IS 🛸OPEN🛸

www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

A minimalist commission of a maned wolf!

Swooping back in with the deets on our two THEMED issues of the year! Tell a friend who would write the hell out of these 🔥🔥🔥

fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/