Melissa Ren

Can*Con is done, but another event looms! In Toronto!

Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!

Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉 Amazing news!

This is my longest (and favorite) story out this year. Would love if you checked it out 🙏

What if you could relive your favorite memories through a haircut? What if you were the one cutting the hair? This is a story about class, intergenerational trauma, and how far we’d go for the perfect cut.

We did! And I left you a little something with Erin!

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!

This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.

In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook

Available wherever books are sold.

#booksky #Blackbooksky

Issue 40 of The Deadlands, guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, cover art by Carly A-F, a golden maze of coins stretches toward a skull against a scarlet sky.

Have you SEEN this issue? Come grab it in digital for $2, or print for $5. www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

It was so great to see you! Though, too fleeting! Thank you for everything! ❤️

It was great to see you Arley!

Thats chill 😅

Oh, I see my name too. Did not know this either. 😅

BRANDON!

I'm a big fan of Terese and I can't wait to read all the stories in this book. Canlit and Canspec should get right behind this. A speculative anthology filled with Black writers from Canada?

Let's go.

We are getting close to @canconsffh.bsky.social and I am taking a moment to say that I have the best crew anyone could ever ask for. Ever. Lemme go on for a bit. You need to know how amazing they are, and they deserve it to be seen.

My unhinged literary opinion is that you should buy all my small press and indie pub friends books.

ALL.

we are ECSTATIC!! congratulations on your Ignyte win @shingai-be-like.bsky.social!!! 🖤🙌💀

Congratulations! 🙌 🎉

Neeeeeed

Last book of '25 is by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social + a cast of collaborators incl The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee & Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou.

Pre-order now with UK Saver Shipping to save £! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Congrats Eva! So well deserved. 🎉

Donate to Help Eva get to a life-changing writing workshop!, organized by Eva Roslin Hey everyone! I'm Eva Roslin (she/they), a queer, disabled horror and da… Eva Roslin needs your support for Help Eva get to a life-changing writing workshop!

Hi everyone! I've been accepted to the once-in-a-lifetime writing workshop Under the Volcano, in January, in Mexico! I'm raising funds to help cover tuition, lodging, and airfare. If you are able to donate or boost the signal, thank you! www.gofundme.com/f/53fw2-help...

These comps though... 😵

Secrets and murder 👀👀👀

GREY GARDENS IN SPACE 😵

NEED!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

ICYMI I finally dove back into my newsletter, in which I talk about my novella's birthday, @psychopomp.com awesomeness, and some most excellent short fiction recommendations.

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Omg this looks incredible

Sorry I missed this msg! Thanks Nicole! 🙌 ❤️

Cyberpunk love... ♥️

Obsessed.