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Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.

You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

I am slowly updating our new website... I have a lot of titles with a lot of info to add. But here is our Horror Catalog page with the different categories. More titles to add in the coming days!

www.lethepressbooks.com/horror

Celebrating the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Celebrating my picks from the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists

Celebrating my personal picks from the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists, including:

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#books #lammys #LGBTQIA #lesbian #transgender

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This is so cool!!! THANK YOU!!!! I hope you enjoy WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT! It was the most fun I've ever had on any creative project. I'm extremely proud of it :-)

At a meeting of wealthy, well-connected women in LA in 1943, one woman called for the city’s Jews to be “hung from lampposts within 5 years.” Another suggested that forced sterilization was the best way to deal with “the Jewish problem.” This transpired at a meeting of the CA Women’s Republican Club

@robertgarcia.bsky.social: "We can't just take what Ghislaine Maxwell says on her word. She's a known liar. We must have the files and all the information so that anything she says can be then corroborated with what was in the files that the White House is now clearly trying to hide and cover up."

Yay!!! Congratulations!!! That’s awesome!

A screenshot from the Library Journal website showing Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, under the Horror section of reviews. Marked as from Titan, releasing September 2025, 336 pages, and then showing the beginning of the review with a red star at its opening. "In this collection of 13 stories, Piper (A Game in Yellow) taps into the rage and terror that are part of being a teenage girl. She transforms this storm of feelings into magic and power while acknowledging that this time is filled with new monsters and fears. In “The Long Flesh of the Law"

I'm stunned this morning to see TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS got a STARRED REVIEW in Library Journal 🤩

With shout-outs to brand new stories "The Long Flesh of the Law" and "Magical Girls Child Crusader Squad" + Benny Rose himself 😈 out September 16 from Titan!

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Congratulations!!!

Cover of The Dark. A swimmer plunges limbs up through water in shades of blue, what looks to be an empty swimming pool.

Hello, it’s happened, one of my long time writer goals has been achieved: my story “The Ocean Vomits What We Discard” (orig published in The Off-Season) is in the August issue of The Dark!

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew

OMG, could you imagine??? That would be something, lol!

Agreed... :-)

Thank you, Hailey!

Thanks so much!!! I will be forever grateful for all the love and support you guys showed to me and this book! ❤️

Thank you!!!🤩❤️

Thanks so much!!! 😊

Thank you, Emma!

New Novel “Girl in the Creek” Mixes Small-Town Murder Mystery With Body Horror Oregon writer Wendy N. Wagner captures the eerie spirit of the Pacific Northwest.

My book was too much for the staff reviewer at the local alt-weekly.
TOO GROSS? I'LL TAKE IT!!!

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Announcing the Finalists for the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards This year marks 37 years

I've been sitting on this news for weeks, but now I can finally shout it from the rooftop... WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT is a finalist for a 2025 Lammy Award in the LGBTQ+ Anthology category!

Congrats to all the finalists!

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15. Brown shall maintain merit-based admissions policies. Brown may not, by any means, preference applicants based on race, color, or national origin in admissions throughout its programs. No proxy for racial admission will be tolerated. Brown may not use personal statements, diversity narratives, or any applicant reference to racial identity as a means to introduce or justify discrimination.

Brown has agreed that "No proxy for racial admission will be tolerated."

So if it does not immediately eliminate legacy admission preferences, you will know it is an explicitly white supremacist institution.

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👋 Me! Thank you!

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

Immaculate Is Pro-Choice Weird right wing Sydney Sweeney fans don’t want to hear it.

sydney sweeney's most obvious political statement was a movie about how the patriarchy is evil and women should control their own bodies. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/immaculate...

Read OUT Loud Press Release Read OUT Loud Contact Information: Jeannie Regan (she/her) jeannieregan.mail@gmail.com Emily L. (they/them) sorryimallbooked88@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/readoutloud4ever Release Date: July ...

This weekend Read OUT Loud as part of a national day of action to support Queer Kids Books. Find in-person events near you or sign up to participate in an online action!

Historian Joseph Fronczak has described the political culture of fascism as “participatory anti-democracy.” It captures the pleasure that people like Mace take from watching people’s rights get trampled upon by the boots of her own government.

Holy shit.

I want to say something more profound, but all I've got is... holy shit.

After the wrapping up the whirlwind of launching a book into the world, I am now entering the grimly depressed post-launch zone, where you watch your novel slowly sink into the ocean of all the other books in the world, soon to be forgotten.
The only solution is to focus on writing something new!

According to sportswriter Rick Reilly, "At Winged Foot, where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for him: 'Pele.'”