Marissa van Uden

yay! so happy to hear you all had a good turnout. Hope you enjoy the antho! 💚🌿

The anthology ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction held in front of a bookshelf. Cover is black with a large otherworldly pink flowering plant.

Finally got my hands on ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction 🌱

they look so cute!!!

MAGICAL PAPERCRAFTS!
all inspired by this magical book 🖤✨

This is one of the creepiest climbs you will ever go on.
Don't say i didn't warn you!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

ahh love seeing these pics! This was such a cool idea for a salon. What a gorgeous spot

Six books arranged on warm hardwood floor: The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise, When Things Get Dark edited by Ellen Datlow, Experimental Film by Gemma Files, Errantry by Elizabeth Hand, Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, and Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

A happy start to Women in Horror Month! #WiHM

The craft wizards at Apex never fail! Please make these paper crafts! And show them off if you do!

violetlichenbooks's giveaway for The Cellar Below the Cellar: A Folk Horror Novella on The StoryGraph Violet Lichen Books, an imprint of Apex Book Company, is excited to offer copies of The Cellar...

UHH so to our shock and delight, CELLAR is currently the 2nd most entered giveaway on @thestorygraph.com!! 🎉🌌 If you're interested in a free copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's upcoming folk horror (or you just want to steal the top spot from Wuthering Heights) giveaway's open until March 18th!

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These are so beautiful! I can't believe the magical treats our marketing manager creates, & with so much love!
If you review or journal about your reads, you can grab one of these enchanted lil book-review zines for free!
Print out the template and add some whimsical magic to your next reviews 💜

ICYMI: Writers and Books is hosting a Speculative Fiction Salon Feb. 28th! 🌱🌈📚 "Be part of the conversation that’s making contemporary fiction evermore interesting, relevant, and necessary to creating a better, more sustainable earth for all."

💻 wab.org/event/eco24-...

👥 wab.org/event/eco24-...

Promo graphic for the Apex Reader's Choice Awards announcing "Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares (me!) won for original fiction. The background is a colorful outer space scene and the alien Apex logo is on the right side.

Aahh! "Ghosts of Summer" won the Apex Reader's Choice Award for original fiction!!! 🥹☺️

Thank you so much to @apexmag.bsky.social for giving my story its home. And to all the readers-your support and delight for this story means the world. Thank you!💖

they're so good!! i just got mine as well (to add to my collection of apex hoodies i wear to death lol)

A woman with wavy dark hair stands with her back to the camera wearing a black sweatshirt with white print: strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful surrounding an alien head with mushrooms growing out of it.

Thanks to @apexmag.bsky.social for this awesome hoodie! I’ll be wearing it everywhere now 👽🍄

this is gonna be SOO FUUUN! Fantastic group of people to celebrate the launch of a very special book 🫶🥄💀🫑✨
Grab your ticket!

"Interview with Author Maria Haskins By Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine, Issue 152"

"What surprised me when I wrote that story was the way it fought back. . . . When I finally found the right ending, it was a lot quieter than I had expected." 🥊🖊️

New interview by @marissavu.bsky.social: "Interview with Author @mariahaskins.com"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

A small secret for anyone who has read this far: the book after this one will be an anthology of queer botanical horror. Still workshopping the title, but perhaps something venomous.

There's a slight genre-hopping pattern we've been following, a bit fantasy to scifi to horror and back again.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

I've loved these characters my whole my life and writing this story, and re-reading Milne's books, reminded me why that love has lingered. OK, so maybe I'm not a big fan of Kanga, but I have more understanding for her now than I did as a kid...

please, whatever you are doing, stop and read this story.
You are not ready, but you won't regret it. Promise.

The image shows a close up of a pale grey sweatshirt bearing a version of Apex Magazine's logo in white. The logo shows an alien head being colonized by mushrooms under the slogan Strange Surreal Shocking Beautiful.

A very cozy looking sweatshirt from @apexmag.bsky.social arrived in today's mail! I look forward to wearing it while I drink from my Apex mug, possibly even while writing my next Apex review column!

BOOK GIVEAWAY!
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This interview was so fun! So happy to learn about PLM's special interest in fairy tales, and v excited the idea of either @ivygrimes.bsky.social or @carsonwinter.bsky.social writing a Pied Piper X J R0gan retelling. I NEED TO READ THIS
(Pied Piper is one of my faves too 👀)

FOR YOUR WEIRD LOVERS!
Pick your favorite, make their weird little day 🖤

and the forthcoming Cellar below the cellar—I do recommend everything Grimes!

if you'd like to read & review this nasty bundle of stories early, now's your chance! 🥩✨️ it'll make you one of the first people to see all of the artwork & one of the first to read a collection-exclusive original story, which i think is cool

We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest.

We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.

Unsettled Nature Once were a time on a jackalope when folks kept their thinking to themselves. People lived, and people died, natural-like, in...

in all this blathering about AI being (insert whatever it is today), i wanna talk a bit about my most recent short story publication which i'm linking below. it's called "Unsettled Nature" and it's in @apexmag.bsky.social

the voice in it is something i worked on SO HARD to be "western noir"

ctd