Lucy A. Snyder

Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Inside the Modern Rise of Feminist Horror Novels—and Why We’re Drawn to Them With horror sales spiking, feminist titles are casting a spell.

Great to see SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER mentioned here!
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HOME | Grand Rapids Comic Con Comic and popular arts convention to be held on on November 14-16 at the DeVos Place in downtown GR!

On Friday, November 14th, I’ll be appearing at Grand Rapids Comic Con as one of their literary guests. I'll also be presenting a solo panel on writing horror. If you’re attending the convention, please drop by and say “Hi!”

www.grcomiccon.com

Halloween Horror Fest graphic.

Halloween Horror Fest at The Book Loft of German Village! Please join me and authors @themordashin.bsky.social, @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, Jason A. Wyckoff, and @mattbettsauthor.bsky.social at @thebookloft.bsky.social (631 S 3rd St, Columbus, OH 43206) on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 6:00pm.

Ohio Horror Writers Spooktacular Celebrate spooky season with the Ohio Horror Writers Association! Join us for a day of terrifying tales and spectacular stories.

Learn more and register for the event here:

events.columbuslibrary.org/event/14790510

Join me, @dmguay.bsky.social, @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social, @sarahhans.bsky.social, and many other area horror writers at the @columbuslibrary.bsky.social this Saturday, October 25th at noon!

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There's a word that's woefully underused to describe a certain type of poster who's common on Facebook, Nextdoor, etc.

Coprolite.

It's the scientific word for an old, fossilized piece of shit.

Usage: "A coprolite popped up to say that if we really had a king, we wouldn't be allowed to protest."

For those who are curious: yes, I am working on a sequel to SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER. It will continue the stories of Savannah and Mareva, and a very minor character from the first novel will play a big role in this one.

Working title is IN THE BONES OF A SUNDERED WORLD.

I started learning guitar, partly through books/videos but I'm also taking a small group class that meets once a week.

Please feel free to share your favorite beginner's guitar resources in comments!

Halloween - Twisted Tales Books Celebrate Halloween season with the BEST discounts from your favorite horror authors! Available from October 1-31, 2025.

Get HALLOWEEN SEASON by @lucyasnyder.bsky.social on sale!

"Full of charm and subtle humor, this collection of 15 Halloween-themed stories from Bram Stoker Award winner Lucy A. Snyder scares and delights in equal measure." —Publishers Weekly twistedtalesbooks.com/halloween/

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A Bookshop with Bite On a stretch of 15th Avenue that’s seen many reincarnations, a new bookstore has emerged from the shadows. Haunted Burrow Books, which opened in June near the former QFC-turned-Punk Rock Flea Market, ...

It's nice to see my novel Sister, Maiden, Monster featured at this shop:

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Twisted tales promo cover

My book HALLOWEEN SEASON is on sale over at Twisted Tales until the end of the month!

twistedtalesbooks.com/halloween/

Reminder: tomorrow, my fellow horror writers and I will be selling our books outside the Bite This by Annie Bakery in the Short North. If you can, stop by 3009 N. High Street, Columbus Ohio during the bakery's hours. We would love to see you and help you find the perfect book for spooky season.

A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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on the topic of amazing body horror written by women:

I just finished “Sister, Maiden, Monster” by @lucyasnyder.bsky.social and I lovveddd it. Definitely recommend, good spooky season read for sure

sex workers BDSM transfem characters elder gods medical gaslighting…that book has everything 😍

Where did you go?

Thanks for the heads up! (I've been following this for a while.) Yeah, they stole most of my books. 😡

No Idea What We’ll Name It: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 1) - Reactor Snyder's 2023 novel starts with a new pandemic — one that leaves some survivors craving brains...

My novel SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER is under the microscope in the "Reading the Weird" column over at @reactorsff.bsky.social:

reactormag.com/no-idea-what...

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing: Fiction The Creative Writing at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in Fiction. Desirable additional subspecialties include s...

A new tenure track fiction job at Oberlin, deadline of 9/15/2025. jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16771

Sister, Maiden, Monster book cover

If you read Sister, Maiden, Monster, and you liked it ... what did you like about it?

Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.

Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Just had a literary festival try to assuage my concerns about their workshop with a “decolonially trained AI” by assuring me the AI isn’t getting paid for their session, as if my concern was grounded in the pay scale for the robots

Fuck this and fuck this festival.

Samuel L. Jackson stars in a new Vattenfall ad for wind power, countering Trump's nonsense tirades against "windmills".

This coming weekend (July 12-13) find me in the Ohio HWA tent (#79) at the Columbus Book Festival. The festival is free & runs from 10am-6pm Saturday and 10am-5pm Sunday. A HUGE number of authors will be at the festival.

www.columbusbookfestival.org

I am doing my best to make a sequel happen!

Grimdark Magazine Issue #43 is here! In Issue Grimdark Magazine #43, we’re bringing you stories that stretch the boundaries of storytelling—brutal, bold, and absolutely soaked in the shadows of grimdark worlds.

My cosmic horror/detective noir short story “Death Beneath the Dread Sleeper” appears in the latest edition of Grimdark Magazine.

www.grimdarkmagazine.com/grimdark-mag...