Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is snowbound

Reading lists, awards, discounts, and new project updates.

The latest Essential Dreams Newsletter just dropped! The amazing Julia Deridder, intern and assistant editor extraordinaire, is back at. Sharing all our news and all her enthusiam with the world. She truly is amazing.
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I'm trying to actually enjoy the moment! Milestones like this are few and far between. And it was literally lockdown when I was a finalist for the Lambda Award (my only other finalist moment). We were all homebound and more than a little distracted!

My Bram Stoker Award finalist page just went up. All of a sudden, this feels way more real.
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Plans with good friends fell through for tomorrow night, which means I get to watch SNL and Connor Storrie. Emotional conflict resolved!

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

So totally this. The loss isn’t just how it impacts me. It’s that the individual is no longer living their life. There is some basic “ick factor” about assuming we can recreate a person’s persona with all of its contradictions AND pretending their lack of existence isn’t the central point.

Hurray! I had such a blast writing a story for this! What a complete circuit of loving and being influenced by Tanith Lee’s works in my teens and 20s, and then getting to write a story in her honor in my 40s!

One of the things They don't tell you is that a lot of being creative involves wondering whether or not you're screaming into the void. And a lot more of it is realising that as long as you're screaming, that's the point. And a lot of the rest of it is working out if you're singing or screaming

I borrowed the book from my local library. I find OSC all sorts of problematic, but this book challenged my imagination in the best possible way. The fact that Jane Eyre was my favorite novel at that age doesn’t seem in the least contradictory to me. I wanted to live lives entirely unlike my own.

A decade ago, I started trying to track down a novel I read when I was twelve that has never entirely left me. Today, I finally rediscovered the author and title! The 1980 Orson Scott Card novel A Planet Called Treason. It had a trans protagonist, parthenogenesis, & a surreal delirium section.

I’m experimenting with the air fried. Clearly, it’s a snow day! (I honestly barely ever cook.)

My short story "Zugunruhe" is in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! Thrilled to see the anthology on the final ballet for a Bram Stoker award!

Thanks, Cat! 🎊

Thanks, Kevin!

Thanks, John!

Publishers Weekly says “This passionate and playful anthology is both a fitting tribute to a master and an enchanting compendium in its own right.” 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List. 2025 Bram Stoker Award Finalist

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The 2025 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. Superior Achievement in an Anthology listing, including Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology.

Shocking. Amazing. Thrilling. And that’s just the Blizzard of 2026! I’m so damn happy and grateful to see Storyteller is a finalist for the Stokers! @carinabissett.bsky.social @ethereallad.bsky.social

The front cover of REMAINS issue 4.

The back cover of REMAINS issue 4, with the titles and contributor names: 'HEAVYNESS' SEÁN PADRAIC BIRNIE 'HEARSTEN LAKE' KAY 'STATION TO STATION' STEPHEN BACON 'DEVELOPMENT CONVERSATION' STEPHEN "THE BABY' ANNIE NEUGEBAUER 'SCISSORS, PAPER, ROCK' CRAIG 'THE BLOCK' STEVE TOASE 'THE RETURN OF BENNY STORAX' JOHN POSSIDENTE and 'LETTERS FROM NEW AMERICA' JAMES SALLIS

The opening spread of my story ‘Heavyness’, illustrated with a a tired-looking woman lying on her back, a hand laid across her forehead, by Richard Wagner. The first paragraph of the story reads: 1. PREFATORY REMARKS - MY SISTER'S DEATH - OUR ENVIRONS On the Tuesday I collected my sister's ashes from the funeral directors on Lewes Road. That it was an ordinary Tuesday, overcast and constantly on the verge of rain, felt remarkable. It seemed that a change so immense in implication for my own affairs should somehow mark the world beyond it, as if Esther had borne a Royal title and grand formal displays of mourning ought to have interrupted the course of everyday life, That things should proceed as normal felt scandalous. Of course we were not royalty. We live - had lived - small and modest lives, bound together since infancy, Esther eight years older than I.

Gotta love the smell of print in the morning. Today’s post brought issue 4 of REMAINS, with stories by @stevetoase.bsky.social, @kayv.bsky.social, the late James Sallis, and others, with art by Richard Wagner. Thanks to editor Andy Cox for finding space for my story of illness and loss.

always raises a red flag when people keep just asking questions that have in fact been studied and answered

I'm working on redrafting a second novella. Did I mention that? I think not. It's still flabergasting to realize how much material I have waiting for me to polish it. The last few years have been incredibly busy and for family/personal reasons particularly hard. It's lovely to find myself again.

Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology by Multiple Authors - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association Publication Details Author(s): Editor-in-Chief: Julie C. Day Coeditors: Carina Bissett, Craig Laurance Gidney Assistant Editor: Julia DeRidder Authors: Mike Allen, […]

.@sfwa.org folks. If you're reading for the various awards, Storyteller is now available on the Recommended Reading List: www.sfwa.org/reading-list...
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Crocheted Pangolin - Little Conkers Crocheted Pangolin - Crocheting a pangolin with a crochet pattern by Pernille Heelsberg. This is fairly extreme crochet, involving more advanced amigurumi techniques, and the famous crocodile stitch.

It's world #pangolin day!
One time I crocheted a pangolin - that's like an extreme sport in the #crochet world.
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Environmental group Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation Activist group says some members have been visited by agents, including by agency’s terrorism taskforce

A few years ago, I suggested that society's repression of vs. the climate movement would escalate, even if *we* didn't escalate.

And presto: "Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion says FBI is investigating it for terrorism".

Discover why STORYTELLER: A TANITH LEE TRIBUTE ANTHOLOGY edited by Julie C. Day made the 2025 Recommended Reading List tanithleestoryteller...

Cartoon showing a street in the rain. A man on a bike is delivering food, while another courier is delivering packages from Amazon. Two other workers are collecting garbage. Inside one of the houses on the street, we see robots labeled 'AI' sitting dry and warm, engaged in making a paining, playing the violin and writing.

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl.

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#ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI

And it's not just Waymo. "Tesla’s vehicles also rely on similar remote operators...New National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data suggest[s] Tesla’s robotaxis are crashing three times as much as humans — even with human monitors."

With so many short fiction markets disappearing, a new market is always a welcome sight.

I love the vibe of this new audio market. I'm excited to see what they get up to.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

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Hi everyone, one of our whistle producers is down to a roll or two of filament. If you have the capacity, would you mind helping them out so they can keep printing whistles?

Thank you all!