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Chip Houser
@chiphouser.bsky.social
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Stories in PULP Lit, Bourbon Penn, PodCastle, DSF, Red Bird Chapbooks. Lines and colors at chiphouser.com. (he/him)
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This is such a a magical tale. I mean, it’s dystopian scifi but the story feels like magic it’s so beautifully done. Comgratulations @ianli.bsky.social and thank you for publishing it @smallwondersmag.com
smallwondersmag.com Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Mar 10
Today's story is a reminder that even in dark times, good people exist. @ianli.bsky.social introduces us to Jing, "The Memory Technician" - we think you'll like her.

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March 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social
I am so excited for this from @thomasha.bsky.social and @undertow.bsky.social. The cover is so beautiful it’s making, um, architectural bone tendrils emerge from my brain.
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Uncertain Sons and Other Stories (PRE-ORDER) — Undertow Publications
Sept. 2025 Cover art by Ove Tøpfer Trade paperback (284 pages) Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; ...
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February 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social
Daek, funny, and insightful. Three tasty flavors in one flash here folks.
February 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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#WritingCommunity How about following these creatives?
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a flock of birds are flying over a body of water at sunset .
ALT: a flock of birds are flying over a body of water at sunset .
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February 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social
Received my contributor copy today - this is a beautiful book! Looking forward to reading the other stories in between shameless covergazing. Thanks for making a beautiful book Inkd Publishing!
February 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Announcement:

Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine

WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!

full details here:

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the promo cover of Fantasy Magazine shows a women in the grass with a glowing sky behind her. The text says Returning June 2025 Fantasy Magazine
January 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social

I just finished reading this and it was delicious. The reviewer says it all better and smarter than I could, I’ll just add that it was wonderful, fun, utterly engaging, and gorgeously imagined and written. A.C. Wise: more Bastion please! (The book itself is gorgeous too-I ordered the hardcover.)
REVIEW: Out of the Drowning Deep by A.C. Wise
Out of the Drowning Deep by A.C. Wise is entertaining, moving, and gave me a fresh perspective on myself–what more could I want?
www.grimdarkmagazine.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:56 AM
chiphouser.bsky.social
Congratulations on a great review @acwise.bsky.social! How can I not go read this right now???????
acwise.bsky.social A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · Nov 24
A really lovely review of Out of the Drowning Deep!
grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · Nov 24
Out of the Drowning Deep is entertaining, moving, and gave me a fresh perspective on myself–what more could I want from a novella? || Will reviews OUT OF THE DROWNING DEEP by @acwise.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social || www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-out-o...
November 24, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
A really lovely review of Out of the Drowning Deep!
November 24, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters (edited by me!)

Stories by @hschofieldfic.bsky.social @smua.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social @tessafisher.bsky.social @jerreat.bsky.social @catherinefking.bsky.social @shelgraves.bsky.social @solarshades.bsky.social

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Cover of Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters, Stories by Wendy Nikel, Holly Schofield, Steve Toase, Andrew Dana Hudson, Jennifer Lee Rossman, and more. Anthology Edited by Sarena Ulibarri. Background is a snowy futuristic city shaped like a leaf, with three wind turbines on a hill and a mountain and clouds in the background.
November 18, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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stevetoase.bsky.social
Then on the 8th December I will be running a workshop on #archaeology and #folkhorror as part of Darkness in the Fields: Midwinter, looking at ways to use archaeology when writing fiction, particularly horror. www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-i...
Darkness in the fields: Midnwinter 7th-8th December Full line-up: Leslie J Anderson - author of The Unmothers and more Kay Chronister - author of The Bog Wife, Desert Creatures, Thin Places and more Alex Davis - creative writing lecturer and workshopper Robert Edgar - editor, The Routledge Compaion to Folk Horror and more Ruth Heholt - editor, Folk Horror: New Global Pathways and more Olivia Isaac-Henry - author of Sorrow Spring and more Lauren McMenemy - author and workshopper, editor, Trembling With Fear Steve Toase - author of Dirt Upon My Skin, To Drown in Dark Water and more Full schedule: SATURDAY 7TH DECEMBER 12pm-1pm Lauren McMenemy - Workshop: Ritualise Your Folk Horror 1pm-1:30pm BREAK 1:30pm-2:30pm Robert Edgar - Workshop: Urban Folk Horror 2:30pm-3:00pm BREAK 3:00pm-4:00pm Olivia Isaac-Henry - Author Interview 4:00pm-4:30pm BREAK 4:30pm-5:30pm Leslie J Anderson - Author Interview SUNDAY 8TH DECEMBER 12pm-1pm Ruth Heholt - Talk: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as Folk Horror 1pm-1:30pm BREAK 1:30pm-2:30pm Steve Toase - Workshop: Hidden Beneath the Surface - Archaeology and Folk Horror 2:30pm-3:00pm BREAK 3:00pm-4:00pm Alex Davis - Workshop: Common People - Folk Horror and Class 4:00pm-4:30pm BREAK 4:30pm-5:30pm Kay Chronister - Author Interview Day Tickets £20 Weekend ticket £36
November 19, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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I have 2 events coming up next month

2nd of December I'm taking part in a celebration of recent @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social Shadows releases, including my archaeology themed horror collection Dirt Upon My Skin, alongside @davebjeffery.bsky.social, Kayleigh Dobbs, Brian Evenson & Teika Marija Smits
An image to advertise a celebration of the latest Black Shuck Shadows books with Kayleigh Dobbs, Brian Evenson, Dave Jeffery, Teika Marija Smits, Steve Toase, and publisher Steve Shaw
November 19, 2024 at 1:36 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social
This is a gorgeous, insightful, funny, and thoughtful ghost story. Loved it.
thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · Oct 31
a NEW story for you this spooky day!!

"I don’t get ghost physics. He passes through a wall, but he can sit in a chair? A living person walks through him, but he rests his elbows on a table?"

On the Existence of Ghosts, As If, by James Van Pelt

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On the Existence of Ghosts, As If, by James Van Pelt - The Deadlands
I saw Sad Tommy the ghost in line at Starbucks behind a woman runner whose blonde hair in a ponytail hung to the middle of her back. The runner ordered, moved aside, and there was an instant, just a b...
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November 19, 2024 at 3:01 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading all the killer weirds within!
August 1, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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#PC844: On Snowflake-Veined Wings written by @chiphouser.bsky.social
and read by @leighwallace.bsky.social. Previously published by Bourbon Penn. Rated R. Content warning for bodily fluids.

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#PC844: On Snowflake-Veined Wings written by Chip Houser and read by Leigh Wallace. “Amalia runs her finger around the inside of her Tupperware, wiping up the last of her leftover poutine. Her fall allergies kicked in a few days ago, so she doesn’t really taste the gravy. But she’d rather finger-clean her Tupperware at her table than go wash it because Jerry and three of his sales team flunkies are clustered by the sink watching a video on his gigantic phone. From their crude commentary and the video’s crashing waves, then the gagging, she can guess what they’re watching. Why they’re silent for once, too. It’s a clip of a woman in the Côte d’Azur, slim and tan in her pink maillot, running in slow motion into the waves. The man who’s filming keeps calling out Sirène! Amalia watched the video earlier that morning; it was all over her feeds. The video is like a Viagra commercial, until the woman vomits an impossibly long stream of brightly colored fish into the surf.
June 18, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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katwithsword.bsky.social
I have some openings in my editing calendar. I do developmental editing on novels and novellas in multiple categories and genres. More info and contact form here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing I'm always happy to answer questions.

Signal boosts appreciated - thanks in advance.
Kat Howard — Editing
Kat Howard's goal as a freelance editor is to help writers get closer to the book that they want to be writing. She works with writers at all career stages and in various genres and covers things li...
www.kathowardbooks.com
May 13, 2024 at 2:06 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social
I am so heartened to read this parenthetical in Neil Gaiman’s introduction to ‘Realms of Fantasy’:
“(I noted down, as I read, dozens of books I had never heard of along with authors of whom I knew nothing, and from whom I am now determined to learn.)”
So excited to read on in this beautiful book.
May 12, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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We know you are spoilin' for a good time with this week's episode.

Author: @chiphouser.bsky.social
Art: Bo Kaier
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Drabblecast 487- Bad Meat
Our story this week is spoiling for a good time. Enjoy a delicious exploration of the human condition, “Bad Meat” by Chip Houser! Chip Houser (he/him) has stories in Bourbon Penn, PodCa…
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May 7, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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ONLY 4 DAYS until my debut novel, Living in Cemeteries, is out in the world!!! @raforall.bsky.social said some really nice things about it in Booklist! Here’s her full review :) raforall.blogspot.com/2024/03/what...
April 16, 2024 at 10:55 AM
chiphouser.bsky.social
Today’s new, fancy, gorgeous hidden tee will give me the sneakret superhero strength to survive another work day. Thank you @apexmag.bsky.social.
Blue t-shirt with white moth line drawing and tag line GET WEIRDER FASTER www.apex-magazine.com
April 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social
Very excited to receive my copy, congratulations @carinabissett.bsky.social!
carinabissett.bsky.social Carina Bissett @carinabissett.bsky.social · Mar 3
My debut collection DEAD GIRL, DRIVING AND OTHER DEVASTATIONS will be released into the wild on March 8th! Preorders are available now!

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March 8, 2024 at 5:38 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social
Book mail today is my contributor copy of Pulp Lit 41! It’s a gorgeous book with a lot of stories and illustrations. Thank you @pulpliterature.bsky.social for including my dark little flash!
February 14, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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Bourbon Penn 32 cover reveal. Early release is available now to subscribers!
Bourbon Penn 32 Cover
February 13, 2024 at 6:10 PM
chiphouser.bsky.social
Weekend occurrences in Chazzlandia, two happifying & one not so much: 1) received my first ever royalty check, 2) applied for full SFWA membership, & 3) because of those two I am no longer eligible for a contest I have such a fun story for. I’m attempting to be mature about this, but: garbage sauce.
February 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM