Darian Bianco
@darianbianco.bsky.social
Managing Editor at Apex Book Company. Writer. Reader. Teacher. Coffee Addict. Dog Mom. Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social
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🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
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I don't want AI. I want to stop filling out my entire medical history every time I go to the same doctor
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I don't want AI. I want to stop filling out my entire medical history every time I go to the same doctor
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To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
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Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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Apex stands with @kickstarterunited.org . We're planning to go ahead with launching our Kickstarter tomorrow because they said to do this on their GoFundMe page. You can read our full announcement here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Kickstarter Announcement
As you probably know, Apex Magazine is launching our Kickstarter to fund 2026 tomorrow, October 1st. Today it came to our attention...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Apex stands with @kickstarterunited.org . We're planning to go ahead with launching our Kickstarter tomorrow because they said to do this on their GoFundMe page. You can read our full announcement here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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New Patreon Post: "Apex in October 2025" 🧛🎃👻
Check out the PACKED lineup of events we have in store!! And get all the info about our 2026 Kickstarter, guidelines for our open submission period, and the COVER REVEAL for our October issue of Apex Magazine! 🖼️
You don't want to miss this one!! ⬇️
Check out the PACKED lineup of events we have in store!! And get all the info about our 2026 Kickstarter, guidelines for our open submission period, and the COVER REVEAL for our October issue of Apex Magazine! 🖼️
You don't want to miss this one!! ⬇️
Apex in October 2025 | Apex Books & Apex Magazine
Get more from Apex Books & Apex Magazine on Patreon
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September 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New Patreon Post: "Apex in October 2025" 🧛🎃👻
Check out the PACKED lineup of events we have in store!! And get all the info about our 2026 Kickstarter, guidelines for our open submission period, and the COVER REVEAL for our October issue of Apex Magazine! 🖼️
You don't want to miss this one!! ⬇️
Check out the PACKED lineup of events we have in store!! And get all the info about our 2026 Kickstarter, guidelines for our open submission period, and the COVER REVEAL for our October issue of Apex Magazine! 🖼️
You don't want to miss this one!! ⬇️
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APEX MAGAZINE OCTOBER ISSUE COVER REVEAL!!! 🎉🎃🌳
Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart.
For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...
Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart.
For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...
September 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
APEX MAGAZINE OCTOBER ISSUE COVER REVEAL!!! 🎉🎃🌳
Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart.
For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...
Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart.
For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...
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All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives
August 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives
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Do you remember....
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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September 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Do you remember....
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And just when you thought our great news was over 👀👀👀...
We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽
Full details in the link below! ⬇️
www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽
Full details in the link below! ⬇️
www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
Submissions
2025 has been a standout year in terms of the amazing projects we've been able to publish at Apex Book Company. We've had the pleasure of giving homes to titles such as ChloroPhilia, The Map of Lost P...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
And just when you thought our great news was over 👀👀👀...
We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽
Full details in the link below! ⬇️
www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽
Full details in the link below! ⬇️
www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
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THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮
@marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿
Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
@marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿
Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮
@marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿
Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
@marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿
Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
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I’m afraid to say this is very attractive. Got to love a passionate nerd. He knows his shit.
August 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I’m afraid to say this is very attractive. Got to love a passionate nerd. He knows his shit.
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THE TIME IS NIGH
DO NOT LOOK AWAY
FOR WE ARE BLESSED WITH BLOSSOMS
AUGUST 27TH
THE SUPERBLOOM BEGINS
🌱🍄🌓👁🌿☁️ 🌷👁🫧🌳👁👁🌼👁🌲👁👁👁👁
DO NOT LOOK AWAY
FOR WE ARE BLESSED WITH BLOSSOMS
AUGUST 27TH
THE SUPERBLOOM BEGINS
🌱🍄🌓👁🌿☁️ 🌷👁🫧🌳👁👁🌼👁🌲👁👁👁👁
August 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
THE TIME IS NIGH
DO NOT LOOK AWAY
FOR WE ARE BLESSED WITH BLOSSOMS
AUGUST 27TH
THE SUPERBLOOM BEGINS
🌱🍄🌓👁🌿☁️ 🌷👁🫧🌳👁👁🌼👁🌲👁👁👁👁
DO NOT LOOK AWAY
FOR WE ARE BLESSED WITH BLOSSOMS
AUGUST 27TH
THE SUPERBLOOM BEGINS
🌱🍄🌓👁🌿☁️ 🌷👁🫧🌳👁👁🌼👁🌲👁👁👁👁
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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
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Psst, Lexington peoples! We're throwing a party at the Loudon House later this month -- free and fun will be had! (Shiny graphic by @joshaboldt.bsky.social!)
August 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Psst, Lexington peoples! We're throwing a party at the Loudon House later this month -- free and fun will be had! (Shiny graphic by @joshaboldt.bsky.social!)
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Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
July 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
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Being an artist is like "when i finish this art project i am going to reward myself for working so hard by making this new art project"
Over and over until you die.
Over and over until you die.
April 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Being an artist is like "when i finish this art project i am going to reward myself for working so hard by making this new art project"
Over and over until you die.
Over and over until you die.
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Once more some mammoths
June 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Once more some mammoths
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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It’s my birthday and in true hobbitish fashion, I want to give a gift to you! Like, reskeet, and follow to win a signed copy of COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES. After all, it’s not a party without great games and delicious drinks. Cheers!
June 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s my birthday and in true hobbitish fashion, I want to give a gift to you! Like, reskeet, and follow to win a signed copy of COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES. After all, it’s not a party without great games and delicious drinks. Cheers!
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1. Every once in a while I’ll read about or be told about or see nominated for an award a novel that, when I read it for myself, I don’t understand what the fuss is about; it’s something I don’t find particularly interesting or worthy of the praise. And when that happens, do you know what I do?
May 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
1. Every once in a while I’ll read about or be told about or see nominated for an award a novel that, when I read it for myself, I don’t understand what the fuss is about; it’s something I don’t find particularly interesting or worthy of the praise. And when that happens, do you know what I do?
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The fog has cleared. The gates are open.
Welcome to THE MAP OF LOST PLACES.
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK. ☠️☠️☠️
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Welcome to THE MAP OF LOST PLACES.
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK. ☠️☠️☠️
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
April 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The fog has cleared. The gates are open.
Welcome to THE MAP OF LOST PLACES.
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK. ☠️☠️☠️
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Welcome to THE MAP OF LOST PLACES.
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK. ☠️☠️☠️
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
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Thank you to author @cristinajurado.bsky.social for sitting down with Apex Managing Editor @darianbianco.bsky.social to chat about her recently-published ecohorror novella, CHLOROPHILIA!
Purchase your copy of CHLOROPHILIA here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/chl...
Watch the interview below! 📺⬇️
Purchase your copy of CHLOROPHILIA here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/chl...
Watch the interview below! 📺⬇️
LIBRISIMO ESPECIAL Cristina Jurado
YouTube video by CJ
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March 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thank you to author @cristinajurado.bsky.social for sitting down with Apex Managing Editor @darianbianco.bsky.social to chat about her recently-published ecohorror novella, CHLOROPHILIA!
Purchase your copy of CHLOROPHILIA here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/chl...
Watch the interview below! 📺⬇️
Purchase your copy of CHLOROPHILIA here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/chl...
Watch the interview below! 📺⬇️