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William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
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Next week, I’ll be offering a virtual class called Sellable Short Stories: What Editors Want (And What To Avoid) at Reach Your Apex!
🟢 Learn what elements you can control (and which you can’t) to maximize your chances of publication. Ideal for beginner writers of horror, sci-fi and
🟢 Learn what elements you can control (and which you can’t) to maximize your chances of publication. Ideal for beginner writers of horror, sci-fi and
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Next week, I’ll be offering a virtual class called Sellable Short Stories: What Editors Want (And What To Avoid) at Reach Your Apex!
🟢 Learn what elements you can control (and which you can’t) to maximize your chances of publication. Ideal for beginner writers of horror, sci-fi and
🟢 Learn what elements you can control (and which you can’t) to maximize your chances of publication. Ideal for beginner writers of horror, sci-fi and
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The formerly titled The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy is finally available as an ebook from Open Road. We had to change the title for legal reasons but here it is.
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Here's to a new life for one of my favorite, mixed-genre anthologies.
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Here's to a new life for one of my favorite, mixed-genre anthologies.
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The formerly titled The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy is finally available as an ebook from Open Road. We had to change the title for legal reasons but here it is.
openroadmedia.com/.../the-big-...
Here's to a new life for one of my favorite, mixed-genre anthologies.
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Here's to a new life for one of my favorite, mixed-genre anthologies.
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To help kickoff #BlackSpecMonth!
New Release: FABRICATED: A CYBIL LEWIS SF MYSTERY
It's a whodunit with themes of wrongful incarceration, the cost of ambition, and how the truth never stays buried.
#BuyMyBook #NewRelease #SF #sciencefictionbooks
Available at Mocha Memoirs Press
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New Release: FABRICATED: A CYBIL LEWIS SF MYSTERY
It's a whodunit with themes of wrongful incarceration, the cost of ambition, and how the truth never stays buried.
#BuyMyBook #NewRelease #SF #sciencefictionbooks
Available at Mocha Memoirs Press
📚💙 #BlackSky
October 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
To help kickoff #BlackSpecMonth!
New Release: FABRICATED: A CYBIL LEWIS SF MYSTERY
It's a whodunit with themes of wrongful incarceration, the cost of ambition, and how the truth never stays buried.
#BuyMyBook #NewRelease #SF #sciencefictionbooks
Available at Mocha Memoirs Press
📚💙 #BlackSky
New Release: FABRICATED: A CYBIL LEWIS SF MYSTERY
It's a whodunit with themes of wrongful incarceration, the cost of ambition, and how the truth never stays buried.
#BuyMyBook #NewRelease #SF #sciencefictionbooks
Available at Mocha Memoirs Press
📚💙 #BlackSky
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This is a reminder that Bookshop is offering 20 percent off select titles to celebrate Latin American Heritage Month, including THE BEWITCHING and other books (Latinoland, The Unworthy, etc). Use code LHM25 at checkout to receive 20% off. bookshop.org/lists/adult-...
Adult Fiction Books to Celebrate Latine Heritage Month 2025
Celebrate Latine Heritage Month with Bookshop.org’s curated recommendations of Latine authors.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is a reminder that Bookshop is offering 20 percent off select titles to celebrate Latin American Heritage Month, including THE BEWITCHING and other books (Latinoland, The Unworthy, etc). Use code LHM25 at checkout to receive 20% off. bookshop.org/lists/adult-...
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Thanks, Gabino! THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF TERRORS is just 99p on Amazon UK! ☕
And the follow up, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR, launches in two weeks!
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And the follow up, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR, launches in two weeks!
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August 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thanks, Gabino! THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF TERRORS is just 99p on Amazon UK! ☕
And the follow up, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR, launches in two weeks!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CZT8XFQQ
And the follow up, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR, launches in two weeks!
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Thanks Gabino! Incoming 10/7 I’m looking to boost my preorder for Tales From Cemetery, my horror short story collection that’s been over three years in the making!
10 stories, 1 bonus novelette. All bloody fun!
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10 stories, 1 bonus novelette. All bloody fun!
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Or eARC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thanks Gabino! Incoming 10/7 I’m looking to boost my preorder for Tales From Cemetery, my horror short story collection that’s been over three years in the making!
10 stories, 1 bonus novelette. All bloody fun!
books2read.com/u/br8AgE
Or eARC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
10 stories, 1 bonus novelette. All bloody fun!
books2read.com/u/br8AgE
Or eARC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Thanks, Gabino! New short story in the latest Dark Yonder, just out. "Imagine what it takes for a human heart to beat for ninety years straight."
"Grampy Dargle," I hope, does what I do best: Twisted, ugly, and wtf.
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"Grampy Dargle," I hope, does what I do best: Twisted, ugly, and wtf.
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August 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Thanks, Gabino! New short story in the latest Dark Yonder, just out. "Imagine what it takes for a human heart to beat for ninety years straight."
"Grampy Dargle," I hope, does what I do best: Twisted, ugly, and wtf.
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"Grampy Dargle," I hope, does what I do best: Twisted, ugly, and wtf.
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Getting ready to teach my new writing #masterclass HEROES AND VILLAINS: Building Complex and Compelling Characters. We start at 10am PST (1 EST), and there's just a couple of slots left. Click for info: www.jonathanmaberry.com/classes-work... #WritingCommunity #writingworkshop #MASTERCLASS
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August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Getting ready to teach my new writing #masterclass HEROES AND VILLAINS: Building Complex and Compelling Characters. We start at 10am PST (1 EST), and there's just a couple of slots left. Click for info: www.jonathanmaberry.com/classes-work... #WritingCommunity #writingworkshop #MASTERCLASS
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It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Sharing this one because it’s still new to those who haven’t read it! Horror, crime, friendship, magic, monsters, and vengeance…
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August 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Sharing this one because it’s still new to those who haven’t read it! Horror, crime, friendship, magic, monsters, and vengeance…
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The Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales anthology is out this month! Contributing authors will be signing, reading and discussing at Mysterious Galaxy on August 30, 2-4pm and at Artifact Books on September 27, from 3-5pm. If you're in the area, come on out! Let's get spooky season started! :D
August 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales anthology is out this month! Contributing authors will be signing, reading and discussing at Mysterious Galaxy on August 30, 2-4pm and at Artifact Books on September 27, from 3-5pm. If you're in the area, come on out! Let's get spooky season started! :D
Congratulations on your Scribe award nomination, @jmreynolds.bsky.social !
July 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Congratulations on your Scribe award nomination, @jmreynolds.bsky.social !
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If you could use some inspiration to get started on a submission for our Weird West flash fiction contest, weirdwestfiction.com by KC Grifant is a great place to start.
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Weird West Fiction
Welcome to the Weird West.
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July 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you could use some inspiration to get started on a submission for our Weird West flash fiction contest, weirdwestfiction.com by KC Grifant is a great place to start.
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July 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Take the masks off. Show your badges. This is America.
June 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Take the masks off. Show your badges. This is America.
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Suffering. Loss. Regret.
It's why I'm called The King of Pain.
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It's why I'm called The King of Pain.
Pre-order!
YOU GUYS! The amazing Brian Evenson has some extremely kind things to say about ALL THE STARS DIE by @jfdt.bsky.social.
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June 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Suffering. Loss. Regret.
It's why I'm called The King of Pain.
Pre-order!
It's why I'm called The King of Pain.
Pre-order!
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Not in LA? Can't safely protest?
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LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
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June 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Got my copy of Dark Spores in the mail, from @cronegirlspress.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Got my copy of Dark Spores in the mail, from @cronegirlspress.bsky.social
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My feminist horror poem, “A woman’s weapon,” is out today! You can read it for free at Timber Ghost Press 🌱☠️ 🌺
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"A Woman's Weapon" by KC Grifant
In the botanist’s garden A leafy offshoot reaches, like a hand, suppliant along the wrought iron table where he takes his tea The botanist trails his calloused thumbs along the folds of her...
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June 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My feminist horror poem, “A woman’s weapon,” is out today! You can read it for free at Timber Ghost Press 🌱☠️ 🌺
www.timberghostpress.com/blog/a-woman...
#horror #horrorpoem #poetry
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#horror #horrorpoem #poetry
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Yayyyy-up for pre-order. Out October 28. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen - www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978194910278...
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
From Ellen Datlow—“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times—comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling s...
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May 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Yayyyy-up for pre-order. Out October 28. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen - www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978194910278...
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Today is the day! MELINDA WEST AND THE GREMLIN QUEEN is out in the world!! 🥳🥳🥳
A huge, huge thank you to everyone who supported this supernatural western adventure, especially my publisher Brigids Gate Press, horror peeps, and my ARC readers 🙏🏼
If you ordered a print copy,
A huge, huge thank you to everyone who supported this supernatural western adventure, especially my publisher Brigids Gate Press, horror peeps, and my ARC readers 🙏🏼
If you ordered a print copy,
May 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Today is the day! MELINDA WEST AND THE GREMLIN QUEEN is out in the world!! 🥳🥳🥳
A huge, huge thank you to everyone who supported this supernatural western adventure, especially my publisher Brigids Gate Press, horror peeps, and my ARC readers 🙏🏼
If you ordered a print copy,
A huge, huge thank you to everyone who supported this supernatural western adventure, especially my publisher Brigids Gate Press, horror peeps, and my ARC readers 🙏🏼
If you ordered a print copy,
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Tomorrow!!! My epic supernatural western adventure will be out in the world!
🌵 MELINDA WEST AND THE GREMLIN QUEEN 🌵
Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Bonnie & Clyde—with way more monsters.
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#DarkFantasy #SupernaturalWestern #Bookstagram #WeirdWest #TeamGrem
🌵 MELINDA WEST AND THE GREMLIN QUEEN 🌵
Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Bonnie & Clyde—with way more monsters.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
#DarkFantasy #SupernaturalWestern #Bookstagram #WeirdWest #TeamGrem
May 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Tomorrow!!! My epic supernatural western adventure will be out in the world!
🌵 MELINDA WEST AND THE GREMLIN QUEEN 🌵
Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Bonnie & Clyde—with way more monsters.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
#DarkFantasy #SupernaturalWestern #Bookstagram #WeirdWest #TeamGrem
🌵 MELINDA WEST AND THE GREMLIN QUEEN 🌵
Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Bonnie & Clyde—with way more monsters.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
#DarkFantasy #SupernaturalWestern #Bookstagram #WeirdWest #TeamGrem