look, i can write coherent, commercial fiction, or i can work through my mommy issues. i cannot do both.

you can pry the em dash out of my cold, dead hands.

Please don’t look away

Out this month: my story 'Sasabonsam' is included in the new African Ghost Short Stories anth by Flame Tree Press Team, joining contemporary stories w/ traditional tales. Foreword by Nuzo Onoh "Queen of African Horror", Intro by Prof. Divine Che Neba, & ed support from Chinelo Onwualu

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Pop into the future for these 5 backlist titles. reactormag.com/backlist-bonan…

Happy happy book birthday to WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT, an incredible queer YA monster story anthology!! It contains my story 'Boys Who Run With The Boars,' but - more importantly - tons of other magnificent monsters I can't wait to meet!!
@Runningpresskids #QueerBeasties

did you know that Bakka Phoenix Books still has some ✨signed✨ copies of The Dragonfly Gambit? stop by and grab some bookmarks and stickers as well! 👀

It’s our Birthday this weekend!!

Can you believe we have been doing this thing for TWO WHOLE YEARS? We’re celebrating with sales on select titles and merch, plus Sunday Night a good ol’ fashioned Book Swap. Come meet other folks who haunt the shop and trade tomes.

🖤📚👻

I realise the reason people go to therapy is to be able to provide an intelligible response to “how are you” (instead of my usual “you know, alive, regretting it, but obliged to live long and work hard out of spite since 143 mln Russians want me and all Ukrainians dead”). 🌸💄💀

While Russia shells Kharkiv daily, Cannes screens a film about Limonov, a figure who supported the annexation of Crimea and encouraged Russians to fight in the Russian war against Ukraine on Russia's side.

Happy (literal!) Launch Day to Victor Manibo's ESCAPE VELOCITY, rocketing to shelves today!

Knives Out, Parasite, with a dash of The Secret History, come aboard the luxurious Space Habitat Altaire for the reunion of a lifetime . . .

Buy your copy today!

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welcome to the world, book!!! i remember devouring the netgalley in a single night!! this one's a banger 🔥🔥🔥

🚀👨‍🚀✨ ESCAPE VELOCITY is finally here! ✨👨‍🚀🚀 Five years after I wrote its first words, now we can all come join the messy, colorful personalities aboard the Space Habitat Altaire. I’m so blessed to have a second book, and I’m forever grateful to the people who made it possible.

Hey, guess what? My birthday’s in a week. If you’d like to give me another reason to celebrate, it would be really cool if WFC members considered nominating my story. Just sayin’. 😀🍰

I see that *twitter* is doing something strange again. For example, I lost more that 100 subscribers. So check if you still here. And I'm sharing lovely works from Anatolii Lymarev – 'Cleaning plums', 'Painting a house', 'Digging potatoes', 'Cleaning apples'

When I was searching for climate fiction writers for the next Writing the Occult, Lyndsey Croal suggested Renan Bernardo, who's just released a solarpunk/clifi shorts collection. So yep: he's our next panelist! How do science, technology & human relations intersect in clifi? 🧵⬇️

👾📢I'll be on a day of readings with British Fantasy Society, together with other excellent writers. Expect to hear a teaser excerpt of CLUB CONTANGO, coming 11.11.24!
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Find out what the Apparition Lit team and guest editor are hoping to see in the Anachronism submissions!

apparitionlit.com/what-does-anac…

guess which gal is going on sub soon with her first novel 👀👀 editors me and Lisa Abellera are coming for y’all 🔥👻🔥

some hints as to what the book is about brought to you by this mood board I made huhu 👀

Don’t forget how Cannes Film Festival censored Ukrainian supermodels Ilona Chornobai and Alina Baikova.

Disgraceful film festival.