Jake Stein

Check it out!! Really excited for this one, preorder available now!

Pre-order Vol. 2! A repeating black and white image of different sizes. The image is a slug holding in its mouth a bat that is dripping blood.

This is your sign to pre-order Vol. 2! ko-fi.com/sluggerficti... & link in bio.

Jake's story is a blast! We'll spoil the opening line...

I found the monster bleeding on my sofa.

You'll have to pick up Vol. 2 to read the rest👀

Hey folks, I've got a piece in this one--and look at that awesome cover art! Preorders open!

Woohooo!!

A neon green slug holding a yellow bat in its mouth. Red blood drips from the bat’s barrel.

Pre-orders open for Vol. 2! Link in bio! Featuring work by @kayv.bsky.social @dreadwrites.bsky.social @jakeiswriting.bsky.social @carsonwinter.bsky.social
@innatelywriting.bsky.social
@beardedbetts.bsky.social and others!

We've received more than 2,500 submissions at Nightmare this submissions period (and we don't close until midnight).
I don't know exactly how I'll get through all these subs, but I do know that if every submitter bought just one issue of the magazine, it would pay for a year of content.

I continue to be shocked by magazines and writers that continue to use generative AI. Even if you think it looks good (it doesn’t), or you’ve convinced yourself it’s ethical and non-exploitative (it isn’t), the environmental cost is so ridiculously high it should be a non-starter.

Just write the thing.

What even is good?

Just write the thing.

Surviving Humanity Check out books, merch and new releases from Inked in Gray!

Super proud to have stories in this exciting anthology! Please give it a preorder :)

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PS I hear they are having a %15 off sale through Dec 2nd.

Super excited to share this one with you all is Manawaker Studios! Thanks a bunch @cbdroege.bsky.social

LOVE LOVE LOVE your story in this, Jake!!!! I can't wait for everyone to read it!

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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A white tic-tac-toe graphic entitled "Writing Style Alignment" with 9 categories: Lawful Pantser, Neutral Pantser, Chaotic Pantser, Lawful Plantser, True Plantser, Chaotic Plantser, Lawful Plotter, Neutral Plotter, and Chaotic Plotter

Q1: Since we're talking about plot, we figured it would be fun to see how you plot! Based on this nifty chart, what is your plotting/writing style alignment? #WeeknightWriters

Can't wait for this anthology edited by @robinknabel.bsky.social coming in 2026! One of the creature features included is mine! :)

Cover reveal of book Of Beasts & Bones coming 2026

Of Beasts & Bones COVER REVEAL!

I can't wait for this to be in readers' hands! I'll complete edits over the next 2 weeks, then it's time to format, get blurbs, & share author info. Every story I read again during edits gets me pumped for 2026!

Love creature horror? You're going to love this book.🖤

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Hey there Victor, thanks so much! Appreciate the kind words, and I'll double-check that link. Thanks again!

Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you

You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.

the cows
are on the dark web

This is so frustratingly accurate.

We’re going to be closing to submissions from 12pm BST tomorrow (12th September). Not sure exactly how long for, until we get caught up. If you want to get something in, send it in before then.

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st!

We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.

Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

Thanks so much! Appreciate that.

Check out my latest!! Free to read!

Sep. 2025 (Issue 184) - Lightspeed Magazine We have original science fiction by C.Z. Tacks (“The Girlfriend Experience”) and Kel Coleman (“Last Meal Aboard the Awassa”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Place I Came To” from Filip H...

So unbelievably happy to have a story in the latest issue of @lightspeedmagazine.com!! Talk about dream come true!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/sep-2...

Space Unicorn!

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb