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Book cover for the forthcoming book The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. An Asian woman in a red Gilded Age ballgown faces the viewer defiantly holding a mask made to resemble a white woman's face. There are dark smoky hands reaching for her out of the darkness, grabbing her arms and caressing her face.

NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER!

I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is!

On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.

This is just a delight.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Spring forward was all fun and games to my kids until they had to wake up for school this morning. 0/10 do not recommend.

The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley (Austentatious, #2… Being snubbed by Mr Darcy—passed over for Elizabeth Ben…

There are TWENTY print copies of The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley up for grabs over on Goodreads giveaways! If you're a US or Canadian user, here's your chance to grab one for free!

The cover of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY by Lindz McLeod. Two women in regency dress sit on a pink picnic blacket. The blonde woman in the light yellow dress offers a bright red apple to the dark-haired woman in the purple dress. Behind them we can see a lake and in the far distance, two horses stand in front of a grand house.

"There's an enjoyable slow burn romance that heats up in a very satisfactory way... A bouncy, energetic feel-good take that's infinitely less mean-spirited than the source text and offers happiness to far more people."

- KJ Charles (!) on my forthcoming book, The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley ❤️

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

I often wait as long as possible to get my hair cut until I’m in crisis mode and my hair is too heavy and hurts. I said “Do something fun, it’s almost spring, the world’s on fire, yolo.”

Hache Pueyo, Monsters Who Love, And The Labyrinths Of Trauma In The Powerful Cabaret In Flames - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website Hache Pueyo discusses Cabaret in Flames, creating sympathetic Guls, the labyrinth of trauma, and her South American Gothic influences. Read the full interview.

Hache Pueyo on Cabaret in Flames: Why her Guls aren't undead, how trauma creates labyrinths, and the "inescapable cultural baggage" of being a South American writer. From disability in fantasy to spider-beings in love

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I can finally SCREAAAM about this! New bingo square unlocked for me as an editor at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social !

This novella is so wild and so cool. Imagine an vampire story with the vibe of a European 90s action movie. If that makes sense. (It will.)

Not a writer but I am a reviewer of short fiction and I will not cover any magazines that accept work that has genAI involved in any capacity, including illustrations. Nor will I cover writers that use genAI in any capacity.

Hey, something nice recently. "On Planetary Palliative Care" (2023), published by Interzone Digital, is getting translated to French for Bifrost Magazine/Éditions du Bélial'. It was a quiet piece in 2023 but still finding new homes. Worth guarding rights as a writer. Never know where things end up.

IT’S HERE ‼️ And yes I cried when I hit send on the issue for subscribers. I hope you love this issue as much as we do.

Happy Women in Horror Month!

Here's a roundup of some of the fabulous interviews, spotlight series, and events that are happening throughout March and beyond!

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Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Basking in Glory At the booths, I’m unable to decide whether to enter II or III. I wonder if there is an expectation as to which side of a glory hole belongs to the giver and which to the receiver. I wonder if it w…

Folks, I’m very proud of this (long) new story. If you can find a spare half hour today, I’d love for you to tuck into Basking in Glory. @courtlandavenue.bsky.social was such an incredible editor to work with! FFO: glory holes, bugs fighting, Midwest sex shops

hey buds

this promotion ends today

we'd love it if you could pick up a BOOK ON SALE

then read it and love it

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Genuinely chuffed to see my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends" be a @bsfa.bsky.social finalist alongside such great authors!!

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Short break from insanity to share that UNCERTAIN SONS is a BSFA finalist. A testament to @undertow.bsky.social's thoughtful work more than anything else that the book has gone anywhere. Thanks to them and to folks who support indies like UP. Means a lot. Congrats to all the finalists.

I'm Still Not Over Losing My Book Review Gig You can still get the Humble Bundle of every book by Annalee Newitz and myself published by Tor Books for a pittance — please select adjusted donation! — and...

"The notion of making a living with A.I.-generated books appears to be based on the belief algorithms will be serving up book slop the same way we are force-fed other kinds of slop"

I'm still not over losing my job as a book reviewer. Here's why we need book critics:

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Finishing up your ballots? I’d be honored if you considered my work! 😊

Finishing up your ballots? I’d be honored if you considered my work! 😊

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE.

Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit.

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I didn't sleep at all last night cause I was anxious about calling health insurance and hospital billing this morning, and now that it's over, I am still anxious over it all PLUS extremely tired.

But I did buy books today, so that helped.

Nebula noms closing soon. boosting this to shoot my shot.

So gut-wrenching <3

Reminder that ANYBODY can nominate a work for the Le Guin Prize.

Not only can you nominate your favorite books of last year. You SHOULD.

I'll be reading a series of flash pieces, including my dark feminist revenge tale, "A Girl Goes on a Date Alone at Night."