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Awards Eligibility for 2024! I've had 6 original short stories published this year that are eligible for nomination. If you only have the time/space to read one, I urge you to please consider "A Lullaby of Anguish" from Apex Magazine's July issue (threading links)

my flash piece “Ancestor Code Error” is up today in Lightspeed Mag (Bluesky: @lightspeedmagazine.com) if anyone is looking for a read that only takes a handful of minutes 🙇🏻‍♀️👀🤍 *preview below*

Woke up this morning to find out my story from The Dark is on Ellen Datlow's recommendations list?? Floored. Cannot believe I am on this particular list with such a cool bunch of people. I'll just be over here screaming for the rest of the day. Thank you for the rec!!!

Novel update: finished the big rework and am now up to 80k! Hoping to have the first draft finished by end of December 👀

Here's my 2024 award-eligible stories! If you'd like a copy of any of them, please let me know.

First draft of this new book is DONE! 90k words at the moment. I'm sure I'll be adding in edits, because I don't write description ever, but I'm guessing 5-7k of additions tops. And then...beta reads and query letters. 👀

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Finished my first pass of edits on new novel! Unfortunately this means I have to do more actual thinking tomorrow. Having a setting and some character descriptions is pretty cool though, I guess.

And so it begins ❄️❄️❄️ The first day of our advent calendar is September 8th, 2009: all the way back to Issue 3! "Advertising at the End of the World" by Keffy R.M. Kehrli Read it here: apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-ma…

We are OPEN for submissions through January 15! Send us your very best 100 words! 100footcrow.com/submission-gui…

Apex Archive Advent Calendar: Day 2! "L'esprit de L'escalier" by Peter M. Ball, published in Issue 16 on September 14th, 2010! Your friendly local social media manager had just turned 14 when this story was published; how time flies! 😱 Read it here: apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-ma…

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Novel revisions done. This monstrosity is now someone else's problem for a while. I'll be over here, collapsing into a puddle and forgetting how sentences work.

Just finished rewatching my favorite show last night as a reward for getting new novel sent to betas! What are y'all's comfort rewatch/read/plays? TV show: True Detective (S1) Movie: Interstellar Anime: Mushishi Books: The Dark Tower Game: Risk of Rain 2

Cosmic Background has 15 days left in their Kickstarter, and they still need $3k to hit their goal - support however you can!! They publish some delightful stuff!

So I got to review TWO books this issue: Sam Asher's new collection that came out last month, and Roanne Lau: "buy THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY!" 's The Serpent Called Mercy, coming out this spring. 👀 Subscribers can read both reviews now - they'll become free to read on the Apex website in the next couple months!

Special Submissions Call! Disability Pride & Magic! The Castle gates are open for an extended special submissions call from 7 January to 31 March, and we are looking for stories celebrating disabled authors, character and themes for this event. Details Below!

a new essay by a smol bean 👀🙇🏻‍♀️

💬 "Overall, this was an excellent tour of Asher’s work." New review today by Leah Ning: "Book Review: Sam Asher's Really Shockingly Bad Things and Other Stories" Read it here: apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-ma…