queer speculative author, library dweller. viable paradise '25, taos toolbox '24. SFWA associate and codex member. stories in apex magazine and the daily tomorrow. she/they. 🚫 to AI, now and always. https://www.cm-sullivan.com
"In the hospital, they say my brain is melting out my nose. They don’t say it like that. They say I’m dying of a prion disease." 🦠🦌🧫 New fiction today by @anjbaker.bsky.social: "Cervidae, New and Sharp" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...
Starfall: a queer space opera heavy on the intimate-stakes character drama, elfy science-fantasy, and swashbuckling starship adventure about a telepathic space elf who joins off-brand Starfleet. He's a stabby cinnamon roll who doesn't want any friends! (This is a lie.) #Questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF
wrapping up edits so here's an updated agent's guide for #questpit! :)) [BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN #A #Litfic #SF #LGBT #OV #Q
To all staff and affiliates: please mark your calendars and save the date for the worst team-building outing of all time. OTHERLING, my second horror novel for adults, is coming your way in Fall 2028.
We have decided to remove a short story from Issue 153 of Apex Magazine. After meeting with our reading and editorial teams, we'd like to share with you what happened, and importantly, how we plan to move forward from here. Thank you for sticking with us. 💜👽
We’re about $6700 away, and there’s 9 days left. This is doable folks, so please, help us get over the finish line so we can bring you more khōréō gloriousness!
khōréō: Year 6Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!www.kickstarter.comSTRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
"Some prospectors’ ghosts leave their previous clothes real easy. My laundry shop was just a railway station on their way to the afterlife." 🫧👻🌵
The Rumpus"I recognized the ghost from when he was a living customer and not an undead annoyance. He never tipped, not even around the holidays." From "Lu’s Laundry and Other Services" by @muteddragon.bsky.social for this week's Sunday Scaries. 👻 buff.ly/jYalLS6
For sake of future Viable Paradise classes, I wrote a thing. buttondown.com/wenwenwrites...
Viable ParadiseI am writing this post for all the people who just got the special email that says “Congratulations, welcome to the Viable Paradise cult” (paraphrasing) and...buttondown.comso excited to announce my short story “this is c(lone)-pop” is now out in @othersidespec.bsky.social! 🥹 feat. fun normal stuff (tm) like: 🧪dissolving your celeb crush in acid ⭐️ commentary on the totally fine and not at all exploitive k-pop/c-pop industry 🎤 parasocial toxic yuri x 1000
OTHERSIDEISSUE 2 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Tiger princesses! Cyborgs! Spacefaring scientists and sword-wielding students! Our second issue is warm, tender, hopeful, and sometimes horrifying in the best way. It was a joy to assemble, and we hope you enjoy it too🪐🗡️🌈 othersidespec.com/issues/issue-2/
My next novella, THE PORCELAIN SISTERS, is out Oct 27 2026--but you blogger/ booktok/ reviewer types can get it NOW. Two sisters, one of whom happens to be a haunted doll, go on the road to uncover family secrets. Is it horror-comedy or comedy-horror? You decide #horror @tachyonpub.bsky.social
The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵
Strange Horizons - BackerKit Back projects you want to see in the world.www.backerkit.comhad the pleasure of betaing this and it is SO good. claire's prose and attention to detail is a scrumptious meal you do not want to miss
C.M. Sullivan 🍉Contract is officially signed!! I'm over the moon to share that my dark spec short story “The Light Below” has been acquired by @apexmag.bsky.social for publication. 🔥🌌 Also pleased as punch that this story was written for a holiday gift exchange with my crew at @viableparadise.bsky.social. 🪼
Contract signed, "The Fox Spirit's Retelling" will be in Tales from the Cryptids. It's wild that I get to be in this table of contents. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny EphemeraA book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be ...www.backerkit.com
The end is nigh…or is it really the beginning? You decide! Last installment of my serialized eco-space story. Thanks very much for reading! #scifi #ecofiction #shortstory dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi...
A Brief History of Kuiper Belt Cave Song — Part SevenBy Christopher R. Muscatodailytomorrow.substack.com
actually given the talk earlier this month about how editors at publishing houses are shying away from queer stories it’d be really cool this pride month for more established tradpub folks to shout out queer indie work. or just seek it out! there is good stuff out there
I have heard from writer friends that editors have directly told they don't want queer books right now, or have asked them to alter/remove queer characters, etc—a state of affairs which is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. Queer audiences exist and need to see themselves reflected in literature!
Konner Knudsen 🌈I really appreciate Erik bringing this topic, as I have learned more and more about it from talking to other writers, creatives, and publishing professionals over the last decade. The censorship and BS standards for queer authors are not happening in a vacuum: bookriot.com/queer-books-...
Thrilled to share my very short story "Everyone Drinks at Sunrise" published by @pseudopod.org today, alongside some other creepy tales. I especially love the host's commentary. Liberal guilt, it turns out, *is* delicious.
PseudoPod 1032: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVIII (78): Terraeque urbesque recedant“We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” “Again?” “Every damn time,” Kate said, running a hand through her hair. “Aren’t there supposed to be satellites checking the routes all day long?pseudopod.org
COVER REVEAL (USA) 🩸🍐🕯️ i am so, so excited to be revealing the cover for my debut novel THIS IS NOT AN EXORCISM (yes, that’s a new title), out ❗️april 27, 2027❗️ from tor nightfire!
"My mother tended to the springs of conception and abortion for a thousand years. Then she passed them to me." 🌬️🕷️⛲ New fiction today by @clairejiawen.bsky.social: "The Bathhouse for Long Life" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...