SFFH author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC out now. Rhysling finalist. She/they. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com https://courtney-floyd.com 🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com ✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink 🚫a👁️
*Squints at that Wired article. Wearily taps the sign.*
Courtney FloydApropos of too many things lately, here's a spite poem I wrote a few weeks ago **makes unflinching eye contact while jamming more em dashes in** full disrespect to anyone writing with AI and also to the idea that we should change our voices and styles because the plagiarism machine is copying us
I didn't notice this until the very end of the month, but @libraryjournal.bsky.social's Disability Pride roundup includes Higher Magic alongside a bunch of other cool books! Adding a bunch to my TBR. 💚
Disability Pride Month 2026 | A Reading ListDisability Pride Month commemorates the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which President George H. W. Bush signed into law on July 26, 1990. In recognition of this month-long observance...www.libraryjournal.comHAPPY BOOK DAY @mkhardywrites.com! pool reading party anyone?🌊
MK HardyIt's here! The haunted swimming pool book is ALIVE, and available wherever books are sold! Check it out if you like: spooks, mysterious things beneath the surface, plucky true crime girlies, and hardcore 2006 nostalgia*. *sorry not sorry for the earworms
I think I might have auto approval for Tanya Huff's new work on netgalley? What a world. 🤩 The comps, y'all The tongue-in-cheek tip of the title to Saved By the Bell The fact that it's focused on the teachers ahhh it's gonna be fun I can tell
Saved by the Spell by Tanya Huff: 9780756420611 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksAbbott Elementary, but make it magical: from the beloved Tanya Huff comes a new cozy fantasy novel perfect for fans of The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association At the High School for M...www.penguinrandomhouse.com87! How does this feel feasible all of a sudden
Courtney FloydOne of my 2026 goals is to finally break triple digits in my lifetime short fiction subs. Just submitted my first two stories of the year. Only 23 more to go.
OKAY! Inspired by @bzelkovich.bsky.social and my oft muttered resolution to read more short fic, I am embarking on a quest to read and post about 1 short story every day this month. #StoryADay I shall thread all of them here.
B. Zelkovich is peering out of their caveOkay. I've decided. July will be my first attempt at #StoryADay since... The pandemic? Basically, I will try to read a short story each day in July, and share a little about it to boost authors and markets! There will be an official thread, so feel free to mute if it becomes tiresome.
I was searching for public domain images of frogs for *reasons* and... well... 1844 animorphs???
‘Portraits Compared’ from Le Magasin pittoresque, August 1844 (1844)<em>Portraits Compared</em>, from <em>Le Magasin pittoresque</em>, August 1844.pdimagearchive.orgNewsletter day! I get extremely nerdy about horrormance in this one.
(Falling in) Love is Horror • Wallowing in Ink Issue 48<!-- buttondown-editor-mode: plaintext -->A monthly newsletter by fantasy author and audio drama creator [Courtney Floyd](https://courtney-floyd.com).buttondown.comICYMI for the night bsky crowd: my poem "Familiar" is out with @smallwondersmag.com today 🖤 🐾 it's about magic and grief and if you read it, do me a favor and do something nice for your familiars, okay?
Familiar - Small WondersEvery small black object takes your shape / in the corner of my eye.smallwondersmag.com