Kyle Aisteach

Times are tight all around, but publishing short fiction is expensive. Even if you can only kick in $1 to help keep the magazines you love afloat, please kick in that $1. People who bring you great art deserve to be paid for their work, too.

Claude, write up a plan that will lose investors billions of dollars in one fell swoop…

In my opinion, @emophilips.bsky.social consistently has some of the best material in the industry.

With so many adults who don't care enough to vote, I'll admit that I'm more inclined to trust the kids who do care enough.

New from Hell Itself: Martin L. Small brings us a Halloween story that's not for children.

I posted another random new short bit of silliness on @gavagai.com this morning:

Dear companies: When I'm trying to give you money, I don't want to wait 10 minutes for the 2-factor authentication email to arrive.

Okay, ya'll. The Apex Magazine Kickstarter still needs another $8,637 to fund 2027 and we only have 10 days to go. I'm starting to get STRESSED! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

The Taraia Object is officially not wreckage of a Lockheed Electra 10E, so Amelia Earhart's plane remains missing. Still a very exciting scientific result, so many congratulations to the Purdue team!

Please, everyone who is eligible: Vote even if you live someplace where your vote couldn't possibly make any difference. This election *will* have its validity challenged, and therefore needs overwhelming participation.

I grow more and more convinced that many of these progressive organizations that keep emailing me with hyperbolic demands for money are GOP fronts.

(For those who are wondering if I hit my head or something, facebook recently made it very, very hard to find your older photos, so I went through my timeline and re-downloaded some of the silly things I've made for my friends there over the years, and now I'm subjected you to them.)

On a completely unrelated note, the team investigating the Taraia Object is on site. If all goes well, we should have an idea what it is in a few days.

Cover reveal! Delighted to have my novelette Dead City Sounds included in this cracking-looking anthology. Dead City Sounds is about music, and endings, and also about a strange virus that makes people think they've stolen everything they own. And look at all those great writers. Exciting!

So excited that my feminist scream of a novelette finally found its home, and among such good company!!

Excited to share “Dreamers in an Endless Universe” with everyone. Congrats to all my TOC-mates. I look forward to reading your stories.

Featuring a new Ladd's Robot Repair story, RUSTY ON THE RUN. I can't wait to share and I'm so proud to be among so many great authors in this anthology!

Whoops I fell into an anthology with my big fat post-apocalyptic novella about a queer dead girl COVER REVEAL!

My first ever novelette is sold and readying to enter the world along side a great list of authors :) I'm absolutely hyped for this!

According to Kickstarter tracking service, Kicktraq, the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE campaign is trending toward only reaching 94% of our goal. So WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. If you love SF, fantasy, and horror short fiction, please consider backing today and sharing this post. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

On the issue of exclusivity, @diabolicalplots.com has a tool called The Submission Grinder (free to use, tips appreciated) for locating markets and tracking submissions. It also has a feature where when a story is published, you can enter when your contracted exclusivity window ends.

Minor point here, but I recommend caution with any zine - literary or genre - that is requesting an exclusivity window for more than a year. Mostly because this usually suggests inexperience/lack of research on their part, which often doesn't bode well.

Picacio, Giancola Publicly Reject Must Read Magazine Contract Terms file770.com/picacio-gian...

New from Hell Itself, @cjtavares.bsky.social brings us a spiritual take on vampires: "In the Time of Tenebrae" hellitself.com/in-the-time-...

Pseudo Intelligence

I tend to agree that we shouldn't call it "Artificial Intelligence" any more. But "Super Intelligence" is changing the wrong word.

really amazed and overwhelmed and thankful for everyone that has donated or shared we can't wait to get back to publishing THE DEADLANDS under Elise's amazing leadership but EVEN MORE THAN THAT we can't wait for Elise to be home & healed & ice cream doesn't start with "H" but you get it 🖤 🫵

With apologies to Tom Lehrer, it's important to keep your career progress in perspective. Whenever I'm feeling down about my lack of success, I remind myself that when H.P. Lovecraft was my age, he'd been dead for eight years.

Posted a little Halloween silliness to @gavagai.com for y'all: api.gavagai.com/share/posts/...