C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying

Excited to finally share my novel, THIEF OF THE VASTBORN, for #questpit!! THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI x THE SONG OF ACHILLES: Fate swap. Drowned world. Queer M/M romance. Enemies to lovers. Sea-dragons?! And more! Read the agent’s guide below. Querying soon! #F #A #RF #Q #W

Three days left to support Apex at their Kickstarter! Keep the mags alive!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

We've all been there. You're playing cards with a sentient cheetah named Leaden Clouds in purgatory when you FINALLY get a turn to reincarnate. If you could only decide your stat spread.. "New Game Plus" by the brilliantly inventive @bingingout.bsky.social 🎮 www.adventitious.net/stories/new-...

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Check out my friend C.M. Sullivan's latest short story, out now in Apex Magazine!

As someone who grew up in a high-control religion, this story really speaks to me on a personal level. But even if you don't have that same experience, this is still highly worth the read.

"Fire cannot survive beneath the earth, which is why the Flamekeepers need you." 🌬️🔥🌍 New fiction today by @cmsullivan.bsky.social: "The Light Below" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

My short story in the latest issue of @apexmag.bsky.social, “The Light Below,” is now available to read online! 🤍🕯️ www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

realised i have a few stories out this year so making an official “what i pubbed in 2026” thread 🥹😭 first up is “magical girl: corporate failure” in @havenspec.bsky.social, which was recommended by @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social in @reactorsff.bsky.social! havenspec.com/fiction/magi...

happy international lesbian day <3

workshopping a new query letter for my novel with my cohort and it goes: Dear agent, Gay fate swap in Waterworld. Thoughts? C.M. Sullivan

It's time! The @apexmag.bsky.social 2027 Kickstarter is live! Help us fund another year of strange, shocking, beautiful, and surreal speculative fiction! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

As I can personally attest, THIS IS A VERY GOOD BOOK! Excuse the caps, but I'm excited by good books. Of which, this is one.

AMINA AL-SIRAFI x SONG OF ACHILLES: A dying thief swaps fates with a noble destined to end the worldwide flood—then must race against time to save the man he’s both doomed and fallen for. 🔥 slow burn romance 🌊 flooded world ⛵ high seas hijinks 🐉 sea-dragons 🏛️ floating libraries #dvpit #A #F #W #Q

I jumped out of my seat and had to take a lap around the house when I first saw FOUR recommendations for @othersidespec.bsky.social stories in this issue of Locus. If you haven’t yet, give these stories a read! They’re “devastating,” “luminescent,” “heartbreaking.” othersidespec.com/issues/issue...

"Seneschal of Shattered Tor" is a postcolonial high fantasy about a society trying to Be Better* and the leaders dragging them into the future. I hope you enjoy it! * T&C apply

back in martha's vineyard on an author fellowship with MVICW and there's really nothing like being surrounded by a bunch of other writers 🥲

New poem release for me! "There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

ime nonviolent communication can solve a lot of relationship problems. but, um. not all of them. at least, not problems that ride in with the storm and settle into the whites of your girlfriend's eyes ...anyway, please enjoy Kaitlin's and my cowritten sapphic horror story, it's free to read!

"That Summer at Aunt Jackie’s Alpaca Farm" was written at Viable Paradise with the prompt of cottage core and alpacas. I added eldest sibling angst and magical wool. Enjoy!

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...

Very happy to say I’m going to @viableparadise.bsky.social this fall ✨ I received a Writer of Color Scholarship and am fundraising for the rest. Earning in pesos makes getting to a U.S. workshop its own exercise in speculative economics, so any help (or share) means a lot! gofund.me/198c28fdb

My latest story is available to Orion's Belt subscribers now! Grief, connection and some special candles.

"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...

my story, “The Light Below,” is available to read today in apex’s issue 154!! otherwise, you can catch it online october 20 🕯️🤍 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...

So excited to be a part of this issue!! Especially such an honor with this TOC and beautiful art.

thank you guys so much for the love on this project!! i’ve been drafting it in isolation since september 2024, and it makes me a little less nervous to query 🥲 excited to catch up on other folks’ pitches!! #questpit

AMINA AL-SIRAFI x QUEEN'S THIEF A dying thief switches fates with a man prophesied to end the worldwide flood. What's worse than death? Oh, consigning the guy you love to it. 🐉 sea-dragons 🏛️ floating libraries 🌊 flooded world ⛵ high seas adventures 🔥 slow burn romance #questpit #A #F #W #Q

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!

STRANGE 👽 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." 🫧👻🌵

For sake of future Viable Paradise classes, I wrote a thing. buttondown.com/wenwenwrites...

so 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

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. 🧵

had 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

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...

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...

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!

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.