Lesley Conner

If you'e ever read something great from Apex (and who hasn't), now's a good time to send them a few bucks:

Go forth and back!

I mean, sure, you could support Apex because they've published me a number of times in the past.... ....but Lesley makes an excellent point in this thread about just how cool the T-shirts are, so, yeah, you can support Apex just for the T-shirts and other merch instead.

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.

If you are able, please support and/or boost! Apex is a cornerstone of the SFFH short fiction scene. They do tremendous work and they need our help now.

Apex is a fantastic magazine and deserves your support! The Kickstarter also has some great rewards (just upgraded my tier to the author graphics pack 👀👀👀)

We're only $130 away from crossing $17K. If one person grabbed a short story critique, that would push us over. The critique is for a story up to 5K words, and it comes with a subscription to Apex Magazine and access to our Discord. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter has 7 days to go and just under $7K left to raise. That means we need to raise at least $1,000 every day if you want to see Apex Magazine next year! That's ... kinda scary. So please back if you can and share the campaign. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex is an essential SFF/Horror mag!!!! Please chip in if you can!

I've been watching all of the Godzilla movies in order - because of course I am - and I was explaining the plot of Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster to my kid while we were fixing lunch. If you've never watched any of the Godzilla movies, that movie sounds like an hallucinogenic fever dream.

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter is only $208 away from $13K. That's only 8 new subscribers. Could you be one of them? I'd really appreciate it if you were. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social is doing their annual Kickstarter and I urge everyone to back one of the genre's most constantly amazing magazines! BONUS: If you share this post you're in the running to receive a signed book from me. Details in thread. 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

10 DAYS TO GO until the end of the Apex 2027 Kickstarter, and we're 40% away from our funding goal! ⏰⏰⏰ if you've been considering treating yourself to an annual subscription or some exclusive Apex merch, now is the time to do so! Let's lock in another year of strange, shocking, beautiful fiction! 💪

Another donation in the books and I got this snazzy new T-shirt.

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.

keeping short fiction magazines alive is a fundamental part of keeping writing alive. Apex Magazine is a terrific venue for short fiction, flash fiction, and non fiction. if you can contribute? please do! otherwise? boost or share, please :)

$250 away from $12K! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I keep emailing people apologizing for running so behind. *sigh* I really need to get caught up.

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter is currently at $11,636 with 11 days to go. We need another $9,364 to hit our funding goal and secure another year of Apex. Can you help us get there? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Halfway there to @apexmag.bsky.social's goals! Let us RALLY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I *really* wish Facebook didn't have the ability to voice call people. There are people I'm fine with being "friends" with, but I in no way want them to have the ability to call me.

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter is only $172 away for 50% of our funding goal. We're also halfway through the campaign. Can we make the 50% mark today? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Almost halfway there! Thanks to each and every one of you from the bottom of our fungal little hearts 🍄🖤👽 We have another backer exclusive to celebrate: a previously unpublished flash fiction from @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social! There's lots more in store for our backers, and YOU can become one now! ⬇️

A beautiful, necessary essay. "Dopplegangrene stories." An apt metaphor for the way AI writing damages the host, whether the host is a magazine or a school. As a teacher, I share this exhaustion.

I'm watching Blood and Black Lace on Tubi and some of these closed captions are wild. If there's a quiet bit where no one is talking, random text pops up. Like "Thanks for watching" and my favorite "I don't know what is going on." Yeah, me either, weird ghost captions.

You guys wanna read a horror story about a very, very hungry lamb??? Back @apexmag.bsky.social 's Kickstarter and then you can! 👀🐑

I have a pretty obvious vested interest in this - Apex has published my work seven times over the years, and I'm hoping that I can persuade Lesley to let me in the zine again - but that only happens if their Kickstarters fund. So!

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter has passed $10K!!! Huge thank you to the nearly 200 backers who have gotten us this far! Let's keep it going! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

"Do I want a career where there is a subset of people constantly trying to . . . steal one of the few spots open to authors who value integrity? Do any of us?" 🌱🖊️ New essay by @lesleyconner.bsky.social: "Reality, Exhaustion, and AI" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter is only $208 away from $10K. That's the same as 8 people picking up a subscription through Kickstarter. Or 6 people grabbing one of our new Support Your Local Punks shirts. Will you be one of them? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I wrote a very vulnerable essay for Apex Magazine issue 154 and then promptly forgot that it was posting last week. You can read my essay "Reality, Exhaustion, and AI" on the Apex website now: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

....and speaking of speculative zines doing fundraising drives..... If it helps, you will ALSO get at least one TOTALLY FREE LIMERICK from ME when this funds! (Limerick will be posted here!)