C.J. Subko
@cjsubko.bsky.social
Writer of SFFH. Snarkwitch. Psych PhD. Approachable goth. Artomancer.
Words in Small Wonders, Penumbric, The Deadlands, Skull & Laurel
Member of HWA, SFWA, Codex
www.cjsubko.com
https://cjsubko.beehiiv.com
Words in Small Wonders, Penumbric, The Deadlands, Skull & Laurel
Member of HWA, SFWA, Codex
www.cjsubko.com
https://cjsubko.beehiiv.com
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C.J. Subko
@cjsubko.bsky.social
· Dec 4
Introducing AND THE DARK WILL KNOW MY NAME
a novel I'm currently #amquerying #querying
🖤Adult contemporary #horror 💙📚
🖤**68,000** words of neopagan witchcraft, murder, mental illness, and some romance
#writing community reposts appreciated
a novel I'm currently #amquerying #querying
🖤Adult contemporary #horror 💙📚
🖤**68,000** words of neopagan witchcraft, murder, mental illness, and some romance
#writing community reposts appreciated
One thing I like to put into my books when I can is competent psychologists and psychiatrists. I'm sick of the preponderance of media maligning them or showing terrible examples. GOOD ONES DO EXIST.
Also like, they're only human, you know?
Also like, they're only human, you know?
January 24, 2026 at 8:13 PM
One thing I like to put into my books when I can is competent psychologists and psychiatrists. I'm sick of the preponderance of media maligning them or showing terrible examples. GOOD ONES DO EXIST.
Also like, they're only human, you know?
Also like, they're only human, you know?
Sometimes I feel like an alien. I'm too shy for most people, but too extroverted for writers. So I just end up alone and lonely most of the time.
It is...not fun.
It is...not fun.
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Sometimes I feel like an alien. I'm too shy for most people, but too extroverted for writers. So I just end up alone and lonely most of the time.
It is...not fun.
It is...not fun.
442 words today. Too tired to go on, but I'm proud of myself. I have earned my first weekly sticker!
This is the slowest I've drafted a novel in like, two decades, but I'm reminding myself that this is burnout mode. Any #writing is good.
It's just frustrating.
This is the slowest I've drafted a novel in like, two decades, but I'm reminding myself that this is burnout mode. Any #writing is good.
It's just frustrating.
January 24, 2026 at 7:19 PM
442 words today. Too tired to go on, but I'm proud of myself. I have earned my first weekly sticker!
This is the slowest I've drafted a novel in like, two decades, but I'm reminding myself that this is burnout mode. Any #writing is good.
It's just frustrating.
This is the slowest I've drafted a novel in like, two decades, but I'm reminding myself that this is burnout mode. Any #writing is good.
It's just frustrating.
January 24, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Wrote 344 words today. I slept most of my day off which feels like a waste, but I guess I needed it?
Not sure if I'm going to keep going or do some painting and watch another horror movie.
#writing
Not sure if I'm going to keep going or do some painting and watch another horror movie.
#writing
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Wrote 344 words today. I slept most of my day off which feels like a waste, but I guess I needed it?
Not sure if I'm going to keep going or do some painting and watch another horror movie.
#writing
Not sure if I'm going to keep going or do some painting and watch another horror movie.
#writing
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Painted this during a horror movie.
January 23, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Painted this during a horror movie.
Painted this during a horror movie.
January 23, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Painted this during a horror movie.
Holy shit that was good. Disturbing AF though. Gotta decompress from that one.
January 23, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Holy shit that was good. Disturbing AF though. Gotta decompress from that one.
Beth just wants to get to the next moment without an intrusive thought or worry bugging her.
(From my new horror novel, MIRACLE GIRL)
(From my new horror novel, MIRACLE GIRL)
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
What's your character's view on enjoying a moment?
Do they savor it, wishing it could last forever? Enjoy it but still look to the future?
Or are they fixated on the past/future too much to enjoy it at all?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
What's your character's view on enjoying a moment?
Do they savor it, wishing it could last forever? Enjoy it but still look to the future?
Or are they fixated on the past/future too much to enjoy it at all?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
January 22, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Beth just wants to get to the next moment without an intrusive thought or worry bugging her.
(From my new horror novel, MIRACLE GIRL)
(From my new horror novel, MIRACLE GIRL)
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I’m still reeling from this, yall.
By the way, you can read my now-BFSA-longlisted essay here for free!
By the way, you can read my now-BFSA-longlisted essay here for free!
January 22, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I’m still reeling from this, yall.
By the way, you can read my now-BFSA-longlisted essay here for free!
By the way, you can read my now-BFSA-longlisted essay here for free!
@mishiiarts.bsky.social Loved your clothes practice!
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
@mishiiarts.bsky.social Loved your clothes practice!
I love watching everyone discovering new books in my mentions. It's very heartwarming.
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I love watching everyone discovering new books in my mentions. It's very heartwarming.
Like sorry but your *checks notes* having written a book does not qualify you to make substantive comments on statistical information.
Whenever you see data, ask yourself:
1. WHO put out this data?
2. WHAT is their agenda?
3. HOW did they sample the data? Is it a random, representative sample or is there potential for significant selection bias?
4. If there is bias, HOW might it be reflected in the results?
Love, a psychologist
1. WHO put out this data?
2. WHAT is their agenda?
3. HOW did they sample the data? Is it a random, representative sample or is there potential for significant selection bias?
4. If there is bias, HOW might it be reflected in the results?
Love, a psychologist
January 22, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Like sorry but your *checks notes* having written a book does not qualify you to make substantive comments on statistical information.
They brought up implementing AI in our organization today (blech) and someone I don't know asked if we're considering the environmental impact and THANK GOD it's not just me!
January 22, 2026 at 8:36 PM
They brought up implementing AI in our organization today (blech) and someone I don't know asked if we're considering the environmental impact and THANK GOD it's not just me!
Whenever you see data, ask yourself:
1. WHO put out this data?
2. WHAT is their agenda?
3. HOW did they sample the data? Is it a random, representative sample or is there potential for significant selection bias?
4. If there is bias, HOW might it be reflected in the results?
Love, a psychologist
1. WHO put out this data?
2. WHAT is their agenda?
3. HOW did they sample the data? Is it a random, representative sample or is there potential for significant selection bias?
4. If there is bias, HOW might it be reflected in the results?
Love, a psychologist
January 22, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Whenever you see data, ask yourself:
1. WHO put out this data?
2. WHAT is their agenda?
3. HOW did they sample the data? Is it a random, representative sample or is there potential for significant selection bias?
4. If there is bias, HOW might it be reflected in the results?
Love, a psychologist
1. WHO put out this data?
2. WHAT is their agenda?
3. HOW did they sample the data? Is it a random, representative sample or is there potential for significant selection bias?
4. If there is bias, HOW might it be reflected in the results?
Love, a psychologist
Periodic reminder that I have published a bunch of short fiction in the #SFF and #horror spaces. It's pretty cool. Check it out!
cjsubko.com/short-fiction
cjsubko.com/short-fiction
Short Fiction
I have publications in the following venues. The Crow’s Quill July 2023. “A Sacrifice” Learn more → Tales from the Moonlit Path October 2023. “The Creeping” Learn more…
cjsubko.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Periodic reminder that I have published a bunch of short fiction in the #SFF and #horror spaces. It's pretty cool. Check it out!
cjsubko.com/short-fiction
cjsubko.com/short-fiction
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Even in the depths of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing & holocaust, there have been white folks all over who have refused and resisted white supremacy.
We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*
We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*
January 17, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Even in the depths of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing & holocaust, there have been white folks all over who have refused and resisted white supremacy.
We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*
We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*
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Reading THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH by Rachel Gillig on the rec of a non-writer friend. Loving the grumpy-grumpy future pairing. So much banter! So much sass!
💙📚
💙📚
January 22, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Reading THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH by Rachel Gillig on the rec of a non-writer friend. Loving the grumpy-grumpy future pairing. So much banter! So much sass!
💙📚
💙📚
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I am thrilled to share that Flame Tree Press is publishing another of my short stories, a Lady of Shalott reimagining called "Half Made of Shadows", in OF SWORDS AND ROSES this June! I am even more excited to once again share a TOC with my beloved friend @crossingwinter.bsky.social!
#WriteSky
#WriteSky
January 22, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I am thrilled to share that Flame Tree Press is publishing another of my short stories, a Lady of Shalott reimagining called "Half Made of Shadows", in OF SWORDS AND ROSES this June! I am even more excited to once again share a TOC with my beloved friend @crossingwinter.bsky.social!
#WriteSky
#WriteSky
This was a fabulous essay about the importance of Greek and BIPOC voices in telling Greek myth, and what happens when these voices are shut out. Even if you don't vote, please read it!
Please vote, if you can, for These Marbles Were Never White. You can read it here: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
These Marbles Were Never White
The year is 2025. Matt Damon wears a red broom on his head in his first promotional image as the protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film adaptation of The Odyssey,1 and I’m already too exhaus...
www.khoreomag.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:40 PM
This was a fabulous essay about the importance of Greek and BIPOC voices in telling Greek myth, and what happens when these voices are shut out. Even if you don't vote, please read it!
I've been living in horror land for the last few months, but it's been great to go back to my fantasy roots and lift up so many amazing books.
Thanks for filling my mentions with fantasy recs!
Thanks for filling my mentions with fantasy recs!
January 22, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I've been living in horror land for the last few months, but it's been great to go back to my fantasy roots and lift up so many amazing books.
Thanks for filling my mentions with fantasy recs!
Thanks for filling my mentions with fantasy recs!