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Emma Cole

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Editor@Mira Books. Poetry Editor@Orion's Belt Mag. Notes & Queries Editor @JPRS. Rep'd by Danai Christopolou and Lane Heymont. Writing about romance in horror movies, etc. editrixemma.com

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · Oct 10

I guess I've been lax at posting over here, but I will try to be better. An intro: I'm Emma, I'm an editor at Harlequin, and in my spare time I'm writing a nonfiction book about romance in horror movies because I love horror. Always happy to answer questions about Harlequin if I can!

A picture of me smiling while holding a big stack of horror movies as research for my upcoming book.

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 14h

I just think this last month or so has been really entertaining! I don't think I've ever enjoyed watching them but they seem to be having a lot of fun lately.

Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 14h

I was pretty sure I was going to see this on the big screen anyway because I am a massive NIN fan, but you've made me hope there might be something more exciting/interesting to look forward to here.

Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 14h

My husband has been making me watch the Blue Jays for like 20 years and it's finally pretty good.

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Caleb Bethea (they/them) @calebbethea.bsky.social · 8d

Award eligibility on the dance floor!

DISCO MURDER CITY just might be the queer batshittery you and your colleagues need tonight.

If you’re HWA, jury, board, or anything of the sort, say hi and I can get you a review copy.

Always room for another body at the disco 🔪

DISCO MURDER CITY: Eligible for Best First Novel

And a tripped out photo of Travolta from Saturday Night Fever

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 1d

I am not currently in need of the workshop, but I will say that Eric's nonfiction query resources are, I think, what made my nonfic proposal strong enough to get an agent and a book deal. Super helpful and insightful.

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 1d

Happy book birthday to @jennykiefer.com and Crafting for Sinners! As a crafty person, this book feels hilariously disgustingly accurate and I loved it. You should read it especially if you are also a crafty person (who is not squeamish)

Jenny Kiefer's Crafting for Sinners. The cover features a pair of crocheted hands on a praying pose.

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, wild right?

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We watched What Lies Beneath because it's been a while and it's on Criterion. The biggest plot twist is that it was written by Clark Gregg.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 1d

The state of online media is such a bummer, I sometimes think: who cares? Then, I read something so smart and so funny and so uniquely the product of this compromised but generative space, that I remember: I care!
This, by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social, is a tour de force. defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 4d

THE DIGITAL ZINE IS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR READING PLEASURE BABYYYYYY

DISEASE OF FINITUDE!

Digital Zine.

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 4d

Hell yeah this is on regular rotation still. The whole soundtrack is great but I think this one is my fave.

Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 4d

oh, this looks great, adding to my miles-long list of books to read...

Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 5d

#LetterboxdFriday, here's my #LastFourWatched: They Live and Minority Report are enjoyable, I should like The Sound of Music but I don't, and Wonder Boys is one of my faves about writers. October faves aren't much different than my regular faves to be honest, but I switched them up.

Letterboxd October faves: Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me, Hellraiser, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and The Fly.
Last Four Watched: They Live, The Sound of Music, Minority Report, and Wonder Boys.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 5d

sorry to be boring about this, but the tired line about "this kind of work is only possible via subscribers" is still true, there's no way we have the time or space to do stories like this otherwise

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d

THE FLESH KING, the sequel to THE PALE HOUSE DEVIL, will be out October 7th. It continues Ford, Neuland, and Tilda's story back home in New York, where they search for an immortal killer. It's available for preorder wherever you get your books.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5d

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 5d

Probably nothing better as an editor than asking an author, what do you think about this, and hearing them reply oh that's interesting, I never thought about it like that but it totally makes sense for the story. Highlight of my week for sure.

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 5d

Yes but they both have kickass soundtracks which I listen to way more than I watch the movies so I'm grateful.

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CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social · 5d

When you’re publishing your publisher friend. @alexwoodroe.com wrote an amazing horror sci-fi banger! So stoked be publishing her!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6d

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 6d

Oh yes, this is so right! I also love those Price movies, that makes so much sense.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 6d

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press

REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 6d

Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 8d

DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰

Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳

Photograph of a smiling Chinese American woman in a skull crown holding a copy of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats Kelsea! So happy for you!

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