Steve Neal
@stevenealwrites.bsky.social
Horror writer. Overly tired. Probably annoying a cat somewhere. Editor @nadirmagazine.bsky.social
sdnealwrites.substack.com
sdnealwrites.substack.com
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Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
tenbluelinks.org
August 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
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Today is the last day of the extended window!
Go, send stories! Horror, sci-fi, comedy, romance, whatever you have as long as it's weird as heck.
nadirmagazine.com for the guidelines
Go, send stories! Horror, sci-fi, comedy, romance, whatever you have as long as it's weird as heck.
nadirmagazine.com for the guidelines
Nadir Magazine Open Call
Open call for weird literature submissions July 15th
nadirmagazine.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Today is the last day of the extended window!
Go, send stories! Horror, sci-fi, comedy, romance, whatever you have as long as it's weird as heck.
nadirmagazine.com for the guidelines
Go, send stories! Horror, sci-fi, comedy, romance, whatever you have as long as it's weird as heck.
nadirmagazine.com for the guidelines
Just had our health insurance switch to United and... yeah, I get it
August 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Just had our health insurance switch to United and... yeah, I get it
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REMINDER: Today is the last day for the open subs, extended to August 15th for BIPOC authors.
Closes at midnight, last place on Earth. But really, I'm not gonna check to see if you submitted a minute after midnight on the Baker Islands. Just don't take the piss.
Full guidelines: nadirmagazine.com
Closes at midnight, last place on Earth. But really, I'm not gonna check to see if you submitted a minute after midnight on the Baker Islands. Just don't take the piss.
Full guidelines: nadirmagazine.com
Nadir Magazine Open Call
Open call for weird literature submissions July 15th
nadirmagazine.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
REMINDER: Today is the last day for the open subs, extended to August 15th for BIPOC authors.
Closes at midnight, last place on Earth. But really, I'm not gonna check to see if you submitted a minute after midnight on the Baker Islands. Just don't take the piss.
Full guidelines: nadirmagazine.com
Closes at midnight, last place on Earth. But really, I'm not gonna check to see if you submitted a minute after midnight on the Baker Islands. Just don't take the piss.
Full guidelines: nadirmagazine.com
There's something especially stinky about receiving rejections on a novella that lost its home.
I KNOW this book is good enough to be published, it had a contract for pete's sake, the self doubt isn't logical, but it hits hard regardless.
I KNOW this book is good enough to be published, it had a contract for pete's sake, the self doubt isn't logical, but it hits hard regardless.
July 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There's something especially stinky about receiving rejections on a novella that lost its home.
I KNOW this book is good enough to be published, it had a contract for pete's sake, the self doubt isn't logical, but it hits hard regardless.
I KNOW this book is good enough to be published, it had a contract for pete's sake, the self doubt isn't logical, but it hits hard regardless.
Why is nothing ever as good as Silent Hill? Why can't more things be Silent Hill?
July 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Why is nothing ever as good as Silent Hill? Why can't more things be Silent Hill?
Are the neurotypicals okay?
July 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Are the neurotypicals okay?
"The cherry on a shit sundae" isn't something you hear on a federal contracting call every day.
July 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The cherry on a shit sundae" isn't something you hear on a federal contracting call every day.
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July 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I've been receiving emails for Lance Pittman for a solid month now and I really can't remember if I used a fake name to sign up for something or if someone has pulled a dastardly prank upon my inbox.
Perhaps it was I, the dastard.
Perhaps it was I, the dastard.
July 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I've been receiving emails for Lance Pittman for a solid month now and I really can't remember if I used a fake name to sign up for something or if someone has pulled a dastardly prank upon my inbox.
Perhaps it was I, the dastard.
Perhaps it was I, the dastard.
I made a substack post about my tumultous past year and what it taught me about writing as a creative outlet and as an industry. It'd mean a lot if you checked it out
open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...
open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...
A YEAR IN REVIEW
What losing hope taught me about writing
open.substack.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I made a substack post about my tumultous past year and what it taught me about writing as a creative outlet and as an industry. It'd mean a lot if you checked it out
open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...
open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...
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As we're about a week away from opening up I want to clarify:
We believe trans kids have a right to exist, no one is illegal on stolen land, and in a free Palestine.
This is to say if your socials or story have right wing bs, the sub is getting deleted without consideration or response.
We believe trans kids have a right to exist, no one is illegal on stolen land, and in a free Palestine.
This is to say if your socials or story have right wing bs, the sub is getting deleted without consideration or response.
July 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
As we're about a week away from opening up I want to clarify:
We believe trans kids have a right to exist, no one is illegal on stolen land, and in a free Palestine.
This is to say if your socials or story have right wing bs, the sub is getting deleted without consideration or response.
We believe trans kids have a right to exist, no one is illegal on stolen land, and in a free Palestine.
This is to say if your socials or story have right wing bs, the sub is getting deleted without consideration or response.
Figure I'll throw it out here too - if any publisher feels like putting out a creature feature novelette, get at me.
A swamp, airboats, and plenty of body parts floating around, what's not to love??
A swamp, airboats, and plenty of body parts floating around, what's not to love??
July 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Figure I'll throw it out here too - if any publisher feels like putting out a creature feature novelette, get at me.
A swamp, airboats, and plenty of body parts floating around, what's not to love??
A swamp, airboats, and plenty of body parts floating around, what's not to love??
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Two weeks away from opening up! Bring me your weird, your deranged, your sad, your horny, make me worry about how tf I'm going to edit your story.
Super excited to announce we'll be opening for subs in a few weeks. Bring us your weird!
Full guidelines here: nadirmagazine.com
Full guidelines here: nadirmagazine.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Two weeks away from opening up! Bring me your weird, your deranged, your sad, your horny, make me worry about how tf I'm going to edit your story.
My neurodivergent ass has finally learned that "hit me up if you need anything" and "feel free to reach out in the future" aren't meant sincerely.
You people know you can just NOT say that, right? Shit's confusing.
You people know you can just NOT say that, right? Shit's confusing.
June 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My neurodivergent ass has finally learned that "hit me up if you need anything" and "feel free to reach out in the future" aren't meant sincerely.
You people know you can just NOT say that, right? Shit's confusing.
You people know you can just NOT say that, right? Shit's confusing.
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Super excited to announce we'll be opening for subs in a few weeks. Bring us your weird!
Full guidelines here: nadirmagazine.com
Full guidelines here: nadirmagazine.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Super excited to announce we'll be opening for subs in a few weeks. Bring us your weird!
Full guidelines here: nadirmagazine.com
Full guidelines here: nadirmagazine.com
I've started a magazine! @nadirmagazine.bsky.social
If you want to know more about me and why I've started one, go here: open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...
If you want submission guidelines, go here: nadirmagazine.com
If you want to know more about me and why I've started one, go here: open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...
If you want submission guidelines, go here: nadirmagazine.com
Nadir Magazine Open Call
Open call for weird literature submissions July 15th
nadirmagazine.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I've started a magazine! @nadirmagazine.bsky.social
If you want to know more about me and why I've started one, go here: open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...
If you want submission guidelines, go here: nadirmagazine.com
If you want to know more about me and why I've started one, go here: open.substack.com/pub/sdnealwr...
If you want submission guidelines, go here: nadirmagazine.com
Decided to fuck around and query an agent before bed, should make for easy sleeping.
June 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Decided to fuck around and query an agent before bed, should make for easy sleeping.
I have this completely irrational fear that one day I'm going to sneeze so hard that all of my top molars explore out of my gums and I'll try to explain what happened and blood will just dribble out of my mouth.
And I don't know, I just felt like telling the internet this.
And I don't know, I just felt like telling the internet this.
June 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I have this completely irrational fear that one day I'm going to sneeze so hard that all of my top molars explore out of my gums and I'll try to explain what happened and blood will just dribble out of my mouth.
And I don't know, I just felt like telling the internet this.
And I don't know, I just felt like telling the internet this.
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Mark Jaskowski's Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth! is out today! Shit rips. Body horror weirdness wrapped in a 'what happened last night' mystery involving desperate folks doing low-level crimes.
Get it from Weirdpunk or wherever.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com
Get it from Weirdpunk or wherever.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Mark Jaskowski's Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth! is out today! Shit rips. Body horror weirdness wrapped in a 'what happened last night' mystery involving desperate folks doing low-level crimes.
Get it from Weirdpunk or wherever.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com
Get it from Weirdpunk or wherever.
www.weirdpunkbooks.com
Obviously, I won't be at Stoker, but I do want to remind people that Stamford is having a No Kings protest on the 14th and think that'd be real neat if people showed up.
June 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Obviously, I won't be at Stoker, but I do want to remind people that Stamford is having a No Kings protest on the 14th and think that'd be real neat if people showed up.
Does anyone still put together a monthly sub calls list? I remember there used to be google docs floating around and such.
June 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Does anyone still put together a monthly sub calls list? I remember there used to be google docs floating around and such.
Should probably put this here as well.
Gonna be launching a weird fic mag this year. Just a little thing, but there needs to be more homes for strange tales so I'm making one.
More details to come in July once I get all the admin stuff done, but yeah. It's happening.
Gonna be launching a weird fic mag this year. Just a little thing, but there needs to be more homes for strange tales so I'm making one.
More details to come in July once I get all the admin stuff done, but yeah. It's happening.
June 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Should probably put this here as well.
Gonna be launching a weird fic mag this year. Just a little thing, but there needs to be more homes for strange tales so I'm making one.
More details to come in July once I get all the admin stuff done, but yeah. It's happening.
Gonna be launching a weird fic mag this year. Just a little thing, but there needs to be more homes for strange tales so I'm making one.
More details to come in July once I get all the admin stuff done, but yeah. It's happening.
Finding a new publisher for a book that lost its home is a whole new level of difficult.
April 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Finding a new publisher for a book that lost its home is a whole new level of difficult.