LightNews LightNews
thatdamngoose.bsky.social
@thatdamngoose.bsky.social
34 followers 90 following 62 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
horrortree.com
🧠🚀 Sci Phi Journal is open.

Hard SF that zooms out: systemic, structural, epic.
They like artifact fiction (in-world docs) + speculative philosophy.

€0.03/word (orig) | €0.01/word (trans)
Feb 12, 2026

horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#CallForSubmissions #HardSF
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Reposted
tallimorgan.bsky.social
LAUNCHING SOON: EXQUISITE UNDEAD, AN ANTHOLOGY OF VAMPIRES 🦇

I am SO excited to finally announce this! EXQUISITE UNDEAD is coming to Kickstarter on April 1, and pending successful funding, will begin accpeting submissions June 1 for publication in 2027.

More info soon! 🤭
Exquisite Undead: An Anthology of Vampires - launching on Kickstarter, April 1 2026. Exquisite Undead: An Anthology of Vampires Contributing authors: T.L. Morgan Juniper Lake Fitzgerald Josie Jaffreyy D.N. Bryn Jessie Thomas And you? Submissions open June 1 pending successful funding.
January 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Reposted
mcapriglioneart.bsky.social
Shopify. what the fuck

You can opt out but it's automatically enabled. Those using Spotify be sure to turn this off on Jan 26th. Don't let shitGPT have access to your products.
January 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Reposted
scyllapublishing.bsky.social
Reminder that Scylla will be in #smallpitch looking for Sapphic speculative fiction with strong, diverse characters, an "un-put-downable" narrative drive, and compelling conflict! @smallpitch.org
A gradient background from light teal (top) to yellow (bottom), fading out imagery of open books and a female space soldier silhouetted in a bright white doorway. Dark blue bold text in the top centre reads "We're participating in" with the dark blue and white logo for "Small Pitch" below it, also centred. Along the bottom is text that reads "January 19-25, 2026" along with a link to the Small Pitch website, "smallpitch.org". The teal Scylla logo sits on a dark blue background in the bottom right corner. A gradient background from light teal (top) to yellow (bottom), fading out imagery of a female space soldier silhouetted in a bright white doorway. The blue and white logo for "Small Pitch" sits in the upper right. Dark blue bold text in the top centre reads "We're eager for projects that feature" followed by the following three left-aligned listed items: "Sapphic speculative fiction, strong diverse characters, narrative drive and compelling conflict." The bottom of the image features a white bar with blue text saying "Learn more about us on our website: scyllapublishing.com" with the teal Scylla logo to the bottom right.
January 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Reposted
ericmgarcia.bsky.social
BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program.
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
January 12, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Reposted
acoupofowls.bsky.social
AVAILABLE 24 January 2026

🎇 Light Paths: A Queer Fantasy Romance Collection 🎇

#Booksky #queerfiction #Fantasy #Romantasy #queerhorror #queerromance 🌈📚
promo image for upcoming novelette collection "Light Paths: A Queer Fantasy Romance Collection". In the middle of the image is the cover art for the book - a cobblestone road disappearing under the full moon. Along the left side of the path is a desolate plateau and in the foreground is a large manned sabre tooth cat. On the right side of the path is a walled city with archways into a market place, in the foreground is a mysterious figure in a long blue cloak and white mask covering his entire face. There is a jagged flash shape on which is text reading "TWO! Queer! Fantasy! Romance! Novelettes!" There are rounded squares along the side of the image containing text. The text in each reads: "Could you bite off more than you can chew?" "Dare you gamble in a game of chance?" "PLUS! A little Extra from A Coup of Owls" Text at the top of the image reads "Coming... 24th January2026"
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Reposted
othersidespec.bsky.social
OTHERSIDE is officially OPEN for fiction and poetry submissions 🪐🗡️

If you’re part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, send us your speculative fiction and poetry: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and everything in between!

📚 Open window: Jan 1-14
📑 See guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "FICTION: We are looking for unpublished speculative fiction (up to 4000 words) by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror: we love it all! Simultaneous submissions are welcome! We pay 8 cents/word (USD). OPEN NOW! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines" White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "POETRY: We are looking for unpublished speculative poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. You can submit up to three poems at a time, and simultaneous submissions are always welcome. We pay $50 per poem (USD). OPEN NOW! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines"
January 1, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Reposted
cursedmorsels.bsky.social
Order something from our store today and I'll send my portion of the proceeds to MN ICE Watch, a local org that works to keep people safe from fascists and provide mutual aid to those affected by the ICE invasion.
www.cursedmorselspress.com
Home | Cursed Morsels Press
www.cursedmorselspress.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Reposted
orionstarbeard.bsky.social
Discord is trying to add new AI features to their platform. They're asking people to fill out a survey on how they feel about AI and what "value" it would add to their platform. Please take a few minutes to fill it out and tell them to fuck off with AI.

discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Reposted
lormaggot.ca
ONE MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ghoulish.bsky.social Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · Dec 6
After a couple of unexpected delays, COSMIC DYKE PATROL will finally hit bookshelves February 10. Think GHOSTBUSTERS if the ghostbusters were all fucking each other. Written by Lor Gislason. Cover by Val Hal. Pre-order here: ghoulish.rip/product/cosm...

@lormaggot.ca @valhal.bsky.social
cover art of cosmic dyke patrol
January 10, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Reposted
frombeyondpress.bsky.social
Agita is a new triannual online magazine for flash horror and sci-fi. Each issue will contain three flash stories around a theme. The first issue, coming in May and co-edited by Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social), is "Bad Science." Subs open March 1. Details at agitamag.com
A black circle with "Agita 1" and "agitamag.com" around the outside. Inside the circle, "Bad Science, May 1, 2026, Guest editor: Eric Williams."
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Reposted
tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Hey all! YB=FD subs close tomorrow (or today, depending where you is!)
Get your stories to us before the clock turns over in the latest time zone…whichever one that is?
(And we’ll probably give it a couple extra hours 🖤☠️)
January 10, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Reposted
zeddary.bsky.social
Given obvious markets for Black horror (Sinners, Get Out, Nope, Candyman) and stylish Neo-noir action (John Wick, Nobody, Monkey Man) it's incredible that Marvel couldn't piece together the cinematic concept of letting a handsome two-time Oscar winner dice up vampires in a nightclub for 100 minutes.
darkhorizons.bsky.social Dark Horizons @darkhorizons.bsky.social · 4d
Marvel Reportedly Shelves “Blade” Film
www.darkhorizons.com/marvel-repor...
January 9, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Reposted
tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Subterranean monstrosities from space, or fire n' brimstone apocalyptic prophesies coming true? Why not a bit of both?

We've got a pair of preorders for you!

KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social out Feb. 17th;

OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out Mar. 24th:

Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com
🖤☠️
Cover art by Kerisson Wemerson, a lone kayaker navigates islands shaped like a monster’s jaws, and blurbs for KAYAK Blurbs by Bitter Karella, Hailey Piper and Briar Ripley Page beside the front cover of OLYOKE drawn by Jenna Cha, featuring a human form flapping bonelessly, like a kite made of sloughed skin, over a ferris wheel and other landmarks in the town of Olyoke.
January 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Reposted
arobertswrites.com
Listeria risk in pecorino cheese distributed in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. Article lists affected brands.
January 9, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Reposted
aimeecozza.com
Yo I thought people on Bluesky loved visual novels AND lesbians?!
plottwiststudios.bsky.social Plottwist Studios LLC @plottwiststudios.bsky.social · 7d
Sorry, folks. Seven days to go and 50% funded. We'll need a modern internet miracle to see these lovely ladies get their sequel. I was always worried that the visuals were not appealing to most VN gamers, but... ouch

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pro...

#indiegame #Kickstarter #Gaming #pcgame #free
Women of Xal II
Original Game Free! The revolution begins. Can Xjena survive rising violence and The Great Silence— Xal's final extinction event?
www.kickstarter.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reposted
juliemarchbooks.bsky.social
My moot @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social made a super cool quiz that sorts you into the sci-fi subgenre most like your personality and you should check it out because it's very fun

uquiz.com/quiz/a6pF1I/...
Which Scifi Subgenre is Your Personality?
Which scifi genre are you? Space opera? Dystopian? Scifi noir? Solarpunk? Only one way to find out: an internet quiz from a complete stranger! Check out my own novel here: https://www.royalroad.com...
uquiz.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Reposted
litnerd.bsky.social
I just finished TADEK AND THE PRINCESS for the…4th time? And was a weeping mess yet again.

Damn you @alexandrarowland.bsky.social !
litnerd.bsky.social Meghann Ord @litnerd.bsky.social · Dec 13
So Indulgent December means I can just stop and read whatever my id is craving is the moment.

It’s been rereads of queer hockey faves (thanks Heated Rivalry show), but now I want ATOGAI, and then probably YIELD UNDER GREAT PERSUASION.
December 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Reposted
frombeyondpress.bsky.social
Other publishers: have you paid someone to write an introduction? If you wouldn't mind sharing, please DM me how much you paid them. You don't have to say who. I'm trying to make sure I don't lowball someone.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reposted
tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Just a few pieces of the incredible art that graced YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY.

And we're looking for more! As well as generous donors to help make our upcoming companion volume, YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, an equally gorgeous tome.

Details here:
tinyurl.com/kfdrp7mu
Cover art of 2022's YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY by Mx Morgan G Robles, a swan being strangled and restrained by a tentacled many-eyed trans-flag-colored cosmic horror Art by Harrison Webb, a looming monster tattooed with insults clutches a torn-out heart in its claw, over a silhouette of a person in distress art by Becca Snow; a human curled in a fetal position is pulled oat by dozens of human hands, ripping the skin from their bones; dozens of disembodied eyes watch from below art by Lillian Hochwender; a humanoid figure with antlers, wings and feathers and a third eye, staring upward, feathers molting from its hand
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reposted
tenebrouspress.bsky.social
"Staggeringly brutal and as painful as poking at an exposed nerve. As much as it hurts, I know I’ll be visiting it again and again." @emmaemurray.bsky.social, CRUSHING SNAILS

@santiagoeximeno.bsky.social's ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT is part of our 2026 Book Club!

Print+eBook or eBook-only options⬇️⬇️
Jenna Cha's haunting cover art: in a sickly smoky green barren wasteland, a monolithic head emerges from the ground, spilling countless desiccated corpses from its mouth, a glowing light in the back of its throat; a single figure hovers beside the head, curled in a fetal position
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted
phenomenapress.bsky.social
We received over 60 submissions to our open call!

That is so much more than we hoped to receive, and it's incredibly validating to know that we get to be able to bring more aspec stories into the world 💚💜

#writesky 🌈📚
Image reads: Submissions closed! Thank you so much for all of your submissions! We received over 60 stories, and we're super excited to start reading them soon We hope to send out responses within the next 8-10 weeks
December 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Reposted
tenebrouspress.bsky.social
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices

🏳️‍⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️‍⚧️

Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.

All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...

Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM announced; cover art reveal & submissions info! — tenebrous press
Hey Ho, Tenebrous Cult! Hope you're as excited about this as we are: we're ready to announce submission details, and reveal the cover, of the next YOUR BODY volume. Mx Morgan G Robles crafted the ex...
tenebrouspress.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted
scyllapublishing.bsky.social
We are now OPEN for submissions for our first anthology! The vibe is wondrous sapphic specfic, and we want to see diversity. It's taken a lot of effort/fundraising to get to this point, but proud to say we offer professional rates. #booksky #submissions #writingcommunity #sapphic
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Reposted
specawards.bsky.social
Congratulations to the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards winners!
✨BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY by @evanjpeterson.bsky.social (@slgable.bsky.social)
✨YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD by @rabusby.bsky.social (@stelliform.press)
✨EMPRESS OF DUST by @alexyquest.bsky.social (@wctracy.bsky.social)

#SSBA #SSBA2025
Fantasy winner: ✨BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY by @evanjpeterson.bsky.social (@slgable.bsky.social) Horror winner: ✨YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD by @rabusby.bsky.social (@stelliform.press) Sci-Fi winner: ✨EMPRESS OF DUST by @alexyquest.bsky.social (@wctracy.bsky.social)
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM