"I used to believe, as I was taught, that literacy was primarily about decoding text. But watching how people actually learn and think has convinced me that literacy is about something deeper: the capacity to construct and navigate environments where understanding becomes possible."
Let me also shout out EVERYONE KEEPS SAYING PROBABLY, a short story I had out earlier this year that still makes me feel ?? eight things ??
psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...
Hailey Piper holding up the new edition of her book No Gods for Drowning, cover art by Anna Chiara Stagi
My baby is back in print today 🥰
A woman trying to save her city has to slit a few throats to do it in this noir-inspired dark fantasy world, a story I wanted to tell that was the reason I became a writer.
NO GODS FOR DROWNING, out now from Bad Hand Books 🔪🌊
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...
New Book Releases: March 3, 2026 locusmag.com/2026/03...
It is women in horror month. I am one of those and here is my gothic/horror lit collection that people said was pretty good.
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/skin-...
link since a few peps were curious!
archiveofourown.org/works/80407261
Happy Birthday!!
Is there a link to the fanfic for this character? Also love the art too!
No problem, Ladz and I still love them!
No problem, Zoe and thank you for the collections of your short stories!
Lol! Ehh, well I think the real goal as to mention 5 authors besides Palumbo so it's more of a passing mention.
And no problem! Also congrats on your recent nomination for your recent short story collections!
Here's 5 authors who write short stories I enjoy a lot
besides the ones from @sillysyntax.bsky.social:
@ladzwriting.bsky.social
@zoestorm.bsky.social
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social
@premeemohamed.com
@mfolson.bsky.social
I'll add two more actually
@danifinnwrites.bsky.social
and Katie Quill
DID YOU KNOW COMMAS HAVE NAMES? OXFORD COMMA THE COMMA BEFORE AND IN A LIST WE READ FICTION, POETRY, AND NONFICTION. APPOSITIVE COMMA ADDS EXTRA INFO ABOUT A NOUN MS. LEE, THE LIBRARIAN, VISITED OUR CLASS. INTRODUCTORY COMMA COMES AFTER AN OPENING PHRASE AFTER READING, STUDENTS SHARED THEIR THINKING. INTERRUPTER COMMA SETS OFF WORDS THAT INTERRUPT THE SENTENCE THE LESSON, HOWEVER, TOOK MORE TIME. DIRECT ADDRESS COMMA USED WHEN SPEAKING TO SOMEONE BY NAME ASHLEY, PLEASE LINE UP.
Learning is lifelong!
Guardian 🌿
We've done it. We've just hit the release button on our biggest game yet...
DEMON TIDES IS OUT NOW ON STEAM! AHHHHH!
An open world platforming adventure full of mysteries, challenges and a ton of customization! Express yourself through the movement and explore the oceans!
It's alright though. I wish you and everyone who attends good luck.
I wish I was in Canada for this.
We're doing a reprint drive for KUMARI LOVES A MONSTER
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
This book is 33% off on Kobo Canada. So $5.99 down from $9.99. That is generally the cheapest price I've seen here.
(this book...lol my book)
www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
I kind of feel like it goes much broader than that for men too like from all the nostalgia content for stuff from the 2000s and the 90s. My IG keeps giving that kind of suggested content.
Got hit with a $3000.00 vet bill yesterday. Still looking for work. So, uh, buy my books, maybe?
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...
The cover of SLASHER SUMMER: the characters of the novel clustered together like a movie poster, and in the center a masked figure wearing a hoodie and red buffalo plaid jacket raises an axe. The cover itself is designed to look like a VHS tape.
Hurrah, the cover for my slasher romp SLASHER SUMMER has finally been officially revealed on Insta! Look at that amazing art by @turksworks.bsky.social, it makes me want to read the book and I already know what happens. 😅
Coming in June from Crown (US/Can) and Michael Joseph (UK).
Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
Variety confirms the wedding in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was real
No problem! And thank you for writing such a good story that also fits with this song too!
I loved it and thank you for writing it. I hope there'll be more short stories from you but I wish you luck with the longer fiction projects you have too.
I read this story last weekend and it's a really good one. And if you need a song to listen afterward that channels this story, it's Father of Mine by Everclear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkcb...
No excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images.
world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
cover for This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, cover art by Julia Lloyd. The art depicts a fedora over a suit with no face between them, replaced by the eerie light of a film projector catching the dust in an ethereal glow. A quote from Paul Tremblay calls the book "fun, creepy, and thrilling"
COVER REVEAL, alt text edition 🖤
In 1994, 3 girls go to the movies. Only 1 is ever seen again.
30 years later, something hunts the 1 who got away.
THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT opens September 15 📽️ let's all go to the movies and never come back 😈
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-movie...
