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C.J. Subko

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Writer of SFFH. Snarkwitch. Psych PhD. Approachable goth. Words in Small Wonders, Flame Tree, 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 · Oct 11

Hello, friends and followers! I'm C.J., an author of fantasy and horror fiction. Find me here most of the time.

🖤Website with short stories: www.cjsubko.com

🖤Newsletter with stories, articles, writing tips: cjsubko.substack.com

🖤Instagram: instagram.com/sarcasmlemons

Welcome to the madhouse!

moons, tarot cards, chain belts, skulls, swords, and typewriter keys

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 5h

It's amazing!!

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 9h

I am beyond excited for this one! #horror fans assemble! 💙📚 Congrats!

Marley Rose-Teter @marleyroseteter.bsky.social · 10h

Well, the rabbit's out of the PM bag! I have a lot of thoughts on what it means at last to be fulfilling the dream I've nurtured since I was 7 years old, but for right now I'm afraid all I have for you is the mental image of me flapping in a circle while I shout, I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter. Imprint: Page Street. Marley Rose-Teter's THE BONE BRIDES, pitched as Howl's Moving Castle by way of Guillermo del Toro, in which a girl must save her changeling girlfriend from a terrifying faerie realm before they both end up trapped in skins not their own, to Lauren Knowles at Page Street, for publication in fall 2026, by Hannah Andrade at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).

The PM announcement is decorated with a border image showing a moody autumnal forest and some cute skeleton bunnies.

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 6h

Very excited for you!

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this post I wrote this month on the importance of "play" in #writing hits so hard for me today

Check it out?

cjsubko.beehiiv.com/p/the-import...

The importance of "play"

Yep, I'm baaack

cjsubko.beehiiv.com

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 9h

I am beyond excited for this one! #horror fans assemble! 💙📚 Congrats!

Marley Rose-Teter @marleyroseteter.bsky.social · 10h

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 11h

Not now does not mean never.

Brb repeating this to myself 100 times and then taking a nap.

#writing #querying

C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 12h

Since I started out as a book reviewer, some of the takes I see about reviewers, who are largely doing this work for free, are... interesting.

So many things could be solved by giving people grace on both sides.

C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 13h

I... think we're already there?

C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 13h

People need to chill out, is my unhinged take 😆

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this post I wrote this month on the importance of "play" in #writing hits so hard for me today

Check it out?

cjsubko.beehiiv.com/p/the-import...

The importance of "play"

Yep, I'm baaack

cjsubko.beehiiv.com

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 1d

Today feels like a good day to work on PRIEST OF TEETH.

Maybe we do a little worldbuilding on Campfire, eh?

A little wee character development, as a treat?

#writing

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 1d

Today feels like a good day to work on PRIEST OF TEETH.

Maybe we do a little worldbuilding on Campfire, eh?

A little wee character development, as a treat?

#writing

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah no kidding. wishing you the best out there. 🖤

C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 1d

You are smart to have yours be specific. I was not.

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 1d

Any Ligotti fans out here?

I and some friends have something cool coming your way...

#writing 💙📚

C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 1d

I am half agony, half hope

#writing #querying

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing you can control in the publishing world is whether or not you keep #writing.

Learning that the hard way.

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 1d

I've actually enjoyed the first one so maybe I can trust the writers after all, thanks

C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing you can control in the publishing world is whether or not you keep #writing.

Learning that the hard way.

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 2d

So is BLACK PHONE 2 based on any actual King or is it just a random money grabber? Curious whether I should care about it or not.

#horror #filmsky

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 2d

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 2d

Was bored in the car on a long drive so I watched HOUSE ON EDEN.

It was fine.

Had some nice sparse moments ruined by overdoing the scares. Nothing PARANORMAL ACTIVITY didn't do first or better.

All in all, very vanilla.

#horror #filmsky

C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 2d

One of those days when my dreams feel like they're already dead

#writing

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 2d

Back from the void and apparently there's work to be done, how inconvenient

#writing