shleigh
@ashleighshears.bsky.social
SFFH reader & writer
rep: Thais Afonso at Azantian
stories in clarkesworld & monstrous futures
queer scifi horror connoisseur
🎮 silent hill f
📚the works of vermin
WIP: 86 k / ?? k
rep: Thais Afonso at Azantian
stories in clarkesworld & monstrous futures
queer scifi horror connoisseur
🎮 silent hill f
📚the works of vermin
WIP: 86 k / ?? k
a game in yellow slapped btw !!
September 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
a game in yellow slapped btw !!
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WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
my past three horror book reads all knock outsss
September 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
my past three horror book reads all knock outsss
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please spread the news far and wide!!
librarians and booksellers, THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now on Netgalley!
librarians and booksellers, THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now on Netgalley!
The Iron Garden Sutra
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
www.netgalley.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
please spread the news far and wide!!
librarians and booksellers, THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now on Netgalley!
librarians and booksellers, THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now on Netgalley!
just picked up black flame by gretchen felker-martin from the library literalllyy cannot wait for this to fuck up my brain chemistry
August 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
just picked up black flame by gretchen felker-martin from the library literalllyy cannot wait for this to fuck up my brain chemistry
alien earth actually being fun to watch and good to look at
a woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt is smiling and waving at the camera .
Alt: drew barrymore laughing with joy in the rain dot gif
media.tenor.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
alien earth actually being fun to watch and good to look at
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🎺🚨STOP PRESS🚨🎺
August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN is a finalist for Lambda Literary's LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Award!
"a thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social
Out in the UK this October, preorder: geni.us/metalfhe
Full list: lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...
August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN is a finalist for Lambda Literary's LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Award!
"a thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social
Out in the UK this October, preorder: geni.us/metalfhe
Full list: lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...
July 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🎺🚨STOP PRESS🚨🎺
August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN is a finalist for Lambda Literary's LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Award!
"a thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social
Out in the UK this October, preorder: geni.us/metalfhe
Full list: lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...
August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN is a finalist for Lambda Literary's LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction Award!
"a thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social
Out in the UK this October, preorder: geni.us/metalfhe
Full list: lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...
just found out about Alien: Cult coming out from titan and I’ve never seen something more me targeted than a xenomorph worshipping religion mystery book oh my godddd
July 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
just found out about Alien: Cult coming out from titan and I’ve never seen something more me targeted than a xenomorph worshipping religion mystery book oh my godddd
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happy ✨cover✨ day (and some reading material for ya!)
Vessel likes meeting people. They just often happen to be dead when he gets there.
We are thrilled to reveal the cover (and an excerpt!) of @thesuiway.bsky.social's The Iron Garden Sutra, out from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social on February 24, 2026!
reactormag.com/cover-reveal...
We are thrilled to reveal the cover (and an excerpt!) of @thesuiway.bsky.social's The Iron Garden Sutra, out from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social on February 24, 2026!
reactormag.com/cover-reveal...
Revealing The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui - Reactor
A spaceship murder mystery — arriving February 2026 from Erewhon Books!
reactormag.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
happy ✨cover✨ day (and some reading material for ya!)
space opera horror wip has hit 70k 😤 it had better be all downhill rolling from here cause damn that 60 to 70 was tuff
June 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
space opera horror wip has hit 70k 😤 it had better be all downhill rolling from here cause damn that 60 to 70 was tuff
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✨🕯️cover reveal🕯️✨
STORMRAVEN, my Chinese American modern gothic horror novel, has a cover! 🥹
Now available for preorder (US/Can): www.simonandschuster.com/books/Stormraven/Kelsea-Yu/9781668097304
Add to Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/235689122-stormraven
More info: www.kelseayu.com
💀🖤🕯️🩸👻
STORMRAVEN, my Chinese American modern gothic horror novel, has a cover! 🥹
Now available for preorder (US/Can): www.simonandschuster.com/books/Stormraven/Kelsea-Yu/9781668097304
Add to Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/235689122-stormraven
More info: www.kelseayu.com
💀🖤🕯️🩸👻
June 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
✨🕯️cover reveal🕯️✨
STORMRAVEN, my Chinese American modern gothic horror novel, has a cover! 🥹
Now available for preorder (US/Can): www.simonandschuster.com/books/Stormraven/Kelsea-Yu/9781668097304
Add to Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/235689122-stormraven
More info: www.kelseayu.com
💀🖤🕯️🩸👻
STORMRAVEN, my Chinese American modern gothic horror novel, has a cover! 🥹
Now available for preorder (US/Can): www.simonandschuster.com/books/Stormraven/Kelsea-Yu/9781668097304
Add to Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/235689122-stormraven
More info: www.kelseayu.com
💀🖤🕯️🩸👻
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Jonathan Joss was MURDERED.
Words matter here.
He was MURDERED.
it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man.
Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.
Words matter here.
He was MURDERED.
it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man.
Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.
June 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Jonathan Joss was MURDERED.
Words matter here.
He was MURDERED.
it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man.
Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.
Words matter here.
He was MURDERED.
it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man.
Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.
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J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
May 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
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✨🖤📕BOOK DEAL!! 🌊👻✨
Absolutely thrilled to share that my very first horror novel, STORMRAVEN, will be coming out next spring with @simonandschuster.bsky.social (US) & @titanbooks.bsky.social (UK)!!! 🥳 Thank you @jenazantian.bsky.social, @ed-schlesinger.bsky.social, & @dancarpenter.bsky.social
🧵⏬ 👀
Absolutely thrilled to share that my very first horror novel, STORMRAVEN, will be coming out next spring with @simonandschuster.bsky.social (US) & @titanbooks.bsky.social (UK)!!! 🥳 Thank you @jenazantian.bsky.social, @ed-schlesinger.bsky.social, & @dancarpenter.bsky.social
🧵⏬ 👀
May 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
✨🖤📕BOOK DEAL!! 🌊👻✨
Absolutely thrilled to share that my very first horror novel, STORMRAVEN, will be coming out next spring with @simonandschuster.bsky.social (US) & @titanbooks.bsky.social (UK)!!! 🥳 Thank you @jenazantian.bsky.social, @ed-schlesinger.bsky.social, & @dancarpenter.bsky.social
🧵⏬ 👀
Absolutely thrilled to share that my very first horror novel, STORMRAVEN, will be coming out next spring with @simonandschuster.bsky.social (US) & @titanbooks.bsky.social (UK)!!! 🥳 Thank you @jenazantian.bsky.social, @ed-schlesinger.bsky.social, & @dancarpenter.bsky.social
🧵⏬ 👀
I have won a goodreads book giveaway, which I did not know could actually happen (it’s for trans witches book awakened !!!)
May 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I have won a goodreads book giveaway, which I did not know could actually happen (it’s for trans witches book awakened !!!)
my library copy of cold eternity by s.a. barnes being covered in about 29 bite marks and part of the back cover bitten clean off is really adding to the horror ambience
May 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
my library copy of cold eternity by s.a. barnes being covered in about 29 bite marks and part of the back cover bitten clean off is really adding to the horror ambience
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If you see it, share it! Especially interested in BIPOC horror! #opencall #horrorwriters #pinkhorror #womenwritinghorror #horrorcommunity
May 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you see it, share it! Especially interested in BIPOC horror! #opencall #horrorwriters #pinkhorror #womenwritinghorror #horrorcommunity
time to see sinners !! godda do my part to make original films look financially viable
April 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
time to see sinners !! godda do my part to make original films look financially viable
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You may have heard the news, but my imprint is expanding to include women writing horror! Feel free to DM me with questions! Happy to chat about Bindery! #publishing #horrorwriter #horrorauthor #womeninhorror #horrorwriter
April 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
You may have heard the news, but my imprint is expanding to include women writing horror! Feel free to DM me with questions! Happy to chat about Bindery! #publishing #horrorwriter #horrorauthor #womeninhorror #horrorwriter
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1. I am raising the alarm: If you are a transgender adult, your care is under threat by President Trump.
You should prepare for severe supply disruptions and policies that amount to potential bans.
The latest CMS letter indicates an expansion to target adults.
Subscribe to support my reporting.
You should prepare for severe supply disruptions and policies that amount to potential bans.
The latest CMS letter indicates an expansion to target adults.
Subscribe to support my reporting.
The Trump Administration Threat To Transgender Adult Care Is Growing At Lightning Speed
Many transgender adults have wondered when their care would be banned by the Trump administration. Now, we are seeing the first vectors to do so.
www.erininthemorning.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
1. I am raising the alarm: If you are a transgender adult, your care is under threat by President Trump.
You should prepare for severe supply disruptions and policies that amount to potential bans.
The latest CMS letter indicates an expansion to target adults.
Subscribe to support my reporting.
You should prepare for severe supply disruptions and policies that amount to potential bans.
The latest CMS letter indicates an expansion to target adults.
Subscribe to support my reporting.
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I have curated a wicked, little reading list for you called, Malevolent Sisterhood featuring nuns and convents, rituals, and wickedness.
The Rotting Room
The Unworthy
The Suicide Motorclub
The Monk
Blood Rubies
The Starving Saints
The Rotting Room
The Unworthy
The Suicide Motorclub
The Monk
Blood Rubies
The Starving Saints
April 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I have curated a wicked, little reading list for you called, Malevolent Sisterhood featuring nuns and convents, rituals, and wickedness.
The Rotting Room
The Unworthy
The Suicide Motorclub
The Monk
Blood Rubies
The Starving Saints
The Rotting Room
The Unworthy
The Suicide Motorclub
The Monk
Blood Rubies
The Starving Saints
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My name's Skirt, I work in animation and video games by providing ethereal backgrounds/color for amazing projects! I am available for new short and long-term projects from July 2025! Clients : Hoyo, Bluepoch, Mooncube Games, Sunnyside Games
💌 kidofrillyskirt/gmail.com
#PortfolioDay
💌 kidofrillyskirt/gmail.com
#PortfolioDay
April 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My name's Skirt, I work in animation and video games by providing ethereal backgrounds/color for amazing projects! I am available for new short and long-term projects from July 2025! Clients : Hoyo, Bluepoch, Mooncube Games, Sunnyside Games
💌 kidofrillyskirt/gmail.com
#PortfolioDay
💌 kidofrillyskirt/gmail.com
#PortfolioDay
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Is actually #PortfolioDay ? I always post the wrong day lmao 😭🖤
April 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Is actually #PortfolioDay ? I always post the wrong day lmao 😭🖤
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Hi #PortfolioDay!!
I'm Rex and I'm an Illustrator and vis dev !!
I'm available for work and commission you can contact me at
📧 [email protected]
I'm Rex and I'm an Illustrator and vis dev !!
I'm available for work and commission you can contact me at
📧 [email protected]
April 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hi #PortfolioDay!!
I'm Rex and I'm an Illustrator and vis dev !!
I'm available for work and commission you can contact me at
📧 [email protected]
I'm Rex and I'm an Illustrator and vis dev !!
I'm available for work and commission you can contact me at
📧 [email protected]
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🎉 I AM OFFICIALLY A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!! 🎉
My book The Serpent Called Mercy has officially hit shelves in North America (UK/Commonwealth tomorrow)! This is a dream come true for me, and I’m so grateful.
Here’s my very last unboxing video to celebrate:
My book The Serpent Called Mercy has officially hit shelves in North America (UK/Commonwealth tomorrow)! This is a dream come true for me, and I’m so grateful.
Here’s my very last unboxing video to celebrate:
March 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🎉 I AM OFFICIALLY A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!! 🎉
My book The Serpent Called Mercy has officially hit shelves in North America (UK/Commonwealth tomorrow)! This is a dream come true for me, and I’m so grateful.
Here’s my very last unboxing video to celebrate:
My book The Serpent Called Mercy has officially hit shelves in North America (UK/Commonwealth tomorrow)! This is a dream come true for me, and I’m so grateful.
Here’s my very last unboxing video to celebrate: