Marissa van Uden
@marissavu.bsky.social
Freelance Editor | EiC Violet Lichen (Apex Books) | Editor "ECO: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction" | woods mädchen | friend to animals | biodiversity stan | stories in Vastarien, Dark Matter, Los Suelos | ACES & EFA member | **rarely on socials**
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I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that 💅🍓🫙✨
Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!
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Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!
🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that 💅🍓🫙✨
Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!
🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!
🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
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I love everything Joe writes, but I am REALLY excited to read this one.
Next up is the inimitable @horrorsong.blog with This is a Test, a disturbing story of transformation and hunger.
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I love everything Joe writes, but I am REALLY excited to read this one.
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I made an awards eligibility post! I always feel a bit embarrassed doing these, but I'm really proud of these stories and extremely grateful to the editors who've published them
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I made an awards eligibility post! I always feel a bit embarrassed doing these, but I'm really proud of these stories and extremely grateful to the editors who've published them
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contract is signed!!!
in a post-apocalyptic future where people live on megafauna, Beau put his roots down on the back of a jackalope. but bodies start showing up, and he's the primary suspect.
forthcoming in @apexmag.bsky.social !!!!
in a post-apocalyptic future where people live on megafauna, Beau put his roots down on the back of a jackalope. but bodies start showing up, and he's the primary suspect.
forthcoming in @apexmag.bsky.social !!!!
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
contract is signed!!!
in a post-apocalyptic future where people live on megafauna, Beau put his roots down on the back of a jackalope. but bodies start showing up, and he's the primary suspect.
forthcoming in @apexmag.bsky.social !!!!
in a post-apocalyptic future where people live on megafauna, Beau put his roots down on the back of a jackalope. but bodies start showing up, and he's the primary suspect.
forthcoming in @apexmag.bsky.social !!!!
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Another inspiration: Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Cormac and I don't have much in common, God bless us, but The Road made me think seriously about what would happen to us if we lost most of our technology.
In CELLAR, I wanted to explore this loss in the context of a small community.
Cormac and I don't have much in common, God bless us, but The Road made me think seriously about what would happen to us if we lost most of our technology.
In CELLAR, I wanted to explore this loss in the context of a small community.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Another inspiration: Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Cormac and I don't have much in common, God bless us, but The Road made me think seriously about what would happen to us if we lost most of our technology.
In CELLAR, I wanted to explore this loss in the context of a small community.
Cormac and I don't have much in common, God bless us, but The Road made me think seriously about what would happen to us if we lost most of our technology.
In CELLAR, I wanted to explore this loss in the context of a small community.
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it's truly a beautiful piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social. pensive, mysterious, thoughtful, and weird in all the beautifulest ways. thank you for the ARC, and I can't wait for this to be out!
RSL reviews Ivy Grimes' upcoming folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR:
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
it's truly a beautiful piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social. pensive, mysterious, thoughtful, and weird in all the beautifulest ways. thank you for the ARC, and I can't wait for this to be out!
This is such a beautifully thoughtful review! Love when the reader brings so much to the experience 🖤🖤🖤
RSL reviews Ivy Grimes' upcoming folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR:
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
December 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is such a beautifully thoughtful review! Love when the reader brings so much to the experience 🖤🖤🖤
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Finally have a minute to reflect on what a fun time this was on Tuesday (now that I'm not on a dredge 🥲). So much thoughtful discussion and many new friends! Can't wait to plant my little seed packet seeds 🌱
A few 📸 from the ECO24 book launch at Lofty Pigeon! Word is it was a full house & all the books sold out 🙌🎉🔥✨🎉💚
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Finally have a minute to reflect on what a fun time this was on Tuesday (now that I'm not on a dredge 🥲). So much thoughtful discussion and many new friends! Can't wait to plant my little seed packet seeds 🌱
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Particularly affecting is interplay of fantastical and science fictional stories, showing just how broadly ecofiction speaks to our present moment. Kaleidoscopic in its approach. This series is going to be a fantastic annual addition to the thriving ecosystem of short fiction anthologies!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Particularly affecting is interplay of fantastical and science fictional stories, showing just how broadly ecofiction speaks to our present moment. Kaleidoscopic in its approach. This series is going to be a fantastic annual addition to the thriving ecosystem of short fiction anthologies!!
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Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!
NOW OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS
If you published speculative ecofiction this year, we'd love to consider it for ECO25 💚🌿🐾🐚🦋🌿💚
If you published speculative ecofiction this year, we'd love to consider it for ECO25 💚🌿🐾🐚🦋🌿💚
Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction!
Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️
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Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️
Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Nominations for ECO25 Now Open!
ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction is an annual showcase of some of the most compelling and thought-provoking ecofiction published every year. If you published speculative ecofiction in 2025 ...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
NOW OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS
If you published speculative ecofiction this year, we'd love to consider it for ECO25 💚🌿🐾🐚🦋🌿💚
If you published speculative ecofiction this year, we'd love to consider it for ECO25 💚🌿🐾🐚🦋🌿💚
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Dr. Louella Cable | Aquatic biologist & brilliant scientific illustrator #WorldFisheriesDay
First woman hired (1927) by the US Bureau of Fisheries (later became US Fish & Wildlife). Her research + art advanced fisheries science. #WomenInSTEM #art #conservation
thefisheriesblog.com/2020/04/27/l...
First woman hired (1927) by the US Bureau of Fisheries (later became US Fish & Wildlife). Her research + art advanced fisheries science. #WomenInSTEM #art #conservation
thefisheriesblog.com/2020/04/27/l...
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Dr. Louella Cable | Aquatic biologist & brilliant scientific illustrator #WorldFisheriesDay
First woman hired (1927) by the US Bureau of Fisheries (later became US Fish & Wildlife). Her research + art advanced fisheries science. #WomenInSTEM #art #conservation
thefisheriesblog.com/2020/04/27/l...
First woman hired (1927) by the US Bureau of Fisheries (later became US Fish & Wildlife). Her research + art advanced fisheries science. #WomenInSTEM #art #conservation
thefisheriesblog.com/2020/04/27/l...
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
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Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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Also got interviewed by the delightful @marissavu.bsky.social ❤️ I always appreciate the research and thoughtfulness she puts into her interview questions!
"The biggest piece of writing advice I always keep in my brain is that anything can work if you can make it work." 🪸💬
New interview by @marissavu.bsky.social: Interview with Author @leahning.bsky.social"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
New interview by @marissavu.bsky.social: Interview with Author @leahning.bsky.social"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Also got interviewed by the delightful @marissavu.bsky.social ❤️ I always appreciate the research and thoughtfulness she puts into her interview questions!
Here's my interview with the amazing @leahning.bsky.social! We discuss her incredible new piece of ecofiction, "We Used to Wake to Song," & many other things. LOVED this story 🪸
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"I think we’ll become a better sanctuary in the future. I hope we become a better sanctuary in the future." -Leah Ning
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"I think we’ll become a better sanctuary in the future. I hope we become a better sanctuary in the future." -Leah Ning
"The biggest piece of writing advice I always keep in my brain is that anything can work if you can make it work." 🪸💬
New interview by @marissavu.bsky.social: Interview with Author @leahning.bsky.social"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
New interview by @marissavu.bsky.social: Interview with Author @leahning.bsky.social"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Here's my interview with the amazing @leahning.bsky.social! We discuss her incredible new piece of ecofiction, "We Used to Wake to Song," & many other things. LOVED this story 🪸
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"I think we’ll become a better sanctuary in the future. I hope we become a better sanctuary in the future." -Leah Ning
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"I think we’ll become a better sanctuary in the future. I hope we become a better sanctuary in the future." -Leah Ning
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✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
This story will haunt you - it is somehow harrowing and heartening at the same time. Unforgettable 🖤🖤
Another thing today!
My story "Love, Scotland" gets a new life in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction from Apex Books / Violet Lichen, out TODAY 🎉
The anthology received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! 🥂 More here, including the lush ToC:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
My story "Love, Scotland" gets a new life in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction from Apex Books / Violet Lichen, out TODAY 🎉
The anthology received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! 🥂 More here, including the lush ToC:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 11/18/25 "A triumph. 23 stellar tales offering creative and varied takes on the book's themes. Every entry is equal parts thought-provoking, insightful, and impactf...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This story will haunt you - it is somehow harrowing and heartening at the same time. Unforgettable 🖤🖤
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Vasilisa has to contend with Baba Yaga, a crone who lacks the charm and safety of a fairy godmother. Instead, she's rich in magic, lights her property with fire skulls, and guards many secrets in her house and the surrounding woods.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Vasilisa has to contend with Baba Yaga, a crone who lacks the charm and safety of a fairy godmother. Instead, she's rich in magic, lights her property with fire skulls, and guards many secrets in her house and the surrounding woods.
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My main inspiration was "Vasilisa the Beautiful," a Russian fairy tale about a girl whose mother dies leaving her with only a (magic!) doll. Her stepmother sends her to get fire from the magical and dangerous Baba Yaga, hoping she'll die there.
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My main inspiration was "Vasilisa the Beautiful," a Russian fairy tale about a girl whose mother dies leaving her with only a (magic!) doll. Her stepmother sends her to get fire from the magical and dangerous Baba Yaga, hoping she'll die there.
Bookmark this thread! It's Ivy Grimes' CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR origin story 👀💜
This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
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Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Bookmark this thread! It's Ivy Grimes' CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR origin story 👀💜
New review of ECO24! ✨
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
New review of ECO24! ✨
A few 📸 from the ECO24 book launch at Lofty Pigeon! Word is it was a full house & all the books sold out 🙌🎉🔥✨🎉💚
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A few 📸 from the ECO24 book launch at Lofty Pigeon! Word is it was a full house & all the books sold out 🙌🎉🔥✨🎉💚
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
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LAUNCH DAY! COME TO LOFTY PIGEON TO SEE ME AND @kayv.bsky.social TALK ABOUT IT!
🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
LAUNCH DAY! COME TO LOFTY PIGEON TO SEE ME AND @kayv.bsky.social TALK ABOUT IT!
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Proud to have a story in this amazing collection!
🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Proud to have a story in this amazing collection!
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Happy publication day to this amazing anthology! So many great stories in here! 🌿🌊🍄
🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Happy publication day to this amazing anthology! So many great stories in here! 🌿🌊🍄