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Apex Magazine and Book Company
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All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and indie book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful scifi & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
🛸 https://www.apexbookcompany.com/
🍄 https://violetlichen.com/
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Little sneak peek of a project we're working on to celebrate the release of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's folk horror novella, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR 👀🌌

Looking for your next holiday horror read? Check out the full synopsis and preorder here for 30% off: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Grainy photo of a puffy white cloud with the caption, "Did this book make me feel alive?" A grainy photo of a cottage front door Three vertical illustrations of Northern lights Cover of "The Cellar Below the Cellar" by Ivy Grimes
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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A perfect holiday gift for the bookworm in your life who loves books AND worms 📚🪱

Our anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION features 23 stellar tales from today's best rising stars and established voices! 🌍🪻

Get your copy here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
"ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. OUT NOW. www.apexbookcompany.com"
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"It surprises me to find you, after a childhood of rejecting your heritage, preparing for a spell this frigid evening." 🩸🌿

New fiction today by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social: "Before, After, and the Space Between"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Before, After, and the Space Between by Kel Coleman. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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What does the ECO series have in common with pears and plums? They all grow back stronger every spring 🍐✨

THANK YOU SO MUCH for supporting ECO24! Don't forget to grab your copy of the first in the ECO series, and watch your bookshelf grow year after year 🌱📚💚

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
"Start your collection today! The ECO series RETURNS in 2026. ECO24: Out Now! ECO25: Nominations open Dec 1st-Jan 31st"
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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"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-...
"Interview with Author Leah Ning, By Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine, Issue 151"
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🌼🌒🌓🌔 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. OUT NOW. www.apexbookcompany.com"
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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"Here, the fish make homes among our bones. The crabs weather the tides nestled between layers of muscle, folds of fat." 🐠💀🦀

New fiction today by @leahning.bsky.social: "We Used to Wake to Song"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"We Used to Wake to Song" By Leah Ning. Apex Magazine, Issue 151.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Are you ready for the ECO Equinox? 🌿✨

ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION releases TOMORROW, November 18th! Today is your last chance to preorder these 23 stellar tales from our all-star lineup of sci-fi/fantasy authors for 30% off!

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
Graphic saying TOMORROW with vines growing behind it
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The Apex Book Company submission window closes TONIGHT at midnight EST! 🪟📚

Submissions sent after this time will be deleted, so make sure to send us your strange, surreal, beautiful work before the deadline!

Read our submission guidelines and submit HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
"Apex Book Company Submissions CLOSE TODAY! November 14th, 12 AM EST"
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Don't get left out in the cold! ❄️🪟📚

There's just a few days left to submit your strange, surreal, beautiful novellas to the Apex Book Company open reading period before our submission window closes on the 14th!
Read our submission guidelines and submit HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
"Apex Boom Company Submissions CLOSING SOON! November 14th"
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"Gaze into it instead." 🪞🎭

New drabble fiction today by @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social: "Don't Hide From the Mirror"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Don't Hide From the Mirror by Nico Martinez Nocito. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The three first lines of our first three stories 🌿🌍

ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION releases November 18th! Featuring 23 stellar ecofiction tales by some of today's greatest sci-fi/fantasy authors.

Preorder before the 18th for 30% off HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
"In the Field." Shelly Jones. “The professor pulls down a shoebox of cassette tapes from the bookcase.” "The Water Runner." Eugen Bacon. “Their sex gave the whale-bone unit and its thatched roof of albatross wings a sweet musty odor like a ripened durian fruit.” "Ama's Jungle." K-Ming Chang. “We had never seen the color green.” "Don't miss the world's first ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. Preorders now open!
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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When the cover of Violet Lichen's next novella is so beautiful that even the sky tries to match it 👀🌌🔭
Thank you to Apex member @stillroom.art for the photos! Did you get to see any auroras last night? We'd love to see your pics!
Photo of green and pink Northern lights above a lake. Photo of green and pink Northern lights above a lake.
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Thank you to @davidagranoff.bsky.social for the review of ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION 💜🍄

We're just ONE WEEK away from release! Don't forget to order your copy on November 18th, or preorder today for 30% off! 💸

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
“I did not realize that there is enough sci-fi and horror on the theme of ecology to fill a year’s best anthology, but it is better than that. ECO24 is filled to the brim with powerful and entertaining stories. A must read." -David Agranoff, author of The Last Night to Kill Nazis and cohost of The (Philip K. Dick) Dickheads Podcast
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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"She said she’d get me a pad and an Advil and it would be over in a few days.

'But what—hichichic—about— hichichic—the bones?'" 🦷🩸

New fiction today by Jarune Uwujaren: "FAQ on My Vagina Dentata"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"FAQ on My Vagina Dentata by Jarune Uwujaren. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Our ECO anthology series isn't the only thing taking root this year! 🌱

We're sprinkling wildflower seed packets across select bookstores and libraries to celebrate ECO24's release in just 8 days! Don't worry, the flowers aren't carnivorous...probably! 🌼🩸

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
A wildflower seed packet with a vintage floral design. Text reads "ECO24 Seed Store"
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!

Cover Art: Jack Hillside

Cover Design: Silent Q Design
A book cover of an isolated cottage beneath a night sky full of Northern lights and a full moon. Text reads: "A Folk Horror Novella: The Cellar Below the Cellar. Ivy Grimes"
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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As night falls and the sky begins to dance, something looms over the dark horizon... 🌕🏚️🌌

Full cover reveal of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social coming Monday!
A dark mountain landscape silhouetted against a sky filled with Northern lights, bright stars, and an unnaturally large full moon. The text "A folk horror novella" is visible behind the Northern lights
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Want to learn more about the inspiration behind "A Seder in Siberia"? RSVP to our FREE ECO24 launch party with Louis Evans and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books, including live readings and a talk with the authors! Link to RSVP below! ⬇️

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"Lofty Pigeon Books presents: Louis Evans and Kay Vaindal launch ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Tuesday November 18, 6:30-8pm. 743 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY"
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Visit SIBERIA and give your kids a holiday they'll NEVER forget! ❄️🦣

We're so excited to have @louisevans.bsky.social's “A Seder in Siberia” in ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION.

Preorder this natural wonder of a book BEFORE NOVEMBER 18TH and get 30% OFF at www.apexbookcompany.com! 🌿🍄💸
National Parks-style painted poster. "Discover REWILDED MAMMOTHS! Enjoy precious family moments and a lifetime of new memories! The World's First ECO24."
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"Through this shared heritage, the Western’s influence in literature and entertainment proves as boundless as the frontiers it first depicted." 🏜️🦂

New nonfiction today by Michael Knost: "Dust, Stars, and Shadows"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Dust, Stars, and Shadows: How Western Genre Literature Helped Shape Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror by Michael Knost. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Visit THE MANGROVE DAUGHTERS — Where the trees are always waiting to welcome you home! 🌿🌊

We're thrilled to feature @emlinden.bsky.social's short ecofiction "Mangrove Daughter" in ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, out November 18th!
National Parks-style painted poster of a field of mangrove saplings under an unnatural pink sky. "Return to THE MANGROVE DAUGHTERS. You have been here before. You will always return. The World's First ECO24." "The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. ECO24. Edited by Marissa van Uden."
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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"'My brother was diagnosed with the same pulmonary fibrosis as I, posthumously, after his lungs erupted through his ribs in a forest of sprouting bamboo.'" 🫁🎋

New fiction today from Rebecca Johnson: "Code Green"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Code Green by Rebecca Johnson. Apex Magazine, Issue 151"
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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ICYMI 🌟 Lofty Pigeon Books is hosting a ✨FREE✨ ECO24 launch party with @louisevans.bsky.social and @kayv.bsky.social on Nov. 18th @ 6:30! Enjoy a night of readings, book signings, a Q&A and reception!

Seats are limited! Reserve your spot at the event link below ⬇️

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Lofty Pigeon Books presents: Louis Evans and Kay Vaindal launch ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Tuesday, November 18, 6:30-8pm. 743 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY
November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The Apex Magazine Kickstarter is officially OVER! We successfully funded four new issues of Apex Magazine! 🎉🎉🎉

Thank you to all of our backers, authors, and supporters for donating your funds, time and attention to our campaign. Apex wouldn't be what it is without all of you 🖤👽

SEE YOU IN 2026! 🍾
A cow and two ghosts are standing on an extraterrestrial planet next to the crash-landed UFO. A cat pops out of the UFO's cockpit. "$21,914! Thank you to our Kickstarter backers, contributors, and supporters for helping Apex land safely! We couldn’t have done it without you! Get ready for more strange, surreal, beautiful short fiction in 2026!"
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM