Darian Bianco
@darianbianco.bsky.social
Managing Editor at Apex Book Company. Writer. Reader. Teacher. Coffee Addict. Dog Mom. Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social
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It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
January 31, 2026 at 12:28 AM
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks.
One is rent.
The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.
One is rent.
The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.
January 19, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks.
One is rent.
The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.
One is rent.
The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.
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Resolutions | Lucky Bug comic no. 15
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January 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Resolutions | Lucky Bug comic no. 15
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Working on a spec project that I always describe as BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA, but with the kids all grown up. Spent all December resting, now it’s time to jump back in!
What’s the first writing related project you plan to tackle for the new year? #WritingPrompt
January 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Working on a spec project that I always describe as BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA, but with the kids all grown up. Spent all December resting, now it’s time to jump back in!
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We really need to bring back a focus on reading comprehension
December 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
We really need to bring back a focus on reading comprehension
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On a totally unrelated note, did I mention I wrote a book?
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
On a totally unrelated note, did I mention I wrote a book?
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You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
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On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
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what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction!
Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️
Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
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 4:20 PM
Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction!
Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️
Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
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/...
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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 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 4:52 PM
🌼🌒🌓🌔 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...
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I don't want AI. I want to stop filling out my entire medical history every time I go to the same doctor
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I don't want AI. I want to stop filling out my entire medical history every time I go to the same doctor
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To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
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Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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Apex stands with @kickstarterunited.org . We're planning to go ahead with launching our Kickstarter tomorrow because they said to do this on their GoFundMe page. You can read our full announcement here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Kickstarter Announcement
As you probably know, Apex Magazine is launching our Kickstarter to fund 2026 tomorrow, October 1st. Today it came to our attention...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Apex stands with @kickstarterunited.org . We're planning to go ahead with launching our Kickstarter tomorrow because they said to do this on their GoFundMe page. You can read our full announcement here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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New Patreon Post: "Apex in October 2025" 🧛🎃👻
Check out the PACKED lineup of events we have in store!! And get all the info about our 2026 Kickstarter, guidelines for our open submission period, and the COVER REVEAL for our October issue of Apex Magazine! 🖼️
You don't want to miss this one!! ⬇️
Check out the PACKED lineup of events we have in store!! And get all the info about our 2026 Kickstarter, guidelines for our open submission period, and the COVER REVEAL for our October issue of Apex Magazine! 🖼️
You don't want to miss this one!! ⬇️
Apex in October 2025 | Apex Books & Apex Magazine
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September 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New Patreon Post: "Apex in October 2025" 🧛🎃👻
Check out the PACKED lineup of events we have in store!! And get all the info about our 2026 Kickstarter, guidelines for our open submission period, and the COVER REVEAL for our October issue of Apex Magazine! 🖼️
You don't want to miss this one!! ⬇️
Check out the PACKED lineup of events we have in store!! And get all the info about our 2026 Kickstarter, guidelines for our open submission period, and the COVER REVEAL for our October issue of Apex Magazine! 🖼️
You don't want to miss this one!! ⬇️
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APEX MAGAZINE OCTOBER ISSUE COVER REVEAL!!! 🎉🎃🌳
Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart.
For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...
Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart.
For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...
September 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
APEX MAGAZINE OCTOBER ISSUE COVER REVEAL!!! 🎉🎃🌳
Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart.
For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...
Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart.
For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...
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All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives
August 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives
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Do you remember....
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September 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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And just when you thought our great news was over 👀👀👀...
We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽
Full details in the link below! ⬇️
www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽
Full details in the link below! ⬇️
www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
Submissions
2025 has been a standout year in terms of the amazing projects we've been able to publish at Apex Book Company. We've had the pleasure of giving homes to titles such as ChloroPhilia, The Map of Lost P...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
And just when you thought our great news was over 👀👀👀...
We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽
Full details in the link below! ⬇️
www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽
Full details in the link below! ⬇️
www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
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THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮
@marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿
Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
@marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿
Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮
@marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿
Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
@marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿
Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
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I’m afraid to say this is very attractive. Got to love a passionate nerd. He knows his shit.
August 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I’m afraid to say this is very attractive. Got to love a passionate nerd. He knows his shit.