Emma Cole
@editrixemma.bsky.social
Editor@Mira Books (views are my own). Poetry Editor@Orion's Belt Mag. Notes & Queries Editor @JPRS. Rep'd by Danai Christopolou and Lane Heymont. Writing about romance in horror movies, etc. editrixemma.com
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Emma Cole
@editrixemma.bsky.social
· Oct 10
I guess I've been lax at posting over here, but I will try to be better. An intro: I'm Emma, I'm an editor at Harlequin, and in my spare time I'm writing a nonfiction book about romance in horror movies because I love horror. Always happy to answer questions about Harlequin if I can!
Mostly I keep my crafty stuff on Instagram (where I am also EditrixEmma), but I made a coat and that is a big undertaking so I'm going to celebrate it everywhere. (The pattern is the Poppy Coat by The Fabric Store, in blue wool blend fabric with red kasha lining.)
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Mostly I keep my crafty stuff on Instagram (where I am also EditrixEmma), but I made a coat and that is a big undertaking so I'm going to celebrate it everywhere. (The pattern is the Poppy Coat by The Fabric Store, in blue wool blend fabric with red kasha lining.)
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I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
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November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
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Today on the newsletter, we have our *first ever* guest post, as @claymcleod.bsky.social explains his approach to his YA debut SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE, in bookstores tomorrow!
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GUEST POST - Shiny Happy Horror: Why YA? Why Me? by Clay McLeod Chapman
In this exclusive guest post, bestselling author Clay McLeod Chapman explains his YA debut, Shiny Happy People.
matthewjacksonwrites.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today on the newsletter, we have our *first ever* guest post, as @claymcleod.bsky.social explains his approach to his YA debut SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE, in bookstores tomorrow!
matthewjacksonwrites.com/guest-post-s...
matthewjacksonwrites.com/guest-post-s...
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For non-subscribers, here's a gift: For the next 30 days, Aftermath subscriptions for new readers are on sale at $1 for your first month:
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November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For non-subscribers, here's a gift: For the next 30 days, Aftermath subscriptions for new readers are on sale at $1 for your first month:
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
The best thing about Frankenstein discourse is that it's really cemented how much I don't care about other people's opinions on art. "Frankenstein is too much of a villain." "Inland Empire doesn't make sense." "Cat People isn't scary enough." If I love a movie I just don't care if you don't like it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The best thing about Frankenstein discourse is that it's really cemented how much I don't care about other people's opinions on art. "Frankenstein is too much of a villain." "Inland Empire doesn't make sense." "Cat People isn't scary enough." If I love a movie I just don't care if you don't like it.
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If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading.
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Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism
Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading.
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
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I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy!
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy!
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
I'm not sure how many times I've watched The Wizard of Oz but it has never gotten old.
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I'm not sure how many times I've watched The Wizard of Oz but it has never gotten old.
I loved this so much and I wholeheartedly agree, it is a book that transforms you. I read it months ago and still think of it all the time. Absolutely beautiful and weird and excellent.
From today's newsletter:
"Not as many people will read DEAR STUPID PENPAL as *should*. But the ones who do? Get ready to hear them talking about it a whole lot, for a long time to come. This book changes people. It changed me."
Preorder @rascalhartley.bsky.social's debut:
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"Not as many people will read DEAR STUPID PENPAL as *should*. But the ones who do? Get ready to hear them talking about it a whole lot, for a long time to come. This book changes people. It changed me."
Preorder @rascalhartley.bsky.social's debut:
store.tenebrouspress.com
![Cover art by Carly A-F: against the blackness of space, a lone astronaut sits at their console, which drifts into the heavens in multicolored pixels.
TEXT:
LOST. LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME. FRIENDS & LOVED ONES GONE. BUT SOMEHOW, HE IS STILL THERE. AND ALWAYS WILL BE.
Blurb:
"Veer from funny to dread-inducing and back again...sits alongside THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR as a blueprint for compelling, propulsive, gorgeous [fiction]."
-Emma Cole, Love Never Dies, editor at Harlequin Books
An epistolary Cosmic Sci-Horror November 2025 from Tenebrous Press.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzezf3upipcqfyabakveo4ub/bafkreihbroegt4vq7p5lo7xdgmxh4met2yz54dydjuohcjqdrd4o2bslbm@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I loved this so much and I wholeheartedly agree, it is a book that transforms you. I read it months ago and still think of it all the time. Absolutely beautiful and weird and excellent.
Getting to talk to writers is so inspiring and I love that I get to do it all the time. Some insights I've gathered over the last couple years up on my blog today: editrixemma.com/writing-tips...
Writing Tips that Aren't About Writing. - Editrix Emma
Obviously, I spend a lot of my day reading. But yesterday I had the opportunity to do one of my favorite things as part of my job: talking to writers. I am a co-leader on one of our reading committees...
editrixemma.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Getting to talk to writers is so inspiring and I love that I get to do it all the time. Some insights I've gathered over the last couple years up on my blog today: editrixemma.com/writing-tips...
I love this, and I miss reading to my kids, who are teenagers reading their own books.
Here is what reading to my child has done to my brain: defector.com/here-is-what...
Here Is What Reading To My Child Has Done To My Brain | Defector
As the parent of an 18-month-old, I’ve been reading a lot lately. That is, if your definition of reading includes thumbing through sheets of increasingly careworn and spittle-soaked cardboard,…
defector.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I love this, and I miss reading to my kids, who are teenagers reading their own books.
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COVER REVEAL
🐦⬛THE DAYTIDE COMETH🐦⬛
DAYTIDE is BLACK METAL WIZARD OF OZ in an illustrated, hardcover edition with an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social and an original poem from @carolinehardaker.bsky.social.
From: @rapturepublishining.bsky.social
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🐦⬛THE DAYTIDE COMETH🐦⬛
DAYTIDE is BLACK METAL WIZARD OF OZ in an illustrated, hardcover edition with an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social and an original poem from @carolinehardaker.bsky.social.
From: @rapturepublishining.bsky.social
www.rapturepublishing.com/product/dayt...
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
COVER REVEAL
🐦⬛THE DAYTIDE COMETH🐦⬛
DAYTIDE is BLACK METAL WIZARD OF OZ in an illustrated, hardcover edition with an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social and an original poem from @carolinehardaker.bsky.social.
From: @rapturepublishining.bsky.social
www.rapturepublishing.com/product/dayt...
🐦⬛THE DAYTIDE COMETH🐦⬛
DAYTIDE is BLACK METAL WIZARD OF OZ in an illustrated, hardcover edition with an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social and an original poem from @carolinehardaker.bsky.social.
From: @rapturepublishining.bsky.social
www.rapturepublishing.com/product/dayt...
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched:
Haven't done this in a few weeks because of baseball and The Lowdown (great show by the way). But I have watched a few things this week: Beatty is as charismatic as ever, disappointing sequels and remakes, and the most glorious adaptation of Frankenstein.
Haven't done this in a few weeks because of baseball and The Lowdown (great show by the way). But I have watched a few things this week: Beatty is as charismatic as ever, disappointing sequels and remakes, and the most glorious adaptation of Frankenstein.
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched:
Haven't done this in a few weeks because of baseball and The Lowdown (great show by the way). But I have watched a few things this week: Beatty is as charismatic as ever, disappointing sequels and remakes, and the most glorious adaptation of Frankenstein.
Haven't done this in a few weeks because of baseball and The Lowdown (great show by the way). But I have watched a few things this week: Beatty is as charismatic as ever, disappointing sequels and remakes, and the most glorious adaptation of Frankenstein.
We are watching a behind the scenes about Mr. Arkadin, which is great, except for Bogdanovich reminding me yet again how good a friend he was to Orson Welles. (I know Peter is a great director. But I do not care, because I find him to be the most insufferable storyteller.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
We are watching a behind the scenes about Mr. Arkadin, which is great, except for Bogdanovich reminding me yet again how good a friend he was to Orson Welles. (I know Peter is a great director. But I do not care, because I find him to be the most insufferable storyteller.)
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We have a number of exciting upcoming releases from authors who also have new titles coming soon with other publishers...
Here's a thread of some great new books you should pick up from other presses while waiting for these authors' new Shortwave titles!
Here's a thread of some great new books you should pick up from other presses while waiting for these authors' new Shortwave titles!
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We have a number of exciting upcoming releases from authors who also have new titles coming soon with other publishers...
Here's a thread of some great new books you should pick up from other presses while waiting for these authors' new Shortwave titles!
Here's a thread of some great new books you should pick up from other presses while waiting for these authors' new Shortwave titles!
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oh my gosh, bad hand books is republishing no gods for drowning by hailey piper! i really loved this book - have the og paperback - and i was astonished to find it was already out of print late last year. huge recommend if you enjoy weird fiction, noir, fucked up pantheons, etc
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
oh my gosh, bad hand books is republishing no gods for drowning by hailey piper! i really loved this book - have the og paperback - and i was astonished to find it was already out of print late last year. huge recommend if you enjoy weird fiction, noir, fucked up pantheons, etc
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One of my kids requested more Hitchcock films in our diet so we just watched NOTORIOUS and I can't believe I hadn't read this Criterion essay from @angelicabastien.bsky.social until now: www.criterion.com/current/post...
Great piece on a great movie!
Great piece on a great movie!
Notorious: The Same Hunger
In this pitch-perfect noir romance, Alfred Hitchcock explores what happens when the masks we wear in the world clash with our innermost desires.
www.criterion.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
One of my kids requested more Hitchcock films in our diet so we just watched NOTORIOUS and I can't believe I hadn't read this Criterion essay from @angelicabastien.bsky.social until now: www.criterion.com/current/post...
Great piece on a great movie!
Great piece on a great movie!
I got to talk to Walter Mosley today, so my day is going exceptionally well.
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I got to talk to Walter Mosley today, so my day is going exceptionally well.
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It's award eligibility season! Here's a list of everything I've published in 2025. This is also my first year of eligibility for the Astounding Award! 💫
Follow the thread below for links and info on my stories. Or see my website/linktree in my bio. 🔗
DM me for copies. 👩💻
Thank you for reading! 🙏
Follow the thread below for links and info on my stories. Or see my website/linktree in my bio. 🔗
DM me for copies. 👩💻
Thank you for reading! 🙏
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It's award eligibility season! Here's a list of everything I've published in 2025. This is also my first year of eligibility for the Astounding Award! 💫
Follow the thread below for links and info on my stories. Or see my website/linktree in my bio. 🔗
DM me for copies. 👩💻
Thank you for reading! 🙏
Follow the thread below for links and info on my stories. Or see my website/linktree in my bio. 🔗
DM me for copies. 👩💻
Thank you for reading! 🙏
Orion's Belt is a great team, please apply if you're interested!
I’m now accepting applications for Fiction Editor and Poetry Editor positions for 2026 at Orion’s Belt. If you desire to join our team (especially if you have experience at a spec-fic magazine), please send a cover letter/CV to [email protected]. Details: www.orions-belt.net/volunteer
Volunteer — Orion's Belt
www.orions-belt.net
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Orion's Belt is a great team, please apply if you're interested!
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Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
Romance and/or Erotica
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: Romance and/or Erotica
www.falmouth.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
I first discovered Clive Barker's Books of Blood when I was 18, visiting family in England. Found a weird little bookshop and bought volume 1 (and a Discworld book), and proceeded to have my mind blown. Finally got the matching edition of volume 2 today, just missing number 6.
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I first discovered Clive Barker's Books of Blood when I was 18, visiting family in England. Found a weird little bookshop and bought volume 1 (and a Discworld book), and proceeded to have my mind blown. Finally got the matching edition of volume 2 today, just missing number 6.
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blogged about watching criterion 24/7 while working which is singlehandedly saving my mental health from ruin aftermath.site/i-owe-my-wor...
I Owe My Workday To Criterion 24/7 - Aftermath
I know I won't retain much of these movies Ceddo while working on an essay. But it simply makes me feel more like an adult
aftermath.site
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
blogged about watching criterion 24/7 while working which is singlehandedly saving my mental health from ruin aftermath.site/i-owe-my-wor...
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
RIP Diane Ladd. Love her in Wild at Heart, a movie I appreciate even more every time I watch it.
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
RIP Diane Ladd. Love her in Wild at Heart, a movie I appreciate even more every time I watch it.