It’s been a slow publishing year for me. But my dark fantasy mall story “Layaway” was in the Escalators to Hell anthology from @frombeyondpress.bsky.socialfrombeyondpress.com/product/esca...

But how did 25 people acquire good taste on the same day? The odds are against it, given what I know about people.

Why did 25 people follow us yesterday?

Had this published earlier in the year with @frombeyondpress.bsky.social, about a market that goes missing, and it’s genuinely one of my favorites✨

I need more presses to be like @frombeyondpress.bsky.social@craftyrowan.bsky.social for getting me the rest!)

In the second installment of our fun and informative SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE series, Cassandra Daucusschools us on manuscripts: their history, their care and feeding, and how to not screw up when writing about them. frombeyondpress.com/blog/specifi...

Our site is back up, but we're keeping the new extended deadline of August 15 to submit your film book proposals. Details at frombeyondpress.com/submissions

I found a demerit slip in a copy of Equus. Its teenage owner had been caught smoking on the playground. It was an uncommon name, so I looked up his address and mailed him the demerit, 35 years after he had received it.

Announcing our first novella! Maud Lavin's MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS: A LAKE MICHIGAN TALE is about a lakeswimming poet who meets a fierce mermaid, and the two of them become reluctant activists in the Great Lakes clean water movement. Out in May 2025.

All July sales of the mall book are being donated to the Children's Organ Transplant Association in memory of Eirik Gumeny.