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What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF OCTOBER How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron  Rabbits by Terry Miles  Elementary: All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters edited by Mercedes Lackey (SS) The Wizard Killer: Season 1 by Adam Dreece  One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston **

Graphic Novels: Spy x Family Vol.9-10 by Tatsuya Endo Sorry For My Familiar Vol.4-7 by Tekka Yaguraba 

(128 books read / 125 books goal)

currently reading:  Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason (SS) Dunce by Mary Ruefle (P) Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (SS) Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy by Larissa Pham (NF) The Wizard Killer: Season Two by Adam Dreece  Idlewild by Nick Sagan  Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire  Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook 

TBR: Gallant by V.E. Schwab  The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson  Hour of the Crab by Patricia Robertson (SS) Sunburn by Andi Watson (GN) Brindille and the Shadow Hunters by Frédéric Brrémaud & Federico Bertolucci (GN) Lore Olympus Vol.1 by Rachel Smythe (GN)

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Spooky season has officially started. October is one of my favorite months of the year because there are so many fall themed activities going on. I am looking forward to Comic Con next week, Halloween and to cool, breezy nights binge watching horror movies. QOTD: What's your favorite spooky read? Featured books: 🎃 A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay 🎃 Our Shadows Have Claws Edited by Amparo Ortiz & Yamile Saied Mendez 🎃 Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt 🎃 Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology Edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason 🎃 Small Town Monster by Diana Wallach Rodriguez 🎃 The Changeling by Victor LaValle 🎃 The Between Tananarive Due 🎃 Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV 🎃 The Wilds by Vita Ayala 🎃 Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo 🎃 Lakewood by Megan Giddings 🎃 The Halloween Grindhouse by E. Reyes #bookstagram #bookphotos #books #tbr #spookyseason #spookybooks #bookcommunity #bookstack #read #reading #Halloween #fall #libros #horroraddict #horrorfan #horror #horrobooks #LatinxHeritageMonth #latinxhorror #BipocBookstagram #diversehorror #booksbooksbooks #fiction #scary #spooky #booklover (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjMEPIgL8su/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Taking Submissions: Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising

Taking Submissions: Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising

Deadline: September 30th, 2022 Payment: $0.10 (ten cents) per word Theme: Original short stories up to 6,000 words that explore this idea of great terror growing from the LGBTQIA community’s great strides forward. Note: Stories must have a strong, central gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer focus/slant/theme Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising Edited by: Vince A. Liaguno When the…

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An anthology of original new horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award winners Vince Liaguno and Rena Mason that showcases authors from underrepresented backgrounds telling terrifying tales of what it means to be, or merely to seem, ?other?Offering original new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents, Other Fears will provide the ultimate reading experience for horror fans who want to celebrate fear of ?the other.? Be they of a different culture, a different background, a different sexual preference, a different belief system, or a different skin color, some people simply aren?t part of the dominant community?and are perceived as scary. Humans are almost instinctively inclined to fear what?s different, as foolish as that may be, and there are a multitude of individuals who have spent far too long on the outside looking in. And the thing about the outside is . . . it?s much larger than you think.In Other Fears, horror

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Five Unconventional Queer Horror Films to Fright and Delight this Halloween - Lambda Literary

Tales of the Lost Volume 2: Stories To Get Lost In! Edited by Eugene Johnson and Steve Dillon, Plaid Dragon Publishing/Things in the Well Publications, 2020. Cover art by Francois Vaillancourt, interior art by Luke Spooner, info: Facebook.

We lose many things during our time in this universe. From the moment we are born we start losing time, and loss becomes a part of our life from the beginning. We lose friends (both imaginary and real), loved ones, pets, and family. We gain stuff and lose stuff, from our socks to our money. We can lose our hope, sanity, passions, our mind, and perhaps even our soul! In the end when death finds us, we end up losing everything... Don’t we? Loss is part of who we are. We can’t escape it. We learn from it, grow from it, and so much more. Some of the greatest stories ever forged come from loss. Within this book is some of those stories. Money raised by the anthology will go to benefit the Save the Children Coronavirus response.

Contents: Introduction by Mort Castle Forever by Tim Waggoner Someone Lost and Someone Saved by Heather Graham The Lady of Styx by Stephanie W. Wytovich 20th Century Ghost by Joe Hill Scritch Scratch by Ben Monroe Cracks by Chris Mason Three Rooms With Hellitrope by Kaaron Warren The Revival Of Stephen Tell by John Palisano Lost Little Girl by Christina Sng Mr. Forget-Me-Not by Alexis Kirkpatrick Home Theater by Vince Liaguno The Case Of The Wendigo by Tracy Cross Don’t Ask Jack by Neil Gaiman Our Tragic Heroine by Matthew R. Davis October by Lucy A. Synder Unforseen by Greg Champman The Deals We Make by Lisa Morton A Hole In The World by Tim Lebbon and Christopher Golden

(via LGBTQ+ HORROR MONTH: FIVE MINUTES WITH VINCE LIAGUNO) As part of our #LGBTQ+ month at Ginger Nuts of #Horror, we welcome back Vince Liaguno for a fascinating and revealing #author #intervew 

24 in 2024

i haven't seen any of these floating around yet, so i thought i'd get one started! here are 24 books i want to read in 2024 (and a bonus readerly goal):

Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen

Obsolescence: An Architectural History by Daniel M. Abramson

Offended Sensibilities by Alisa Ganieva

The Night, The Night by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel

Dawn by Sevgi Soysal

Trashlands by Alison Stine

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry

How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang

The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

Black Tide by KC Jones

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

The Ambergris Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer

The Great Cities Duology by NK Jemisin

The Spider and her Demons by sydney khoo

A Shining by Jon Fosse

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A Liaguno and Rena Mason

Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka

Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land by Malcolm Devlin

Always North by Vicki Jarrett

At the Edge of the Woods by Masatsugu Ono

Bonus Readerly Goal: i'm gonna try REALLY hard to only buy a book after i read five (5), this year (pre-orders DNI). gotta get that backlist under control SOMEhow, right??

notes on the color-coding: the green books are Just Because books (with a couple little red riding hood adjacent retellings in there, which is writing-project-related). a few of these came in a translation subscription box, and i am Interested in Architecture, and i'd love to read more of both this year.

the blue ones are bookmarked for nano prep (i wanna write something fucked up about space this year, i think, it's still cooking). i know it's early for that, but The Vibes™ have to marinate for a while. will probably add some haunted house books to this part of the list!

lastly, the purple ones are driscoll adjacent! filling my words well with related vibes worked well, this year, and i want to do that again next year. since i read through the entirety of my previous ~driscoll vibes~ stack last year, i've been restocking it, so most of these are very recently purchased.

(please note that all this color-coding/explanatory text is absolutely optional and Extra™, if you want to play--you can add it if you'd like, but by no means feel Obligated To Do So lol)

tagging @asexualbookbird, @six-of-ravens/@sixofravens-reads, @agardenandlibrary, @freckles-and-books, and anyone else who wants to play!

What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF SEPTEMBER Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie  The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak  Be A Good Ancestor by Leona Prince  Berry Song by Michaela Goade  A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik* ** The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda  The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik **  Shenanigans: All-New Tales of Valdemar edited by Mercedes Lackey (SS) Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like by David Carpenter (NF) The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik **  Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple 

Graphic Novels: Persona3 Vol.4-11 by Shuji Sogabe & ATLUS  I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up by Naoko Kodama  Classmates Vol.4-6 by Asumiko Nakamura

(122 books read / 125 books goal)

currently reading:  Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories From Turtle Island edited by McCall/Reder/Gaertner/Hill (NF/SS) Elementary: All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters edited by Mercedes Lackey (SS)  An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike (NF)  How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder  Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason (SS)

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook 

TBR: You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron  One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston  Dunce by Mary Ruefle (P) Lore Olympus Vol.1 by Rachel Smythe (GN) Sorry for My Familiar Vol.4-6 by Tekka Yagurabe (GN) 

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writing deaf characters -- pt. 2

One of my most popular posts is “Writing Deaf Characters,” a brief essay with advice and resources on … wait for it … writing deaf characters. And although that may come off as flip, I don’t mean for it to—I’m genuinely happy so many of you have connected with that particular piece.

As these things tend to do, the original post has generated some questions, which is also great. However, when I find several people asking the same question, or some variation of the same question, over and over, I tend to write a blog post, because I’m lazy like that.

Sad but true.

Anyway, Kris sent me an email, and they were very kind to allow me to answer via a blog post. So Kris, this one is for you

The Question

Kris said: I am not deaf at all, though I know a fair amount of ASL, and one of the characters i have seen as Deaf since their inception. I suppose my question is, is it ever appropriate for hearing authors to write Deaf characters?

The Answer

Hi, Kris! Your question is a variation on another that I received asking me for my personal feelings on hearing authors writing Deaf/deaf characters. So for the purposes of this post, I’m going to fold both answers into one.

I know, based on our correspondence, that you want to respect the boundaries of the Deaf community. My biggest recommendation really applies across the board to whatever kind of fiction you write and that is to first research the subject. Even if you’re writing third world fantasy, you can research what it means to be Deaf (and here, I am using the capital D to emphasize the Deaf community, not the hearing impaired, or someone like me, who is deaf but not a part of the Deaf community).

Keep in mind that with Deaf characters, you aren't just portraying someone with a hearing loss, you're portraying an actual culture. That is, you're taking the responsibility of portraying an entire community of people, whose lived experiences are very different from someone like you, a hearing person, or me, a deaf person.

So my first recommendation is that you find members of the Deaf community to follow on an online forum of your choice, and then … just listen. Read their posts, follow their links, and find other members of the community to follow. I know it feels like lurking and eavesdropping, but by reading posts, you can see what issues are important to them. I would suggest beginning with well-known Deaf advocates, such as Nyle DiMarco and Marlee Matlin.

They’re not going to answer questions for you, but by following them, they’ll lead you to other resources. Once you’ve listened for a while and familiarized yourself with topics important to the Deaf community, you could make some contacts, and then ask questions.

Like the character you wrote to me about, I always saw Diago as gay. In my first character sketches, he came across as a very stereotypical gay man, but the more I engaged with my friends, the more I realized that my initial portrayal wasn’t just wrong but damaging to the LGBTQ community as a whole. So I scratched the original plan and spent a long time listening to my friends and to other members of the LGBTQ community. Then I reached out to Robert Dunbar and explained a bit of the story, as well as what I wanted to do with Diago's character.

Robert very graciously set up a place for me to ask some questions in his Goodreads' group and pointed a few very well-respected authors in my direction. Vince Liaguno and Paul Bens took time from their busy schedules to address my questions. These gentlemen and other authors and readers spoke candidly about the traits that Diago might possess, and through their honesty, they totally changed my direction for Diago.

Another thing you can do is contact your local library. Reference librarians can lead you to amazing sources, both within your community and outside it. Rely on them. Don’t just read about contemporary issues for the Deaf/deaf communities, but also make an effort to understand the history of Deaf culture.

Once you’ve done the initial research, sensitivity readers are a must. Even being deaf, if I wrote about a Deaf character, I would feel it is incumbent on me to contact at least one, preferably two, individual(s) from the community to serve as a sensitivity reader(s). You want enough perspective to give you an idea of what you’ve done right or wrong, but not so many opinions that you produce a state of analysis paralysis.

It’s exceptionally important to identify and engage with readers who have lived experiences similar to those you’re trying to portray in your novel. I would caution you to be careful, and to lean heavily on sensitivity readers who will be honest with you and think deeply about your characters.

You don’t want someone to just say “that was a nice story,” so try and have a list of questions for the reader—enumerate any concerns you might have based on your research. A strong critique will give it to you straight, not tell you what you want to hear.

Someone else asked me about my personal opinion on the subject of hearing people writing about Deaf/deaf people. Personally, I don't have a problem with hearing people including Deaf/deaf characters in their works. I’ve seen it done well in film, and I’ve seen it done not so well. The difference between these two films is that one utilized a Deaf/deaf advisor and the other didn’t.

Also, I think it's important to emphasize that you can do everything in your power to write emphatically, portray the character realistically, utilize sensitivity readers, and still find yourself facing criticism. This is because it's impossible to take in the totality of everyone's experience and roll that collective experience into one character.

When you find yourself under criticism, all you can do is say: "I'm sorry, your point is taken. I'll remember it in the future." Then you, the author, should try to balance that point-of-view against your future characterizations.

I hope that helps.

Write on …

T

Submission Window: March 1st - April 30th, 2024 Payment: $0.03/word Theme: Strong, character-driven stories where your main characters struggle in some way with their ghosts—or the ghosts of others—against truths being either suppressed or exposed Note: Open to those who identify as LGBTQ+ Will be open for short story submissions on March 1, 2024. Do not submit early! The second of three charity anthologies loosely related to military life/service. Edited by Bram Stoker Award Winning Editor, Vince A. Liaguno and TSP Editor-in-Chief, Sirrah Medeiros Theme: “Truths can be hidden, pushed down, and repressed, from those around us. But the ghosts—of our past, our present, and our future—know our most intimate truths. We cannot hide from our ghosts. For Don’t Ask, Ghosts Tell, we’re looking for strong, character-driven stories where your main characters struggle in some way with their ghosts—or the ghosts of others—against truths being either suppressed or exposed. In these stories, the outcomes can be varied—truths remain hidden, or truths exposed—to whatever consequence(s) to the main character. Will your character(s) be silenced by their ghosts? Will the truth set them free—or doom them to some horrible fate? Your latitude with this basic theme is wide and interpretation is strongly encouraged.” ~ Vince A. Liaguno Title: Don’t Ask, Ghosts Tell Word Count: 2-5K words for short stories. Poetry will be by invitation only. Deadline: April 30, 2024 No reprints. Simultaneous submissions are okay. Just let us know if your story is accepted elsewhere. Author Pay: $0.03/word (USD) for short stories with potential for increase based on Kickstarter success. Who May Submit: Open to those who identify as LGBTQ+, especially the following individuals: With military service (active, retired, veterans welcome). Wanted to join a service organization but was denied. Served but forced out due to sexual orientation. Current or former military dependents who identify as LGBTQ+. Military life can be difficult for those who don’t fit the norm, whether actively serving or maneuvering through military life as a child or spouse. Although this anthology is not military specific, book proceeds will go to support the Modern Military Association of America. Information about the organization is at the end of this submission call. Include a 1-2 paragraph author biography in the body of your email. Do not include it in your submission file. **If you served, and would like to share a bit about your service branch, rank, and experience please include it in your biography. Submission Guidelines: Use Shunn format. Follow our submission guidelines posted on our website before submitting your work. File Title: Story Title_Your Name_DAGT Charity Organization: Modernmilitary.org Modern Military Association of America is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization; EIN 52-184500 From their website: “The Modern Military Association of America (MMAA) is the nation’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to advancing fairness and equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) military and veteran community. Formed through the merger of the American Military Partner Association and OutServe-SLDN, we are making a real difference in the lives of our modern military and veteran community through education, advocacy and support.” Warmly, Sirrah Medeiros Editor-in-Chief Tundra Swan Press General Submission Guidelines Submit a .docx, .doc, or .rtf file in Shunn manuscript format in Times News Roman font. Style scene breaks with three asterisks without spaces *** and with no additional line space above or below. Don’t get fancy. Please utilize the paragraph formatting feature in MS Word (or other word processor) to set your first line indents. Please do not use the TAB key or spacebar to indent (it’s a nightmare for our editors and formatters). If you have drafted your story in your phone’s notes app or similar app, please review and edit in a word processing program following these guidelines before submitting.

**Reminder, libraries are a great resource if you do not have your own computer. If you have additional formatting questions, let us know. Cover letters should include the story title, a logline, and the word count. Also, include the story’s theme or potential theme. Our preference is always for new material. The exception will be if an anthology submission call specifically states reprints welcome. On the off chance that we deter from this, we will post on our website and social media platforms, as necessary. We’ve started a Tundra Swan Press Facebook Group. Come on by and get to know our writers, readers, and fans of dark fiction. Author Bios: Please include around a100-word author bio (no more than 2 paragraphs) in the body of your email (not at the end of your story submission) along with your social media and website information. Simultaneous and multiple submissions are welcome! If your sub is accepted elsewhere, please send us an email to let us know and withdraw your submission. If sending multiples, please submit only ONE SUBMISSION PER EMAIL. We are an inclusive publisher. Please read our inclusion statement on our website if you have not yet done so. We welcome authors with diverse backgrounds, traits, and abilities. We particularly enjoy reading submissions where the author has entwined these traits, abilities, and related characteristics into the story, adding depth to characters and settings without making the traits the focus of the story itself (unless it is integral to the plot). The deciding elements in acceptance or rejection will be the writing quality, adherence to genre, and overall fit with other stories selected for publication. Last call. If you’ve followed the Shunn manuscript format and these guidelines, we’ll be much happier reading your submission. We’ve aligned our submission guidelines to standard industry practice to the best of our ability. Deviating from the guidelines would not prove beneficial for acceptance with our publishing house. Via: Tundra Swan Press.

What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF DECEMBER Gallant by V.E. Schwab **  Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories From Turtle Island edited by McCall/Reder/Gaertner/Hill (NF/SS)  We’d Know By Then by Kirsten Bohling  Prospero Lost by Jagi L. Lamplighter An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike (NF) Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy by Larissa Pham (NF) Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline (AB) **  Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason (SS) The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien **  The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson  Bestiary by Donika Kelly (P) The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath edited by Karen V. Kukil (NF)  Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood  Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao ** The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman (NF)

Graphic Novels: Skyward Vol.2-3 by Joe Henderson & Lee Garbett  Lore Olympus Vol.2-3 by Rachel Smythe  The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol.1 by Nagabe  Sorry For My Familiar Vol.8-10 by Tekka Yaguraba 

(153 books read / 150 books goal)

currently reading:  Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt (NF) A Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang (SS) Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine  The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien Monologue of a Dog by Wisława Szymborska (P) The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook 

TBR: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang  The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass  Hour of the Crab by Patricia Robertson (SS)

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