Maria Haskins
@mariahaskins.bsky.social
Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer/reviewer. Fiction editor @ Gamut. Essays & reviews @ Psychopomp. She/her. Work in Best Horror of the Year & elsewhere. Collections: WOLVES & GIRLS + SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers
This book is SUCH a blast. For me, it felt like an action-packed mix of Aliens + D&D + LOTR.
Win a copy of THE RUNES OF ENGAGEMENT, the new novel by New York Times bestselling author @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social & @daveklecha.bsky.social
"Fun, action-packed, occasionally gritty, and full of jokes" @jimchines.bsky.social
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"I will axe the tax on everything for everyone" is the most bullshit BS.
Anytime I see a politician say his politics are not politics at all but "common sense" I scream into the void and the void is getting pretty damn sick of it.
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 13/20
#booksky
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 12/20 #booksky
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 12/20 #booksky
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 11/20 #booksky
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 11/20 #booksky
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 10/20 #booksky
My latest short fiction roundup features stories by @thomasha.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social and also reprinted stories by @kristinaten.bsky.social @smessenger.bsky.social and Grace Chan.
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My Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup - #4 2023
The art for this roundup includes a detail of Marlenia Mori's cover for The Deadlands #34 . Find out more about the artist at https://www.in...
maria-is-reading.blogspot.comMy latest short fiction roundup features stories by Victor Forna, @rsagarcia.bsky.social Tia Tashiro @samuelchapman.bsky.social Rich Larson @ghoulpus.bsky.social @ect.bsky.social @littlebadger.bsky.social Andrew Sean Greer @veronicaghenry.bsky.social @carolinehung.bsky.social & more.
My Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup - #4 2023
The art for this roundup includes a detail of Marlenia Mori's cover for The Deadlands #34 . Find out more about the artist at https://www.in...
maria-is-reading.blogspot.comThe art for this roundup includes a detail of Marlenia Mori's cover for The Deadlands #34. Find out more about the artist at www.instagram.com/marlenia.mori/
My latest short fiction roundup features stories from @clarkesworldmagazine.com @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social - and also three brilliant audio reprints from @pseudopod.org @podcastle.org and @escapepod.org!
Remember to support the short story zines you love. ❤️
My Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup - #4 2023
The art for this roundup includes a detail of Marlenia Mori's cover for The Deadlands #34 . Find out more about the artist at https://www.in...
maria-is-reading.blogspot.comMy latest short fiction roundup features stories from @thedeadlands.com ergot @strangehorizons.bsky.social Many Worlds, Amazon Original Stories @morningtransport.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com @reactorsff.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social & more.
My Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup - #4 2023
The art for this roundup includes a detail of Marlenia Mori's cover for The Deadlands #34 . Find out more about the artist at https://www.in...
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you just reminded me to pick up “Wolves & Girls” !!!!!
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Wolves & Girls & Other Dark Gems a book by Maria Haskins and E. Catherine Tobler
From the dark and enchanting mind of Maria Haskins comes 38 weird and wonderful stories featuring werewolves, lost girls, shapeshifters, ghosts, and more.In Wolves & Girls & Other Dark Gems, y...
bookshop.orgGet. this. book. It is freaking bonkers in a completely brilliant way.
don’t forget to preorder the book people are calling “kaleidoscopic,” “lovingly queer,” “brutal & bloodthirsty,” “fascinating,” “dangerous,” “whimsical,” and “has a lot of teeth”
The West Passage a book by Jared Pechaček
A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to slow decay, drowning in the debris of generations. All this and more awaits you within The West Passag...
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The writerly depression of having short stories a) accepted and unpublished, and b) on submission but without response (yet) is haunting me right now. Like, I have stories! 😀 But no one can see them. 😢
This will at some point be followed by: I have stories and people can see them! 😱
Currently reading an ARC of @cmpriest.bsky.social's THE DROWNING HOUSE. (Coming in July!)
"...a deeply haunting and atmospheric horror-thriller that explores the lengths we'll go to protect those we love."
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 10/20 #booksky
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 9/20 #booksky
Just finished GRIM ROOT by @bonniejostuffle.bsky.social (out in June from Dark Matter Ink.)
The world of a Bachelor-ish reality TV-show meets a haunted house & things get gory, sticky, and bloody. Love, romance (fake and real), gore, scares, some seriously f-d up trees and some real emotional heft.
Grim Root
TILL DEATH DO THEM PART... Embark on a darkly humorous journey of reality TV meets the macabre. On the set of The Groom, a group of women must compete for the heart of Midwestern bachelor Tristan by s...
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Natasha Lyonne in Fantastic Four?
coolcoolcoolcool
*hyperventilates into a paper bag*
Nota bene: "But too much iodine can kill an axolotl, and even if they successfully metamorphose they don't survive as well as natural paedomorphic axolotls, so it's not recommended for axolotl owners."
Axolotls: Meet the amphibians that never grow up
These characterful creatures also have amazing regeneration abilities.
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Today in "WTF, mother nature?" --- axolotls can turn into salamanders:
"In experiments, axolotls have been forced through metamorphosis by adding iodine to their water. This induces the release of hormones that kick off the process of developing land-based traits."
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Axolotls: Meet the amphibians that never grow up
These characterful creatures also have amazing regeneration abilities.
www.nhm.ac.uk💀🧡💀
"Gorgeously wrought, and profoundly moving, horror."
that's @mariahaskins.bsky.social on @cbarzak.bsky.social's A VOICE CALLING!
available in print and ebook!
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A Voice Calling by Christopher Barzak - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
A voice Calling: from Shirley Jackson award winning author Christopher Barzak comes an obsessive tale of a family haunted by a very terrible house.
psychopomp.comI read a review copy of this and it is beautiful and sharp as knives.
A reminder that LOVELY CREATURES is out June 11!
Apologies for the confusion around the date change.
Looking forward to introducing you all to the Whale, the river, and this peculiar misfit band. Thanks to all who have read and shouted and supported - it means so much. 💖🐋
Writers, post something random from your backlist. Don’t think, just do it.
"The Librarian" from @castofwonders.org, narrated by Katherine Inskip.
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Writers, post something random from your backlist. Don’t think, just do it.
— a story of its time, 2006 (and before)
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I'm still mad that they wasted Beorn's potential. The scene in the book when it comes into the fight (as told to Bilbo later) would have been awesome to see.
I still wish we could have gotten to see Guillermo del Toro's Hobbit.
BEST: Coraline
WORST: so so so so many but The Hobbit movies (especially the last two) rank up there.
Using an image, show a movie you are sure you have watched more than ten times.
Using an image, show a movie you are sure you have watched more than ten times.
This is so damn COOL! I need to update my drink cart.
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE KRAKEN SEA by E. Catherine Tobler (@ect.bsky.social). A dark fantasy journey through a surreal San Francisco, this novella writhes with benthic brine. Our drink, the Tentacled Orphan, is a sultry sipper with a seaweed kiss.
Now I know what to order for you whenever we manage to meet in person. ;)
OMG I love everything about this! Such an excellent book. (And I need me some drink recipes.)
😍😍😍
Hear my full review of THE KRAKEN SEA (available now from @apexmag.bsky.social) and see how the drink is made at Bar Cart Bookshelf on YouTube.
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Cocktail Recipe & Book Review: The Tentacled Orphan (THE KRAKEN SEA by E. Catherine Tobler)
Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE KRAKEN SEA by E. Catherine Tobler. Snag the book here: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the-krake...
www.youtube.com😂 my daughter asked me "what is hotmail?" in a horrified voice when she saw me use it for an online login.
I use mine too. 😭 And freenet! Now there's a blast from the past!
I know someone might be almost as old as me when they give me a hotmail address.