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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They said it couldn't be done but we've got EVEN MORE GREAT LAKES TALK over on substack. If you're not subscribed, get on board at allisonmickmakesmesick.substack.com

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just finished an early read of DARK WAVES, @allisonmick.bsky.social's upcoming Gothic eco-terror with supernatural hauntings and messy characters, and HONEY CHILE! I spent most of the back half of the book gasping and saying, "Oh, snap." You will want to add this to your tbr. Link in comments.

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Husband thought Wawa was a cutsey nickname for Wegmans bc "east coasters seem to have a lot of reverence for it"

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Doing what I do best (hyping up weird shows/movies over on substack! allisonmickmakesmesick.substack.com

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Widows Bay Show

ALT: Widows Bay Show

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Escape rooms, alien invasions & apocalyptic firestorms. Abductions, eco-horror & cyberpunk. And we ain't done yet! YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM out 10/6. @allisonmick.bsky.social's DIVE out 11/17. Get your New Weird Horror on. 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

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michelleac.bsky.social @michelleac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

DARK WAVES by Allison Mick (@allisonmick.bsky.social) follows sisters who encounter the natural—and supernatural—entities of the North American Great Lakes on an otherworldly quest to the matriarchal commune where they were raised. O.S. Jan 26 #LibraryReads Nominations by Nov 1 #EWGC bit.ly/4yvNzQf

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Carl Brandon Society is running a free weekend query workshop for BIPOC writers with a completed manuscript, taught by Tamika Thompson. 🗓 Saturday Oct 17 and Sunday Oct 18, 5 PM to 7 PM UTC 💻 Virtual 👉🏾 Apply: events.humanitix.com/the-art-of-t...

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The shipwreck is just the beginning... DARK WAVES: A GREAT LAKES GOTHIC is 25% off at @barnesandnoble.com so preorder TODAY

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Lil Guff Boy @tomguff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@allisonmick.bsky.social was asking the rental car guy about those gangs stealing Kias. he said "no that's an urban legend.... also we fixed it."

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

guys we can't ALL be wretched beasts some of us need to be lovesick fools

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The rain is back in Portland, I guess that's a wrap on summer (here anyway; still looks plenty warm elsewhere!) But we still got a lot of WEIRD to come this year: YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM arrives 10/6; and @allisonmick.bsky.social's DIVE follows 11/17! Get caught up: store.tenebrouspress.com 🖤☠️

Our 8 2026 releases;
KAYAK
OLYOKE
ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT
SPLIT SCREAM
BRAVE NEW WEIRD
MIDWESTERN CHROME
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM
DIVE
The first 6 w/OUT NOW across them.

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Q: "You ever think about a film adaptation of Humboldt Cut?" A: yes but only as a means towards getting a strain of weed named after it

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

idk if this is a particularly boomer book opinion but it makes me feel curmudgeonly bc I long for the days of mass market paperbacks: Books should be put out in paperback first instead of defaulting to hardcover.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Print proof. Getcher punk asses preordering @allisonmick.bsky.social’s scuzzy masterpiece pronto. “A vivid, nasty trip so dank you'll feel like you're snorting blow off the seat of the men's room toilet (complimentary)” - @bitterkarella.bsky.social Cover: Matias San Juan store.tenebrouspress.com

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Getting worked up about American train infrastructure again

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Droughts. Fires. Earthquakes. Sinkholes opening up and swallowing entire streets. Once-in-a-lifetime storms happening every other week. In any other age, folks would declare these omens and start assessing what in their lives needed to change

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 05/08/2026

You will, however, not be entirely safe from opinions about metal and ska

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

mute your darlings

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Big thanks to The Line Up for including HUMBOLDT CUT on their list of forest horror books to read this summer! the-line-up.com/forest-horro...

the-line-up.com

Forest Horror Books to Read In Summer

Horror books that take place in forests and evoke a primal fear.

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

jpbrammer is the only one out here asking the important questions like "Does Ithaca run on Dunkin?" substack.com/home/post/p-...

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'The Odyssey' Is the Song of the Summer

But should you lash yourself to the mast, or invest in beeswax?

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 21/07/2026

The writer-editor relationship is so important cc @jduffyrice.bsky.social

a google docs screenshot from Josie Duffy Rice that reads "take this image out before I kill you"

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

had a good old fashioned tv binge this past weekend with monarch: legacy of monsters. it's a fun show that does a lot of ambitious stuff with messy family dynamics (+ all the monster stuff). big swing to posit that being unethically polyamorous is epigenetic

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Y'all, how're we over halfway through 2026 already? Not to worry; we still have some of our Best & Weirdest incoming: MIDWESTERN CHROME BY @beardedbetts.bsky.social YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM DIVE by @allisonmick.bsky.social See anything you've missed? Let's fix that: store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art for 8 Tenebrous titles in 2026:
KAYAK
OLYOKE
ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT
SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES
BRAVE NEW WEIRD
MIDWESTERN CHROME
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM
DIVE

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New substack about my new book Dark Waves, which you can preorder now.

Dark waves book cover background with text overlay reading "Or something #42: SHIP HAPPENS" and subtext "preorders are open for Dark Waves, an icy gothic return to the Humboldt Cut universe"

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Alexa play Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, max volume" preorder DARK WAVES 🖤🌊 wherever books are sold

Book cover for dark waves by Allison Mick (vintage font, mint green text over a background of dark blue waves) set at a tilt over an abstract background of white and light blue

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not to brag but I've smelled worse

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Low stakes dystopia prediction: a woman named Trish but it's short for Nutrition

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Alive in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My multitalented pal @allisonmick.bsky.social has another fantastic cover...but the true otherworldly mystery is how she's publishing three books in the space of like 14 months??

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Two sisters escaping foster care encounter the entities of the North American Great Lakes on an otherworldly quest to the matriarchal commune where they were raised… We're delighted to share the cover for Dark Waves by @allisonmick.bsky.social, a gothic horror emerging March 30, 2027!

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Revealing Dark Waves by Allison Mick - Reactor

A supernatural adventure arriving March 2027

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

NEW BOOK NEW BOOK NEW BOOK reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Freaky Tales x I Love Boosters x Sid and Nancy = DIVE preorder today: store.tenebrouspress.com

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Jennifer Lee ☀️ @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I had a book on hold with Libby that suddenly became available because the library bought more copies. Libraries are awesome. ❤️

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

DIVE by @allisonmick.bsky.social is a passionate, warts'n'all vision of what it's like to be an artist in a world that is actively resisting art. It's hilarious, filthy, heartbreaking, violent. + the most fucked up episode of BEHIND THE MUSIC ever + vampires Out Nov. 17th store.tenebrouspress.com

Art by Matias San Juan, illustration of the back of a mohawked fella's head as he drags from a cigarette. An inset illustration shows a person peeking in through a doorway, and various other punks & scuzzballs fill the frame. The whole thing is rendered in orange yellow red and gray.

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

@allisonmick.bsky.social only writes bangers. In this case perhaps bangers with fangs.

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Same vibe Preorder DIVE 🩸🎤 or else: store.tenebrouspress.com

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Have you heard the joke that only k!lls c0ps? DIVE by @allisonmick.bsky.social Out November 17. Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com

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Steven Patchett @stevenpatchett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Buckle up, buttercups. Got the feeling this is going to be putting the 'fun' in weird.

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Young Ones - Vyvyan Basterd

Alt: Young Ones - Vyvyan Basterd

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

WELCOME TO THE LIZ! Last call never actually comes. Now pry your face off that sticky bartop; drink up w/the musicians, wanna-be comedians, hangers-on—& a vampire?!—& let @allisonmick.bsky.social be your guide thru these filthy, hilarious, horrifying tales. Preorder DIVE: store.tenebrouspress.com

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There’s a lot that artists could learn about praxis/process/work ethic/whatever you wanna call it from athletes if they weren’t too busy pretending to be better than them and calling it sportsball. tinyurl.com/4epjxut4

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Mallison Ick @allisonmick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Big thanks to The Line Up for including HUMBOLDT CUT on their list of forest horror books to read this summer! the-line-up.com/forest-horro...

the-line-up.com

Forest Horror Books to Read In Summer

Horror books that take place in forests and evoke a primal fear.

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Dreamboat Branny 🦢 @bransonreese.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

swanboy.com/comic/jackas...

Swan Boy
Panel one: Cassie (antelope girl in a metal band tank top) is talking to Swan Boy.
Cassie: "Hey I saw there's a new Jackass movie coming out next week. Did you maybe wanna go see it?"
Swan Boy: "Hell yeah!"
Cassie: "Cool! We can see it in 4-D. Maybe the seats will electrocute us or something!"

Panel two:
It's both of them in the frame now. Swan Boy is wearing a Rites of Spring shirt.
SB: "I'm excited! There's been a lot of chatter in the online Jackass community for this."
C: "Oh man, I haven't really engaged with Jackass since I was 15, what are they saying?"
SB: "Sort of an even split. Mainline Jackass fans are mostly talking about how good the boys are looking."

Panel three:
Half height panel. Just Swan Boy. He extends above the panel. He's shrugging in a way that I had to look at myself in a mirror to draw.
SB: "Meanwhile the CKY community is ready to present Johnny Knoxville's head on a platter like John the Baptist for Bam!"

Panel four:
Just Cassie in this panel. I could draw them smaller and fit both but fuck you.
C: "I feel like I've never heard you reference the New Testament. I thought you said you and your mom only went to church in the Sunday after 9/11"

Panel five:
Just Swan Boy. He looks happy. Not defensive.
SB: "I know about extra stuff when it comes to Jackass"

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The world is a mess, but what lurks on the horizon is wonderfully Weird. Check out this batch of upcoming Tenebrous titles from @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social @beardedbetts.bsky.social & a Glorious Host of Weirdos: store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by Jenna Cha. In front of a smoky grey-green sky, an enormous dispassionate head rises from a desolate waste-scape and vomits up hundreds of
dessicated corpses; to its left a small man floats in the air, curled in feel position.
Blurb from The Next Best Book Club.

Red and black graphic box featuring cover art by Matt Blairstone; a human form seated, one hand on a book emblazoned with the Tenebrous skull & laurel. Where the screen cuts from red to black, the flesh is stripped from the human, exposing its skeleton. It thrusts its harm into the air, transforming into a death's head moth. It looks pretty cool.

Cover art by AriBo, a bustling downtown area rendered in electric purples, pinks, whites and blues; a cyberpunk dude in mirrored shades and sleek zipless clothes lurks in an alleyway, clutching the severed head of an android woman intimately to him; a passerby looks back curiously.
Favorable blurbs from Michael Moreci and Sean Doolittle

Art by Mx Morgan G Robles. Illustration of a swan alighting upon a cosmic sea, stars swirling; the sky blazes with the colors of the trans flag.

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