C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 5hAMINA AL-SIRAFI x SONG OF ACHILLES: A dying thief swaps fates with a noble destined to end the worldwide flood—then must race against time to save the man he’s both doomed and fallen for. 🔥 slow burn romance 🌊 flooded world ⛵ high seas hijinks 🐉 sea-dragons 🏛️ floating libraries #dvpit #A #F #W #Q 121
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingM.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I jumped out of my seat and had to take a lap around the house when I first saw FOUR recommendations for @othersidespec.bsky.social stories in this issue of Locus. If you haven’t yet, give these stories a read! They’re “devastating,” “luminescent,” “heartbreaking.” othersidespec.com/issues/issue... 16021
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingAbhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Seneschal of Shattered Tor" is a postcolonial high fantasy about a society trying to Be Better* and the leaders dragging them into the future. I hope you enjoy it! * T&C apply 12415
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026back in martha's vineyard on an author fellowship with MVICW and there's really nothing like being surrounded by a bunch of other writers 🥲 050
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingRukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026New poem release for me! "There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...psychopomp.comThere are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / PsychopompRead There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026. 43618
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingRio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 16/08/2026ime nonviolent communication can solve a lot of relationship problems. but, um. not all of them. at least, not problems that ride in with the storm and settle into the whites of your girlfriend's eyes ...anyway, please enjoy Kaitlin's and my cowritten sapphic horror story, it's free to read! 1115
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingWen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"That Summer at Aunt Jackie’s Alpaca Farm" was written at Viable Paradise with the prompt of cottage core and alpacas. I added eldest sibling angst and magical wool. Enjoy! 13614
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingUncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/ 5310274
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingLia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 11/08/2026my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p... 25425
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingAnaïs Ornelas Ramirez @a-ornelas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Very happy to say I’m going to @viableparadise.bsky.social this fall ✨ I received a Writer of Color Scholarship and am fundraising for the rest. Earning in pesos makes getting to a U.S. workshop its own exercise in speculative economics, so any help (or share) means a lot! gofund.me/198c28fdbgofund.meDonate to Fund Anaïs' Dream Workshop Experience, organized by Anaïs Ornelas RamirezHello! I’m Anaïs, a Mexican speculative fiction writer, and I’m hoping t… Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez needs your support for Fund Anaïs' Dream Workshop Experience 02315
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Contract is signed! I'm excited to share that my medieval fantasy story “Holly and Axe,” a sapphic reinterpretation of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, has been acquired by @kaleidotrope.bsky.social for publication. 🪓🌲 2314
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingWen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My latest story is available to Orion's Belt subscribers now! Grief, connection and some special candles. 1218
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingApex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"In the hospital, they say my brain is melting out my nose. They don’t say it like that. They say I’m dying of a prion disease." 🦠🦌🧫 New fiction today by @anjbaker.bsky.social: "Cervidae, New and Sharp" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m... 098
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026my story, “The Light Below,” is available to read today in apex’s issue 154!! otherwise, you can catch it online october 20 🕯️🤍 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape... 090
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026So excited to be a part of this issue!! Especially such an honor with this TOC and beautiful art. 0142
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026thank you guys so much for the love on this project!! i’ve been drafting it in isolation since september 2024, and it makes me a little less nervous to query 🥲 excited to catch up on other folks’ pitches!! #questpit 020
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026AMINA AL-SIRAFI x QUEEN'S THIEF A dying thief switches fates with a man prophesied to end the worldwide flood. What's worse than death? Oh, consigning the guy you love to it. 🐉 sea-dragons 🏛️ floating libraries 🌊 flooded world ⛵ high seas adventures 🔥 slow burn romance #questpit #A #F #W #Q 24511
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingRhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Starfall: a queer space opera heavy on the intimate-stakes character drama, elfy science-fantasy, and swashbuckling starship adventure about a telepathic space elf who joins off-brand Starfleet. He's a stabby cinnamon roll who doesn't want any friends! (This is a lie.) #Questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF 54917
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingLia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 24/07/2026wrapping up edits so here's an updated agent's guide for #questpit! :)) [BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN #A #Litfic #SF #LGBT #OV #Q 33914
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Excited to finally share my novel, THIEF OF THE VASTBORN, for #questpit!! THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI x THE SONG OF ACHILLES: Fate swap. Drowned world. Queer M/M romance. Enemies to lovers. Sea-dragons?! And more! Read the agent’s guide below. Querying soon! #F #A #RF #Q #W 87928
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingRebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 22/07/2026To all staff and affiliates: please mark your calendars and save the date for the worst team-building outing of all time. OTHERLING, my second horror novel for adults, is coming your way in Fall 2028. 7277
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingApex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026We have decided to remove a short story from Issue 153 of Apex Magazine. After meeting with our reading and editorial teams, we'd like to share with you what happened, and importantly, how we plan to move forward from here. Thank you for sticking with us. 💜👽 18300100
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingM. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026We’re about $6700 away, and there’s 9 days left. This is doable folks, so please, help us get over the finish line so we can bring you more khōréō gloriousness!kickstarter.comkhōréō: Year 6Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration! 02922
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingApex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/... 211098
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingWen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"Some prospectors’ ghosts leave their previous clothes real easy. My laundry shop was just a railway station on their way to the afterlife." 🫧👻🌵 062
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingWen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026For sake of future Viable Paradise classes, I wrote a thing. buttondown.com/wenwenwrites...buttondown.comViable ParadiseI am writing this post for all the people who just got the special email that says “Congratulations, welcome to the Viable Paradise cult” (paraphrasing) and... 3196
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingLia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 15/06/2026so excited to announce my short story “this is c(lone)-pop” is now out in @othersidespec.bsky.social! 🥹 feat. fun normal stuff (tm) like: 🧪dissolving your celeb crush in acid ⭐️ commentary on the totally fine and not at all exploitive k-pop/c-pop industry 🎤 parasocial toxic yuri x 1000 2247
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingDaryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026My next novella, THE PORCELAIN SISTERS, is out Oct 27 2026--but you blogger/ booktok/ reviewer types can get it NOW. Two sisters, one of whom happens to be a haunted doll, go on the road to uncover family secrets. Is it horror-comedy or comedy-horror? You decide #horror @tachyonpub.bsky.social 0249
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵backerkit.com Strange Horizons - BackerKit Back projects you want to see in the world. 1110113
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingLia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 13/06/2026had the pleasure of betaing this and it is SO good. claire's prose and attention to detail is a scrumptious meal you do not want to miss 121
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Contract is officially signed!! I'm over the moon to share that my dark spec short story “The Light Below” has been acquired by @apexmag.bsky.social for publication. 🔥🌌 Also pleased as punch that this story was written for a holiday gift exchange with my crew at @viableparadise.bsky.social. 🪼 3203
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingWen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Contract signed, "The Fox Spirit's Retelling" will be in Tales from the Cryptids. It's wild that I get to be in this table of contents. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...backerkit.comTales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny EphemeraA book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be ... 5243
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingChristopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The end is nigh…or is it really the beginning? You decide! Last installment of my serialized eco-space story. Thanks very much for reading! #scifi #ecofiction #shortstory dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi...dailytomorrow.substack.comA Brief History of Kuiper Belt Cave Song — Part SevenBy Christopher R. Muscato 132
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying🐋 haden 🪐 @yavin4.bsky.social · 06/06/2026actually given the talk earlier this month about how editors at publishing houses are shying away from queer stories it’d be really cool this pride month for more established tradpub folks to shout out queer indie work. or just seek it out! there is good stuff out there 13312
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingLindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I have heard from writer friends that editors have directly told they don't want queer books right now, or have asked them to alter/remove queer characters, etc—a state of affairs which is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. Queer audiences exist and need to see themselves reflected in literature! 414364
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingRio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Thrilled to share my very short story "Everyone Drinks at Sunrise" published by @pseudopod.org today, alongside some other creepy tales. I especially love the host's commentary. Liberal guilt, it turns out, *is* delicious.pseudopod.orgPseudoPod 1032: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVIII (78): Terraeque urbesque recedant“We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” “Again?” “Every damn time,” Kate said, running a hand through her hair. “Aren’t there supposed to be satellites checking the routes all day long? 02110
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingivy 🌿 @ontheivyvine.bsky.social · 22/05/2026COVER REVEAL (USA) 🩸🍐🕯️ i am so, so excited to be revealing the cover for my debut novel THIS IS NOT AN EXORCISM (yes, that’s a new title), out ❗️april 27, 2027❗️ from tor nightfire! 1186
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingApex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2026"My mother tended to the springs of conception and abortion for a thousand years. Then she passed them to me." 🌬️🕷️⛲ New fiction today by @clairejiawen.bsky.social: "The Bathhouse for Long Life" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-... 0127
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingRio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 29/04/2026#QuestPit #W #A #F #RF Howl's Moving Castle x The Wizard of Oz An autistic demi-girl nun and her golden retriever boyfriend track down God to demand They explain the invisible wall shoving her across the magical shifting world. Two disaster bisexuals, trapped in a sidescroller. Will they kiss?? 64416
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingLia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 01/05/2026thrilled to announce “this is c(lone)-pop” has been acquired by @othersidespec.bsky.social! this was originally written for my @viableparadise.bsky.social cohort’s secret santa exchange, which is kind of hilarious in hindsight (me: happy holidays, have TOXIC YURI and IDOLS DISSOLVING IN ACID 🤩) 5273
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingNatalie Zutter @zutsuit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026My sex robot story is free to read at Adventitious! Stoked to be part of the monstrous (complimentary) Issue 2 with my anti-ode to the dehumanization of modern dating by way of a pleasure bot who's *too* entitled to his owner's data. 2156
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026my debut short story (and first pro rate sale) are now up in full!! read the whole thing here: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/song-for-t...dailytomorrow.substack.comSong for the Once-Dead Earth — Full StoryBy C.M. Sullivan 073
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026after a YEAR AND A HALF, i just finished drafting my second novel!! 🥳🍾 (revisions are a tomorrow problem) 060
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingRio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Surprised and pleased to see my little sapphic lady knights story featured in Reactor's Short Fiction Spotlight. Never expected to see my name sharing a list with Stephen Graham Jones! 💀reactormag.comMust Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2026 - ReactorThis month's stories focus on unstoppable disasters and satisfying revenge... 73712
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingThe Daily Tomorrow @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026VEGETAL begins! Our first themed issue begins serialization today, only at The Daily Tomorrow. Don’t miss our first story, “Song for the Once-Dead Earth” by debut author C.M. Sullivan (@cmsullivan.bsky.social).dailytomorrow.substack.comVisions of Vines and VerdancyVEGETAL Approacheth 0115
C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026my debut short story, "Song for the Once-Dead Earth," is posting all week long at @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social!! check out part 1 here and follow along throughout the week: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/song-for-t... 😊🌱dailytomorrow.substack.comSong for the Once-Dead Earth — Part OneBy C.M. Sullivan 3128
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingAbhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Excited to share Tasavvur's Spring 2026 issue. Huge shout-out to the writers, contributors, and team Tasavvur. Hope you all enjoy what we've put together. 01913
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingSmall Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 23/03/2026Can you guess our most-published author? We'e published many folks 3 times, a couple of folks 4 times, and just one person 5 times during our nearly 4 year run.... . . . It's Wen Wen ! 14113
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT 14446872149
Reposted by C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is queryingLia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 02/02/2026can’t believe my first pro rate sale is out today in @havenspec.bsky.social! featuring: 💜 the worst sapphic situationship 5eva 👵 the existential dread of a quarter life crisis (spreadsheets! creepy directors!) 💀 “dying a hero is easy; living is harder” 4316