SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️‍🌈 www.lucysnyder.com Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social Cats, aquariums and terrariumshttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mtmfqmdvvk2uI created a starter pack of Ohio horror writers, editors, and publishers ... please comment if you know of someone who should be added. Thanks! https://bsky.app/starter-pack/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/3mtk3phszbf24 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmfqmdvvk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3msytagrsgc2jI got yet another AI-generated publishing scam through my website's contact form, but the wild thing is, it was for a completely different author. Very, very much Not Me, and Not My Book. LOL.13 Aug 2026 23:45 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3msytagrsgc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3msokl2d4x22sReally, really disappointed in @additudemag.bsky.social promoting AI to their readers. All the IP theft and environmental issues aside - *huge* issues to set aside - it's deeply unethical push AI on folks with impaired dopamine regulation systems. This is just a terrible idea all the way around.09 Aug 2026 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3msokl2d4x22shttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mslxakna4k2gI refer to our cat and each of my male geckos, turtles, and toads as "big guy" and "little guy" pretty much interchangeably.08 Aug 2026 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mslxakna4k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mscr4tzz422sI had my gargoyle gecko out for some running around time and she jumped off my shoulder onto the shelf and ran halfway up one of my Stoker awards and has just zoned out there.05 Aug 2026 05:09 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mscr4tzz422shttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3msbzclq3jc2xI don't know who needs to know this, but: mourning geckos are MUCH easier to catch than yellow-headed dwarf geckos. Mourning geckos tend to scurry a few inches and freeze, but the yellow-headed dwarf geckos will rocket away and thrash around wildly if you get your fingers on them.04 Aug 2026 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbzclq3jc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mrbhbewwdk2rSomewhere in New England, there needs to be a promontory named Bonks Head.22 Jul 2026 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrbhbewwdk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mr6kbtqeek2oHeads-up for folks with food allergies and sensitivities ... it turns out most of what's sold as 100% avocado oil is adulterated with other oils, so you can't know what's in it unless you're very sure of the manufacturer: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5902084/avocado-oil-health-fraud-study21 Jul 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6kbtqeek2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mr4kfhebl22kI and @jarodkanderson.bsky.social, @quotidianwriter.bsky.social, Mindy McGinnis, Nelson Rolon, and Thao Thai are mentoring emerging Central Ohio writers through the Writers Rising program, which is free and open to applications now through 8/20: www.quotidianwriter.com/writers-rising21 Jul 2026 00:27 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr4kfhebl22khttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mr4eia6zc22xThe follow-up novel has been delivered, edited, and I need to submit revisions in the next month. Updated title: Daughter, Dreamer, Slayer [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jul 2026 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr4eia6zc22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mqsfhz4lzs2pDiscussing a collab with one of my favorite writers and we're both pretty geeked about it. 😁16 Jul 2026 23:32 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsfhz4lzs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mqmvis6qys2xTo heck with the Necronomicon: learning the sugar content of my favorite desserts is truly cursed information.14 Jul 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmvis6qys2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mqmii57txs2bLots of us were raised in ways that make self-deprecation a reflex but: writers, please don't run down your own genres of choice. For instance: If someone says "Hey, you sold a book?" try not to shuffle and reply "Yeah, but it's just small press poetry" or "Yeah, but it's just a horror novel."14 Jul 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmii57txs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mpz63xkau22eI've encountered a bunch of bad/baffling creative feedback, but the one that still leaves me scratching my head was the OSU poetry instructor who insisted that poetry should not be narrative. The oldest, best-known poems in literature are narrative poems. C'mon. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Jul 2026 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpz63xkau22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mpyqayxpd22dIf you're in the Columbus, OH area on July 11th or 12th, come down to the Columbus Book Festival! I'll be in the Horror Writers Association tent with other authors. www.columbusbookfestival.org https://www.columbusbookfestival.org/06 Jul 2026 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpyqayxpd22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mpmg6ebpb22dSpeaking of horrible ideas ... AARP is telling their elderly, computer-naive subscribers to use AI.01 Jul 2026 21:04 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmg6ebpb22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mpm5brzrfs2iI shared an article (not mine) hosted on Substack and had a bunch of people jumping down my throat about it being on Substack. Someone trying to be helpful suggested Beehiiv as an alternative platform. I checked it out. It's not an alternative at all, as far as I can tell.01 Jul 2026 18:25 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpm5brzrfs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mpm4ehso5k2tThe heat is brutal, so a couple of days ago I put shades over both my ponds ... so far the water temperature is staying reasonable. You would never know I pulled a bunch of frogbit out of this one just yesterday. (There's a bubbler so the oxygenation is fine.) (Yes, that is a tree in the pond.)01 Jul 2026 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpm4ehso5k2t