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/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/3mpm4ehso5k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mpk2lqugxk2bHonestly, all the arguments about Substack and Blockchain and whether I should even try to prove my authenticity as a human creator make my head hurt. I just wanna write stories about tentacles and doom and girls in love.30 Jun 2026 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpk2lqugxk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lucyasnyder.bsky.social/post/3mpjympochs2dI'm leaving this up because of the conversation, but I'm adding my voice to those who say: Don't use this. The author confirmed to me that she's committed to using AI for coding this, and it's a bad idea for lots of reasons. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2026 21:56 +0000at://did:plc:4rtqhrnhv43afps4rapzig75/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjympochs2d