Happy Pride! Which of the summer’s impressive array of spooky queer films are you most excited for? Have you watched the premiere of The Vampire Lestat yet? If so, PLEASE tell me your thoughts on the ruined port of Detroit, your favorite editorial wags, period-correct cameras, whether Armand is a liar, etc etc.

Having experienced the rare publishing speedrun with haunt / ology, I’m now back to more normal wait mode for my other writing projects. Tidbit of news about the Kristen Arnett-edited anthology in which I have a story—it has a title, which is All This Beauty: An Anthology of Florida Writers. Ever think about what kind of Place Writer you’d be if you stayed in the place you’re from? Haha me neither!!

Ten Years of Sword & Kettle Press funded! I’m really excited to see so much great writing (including “Nothing Natural”) back in print and all together! If you missed the Kickstarter, ebooks and print copies will be available in the S&K shop at some point this summer. Follow along with what else S&K is up to (like becoming a worker-owned co-op) by subscribing to their newsletter!

Link round-up, slightly longer than usual to account for my lengthy sojourn to the tropics:

• The very cool Queer Liberation Library is fundraising—do you have a QLL library card yet?

• ReadOUT, which I attended as an author-panelist last winter (and hope to do again in 2027, for various Reasons), has moved from Gulfport to downtown St. Petersburg. Macon Leigh’s account of why is a quintessential sobering read.

• Bram Stoker Awards! Nebula Awards! Do you follow awards?

• Friend of the Newsletter Hannah Whitten has a new book, her first adult horror, out in August! I read an ARC of Reliquary and really enjoyed it, so get it on your TBR or preorder if you have the ducats. FFO: Mayra, The Bog Wife, Olympic-grade emotional repression, rubbernecking at rich weirdos.

• Friend of the Newsletter Ruth Ann Smalley recounts a fascinating sliver of the broader Great Famine history that I’d never heard about: the March to the Stone, an act of remembrance for “6,000-some Irish immigrants who fled famine 179 years ago, only to die [in Montreal] and be buried in a mass grave.”

• Megan Milks and Amber Dawn wrote to the LA Review of Books on the topic of an honestly pretty strange essay.

• the borders of the zine frontier are always expanding!

• now listening. What’s in your speakers?