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November 26, 2025

Story Announcement, Zines, and Dead Girls in Paperback

This autumn has been very good and very busy. Busy enough that this is basically just a bullet point list of updates, plus a cat pic, because who doesn’t want that?

First: Dead Girls Don’t Dream is now out in paperback! Please order a copy wherever you buy your books, and as always get one through Astoria Bookshop if you’d like it signed.

Nino's hand holding their book Dead Girls Don't Dream in a garden patio.
My nightmare girls are now in cheaper and floppier form

Second: ZINES! I followed through on my threat to make some zines with my friend Liz, who runs Back to Print publishing in Chicago. You can buy digital or physical copies of them on my ko-fi page. “What Stares Back” is a flash fic story about a strange film, and “The Bad Dad Redemption Arc Needs to Die” is an essay about shitty dads in the media and IRL.

Two zines on a wooden floor. One has a bright green cover with a collage of eyes, and is titled "What Stares Back." The other has a neon yellow cover, depicting a child holding a toy stethoscope to her father's chest, with both their eyes scratched out, and is titled "The Bad Dad Redemption Arc Needs To Die."
Get em while they’re hot

Third: a story announcement! I’ll have a story in the upcoming 2026 Critical Role anthology, Mighty Nein: Stories Untold. (Dropping a link to Astoria Bookshop’s page for it, in case you want to preorder it signed by me, but it’s available wherever you get your books!)

The cover of the story anthology The Mighty Nein, Stories Untold. It depicts an arch covered in vines and flowers.
So pretty!

I’ll leave you all to guess which NPC I got to write, and will just say: justice for my girl [name redacted], she definitely did all that but I love her anyway.

Stay well, friends.

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