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Pauline Chow is a writer, herbalist-in-training, and ancestral magic practitioner, crafting alternative histories and optimistic futures. Not your average data scientist, she once sued slumlords and advocated for affordable housing in Southern California. Now, she lives in the woods and is planning her next trip to a historical (hopefully haunted) hotel. She is a Pushcart Prize nominated author with words in Cosmic Monthly Horror, Space and Time Magazine, Apocalypse Confidential, and more. She is co-editing an anthology called Coven of the East (Sep 2025), an anthology that reimagines Asian women's magical histories. ...more

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Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology  by Olivia Kidula
"A wonderful blend of the magical, folkloric, mystic, ancestral, but also futuristic as the collection transports readers through time with each story ranging from familial sacrifice to climate critique to explorations of memory, language, and storyte" Read more of this review »
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Soft Deadlines is a delightful, cozy romp with the perfect ingredients for a quick read: an incubus banishing, a summoned demon lover who pays your bills, and a horny heroine turned powerful witch. This light-hearted coming-of-witch tale brings ancie ...more
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“   Bouncing off our collection of Readers’ Most Anticipated Fall Books, we’re taking a peek into the very near future to spotlight upcoming books in speculative fiction—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and the many spaces in between. This guide is a cu...” Read more of this blog post »
Choices by Dianna Gunn
"A big thank you to the editor for an ARC for the anthology!

CHOICES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF REPRODUCTIVE HORROR is filled with tales of rage, vengeance, bitter regret about bodily anatomy, generational trauma, prejudice and injustice, confines and constrain" Read more of this review »
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THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a gothic, haunting tale of estrangement, dissecting the complexities of identity and diaspora, intergenerational trauma, grief, and the helples" Read more of this review »
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Pushing Daisy’s starts with a quiet intensity. Before I realized, I was knee deep in Roger's bodily functions. At the heart of the story is the uneasy bond between Roger
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I will and have recommended this book to others. Notes: Eerie premise, connection to science, bringing the depths of the ocean to real-life, exploration of grief, depression, and loss of a partner to illness.
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