Freelance Editor | EiC Violet Lichen (Apex Books) | Editor "ECO: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction" | woods mädchen | friend to animals | biodiversity stan | stories in Vastarien, Dark Matter, Los Suelos | ACES & EFA member
Marissa van Uden
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Cover reveal for THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by the amazing @raemariz.bsky.social!! 🖤🌿🦋🐜🍄🖤
So hyped for this!! Best of the year anthologies are such an important part of genre history and the ECO24 was sooooooo good!
I'm honored to have "All That Means or Mourns" alongside these great stories!
🛸 congrats to @parkeriswriting.bsky.social on Eco25!!
🛸 read his NS piece here: www.nightshadesmag.com/ns-something...
"As a thirtysomething bookworm who comes across as a younger adult-under-construction . . . Jane is a character after my own heart." 💜🌌
Thank you to @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy for the wonderful review of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social! Full review here ⬇️
Hi! I'm a first reader at @apexmag.bsky.social. I've read 1,668 stories for Apex. This is the best one.
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
ICYMI, ECO25 editor Marissa Van Uden chose two stories from Reckoning 9 to include in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction: "The Piano Player Has Eight Arms" by @ideofmarch.bsky.social and "We Will Not Dream of Coral" by @mariocoelho.bsky.social! Congratulations, friends!
This book is beautiful - I read an early draft and knew it was special. Can't wait to read a final version
"A Hole Cut in the Wall of the World" is in this-- it's another of my Salish Sea stories, from my 2025 collection THE OTHER SHORE. The story is creepy and allowed me to write scraps of modernist poetry, which I loved. And how cool is it that we have a Year's Best Ecofiction?
You never know what you'll discover in the forest...or what will discover you 🦋👁️🐦⬛
Experience a surreal new fairytale brimming with strange sisters, trickster spirits, and a primeval forest that never lets you go 🌀🌲 the full cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social drops tomorrow!
By Parker M. O'Neill
Dad is driving out to the swamp again. Loads the Elantra up with empty camping jugs and boxes of coffee cups and hits the road; bet you’re glad that you hid that tracker in his t...
“Welcome to Haven, child. The folk’s final refuge in this part of the world.” 🌲🪶
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen Books are thrilled to reveal the cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social, with spectacular cover art and design by Misha Chernov 🦋👁️🐦⬛ Coming February 2027!
Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us!
Se the full TOC below! 🧵
Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us!
Se the full TOC below! 🧵
