Currently Reading: Broken Trail by @bookishduck.bsky.social

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If you haven't already checked it out, Broken Trail is on Goodreads! If you wanna, the creepy forest spirits wouldn't mind an add. 🖤

#Thrillsandchills Q5: Is this a trick question? Are other people able to regroup? 😆 All kidding aside, I rely heavily on my writing friends to keep me accountable, check in on me, and remind me that even small steps are steps in the right direction. Also, lately, my kids have been motivating me!

#Thrillsandchills Q4: Due to some cuts, I've got less days at my day job at least for the time being, so I've been very strict with myself in making those into writing days. I'm also setting reasonable goals, like 3000 words/week minimum instead of like...10,000 words/week. 😆 So far it's working!

#Thrillsandchills Q3: Oo fun! My kids and I always write these things down and then burn them in a fire on the solstice. This year I wrote down "self doubt" and "comparison."

#ThrillsandChills Q2: -BROKEN TRAIL- Clara always fails her resolutions and then spends the rest of the year beating herself up about them or asking friends for advice on how to do better. -ALTERED- Machie doesn't make resolutions. She prefers a more fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach to growth

The kids and I got super sucked into a new read aloud last night, so I missed #ThrillsandChills!! Good thing stuff on the internet never disappears; I'm going to answer a day late. 😂 Q1: My writing goals include finishing my WIP, final edits on my debut, and another revision of my last MS

Keep the cover love coming for my good friend @vesperdoom.bsky.social who just released THIS gorgeous cover today for their upcoming novel! Event Horizon X Star Trek, METROPOLIS DOWN is a scifi horror novel with a mm second-chance romance, personalized cosmic horrors, and a city within a spaceship.

My body isn’t a temple, it’s a haunted Antarctic research station

You've been waiting, and it's finally here!! The cover for BROKEN TRAIL, my woodsy horror that explores themes of motherhood, female friendships, witchcraft, generational trauma, misogyny, and the effects of constantly swimming upstream. 🥾🌲🩸This trail will break you.🩸🌲⛺

Mysterious disappearances and spirit-haunted woods? Excited to get my peepers on the Broken Trails cover! Head over to @bookishduck.bsky.social ‘s site (or CamCat books!) for the reveal. This trail will break you…

Exciting new horror coming 2025. Cover reveal on January 3rd! Follow @bookishduck.bsky.social for the first peek.

Again...I do NOT have a most anticipated 2025 releases list. But if I DID, this one would be on it too!! The parts of this book I have read have all been amazing and even surpassed the beauty of The Hiding. (Also LOOK AT THAT GORGEOUS COVER!!!)

OH HEY! My book comes out this year! 🤩 (PS: Add on GR and Review on the 'zon if you want to!) linktr.ee/amandacasile

@bookishduck.bsky.social has something deep, dark and woodsy coming on January 3rd!! Woods horror = I'M IN.

Random stream of consciousness first thoughts on #nosferatu: The film is unarguably visually gorgeous, as well as auditory interesting. The sound mixing is incredible and lends itself to a visceral watching experience. (1/?)

Just remembered I need to send off two submissions before Dec 31 and...cool cool cool I can do that. No prob. 😅

William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST was released on this day in 1973 #horror #filmsky

For anyone who doesn't follow me over at the camera place, I just announced a ✨COVER REVEAL UPDATE✨ I’ll be releasing the cover January 3. Yes, RIGHT after the holidays. 😂 but I figure what better way to kick off the new year than with something, well, NEW? Stay spooky and STAY TUNED!!!

#HorrorWritersChat Question 3: For Machie, it's any gift from her girlfriend.

Lonely biologist Machie has no plans for the holidays, so decides to spend it at the North Pole, where she meets a rugged meteorologist. Against all odds, they make out in the snow and fall in love to stave off the frost bite. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi horror elves!! I'm Amanda and I write mostly speculative survival horror, often with maternal or friendship themes. My favorite festive tradition is that--in our family--we eat homemade burritos every Christmas Eve and open the majority of our presents afterwards. #HorrorWritersChat

Oop, just realized I never shared my release news on this app! Here goes: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

A haunted house, but it's just you saying "I should write" over and over again while doing anything but.

The #IndieInkAwards are open for voting. If you've read any indie books this year, please go check it out. There are some fantastic books on there (inc. THE HIDING)! Shoutout to some faves: @tanyapell.bsky.social, @phoenixfire110.bsky.social, Joao F. Silva, J. Patricia Anderson, & #SecretScribes.

This is the kind of aggressive motivation I need.

Clara: - is a mother - doesn't believe in ghosts (but perhaps will soon) - is desperate to bond with her teen and tween daughters - has a best friend who is...not so nice - hates hiking but is about to spend 4 days in the woods with said friend and daughters. What could possibly go wrong? :)