One of my favorite stories just made it to the final round of choices… god I hope it gets picked. 🤞

All roads lead to Derry. #ItWelcomeToDerry is coming this October to HBO Max.

I do find it funny that Thomas Ligotti is a Cancer ♋️🦀🤣 (I am also)

My favorite story I have ever written just keeps getting rejected and I’m like 🤪😫

What’s the chances that @stephenking.bsky.social would let me use a line for an epigraph for my novel? I know he loves a good epigraph. If he did, I’d use “We lie best when we lie to ourselves” said by Mike Hamlin in “IT”. “IT” is one of my favorite books, and also why I love living in Bangor. 🎈

Looking for both agents and editors. Send me your recs!

Basically finished with my novel but I am finding that a lot of publishers will not accept any submissions containing SA. On one hand I am wondering if I need to rewrite and remove that part. On another hand, in a few different ways it’s an integral part of the story. So not really sure what to do..

My story “The Ash House Tapes” is out now through @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social ! suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue9

Reading “We like it 🍒right after reading #BHH 2 books before also hit different for me. Really want to read more Native American Horror novels. Also i pictured the titular 🍒 scene in the book almost in an absurdist lynchian way. What’s great story @jacymorris.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

Just finished @jacymorris.bsky.social ‘s We Like It Cherry. Me definitely like it 🍒! An awesome amalgamation of mythology, horrific imagery, survival and love. It will have you ponder the impact of climate change while also wondering what a human eyeball might taste like @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

Just finished up Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes and now onto We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris @sabarnes.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social @jacymorris.bsky.social

Hmmmmm

Looking for some kind folk to read a draft of my novel “Behind the Veil”. Thematically I’d call it a story inspired by House of Usher, Hill House, Rebecca, Ligotti, Barron, and local WNC historical research. Looking for kind words and constructive criticism. Let me know if you’d be interested!

Submitted my first non-fiction piece for publication, entitled “ Maine’s Foggy Liminality and its influence on Horror & Art”

I always fail to write a seasonal story in time for the actual season. Tried to write a springtime story by May 1st and epically failed at that 😂 Oh well, at least I found this book at the library.

Between Neil Gaiman and now Neil Degrasse Tyson, I’m pretty upset at the two Neil’s I used to look up to. I own multiple books by these Neil’s. Next time I have a bonfire I have some kindling I guess. “Death by Black Hole”, “Sandman”, “Stardust”, “Smoke & Mirrors”, “American Gods”, all in the fire!

Finally diggin in to the @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Split Scream series and started with “The Guts of Myth” by @carsonwinter.bsky.social . I loved the exploration of a person as a liminal space or gateway. The backstory and dynamics are compelling. The ending is a gut puncher too. Bravo

New story “Honeymoon” out now on www.darkharbormagazine.com/honeymoon/ check it out!

I identify with HP Lovecraft in the fact that, most of the time, I’m more interested in the lore, history and the aesthetics of the setting of the story than I am the characters. Characters feel like the vocals of a song—- they’re important, but they aren’t always what make a song great.

I think I first gravitated to horror when I lost my belief in god. I realized the fairytale I’d been fed about a god who loved everyone was a lie, and once that happened the horrors of the world were revealed. Horror, in all of its forms, taps the vein of reality more than anything else.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility

Nothing like receiving 5 rejections in 48 hours 🥴 #numbersgame

“I’ve heard our elders and many-faces men and even chiefs say that it’s the napikwans who are ruining the world, but napikwans are just what happens when we forget we’re Pikuni. When we think a many-shots gun is more important than beaver medicine.” @sgj.bsky.social #buffalohunterhunter

Thanks to The Briar Patch in Bangor for having a fun “Derry-free” horror book club meeting this evening! Good discussions about how messed up Fred is.

Super frustrating when you feel like the stories you work the hardest on or are the most unique get rejected more than the ones you don’t feel as strongly about

Going to this on Wednesday. Found Feito’s “Victorian Psycho” a fun disgusting day read. There are certain turns of phrase that they use that really turn the stomach. And the colorful Victorian vocabulary is the cherry on top.

Just got my copy of Gothic Tales by Thomas Ligotti from Chiroptera Press 🤘🏼🦇

Spring and summer are my least favorite seasons so I guess it’s a good time to get a head of my autumnal and winter horror stories 😂

Going to the grocery store at night, you encounter people that look kind of cool like I would wanna go get a drink with them. Then others look like strange night beings out Renfielding for some Dracula. Both of them could be Stephen King characters. Which makes sense considering I’m in Bangor.

Finds a new small publisher: :D Closed to submissions: 😒

There are two wolves inside me. One says “basketball is a stupid human activity, another sport used to sublimate the human desires of violence and competition, the desire to crush an opponent.” The other says “wow it would really be cool if Montana won since they’re an underdog”

When you get a notification that your copy of “The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein” by Ligotti is on its way 🕺🤠

Fun fact: my new story “The Sideshow of the Void” is not a direct sequel to “tragedy of the Laughing Clown” which was produced by @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social , but you may see a familiar clown within the story! Check it out on Dark Harbor Magazine! www.darkharbormagazine.com/the-sideshow...

Check out my new story “The Sideshow of The Void” here: www.darkharbormagazine.com/the-sideshow...

Just finished @ivygrimes.bsky.social new book and WOW. The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion is equal parts a Lynchian Grimm’s Fairy Tale and a literary southern gothic. Like Dunsany’s Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn, The Ghosts from Crimson Peak, and a precocious child’s daydream.

Why did this make me cry? 😭 @ivygrimes.bsky.social

Found out my stories “The Sideshow of the Void” and “Honeymoon” will appear in the March and April issues of www.darkharbormagazine.com 🤘🏼🤘🏼

Somewhere in Derry, ME

Stoked to read/review this! @ivygrimes.bsky.social

Just wanted to take this opportunity to say Fuck You Donald Trump

😭 *cries in pro-rates 112 years later*

I’ve submitted more stories these past two months than the entirety of 2024. And I have received a ton of rejections 😂 but it’s a numbers game and I know I just need to find the right publication! #dontgiveup

Right now I am writing a story for the “Monstrous Angels” collection from @conquestpublishing.bsky.social … writing a truly spooky Angel has been super challenging! Something that helped set the mood was re-reading Matt Cardin’s essay “The Angel and the Demon” which explores the origins of both.

So far I have written a story about a hidden sideshow within a strange carnival that seems to periodically haunt a small seaside Maine town. Another is about 2 Homeymooners spending time in Maine who find out what really happens to tourists. Another involves a preserved mummy found in a sinister bog

In 2024, I worked on my upcoming gothic romance/weird horror tale which is tentatively called “The Greystone Suitor”, and I got my story “The Tragedy of the Laughing Clown” produced by @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social which has always been a literal dream of mine. Can’t wait to see what 2025 holds!

Feeling very grumpy about the void here so l've channeled that into a list of weird or weird-ish or weird-adjacent or theoretically-weird collections by Black authors (some of which I’ve read and too many of which I have not)

The Onion and Black Mirror writers must be mad that reality is the way it is right now

Going to NYC in May, wanted to go to sleep no more but I just found out they closed in January? So bummed. Need new recommendations. Any similar experiences out there? Any strange Ligottian sideshows? Any dancing mannequins inside a club like an @lcvonhessen.bsky.social story? Maybe I’ll find one.

Finally finished this story about a big body found in Maine. Time to submit it! Fingers crossed…