in a progressive blow the feudal society of South Carolina has allowed the sister of Lindsay Graham to inherit his title

There is a direct line one can trace from the way the religious right in the 80s & 90s went after Goths, Pagans, vampires & other non-conformist identity groups - often by framing them as delusional & inherently dangerous to minors - and their successful attacks upon trans people now

Absolutely impeccable takedown of all the things by my fab horror friend @bitterkarella.bsky.social, as usual. 10/10 no notes, someone give this goblin a stoker or maybe a nebula or a Hugo pls

Hot take: Use big words to write sex scenes

Fuck centrists. Before the Civil War, centrists wanted to “gradually” emancipate enslaved people, not ACTUALLY emancipate them. Centrists cannot be trusted to deal with the entrenched issues of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism in America. We need democratic socialists.

Someone take Grandpa back to the nursing home; he thinks he’s relevant all of a sudden.

after the floof cat spills coffee all over me and almost all over my notebook and computer Husband: baby, one of the cats has to be the dumbest cat in the house Me: NONE OF THE CATS ARE THE DUMBEST THEY ARE ALL BRILLIANT PRECIOUS BABIES

I know I should be Team Taxpayer Money but I am 100% Team Algae

Hey @jamesriverwriters.bsky.social, y’all wanna explain why your next conference includes not one, but TWO panels about how writers can use AI? When AI companies like Meta stole not only my copyrighted book (Ink Vine) and my friends’, but every shred of journalism I wrote? #writers #writing #horror

Hey friends!! I’m not one to do this. But Candace Nola is one of my favorite people on earth. She’s done so much for the horror community, and she nearly died. Now she needs help paying for iron infusions. If you can give — please. It’s needed. www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-and... #HorrorWriting

Congratulations to @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social on the release of a fabulous collection!!!

Your #WomeninHorror TBR @tanyapell.bsky.social @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social @candacenola.bsky.social @rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social @lindawatkins.bsky.social

I met the owner of @queerhaven.bsky.social books this weekend, one of my favorite bookstores in the Southeast. They told me that they sold a copy of Ink Vine to a stripper. My work is done here, ladies and gentlemen. I will see myself out.

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out literary agent Elizabeth Copps from Confluence Literary Agency! open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

"As she held that anger, it spread and bloomed against the singing. Rage ripened on the notes like buds on a vine, tendrils spread like kudzu, fast- growing, swallowing." @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social @undertakerbooks.bsky.social  https://f.mtr.cool/irhvpjvokn

She kept hinting about her aunt Alda. Great- aunt Alda, who lived in South Carolina with her mother’s pearls, her husband’s pension and a house slowly sinking into the swamp @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social @undertakerbooks.bsky.social  https://f.mtr.cool/qdktknkzro

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out Donna Lynch! Check out her interview here: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #horrorwriting

Thank you so much to The Lesbian Review for checking out Ink Vine and Other Swap Stories! They’ve been such a great supporter of mine and I’m so grateful to them ❤️

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out Scares that Care Board member and my fellow @rdspress.bsky.social author, the fabulous and talented @sonorataylor.bsky.social! Read her interview here: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are celebrating Southern Gothic author @delsandeen.bsky.social! Read her interview here: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Today @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out @edenroyce.bsky.social for Women in Horror Month! Check out her interview here: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out my @undertakerbooks.bsky.social buddy Deborah Sheldon! open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out my sapphic horror buddy @drspookyer.bsky.social! Check out her interview (lesbian cannibals, oh my!!): open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Gateway paperbacks for millennial horror writers: 1. Stephen King 2. Anne Rice 3. Reader’s Digest I will not be explaining further

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out one of my favorite writers and favorite humans, @lmariewood.bsky.social! Check out her interview here: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Women in Horror Month often gets to be a celebration of Women WRITERS of Horror — which is a great thing, but it leaves out so many important people behind the writers. Let’s celebrate all of them (Bluesky is too short to write a very long post and tag all my people here) #HorrorWriting

In honor of women in horror month, I’m featuring new books from awesome women! Check out @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social Her book, Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories, is available now! Broadbent also recommends you read @rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social 🖤

It’s the smack-dab middle of Women in Horror Month, and today, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out @rdspress.bsky.social acquiring editor @stephaniepearre.bsky.social! Here’s her interview: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out one of our favorite writers and buddies @redlagoe.bsky.social! Read her interview here: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Super excited for Women in Horror Month today as @candacenola.bsky.social and I shout out one of my HALF-MOON HYSTERIA contributors (did you catch that, world?), author, poet, and fan designer @weyodi.bsky.social! Read her interview here: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Oh my gosh!!! @stephellis.bsky.social is an amazing poet, and she’s been doing the coolest poems for Women in Horror Month (if you’re not following along, this series is really one of the best and most generous for WIHM!). Blown away by both the poem and that it came from my blurbs — thank you!!

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out @pmraymond.bsky.social! Check out her interview and learn why you need her new book, coming in April from Uncomfortably Dark Horror: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

I’m just going to leave this here and back away slowly.

So, yes, everyone, the delightful folks over at Interstellar Flight Press have just published my latest poem, "Oh yes, the trick," as part of their Queer Speculative Disability Poetry in Conversation project. You can read it for free here: medium.com/interstellar...

Today I’m super excited that @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out @rdspress.bsky.social editor Jennifer Barnes for Women in Horror Month! Anyone who knows Jennifer knows what an amazingly talented editor she is (and how kind). open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out my @undertakerbooks.bsky.social buddy @leticiaasu.bsky.social! #HorrorWriting open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

Thank you @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social for this wonderful write-up on @leticiaasu.bsky.social, whose collection THE REMEDY IS THE DISEASE releases this May from Undertaker Books! eliza392.substack.com/p/women-in-h... #womeninhorror #WIH #latinxhorrorauthor #newhorror #authorinterview

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out my @undertakerbooks.bsky.social buddy, @leticiaasu.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #horrorwriters

@elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social's anniversary edition to INK VINE is out! Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories is a collection of short stories all circling around the swamps of Lower Congaree. With gorgeous prose and swampy vibes, who can resist? (Not us.)

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out @amandaheadlee.bsky.social! Read her interview here: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392... #HorrorWriting

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out the one and only @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, ONZM, whose OVERSIGHT: ERASURE POETRY, coauthored with @carinabissett.bsky.social, is out today! See what she has to say about it … open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

Today @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out @robinknabel.bsky.social for Women in Horror Month! She’s the owner of Inky Bones Press, and she tells us about what they’re up to … open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

can we make a worldwide rule that if you make fifty million dollars you win capitalism. We give you a golden calf statue and you can send your name to the moon, then we take all the rest of your money for healthcare and food for the rest of us

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are celebrating @katemaru.bsky.social! I loved her Hollywood novel, The Collective. Find out why she loves horror in her Substack interview: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

I don’t think I have many Virginia ppl on here, but yall can see me & @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social cuttin up at 2nd Act Books in Charlottesville on 3/19. It’s a @nighttidemag.bsky.social super teamup! #horrorbooks #instore #horrorwriters

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I have an interview with @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social, and she talks about her new book with @rdspress.bsky.social, THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN: open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

Imma make some people angry and I don’t care open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

Reminder!

And because Black Horror Month should never truly end, I have a substack interview with the divine @pauladashe.bsky.social today! (And she never disappoints): substack.com/@elizabethbr...

Congratulations to our talented editor and fearless leader @momoshaty.bsky.social for her Bram Stoker nomination in short nonfiction from the staff of @nighttidemag.bsky.social! Love, Eliza, @cullenwade.bsky.social, @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social, @emmacole.bsky.social, @sharai.bsky.social …