Friends who're handy: My dad's been doing a lot of home renovation, can anyone suggest an inexpensive tool or tool-adjacent or handyman-type gift I could get him that would be one of those "can never have too many X" things, so just in case he does have one already, he'd be glad to have another?

Good morning, friends. Happy December!

It's a Waterstones Plus Stamps weekend again, so here's a selection of our Horror titles to *help* you fill your basket! Remember, preorders count too! Ft. @aptshadow.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social Lindy Ryan @alexgrecian.bsky.social & more!

I hope you're having a good day today.

“No,” said Frog.

One of my cats who we rescued as an adult, Noodles, took a long time to warm up. She always liked us, but it was only after 2 years that she started snuggling me, & 1 year after that before she'd snuggle anyone else.

Start building your 2026 #horrorbook TBR today! @catrionaward.bsky.social @bethanycmorrow.com @savannahstevens.bsky.social @caseydunn.bsky.social @jacobrollinson.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @barfridmantell.bsky.social @cj-dotson.bsky.social

Woke at 3 to a godawful clanging and came downstairs to find three of the cats trying to disassemble one of the baseboard radiators to get at the mouse hiding up inside it. (mouse has been removed, cats have been given treats to assuage their disappointment)

Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!

I have to do too many things today, who wants to do them for me so I can stay home in a blanket snuggling my cats and writing?

true story

My 6-year-old daughter just put a handmade necklace on me, then sighed sort of tenderly and in her sweetest voice asked, "How does it feel to finally be stylish?"

Good morning, friends! Happy Friday! I've made a 2025 awards eligibility post for my published horror fiction this year!

tempted to end today's writing session a couple hundred words early...

My six-year-old, demanding cheese balls as I'm making dinner: "Let me have a cheese ball, or else!" Me, testing my luck: "Or else what?" 6: "I'm not telling you!" Me: "I'll call that bluff. Hit me with your best shot." Me: *immediate panic*

I've exceeded my target word count goal for the day and now I'm going to play Rogue Legacy until it's time to go to work.

Just now when I asked her what she wants for breakfast, my six-year-old gleefully answered, "Your teeth!"

At the gas station the 20 y.o. ringing me up was v preoccupied with flirting with his coworker behind the counter, & watching them (subtly! not, like, creepily) made me remember so vividly for a second what that felt like. Being that age, having those interactions. And then it made me feel SO old.

Good morning and happy Sunday, friends!

My sense of time has become even more unmoored than usual.

WHAT THE HELL ALSO? LET'S KEEP GOING.

I hate it when cross-traffic does not stop, unless I am the cross-traffic

I know many new writers worry about how readers will receive their work. That’s a valid concern! That said, two things: 1. This gig is only worth it if you write what YOU want. 2. Some will hate your stuff, but some will like it. Your readers. They’re awesome. Write for them.

...Do you ever worry?

Happy Monday, friends! I went to Horror on the Hudson over the weekend and it was incredibly fun, and I get a day off tomorrow, so this isn't too Mondayish a Monday for me—I hope everyone else's week is starting well too!

Yessssssssssssssssssssssss this is news I've been dreeeeeaming of!! Waking up to find out The Mummy 4 starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz is happening in real life has me ready to go COMPLETELY feral. Ooh, I hope John Hannah and Oded Fehr come back toooooo! bloody-disgusting.com/movie/391287...

Good morning, friends, it sure is a Tuesday today, isn't it

Good morning! Happy Saturday!

i'm sure everything will be fine

I just tilted one of my lamp's adjustable lights down to better see if the dark spot floating on the surface of my coffee was a coffee ground or a fruit fly, and two dead bugs fell out of the lampshade and directly into my mug.

Once Halloween is over we should be allowed to hibernate until springtime.

THE WARDS WILL FALL release day! (M/M dark fantasy) Come read the first chapter. New chapters release for free on Mondays. www.oleandercraw.com/chapter-one/ 👁️ Expedition to a rotting magic city 👁️ Possessed and becoming Something Else 👁️ Ancient magic is returning Cover by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social

The planning phase is officially DONE, with my outline completely finished and double-checked, which means I am now DRAFTING my new WIP! I have exactly one page written so far, let the funnnnnnn beginnnnnn!

Good morning, friends! It's Saturday! I'm taking my kids to Spirit Halloween and then carving pumpkins later today! Hooray!

It's Friday! Friday woo! One of my kids has a zoo field trip and the other has a Kids Night Out after school and I? I have laundry. But I also have podcasts to listen to while I do laundry! (I've been re-listening to Archive 81 lately, it's such a good one)

Good morning, friends! Look, a giveaway! Between now & Halloweeeeeeeeeeen (which is coming up way too soon, gosh I don't want October to end) you can enter for a chance to win a paperback ARC of my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

Good morning, friends! Today I feel like becoming a hibernating creature in a cozy den, undisturbed. Instead I will do chores and go to work and make food and check homework and write and make important phone calls and continue to be an adult human. But eventually bedtime will come!

I wish I was better at singing and painting and bowling, but at least I'm not the kind of person who is cursed by the inability to do enjoyable things just because I am bad at them.

Good morning, friends! Happy Sunday!

Once again lamenting the absolutely criminal cancellation of Outer Range

It's never a bad time to bring up that we a b s o l u t e l y have the resources and ability to provide housing, food, clothing, healthcare, and education to everyone at no direct cost to the individual; and we just choose not to do it.

This week has been one million years long but at last it is Friday! Good morning, friends! I hope everyone's got a fun weekend planned!

Good morning, friends! It's Thursday! We've made it through the whole week so far, we can probably get to Friday, too!

Good morning, friends! We have made it to Wednesday, even if it doesn't feel like a Wednesday. Is anyone else So Tired? So, So Tired?

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

So as life usually does, especially with a newborn in the mix, things got a bit crazy. I finished These Familiar Walls by @cj-dotson.bsky.social a few days ago, but just could not find the time to sit down and type this out. This book for me was a 10/10, and honestly

Good morning, friends! Happy Tuesday! I have too much to do today, but at least it's all off to a good start--I'm plotting the next book and just made myself cry a little over a scene I'm only outlining so far. Can't wait to flesh this out and really devastate myself later!

When I was young, I had a cassette tape of Shel Silverstein reading some of his own poetry from Where the Sidewalk Ends. Now when I read those, I hear them in his voice. The way he repeated "How did it go?" at the end of Forgotten Language always made me sad, in a way I didn't understand as a kid.

Sam's covers are so gorgeous 🤩

NOT NOW, researchers awakening 40,000-year-old frozen microbes