Certainly there's been a mistake, but so damn happy to be on this list! Gracias, @bloody-disgusting.com for including me. ❤️👊🏼❤️ @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...

Sweet review from the UK journal Review 31. ❤️👊🏼❤️ #booksky review31.co.uk/article/view...

Lalo Romo is 16 years old today! Every day he teaches me how to grow old gracefully. ❤️🎂❤️ Happy birthday to the bestest boy.

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” — Cicero Chouke Hoya (a hybrid of H. carnosa and H. serpens) first time blooming since I got her three years ago. ❤️ Here’s to a lovely weekend.

Off the Reservation a quarter off until tomorrow, at @barnesandnoble.com. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/off-the-re...

Went to the molino this morning for chicharrones because I’m on a protein kick, and they said happy Father’s Day and gave me buñuelos! I’m not a dad, but I took them anyway!

Was this a mistake, amigo? @stephengrahamjones.com

Happy birthday to my sister Carlota! I love you, manita. ❤️🎂❤️ Hold your people close. 📸: Laredo, Texas, c. 1966/67

Just so we know where I stand: Let his name be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument. Let his name be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.

Finding a double-flowered fig in my tree this afternoon can only mean good fortune. And the tree is loaded with figs (as you can see). Tree from a cutting of a cutting from an old tree in our home downtown Laredo. ❤️ Hold your people close.

Beautiful poster for the inaugural Deep Vellum Music and Literature Festival, Dallas, Deep Ellum, July 10-12. ❤️👊🏼❤️ More info soon. #FILTHEATERS @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social

FILTH EATERS launch & 1st ever Book Public Live with Yvette Benavides. Big thanks to the beautiful people @texaspublicradio.bsky.social & to all who came out. Honored. Nerd alert: check out my socks! Full photo album @ TPR. 📸: Alejandra Sol Casas/TPR. @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social

Always grateful for these moments. Really grateful. Gracias, Boldface Conference. University of Houston. ❤️👊🏼❤️ #FILTHEATERS @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social

Really great time at Boldface Conference, University of Houston. Thanks for the invite. ❤️👊🏼❤️ Borrowing Glass Mountain Magazine’s photos/post. @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social

TOMORROW: Boldface Conference, University of Houston! ❤️👊🏼❤️ @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social

THE FILTH EATERS ARE HERE. @itoromo.bsky.social’s Chicano Gothic vampire epic—spanning 1000+ years of history, brutality, and longing in less than 150 brilliant pages—is available today.

Gracias, @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @bloody-disgusting.com! ❤️👊🏼❤️

TOMORROW, Tues, May 19, 7:00pm, TPR’s Malú & Carlos Alvarez Theater, San Antonio. Book Launch & 1st ever BOOK PUBLIC LIVE w/ amazing Yvette Benavides. Free and open to the public. Free parking too! Go to tpr.org for info. Hope to see you there! @deepvellum.bsky.social @texaspublicradio.bsky.social

Very first inflorescence of my Hoya Carnosa Freckled Splash I’ve had for probably 5 years. I believe it’s a hybrid of the Hoya fungii and the Hoya carnosa. Truly worth the wait. Here’s to a great weekend! ❤️

Deep Vellum will be partnering with the Texas Book Festival to launch a new publishing imprint! This June, we will be seeking submissions from debut literary authors with deep Texas ties. Details below!

With my baby brother, Rodrigo. ¡Salud! ❤️ Hold your people close.

Thanks for including FILTH EATERS! ❤️👊🏼❤️ @deepvellum.bsky.social @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social

With the youngest, littlest Ricky Romo, my great nephew. Super happy. ❤️ Hold you baby boys close.

Happy birthday to my baby sister, Anissa! Love you! Foto de hace muchos años, Laredo. ❤️🎂❤️ Hold your sisters and your brothers close.

chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/01/1... @deepvellum.bsky.social @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social The slipstream novel weaves together gothic & body horror, noir, and cyberpunk sci-fi. FILTH EATERS is horror with a heart & depth; a true can’t-miss novel.—Chicago Review of Books

So happy to be back in the classroom with a virtual visit to Dr. Josie Saldaña’s ‘Indigenous and Latinx Speculative Film and Fiction’ class at NYU. We talked about FILTH EATERS (last book the students read for the semester). Gracias, María! ❤️👊🏼❤️ @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social

good morning, the May horror shopping list is live! ft. new books from @natcassidy.bsky.social @itoromo.bsky.social @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social @bingewriting.bsky.social @hildur.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @johannavanveen.bsky.social & more!

Be on the Look Out For ... FILTH EATERS by Ito Romo (@itoromo.bsky.social), releasing next month!

First of the spring hoya carnosa compacta blooms. Notice the small buds just above. Hope you’re having a great week. ❤️👊🏼❤️

Talking Animals Books in Dallas! Independent Bookstore Day. Gracias! ❤️👊🏼❤️

Featured in Publishers Weekly’s Endnotes, how the incredible cover for Ito Romo’s forthcoming book FILTH EATERS came to be with the hard work of artist Vincent Valdez and designer Jen Blair!

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social

Because he & Aneida live in Dallas, my nephew Rey got his hardcover copies of FILTH EATER @DeepVellumBooks.bsky.social (early copies/pub’s bookstore). ❤️ Hold your baby boys close & teach them to love reading. Out May 19 sooner? Available for preorder. @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social

Where are the Knights of Columbus now? I used to see them lined up in full regalia protesting outside Planned Parenthood clinics. Where are they now and why aren't they showing the same kind of public display for the Pope that they showed against women's health?

With my brothers, Rodrigo, Ricky, Rafa, my cuñis Raul, and our dear life-long friend Eduardo Villarreal. ❤️ Hold your people close.

The most beautiful capirotada from my cuñis Betty in Laredo. You made us super happy. Gracias. ❤️ Felices Pascuas

After six years waiting patiently, my peonies are finally blooming. “On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars ― Something good will come out of all things yet ― And it will be golden and eternal just like that . . . ”—Jack Kerouac

A prceptive, stirring review of FILTH EATERS by @itoromo.bsky.social. “Romo writes the body with meticulous, devotional attention… The prose doesn’t separate the erotic from the predatory…That fusion is the novel’s thesis about power.” www.latinobookreview.com/filth-eaters...

¡Gracias @latinobookreview.bsky.social!

Nuestra linda abuela Sofía González Villarreal (row 1, l to r, 7th). Photo is in terrible shape so I cropped to post while I work to clean it up. @ 1920, Laredo, Texas. Maybe ‘la escuela amarilla’ Central? Such a lovely smile. I can still hear her laughter. ❤️ Remember those who came before you.

First blooms of the season: Shooting Star Hoya (hoya multiflora)! ❤️ Blooming like crazy—a sign of hope, I say. Here’s to a beautiful spring!

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