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!

Just going to leave this right here. youtube.com/shorts/iPlMD...

pre-order today… if you dare. store.deepvellum.org/products/fil...

5.18.26 — the FILTH EATERS are coming.

¡VIVA DOLORES HUERTA! ❤️👊🏼❤️

#booksky Click for PW review link!

Review of FILTH EATERS in Publishers Weekly. Available for preorder wherever you buy your books. Please share. ❤️👊🏼❤️

Super happy to read with Stephanie Elizondo Griest and Jose Skinner at AWP this year in Baltimore. Missing from photo is D Seth Horton and Elise McHugh. ❤️👊🏼❤️ @sgriest.bsky.social

@sgj.bsky.social Did I have to get both kinds of gravy? ¡Saludos, amigo!

QEPD Pedro Friedeberg

"In his masterful FILTH EATERS, Romo conjures a vampire epic across epochs and continents that would’ve shook Vlad, Dracula, Nosferatu, and Lestat to their bones, culminating in a Mestizoavatar of the undead who completes an occult destiny—to save the world. Try to be un-shook." --John Philip Santos

Nothing like walking through your neighborhood to vote early. Vote as if your freedom depends on it. ❤️👊🏼❤️

Gracias, amigo. ❤️👊🏼❤️

The best breakfast this morning with my friend since first grade. May we all be so lucky to have someone like Patsy in our lives. ❤️ Hold your people close.

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