Lo! Something cover-shaped has appeared in my inbox, and I cannot wait to share it with you all!

Some updates from the soggy south sound! www.patreon.com/posts/chaoti...

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

When I first published a little horror chapbook called "Mother" a decade ago, I never thought I'd be typing something like this, but I'm so thrilled to share that my newest novel, THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE, is a Top 100 USA TODAY Bestseller. @torbooks.bsky.social

While Line Fever by K C Jones is the prefect #audiobook for a spooky season road trip. Take that shortcut… if you dare. #Horror #NetGalley #BookSky 💙📚 @torbooks.bsky.social @pnwscribe.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The Winnipeg Free Press just said this about VEIL: “The kind of horror novel that scares you on a visceral level...The book’s descriptions are so arrestingly vivid that it should come with a warning: 'Don’t read this book right before bed unless you want to have graphic nightmares.'.”

ONE WEEK! AUTUMN SPRINGS releases 9/30! Signed and Personalized copies are available from stores around the country. Links at pfracassi.com/newsandevents Or preorder from any bookstore to get the book day-of release!

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

Portland area friends! Be there or, well, be somewhere else, I won't hold it against you. But if you want to stock up on some signed books ahead of spooky season, come on by!

Just trying to distract myself from the agony of being on submission. The last time I did a PC upgrade, BLACK TIDE was out in the world looking for a home, which turned out pretty well, so here's hoping for a repeat!

let’s fucking gooooooo

Happy pub day @peterrosch.bsky.social and WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO!!

“The First Lady encourages children of all ages to embrace the virtues that drive her and the president: laziness, ignorance, abject bullshit, and stolen material. AKA the same virtues taught by artificial intelligence!”

You definitely want to find out What the Dead Can Do!

B&N Bridgeport all set up for the event this Saturday with @wnwagner.bsky.social and I! Also, hanging out on the J shelf with @sgj.bsky.social, @rossjefferyauthor.bsky.social, @pnwscribe.bsky.social, and @jrjisprobable.bsky.social.

Fuck this and fuck this festival.

It's far more important for a reader (and especially writers) to discover their own personal canons than the ones handed down from above. Anybody wanting to get into any genre should start by reading the books that sound cool to them. One weird trick, I know.

Portland area friends, I have a couple events coming up soon with @wnwagner.bsky.social and @pnwscribe.bsky.social! If you’re around, come say hi!

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting THIS loveliness! WOLF snuck its way back onto the USA Today bestseller list, three months after its release! Ain't that just like a shapeshifter??? 🤯🤯🤯

Some people write to work out their fear and trauma, including @peterrosch.bsky.social, author of ☠️WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO☠️. He opens up in Strand Magazine about sobriety, fatherhood, and the fear that inspired the book. https://loom.ly/F1eg8Jk

Sending in my final final *final* edits for VEIL tonight. Then it goes to the @blackstonepub.bsky.social printers. Friends, I can't wait for you to read this one.

Tomorrow, one of the loveliest people in horror returns to the show.

Thank you Reactor Magazine for spreading the word on GHOST EATERS. You’re definitely gonna want to get haunted: bit.ly/3U5BbUG @reactorsff.bsky.social @maggielevin.bsky.social

With spores that readers should try not to breathe in, lest they take root somewhere soft or sprout something unwelcome behind your eyeballs, “Girl in the Creek,” by @wnwagner.bsky.social hits shelves from #tornightfire on July 15th. @thetobiasagency.bsky.social @laneheymont.bsky.social REVIEW:

News! Publishing news! We are SO back (in 2027 but whatever it’s gonna be a BLAST!) 👽✨ @poisonedpen.bsky.social

Wanna get haunted? GHOST EATERS, adapted and directed by Maggie Levin, produced by Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Vince Cheng at Crooked Highway, for Sony/Screen Gems. Based on the bestselling novel by… Check out the full story at The Hollywood Reporter here: bit.ly/4lnBeHw

TAX THE RICH. TAX THEM SO MUCH THEY CAN'T DESTROY THE FREE PRESS. TAX THEM.

Just 4 more days to request an ARC of my debut speculative thriller on #NetGalley. If you are a reviewer, podcaster, librarian, or bookstore, and looking for a unique possession story that Johnny Compton called “an instant favorite,” pls consider checking it out! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... 🤙

Be on the Look Out For ... GIRL IN THE CREEK by Wendy N. Wagner (@wnwagner.bsky.social), releasing next month in books stores everywhere!

This extraordinary review references BIRD BOX, THE MIST, STAR WARS, AMERICAN RAPTURE, Caroline Kepnes's PROVIDENCE, and @timlebbon.bsky.social's THE SILENCE, and I feel like stomping through my house and bellowing with joy at the top of my lungs, but instead I'll just share the review. :-)

Oh, look, it’s FUCK ICE o’clock!

I'm so freaking excited about this one! It's a huge departure from BLACK TIDE and WHITE LINE FEVER. Like it doesn't even take place ADJACENT to a car!!

If you're new to storytelling and considering using generative AI, understand that so much of what makes this worthwhile--for the reader and ESPECIALLY for you--is facing every challenge, finding a way, confronting your own demons, and throttling them. Don't deprive yourself of that triumph.

TEST YOUR LUCK BUCKAROOS. we are giving away 50 advance copies of LUCKY DAY on goodreads. enter between NOW and june 4th to see what fate has in mind www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Deepest inhale of my life aaaand 3 BOOK DEAL 3 BOOK DEAL HOLY MOLY I JUST GOT A 3 BOOK DEAL HOLY NIGHTFIRE I’M WRITING FOR TOR NIGHTFIRE THIS IS MY LIFE THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE THANK YOU KELLY THANK YOU NIGHTFIRE THANK YOU MACMILLAN THANK YOU NICK THANK YOU GOTHAM NOW I’VE GOTTA WRITE 3 MORE BOOKS

Bit of news about the screenwriting side of my life. I wrote this script as a spec TEN years ago. Long game is everything, friends. Beyond thrilled to see these women top line the cast. 🤍🙏🏻 deadline.com/2025/05/jame...

On May 2, 2025, the Trump Administration released its FY2026 federal budget proposal. On page 39 he calls for the complete elimination of the only federal agency dedicated solely to supporting America’s libraries and museums. bit.ly/4cXcPFj via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Oh uh holy shit We’re a USA Today bestseller. I’m so very grateful for everyone who’s picked up a copy so far. Thank you, thank you, thank you. ❤️❤️🙌😭🐺 (This post is instead of the one I almost wrote, which would have simply read, “More like USA Tod-YAY”)

Generative AI is melting our only planet. Don’t use it. ChatGPT wastes 10x the amount of water as Google. And last year, Google was in talks to purchase 8 nuclear reactors in order to power their own AI. This is not sustainable. Stop using it today. It’s literal Earth Day.

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WOLFTOUR begins tomorrow! April 22 (Tues), in Doylestown, PA, with @adamcesare.bsky.social at @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social!! Followed by April 23 (Wed), in NYC with Clémence Michallon and @rachelharrison.bsky.social at @strandbookstore.bsky.social!!

A little something from the Wisconsin Bookwatch I wanted to share: "White Line Fever" by K. C. Jones is a simply riveting read from start to finish. An original masterpiece of white knuckle suspense by a novelist with a distinctive and narrative driven storytelling style... ❤️😭

This is a really wonderful post which has a very important truth at its core. That is, if you pre-order Nat Cassidy's new novel WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME from your favourite bookstore, then I can hopefully reprint it and put a massive fucking Stephen King quote on there.

Watching fellow creatives give up and go AI because that's where they can get work is a real bummer

A fun White Line Fever Q&A over at Campaign for the American Reader blog for your Friday morning. writerinterviews.blogspot.com/2025/04/kc-j...

It's officially #TakeActionForLibraries Day! To celebrate and advocate for libraries and library funding, we want every library lover to make their voice heard today. Head to ala.org/showup to take action by calling or emailing Congress, writing a letter to your local newspaper, and more!

“Librarians are speaking out about what communities could lose, including internet access and workforce development in Kentucky, the Talking Book and Braille Center in New Jersey, digital hotspots in North Carolina, and much more” @rainesford.bsky.social

New poster for CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD. Only in theaters, May 9th. Please go opening weekend because… well, the book has sequels.

Oh man this nice kid at the car shop has the same name as one of my nastiest villains

Ohio! It is early on a Friday morning, but this is a Get Up & Get Going moment. Start by contacting your state reps ASAP.