Tie bar on the left sold (thank you!), others still available! They're restored vintage or vintage + added critters, will add new earrings tonight once I've hit word count goal! (Switching between writing 2 novels! 🖤) Thanks for supporting small businesses! Keeps this freelance household afloat! 🖤

I 💖 @shvetathakrar.com's full Triptych of STAR DAUGHTER, THE DREAM RUNNERS, & DIVINING THE LEAVES, but there's a literally dreamy, mesmerizing quality about THE DREAM RUNNERS that makes it a particularly special book. It's on sale! Her work deserves all the shout-outs, so share widely! ✨

If you read this thread (and do) you will want to read @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social's "The Facemaker", about the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of WWI's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. Buy/order at your local independent bookstore.

Can't catch my last in-person event in Salem next Sat? Get a signed copy of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC from one of the great stores I partnered with this book tour, like @northshirebooks.bsky.social in Saratoga Springs! Call the store to be sure you get a signed one! 🖤 www.northshire.com/book/9780806...

Waffle House is a beacon in a bleak land and I won't hear different

I grew up in rural Southern Ohio outside of Cincinnati and Waffle Houses saved lives... Literally, materially, spiritually. Interventions were had. Existential questions asked and answered. Self-harm attempts abated. Never underestimate the sanctity (and preparedness) of a Waffle House.

I'm now permanently signed off from having to work. But I'm a person who likes to keep busy (spoons, energy, medical appointments etc not withstanding) and I will keep writing until I'm no longer able. Please keep buying, reading, reviewing and spreading the word about my books.

Hi hello, your friendly neighborhood museumhead here with a PSA that if you live in NYC or have ANY opportunity to get to NYC before February, the Ruth Asawa exhibition at MoMA is the best thing I’ve seen all year.

Again, no fucking way. We all need to be pushing hard on our electeds RIGHT NOW to set the stage that this isn't happening

i should be allowed to beat the bricks off sam altman and all of his higher ups with a tire iron

I always come back to how insulting the idea is that I need a plagiarism chatbot to help me “organize my thoughts” and “come up with ideas,” something I am perfectly capable of doing myself and never asked for any help with

Massachusetts! Take a few minutes this weekend to make sure your right to read legislation is as strong as possible.

corollary, when someone working in a waffle house is kind to you, you know that's a genuine human interaction. i was crying slightly in a waffle house once and the lady made a whipped cream smiley face on my waffle and i will never forget her as long as i shall live

Drafting my sequel to DEAD RINGER (an 1892 telephone operator tries to solve the murder of a ghost who comes through her console), featuring a frazzled haunted object collector heroine & obsessive map collector hero, yesterday I wrote an evocative few paragraphs about caressing topographical maps.

Can't catch my last in-person event in Salem next Sat? Get a signed copy of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC from one of the great stores I partnered with this book tour, like @northshirebooks.bsky.social in Saratoga Springs! Call the store to be sure you get a signed one! 🖤 www.northshire.com/book/9780806...

If you can get to an event with this author, I recommend that you do. I had a good time at the one I attended.

In addition to what is threaded above (crystal hair comb sold, bat clips still available) I'm adding fresh bat/gargoyle/owl tie clips to the shop! A few currently available, all 1-of-a-kind, restored vintage or repurposed/accented: www.etsy.com/shop/Torchan... Torch & Arrow: torchandarrow.etsy.com

I have always been THE target audience for this adaptation & I will throw elbows in defense of it. Liberties taken? Sure! Do I think they are correct? YES. Am I objective? NO. Is the creature hot? RHETORICAL QUESTION IN DEL TORO FILMS. Just let his work be the indulgence you have craved all along.

One of my dear friends dubbed it "FRANKENCRY" and he's not wrong... 😭😭😭 What a blessing to see it on the big screen.

Carved time out of my last week of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC book tour to see @realgdt.bsky.social's beautiful FRANKENSTEIN. My heart. Shelley wrote MANY different introductions to her world-changing novel, explaining it to often baffled readers. I'd like to think, with this film, she is finally heard 🖤

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC is deeply personal; the culmination of everything I've done professionally. From my career on stage, to tour guiding, to my fiction, to my own paranormal experiences, to lecturing nationwide on the importance of ghost lore, this ties it together: bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

If you enjoy watching talks by experts in Gothic and horror that are free to access and made internationally available... why not support the project so I can keep running it and keep paying people to participate. www.patreon.com/c/romancingt...

10/10 am a MASSIVE fan of this project. I've connected with so many people professionally, creatively, and platonically and done some amazing projects with those mutuals/friends, AND I've learn a hell of a lot too. I will never not recommend Romancing the Gothic.

I had to nuke both my Patreon and Ko-Fi patron accounts (I'm scrambling to help 4 family members in need, so I've had to pull back support from all kinds of things I care about until they're all more settled) but Romancing the Gothic is a really wonderful resource, so check out what is on offer!

Frankenstein (2025)

Raising awareness is an act of love. #EpilepsyAwarenessMonth #Epilepsy

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

Fellow writers, don't do this. No state/area is a monolith, do better! I grew up in OH. Systemic problems are gerrymandered in. The fiercest folks you'll ever meet are fighting from the most under-resourced areas of the country with very little support. Also, YES! Beshear would be a GREAT prez

LET'S GET LOUD! 🗣️ On Starbucks's busiest sales day of the year, workers are holding rallies in 16 cities. And we need YOU there! When customers and community members speak out, the company listens. Let's stand together against corporate greed and union-busting! RSVP: bit.ly/redcuprallies

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Been on book tour for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC nearly every day since 9/30! Exhausted but my heart is full! SALEM PARACON is my last appearance of the year, friends, so if you've missed me on tour, please come join us! A stellar lineup on 11/15; FULL of talks, music & cool vendors! 🖤 salemparacon.org

Conservatives acting like the feminist movement’s achievements suddenly FORCED them into some specific mold? Come ON. That’s what *conservatism* demands of women!

“The imaginary feminists I made up in my head, who demand that everyone be superwoman, even though that was actually demanded by patriarchy” strike again

Feminists achieved real changes in law, policy, and culture that opened the way for women to participate in public life and not be relegated to lower-paid service industries or stuck in the home. Feminism *gave* women like ACB the choices they enjoyed.

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

This continues to be the greatest lanyard I’ve ever seen.

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this one because it’s very timely, helped me land an agent, was a Stoker nominee, was published in France and Italy, and it’s 30% off! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Friends across the pond, protect the sky puppies!!! 🦇

GOD THIS IS BEAUTIFUL 😭

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Curtis Yarvin is planning flee the country. Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison. Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won. The future is not yet written.

Carved time out of my last week of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC book tour to see @realgdt.bsky.social's beautiful FRANKENSTEIN. My heart. Shelley wrote MANY different introductions to her world-changing novel, explaining it to often baffled readers. I'd like to think, with this film, she is finally heard 🖤

The Mamdani campaign really stands in contrast to the way (some) Americans typically embrace their immigrant past while rejecting contemporary immigrants.

Well, this is extraordinarily cool.

Make sure you contact your reps and demand they not cave! www.congress.gov/members/find...

hi folks the union at the org i teach through (asian american writers workshop) is having a hard time with upper management, please read their letter & sign www.instagram.com/p/DQrkIq4ESz...