Night folk: My in-person stops for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC, our non-fiction follow-up to A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN! We examine haunted history through tropes of Gothic literature! If you're in NY MA RI MI OH, come say hello! Online orders: wordbookstores.com/book/9780806... THX for support!

"Dress for the job you want..."

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Thank you, Leanna, for your kind words. 🐺 Lon Chaney, Jr., an alcoholic who suffered from depression, found himself liberated from "his black dog" whenever he performed as the Wolf Man. 🐺 He played this part in 5 horror films.

Thanks to black cat lovers, my end-of-Oct sales % to cat rescue grows! Below choker sold but if you 🖤 antique beading (& Jet!), I put together a bib necklace of antique pieces in new life (thx to @kambriel.com's brilliant curation) torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/4375... Shop: torchandarrow.etsy.com

🏆Thrilled to receive a Dwarf Stars Award! #FormalVerse Many thanks to SFPA @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @hwany.org

Just $527 to go to reach one-third funded by the first, which is all I need to get me through for now. I would really, really appreciate any help you can give & will pay it forward—with interest—when I'm back on my (literal & metaphorical) feet. #HelpSky #MutualAid #Romancelandia gofund.me/a2216617c

btw: THIS is where your "ethically sourced sage" comes from at your local "spiritual" shop, people! You should not be buying white sage. *Ever*. It should be gifted or self-grown. It is one of the most ILLEGALLY POACHED AND SOLD medicines. And when poached, it becomes sick too. Don't buy it.

Aaa thank you thank you! We fund the rescue out of pocket so every little bit really does help. If you know anyone looking to adopt really wonky kitties, send them our way so I don’t foster fail Ivar too lol

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

I want this desperately but also know myself well enough to know I'd be insanely annoyed trying to wear something that large. Maybe you don't have that problem? Give this kitty a good home!!

The beautiful dust jacket for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION has incredibly kind quotes of spooky praise from @sadiehartmann.bsky.social @juliajoyce.bsky.social @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social & @sambaltrusis.bsky.social! Full text in AltText: Thank you for your support! 🖤👻

Adding to this thread of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC book tour stops with links to our various NYC (both of us in NYC, then I become the "field agent" while Andrea holds down running the @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social fort) & I continue on to MA, RI, Upstate NY, MI, OH and E. WV stops! Thread in progress:

In case you missed the additions to my Torch & Arrow shop thread, I've got new one-of-a-kind black cat cameos (chokers and pendants!) for the season and I'll tally sales at the end of October to give a donation to the fabulous cat rescue noted here along with direct links: #BlueSkyNightMarket

Gonna just say, if it's this easy to protest against the monolith that is Disney. Then there is no excuse for people to be clinging to Harry Potter. Like, if the needle can be moved against Disney, people can make it move against JK Rowling. Stop the flow of money into her accounts,

Today is the first day of Navratri, the 9 day festival of the Mother Goddess. Later today I will begin my annual posting of her story, but in the meantime I wish you all peace, love, and joy in her holy embrace.

Reviewers, librarians, HWA folk! Honored if you would consider AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, our follow-up to our Stoker-nominated A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN for the Stoker reading list! Out 9/30, on NetGalley thru 10/7: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Neurodivergent people have a different way of thinking. Different is good. Diversity is good. It’s why life evolved in webs of diversity. The current regime wants to stamp that out and make copies of themselves in some sort of clonic inbred way that would have spelled extinction for most species.

Happy New Year to pals celebrating! Here’s to a year as golden as honey and as fresh as fall apples.🍯🍎😻

IT IS TIME.

It’s Election Day tomorrow! 1. Dems favored to win a congressional special in Arizona. 2. A Dem is vying to flip mayorship of Mobile, Alabama; she’d be city’s first Black woman mayor. 3. GOP defends red-leaning state legislative district in Georgia. Details on each: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Getting ready for fall with some tiny pumpkins and chilling reads! Featuring: The Macabre by @kosokojackson.bsky.social The Rust Maidens by @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social A preorder of America's Most Gothic by @leannareneehieber.bsky.social #booksky #halloween #horror #autumn

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

pre-orders are love!

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

THEN THEN, 10/5, 2pm, I'm back to RI, this time at the Ashaway Free Library, again with my bud @christaqua.bsky.social for "Hauntings, Real and Imagined" a discussion about all things Gothic & Haunted, true or invented! Books available for sale/signing! Refreshments provided! Address in AltText:

Nobody's making deals with God to get him to swap their places and running up that hill anymore, and that's sad.

the furries defended us the juggalos defended us and even knowing this, I was still not prepared

Nobody’s got to fight for their right to party anymore and that’s sad

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

This is a GREAT article full of truths, @hellresidentny.blacksky.app. (Also, I love that the still that comes up on the link here is Battinson, who I unabashedly loved in this role. His Emo Batman created such a wonderful Crow movie. 🤌🖤 I say that with sincere adoration for both franchises.)

In Defiance of Death

Nobody's sweet dreams are made of this anymore and that's sad

Oh hey, two of my faves. The Endless is one of my most highly regarded films of all time. I think about it A LOT. If you like clever, original, dare I say *esoteric* horror with deeply crafted character arcs, please watch it. A striking film about two brothers and the alien cult they grew up in.

Just made my reservation for this!

hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

Adding to this thread of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC book tour stops with links to our various NYC (both of us in NYC, then I become the "field agent" while Andrea holds down running the @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social fort) & I continue on to MA, RI, Upstate NY, MI, OH and E. WV stops! Thread in progress:

I had to share that section - because it actually hit me (unexpectedly) hard. Very very timely. And I love how the book feels like both of you talking to me as reader! So getting the audiobook too! ❤️❤️❤️

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

How magical! And what a great pull quote from one of my co-author Andrea Janes' sections! 😍👻🖤

Then, BOSTON area! 10/2! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION tour continues at feminist bookstore @allshewrotebks.bsky.social! Space is limited, please RSVP: www.allshewrotebooks.com/events-1/all... Let's talk Bostonian queer icon Charlotte Cushman + haunted castles! 🙌

Actors, performers, audiobook narrators, voice actors — if you have stories please share them at [email protected].

It is a truth universally acknowledged that:

Join me. Been doing this ever since I got my first teen job to buy my own clothes. New folks ask at my book events "Do you always dress like this", anyone who knows me knows better than to ask, as the answer is yes, give or take a layer of lace or a corset but Every Day is Halloween. Welcome.

Look. I'm friends with Leanna. We've been in the convention trenches and laughed at absurd jokes together. Also, she always looks ravishing. But I still have to tell you, her books are wonderful and you should buy this

AND every bat item sold supports my monthly donation to Lubee Bat Conservancy! The cat rescue I've chosen to make an end-of-Oct donation based on how many cats I sell is @visionvideoband.bsky.social's partner's great rescue @oddpawsrescue.bsky.social! Shop link: torchandarrow.etsy.com One-of-a-Kind!

Oh hey, that’s me on the back cover of this book! Can’t wait for AMERICA’S MOST GOTHIC to be out in the world, so I have more people to talk about it with 🖤