Haven't cross stitched at all but Emna from Farouches podcast feministe inspired me to make this pattern (it's French for if you were a spice you'd be corn strach) 😅

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Almost done with the novel, so I’m thinking/hoping/dreaming about my next contract. Know what helps? Selling books! Seriously. Anyway, it’s almost half off! Go ahead, share what you love. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Can't beat free reading material but this one alao happens to be mot excellent!

Ah, Bad Bunny left you with questions about power outages, storms, and our hatred of colonialism? Don’t worry, I got you. I’ll show you the aftermath of a storm, take you to the beach, show you what hides under the waves. I’ll show you our magia… www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Last night I finished reading this book, after months of reading a page here and there. It's my second physical book finish of the year, sounds like I'm actually doing the whole back to physical media thing!

Let's see if BlueSky #booksky is better at recommendations than booksta! Weird, liminal, 80s/90s vibes, horror, or very niche nonfiction prefered 🙏🏻

In the last 2 days we've received 110 applications for a job that when we last posted it (in 2023) received only a handful of applicants in a week. It's official the job market is cooked.

Black Friday book sale! My horror-comedies Apartment 239 and the sequel, High Strangeness, are both just 99 cents! Apt. 239 amzn.to/3TizhOT High Strangeness shorturl.at/fCEZ9

Reading Dirtbag, Massachusetts, I am reminded that I have not a single unique experience to my name 🤷🏻‍♀️ #booksky

Finally hit the 20% completion on the long dog sampler!!

I'll never stop recommending Tamika Thompson's book!

Look at her enjoying Halloween decor, she's truly a member of the family! #cornsnake #snake

Read for a while if you can. Watch something. Eat tacos. Turn that music up. Text a friend. Check in with your forever demons. Drink from the skull of your enemies. Take care of yourself. Can’t fight the good fight if you burn out.

Today for Latine Heritage Month, the little book that could! Launched barrio noir (¿Y ahora, cabrones?) and my career (and years later again in France). My first translation, first film option, etc. I’m STOKED it’s back in print! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/zero...

3/3 Made the trinkets one for a tag yourself post on my IG and the other one is a personal project (geese unrelated to the reference and I'm curious if anyone gets the reference or if it's too niche?) let me know if there's interest for the patterns!

2/3 Made these cross stitch mock ups for a tag yourself post on my IG but I also have the PDF patterns, let me know if there's interest!

1/3 Made these cross stitch mock ups for a tag yourself post on my IG but I also have the PDF patterns, let me know if there's interest!

It’s #FridayReads time AND Latine Heritage Month! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here are horror and noir mixed with Spanglish, history, anti-colonialism, magic, friendship, revenge, and monsters from the deep. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

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Thanks, Gabino! My next title, MONOCHROMICON: THE COMPLETELY MONOCHROME TRILOGY, releases next Tuesday, 9/23, in all the usual places. It's a supernatural thriller, a neo-noir mystery, and cosmic horror rolled into one. Check it out: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH8XTGT9 bookshop.org/p/books/mono...

Last Saturday, a story from this collection WRECKED me and I still haven't recovered from it!

A line from Mad Days by @elfordalley.bsky.social 😂

Campus Reform tried to get me fired from being a *postdoc in physics* in 2015 because I said Thomas Jefferson was a rapist

Finished Find Us (loved it), onto the next. @elfordalley.bsky.social September is going swimmingly (you shouldn't have suggested it if you didn't want to hear about it 😂😂) 🩸📚

It's the little things that make me fall in love with a book 🩸📚

Well my friends, the time has come, send me your horrors (I have been an eldritch horror for a long time I cannot become what I already am!)

Ok for some reason that emphasis came across as very girlypop coded (especially with the luminous eyes mentioned earlier), pop off queen and *looks at notes* slay the whole town! #justgirlthings 🩸📚

3 stories in and loving this one 🩸📚

Starting September at 17.5% completion on the sampler. How's everyone cross stitching going?

16.56% done and time to move the hoop but I think I might call it a night and curl up with a book. How's everyone stitching going this weekend?

New bookmark just dropped 😅

I low-key enjoy getting used books that have been highlighted so I can sit there and wonder why they thought that part was particularly important

Seen earlier today, I hope the graffiti artist who did that has an excellent Friday 💜

Another hoop moving time! It's not in the picture but I made it to 15% completion with less than an hour to the new month which probably felt like more of an achievement than it really was.

Muffin-Moon is such an apex predator even ghosts are afraid of him.

It's, at long last, time to move the hoop! The cats are impressed by all the cross stitch action!

Sometimes the book matches the reading buddy

It’s been two years since the storm forever changed the world, but the sickness was only the beginning. . #readindie #buyindie #reviewindie #loveindie #indiehorror #supportindieauthors

New *free* cross stitch pattern available on my ko-fi for those days where you need a reminder that while cybertrucks can ruin your day at least mother nature is trying to save us from having to look at them!

It is done! Pattern is from The Witchy Stitcher's upcoming book. I did not follow the pattern exactly I changed some colors and didn't give the characters their hat because I liked them better without, in the pattern the little bat guy has some detailing and orange eyes and mouth, wasn't my vibe.

When I wrote Undead Folk, it was to highlight the flaws of the American healthcare system & to shine a light on queer families. The whole series is a tribute to those that would suffer or be left behind by the corrupt rich. If you read my book & support what just happened, kindly F off into the sun.

Halloween is a people, not a holiday and it's Halloween every day here! (Pattern is from the Witchy Stitcher's book which drops in August)

The committee for carrots enjoyment (the isopods) were looking particularly cute this morning, but the oddly white one was particularly chill

And remember kids, it does mean ALL

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

@stevewestenra.bsky.social I felt this paragraph in my bones. Was it intentionally written to be read to the tune of a Ghost Town (or any other electro-core band really) song?

Do you want to read Never Leaving but don't want to support Amazon? Good news! You can order ebooks directly from @infestedpublishing.bsky.social and grab paperbacks from Ingram: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

I'm still sick to the point where I feel faint from doing the dishes for 5 minutes but Pretty Boi the betta is being a good dad and the pods are isopoding quite beautifully so it's not all bad.

If you like splatter but want something that's not goofy just unflinchingly brutal, do yourself a favor and read Mass Hysteria 🤌