Thanks to Dave Simms for this splendid review at Cemetery Dance!

It was a pleasure to have a dialogue with Michael LaPointe and @mikethorn.bsky.social on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, and finding liberation in failure. tinyurl.com/4urvw3mc

On the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a far-ranging conversation with Michael LaPointe about routine, curiosity, and much more. Check it out: tinyurl.com/4urvw3mc

Listen to our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Michael LaPointe about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, finding liberation in failure, and so much more. tinyurl.com/4urvw3mc

"Nothing human should be alien to us." - Gemma Files ❤️

Listen to the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with the brilliant @gemmafiles.bsky.social about fantasies of power, Straubian recursiveness, dreams, matter & antimatter, and more! tinyurl.com/4s4amr4z

Listen to our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Gemma Files about horny monsters, Lovecraftian Airbnbs, the female gaze, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWS1E21 @gemmafiles.bsky.social

I'm excited to teach Reading Like a Writer, a writing workshop focused on strategic reading practices, through the University of New Brunswick's College of Extended Learning this fall. Oct. 1 - Nov. 5, every Wednesday, 6:30 - 8 pm. www.unb.ca/artcentre/le...

On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water. tinyurl.com/572zhet3

I loved chatting with Miriam and Mike on @craftworkpod.bsky.social!

Listen to our latest episode! We chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more. @emilyabanks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/572zhet3

The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in literature. This year's crop of nominees includes two debut novelists going up against a previous Booker Prize winner.

Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave, the second book in the middle grade Scarewaves book series, is out today! If you read it, I really hope you enjoy it! It’s slimy and full of monsters, the exact kind of thing I would have loved at that age. Available at most major book retailers!

Morning music, playing it loud, finishing up a story for @mikethorn.bsky.social MONSTRUM animal liberation issue tinyurl.com/43b6a5h2

Cthulhu-ass watermelon 💀 Next time local or I don’t need one.

Reminder of this great eBook bundle sale on til the end of the month. A whole bunch of great British SFF at a steal.

I'm in good company here. Thanks for the shout-out, Steve!

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Writers, this chat with Naben Ruthnum is well worth your time.

@miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a lively, enlightening conversation with Naben Ruthnum. Listen! @craftworkpod.bsky.social @undertow.bsky.social tinyurl.com/54cvzpu4

Listen to our latest episode! We chat with Naben Ruthnum about character generation, TV brain, interpreting first-reader notes, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWE19NR @undertow.bsky.social

Always *such* an honor and a pleasure to chat with Kathe Koja. Love this episode.

I really love this @craftworkpod.bsky.social conversation because it could still be going on, rolling, curving, branching everywhere as it goes. tinyurl.com/4nef5hrr Thanks as ever to @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social

I'm very excited to announce that I'm editing PETER STRAUB: NEW CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES, the first multiple-authored, academic book on Straub's fiction. I'm working with UP of Mississippi. CFP with more details below. Abstract deadline: Nov. 30. tinyurl.com/PSCFP

Check out my latest feature for In Review Online, "The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema." I went long on horror cinema's depictions of writers, focusing on Clarke's Exposé, Kubrick's The Shining, & Kurosawa's Loft. tinyurl.com/inrogoth

Special thanks to @rodmoo.bsky.social for the epigraph inspiration! tinyurl.com/ws4yeyzc

I had the honour of writing on DEAD WRITERS for @ex-puritan.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to read and review @invisibooks.bsky.social's mesmerizing collection of horror-tinged novellas. ex-puritan.ca/dark-entries...

Now is a good time to pick up a signed copy of my novella The Wingspan of Severed Hands! Here's a short thread of reviews if you want to know more about it. $18 including shipping, US only (or dm me and we'll figure something out) My Venmo is @horrorsong PayPal link: paypal.me/horrorsong?c...

#ICYMI SKIN LAUNCH REPLAY with Kathe Koja www.youtube.com/live/7blKBhQ... via @YouTube

Listen to episode 18! We chatted with Sarah Bernstein about contemplation, finding time for writing, capturing the rush of language, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWS01E18

Very excited to share the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, in which @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Sarah Bernstein about the abnegation of self, generating meaning, Fredericton memories, and much more. tinyurl.com/CWE18SB

Ahead of the September release of my psychological crime novel, IF YOU KNEW ME, Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer were kind enough to invite me to their podcast on the craft of writing. Many thanks to my wonderful and talented hosts!

Listen to episode 17! We chatted with @spmiskowski.bsky.social about Asian horror cinema, the power of grief, the relentless desire to shape the self, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWSPM17

OK, it's *really* available to order! Get your hands on THE WEIRD: A Companion, coedited by Kristopher Woofter & Carl Sederholm. Contributions from Thomas Ligotti, Eugene Thacker, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and many others! Also included: a new little piece by me. www.peterlang.com/document/132...

Check out Katrin Althans’ discussion of “Blak Horror, Blak Narratology, and Lisa Fuller’s Ghost Bird,” in Global Indigenous Horror! @drkatrina.bsky.social @upmississippi.bsky.social 
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Glob...

I talked a bit about metafiction, creative inspiration, Emily Dickinson, and my latest story, "Dread Robin", featured in pulp MAG's spring issue. Check it out. www.pulpmag.ca/artist-inter...

Always a huge #CliveBarker fan, from the wayback 🖤 And Barker knows all about endings. darkfactory.club/the-age-of-d...

Much-delayed Women in Horror Month post! There are *dozens* of major women horror writers I still need to look into, so please don't read anything into any exclusions (recommendations are welcome!) @pollyschattel.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social @pauladashe.bsky.social

Break out of your shell! The Fiddlehead's 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest is now open for submissions! Judged by award-winning essayist Nicole Breit, the winner of this prize will receive $2000 and be published in our Autumn issue! Check out our full guidelines here: thefiddlehead.ca/contest

Heads up, New Brunswick friends! I'm presenting a Horror-Writing Workshop for WordSpring 2025 on May 31, 2:30 - 4:30 pm. Details here: wfnb.ca/WordSpring-2...

SKIN is a very intense book about love, art, pain and letting it all go, and if @lostmirror.bsky.social didn't make me laugh so hard this would have been a very serious portrait 💀 And @meerkatpress.bsky.social has the presales now plus incredible swag #queerhorror #industrial #art

And @haileypiperfights.bsky.social is someone everyone should be reading, try ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT if you haven't yet.

Our ✨March 2025 issue✨ is ready at last! Subscribers can read it today, but everybody else has to wait till next week. Why not subscribe and feast your eyes on all of these literary wonders to behold? Subscribe through Patreon: www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag...

Contributor copies have arrived! Thanks to pulp MAG for publishing my new story, "Dread Robin."

Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social for an engaging conversation with the wise, charming, and brilliant @spmiskowski.bsky.social. We chatted about Asian horror cinema, the power of grief, the relentless desire to shape the self, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWS01E17

Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, a far-ranging conversation with one of my favorite working writers, @spmiskowski.bsky.social. We discuss the sensitivity of horror writers, fictional maps, literary minimalism, and much more. tinyurl.com/CWS01E17 @journalstone.bsky.social

Listen to episode 17! We chatted with @spmiskowski.bsky.social about Asian horror cinema, the power of grief, the relentless desire to shape the self, and so much more. @journalstone.bsky.social tinyurl.com/CWS01E17