Handed in a blurb and an introduction today and is this productivity?!

Being up here with some of my faves like @cgolden.bsky.social and @rachelharrison.bsky.social and @laurelhightower.bsky.social is 🥹

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

The Vanity Fair photos look like they did an exposé on the ghosts from The Overlook.

I finished The Secret Attic by @chelseaconradt.bsky.social today and I will not be fully functional for the next four to five business days while I process what she did to me.

Have the day you voted for. 🖤

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

THE @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social added my Goth garden girls to her EOY list and I am still unwell. 😭🖤

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

My dentist office is playing one of those AI slop ambiance videos on loop. I am amusing myself with finding everything wrong with each reel. My faves so far has been the Ice Ice Skating sign, the one reindeer on Santa’s sleigh hitched backward, the only torso reindeer, and the double tea pots.🫠

I have turned in edits for BARBIE JUST WON’T DIE! The rest of my To Do list is laughing. Rude.

Just learned Elizabeth Olsen is Mary Kate’s and Ashely’s sister. As you were.

Knowing a Clayface movie comes out right before BARBIE JUST WON’T DIE! publishes when Clayface was such an inspo makes me so damn happy. 🥹

ALWAYS

Edits. There is only edits. Edits forever.

Spotted on the new books shelf at my local library 💜 #booksky @tanyapell.bsky.social

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 Either I have good news or am virtually cosplaying as a Biblically accurate angel.

Writing two novels, a novella, and a secret third thing at the same time you wait on edits is A Choice. 🫠☕️🥱

I am getting peeks at BARBIE JUST WON’T DIE! cover art concepts and 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

The analysis of what broke American democracy can probably stop right here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Drew up a poster for what was probably my favorite movie at age 6: the Rankin-Bass/Topcraft animated feature FLIGHT OF DRAGONS

Reminder that you can search FoodFinder or FeedingAmerica if you need help finding local/state food banks to donate to!

This was me as a kid 😂

An amazing evening with amazing people 🖤

Tonight I’ll be in Nashua with @christaqua.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social @brackenmacleod.bsky.social and @tanyapell.bsky.social . Join us!

So excited to be invited onto Capes and Tights and nerd out with Justin!

I don’t want to guilt anybody into coming, but I DID fly here from South Carolina. That’s, like, really far! Just sayin’…

Me visiting a medieval church: This would be a great setting for a book. Me researching a mix of 12th and 15th century construction and pre-Gothic Revival Kirks: Goddammit.

NEW EPISODE @allymalinenko.bsky.social joins the show to talk about her new novel BROKEN DOLLS, and we dig into the classics with a discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"! LISTEN NOW: redcircle.com/shows/41a2d4...

My next book BARBIE JUST WON’T DIE! is for fans of Curse of the Reaper, The Substance, and carbs… Barb is: 💅40 🎀perimenopausal 🍟desperate for fries 🪞suffering from BDD 🎬masking all the time 👠shoe obsessed 🔪regrettably being stalked by the killer from her films I can’t wait for you to meet her. 💋

Another thing I will be totally normal about.

Now live for your listening pleasure, my conversation with one of my favorite voices in horror, @tanyapell.bsky.social! We chat about her most recent release, Her Wicked Roots, in all of its secretive, Gothic glory. I cannot thank Tanya enough for her time, is a sheer delight as always 🖤 Links:

Tanya Pell! Teacher who became a writer, but in between became a aerial performer in the circus. That's a cool origin story! @tanyapell.bsky.social Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Fest was the best! #hplma @campnecon.bsky.social @newenglandhorror.bsky.social

And, as usual, I am totally behaved and normal about everything.

October 28th! 6:30pm at Balin Books in Nashua, NH. Come celebrate Halloween with me, @paultremblay.bsky.social, @brackenmacleod.bsky.social, @tanyapell.bsky.social, and @christaqua.bsky.social!

Finally met @wnwagner.bsky.social in person this weekend and she is just as awesome as I imagined.

It is always a great time with the Halloween People! 🎃👻💀

💅She’s everything. They’re just dead. 🔪BARBIE JUST WON’T DIE! releases Oct. 2026.

So if you hadn't heard, I'm back in the #querying trenches with a dark dystopian fantasy for adults Enemy (and ex lover) necromancers/healers team up to take down an authoritarian govt. Sparks fly and heads roll. Well wishes appreciated. 🕯 #writing

This is not Nathan Ballingrud. This is an imposter. Nathan is not on BlueSky. Please report.

What if I did a title reveal this week? WHAT IF?! 💅💋🔪💄💀🥔👠🎀⚰️

Happy to brighten your feed with another recent horror read on this rainy Tuesday: Her Wicked Roots by @tanyapell.bsky.social came out earlier this month, and I highly recommend picking up a copy! I couldn't put down this twisty tale of mystery, romance, and horror 🌱

“You don’t look like a horror author.” “I don’t look like a serial killer either.” “What?” “What?”

Listen. I am a narcoleptic with SEVERE sleep paralysis and hallucinations. But I haven’t had a nightmare about a book or movie since I was a kid. @sgj.bsky.social ruined my streak with The Babysitter Lives.

I appreciate that my agent called me and suggested gently not to doomscroll on my book launch day because she knows I will go into crisis mode. Her call came too late, however.

Happy release day to @tanyapell.bsky.social and this eerie and gorgeous novel bursting with mystery and sensual atmosphere. 🎉🖤 I loved it, and I hope everyone picks up a copy. 🩸📚💙

Excited to see this display of spooky MG at @barnesandnoble.com

One of my favorite reviewers doing such a kind review!!!! 🖤

My book releases this week and all I feel is angry at the state of things.