If you are a member of the HWA voting for the Stoker Awards final ballot & would like a copy of my collection, InhuMANities to review in advance of the Feb 15 deadline, let me know! I’m on the Preliminary Ballot in the Fiction Collection category 👻🦇🫀 #hwa #stokers #horrorwriters #bodyhorror

On January 6, I'll be reading from my latest alongside my wonderful fellow HWA Ontario writers at The Caledonian. If you're in Toronto, I hope to see you there! @hwaontario.bsky.social

Publication announcement: E L Chen's book with the amazing title of "One of us is Already Dead" will be coming your way in Fall of 2026! Keep an eye out for it! Follow her here: @elainechen.com www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...

My books to date. Links below.

It's fall. Time to wear a cardigan and profit from all those corpses.💀 Check out THE KNAVE OF GRAVES, my new dark fantasy novel about occult deals gone wrong. Available now! 🔗 www.amazon.com/dp/B0F68GKJ1G #darkfantasy #graverobber

Read E. L. Chen's story on The Dark Magazine - Mother's Teeth. www.thedarkmagazine.com/mothers-teeth/

Shake, Rattle and Rotting Corpses: Horror Trivia hosted by Andrew Awesome with Tarot, Tequila, and Tunes! There will be prizes and surprises. Sweaty Betty's, 13 Ossington Ave, No Cover, 7pm Trivia, 9pm Tunes! Hosted by @andrewawesome.bsky.social Tues. Oct 30

Check out Suzan Palumbo's story "Laughter Among the Trees" - free to read at The Dark Magazine! www.thedarkmagazine.com/laughter-amo...

I hope in IT: Welcome to Derry we find out about the childhood trauma that made IT the way IT is. #prequels

Check out Lydia Peever's story from The Wicked Library as part of their Halloween special: www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the...

Between now and Halloween, we will be spotlighting some cool free-to-read horror fiction by our members! First up: Lockers for Life by David J. Thirteen www.seizethepress.com/2022/06/14/l...

I'm thrilled to join Haven Spec as Poetry Editor! Excited to dig into the beautiful mountain of spec poetry - the vivid, the emotional, the lyrical, the strange, the dark, the climate-conscious, the bittersweet, the idea-driven, the magical, the otherwordly, the weird. . . and everything else!

This weekend the HWA Ontario Chapter will be at Fan Expo hosting two panels - one on Sinners and Vampires and one dedicated to Queer Fear! As well, Sephera Giron is hosting 3 writing workshops! Come check us out!

Come join the HWA today at FanExpo. We're hosting a panel discussing the film Sinners and the themes the connect it to the legacy of vampire fiction. At 10:45, South Building, Room 711

Just days until @fanexpocanada.bsky.social gets horrifically queer! #horror #horrorwritersassociation

Publication day! 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒 is now available in ebook and paperback. I appreciate any help spreading the word.🙏 #booklaunch #pubday #newrelease #fantasybooks #darkfantasy #theknaveofgraves

Friday July 11th, join us for WORK IN PROGRESS night! Got a piece of writing that needs some feedback? We gather to do just that in our little bookshop. Space is limited to give everyone their turn to read and get notes- and it’s fun! More details on the website… www.littleghostsbooks.com/events

Got a horror short? We want to see it! @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @chrisshapedghost.bsky.social filmfreeway.com/LittleGhosts...

Available July 25. Pre-order today!: mybook.to/Knave #theknaveofgraves #theapotropaicist #wordoftheday

If you think you are an ally, but you’re voting for this guy, you are voting against people you claim to care about. #vote #canada

Fellow Canadians! Political polls don't count for anything unless we actually go out and vote. Please exercise your democratic right. Please vote.

Yay, Canada! We know things are scary, but we are happy to see record turnouts in advance polls this federal election. Let’s keep it going! Use the code IVOTEDAGAIN at www.littleghostsbooks.com for 10% off anything in the store. Valid through the 25th. (Not Canadian? Share in the joy anyway) 🖤👻📚

I won't be in the country on election day so took advantage of early voting today. Everyone, make yourself a voting plan. Know where and when you're going.

Did you know… April 26th is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day? Starting Thursday you can get both Toronto Indie Bookstore Maps! Designed by @chrisshapedghost.bsky.social to help you plan your bookstore crawl. Swag bags, raffle, and a @libro.fm GOLDEN TICKET all available April 26th! Save the date

Had an amazing prerelease event for @aijiang.bsky.social ‘s A Palace Near the Wind. Couldn’t make it? Don’t worry! We still have a dozen signed copies with added bookmarks and prints inside! Grab yours from the site and enjoy this dark fantasy: www.littleghostsbooks.com/product/a-pa... 🖤👻📚

Tomorrow!! 👀🤍‼️ @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @melisfluous.bsky.social

Working on a new short story and the line of the day is: "...a dark tourist staycation with no end in sight."

The US Regime is making it abundantly clear they don't want tourists visiting. Oblige them. There's a lot of beautiful places in the world that will welcome you.

Tomorrow is the provincial election! I encourage you to vote - against Doug Ford. Show him he doesn't deserve a majority. To find out who is the most strategic vote against Ford and his PCs in your riding, see votewell.ca or smartvoting.ca. #HamOnt

Also this! the vote gets split and falls in favour of one party. This is important. Look the stuff up!

The Dumbest of Trade Wars enacted by the Dumbest Administration for these Dumbest of Times.

This is more important now than ever. If I already know what an article is going to say, I *don't read it*. No point in being reminded of what I already know in ways that are designed to freak me out and prevent me from taking in any actual new info.

If you enjoy books where classic protagonists make an appearance, this one takes place on a remote island with 20 inhabitants, Eynhallow. A stranger arrives in a boat one day, Victor Frankenstein! Narrated by a tall, clever woman with a surly husband. 23% into it! I love it

This is one of the 40 titles featured in my Anticipated 2025 Horror episode. If you missed it, no time like the present to catch up! youtu.be/PCbozK6iK4I?...

Black Chuck by Regan McDonell paints a vivid portrait of small-town teen trauma. Following a shocking death, the characters' found family falls catastrophically apart as they're wracked by grief and guilt over dark secrets that will break your heart and make your gorge rise. Recommended!

BLACK CHUCK by Regan McDonell is an intimate portrait of a tight-knit group of teenagers dealing with the violent death of one of their own. Their strife and emotional turmoil drive the story with the horrors, both natural and supernatural, driving the tempo like a heart beating in the background.

It’s here! (Horror and Fantasy to come…) 📚💙 SFF180 🚀 Anticipated Science Fiction 2025 youtu.be/D7HXy0K0GYw

Like a classic album, SKIN THIEF by @sillysyntax.bsky.social contains hit after hit. Suzan Palumbo demonstrates a rare talent for creating myths to delve into the core of human existance. This sits alongside my favourite single-author collections of all time.

TABOO IN FOUR COLORS by @timmcgregor.bsky.social Wally Carson is a comic book artist working on the dark, creepy tales of a reclusive writer who goes missing. When the artist seeks him out, his life becomes a penny-dreadful romance laden with moments of the macabre, told with a hard noir edge.

I’ve read a lot of great books this year and many of them have been from members of @hwaontario, which has only made me more proud and grateful to be a part of this group. Before the year ends, I’m going to try to go through and comment on the amazing 2024 horror books by these authors.

Hey horror author pals! LITTLE GHOSTS PRESS is HALFWAY through our submission window! We’re taking horror novella pitches from now until the end of December. More info on the page for the submission call. Responses will be sent by Feb. 1st! 🖤👻📚 www.littleghostsbooks.com/contact-us

Readings this coming weekend at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social with @sillysyntax.bsky.social Regan McDonell @sjshank.bsky.social @elainethebrain.bsky.social C Topdjian @jkrawczyk.bsky.social & smol me 👀✨‼️ organized by @hwaontario.bsky.social 🤍

Thought I was late to this party, I guess not. Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #708,138!

In the theater for our last film of TIFF: IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS. I don't know anything about it except its supposed to be found footage horror. Let you know how it goes.

ANYWAY! Join me tomorrow Toronto for the official launch of Countess with @ecwpress.bsky.social at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social I am very much looking forward to meeting you and getting to chat. Feel free to wear purple or a cape we are being lavish and extra as Countesses do! All the love 💜💜💜

Started our TIFF screenings with a great film: SKETCH! Funny, emotional, and dark. Also perfect for all ages. I hope when it releases wide a lot of people get ro see it.

If you're in Toronto on Saturday and write short fiction or plan to start, you won't want to miss this! @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @jessicapeter.bsky.social

I'm co-hosting a little workshop on publishing short (mostly horror!) fiction this Saturday evening at Little Ghosts in Toronto! Come out out, it's free!