You can now add DICHOTOMY to your TBR on Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... Make sure you've got the jump (or hop?) on this before it comes out in 2027 and pre-order your copy now. Links in my profile!

Good morning, Horror. Today we're talking about @spmiskowski.bsky.social, Tom Piccirilli, and money. www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

Check out our Meet Your Maker episode that just dropped! Jeff interviews Damir Debanic of InterHuman Games to talk their latest game, Jure Grando. redcircle.com/shows/979960... #horrorsky #horrorpod #horrorgames

GOOD MORNING We are sitting at $1240, a full 75% of the way to our goal! Can we hit $1400 today? Every dollar goes straight into disabled authors' pockets to help us write more books!

Since it's Disability Pride Month & curators are STILL pushing non-disabled narratives abt disability, I'm going to start sharing a disabled writer a day for the rest of July. Today's disabled writer is Elsa Sjunneson! Also known as @snarkbat.bsky.social Deets at www.snarkbat.com #DisabilityPride

A look at last week. I don't often have a week of super good news but last week...(Other than the migraine) was pretty great. It feels like all of my work over the last 15 years in my writing career is maybe *finally* coming to fruition. 🧵 1

Like we always do about this time... briankeene.substack.com/p/letters-fr...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 303: Scene-setting doesn't have to be an entire page of description: you can do as much with a well-placed detail (a sound, a scent, a menu, a reflection of buildings in the water) than with a whole travelogue.

Ordered mine! Now you order one and support authors!

If you're wondering if Dichotomy is your kind of book... 🧵 Pre-order in hardcover now: www.strangewildspress.com/dichotomy-hardcover 🐇 The comps are Resident Evil x A Dangerous Method x Florence & the Machine's Everybody Scream

Happy 4th of July! Stop using generative AI! Support BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, women, disabled, and disadvantaged voices! Stay cool!

Check out the cover reveal, synopsis, and pre-order link for Katherine Silva’s next book, coming spring 2027. Add this to your TBR now! hookofabook.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/c... @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social

DICHOTOMY, March 30th, 2027 On a rainy spring evening on an island in Lake Ontario, a research project erupts in violence. Dichotomy pits those still alive fighting for survival against assimilation in its most sacred, feral, and feminine form. www.strangewildspress.com/shop/dichotomy-hardcover

😱 I NEED THIS

SUMMER BOOK VIBES How many of these have you read? There's everything here from cosmic horror to slasher, psychological, grief, analog and haunted house horror. Add these to your TBRs now!

The prompt was gain. I felt psychoanalytical. I blame it on Thursday.

Good morning. It is Day 71 of Women In Horror Year, and today we're discussing @morgansylvia.bsky.social's wonderful Carrion Harvest. Join us! www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

For the afternoon/evening folks. It's gothic, it's gory, it's cover is coming Friday. #gothichorror #staytuned

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"I have seen how this ends, with my whimper and my scream." DICHOTOMY Cover reveal this Friday 07/03/26

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71: Just write. Some people spend so long cultivating their author persona, their author gravitas and their circle of author friends that they forget to write any books.

Last day of Pride + Caribbean Hertiage month! Thanks for boosting my post and buying my book🙏🏽 I'm hopeful next year Caribbean Hertiage Month will get some more visibility from the bigger SFFH outlets, like other heritage months. I'm still gonna be gay and Trini tomorrow :p Happy Pride! All the 🖤

As we start to wrap up pride month, remember to read queer all year! I'm excited to finally be reading @doriansinnott.com's Along About Midnight and someone I look up to immensely, @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social's It Came From Neverland. QOTD: What queer authors are you reading right now?

Holy shit. This is the first award I've ever won for a book. And it won 2. Still blown away. Thank you to everyone who voted for this story (and me). Thank you also to my fellow nominees! You guys are awesome.

It's #facefriday! Wooooo! My roses have bloomed, I'm deep into edits on Dichotomy, I *finally* built Sauron's mask (check out blingin' lil' Sauron), I'll be gracing Necon 44 with my presence on Friday only, and... Well.. you know.

For the evening crowd...

The opening page of my workplace surveillance horror story, "Rest Not, for You Have Scarcely Toiled," featured in the anthology.

Dichotomy Vibes. Gothic, femgore glory... Cover reveal next week...

Thank you, Eryn for the fun fae questions. I wish I could join in more often but Wednesdays are my office days at work now. That being said: I have paperback books on sale in my shop this week. 25% off! www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/shop #horrorwriterschat

The "true names" thing with fairies is fascinating. I'd like to play with that in a future story within the concept of dead-naming. There might be a great way to subvert the expectations there. #HorrorWritersChat "But you gave me your name..." the fairie cooed. "Did I?" I smiled. "I didn't need it."

Currently at use in a WIP: changelings equating to laws of balance, eco-horror with land vs. water and rotcore in 90's. #horrorwriterschat

And you can read all 22 installments of Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author for the low, low price of FREE whenever ya like, over at @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Magazine: shortwavepublishing.com/magazine-sec...

Except she'd never had that scent - astringent yet sweet enough people might take it as baby soap. But you could not wash it off her. When left to play with pebbles, she made neat spirals. Her cries had an undertow. Musical, but it felt as if the pulse was meant to lure. #HorrorWritersChat

The fairy returned the child exactly as promised, and with teeth, bones, and webbing to spare.

The fairy returned the child exactly as promised: alive. They never specified they wanted it whole. #horrorwriterschat

It's perhaps less about the fairy than what it leaves as taunts or souvenirs. Viscera arranged as an intricate mandala, a smear of song overheard in a meadow, a scent too intense for flowers, or laughter where laughter does not belong. #HorrorWritersChat

Being perfectly lovely but somehow blurred like a movie star filmed in soft focus shooting but there's no camera.

I know nobody was talking to me BUT consider: Tinkerbell Ceti Eel #HorrorWritersChat

This is just me but I think that things that fall on the "look human but aren't" scale are much more terrifying than beasts. Consequently, I think ticks are absolutely horrifying and they can be the size of a pinhead. #horrorwriterschat

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! I’m Ell and I write ace horror. Be afraid, be very afraid of the fae. Because if you ruin their faery ring and take a mushroom home, they might enchant you with pretty lights and make you eat your own brother.

I’m Clover, and I write experimental psychological horror and dark fantasy. As a fairy myself, we tend to hold grudges. I will remember what you did for thirty years or more, and I will make sure everyone knows it. #HorrorWritersChat

Swinging into #horrorwriterschat better late than never! I'm Katherine Silva, Kat for short. My horror focuses on the exustential, sad, and ace. Faeries are amoral: they don't have a sense of right or wrong, only whether "they" have been wronged. And it's easier to do than you might think.

For the first time ever, ENTOMBED is now available in audiobook. www.briankeene.com/news/entombe...

Yes, I am stupidly proud of this book. Thought I'd wave it around a bit, partly to back up @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social's reminder that self-pub quality can be good. I took a huge amount of care in the production of this book, as with anything I'm involved in. PS: my cover, no AI anywhere

I'm gifting you 25% off of paperbacks in my online shop from now thru July 1st. If you've been wanting to pick up signed copies of any of my books, now's a great chance to do it and support a queer author during Pride Month! Use PRIDE25 at checkout! *All orders shipped out on Mondays or Thursdays*

As a horror writer, a movie with A24 was a dream for a long time. Now they went AI, so fuck them. See? It’s not that hard. I have plenty of other dreams.

On today's new episode, returning guest @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social joins me for the finale of my Osgood Perkins series to talk about Keeper. Now available on all podcast platforms, on YouTube, and at creepyandgeeky.com Apple podcast listeners, make sure to go to the new page linked at the website

As general advice: 1. Anyone can say they are a publisher and doesn't mean they're one 2. If a press has shit covers, no advances, no distribution, they're not doing you any favors. This is a business relationship. They have to business 3. You have power and don't have to accept shit--

Mentally, I'm here. ...where is here? 👀 You'll find out soon.

I was lucky to have been reviewed by the wonderful Karen Lucia at Divination Hollow for #Pride! I'm a bit rambly (shocking!), but hopefully if you check it out it's enjoyed!