Having a book advertised in Rue Morgue is a literal dream come true! Thank you so much to Slashic Horror Press 🖤

A GIVEAWAY! We will be giving 1 signed copy (with some OWWR pod extras) of @catvoleur.bsky.social's Revenge Arc. We are covering this for #IndieMission! #booksky #indie Rules: 1. U.S. & Canada 2. Enter by liking reposting 3. Extra entries for tagging friends, 1 entry per tag Ends Sunday, 11:59 PM CT

Aaaaaand my collection of convention papers for my scrapbook (now that all socials have been followed, free books have been claimed, etc.)

Did you know next month will see the release of Season's Grievings by RoF Publishing and if you preorder it you'll get a signed poster of thid awesome cover? Within you'll find my short story All is Bright alongside work by @catvoleur.bsky.social and @hvpatterson.bsky.social !

I am finally settling in from con season, and ready to re-tackle social media. Sorry in advance for the flood of updates coming from me today. Please be patient with me as I try to get back into the swing of things and catch up on messages 🖤

I've decided to take a few days offline. I've been promoting/marketing more because I am trying to get more serious about my writing career, but I feel like my algorithms need a small reset 🖤 💚 Gonna come back later this week, hopefully with a strategy that works a little better for me.

CJ is panicking because it is National Hug Your Boss Day and she knows she's gonna get squished.

All set up at TBR CON

Today is National Video Game Day. While I'm not ready to say that my current WIP is *inspired* by Stardew Valley, I can say that I think the vibes will really hit for anyone familiar with this shed layout (shoutout to my fellow console players, also, as PC sheds can be more optimized!)

In amongst all the other cool things I get to do at TBR Con this year, I shall get to HAND DELIVER my two latest Covered in Darkness books 🥰

Reminder that my STANDALONE horror novella, ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE 4: HECK HOUSE is available. You can read it in a single sitting and it's perfect for Spooky Season.

Con season is actually insane because I have LITERALLY moved cross country with less stuff

As I work on finding a single day in September that isn't swamped (or when I'm not in the car) to release my latest Covered in Darkness book ... I figured I may as well remind everyone to pick up the previous installations of the series as well 🥰

I am holding out hope that THE LOREKEEPER will arrive in enough time for me to bring it to TBR Con this weekend! SO excited to see all my friends down in the south and come home with a ridiculous amount of books 🥰

For international Literacy Day, I wanted to share some of the books that were a big influence on my debut, Revenge Arc 🖤 🦇 Dracula 🩸 Misery 📖 House of Leaves Would love to hear from you all what classics in your genre you feel have influenced your work the most 🖤

Today is Buy A Book Day!!! It's a great excuse to treat yourself and support some indie authors 🥰

Since I know not everyone has the funds to Buy A Book on National Buy A Book Day, I figured this is a great time to remind everyone that THE BAD THING HAS ALREADY HAPPENED is available through my KoFi and Itch as a Free/Pay What You Want. So now you have no excuse not to treat yourself to book.

With 27 days left until the #ChoicesAnthology release, now is the perfect time to share another amazing blurb, this time from the lovely @catvoleur.bsky.social Like everyone who's read it so far, she absolutely loved it - and you will too, so preorder today! books2read.com/u/3JYo9Q

🤩 Season's Grievings now has a Goodreads page!!! @catvoleur.bsky.social

Today is National Read a Book Day. I HIGHLY suggest indie horror for this occasion as there are so many novellas/novelettes that can easily be devoured in a sitting. Below are some of my shortest titles if you're interested in checking them out 🥰

BATTLE OF THE MOODBOARDS!!! I have two fall projects, and only one is going to make it to my editor this year. Option 1 is a sapphic, surreal tale of vigilante crimes in the city. Option 2 is cursed, small town with a pansexual MC (with sequels planned) Comment to vote!

Promoting THE LOREKEEPER again because *fingers crossed* I might have copies of it at my next couple of cons! Finally! Like, a year after it comes out you'll finally be able to get signed copies from me 🤣 😅

A big thank you to On Wednesdays We Read for selecting my book and please check out all the amazing books from the bracket 🥰

All Of These People Are Going to Die is a series of 5 STANDALONE novellas, each penned by a different author, each focused on killing off one person from the cover. My installation, 4, is paranthetically titled "Heck House" and promoting it is one of my favorite parts of spooky season.

Happy Ginger Cat Appreciation Day to my boy, Arch. (Pixel is here celebrating him as well!)

I've been sitting on this news for a couple days because I wanted to wait until it was official, but I have been accepted into the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers!

I am still working my way through this one, but it hardly feels like work. THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT is one of those anthologies that reminds me how blessed I am to know and associate with so many talented writers

Dany is as shocked as I am, but it looks like I will have books to sell at TBR Con 🖤🖤🖤 (Still waiting on a couple boxes to arrive but at least I have some stock on hand)

As I'm sure you've noticed, I've been hitting promo hard the last month. I've studied marketing tactics, graphics, stats, and I dedicate a full day every week to marketing now. The results are in. My sales were never better than when I just ... bribed people to buy my books with pics of my cats?

All of the books sold from my Zon/D2D pages today are helping to fund my latest mission in life ... making sure that my partner finally watches Jaws.

EVERYONE GO SEE THE TOXIC AVENGER IMMEDIATELY!!! It’s unrated, incredible, and ticket sales support indie horror and a nonprofit

HERE WE GO!!!

Happy Toxic Avenger Day to all of you celebrating 🥰 Needless to say I will out of my office, having some beer, watching a kickass movie.

Last week I shared the moodboard for my Autumn WIP ... this week I decided I'd better share the moodboard for my OTHER autumnal WIP. If I put them side by side ... would you vote? Could we have them battle? I genuinely don't know which one goes to my editor first.

Doing a little extra promo for The Lorekeeper since I might FINALLY be at a con where I have author copies 😂 😅 Shout out to the massively talented Rebecca Cuthbert for providing the blurb 🥰

I've got a very movie-heavy week coming up, and so I decided to share some of the cinematic inspiration behind my writings 🖤

I have Steampunk on the brain ... and it is making me really want to talk about the retro-futuristic bodymod book that I've just recently dusted off to clean up for my editor... But it might be a little bit too soon for that yet.

Sooooo excited to finally share this, but I had the absolute honor of formatting the re-release of DO NOT GO IN THAT HOUSE by the lovely Ruth Anna Evans 🖤

Since it's the last day of Contact Lens Health Awareness Week (who knew that was a thing) I would like to remind everyone that I have a story called Proper Contact Maintenance that made my mother not want to speak to me anymore 🥰

Feeling lazy today. In lieu of marketing, have a picture of little Daenerys.

Oh! And following up my post from yesterday... If I can't move into Halloween marketing yet, you're all getting more unhinged shark photos. #SorryNotSorry #NotSponsored #WouldTotallyBeSponsoredByOutbackSteakhouse

[REDACTED TITLE] explores cozy autumnal themes like love, longing, and speaking to the severed head of a man you murdered.

I have been informed that September is the appropriate time to break out my campy Halloween graphics. But... it's okay to share moodboards whenever I'm working on the associated WIP, right? 👀

I just found out that Contact Lens Health Week is a thing.... It just so happens I have a horror story for this occasion.

For Black Cat Appreciation Day, I just wanted to remember my boy, Frodo. He was one of the strangest, sweetest cats I've ever had. I still use this sketch of him for my business cards and bookmarks. 🖤

I was playing around with moodboards this week and realized I don't have any for some of my early titles. So I made a quick one for Revenge Arc 🖤 Might do a few more as it's good practice (and moodboard pitching is a skill I'd like to someday possess)

SURPRISE COVER REVEAL!!! I was going to wait until later in the month but my con schedule has ended up more hectic than anticipated and I just HAVE to show this off. Thank you to @uglybyproxy.bsky.social for the art and thank you to @writerlcarter.bsky.social for sponsoring 🖤

Today is Love Your Bookshop Day, which I didn't know was a thing so I just always love my bookshop. But HUGE shoutout to Black Cat Books and Oddities for being one of the first bookstores to stock Revenge Arc on its shelves 🖤

Revenge Arc came out just a little over two years ago, if you can believe it! Weird to think I've been a published author for two years. 🖤