There is some pulp stuff I like, but I've learned from the podcast's email account that there is a type of pulp fan who just wants to read the same sort of book over and over again. Must be under 200 pages, feature a generic protagonist and a linear plot, with a little olde timey racism for spice.

A big batch of suncatcher/ornaments coming up!

Friends (some of them, at least) do care and have told me they enjoy my stuff. Family? Not so much, even if they bought copies of my novel. More of a "sits on the shelf" thing for them and that's fine--there's some messed up stuff in there! mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

5 RPGs to get to know me, except I believe that the games we choose to play carries no moral weight and is a poor indication of anyone's character or sense of ethics.

Whenever I watch a YouTube video by someone who switched from D&D to Daggerheart or Draw Steel, it feels like I'm listening to someone describe leaving a big cult to join a small cult.

GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition is coming to Gamefound later this year. A new, standalone TTRPG of superpowered resistance on the run, powered by Free League Publishing's acclaimed Year Zero Engine. Follow our preview page to be alerted when it launches. gamefound.com/en/projects/...

They made Kid Cuisine for grown men. There’s even a cowboy TV show tie-in

Had to turn comments off on my blog because I was getting AI slop comments. It was always a joy to see that someone was interested in my game stuff, but I guess this is the future: human beings becoming isolated as they try to fend off obnoxious AI bots bent on convincing them to do online gambling

@romancingthevote.com is OPEN! Buy-it-nows for my STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL prequel & finale will post later, but my 1ST EDITIONS are ready for you! The books won 3 Prism-Awards for Excellence in Fantasy Romance ( #Romantasy!), B&N & Borders Bestsellers & I'd love to sign these out-of-print copies to you!

I've been having some nice conversations with people who read my novel. People are noticing the things I was worried would fly under the radar in it. Feels good! mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

Stuff I enjoyed in June talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/07/tota...

Book 56 of 2026: David Corrick (ed.), Ghosts and Robbers I needed a palate cleanser after the last one I read, and this collection of German Gothic tales really hit the spot.

I feel a spike off embarrassment every time I promote my novel, but god damn some of the established authors here really will post about their book fifty times in an hour huh

Novel art by @munichartstudio.bsky.social all framed up and ready for the Krevborna wall of my office. mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

This is actually why a lot of people got mad at the final season of Penny Dreadful, even though it was pretty clear from the first season that Vanessa Ives wasn't going to girlboss her way out of Victorian patriarchy masked as spiritual evil.

We did another Krevborna level up session with more interacting in the town. @meghans0l0.bsky.social's character fought a duel! talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/06/seco...

The thing companies like A24 don't understand is that I would rather swear off watching new movies altogether than pay to see their AI-enabled slop. Fuck you, I'll just keep watching Taste the Blood of Dracula over and over again, see if I don't.

Such a delight to talk to Sundress Publications (@sundresspub.bsky.social) about ALOCASIA: 99 Queer Writers on Plants and Nature! sundressblog.com/2026/06/15/a...

Book 55 of 2026: Eric LaRocca, Wretch Wretch felt like a short story padded out with unnecessarily long descriptions of mundane stuff (like using a computer), a pointless one-act play jammed in the middle (!!!), and an adult main character whose inner thoughts read like an edgy teen's posts--

Last day to use PREORDER25 to get 25% off preordered books at Barnes & Noble. I got: @leannareneehieber.bsky.social's Ravenfield Hall, @stephengrahamjones.com's Off the Reservation, @angelaslatter.bsky.social's Fitcher's Bird, and Rachel Gillig's The Knave and the Moon. What did you get?

Book 54 of 2026: Hannah Whitten's The Hemlock Queen This series continues to be solidly good, but I'm hoping it gets crazy in the last book and finally lets loose.

If you only have time to read one thinkpiece today, don't. Go for a walk instead, dummy.

When Schumer told them all to "keep their powder dry," he meant for the occasion that they'd get to do a firing circle within their own party.

Man, I got the most talented players in my game.

Book 53 of 2026: @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social, Muñeca Muñeca is an excellent new Gothic novella! A woman takes a job as the caretaker of a paralyzed, non-communicative woman she believes has been bewitched with black magic. If I were still teaching Gothic lit, I'd add this to my syllabus for sure.

You have to tell me if you're enjoying it, just like how you have to tell me if you're a cop

Ornamental Women has been out for over a month now. I just hope people are enjoying it. Well, except for the one guy. I'm glad he didn't like it. Fuck that guy. Anyway mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

Ghost was on fire y'all talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

Post a witch from film or tv you'd like to be friends with

Book 52 of 2026: Jessica Alexander, Agnes, We're Not Murderers! This novel is unlike anything else I've read--it takes the shared corpus of Gothic fiction and uses it to weave a new tale that is a complicated, minimalist, mysterious, metafictional, and poetic palimpsest of all the best stuff.

This is a very long description of "using a USB cable"

Oh no, not my barbed and perilous thoughts

We had a little launch party for my novel... With cake mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

how could you see this collection of inspirational material and not pick it up

We had a little launch party for my novel... With cake mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

Made a blog post about some of the authors who influenced my Gothic Fantasy novel Ornamental Women, including @annasmithspark.bsky.social and @alexisflower.bsky.social, whose work you should check out if you haven't yet talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/06/auth...

Book 51 of 2026: Anya Seton, Dragonwyck I'll have more to say about this one on @badbooksbadppl.bsky.social but for now: this was sold to me as a novel trying to cash in on the success of du Maurier's Rebecca, but it is SO much more than that. Highly recommended.

Made a blog post about some of the authors who influenced my Gothic Fantasy novel Ornamental Women, including @annasmithspark.bsky.social and @alexisflower.bsky.social, whose work you should check out if you haven't yet talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/06/auth...

Brotherhood of Blood is the most Hunter: The Reckoning movie ever made: there's a vampire named Fork, it makes about as much sense as a campaign pulled out of the GM's ass, and doesn't really have an ending (presumably because the players found a better game to join or the GM got too high to play)

Some of you have started reading Ornamental Women (thank you thank you thank you!) so you're getting to know the main characters...but have you considered what they would smell like as signature scents? Well, wonder no more. mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

Here it is, fellow kids! The cover of TOO MUCH HEAVEN, coming this fall from @cacklebooks.bsky.social! Preorder and launch event info to come soon(ish). #booksky #writingcommunity #writesky

Thanks Gabino and Happy #FridayReads! Would love it if more people purchased my vacation splatterpunk novella THRILL KILLERS just so my best friend Blue has more people to talk about it with www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1957...

Alright friends, we’re nearing the time for the next quarter’s issue. I whipped up a five course menu in my piece, A Dish Best Served. Folks are dying to eat at Deja Chew. Come find out why! www.klforslund.com/post/galacti...

A perfect read for the elk days of summer. Sex, Drugs, & Existential Dread! THE HAND OF THE ARCHER Now FREE on Kindle Select a.co/d/1FN2itN a.co/d/hutoMgi

Thanks, Gabino! My Muslim Western, Death in Sonora, just came out last week. bookshop.org/p/books/deat...

FREE ebook! It’s the 10th anniversary of my literary dark comedy, In Search of the Nobility, TX Wildman! We got a new cover and new edit, and it’s FREE! A dying cryptozoologist, a disgraced reality tv host, and a legendary monster: amzn.to/2DjoUYG

Curse of the White Salamander and Shadow of the same! Violent, profane, and dumb as hell! Underground monsters, ninjas, LDS Eldritch beings, killer robots, Swiftie secret agents, pro wrestling, tech bro wizards, and Elvis as a god! It’s weird as hell. Perfect for the dad in your life!

Never a better time to read my Gothic Fantasy novel about an anxious grave robber trying to crack the case of a missing book of poems and an absent corpse! Black metal bards! Pre-Raphaelite inspired plot! A wombat! mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

Some of you have started reading Ornamental Women (thank you thank you thank you!) so you're getting to know the main characters...but have you considered what they would smell like as signature scents? Well, wonder no more. mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

Guys, she doesn't sound that sorry about it