Happy #caturday from Hanna Belle the Cannonball, her capybara, and the paw scrapes she left on the window from trying to commune with the crows in the yard!

Congratulations to D.R. Forge and the top finishers in this year's @nycmidnight.bsky.social Short Story Challenge! 🥳 It's been our pleasure to be a title sponsor and we'd like to thank the 5,800+ writers who participated.

So 2025 is set to be one of the best years of my life. I’m utterly blown away to have my story chosen for first place. Amazed and humbled to be among the top writers in this contest. Thank you @nycmidnight.bsky.social and congratulations to everyone! #nycmidnight #shortstory

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it. ~ David Sedaris #booksky #quote

For those who missed me on Galactic Terrors Live, here you go! I'm reading from Stuck in the Middle and please listening to the other two amazing authors Leanna and Kate! www.youtube.com/live/GZ7x3nW... #Girlpower

Awesome discussion about #mentalhealth and #horror and absolutely stellar readings! Well done @jonfrater.bsky.social, @hdwp.com and @chwallisuk.bsky.social

As of this weekend, I can finally do a pull-up! So that’s pretty much my whole personality now. Also, CABIN is still at the top of new releases in #horror anthologies on Amazon, which is pretttttty rad

Happy #Caturday from my little wingless batcat!

Top 50 in American Horror on the zon! So unreal as an indie author. Thank you to everyone in the horror community who's supported us so far, it's so freaking cool and deeply appreciated. <3

I was on Reddit today, going through the book recommendations. It's quite fun. I don't recommend my own. I recommend other authors instead. And I know for a fact that one Bluesky author just maybe got a sale. Or got new eyes on their work anyway. I'm happy.

Hey hey! I'm Michael, I write queer cosmic and supernatural horror. Just one??? It's a tough call, but I think my answer is Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows. Sure, it's comedy, but she is also absolutely happy to kill. I like vamps to have a monster and a human side. #HorrorWritersChat

Great job hosting #HorrorWritersChat, Mary. A few days ago, I posted a story for the #ShadowBoxArchives involving an eldritch horror and an old lady driving. It's paywalled now, but it becomes free on Sunday, link below. If anyone wants to read it before then, you have to become at least a 5$ tier.

Thank you Mary for hosting! Loved the questions. 🧛‍♀️ The next Graveside Press anthology releases next month. Theme: cryptids! #HorrorWritersChat gsp-shop.fourthwall.com/products/wha...

#HorrorWritersChat Sometimes when I feel stuck with a piece it can help to get into a discussion about it with friends—I truly love my friends’ brains—. When that’s not an option just sitting down with a book, a videogame or whatever it is that caters to my weekly obsessions will do the trick:)

Thanks for running the chat this week, @marywyrd.bsky.social! My latest dystopian culinary grief novel, WHERE THE SOUL GOES, is having its cover reveal and pre-order announcement at 6 PM EST/3PM PST. Influenced by Anthony Bourdain, Simon Stalenhag, and Hunter S. Thompson! #horrorwriterschat

Engaging with any and all art forms, really. Movies, music, games, books, visual art, people watching at IRL work, eavesdropping in public convos (shhh lmao). I struggle a lot with taking breaks to replenish, despite knowing it's a must to prevent burnout and lack of "flow". #HorrorWritersChat

Well, #HorrorWritersChat, since I mentioned it earlier. Here's The Blood We Choose macabretavern.substack.com/p/the-blood-...

#HorrorWritersChat Thank you @marywyrd.bsky.social! The horror anthology I'm in is the number 1 new release on Amazon for the last couple of weeks--it would be awesome if some of the incredibly talented folks on this chat have a chance to check it out! Great meeting everyone! a.co/d/dIoJWDo

#horrorwriterschat Dude--congrats!!! :)

Hello #HorrorWritersChat It's me! Yanni! I am all over the spectrum when it comes to writing horror, but I do adore splatterpunk. My favorite vampire? Eric Northman.

#horrorwriterschat I had to skip out for a day job call, but closing in with the outro: spending time outside, ideally in the woods. Walking, running, hiking. Always have great ideas there. One of the best being to just go full cottagecore, build myself a little cabin and never leave (so tempting!)

I'm Rebecca Cantrell and I write thriller horror, including some with vampires in it. I co-wrote THE BLOOD GOSPEL with James Rollins and I like the animal vampires we created there, particularly the bats who could send images to their creator who was trapped in a cave for decades #horrorwriterschat

Hello everyone. I'm Tom Coombe, a writer of short horror/weird stories based in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, USA. It's very hard to pick a favorite vampire, so let's go with Kurt Barlow in Salem's Lot (the novel) and Gary Oldman's take on Dracula. #HorrorWritersChat

Bitey bitey! Ooh what a question! Hi all, I am Eryn, I'm a horror writer, mostly psychological and Gothic. My favourite vampire... probably Carmilla. Although I'm quite fond of one I'm ghost writing just now! #HorrorWritersChat

Hello, #HorrorWritersChat! I’m Tashi and I love adding my own spin on yokai tales for MG and YA. Well, I have to blame my mom for getting me hooked on the Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice. But I also miss the silly vampires from What We Do in the Shadows.

I'm Abigail. I write slow burn, gothic, & grief horror often historical settings. Usually I say I don't like vampires but somehow I keep reading books & watching shows featuring them. (I'm looking at you Sinners!) Atl from "Certain Dark Things" is one of the best vamps! #HorrorWritersChat

Hey #HorrorWritersChat I'm Nick, and I love to write historical horror or horror that blends with fantasy/sf. As for my vanpires... I like 'em monstrous and ancient. Think House of Ashes (Dark Pictures game) or Midnight Mass (show) Or the ones in Blindsight by Peter Watts

#HorrorWritersChat Hi, I'm Blair. I'm a comic creator who recently found himself working on and writing a lot of horror comics. And I'm torn with the Universal Lugosi Dracula, and the more extreme Nosferatu designs.

I would so adopt a vampire bat.

#HorrorWritersChat I'm Scribbler Johnny, purveyor of romantasy and spookery. My favorite vampire is the Volpertinger, because nobody suspects a bunny.

I'm DJW and I am in the cosmic horror game! Oh yes, it's a game. And you KNOW asking me a vampire question is dangerous. I love vampires. I love my own vampires BUT, second to that, I like the vampires in Cronos. I thought @realgdt.bsky.social's parasite angle is interesting. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I go by MJ these days. I have a folkhorror publishing in a couple weeks, and I’m drafting a historical horror (Vampires and a Succubus running a brothel in 1940s France). I enjoy a mix of the 30 Days of Night vampires and the sultry Rice type.

I remain, as ever, myself, and I write across the horror spectrum. As for vampires, I have recently been thinking a lot about the psi-energy eating, zombie-creating blighters featured in the very first Wh40k rulebook. I'm old school like that. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi. I'm Anna. I mostly do cosmic and eco-horror. I very much liked the Sinners vampires. I also liked the TMA take on vampires - not sexy immortals but sort of human-shaped alien mosquitos. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Hi, I'm Ryan. I write horror and dark fantasy. I try to write broadly, but like character-focused, high concept stories the most. As for favorite vampire, there's too many to choose from! But if I have to...

#HorrorWritersChat (@marywyrd.bsky.social included the hashtag as promised! :) ) D.R. Forge #horromance And this last one is a tough call. Absolute favorite vampire-like creature are irl vampire bats. Fictionally, it's so hard. Maybe Only Lovers Left Alive (if you held a stake to my heart)

long shot Tuesday! RT with yours. @realgdt.bsky.social I really think you’d enjoy my debut paranormal thriller WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO. DM and I’ll send you a copy! ps: no idea what sorcery @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social used for the cover but when the sun hits it it actually glows like this 🖤🙌🖤

I have no idea if #horrorbookreview is an actual thread but I’m excited to shout-out @ahawaiianshirt.bsky.social and @chwallisuk.bsky.social and my upcoming reviews of their #horror anthologies (I know that one works).

Hype for the #cabinanthology - still at #1 New Release in fiction anthologies (2 weeks after release!). Support from the #horror community has been absolutely incredible so far, but a special shout-out to @jonathanreddoch.bsky.social and @elizabethsuggs.bsky.social 🖤

The cool kids let me write a story in their #horror anthology and now we’re all the number 1 new release on Amazon this holiday weekend (talk about fireworks 🧨) @cryptidmuse.bsky.social

Got to hang out with some of the most talented authors I’ve ever met, thank you for making #StokerCon such a blast ♥️

This was a blast to collaborate on! 17 authors, one very messed-up cabin.

HorrorWords Podcast @svpthinks.bsky.social , Catherine Ruff, @jonfrater.bsky.social , Dani, and me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Npp...

@cryptidmuse.bsky.social has put so much love into curating this anthology, can't wait to see the final product!

This is going to be awesome! 👏

One of my favorite reviews of DORMANT by the incredibly talented @ahawaiianshirt.bsky.social 🥀☠️

My second title released today from Velox Books. Rusty chainsaws, gore, and spider-nuns. This is a combination of Undulating Flesh, Aggravated Flesh, and what would've been Final Flesh. A flash fiction compendium four years in the making. www.veloxbooks.com/book/undulat... #newrelease #horror

Up next, ‘Dormant’ by @drforge.bsky.social let’s goooooo