HEY MY DEBUT IS OUT TODAY AND IDK I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY TBH THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME DO YOU WANNA BUY IT NO WORRIES IF NOT also also i'm finally listening to the full audiobook and jfc kristin atherton is a fucking legend www.penguin.co.uk/books/474739...

Lyrical and fervent, WIFE SHAPED BODIES by @lauracranehill.bsky.social takes patriarchal thinking in conservation to its gruesome but perfectly logical endpoint. It tears apart the silent assumption in Western understanding of sustainability: that it should enable us to live forever as we are.

⚛️⚰️SEVEN DAYS TO GO⚰️⚛️

From StokerCon: Laura disambiguation photo That's me on the left, taller and more silvered, wearing something melodramatic @lauracranehill.bsky.social is younger, darker-haired, and a cool dresser in a way I don't know how to describe. Maybe because she's from the Pacific Northwest?

It's rare when a debut hits me and it's even rarer when a debut completely knocks it out of the park but Wife Shaped Bodies by @lauracranehill.bsky.social ruled! Gunna need to go and find Cranehill's short fiction now!

one down! post-apocalyptic Gothic in the finest attic wife tradition, w/ the most exquisitely grotesque lesbian sex since Hannibal S3, I'm in love w/ the mycelial worldbuilding (& all the horrid women >:D) definitely recommend if you liked Leech's body horror & Annihilation's eco-weird vibe! 👰🏻‍♀️🍄🗡️

Finished Wife Shaped Bodies by @lauracranehill.bsky.social this morning. It’s a gorgeously fucked up body horror psilocybin trip of a novel. 🤘🍄 I welcome our future mycological overlords. May they consume our bones and poisons and make up strange songs about us when we are gone.

Goddamn. When you think you’re ready for an ending, and then the epilogue comes out making you sob (in a good way). Stunning work, @lauracranehill.bsky.social! Beautifully written, engrossing story.

Just finished “Wife shaped bodies” by @lauracranehill.bsky.social - if you like melancholic body horror and mushrooms this is for you. I loved it - couldn’t put it down.

SEATTLE PEOPLE! Come out Wednesday night to Third Place Books Ravenna, 7pm. I'll be in conversation with Laura Cranehill about her debut novel, WIFE SHAPED BODIES. Folks, this book is so, so good. www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/laura-...

Just finished reading "Wife Shaped Bodies" by @lauracranehill.bsky.social and I had to lay back and stare at the ceiling for awhile. It was incredibly good! "Body horror" gets thrown around a lot but this was actually sickening in a way I don't get to read very often.

My story, "Like Fractured Seashells" is out today!

Great spot, Laura! Beware, the Republic of Memory has slipped its shackles and is out in the wild!

Just saw The Republic of Memory by @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social at Powell's on Hawthorne! Don't mind me while I snag a copy

I’M DYING

Happy early independent bookstore day! 📚

I have never heard a narrator this creepy. I was already so excited to finally read Wife Shaped Bodies, but now I am HOOKED.

I have an event in New York City at the Twisted Spine at 7 pm on April 28th with James Tynion IV and Joe Monti!

The fungus is among us: Reading WIFE SHAPED BODIES by Laura Cranehill. Out now from Saga Press. @lauracranehill.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

MOM I GOT MIDNIGHT SOCIETYED IM FAMOUS NOW 🍄🩸🍄‍🟫🩸

Cover reveal! My novella THE PORCELAIN SISTERS will be out Oct 27 from @tachyonpub.bsky.social . Two sisters, one of whom happens to be a haunted doll, take on a French witch mafia, demons, an unkillable assassin... all to reclaim their birthright. Preorder! tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...

This book kicks ass and takes names. I'm going to be in conversation with @lauracranehill.bsky.social when she visits Seattle next month -- May 20, Third Place Books Ravenna. Be there!

I am getting so excited about tonight's @powells.bsky.social event with @lauracranehill.bsky.social! Her book is so beautiful and she is so smart and cool. So glad I get to help celebrate its launch.

Extremely excited for @lauracranehill.bsky.social on her book birthday! Check out WIFE SHAPED BODIES and tell people about it.

Portlanders! Are you pining for a brain-melting discussion of weird and terrifying mushrooms? Then join @lauracranehill.bsky.social and I at Powell's (Burnside location) at 7 pm tomorrow to discuss her amazing debut novel, WIFE SHAPED BODIES. www.powells.com/events/laura...

Head over to Debutiful to read an excerpt from WIFE SHAPED BODIES by @lauracranehill.bsky.social! WSB is available from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social now. debutiful.net/2026/04/14/r...

"It doesn’t really matter what species you are—we should come together and take care of all species." Audrey Bauman's interview with @lauracranehill.bsky.social on "Wife Shaped Bodies" (@sagapressbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/14/r...

Come to my Powell’s event for Wife Shaped Bodies where I will be speaking with the incredible Wendy N Wagner, April 15th 7 pm!

Yes, your email does find me well

What I'm Reading: Wife Shaped Bodies by @lauracranehill.bsky.social. Glowing review in the @ala-booklist.bsky.social March 2026 issue: raforall.blogspot.com/2026/03/what...

The genre is mutating into its most vital, incisive form. Pre-order your nightmares here. The full list of essential reads is a revolution in dread. #Horror2026 #Books #MustRead gnofhorror.com/your-2026-ni... @mlfaliveno.bsky.social @lauracranehill.bsky.social @bethanycmorrow.com

Every author dreams of readers waiting for their work to come out! Here are some! Includes @sunyidean.com , @isabel.kim , @johnchu.bsky.social , @acwise.bsky.social , @annleckie.com Might have to put a few of these on the tbr list. theportalist.com/most-anticip...

The one, the only: the ✨UNMISSABLE SFF of 2026✨ list! 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 aka all the fantasy and sci-fi that should definitely be on your tbr, how are these not on your tbr already??? you poor unfortunate soul, let's fix that! buff.ly/IWTR8A6

My #Patreon review of “Nectarine, Apple, Pear,” by @lauracranehill.bsky.social from the Shirley Jackson award–winning anthology Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic, which, by the way, would make a great holiday gift. www.patreon.com/posts/144749...

I tore through @lauracranehill.bsky.social’s Wife-Shaped Bodies last night like it was an inky cap and might deliquesce before I could finish. The prose puts the ~decay~ in decadent. Gorgeous, relentless, and moldering with all sorts of lovely things.

Start building your 2026 #horrorbook TBR today! @mariatureaud.bsky.social @spookywv.bsky.social @ceejthemoment.bsky.social @carterkeane.bsky.social @hildur.bsky.social @naomikritzer.bsky.social @chucktingle.bsky.social @lauracranehill.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com

#spookyseason, #halloween, #samhain is all about folk tradition. @dawnkurtagich.bsky.social @davidbarnettuk.bsky.social @lauracranehill.bsky.social @jackalopehouse.com @jennifermcmahon.bsky.social

Just a little more than a week before Halloween! Anybody reading any good horror novels? I just finished an ARC of @lauracranehill.bsky.social's upcoming WIFE SHAPED BODIES, and it was gorgeous!! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wife-S...

Thanks to Ben Lockwood for some kind words on 'The Veldt Institute' in Brief Ecology!

Hello New York Comic Con attendees! There's a Daily Secret Word you can whisper to the Saga Press booth and they will give the first two people with the password a free galley of my queer mycological body horror Wife Shaped Bodies! The password for October 9th giveaway is: "mushroom" good luck! 🤞🍄🫶

Goodreads giveaway for Wife Shaped Bodies, my queer mycological horror novel! 🍄🖤 Enter to win a digital copy, giveaway ends 10/14

Tomorrow!

This Saturday at Lost Avenue books in Portland Oregon! The release and reading for my first book 'The Veldt Institute' with @lauracranehill.bsky.social and an exclusive new track inspired by the book from @pulseemitter.bsky.social! Be there or be square. Or be both. It is a book release after all.

This books looks sooooooo good, I ordered my copy already

Hello Portland people! I’m doing a reading with Samuel M. Moss for his new book The Veldt Institute

Hey! It’s a full moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. It’s a giveaway! Win an annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC and some moon-themed stickers! 🌚 Details in thread.

Just booked a writing retreat, so, er, I'd love to fit in a couple more clients/workshops for fall to help offset the cost! I'm a writer, editor, & marketing coach. My sweet spot is helping authors w forthcoming titles navigate the book marketing engine + plan for launch. (pottern.com) 🧵

I finished the first draft of my WIP right before WorldCon and it got me thinking about the parallels with my other hobby: sewing. Check out 4 things I've learned from sewing and applied to drafting a novel. open.substack.com/pub/crkellog...

New Books in My House!! @buehlmeister.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @lauracranehill.bsky.social @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social @pennyzang.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @vanessalilie.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social @readlandmark.bsky.social