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

At last it's been revealed! I've been wanting to show people since I saw it. Thank you so much @kerissonlp.bsky.social, it's amazing! And oh my gosh, what kind words from @sonorataylor.bsky.social, @lauracranehill.bsky.social, and @davidmoody.bsky.social!

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

You can now request Wife Shaped Bodies on Netgalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Kicking off the weekend RIGHT Text list in the Alt ✔️

I am so excited for this

DEMON SONG is on Netgalley! 🥳 🎭haunted Beijing opera house 🎭decades-old secrets 🎭modern gothic horror 🎭inspired by Phantom of the Opera 🎭Chinese mythology 🎭novella: quick read! 🎭complicated mother-daughter relationships 🎭demi MC www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

B&N is having a preorder sale for rewards and premium members, 25% off with code PREORDER25, you can get Wife Shaped Bodies (ebook, paperback, audio) and other great upcoming titles #BNPreorder

This is a badass keynote speech

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

WE LIKE IT CHERRY is out August 5th, and you can preorder it now! 💀Supernatural Indigenous Horror 💀Arctic Weird 💀Blood on Ice🩸 One of @pastemagazine.bsky.social's Most Anticipated Horror Books of Summer 2025! Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com

We hung out w/good buds @jacymorris.bsky.social @dangerslater.bsky.social & @lauracranehill.bsky.social, whose WIFE SHAPED BODIES is out from Saga in 2026, last night. Jacy's WE LIKE IT CHERRY release party will be at @powells.bsky.social on Hawthorne 8/7! MC'd by Danger. Things will get Weird🖤☠️

I cannot wait - Laura is an INCREDIBLE writer and this book is going to be a delight 🍄 also this cover is absolute fire.

In light of this week’s unprecedented law enforcement escalation, now is a time for all Americans—documented or not—to know their rights. Here is what to do if you are stopped or feel threatened by immigration authorities:

THE FOLDED SKY drops on Tuesday! (US) and Thursday! (UK) Pre-orders make the world go round! books2read.com/b/mBB0QZ?edi...

Fantastic cover! Looking forward to this!

Check out the replies for bail and relief funds for L.A.

So many of my writer pals have GORGEOUS books coming out in 2026. Do. Not. Miss. This. One. You can pre-order right now!

This book and anything by @lauracranehill.bsky.social really need to be on your Read Immediately list. Laura is a genius and this book is going to rock your world.

Cover reveal of the amazing @lauracranehill.bsky.social's debut, don't miss it! ❤️

So beautiful & twisted @lauracranehill.bsky.social—it’s perfect!!!

You guys WANT to read this book from @lauracranehill.bsky.social I PROMISE. Just like its cover, this novel is decadently grotesque. Will you be grossed out? Probably. Will you love it? Yes! I can't wait to get my copy! *grabby hands*

Look at this amazing cover!! The team did such an incredible job, thanks Kior Ko and Ella Laytham!! And oh man wait til you see the french flaps

So excited to share the beautiful cover of my debut fantasy, #ThePoetEmpress, which I am absolutely floored by! 🥰 It's comes out from Bramble 01.20.26 next year! (Credits to artist Kelly Chong & designer Esther S. Kim!) bit.ly/ThePoetEmpress

I really, really can’t wait to read this

@brigittewinter.bsky.social's Youth Playwright Theatre NEA grant was cut a few weeks ago. For many young people in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, YPT provides their only creative writing and theater programming during the school day. Please consider a donation/boost. youngplaywrightstheater.org/give/

"Nature may throw a cute party on your grave, if you're lucky!" is the Cozy Cosmic Horror sentiment I needed tonight.

Oh shiiiiiiiiit. Buckle up, buds. This one's guaranteed to be WEIRD (affectionate). No one does it like @lauracranehill.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Yessssss, I have been *waiting* for this. Cranehill's a delirious, lush writer. Book can't drop fast enough.

Can’t wait to read this by @lauracranehill.bsky.social!! It’s gonna be such a treat. Only slightly upset I’ve got to wait until 2026, but I’ll get over it.

Oh man I can't wait for this. Laura Cranehill is terrific.

It’s my book!

My writing bestie giving her best Mad Genius™ vibes at Norwescon.

Swan song: the final issue of Vastarien has arrived, including five poems by me & one excellent piece by @dyanisabin.bsky.social 🖤 as well as work by @emmaemurray.bsky.social @lauracranehill.bsky.social @jduckwriter.bsky.social & more 💀

You guys, we're really doing this. My Viable Paradise 2023 cohort decided to make an anthology! It's full of incredible stories that will push you to ponder: what kind of person do I want to be this year…and does it have to be human? Launching 1/31. Stay tuned! www.kickstarter.com/projects/new...

Farewell, Vastarien! Thanks for all the wonderful weird over the years. I’m honored to have a story, “Winter Blues” in this last issue.