CHICAGO. Now is the time to support our library system! There are so many clear ways to help in this letter! Let's go!

It was so great to have you here in Seattle, Becky! The audience loved hearing you and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social talk about horror and share book recs! And @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social is the BEST!

Thanks to @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social and everyone @spl.org @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social and the Seattle chapter of the Horror Writers Association for a great event. Me and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social talked horror and you all had great questions.

I’m going to be on a plane most of today but you still get a post- @ala-booklist.bsky.social November 2025 Issue is a Spotlight on First Novels. With backlist Top 10 access raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/book...

A dark and stormy night! The perfect time to remind you of my awards-eligible for 2025: short story The Start of Something in Weird Horror 11; an essay in @raforall.bsky.social's Why I Love Horror; and The Butcher's Daughter, co-written with Corinne Leigh Clark. www.daviddemchuk.com/eligible-2025

Dammit

Momdani is the moment So… Here are 3 Romances with South Asian love interests ranked in order of spice and tomfoolery Ayesha at Last (a top 5 romance in general) Marriage and Masti (an accidental marriage becomes real) Zahir (billionaire romance on an international scale) #booksky

Spent the day looking at art @seattleartmuseum.bsky.social with @tuphlos.bsky.social. Perfect day! Next, adding @sadiehartmann.bsky.social to the mix for dinner and then @spl.org See some of you there: www.spl.org/event-calend...

Hey library people-- If you are attending the free @libraryjournal.bsky.social @slj.com LibraryCon Live! Catch me and @danielkraus.com at 1:15 ET doing the afternoon keynote. You can still sign up. It is free. Access to recording for 3 months. www.libraryjournal.com/event/librar...

Today on the blog-- Becky's Nightstand Reads via @spl.org Blog and my appearance there tonight with @sadiehartmann.bsky.social: raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/beck...

👀👀👀 • @capesandtights.com This week on Episode 253 of the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back author @claymcleod for a discussion on his latest novel Shiny Happy People and so much more!⁠

On the light rail headed in to Seattle. See some of you tomorrow night: www.spl.org/programs-and... @sadiehartmann.bsky.social

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Wow, @raforall.bsky.social & @sadiehartmann.bsky.social a dream pairing!!! Go see

Post is early today because I am flying to Seattle all morning. I will repost it later as well: Backlist Coming Back Into Front List: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell and a Reminder of Why Reading About Books Is More Important Than Reading All The Books raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/back...

Not even 6am CT and I am at the airport. This time Seattle bound. Going to see @tuphlos.bsky.social! Oh and also appearing with @sadiehartmann.bsky.social @spl.org to talk about our books. Details here (w/ a reading list): blog.spl.org/2025/11/03/n...

I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.

Cannot. Make. It. Up. Student put in a hold request on Friday for a book. I filled the hold, sent the “Come pick up your book” email. 1/ #TellMeYouWorkInAMiddleSchoolWithoutTellingMe #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Gothic Fiction Starter Pack from @emilyhughes.bsky.social Via @nytimes.com (w/Gift Link). And why Gothic Fiction is important now and always. Plus very few dead authors (a huge plus here) and more!: raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/goth...

Hope y'all had a great Halloween season. I spent mine writing what's basically a book-length essay series on my favorite horror movie, HALLOWEEN. Boosting this one more time (for now) because I'm extremely proud of it. matthewjacksonwrites.com/tag/tracing-...

Hey peeps, many library cards will give you free access to Kanopy! Here are some horror movies they have in their library: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Late Night With the Devil, Ganja & Hess.

About to teach some Rutgers Library students how to help their Horror Readers. Great way to end the day!

Looking for big scares during the Big Dark? Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social shares some of her favorite horror anthologies on our Shelf Talk blog: blog.spl.org/2025/11/03/n... Becky discusses her latest book, "Why I Love Horror," this Thursday (Nov. 6) at the Central Library! Register 👇

I am coming to Seattle Public Library later this week with @sadiehartmann.bsky.social and I did this post for their "Nightstand Reads" blog series to help promote it. Click here to read more and register for the live event on 11/6: blog.spl.org/2025/11/03/n...

I donated too. Please if you can, join us.

Help them out! I am donating. I have seen what they have built with my own eyes. Please support them.

Blog: @sarahweinman.com's essay via @literaryhub.bsky.social to help us as we deal with censorship, hungry patrons, and more. Pass it on to your patrons to help us get the support we need. And a plea to follow @heykellyjensen.bsky.social's reporting every day. raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-p...

With universal healthcare, universal preschool, and universal basic income, people could thrive. You’d see more art, more community involvement, less crime, less suffering. But it would mean fewer billionaires and so we don’t do it.

Happy November 1st! Welcome to second October. Things are dying. Night comes sooner, hungrier than in the summer. The cold is here. Things haunt the woods. Snow can trap you, Donner Party your plans. Colds and flus awake, go hunting. Yeah, it’s still spooky season. It’s always spooky season.

Paraphrasing from the afterword: teenage girls get hate for everything. The music they like, how they dress, how they talk, who they talk to, on and on. They are demonized. And sometimes surviving demonization requires becoming demons.

It’s another Saturday at the Library!!! Remember, if you need a peaceful place to get a little reading done and forget the chaos of the world for a few hours, stop by your local library! The seating is free and open to all!

Keep the chills coming! I'm in @booktrib.bsky.social with recommendations incl Jennifer McMahon, @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Mona Awad @rachelharrison.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social booktrib.com/2025/10/31/c...

I am logging off the interwebs to read and prep the front porch for the trick or treaters. Remember, tomorrow may be a Nov 1st but Horror can be read all year long!

Story recs!! Great thread

So cool to have @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social share my micro-fiction Halloween story! Thank you! Happy Halloween, everyone! cynthiapelayoauthor.substack.com/p/halloween-...

I wrote about a timeless Halloween question: How old is too old to trick or treat? That question, and its history, has shaped the holiday in more ways than you know. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/t...

I don’t have a million readers, but the ones I have are priceless to me. I hustle to give them a book every year and half or so, but I always want them to read great stuff, so I recommend it. Constantly. Not recommending stuff by other writers makes no sense to me.

Potential budget issues in the city mean Chicago Public Library (IL) may lose 89 full time equivalent positions and lose HALF of their book budget. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...

Sure everyone talks about ghosts and monsters TODAY but I do it any other time and it’s like “Ivy stop talking about the 2001 film THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE all the time”, “this isn’t an appropriate time to talk about THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE (2001)”, “I’m tired of hearing about 2001’s THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE”

Boosting this for daytime: I am giving away a year's subscription to THEE @fangoria.bsky.social Magazine to one lucky winner. All you have to do is show me proof that you donated at least $10 to a food bank recently, and I'll pick a winner on 11/3! #HorrorSky #HorrorFam

Thanks to one or our @summerscares.bsky.social sponsors @bookriot.bsky.social for helping us to get the word out. And for giving us the best spooky YA expert- @heykellyjensen.bsky.social bookriot.com/summer-scare...

It's time. 📚 #comicsky

Excited to have Jennifer McMahon as our 2026 @summerscares.bsky.social spokesperson!

I did an interview with Dan for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social to celebrate Halloween!

2026 @summerscares.bsky.social spokesperson Jennifer McMahon from the announcement of her appointment: "When I was a kid, I checked a book out of my local library that had a spell in the back to become a werewolf. I was a freaky, monster-loving girl, not sure how I fit into the world.

Loving horror is finding comfort in the uncomfortable. Finding enjoyment in the frightening. Things most of us live with each day. Special thanks to @raforall.bsky.social for the inspiration to write this essay.

Happy Halloween 31 Days of Horror: Day 31-- The @summerscares.bsky.social 2026 Spokesperson Is.... JENNIFER MCMAHON! raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2025/10/31-d...

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

I'm worried about having enough food in the coming months. If you'd like to help me survive as an artist, writer, and unofficial town sorcerer, I'd truly appreciate it if you considered signing up for my Patreon. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

Lit Editor Business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. Halloween Week Continues! I interview @raforall.bsky.social about her new anthology "Why I Love Horror." thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/10/...