Shout out (Metamorphosis @nwreader.bsky.social ) from the master of short stories and despicable tales @craigwallwork.bsky.social - look at that company @laurelhightower.bsky.social & @beverleylee.bsky.social and @craigclevenger.bsky.social - top notch, come get some horror that’ll take you places!

Thank you so much for the shout out, Craig! ❤️ @craigwallwork.bsky.social

Here in Paris for the week 😍 A few from the Musee D'Orsay!

Episode 4 of #TheReadingSparrow podcast is out now! In this one, I talked to @beverleylee.bsky.social about her book The Sum of Your Flesh, quaint little villages, and bubbling ideas. Listen to it here: ko-fi.com/post/S1-E4-T... #writingcommunity #booksky

Thanks Gabino! Looking for something a bit more extreme? Maybe my Father Of Lies compendium will be what you seek! Based on real events from real research, this has 3 cult/cosmic horror novellas & plenty of scenes that'll keep you wake at night! Cover by Mason McDonald mybook.to/fatheroflies

Morning, Gabino. I have cut ties with my publisher. Long time coming, sure, but in the meantime these books very shortly will no longer be available. Get ‘em while you still can. #FridayReads www.bishopriderbooks.com

PREORDER 🖤 Thank you! bit.ly/47BxNJp

A tentacle with a mind of its own, an ancient witch, a cult, a ravenous trip to the bookstore, and a true story that took place in Savannah… if you haven’t read my horror collection, start right Next Door. Thank you Gabino & #FridayReads Linktr.ee/kdbwrites

new review just dropped. while in line to pick up my son. no hidden meaning to this picture i used. It’s my leg in the car. still attached to my body. dragonfruit Red Bull. anyway… hugs. 🙏🖤🙏🖤 thanks @gabino.bsky.social 🙏 a.co/d/9u44AAf 🫡

The ebooks for my novels The Unkillable Frank Lightning and The Legend of Charlie Fish are both just $7.99 right now. I’d love help spreading the word and giving them both a boost! www.amazon.com/dp/B0F84FWVT...

Thank you! Only $1.99, people! Mad Days: Stories and Curses is the perfect reading for Halloween. A terrifying collection of tales and illustrations, available on Amazon and Bookshop. Amazon bit.ly/4lZImtq Bookshop bit.ly/41USpIQ

It’s #FridayReads time AND Latine Heritage Month! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here are horror and noir mixed with Spanglish, history, anti-colonialism, magic, friendship, revenge, and monsters from the deep. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

‪Thanks Gabino!‬ ‪I found out today that This House Isn’t Haunted But We Are is on the Stoker Award Reading List! So this is more of a good news share haha!‬ ‪https://horror.org/awards/currentreadinglist.php‬

Thanks for hosting! I'm about to shut off the computer now (20 min over my evening screen time 😬 speaking of tech and horror 😅) Just shouting out that my 3 little horrors are just $5 on Ko-Fi in a bundle! Spooky gardens, folkloric vibes, gothic and paranormal short stories 🖤 ko-fi.com/s/e0df0c97dc

Thanks for a good chat, Eryn! #HorrorWritersChat, I've talked my head off about Lemon Balm so I'm giving it a break. If you need bookish art, I'm also an artist with reasonable prices and payment plan options. Comm page needs a re-do but if you're interested, poke me! Link: www.conquerthyfear.com

Thanks Eryn! #HorrorWritersChat, "Hannah and Other Stories" will be out in 6 days! Don't you want to read the scariest collection out this Halloween season? Amazon: tinyurl.com/mv8p4shk B&N: tinyurl.com/4fznerfe Kobo: tinyurl.com/3u5fpeb6 Apple Books: tinyurl.com/33xhhdnx #HorrorSky #BookSky

For all those kids who like creepy...for all those kids who feel lost... INTO THE GRAY And book 2 WITHIN THE BLACK coming November 14th! undertakerbooks.com/products/int...

Sorry I've not been as active as I usually am. Recovering from... something. Not sure what. Spoons still low. Anyway, spooky season is coming. I have many ghost stories to pick from. bsky.app/profile/chao...

#HorrorWritersChat - My husband has a bonus one for this, who is a system admin, and it starts from the deeply weird experience of clearing up a dead person's account, and the programmes they started that are still running, like a continuation of them, and what about the places that <don't> clean up

#horrorwriterschat Biometrics. People think they're great for security, but there's so many ways to take your identity/alter who you are (à la 90s classic "The Net"). Someone erasing my citizenship is so terrifying on a gut level in a world where we know how migrants & refugees are treated.

Definitely face recognition. Soon, we won't be able to go anywhere without being scrutinised like a bug under a microscope. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Q4 The way the world has embraced AI without hardly blinking is scary AF! Surveillance and face recognition too. For me these represent more dystopian horror. I find our reliance on tech, electricity and the like very... interesting. It's just a disaster waiting to happen.

I love the alienness of tech no matter the setting. But I do think that some of the janky inventions coming out in the 70's through the 90's are ripe for storytelling in horror. I also love how future tech is portrayed in the 80's and 90's. #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat Q3: Old tech horror (fuzzy tv, tricky phone battery, flickering flashlight) is great for building dread and atmosphere. New tech scares the living daylights out of me. 😆(Identity theft, blackmail, catfishing, cyber bullies, etc) that’s where real terror lies

I can't recall using outdated tech in my stories, but those old tvs with the flickering static are so creepy. Poltergeist, anyone? 😳 #HorrorWritersChat

#horrorwriterschat Jacob Jones-Goldstein. I write horror centered around grief mostly. I keep trying to write cosmic and end up writing down to earth. The closest I get to tech advice is always drop some food in the cats bowl before you sit down to write so they leave you alone.

Hey #horrorwriterschat what's up! It's me, T.L. Bodine, author of horror to break your heart (as @elfordalley.bsky.social put it). I'm too broke for an MS license so I roll with LibreOffice and a copy of Scrivener someone gifted me. I use Reedsy for free formatting. Did I mention I'm broke?

#HorrorWritersChat Tech doesn't feature in my stories except as a means to an end. Need to make a call? Here's an iPhone. Some of my stories are set in such a way the characters are lucky if they have electricity. LOL I haven't written technothrillers mainly because they don't interest me.

I do have a story I haven't placed yet that is very AI gone Rogue. In Phengaris, I have a scene where the character uses a microfiche as a tool for some local history detetive work. Microfiches are fantastic analogue tech for horror, I think. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! I write Gothic and historical horror often inspired by my indigenous and Irish heritage. I swear by a good notebook and pen but lately I have loved my classic typewriter keyboard and my little coffee mug warmer. I don't need much more than that to get the job done 😅

#HorrorWritersChat Q2: I actually avoid tech in all of my stories. 😅 I am an ancient being at heart and it confounds me, so I do not mess with it in fiction. My stories often take place in low fantasy settings or well in the past.

Hey all. It's Katherine Silva, "Kat" for short, writer of sadness and emptiness and all the questions concerning horror and those things. Gimme that ole Adobe InDesign. I use it for interior formatting and design (though none of its AI garbage). #horrorwriterschat

I don't write tech a lot, most of my horror is historical. But in the notable exceptions it's either a thin veneer hiding the society's problems (The Forever City), or the cause of the problems (AInshittification). So I suppose for me tech is a tool. #HorrorWritersChat

Tech is not a big theme in my type of horror, but there is a mute character in Nocturnal, my vampire horror series, that uses her laptop to communicate with those who don't know sign language. She is in fact the tech savvy one in the series 🤣 #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Question 2: Generally a tool. Technology becomes a threat when dangerous people use it.

More of a tool my characters rely on - or don't, as there's never enough signal in isolated rural areas 😈 #HorrorWritersChat

OMG I'm actually here on time! Hi, I'm Kathy and I write MG horror! I have laptop with Word and will write. I also like notebooks and pens. I like to keep it simple for my brain. #HorrorWritersChat

THE MOON IS GLEAMING AT US LIKE PEARLS OF THE SEA! Hello! I'm Gree, writer of body, psychological, and religious horror for my Bloodied Rose: Verses of Midnight setting! Writerly tech? Concepting before writing. Always. Makes it your fundamentals, and everything better. #HorrorWritersChat

Hey, #HorrorWritersChat! I'm Artemis Quinn, I'm a bookish artist and I write dark fantasy and paranormal horror. Writerly tech? I learned a long time ago to not get too attached to a certain tech piece but I really like Scrivener.

#HorrorWritersChat Hi, all! I’m Steph, writing queer horror under the name S.E. Withers. My preferred tech is Scrivener and my Notes app for “middle of the night and I have too many ideas” scribbles haha #QueerAuthors #QueerHorror

Hi, I’m Kimberly, I write horror that sneaks up on you. Two collections out, drafting a novel. I don’t use any writerly tech during the writing process. I usually type in Word (all tech “assistance” disabled). If I get stuck I take pen or pencil to paper to draft sections. Q1 #horrorwriterschat

Stephanie 'on time this week' Ellis here. Writer of various subgenres, esp. folk horror, gothic, post-apocalyptic, historical. Word (using styles), Calibre free s/w to convert to epub, Affinity Publisher for print format/typesetting, Affinity Photo for images/covers. #HorrorWritersChat

Hey, #HorrorWritersChat! I'm Vivian Moira Valentine, your third favorite transsexual horror writer, and I write that queer New Weird shit you like My tools are extremely basic - a notebook, a nice pen and Word

Hey all! 👋 I’m Stephen, and I write body and psychological horror. Not really tech, but as someone who is easily distracted, I have to be sitting in a quiet room, listening to an ambient soundtrack in order to write for a decent chunk of time. #HorrorWritersChat

Howdy! I'm Nate. I write a wide range of spec fic--most with at least a touch of horror. Currently working on a zombie novella. I write to music and prefer Skull Candy headphones, and I swear by pocket notebooks and pens to say organized (Field Notes and Pilot G2 are my go-to). #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I go by MJ these days and I write 51 flavours of horror (and a little romance under a pen name). I’m a Scrivener convert although still learning all of its capabilities and I wish it had built-in dictation.

Hi, I'm Beverley, a dark fiction writer from the UK specialising in atmosphere and the build-up of dread. As I write multi pov I find Scrivener and its coloured card system invaluable on a first draft! #HorrorWritersChat

Autumn is here which means time to curl up with a book and perhaps remember midsummer. In Harrowfield there are factions at play, both dark, both laying claim to the incomers, both manipulating ritual for their own ends. Out Oct 1st. Pre-order: mybook.to/Harrowfield #booksky #folkhorror

Yep, still obsessed with this duology (and the new Beguiled by Night cover is stunning) 😍

Hi Cat, we wrote a queer vampire romance trilogy set in Paris, and would love to get more eyes on it! @nicoleeigener.bsky.social @beverleylee.bsky.social mybook.to/conclave