“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.” ― Lord Byron

Finally watched SINNERS. Wow 😱 It earned every single one of those Oscar noms.

Just finished writing my first draft of my first horror novel. On Friday the 13th. That is all.

Post a banger that's not in English... (I will love this song and this little girl until the day I die) youtu.be/bxWxXncl53U?...

New FREE contest for writers of Middle Grade Fiction — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest5 — Judged by Agent Kelsey Evans of Rosecliff Literary, via @writingdaywksp.bsky.social. Winners get an agent critique of their work.

See you this weekend for some more micro! Let's goooo

Just signed up, can't wait!

Reading this book and just had to send a shout-out to @robertottone.bsky.social for his creepy story "In the Deep End." Yikes! Deixa o menino dormir!

Wow. The end of an era. goodereader.com/blog/digital...

This is a huge win. www.404media.co/comic-con-ba...

I have never identified so hard with a puffin

My 13yo told me some of her friends have their mom in their phone as "Spawn Point" 😂😂😂

Thrilled to have placed 1st in my group for Round 1 of the NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge! See you this weekend for Round 2, contestants! P.S. If you are Delia Marcinuk, who placed 2nd, kudos for this synopsis. Brilliant.

DA BEARS!!!!!!!!!

The results of the WSJ newsroom's experiment letting AI run a vending machine 😂 "It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

A fine choice, Webster's! www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...

How to turn off Gmail's ability to read your emails to train its bots: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

This company wants to pay people minimum wage to train their AI. 👎

Couldn't agree more... thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Hit 50K words on my WIP today!

This weekend! For Chicago-area horror fans 👀 slaythelake.com

Nothing brightens my day like a new Randy Rainbow video 🥰🤩

Up for a tiny writing challenge? The 7th annual 100-word Microfiction Challenge by @nycmidnight.bsky.social kicks off on March 20th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/100

I've never "won" Pac-Man until today. Thanks, Google. Happy Halloween! 🎃

👀 apnews.com/article/lite...

I hit 40,000 words on my gothic horror WIP last night! Slow and steady. I'm gonna finish this first draft this fall or die trying.

Radio listeners and horror fans! This morning I'm being interviewed on WMFO's Something About the Women. I'll talk about my recently published story "The River's Revenge" and I've selected a spooky set of songs. Stream at WMFO.org or listen live at 91.5 FM in the Boston area @ 11 AM ET. www.wmfo.org

Huge kudos to whoever designed this logo 😍

Check out this cover 😍 The anthology will feature my story "Food Baby," which started life as a horror comedy and morphed into something much darker.

It's time to hit the streets and reject would-be tyrants. See you out there, friends 🇺🇸 abc7chicago.com/post/no-king...

Good www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

When your kid sketches out a few things for horror comedy inspiration 🥰 Love her

Drug names that should have been used for metal bands Panzyga Skelaxin Rezurock Sanctura

Just finished rereading this classic because every now and then you need a book to break your heart.

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Up for a short writing challenge? Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 250-word Microfiction Challenge on December 5th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/250

Spooky Seasons Greetings

New anthology out now 👀

This is a heartbreaking read. Please, y'all, don't do this. ChatGPT is not a therapist. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

RIP Jane

New anthology out now, just in time for spooky season! PRETEND YOU DON'T SEE HER from Kandisha Press features my story "The Painted Man." A painting-in-progress changes when the artist isn't looking... and it seems to be trying to tell a secret 👀 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRGH4FF3/

This is the home page of HUD.gov right now. Used it as a teachable moment for my kids about government propaganda. I remember when .gov sites were considered reliable sources. Yet another thing this administration has taken from us.

Adriano Kalin is doing incredible work documenting what's been going on here in Chicago.

Happy 50th Anniversary to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the movie that helped make me a creature of the night. "Strange Journey," a documentary about this cult film legend, is in theaters now. If you're in the Chicago area, you can see it at the Music Box Theatre: rockyhorrordoc.com/buy-tickets

Writers: If anyone is looking for a word count tracker for your WIPs now that NaNoWriMo is gone. I have been using TrackBear for a week and I love it. Its interface is intuitive, you can save multiple projects, and it provides the pretty graph that was so motivating to me during NaNo challenges.

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Pitfalls of being a writer with a day job working for a PBM: the frequency with which I want to steal drug names for character names. Like "Ocrevus" should be an old Southern man with three teeth, not a multiple sclerosis medication 🤷