2025 Book Wrap-Up 💙📚 Each day for the rest of December, I want to post a few books I enjoyed this year by new-to-me authors. Today's list: Empty Devils by @authordileo.bsky.social Izzy Hoffman is Not a Witch by @alyssaalessi.bsky.social The Stranger by @stevestred.bsky.social

The 2026 Spooktastic author list is looking Fire AF!! 🔥🔥🔥 While Spooktastic is invite only, DMs on IG are always open to marginalized creators!

My office today as I edit a novelette and outline a short story. 🖤 Happy Friday!

What up, PNW horror authors!? We're back with the annual Crypticon Seattle writing contest. Subs are officially open today, and it's only $10 (per story) to enter. Details on prizes, guidelines, deadlines, and our entry portal can all be found at THIS DIRECT LINK: https://www.rfr.bz/b794c5e

The season of rest is upon us. 🍁 As the days grow shorter and the nights long, take care of yourselves.

Happy book birthday to @johnlangan.bsky.social's LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS! This is a mesmerizing read, ingeniously inventive and downright scary. And Mr. Langan, our dear gentleman frightener, is one of the best guys you'll ever meet. Order your copy today! wordhorde.com/books/lost-i...

Love having conversations with fellow con planners! Especially when it’s about how to hear more from marginalized voices when it comes to horror, Sci-fi, fantasy! Yesss let’s talk!

Oh, I’m in this era of my writing now. I haven’t had to google this stuff for a while. 🫣

Still feeling the creative buzz leftover from Camp NeCon! Can’t wait till next year. 🫶🏽

Camp Necon 🫶🏽

Drafting up this story on vacation and having the best time. 90s music on blast, summer beer, and vibes!!! ☀️

Has anyone been to ReaderCon?? (I’m not missing NeCon for it, I’m just curious.) 👀

Packing up for StokerCon!! 🎉

Just signed a little something under the pink full moon. 🌝

The horror community is filled with the most amazing individuals!! I can’t wait to see some of you in person next week at StokerCon! 🥹 🖤🥂 #Stokercon #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity

It’s a new moon babe. 🌚

Don’t piss me TF off. People’s lives really are just a game to them.

Will you be at StokerCon? Please join me Thursday night while we drink champagne, I mean water, and talk writing KidLit!! 🖤

Spooktastic 2025 announcements so far! Still haven’t announced the Guest Of Honor, more than 20 additional authors and the incredible FREE panel discussions planned!! 9/13/25 at The Framingham Public Library (MA)

Oh hell yeah!!! This needs to be sold at Spooktastic for… reasons… 👀👀👀

Happy spring 🖤🐣⛰️

Happy Birthday to this legend. 🖤

So far Spooktastic has announced 16 authors, 2 publishing houses and 1 vendor. 👀👀👀 Are you keeping up? www.instagram.com/p/DE-wcdYyEQ6/

Vibes 🖤

Who’s going to Camp NECON this year?? 👀👀👀

Visited the very spooky Bridgewater Triangle today. There were some haunting cries and GPS mishaps, but the real horror was my family getting covered in ticks!! 🥴

Extremely honored to have a story in this collection! 🎉 blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Spooktastic is going to be lit!!! 🖤🎉🖤🎉🖤

Back to my gym witch era. 💁🏽‍♀️ It really helps with creativity.

If you haven’t been reading @maeisafraid.bsky.social’s Women in Horror Month interviews, please do yourself a favor & check them out! I’ve been enjoying it so much that I asked Mae if I could interview her & she graciously agreed! Check it out here! tiffanymorris.ca/2025/03/31/w...

What if @moniqueasher.bsky.social and I hop on a Tik Tok live this weekend to talk about an iconic Y2K horror film?? Will you hop on and chat with us?

I'll be teaching a #masterclass on writing MEDIA TIE-IN FICTION (writing in other people's worlds --Star Wars, Marvel, Hellboy, etc) on April 26. Proceeds benefit no-kill animal shelters. Here's a link with all the info: www.jonathanmaberry.com/classes-work...

A short story acceptance before coffee??? Hell to the yeah!! 😍

I love to see Izzy getting checked out of the Library! 😍

This is old news now, BUT... I want to see if the power of the internet can help me get @david-jenkins.bsky.social's attention so I can ask him for a blurb for my upcoming book, which was inspired directly by #OurFlagMeansDeath because it helped me get through the darkest moment of my life. 🥹 👉👈

Women in Horror recommendation cont: @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social @laurelhightower.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @redlagoe.bsky.social @alyssaalessi.bsky.social Ruby Jean Jensen Tiffany D. Jackson Please check them out and stay tuned for more recs!

I started writing in the kidlit space and my heart still lives there, but somehow adult short stories became what I work on the most right now. Tell me about your writing path, where you started vs. what you are working on now. 🖤 #writingcommunity

Cover reveal! Presenting the cover of TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS, art by Julia Lloyd! 13 coming-of-rage stories twisting out most difficult years of transformation into new and terrifying shapes 😈 coming September 16 from @titanbooks.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790249...

Me under the Blood Moon tonight. 😌

What if I worked on a project on and off for almost 3 years, deleted the ending, then just decided to re-write the whole damn thing? Have I lost my mind? 🫠🫠🫠

I never tire of this song, or its cinematic masterpiece of a music video.

Hey MA people, I know you're probably going to the Ashland Library on Saturday but I also know you should come down to Barnes & Noble in Hingham to join Horror Book club to talk to @claymcleod.bsky.social about one of the most talked about books this year. It's time to Wake up and Open your eyes.

April 6th at Lark and Owl Books in Georgetown, TX! I'll be leading a horror workshop. Have you always wanted to write horror? Have a few ideas but don’t know where to start? Sign up now! www.larkandowlbooksellers.com/products/hor...

Quick bonus announcement: Tickets will officially go on sale later this week!

There should be YA novellas. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Women in Horror Month has been getting too quiet for the past few years, and a group of us wants to change that! If you're a woman in horror and you'd like to be part of interviews, events, and the like, please comment below! And if you want to support WiHM, then please RT! Let's get the word out!

Don't buy shit, write your book

I don’t watch movies often and decided to watch Maxxxine today. I loved it! But my sister informed me that I’m all out of order with the trilogy. Should I watch Pearl before X?? Or the other way around??