So excited for THE BONE BRIDES!! This book is creepy and gorgeous.

Hey, if you're in the area, I'll be on @vermontpublic.org's Vermont Edition to talk about this week's Green Mountain Book Festival in about 20 minutes! www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont...

Here’s our announcement: greenmountainbookfestival.substack.com/p/announcing...

What would you do with the power to travel through time? Perhaps you would savor a fond memory or try to prevent an impending disaster. Surely, we would all return that library book on time, right? 🤨 Let's go some-when else in time with this week's book list. 🧵 #BookSky

I get that this was an ad supplement, but failure to fact check seems pretty typical of the lack of respect many media outlets have for book coverage. Hard to imagine a similar preview of summer movies that don’t exist—there would be an instant outcry.

I reviewed THE LAMB by @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social and BLACK WOODS, BLUE SKY by @eowynivey.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

I’m so honored by this review of THE MIDNIGHT CLUB!!

Just putting this here for posterity. I’ve never had a book that was called “big” or “buzzy” before. And this one took me 37 years to turn into something readable.

"The Midnight Club" von Margot Harrison: Klasse Plot, neue Ideen zu Thema Zeitreise, Ideen, die nach dem Lesen im Kopf bleiben. Fehlt manchmal etwas Grundspannung in einigen Kapiteln. @margotfharrison.bsky.social Your book was reviewed in German language www.rezensionsnerdista.de/2025/01/11/t...

This book is deliciously witchy and atmospheric and you want it!! Think Cape Cod horror with some very bad things washing up on shore.

In case you’d like to try a memory drug that looks like maple syrup and smells like Pine-Sol … I have one of those ebook sales going.

Explore @Gabino_Iglesias’s review of THE MIDNIGHT CLUB by @MargotFHarrison (@margotfharrison.bsky.social) calling it "a strong debut that brings together some of the best elements of time-traveling stories and mixes them with the atmosphere of a whodunit.” locusmag.com/2025/01...

On a certain other app, I keep seeing posts saying that “major publishers” are “firing editors and using AI.” I’ve only ever worked with humans in publishing. Is this engagement bait, or is there a real example of it happening?

I hold on to this dream that I will write one really accessible and lovable thing that brings readers to all my other things, and it will turn out they are lovable too, but I seem to be no closer to writing that thing.

It’s a while since I’ve been around here, but anyway, the book for adults I spent 37 years writing has been out 2 months. THE MIDNIGHT CLUB is a Gen X second-chances memory drug thing & some readers said nice things about it.

I wrote about fictional mind-altering drugs for @reactorsff.bsky.social. My book THE MIDNIGHT CLUB features a drug that shows you your past—and sometimes your future. reactormag.com/five-books-a...

“Smartly addresses important social topics … while delivering a gripping, addictive narrative full of unexpected twists and turns.” Thank you to @ShelfAwareness for this great review of ONLY SHE CAME BACK! www.shelf-awareness.com/sar-issue.ht...

Join Kathleen Glasgow and me today at 4 pm ET for a conversation about ONLY SHE CAME BACK and THE NIGHT IN QUESTION! thenovelneighbor.com/events/31425

“True crime-inspired fiction is never just a fictional embroidering of facts; it’s about how and why the facts live rent-free in our heads.“ www.writersdigest.com/write-better...

Like to read about teens solving gritty mysteries in small towns? In one week, join me and @misskathleenglasgow virtually at the Novel Neighbor to discuss THE NIGHT IN QUESTION and ONLY SHE CAME BACK! 12/6, 4 pm ET / 3 pm CT. thenovelneighbor.com/events/31425

Do you care who Pit Girl is or are you fine with that never being resolved? Anyway, here’s my reading list for Yellowjackets fans. crimereads.com/what-to-read...

This is why I don’t give writing advice even though it plays very well on the clock app. On published book 4 and still wondering how a person succeeds as a writer!

I had so much fun doing this interview with United by Pop! Thank you for calling ONLY SHE CAME BACK “chilling and intensely gripping”! www.unitedbypop.com/young-adult-...

Join me virtually tomorrow (Tue 11/21, 6 pm ET) at Books of Wonder to discuss ONLY SHE CAME BACK and four other YA mystery/thrillers! booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcomi...

ONLY SHE CAME BACK is out today! I hope you enjoy this twisty/twisted #Noirvember tale of what happens when one young woman’s true crime obsession goes too far. ▶️🏜️

ONLY SHE CAME BACK will be out in a week! Find out what happens when the true crime genre meets the unhinged woman genre on the seedy, noirish edge of Burlington, Vt.

Yo, anyone got eyes on Eugene Tooms?

So excited! WE MADE IT ALL UP is a semifinalist in the Teen Readers’ Choice Awards! Teens can vote in the next round here: www.teenauthorbootcamp.com/vote

Which is tenser: the border-crossing scene, the cliff-jumping scene, or the scene in Panera? 😏 ONLY SHE CAME BACK is out 11/14. YA thriller about true crime obsession & very bad ideas.

One month. And then I shut up about this book (maybe!).

I read Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast while my classmates were at the prom and later wrote a David Lynch wannabe short story about the prom I didn’t attend.

Skimming Flowers in the Attic as a kid, I thought Cathy was just a victim. Now I see that she’s the only kid in that attic with the right instincts (be mad as hell and escape) and she only doesn’t follow them because patriarchy.

I talked with the wonderful @rosiemarx.bsky.social for her Substack about the inspiration behind ONLY SHE CAME BACK, morally gray female characters, and more. She called the book “timely and terrifying.” 🥰▶️ rosierecommends.substack.com/p/author-cha...

I’m reading Flowers in the Attic cover to cover for the first time. So far, it’s like a Thomas Kinkade painting in an unholy union with Wuthering Heights. An incést moodboard.

TFW you find yourself on the edge of a cliff with a suspected murderer, but it’s ok because you wanna be a true crime influencer so so bad. (Places in Only She Came Back: Red Rocks Park, #btv, VT)

“Tackles consent, grooming, emotional abuse, mental illness, survivalist culture, eating disorders, and social media… A twisty thriller exploring important social topics.” — Kirkus Reviews on ONLY SHE CAME BACK

Randomly chosen quote from OSCB: “I saw bright green mold creeping up the walls like veins full of radioactive fluid.” It’s a sapphic noir mystery with scenes in seedy motels & Panera. ARC giveaway is open through Sunday! www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

A reminder to anyone who uses affiliate links for books: Bookshop.org pays a better per-book percentage AND supports indie bookstores, unlike Amazon. Libro.fm also offers better affiliate terms than Audible. You can escape the evil empire.

I rented the movie about two women climbing a rickety 2,000-foot radio tower in the desert and I am not ashamed. There were no CG sharks, only some vultures.

oh sweet! Very delighted to blurb ONLY SHE CAME BACK, a total banger 😁

Thank you to @elliemarney.bsky.social, author of the spine-tingling, best-selling NONE SHALL SLEEP, for these amazing words about ONLY SHE CAME BACK!

So yeah, I have a twisty true crime critique noirish thriller coming out, and it has almost no reviews, and that makes me sad, and you can still win an ARC here, and LOOK AT THAT COVER! 👀https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110993522-only-she-came-back

Since we’re having blurbing discourse and all that… I’m over the moon about this blurb for ONLY SHE CAME BACK from Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces and coauthor of The Agathas!

ONLY SHE CAME BACK is one of the “Books to Get You in That Pumpkin Spice Latte Mood”! 🎃 And there’s a Goodreads ARC giveaway happening now. www.thenovl.com/articles/boo...

Okay, I can die happy now because my agent praised a passage in my novel that I wrote when I was a college sophomore. Only took 40+ years to get the book sort of right!

Aspiring true crime podcasters getting too close to criminals. Lies. Sapphic chemistry. Tense noirish scenes in Panera. ONLY SHE CAME BACK is on NetGalley, and you can enter to win a copy through 9/24. www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

Over on my website, I wrote about my struggles to sell new manuscripts over the past three years and talked a bit about what I'm working on now. www.catwinters.com/2023/08/so-w...

Q. How close to a true crime is too close? A. When you wake up in the suspect’s bed. Enter to win one of 20 ARCs on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

Here’s a little advice from an author who has pitched media outlets AND works at a media outlet: Please don’t email a reviewer, “Why haven’t I seen a review of my book yet?” Please. Just. Don’t. We are overwhelmed.