If you’re looking for autumn book recommendations, I shared a mega list of my favorite books for the season on my Substack! Come peruse the gothic, dark fantasy, thrillers, and lots of other genres shorturl.at/WYPVH

To celebrate Pride in the midst of political fear + uncertainty, I decided to look to the future with a recommendation list of upcoming 2025/2026 queer novels to add to your TBRs. Be strong and kind, ily shorturl.at/AnsSx

May’s newsletter went out yesterday! I’m really proud of this one so I hope you’ll like it. Let’s talk about getting through the disappointments and rough patches of your writing career

Newsletter update! This time we’re chatting about developing a writing schedule that allows you to meet your goals AND your needs (and a small check-in on how NECROGENESIS revisions have been going) ✨ shorturl.at/ifmP4

Everyone is talking about leaving social media (myself included) but are people spending that time engaging with our local communities instead, or are we just retreating into hyper-individualized isolation? So I wrote about it on my newsletter! shorturl.at/TzPns

I’m like three years late but I started playing Citizen Sleeper for the first time…oh my god. What a rich tapestry of a game. The worldbuilding, the game mechanics, the character storylines?!?

A new post for the Inner Parlour section of my newsletter just released! 🖤 This is the long (and honestly, rather personal) story of how my debut novel, NECROGENESIS, sold. It’s about grief, and making the best of terrible situations shorturl.at/KfcYx

Are you a trans or nonbinary writer? Clarion West just announced a new scholarship that covers all six weeks of tuition:

Read Ashia's fiction, read Ashia's newsletter, read NECROGENSIS when it comes out next year. If we're friends I promise you the newsletter descriptions for what NECROGENESIS looks and sounds like will be of GREAT interest to you and you should take a peek for something to get excited about.

An update for my newsletter just went out! In this one, I chat about my debut gothic novel NECROGENESIS. It also features a list of moody, atmospheric recommendations (movies, shows, music, and more!) to get you in the mood for the book when it releases in 2026 🪦🌘 shorturl.at/w6NOP

I am so, so thrilled about being able to write these words. It’s time to study necromancy. The gods will not enjoy this, but that doesn’t matter. Class is in session. Which is to say: my gothic, queer campus novel NECROGENESIS will be published by Del Rey in 2026!

I have some *news* dropping on Friday that I hope you’ll keep your eyes peeled for 🕯️✨🖤

Soooo I heard all the cool kids are over here now, is that true? 👀

Want to write about queer-platonic partners? Polyamory? Other alternative relationship models? Check out this panel with @diannalgunn.bsky.social, Jade Benjamin, @thepoetjean.bsky.social, @rosieethor.bsky.social, @ashiamonet.bsky.social, and Sagan Morrow!

Just shared an introspective piece yesterday over on Lilith’s Muse! My creative life has been changing shape lately, and I wanted to share some of my thoughts on that. (Link in the replies 🔗)

A piece I made in 2018 that I love a lot

It’s here, it’s here! ALL THESE SUNKEN SOULS releases today and is free to roam the world, producing cold nightmares and haunting daydreams… I am so grateful to be included in such a star studded anthology with some truly talented, awe-inspiring voices!

The VVitch (2015)

at the risk of causing myself every possible degree of embarrassment, i am asking for help. my grandmother died about 2 weeks ago and she insisted on being buried in jamaica. between the week of work that i missed, the plane tickets, and the week i will miss next month, i’m out almost $1400.

Holding this quote close to my heart while I grieve and call my reps again and again making my flaccid little Jewish pleas to cease the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Is that a newsletter post about my must-watch autumn films and TV shows? Yes, yes it is tinyurl.com/43k4ubu8

"Virginia and her pets". 1914. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47...

is it gay vampire season already? (obvious answer: it is always gay vampire season) 🦇🩸

Following up convo on the whole “we need to do better as an industry” w/ something I said in an interview. It’s ALL of us. BIPOC editors are not almighty saviors—we’re dropping like flies. There have been times that I’ve been treated with SO little grace cz of the ridiculous expectations set on me.

Authors need to stand with artists by REFUSING to use AI content for promotion, illustrations, or cover images. If you believe people should pay to read your book, then pay your fellow artists for their work. Now, I just auto-block writer accounts using AI images.

Newsletter update! This one features a host of October events you can find me at, and a spiel in which I attempt to convince you to start walking as a creative practice shorturl.at/lKMST

Going up to my little chart labeled “days since I came up with a vampire-oriented WIP”, erasing the number there and writing a gigantic 0 instead

Swing by! Hang out with us! Soak up our (limited?) knowledge!

good afternoon to NO ONE except butch lesbian daniel craig

Grad school is about to turn me into an outliner. I simply do not have time for exploratory drafts anymore! Desperate times call for desperate measures!

Good Art should kill you instantly

So relieving to see people on my timeline that I’ve followed for years on the Other App but haven’t seen a single post from for months

I never would’ve guessed that a mid-tier early 2000s anime would’ve helped me fix ten plot holes in this novel but inspiration comes from mysterious places, I suppose

Hello new website, I do hand embroidery, you might be familiar with my greatest hit "nun getting railed"

Hey, Dark Souls freaks! Are these your guys? ohotnig.gumroad.com/l/SoulsLove1 ohotnig.gumroad.com/l/SoulsLove2 ohotnig.gumroad.com/l/SoulsLove3

Hey y’all! I’m Shelly, a goth Honduran American editor, writer, and horror lover 🕸️ 🖥️ shellymromero.com ✉️ shellymromero.com/contact 📖 bit.ly/PubResDoc ✍🏽 ghoulgal.substack.com

This Is How You Lose The Social Media War

doing numbers on bluesky (20+ likes) feels like making all my buddies at the bar laugh while doing numbers on twitter feels like accidentally alerting The Predator to my location

I’m starting to get the vibe that we’ve all collectively replaced Succession with the Bear

Hi Bluesky! I’m Ashia Monet, an essayist and novelist of queer gothic horror, plus some other genres too! Find me in the upcoming ALL THESE SUNKEN SOULS anthology, my newsletter Lilith’s Muse, or my urban fantasy comedy road-trip novel, THE BLACK VEINS! https://linktr.ee/ashiamonet