Picked up at @eagleharborbooks.bsky.social today! Been excited about this one for a while 💛💛💛 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social

Submitted a thing to @tacobellquarterly.org 😬 Discussed: rescuing flypaper-trapped flies, a plan to sneak backstage at the Pantera concert, food dicks, Bloody Knuckles (the game), shrink-wrapped beef 🤷‍♀️

Literature is dying, the institutions are collapsing, it's all a rigged maze, you'll never make money doing this, everyone's attention span is 1.2 seconds so you better be able to spit out what that 80,000 words is about fast, and the apocalypse is nigh. Become a writer!

My live drums & electronics setup from a show last week. #drums #electronicmusic

Finally picked up The Orange Eats Creeps! Been wanting to read it for a good long while now. First few pages are exactly as intense and deranged as I’d hoped 🍊 @gracekrilanovich.bsky.social #booksky

Writers, trust your weird book! Trust that it will find its people! #writingcommunity #authors

By sea is my favorite way to approach Seattle.

Neptune has rings!!

For most of the year I've been alternating between adult and YA horror to feed my WIP, so getting totally outside that with All Fours was a refreshing break. The sex stuff is all cool, but I was especially thankful for her reflections on life, relationships, parenting, aging, bodies... #booksky

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The green app is bad for music and musicians, and I hate that I use it… but man, this thing is still pretty fun 😔:

All the songs mentioned in my #80s #YA #horror novel, in order of appearance: 4. "If I Only Had A Brain" from the Wizard of Oz... (can't really explain this one without spoilers) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nauL...

@sgj.bsky.social is SO so good, y’all. The way he manages to make his stuff equal parts “heart” and “chainsaw” is just astonishing.

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free

Picked up the new Brian Evenson today. Haven’t read something of his in years (since Collapse of Horses, unless you count the @mcsweeneys.net issue he edited )… super excited to dive in!

Chriiiiist, it's Fake Author profile season... now "George Saunders" over is here saying his "new book" - give-or-take a decade - is "for you." If the real George Saunders ever said anything remotely like that I would cry and cry and never stop crying. #georgesaunders #booksky #writers

Something seems… off… about these messages I’m getting from bestselling author Karen McManus. I would’ve guessed she was a John person.

Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track

These guys are all definitely AI-created

Fuck Marry Kill Thesis Antithesis Synthesis Fuck Marry Kill Id Ego Superego Fuck Marry Kill Prophase Metaphase Anaphase Fuck Marry Kill The Father The Son The Holy Spirit Fuck Marry Kill Fucking Marriage Murder Fuck Marry Kill Jana H-S Jana H-S Jana H-S

Just a brutal / beautiful piece of writing ♻️

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy…

All the songs mentioned in my #80s #YA #Horror novel: 3. "Among the Living" - by #Anthrax. Main Character A puts this on in his headphones to try to scrub his brain clean of some very bad news. fun fact: This song is about The Stand by @stephenking.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRD...

THE BAD ONES by Melissa Albert! Picked this as a potential comp for my WIP. 100% right for that, yes, but also: Fell in love. SO good / sweet / sad / real. Such beautiful, perfect descriptions. It air-dropped me straight into my own personal childhood forest and let me tromp around in it a while.

Slightly jumbled version: Metal > 90’s hardcore > 80’s hardcore / punk… then: Branch 1: indie rock (Sonic youth as the bridge to noise) > noise etc Branch 2: post rock Tortoise etc > jazz > John Zorn et al > free jazz

Awesome starter pack for a welcoming BlueSky writing community here!

10 horror novels to get to know me by: The Hellbound Heart (I know it's a novella, but 🤷‍♀️) House of Leaves This Thing Between Us My Heart is a Chainsaw HORRORSTOR IT (of course) Hill House (of course) Horror Movie Universal Harvester Allan Moore's whole run on Swamp Thing (I know it's comics but 🤷‍♀️)

The best advice. Bonus that it comes from one of our greatest living songwriters ❤️

Poking at a not-fully-formed thought about social media: Before I shut down my original Facebook account (I have a shell of one up now, just so I could join a few groups, etc), I went through and read my entire timeline. Something that struck me about the "early" days of FB...

All the songs mentioned in my #80s #YA #Horror novel: Bowie - "Day In Day Out." Main Character B walks to her best friend's house before school with this in her headphones. No one really likes this new Bowie album much, but she's trying to get herself into it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnr...

All the songs mentioned in my #YA #Horror novel: 1. "Orion" by #Metallica. On the first page, Main Character A thinks about how he needs to practice this for his bass lesson tomorrow. The bassline at around 4:00 still gets his fingers all tangled up. #BookSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qr...

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1. Small town journalist 2. Touring drummer 3. Psych studies guinea pig 4. Alaskan fishing boat deckhand 5. Ambulance company IT guy

Metal. Catholicism. Dogs. Psychiatry. Fire. #HorrorWritersChat