What have early readers been saying about BE NOT AFRAID, my fast-paced horror novella about a guitarist's very bad night that only gets worse when violent angels decide he's the one they need? (run) Pretty nice things, actually! BE NOT AFRAID releases DEC 9th! books.earlronove.com/benotafraid 🩸📚🌈📚

I am confident enough in what I bring to the table that I know that my book will still stand out even if someone else writes a similar book.

No, it's the people saying it, I swear! It's not just me! Get your hands on The Church on the Hill, an erotic horror about a schizophrenic man: B2R: books2read.com/u/mVO7aP DIRECT: hellostarshinepub.com/product/the-... FLESH & FEAR: books.bookfunnel.com/fleshandfear...

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If you missed yesterday's talk, it was absolutely fantastic and I highly recommend catching this recording A fascinating discussion of Iranian history, decolonial Gothic, Iranian Gothic and her own work from Haleh Agar youtu.be/EILj1fKR5v4

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Don't forget! You've still got time to pitch a talk for the Romancing the Gothic talk series next year! We're particularly interested in work focusing on women and people of marginalised genders and we love exploring traditions from around the world! romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...

I'm back again to annoy my followers by talking about my queer space opera that's coming out in February! I took a pathetic guy and put him in a Situation and make him fall in love with a robot. 🤖 Check it out on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24.... #writerslift #ShamelessSelfpromoSunday

Libraries are community spaces that channel the lifeblood of their local area's education and enrichment, making all manner of resources and entertainment free and accessible, and they perform a similar function for authors - our books are circulating and being read and recommended!

Also, when you get your library to buy my book, it's on your library's shelves. A hundred extra people might lay eyes on it a week, in person, and pick it up on a whim. How many books that you love have you stumbled across just because you liked the cover or saw it in a library display?

My horror debut LESSER HUNGERS is out today! A haunted Chicago janitor discovers sentient mold is spreading cannibalistic urges through the city, one loving relationship at a time. AMZ & KU: www.amazon.com/Lesser-Hunge... Non-AMZ: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lesser-hun...

Can confirm that @saintsbeware.bsky.social is amazing to work with. Elka is incredibly patient and skilled and great with keeping you updated during the whole artistic process. 1000% would recommend!

If you're looking for character art for an upcoming story, some merch, or as a holiday gift for someone with beloved ocs, please consider commissioning me this season!! ❤️‍🔥 ko-fi.com/elkamarsden I would love to work with you! #ocsky #artsky #commsopen #wfh

a leaf? for me? thank you 🍁

Lubna is really struggling. If anyone is wondering what they can do, you can share Lubna's link regularly, and give whatever you can if you can afford to do so, and also she is lovely to talk with too!

The best thing about writing is I can make these characters do whatever the hell I want. Fall madly in love with the concept of each other being in love even though you're all damaged and dangerous? Let's go

Come and explore previous talks from us and explore the Gothic beyond a white euro-centric focus!

I mean it from the bottom of my heart, just create for yourself first and then for the five people you keep captive in your basement.

Please help if you can!

What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror... romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

When posting this, the existence of Romancing the Gothic completely escaped my mind. I have a TON of resources. Feel free to ignore this post.

For those of you who study, read, and are interested in the Gothic genre and the history thereof, what books (fiction and non-fiction alike) would you recommend for someone with ADHD reentering the genre?

This project haunts me always, demanding to be put out into the world. If only I could heed it's demands. I want to.

What roles did women play in theorising, popularising, writing, publishing and reading the early Gothic? Come find out! youtu.be/ZYXmHoErwL8

Join us today for a talk on editing fiction with nonbinary characters! We'll cover the complexities of nonbinary genders, and how to help authors achieve inclusive representation at all levels of editing. 🏳️‍⚧️ #AmEditing 🌈📚 @editorscanada.bsky.social #Editors

13/10 adore @cmrosens.com's work and firmly believe that if you're a fan of gothic and cleverly written works about queer disasters, you should check them out.

I want to stop worrying about what people are who are not my target audience will think of my work

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I'm really proud of this novel. It has been in a lot of promos and the ARC was downloaded over 900 times. That was a good experiment; it beat the 1% of readers leave reviews metric (~1-10% is average I think, depending on how engaged your readership are), and it sits at 20 reviews on GoodReads!

I want to stop feeling like I'm never doing enough; like yeah, my stories demand a lot more brain power than daily writing and that's okay and to stop being so impatient with myself when I don't have it all figured out in the first pass

The little sound cats make when you surprise them with a gentile pet 💜💜

My GDT’s Frankenstein review! 🖤

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Hello #WriterSky & #AuthorSky, I'm now re-open for Author Spotlight requests, which are short text-only interviews spotlighting something you've written, or your work in general. 📚💙 I'm now taking requests for 2026 features. 2024: cmrosens.com/author-spotl... 2025: cmrosens.com/author-spotl...

Not the editor (it's me, hi) having biiiig emotions about creation and channeling that into monster smut:

Time to write some flith that wrecks readers emotionally, I guess.

In a daydream-y haze thinking about Del Toro's Frankenstein while listening to Ethel Cain's "Inbred" on repeat. This combination works so fucking well, and 1000% is reminding me of a few stories of mine that I could stitch together and a new (fictional) life, as it were.

Guess what I just finished watching and am emotionally wrecked and wonderfully, wickedly inspired by?

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Okay, no more marketing for me on this account (probably and hopefully because dear goddd, I'm exhausted even just from today). If you see me doing some promo on the lit mag's account, no you didn't (yes you did, I'm just broken by capitalism).

Oh this looks fun 👀

And back in the hotel, once against introverting. I have fun extroverting, I wish to be clear. Also, it's nice to be in bed doing nothing.

If queer and taboo it magazines are your thing, I've got something in the works.

Something I've been wanting to put together for ages but have been putting it off due to how serious and impossible it previously felt:

Not being able to make any forward momentum with the next steps of my queer dark audio drama, Minthe, has been driving me crazy. I really just wish I had disposable income right now that I could use to pay the voice actors with, but alas.

Trying not to go wild with my extra time now that I'm no longer marketing. Trying not to put together a casual lit/art magazine/zine about finding belonging in the darkness with eroguro monster filth at the forefront. Trying not to casually see if there's anyone interested in participating.

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too. If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole. apnews.com/article/pets...