So, I have a homeless Werewolf short story and a homeless Cryptid short - anyone go any hot submission tips? #horrorwriter #writingcommunity

If anyone is curious about New Zealand horror (beyond Peter Jackson’s early films) a friend of mine has collated a list of NZ based horror authors and artists to celebrate and share this October www.bewarethemoon.co.nz/post/get-int...

LOVED Coffin Moon!! This one is bleak, violent but at its cracked and ancient heart is something special, something unique in the world of vampire fiction, where there is no glitter and everything is filthy and broken.

Such a legendary frontman

My entire personality right now is just listening to Death’s “Symbolic” album on repeat

Read my latest newsletter and “Keep Out Clara” here open.substack.com/pub/danielpe...

New short tomorrow on Substack substack.com/@danielpeter...

My ghost story “Pieces of Our Hearts” features in Wicked Shadow Press “Pocket Full of Posies - Vol 3: Silent Cradle” amongst many other great short stories. Follow the link in my bio to get more info www.lulu.com/shop/parth-s...

Will have a new short story available on my Substack on Wednesday NZT #writersky Subscribe/Follow here substack.com/@danielpeter...

I have to stop checking my emails while eating breakfast “Breakfast and rejection” is a catchy title though!! #writersky #writerslife #5amWritersClub

Another day - another rejection email #WriterSky

Finally knocked this big bastard off after starting it over a year ago, but really wanted to finish it before I read King Sorrow. The funny part is I read the last two thirds over two days.

It's Monday, so here are some horror affirmations to get you pumped and ready to work... Live, laugh, slaughter them all. You are unique...and utterly horrifying. You are worthy...of not getting caught. You are enough...cosmic horror to drive anyone insane. Have a great week, everyone! 🖤

Spent the morning finishing off a werewolf short story Was loads of fun to write #horrorfiction

Thanks to e hoa @blacklightnz.bsky.social I will seeing Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds for the first time ever!

6:30am is a perfectly good time to blast High on Fire

My ghost story “Pieces of Our Hearts” features in Wicked Shadow Press “Pocket Full of Posies - Vol 3: Silent Cradle” amongst many other great short stories. Follow the link in my bio to get more info www.lulu.com/shop/parth-s...

Today someone who was reading my WIP compared my writing to @allymalinenko.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social & @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Made my day. I’m gonna take that one to the bank!

Always good to wake up to a short story acceptance The first of this year

Exciting that the first act of what I’m writing next is in some readers hands. Feedback is key here as there’s a lot of ideas going on in this one

Bowie’s “Low” on the stereo Hey, that rhymes..

Sent a bunch of agent queries out over the weekend for my psychological crime thriller Some quick rejections (which I always appreciate) but now begins the waiting game

🎬 We’re crowdfunding JITTERS a thriller/horror film now in final post-production! Filming’s done. Help us finish editing and bring it to life! please share! Or Come and join the family! Check out the JITTERS TRAILER! www.indiegogo.com/projects/jit...

New writing project off to a good start after the weekend But fuck me, it gets DARK

Give your local metalhead a hug today We need it

Farewell Ozzy you mad fucker, and thanks for everything! I can still remember the first time heard the song “Black Sabbath” at around age 12 and your voice scared the shit out of me and at the same time I became utterly enthralled. Go well, and party with Lemmy and Randy

Spending Sunday evening watching Dickey Betts shred, is a good way to spend an evening

Full manuscript request sent off. I’m really proud of this weird fever dream of a book and I hope it find it’s home. Go forth, weird little book about pain, grief and misplaced power!

Wolf At The Table by Adam Rapp is vying for my one of my favourite books of the year so far. But goddamn, it’s bleak…..

It’s a Downward Spiral kind of Saturday

First official rejection today Onwards!

New horror novel on the go, I'm quite fond of the title too. Normally a title is one of the last things I get to, but this one just felt right from the get go. Hoping to get this done within a few months. #TheBonesBeneathTheSkin

May have gone an accidentally written a poem… open.substack.com/pub/danielpe...

Finally…. It’s hard to get to a cinema with the wife when you have an elderly dog that’s needs constant watching Plus I have Dolby Vision and Atmos at home !!

Please Netflix, put Del Toro’s Frankenstein in theatres Or I shall be disgruntled …. youtu.be/x--N03NO130?...

My names is Dan and I write horror, crime/psychological thrillers and occasionally, sci fi. Underneath this mask that’s riddled with mould is another face, but hopefully it’s friendlier and smell less of dead leaves and old dust

I wrote a story which is up on my Substack that I am incredibly proud of and I would love if more people read it. “Pieces of Our Hearts” is a story about when love, loss, and a lingering spirit find peace in a new home open.substack.com/pub/danielpe...

Newsletter plus free ghost/love story “Pieces of Our Hearts” #writersky open.substack.com/pub/danielpe...

It’s a Tom Petty kind of Friday morning

New short story, “Beneath a Shattering Sky” available here open.substack.com/pub/danielpe...

The problem of having three good books on the go, is that I wish my brain could absorb them all at once ! @sgj.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social #KatherineArden

Never check a writer’s internet history. I just watched twenty minutes of bullhorn lift surgical videos for research 😎😱 Don’t ask ….. #writersky

Finished writing a novel today …. Read more here!! open.substack.com/pub/danielpe...

Paul Giamatti in the “Eulogy” ep of Black Mirror - staggeringly good, as usual

Now his stupid bill is in the bin, can David Seymour throw himself in the bin next..?

Everytime I read a Stewart O’Nan book I am just enamoured by his sense of place and character. Ordinary people going about ordinary lives in ordinary places, but written in a way that draws you in and then inevitably, destroys you ….

An afternoon well spent

Always good to wake up to a full manuscript request