hanging out at a sword fighting barbecue a sparbecue

Portlanders, heads up! I'll be visiting Always Here bookstore on my tour for The Works of Vermin, Saturday Oct 18th at 7 pm, to chat with Caitlin Starling withfriends.co/event/237660...

THE LUMINOUS DEAD is also part of this! party like its 2019 I guess

October events listing going out soon to my very infrequent newsletter list, sign up if you want it early (compared to whenever I get around to posting it elsewhere) www.caitlinstarling.com/newsletter

I had a lot of fun designing this and you can have a copy of it for your spooky fridge/cork-boards!

also how in the world does this come out less than a month from now. why is time. also also, if we get enough preorders, we get to call in help packing them (I’m helping pack them) and help will get sparkly med vial color change potion bottles. so preorder for the helpers’ sake, too.

PREORDER CAMPAIGN TIME for The Graceview Patient! If you’re in the US and order from my local spooky media store, Midslumber Media, you’ll not only get a signed copy of the book shipped to you (or available for pick up if you’re local), you’ll also get @miavern.bsky.social art and…

wrote up my whole October event schedule, starting to think I might’ve made mistakes. 😬 but everything on the list is just so good!! (finalizing one more time and then I’ll share)

Bugs 🐝 🐞 🪲

If you haven't read A GAME IN YELLOW can I recommend you stop everything you're doing right fucking now & get your hands on it? It's hot and terrifying and shockingly tender and I read it in a single sitting, and the only thing I don't love about it is that it's over. bookshop.org/a/13492/9781...

we joke that with my black overdress I should just make my renfair persona a doctor, so we’ve added a piss bottle* *filled with delicious lemonade

hell yeah.

Usually I wait until release day, but due to scheduling conflicts, I’m getting my Graceview Patient tattoo today.

Started reading Starving Saints by @caitlinstarling.com for the horror but stayed for the "will they wont they", unhinged and yearning desire

October 22nd at 7pm at @bluehousebooks.bsky.social join us for - THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT: Caitlin Starling in conversation with Cynthia Pelayo RSVP is required at the link below. www.blue-house-books.com/events/35263...

Our new episode on 2010's dark fantasy mockumentary "Trollhunter" w/ guest award-winning horror author Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com is now out! See her links in the episode description. Podbean: bit.ly/47uQzCa Apple: bit.ly/485wMte Spotify: bit.ly/468rVVv iHeart: bit.ly/3JYwoCJ #horrorsky

We have a new episode with a new special first time guest dropping tomorrow morning (Mountain time zone). Here's a hint for the movie we discuss:

excuse me what

Ooh, wishlist alert!! NZ Kobo has both Absolution @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and Starving Saints @caitlinstarling.com on sale for $7 NZD, if you were waiting to read those!

State of The Book Sale. No idea how long the libro fm sale will last. The bees are eternal.

THE STARVING SAINTS audiobook is on sale at libro fm!!! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

can confirm this is still active! Every US ebook seller I checked has the 1.99 price still.

One of my favourite books this year is on sale for less than three dollars American: @caitlinstarling.com's The Starving Saints: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... Read it: it's fucking great.

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

My fellow authors outside the US! My brethren! Behold and rejoice, for it seems we can *also* sue Anthropic.

yelling forever this is P E R F E C T

the girls from The Starving Saints based on that one twelfth night photo, you know the one 🐝 #TheStarvingSaints #art

if no one ever burned another American flag they'd just loop old footage of flag burnings and call Democrats the flag burning party as long as they thought that might get them a vote. stop pretending reality matters and start playing the damn game.

This twisted tale from @caitlinstarling.com grabbed me by the short hairs. What a work! A claustrophobic fever dream of hunger, desire, and despair. Inventive, imaginative, yet seemingly inevitable. A virtuosic feat of horror. Wow.

I am deeply DESPERATE for some permanent and long lasting consequences for hateful awful people. Like anytime now would be amazing

Certain books and authors tend to be platformed pretty loudly so in times like these, I will be LOUDER. This is HORROR--these are HORROR stories

The Starving Saints (@caitlinstarling.com): A mad medieval vortex of personalities, powers, obligation, fealty, independence, domination. Dangerous cravings for knowledge. Fae at their most alien. And so, so much cannibalism. Leaves a thousand things deliciously unexplained. Fantastic. #BookSky 📚

I would also be fine hiring this out but my budget is tiny. 😅

app recommendation for something to combine two photos? (working on a little collage-y thing for Graceview Patient promo and I am so out of my depth)

Go preorder WHY I LOVE HORROR. It’s phenomenal and Becky is a bright light, beautiful soul who does so much for this community.

my first "if u want an ass kicking" post was just about exactly 10 years ago. i don't post them any more because if you want an ass kicking in 2024 you can go try to buy a car or some food

does somebody other than me remember the guy who would post like “come to the Denny’s parking lot at 6:23 pm if you want an ass kicking”

Worldcon folks! Come to room 429 at 6:30 to hear @kurellian.bsky.social (and perhaps! me!) read some stuff!!

I have arrived! Find me at the Book Bin for a signing at 1:30, or around generally!

I ride at dawn* for Worldcon. *ten minutes before actual first light in case of bad traffic

“Vividly written and even more vividly characterised, THE STARVING SAINTS has the aesthetics of horror but the catharsis of fantasy.” @hawkwinglb.bsky.social reviews new work from @see_starling (@caitlinstarling.com)

We’re excited to announce the acquisition of @macey.bsky.social 's BLOOD OF QUEENS, a gothic historical fantasy featuring Tudor-inspired court intrigue, necromancy, and an audacious heist. For fans of M. A. Carrick’s The Mask of Mirrors and Holly Race's Six Wild Crowns, this hits shelves Spring ’27!

i mean, there's a reason every authoritarian regime makes identical demands! the truth simply never justifies mass incarceration, deportation, imperialist aggression, etc. lying isn't just something they do for vanity or cruelty--it's essential to the project!

i finished the starving saints last night & it was everything i have ever wanted & much, much more. honey & viscera. beautiful & grotesque. truly a marvel can't wait for the graceview patient!!

A GAME IN YELLOW is out today! 💛 Join Carmen, Blanca, and Smoke as the hunt to spice things up in the bedroom takes a maddening turn when the cursed play The King in Yellow becomes a misused toy in my queer erotic cosmic horror, new from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social 🎉 As always, make horror gay AF!

This thread - it's just... there's a lot of FEELS here. Good feels. The sort we need to hold onto with both hands.

these two

My Worldcon schedule is small and unofficial. Both things on the Friday only. BOOK BIN SIGNING - 1:30 pm and… perhaps come to @kurellian.bsky.social’s reading at 6:30. 😎

A thing not often mentioned here is one of the things OpenAI is trying to take away is community. Having experts beyond yourself — and professionals and friends and family and and and — means interacting with them, enforcing community. This attempts (poorly, thankfully) to diminish and destroy that.

Reading through next year’s rancid vampire book and it is shockingly good. Might actually be good at this writing thing? More study needed.