wrapped up the 1st draft of my 5th book last night. now it's banished to the drawer while I do the final round of edits on my 3rd book. returning to a work after a break puts a lot of light on both the good and the bad #fiction #horror #writing #writingcommunity #horrorwriters #editing

I'm Joe and I write sci-fi / horror mashups. Volunteering for a brain implant would require some serious circumstances. No interest in a situation where someone else's hand is on the steering wheel. #HorrorWritersChat

The unexpected outcomes, the loss of autonomy, misplaced trust and betrayal, pain, physical and mental failure. The relationship dynamic between the patient and the medical community invites terrifying and horrific situations. #HorrorWritersChat

The fine print at the bottom of the form burned against my retinas. Minor side effects. I wadded the form and wiped the blood off my face and looked at the ruined body on the floor. #HorrorWritersChat

The Cold War X Time Travel When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

MYTH, MUSE, MAGICIAN A Forbidden Alchemy x The Night Circus x Peaky Blinders 💫1920s-tinted grit & glamor 💫Stage Magicians 💫Slow-burn, star-crossed 💫Magical Bootlegging 💫Mental Health Rep 💫Only one trunk👀 #revpit ‘25 Winner #Q #F #RF #QuestPit #agentguide

New project: Those Who Carry My Bones. When the dead god's skeleton her country is built on begins to collapse, a woman must confront her past as part of the organization responsible and reverse the damage, all while falling for a man whose life she accidentally ruined. #questpit #a #f #rf #df #w

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #QuestPit #Q #H

today's novel drafting is scored by Ulcerate #horrorwriting #writingcommunity #HorrorAuthor #skywriters

the bracket tournament was such a cool addition to RevPit! I got blown out in the 1st round, but it was great getting selected to participate! Congrats to the winner! #revpitwaiting #RevPit #RevPitBracket2026

latest read: Beyond the Mark - Kevin Gallant - @kevin-gallant.bsky.social - A redemption tale for a fallen, but not lost, hero. Flynn finds ways to make the right choices, even when they're harder, as he rediscovers himself. Ending leaves the possibility of a sequel. #reading #bookblog #booksky

latest read: Dead Silence - S.A. Barnes - A solid sci-fi and horror mashup. Evil corp? Check. Haunted ship? Check. Strong psychological elements mean a lot of the story happens the MC's head. If that's your flavor of horror, there's a lot to like here #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

Always be closing #RevPitWaiting

I feel like Annie Oakley is ready for some horrific time travel / survival problems

Shriya is a modern MacGyver who can make anything out of anything, but she won't quit the gang she's in, despite the horrible things they do, because they took her in when no one else would

Joe here and I write sci-fi horror, with a dash of the unexplainable. Lately, I've been enjoying the Sworn Soldier Series by Kingfisher. Good folk horror for cold nights #HorrorWritersChat

dual POV, 3rd person close. Keir Danjuma is a micro-bioligist fleeing the galaxy Benoit Adewale is a sadistic criminal tagging along on the same ship Zandrax, Matlalatzin, Wen, and Cannagh are the aliens/demons that are going to play a game with them #revpitwaiting

A microbio engineer running from his past finds himself trapped on an interstellar transport and must find a way to survive with only convicts and demons for companions. #revpitwaiting #horror

latest read: Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman. I worry about books with a lot of hype, but the hype is deserved here. Delightful levels of absurdity but never forgets that it's a book about a human level extinction event told by somebody with some scores to settle #reading #bookblog #booksky

27 Million Parsecs to Hell Keir Danjuma is a bio-engineer who thinks he can escape his past by leaving the galaxy, but four aliens, or maybe they're demons, have decided he needs to play a game with them first 👺👹👽☣️🧬🌌🚀 #agentguide #A #H #SF

once again #revpit is upon us! A lot more interest in horror this year than some of the prior ones #WritingCommunity #RevPit2026 #horrorbooks

latest read: Crypt of the Moon Spider - Nathan Ballingrud - beautiful and weird. It's on the shorter side, so you can lay down in the language and spend some quality time with it while it burrows into your brain #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

latest read: Into Neon - Matthew A. Goodwin - @thutoworld.bsky.social . Old fashioned cyberpunk. No surprises, but well done. More body augs than some other offerings and no punches pulled on the violence that requires new body parts. #reading #bookblog #booksky #cyberpunk

this is a great way to find more people in the horror community

two weeks of grinding out edits, but finally got last year's space horror into the hands of some beta readers. it's still rough but they're doing me a solid and putting eyes on it #fiction #horror #writing #writingcommunity #horrorwriters #editing

latest read: Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix. slow build and then the horror went from a 2 to a 9 in about a chapter. stayed pretty relentless for the rest of the book #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

latest read: All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe - 3rd Miyabe book I've read. Just as quirky as the others. I really liked the ending, not expected. #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

well, hello there Clockwork Orange, it's been a while. We're not quite to moloko vellocet yet, but it feels like 2026 is going to be the year we see caffeinated milk in schools

1st read of '26: Not a Speck of Light - Laird Barron - @lairdbarron.bsky.social - 'Blood in My Mouth' and 'Tiptoe' were exceptional. All around solid horror short stories, with some overlap (big fan). All of them Alaska winter bleak. #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

finished the ugly 1st draft for the new WIP. faster, but messier than the one I finished back in March. guess we'll see how the edits go #fiction #horror #writing #writingcommunity #horrorwriters #editing

passed 30k on the new WIP over the weekend. 1st draft feels close #writingcommunity #HorrorAuthor #skywriters

watched Fatman this weekend and was blown away by Walter Coggins ("Skinny Man"). Every line, every action was malice and menace. Such an efficient depiction of villainy. it was amazing #villains #movies #writing #horrorwriting

latest read: no one will come back for us - premee mohammed - ‪@premeemohamed.com. A fun collection of (often cosmic) horror short stories. I really enjoyed that several touched the same shared world from a few different angles. The Evaluator was my fave #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

(next to) latest read: The Sleeping Dragon - Miyuki Miyabe. This was a weird mystery. What was an otherwise straightforward mystery included a couple of psychics. I don't run across a lot of speculative elements in mysteries. Fascinating. #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

finished Nov. @ 22k on the new WIP. There's a solid chance I can finish the 1st draft by the end of the year #writingcommunity #HorrorAuthor #skywriters

I'm very sad to share the news that our lovely @chaoticauthor.online has passed away. His ending was peaceful and surrounded with love but came far too quickly after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. I've known Matt for years. He was a warm, gentle, generous, all-weather friend. I miss him.

settling in for an end of the month writing sprint with Blut Aus Nord - "Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses" #horrorwriting #amwriting #wip

finally broke 15k words on the new book. it still feels like a slog, but it's moving faster than the last one #writingcommunity #HorrorAuthor #skywriters

latest read: In a Lonely Place - Dorothy Hughes - A nice piece of noir. The time and place are familiar to fans of Raymond Chandler, but the author tells it from the POV of an emotionally unstable vet with no boundaries. #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

Hopefully, it's an A24 production. Otherwise, it's awkward when I call out their awesomeness. Frank Miller's name might sneak in for Sin City's contribution to contemporary noir and adding monsters to the mix #HorrorWritersChat

Bourbon, dim sum, and bloody red velvet cake. The booze and blood flow. And everyone likes dim sum #HorrorWritersChat

Hugo Weaving is Weird Rey (antag). He radiates maniacal menace. The protag is tougher. I would need a young, charming meathead. #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Joe and I write sci-fi horror. For the vibes, Blue Velvet and The Devil Conspiracy. One starts normal and takes it to an absurd extreme. The other is an absurd premise and gets told straightforward. That transition between normal and absurd is what I love and try to bring #HorrorWritersChat

my two favorite fake AI words of the day - volating and runctious. FWIW, I'm going to try and spend the rest of my day volating, possibly in a runctious manner #writing #horrorwriters #damnyouai

latest read: This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances - Eric LaRocca - @ericlarocca.bsky.social . Not my usual flavor of horror, but I enjoyed it. My fave - "All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn". A weird tale of obsession. #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

Visiting? Elisa. Not my absolute favorite, but easily the most fun. Some of those others ... not so fun. #HorrorWritersChat

My current WIP has some flavors of Alien, Hellraiser, old sci-fi, and Asian myths. #HorrorWritersChat

I have to have something to drink and something for the noise. Right now, that tends to be endless coffee and metal, both black. Headphones let me keep it to myself. #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Joe and I write sci-fi and horror. The room would have a door to a balcony that overlooked a wooded lake. #HorrorWritersChat

latest read: Corpsemouth - John Langan - (almost) cozy cosmic horror where characters are often at peace with the outcome. In the same vein as his book The Fisherman. Anchor, Outside the House, Watching for the Crows, and Mirror Fishing are the standouts. #reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks