Fantastic narrator (Dominic Hoffman) for James by Percival Everett. Great book. Listened to it at 1:1 so I could savor it. Within a chapter I knew I should have picked it up a long time ago. Another author for the “must read everything they’ve written list.” app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

Today is the 14 year anniversary of my stroke! This book, dedicated to the 3 clots that tried to kill me, was started while I was still in the hospital. My daughter was in second grade when she saved my life. I’m a Little Brain Dead. Happy birthday to you!

TY, Mary! These are so wonderful & glad to see women highlighted!! 💛 I’d like to promo my editing sale for women. Now until April 15, women who schedule can receive a great discount! On the homepage, I’m also running a series on women in horror & history. hookofabook.wordpress.com/editing/

Did you get a mailer from “Californians for a More Transparent something something???? DO NOT look them up to see who backs them DO NOT ask why they can’t get the signatures themselves DO NOT ask what is has to do with billionaires. Whew. Close one.

It’s Tuesday which is my Friday whatcha reading this weekend?

It's looking like the national book ban HR 7661 could get out of committee. The next action around it is on Tuesday, so there's still time. If your Rep is listed below, call them today! Then get two members of your community (neighbor, family friend) to call them too!

Time to support the @locusmag.bsky.social 2026 fundraiser! There's one signed copy left of THIS BRUTAL MOON! Locus is an essential fixture of the science fiction community. Pledge, buy, subscribe, and show the love!

Almost St Patrick’s Day- I’ve had the same phone number since I lived on the east coast and it’s one digit off the number of the Irish pub in my hometown. If I get any interesting calls I’ll let you know. Every once in a while someone has called looking for someone. 😬

Thanks Erin! Since we’re talking wildlife today, my collection Next Door has tentacled terrors and earwigs by the thousands, and Revolve includes many critters in those stories, like the lovely, meaty snails I mentioned. 🐌🐌🐌. #horrorwriterschat kimberlydavisbasso.bigcartel.com/product/next...

The dog, the cat, and the goldfish were all staring at the same spot, just over my shoulder. Q4 #horrorwriterschat

Oh it’s such a trope but I think the slow death of being made a meal of, no matter the critter… Q3 #horrorwriterschat

I spend my days working for wildlife so I adore this question! For my writing I tend toward the tentacled and I also have a great fondness for snails. Had no idea so many folks are freaked out by them. For horror in general, crows. Super smart, super cool, friend or foe. 🐦‍⬛ Q2 #horrorwriterschat

Hello, #horrorwriterschat I’m Kimberly Davis Basso, I write horror that sneaks up on you, and the ocean plays into a lot of my work. Q1

Tuesday is my Friday so here’s a Friday play: Birds have spectacular names. If you were a bird, what would you be called?

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. I’m sharing this because every copy counts and helps me sell the next one! A Caribbean nightmare filled with monsters, friendship, santería, and murder. (45% off!) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

today is my writing day so while I won’t be able to join you #horrorwriterschat I will be in the spirit of the thing 🖤

I am off to enjoy the blue sky between storms. Here’s my favorite palm tree heart. 💚

Hello #horrorwriterschat I’m Kimberly Davis Basso, I write that sneaks up on you; my scariest dreams all revolve around worrying about people I love. I have also woken in a panic only to still be in a dream and woken from that with relief. Q1

Im so honored to be nominated with writers ive long admired !!!! Thank y'all for the love for KOA!! www.latimes.com/events/festi...

Wow, honored to have Buffalo Hunter Hunter here in TWO categories:

Prints are a great way to support human artists- I was able to get a few from @warpsol.bsky.social and I love them- Coffee Bot and Plant Bot are the only bots I’m interested in!

It’s #FridayReads on Friday the 13th! Let’s share books. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a little boricua monster full of vengeance, friendship, bad decisions, murder, Santería, and ghosts. (45% off!) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

Thanks, Gabino! THE EL is 26% off right now — only 12.50 — checkitout: www.amazon.com/El-Theodore-...

So I am delayed, even as the host: I had to read to 8 and then to 11! Thank goodness for the new draft posts that I set up earlier on. So, hi, I'm Eryn, and I mostly write supernatural and psychological horror. I like to look at the edges of wrongness. #HorrorwritersChat

At the risk of repeating my last answer, my research requires reading a lot of horrific stuff and I have to take breaks because it is frankly too much. Q3 #horrorwriterschat

I have a novel length story that weaves many things happening right now and as happens when I am writing very close to reality I have to take breaks, because my research makes me sick. Q2 #horrorwriterschat

Greetings #HorrorWritersChat I'm Mary from Greater Manchester (UK), where I write cosmic, gothic, and Weird horror with themes of transformation, sacrifice, revenge, and acceptance. I'm drawn to these subgenres because they allow me to explore my themes in deeper, stranger ways. Plus: tentacles.

Hi there #HorrorWritersChat! I’m A.C. and I write a wide variety of horror. I love it all so much, I try not to limit myself to one subgenre or anything. I think that’s one of the things that draws me to horror: the creativity and flexibility of horror. Also the escapism.

#HorrorWritersChat My name is Rosé Black. I write horror and horror comedy. What draws me to it? Humor in tense times, I suppose.

Hello #horrorwriterschat I’m Kimberly, I am drawn to horror because there are questions I have that cannot be explored through my humor writing. Q1

There’s a prompt on my book challenge called “Book Interrupted” for a book that you start, stop, repeat & for me that’s pretty much everything I’ve tried to read in the past year. StoryGraph is a great alternative to big retailers who want to track your “puppy.” app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

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I am writing again. It’s been so long but the words are back.

2300 word special little Halloween horror story feels like it might be done. We’ll have to see. Yes I am thinking about Halloween in February isn’t everyone?

Just got word a fun anthology I worked on is moving forward- can’t wait to share my little springtail story with art by the excellent @cuttledreams.bsky.social

I need to write for a spell on a spell I’m writing. I love english. #wordnerd

Most of my characters are not lovely people and basically treat the body as a takeout container for bone and sinew, or a means to carrying around an unreliable brain. Cravings are also problematic. #horrorwriterschat Q3

My stories have a tight focus & characters are often trapped in some way. There’s never room my tales for every last detail, I know what they are, exactly how the characters move through the space, each room, the layout, furniture, the light, temperature, ambient sounds. Q2 #horrorwriterschat

Hey #horrorwriterschat I’m Kimberly. I don’t think about sub genres too much, feels like they slice things too thin. I want to be in the “Staff Pick” category in bookstores, that’s the shelf I go for first. The Yellow Wallpaper and The Exorcist for stories in a house. Q1

Lindsey Vonn is gonna compete in the Olympics with a torn ACL and i can’t get off the couch from under my cat.

Saw this and thought oh there’s something I haven’t used as a bookmark.

The office today.

Authors I revisited in 2025: I revisited a lot of authors in 2025. See any favorites? Angeline Boulley Andrea Rogers Pedro Íñiguez Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Emily Dickinson Alice Feeney Bradley Upton Agatha Christie Sadie Hartman Louis Sachar 1/2

NE friends hope you all are able to keep warm and you had help with your driveway. I miss a lot but I don’t miss shoveling.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long this sale will last. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Quick question everyone - how is your handbasket? Comfy? Smaller than expected? Surprised there are so many of us taking the trip?

A national general strike is needed not just to protest the violence, but to acknowledge the absurdity that we’re all just supposed to carry on with our stupid little daily lives amidst the ambient terrorism of an unchecked state militia executing innocent people in the streets of our country.

The lemonade stand law, when a kid is selling lemonade you buy some.

Stormy weather? Perfect time to read this.

The forecast of “falling iguanas” last year in Miami was waaaaaay better than the current forecast of possible “exploding trees” (when the sap freezes fast).