Fireworks shows should be 90 seconds long because unless you bought your fireworks from Gandalf that is the absolute maximum amount of time that fireworks remain interesting.

My story “Black Hearts and Bloody Murder” is in the new issue of Grimdark Magazine!! This one is set in the world of the dark sword and sorcery novel I’m shopping. Check it out and let me know what you think. www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grim...

My @joshrountree.bsky.social collection is conplete...for now. The others are on my shelves somewhere. Lol.

Hey you. Yeah, you reading this. I hope your July is better than your June. I hope that thing you're worried about works itself out for the best. I hope they text back. I hope you find that $20 you forgot about in a pocket right when you need it most. I just really hope things for you get better.

“Arioch! Arioch! Blood and souls for my Lord Arioch!”

Yes, I talk to myself when I’m watching baseball. But, man, that was a great swing and nobody else cares. 😂

A reminder that I write books, and I have a whole bunch of them here, for anyone who likes to read books, and might be wondering where to order signed copies. 😀

Hello! WORRY BOX is now available on NetGalley!

Tobe Hooper did not shut five people into an un-air-conditioned dining room full of bones and slowly rotting meat in the middle of the Texas summer and film them going insane so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Heard that new Phoebe Bridgers song one time and now I can’t stop singing it.

"It's rule by algorithm that beats to a dead heart. It's a Flock camera on every corner and a Ring doorbell on every home and a frightened family on every block." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-dirty-...

When moving one big paragraph to another part of the scene makes all the difference.

Dropped a guitar pick through the sound hole of my Gibson acoustic and managed to get it right back out again, so I think I may be a witch.

Introduce yourself with your upcoming concerts you’re going to see this year: Phoebe Bridgers They Might Be Giants Menzingers

5 Bands I’ve seen as opening acts: Guns ‘n Roses Pantera Flaming Lips Wilco Type O Negative

I don’t usually like short story collections. But after reading @tjoneswriter.bsky.social Arson by design and @natcassidy.bsky.social I know a place, I feel like I want to read more of these! The next one I’m reading is @rebelsam94.bsky.social Poor Things. What do you all feel about collections?

My Haunted Little Free Library is stocked!! Just picked up a paperback copy of JAWS for summer horror readers

You can now add KILL ME WITH FIRE coming 2027 from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social to your tbr on Goodreads. Note the genre tag, which I love. Nothing more, nothing less. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... Pre-order the hardcover here: shop.shortwavepublishing.com/products/kil...

Hard to overstate how obsessed I was with Encyclopedia Brown when I was a kid.

Sunday morning vibes.

I forget to promote myself sometimes. Bram Stoker Awards® winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered/ Human Monsters was nominated. Co-Owner of the monthly horror subscription service, Night Worms and my book, Feral & Hysterical was released 8/25

Forty years later and I’m still wearing out my original copy!!

I’ve been writing for over twenty years, and am friends with tons of writers, but I still totally geek out when I get an email from one of my formative influences. 💀

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

In heavy rotation right now: The Menzingers, Weird Nightmare, Death, Superdrag.

Something has gone horribly wrong in a civilization that has trillionaires and homeless people

I hate Nazi trillionaires.

Accepted my invite to be a panelist at this year’s @armadillocon.bsky.social in September, and I’m already getting excited for it!!

45 years ago today, ‘RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK’ released in theaters.

Went outside and remembered it’s summer. Ugh.

Not me ordering indie punk records on @discogsofficial.bsky.social again.

Just snagged Phoebe Bridgers tickets for October in Austin!!!

I’m just a guy, refreshing an email inbox, hoping for some publishing news.

It's happening. I'm assembling TRACING THE SHAPE -- my 31-day essay series on John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN -- Into an Honest-to-God Book Proposal. Fellow horror people, if you haven't read these yet and want to help me *Build Buzz* by doing so, here's the link to the whole series.

I will never stop loving the West.

Yes, I’m writing this morning. Get off my case, wouldja?

Bloody Disgusting Best Horror Books of 2025 Shelf Awareness Best Books of the Week Paste Magazine Most Anticipated Horror Books of Summer 2025 CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels Express UK Best 10 Gothic Horror Books to Read This October

Beastly Books is still awesome! And if you’re looking for a signed copy of The Unkillable Frank Lightning, they have one. 🤠

Death is a wind, swift and fleet. So, in a coven you must keep. Seed the mind and offer treat. Communion bread of witch’s meat. KILL ME WITH FIRE @shortwavebooks.bsky.social 2027 Monday: Cover reveal. Pre-orders open at shortwavepublishing.com

In heavy rotation right now: The Posies, Parquet Courts, Camper Van Beethoven, and The English Beat.

Another Simone Tametta dark fantasy artwork from the pages of Grimdark Magazine Issue 46 (April '26). This time depicting an eerie scene from the short story See That My Grave is Kept Clean by @joshrountree.bsky.social Direction by @bethtabler.bsky.social #darkfantasy #fantasyart #GrimdarkFantasy

Oh hey, Santa Fe is still awesome!

And both are highly recommended!

Can confirm there are copies of both my novels at the B&N in Albuquerque! If you live there, please give them a home.

we heard that HUGO VOTING is now open and hey, WE are up for Best Semiprozine!!!!! and and well, we would love your vote 🥹 🙏 🫶 www.lacon.org/hugos/

20% off everything at the @tachyonpub.bsky.social site this weekend, including The Legend of Charlie Fish and The Unkillable Frank Lightning. Go get ‘em!!!

Next weekend, I'll be taking part in Writing the Occult, with an interview at 7:45pm UK/ 2:45pm EST. There's lots of other great interviews, talks, and workshops going on so check it out! writingtheoccult.carrd.co