#HorrorWritersChat I'm currently working on #🩸⛪WIP, my religious horror that includes all these delicious tropes- 🩸Vampire x priest ⛪Arranged marriage 🩸Corruption arc ⛪Forbidden love (and lust) 🩸Trans vampire ⛪Chronic illness rep 🩸Lots of murder 😈

They said I didn't have to go and see the body. Patted my arm and reassured me there was no blood. It didn't look like you had suffered. Instead: skin like marble, cold and hard, a frozen beauty. Worse, somehow. As if you'd never lived at all. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat If you want to read FOG OVER MONS, my WWI cosmic horror story about the Angels of Mons, here's the link. It appears in WICKED TALES: THE JOURNAL OF THE NEW ENGLAND HORROR WRITERS VOL. 3 (2015). Enjoy! www.amazon.com/Wicked-Tales...

I’m doing a small campaign for my eco-horror “Monoculture” for the Locus Awards! Check out the links in the alt text of the image. :) Also, try the #QueerWritersChat on Friday! Not horror, but I have my fantasy novel Mage By Blood on Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1453 #HorrorWritersChat

Those were some lovely questions, #HorrorWritersChat and I'm glad I made it this time! I'll share the things, as requested. >.> My first novel is out, it is a horror fantasy about hungry shadows, monsters, trauma and monsters with trauma. You can find it many places: books2read.com/b/WealdandWen

#HorrorWritersChat I've a story in Tales From The Moonlit Path ezine. And I have a book out, CORPSE ROAD BLUES. A ghastly collection of ghost stories. (link in my bio) talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/wh...

Thanks, Eryn! I'll promo this interview I conducted with the terrific @ivygrimes.bsky.social : frolicpress.substack.com/p/in-convers... I also have a new collection. Kindle is here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GM9FDSKW Paperback is out April 21. (It's better in print!) #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Do you like Lovecraft or creepy or gross or people writing letters? Do you like me? If you answered 'yes' to any of those, you can get The Boddicker Letters right here, right now! www.amazon.com/Boddicker-Le...

Thanks for having me for another #HorrorWritersChat. All of my work can be found for free on my ko-fi. I'm currently working on some longer stories that will go on there as well. Stay Spooky, everybody ko-fi.com/thelastsomet...

Mediterranean Gothic. Work in Flash Fiction Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Flash Phantoms. Stories forthcoming in Black Sheep (Hobb’s End Press, 2026). More at ausiastsel.substack.com #HorrorWritersChat

Thank you Eryn and #HorrorWritersChat people. This time of year makes us grateful for a warm place to sleep and turns our thoughts to those who don’t. This charity anthology (which includes my story “A Tall, Thin House”) benefits women and children experiencing homelessness.

Thanks for doing this! 🖤 I have a novelette out next week in this anthology: www.amazon.co.uk/Cthulhu-Cymr... It's weird, queer, and kinda soggy. #HorrorWritersChat

There's definitely a section coming up in my WIP I'm approaching with trepidation. The MC's girlfriend is going to do something well-intentioned but pretty awful to her, and I wonder if I'll be able to reconcile them convincingly. #HorrorWritersChat

I write about grief a lot (no surprise, I write a lot of ghost stories) and when I've lost people in real life, I've often felt that I'm not grieving "correctly" because I need to stay active. That fear of judgement definitely helps draw me back to the subject. #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Jess. I write dark fantasy and weird/gothic inflected stuff, often influenced by Welsh mythology and history because, well, that's where I'm from. My stuff tends to be very watery, which I'm sure also has something to do with growing up here. #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks to Carson Winter and PLM for having me on their podcast to gossip about fairy tales and stuff!

Introvert life goals.

The book club scam has taken an exciting new leap forward. I got one today from a "curated literary platform and newsletter" that, unusually, offered a link to its website. I'm in edits, so obviously I took the opportunity to procrastinate. /1

"Be yourself! Write the stories only you can tell!" Sure, I can do that. "But nothing too dark, and it had damn well better have a happy ending!" Well dude, make your mind up, you can't have both.

Can't mangle kids' limbs at their 12 hour shift at the mill that destroyed their family's livelihood any more, coz of woke

The contempt these people have for places they deem provincial as soon as those places refuse to be symbolic vehicles for white populism

"Reform want to close your local nursing course because they're having an online argument with some 19-year-olds about woke", a real vote winner

While I'm on a roll, if you know or ARE an agent or publisher looking for a dark/horror fantasy with a villain(ish) protagonist, lots of violence, a bleak atmosphere, and the worst trans guy you've ever met, let me know. I'll send it right over.

bloody knight

small crab eating a grape (important)

Spent most of yesterday helping my mum clear out the attic, and today even my collarbone aches. Don't turn 40, kids.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

So, I made a little digital horror film on my phone with photos I took around my apartment building 😌

The Ancillary Review of Books anti-billionaire promise:

We are delighted to announce that our ebooks are now available through Bookshop.org in the USA. American readers, go forth and support your local bookstores!

One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"

Every day I try to reshare the post Khalil sent me yesterday, and it's deleted. It makes me so angry. Palestinians can't secure a presence here. Their only option is to message other people asking them to post on their behalf.

It’s Black History Month in the US and LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK. I’m a citizen of both, and I have a book that’s both Black and queer, like me.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Three stories to get to know my writing Quote & share your own 1. The Charcoal Sovereign at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the... 2. Crumpled at @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... 3. The Ballad of Easy Deaths at @3lobedmag.com www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

I'd like to see ppl support UBI rather than use AI as an answer to income and time resource inequality. I grew up extremely poor and AI would not have been the solution for my economic and housing instability.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

I’m allowed to talk about this now, so: CTHULHU CYMRAEG: THE NIGHT COUNTRY will be out on Feb 16th! Five novelettes interpreting Lovecraftian themes from a Welsh point of view. Ebook pre-orders are up now, paperbacks to follow shortly. amzn.eu/d/09yEM2f5

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

#SFFChat Thanks! I'd love it if people would share this sapphic itch book bundle. 22 books for $22! One of mine is in there 😁 bsky.app/profile/orma...

Thin Skin We've got brand new fiction this week - taken from the next Wyldblood Magazine. It's here two months early - and for free! Thin Skin By M. Luke McDonell When the small fire started exactly in the right place, when the sprinklers failed to activate, when the entire robot manufacturing…

Thank you for doing this (and fuck ICE)! In terms of sharing, if wintry gaslamp fantasy's up your street, you can find my serial over on my site for free (along with a whole pile of side stories and worldbuilding for the same 'verse because why the hells not): saranadosfiction.com/2023/12/11/a...

I would to have some early readers, if anyone is interested.

#SFFChat Outro. Thanks for hosting, Steve (and fuck ICE)! Today, I'd like to share this purr-fect drawing of Sareena as a cat that @nushdeco.bsky.social gifted me yesterday 😻 bsky.app/profile/nush...

I don't know that I need it shared, because I'm not marketing the book right now, but I'm still happy with how this video turned out and it's on-theme!

#SFFChat From the novel I'm querying atm. The River is where the dead go -- part afterlife, part hungry god.

Yes. Much more, as I've done a fair bit of cli fi. My novel, which will be published this year, is set in a weirdly parched Northern England in the middle of a drought. I often focus on the psychological effects of enduring extreme heat, both the hostility it provokes and the apathy. #SFFChat

Some that I've adored: The Left Hand of Darkness by LeGuin, Dark Matter by Michelle Paver and the BBC series The Terror. #SFFChat

some thoughts about how we talk about the concept of fate in stories and why this has always unnerved me www.patreon.com/posts/destin...