FREE STUFF FREE STUFF FREE STUFF Email [email protected] to get a code for a free download of the audiobook of my modern non-traditional ghost story GHOST OF A MARRIAGE. Did I mention it's FREE? Of course I did. But it's FREE!

TFW something said to me by my own deceased father pops right out of the mouth of the protagonist's father and I realize, oh, *that's* what *this* book is about. Jeez. Another book my therapist will have to read, I bet. Heh.

Memo to self: OK, but what if this book kind of *is* a mirror image of Children of Solitude, but with a completely different emotional flavor, and instead of just being "Jesus I hate the people who raised me and everything they believe" it's more like "I could be mad or I could fix the future"?

A good point as well -- having more kids puts more burden on women, removing them from the work pool and, in the mind of this administration at least, forces them into subservient family service. bsky.app/profile/only...

It's hard not to conclude the only reason they want people to have more children is to put them to work in the mines or at some current iteration of an Epstein island. Children as servants, tools, objects. Grotesque.

Sseeing as you all desperately want it to be autumn right now, I suppose it's acceptable to start promoting these 😂 🌈📚💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚💙📚🪐♠️🌈📚 Angel's Mass: books2read.com/angelsmass Bronze Carriage: books2read.com/bronzecarriage James Hotel: mybook.to/jameshotel Spooky S'weird: books2read.com/salmonweirder

TFW one has an idea for the WIP and one thinks, “Oh, that is so fucked up (complimentary),” and then ten seconds later one thinks, “no, that is SO fucked up (condemning).”

No, Facebook, I do not want to join that group devoted to life choices/hobbies/interests/fandoms I find anathema to who I am as a person. Christ already.

Hey #Hopepit! I'm Olivia Wylie. I write about ways to climb out of the dark under the pen name O.E. Tearmann, and on today's theme: ta da! I run both a VERY big collaborative list of solarpunk books and a positive future review blog. Got a book? Add it here! www.oetearmann.com/positive-boo...

"The pages, ancient but resilient, were blank. All that effort, all that cruelty, and what had I found? That the secret is there is no secret, that the collected wisdom of humankind is as empty as the space between frozen stars. I think that's what drove the gods mad." #HorrorWritersChat

That the only meaning in life is that which we make, and the less it's *about* ourselves the more it means. The big ripples in the pond come from what we do for others. Why is that terrible? Because we're all lazy as hell and addicted to shortcuts. Just ask Charles Dexter Ward. #HorrorWritersChat

Embossed in gold on the cover of a book containing forbidden and disastrous lore. Why? Because it would make people (well, me, anyway) so incredibly eager to open it. Terrible Truths are always the Chekov's Gun. Why dawdle? Let's crack that thing open and get eldritch already! #HorrorWritersChat

OK, I know, it's on me I missed #HorrorWritersChat yesterday, but I love it so much I'm doing it 18 hours late. Sorry! I'm Michael, I write queer cosmic and supernatural horror. My seal is the Elder Sign, for sure. I have a tattoo of one. Wait, am I the Terrible Truth? Is it protecting me or y'all?

#Booksky In honor of Catherine Lundoff’s upcoming reading at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis on 11/12, and in recognition of the numerous glowing scammy emails we’re getting about it, may we recommend her collection OUT OF THIS WORLD? Queer fantasy and sf short stories! books2read.com/b/3J88zg

NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown. The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:

C'est si bon! I translated my short story to French. Yes my tutor of 5 years reviewed my work but still MY HARD WORK! Find the English version in my upcoming release, THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE AND OTHER WORDS TO DIE FOR, coming April 21, 2026! More French translations on the way!

Only 8 days until the start of Year 4 Part 2 with seven new queer books! Check out the author interviews at the link below! #lgbtqbooks #lgbtqsciencefiction #lgbtqfantasy #Newrelease #queerbooks #BackerKit #campaign #sapphic #achillean www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I just read @jameslsutter.bsky.social's "Make of Your Chest a Place for Birds" in the latest issue of @wnwagner.bsky.social's NIGHTMARE magazine and good GODS what a story. I want to go find a quiet spot and stare into space for a while. A perfect depiction of grieving and of being alive.

Live on your feet, not on your knees.

[Dick Cheney on his way to hell] My belief is I will, in fact, be greeted as a liberator

Autumn is a good time to start reading The Wolf and the Wild King. It's an autumn book, the dying of the year cycling into winter: www.kvj.ca/wolf.html A land of forest and a great lake, an assassin sent to investigate a murder, a mysterious warrior reborn from a place of sacrifice. Also a dragon.

Loads of great stuff in case you missed it.

...has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

When November rolls around and people start talking "the Holidays" but you're still in spooky mode.

If I recycled some of my topics from @arcanecarolinas.bsky.social (including some that just won’t ever make the cut as an episode) and called it like Folklore Fridays and posted a legend or myth or other obscure and strange story from the Carolinas on that day, would that be of interest?

1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters 2. Don't get distracted from point one 3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage 4. Don't be old as fuck. Go forth and do likewise

Something I see over and over again is that writers who are confident in their art and compassionate in their life see other writers as colleagues, not competition. The contrapositive (did I get that right?) is also true: those who think other writers are competition are neither confident nor kind.

1/? #Invisiblesaftetynets And my own. I worked full time, ran the Press, wrote, taught and was a caregiver, first for my mother, then my wife for most of the last 12 years. My safety net has been a series of IT jobs, support from friends and Patreon and Ko-fi supporters and from my wife’s family.

Congrats to all!

You can use the code HALLOWEEN on my kofi!! ko-fi.com/kiennwrites/...

ENDS TOMORROW!! GET MY GAY LOBOTOMY HORROR BOOK FOR FREE Dove's Eyes: trans body horror, religious trauma, hidden ciphers i need readers and reviewers and its free on my kofi for halloweekend!! 🩸📚🌈

Just got one of these yesterday. As usual, if it sounds too good to be true, it’s almost certainly a scam.

OMG YES. Thank you, @benmonreal.bsky.social, for the kind words and the thoughtful review!

I have to say, someone posting on FB that they don't see the point of The Headless Horseman because "it's not real horror" is a hilarious new low in gatekeeping hot takes.

Did you know the North Carolina legislature once included an accused werewolf? Join Michael & Charlie on a historical deep-dive into one of the strangest political history stories in the state! (As a bonus, they & Tally talk fairy stones!) arcane-carolinas.libsyn.com/ac-00139-001... #northcarolina

You've got fewer than 48 hours to register for the @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social Fall Conference! www.ncwriters.org/programs/con... #writingcommunity

If it's more likely that voters will turn out in years when big name races are on the ballot, why are so many cities, towns, and villages in North Carolina holding their biggest elections during off-years? Here's your answer: www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-north-...

Nothing like reading a really bad dinosaur novel to energize my desire to get my own dinosaur novels onto paper. Spite is a hell of a stimulant.

Great explainer from the NC Attorney General on what's happening with SNAP and why it's an illegal power move from the current administration. There's a lawsuit happening in the next 2 days: www.youtube.com/shorts/EskIU...

Remember to buy from indie authors and bookstores, folks.

I've gotten 11 "book club" scam emails today alone, and the day is barely half over. I can only imagine what bigger-deal writers are dealing with. Good grief. #writingcommunity

Love folklore so this was such an especially fun #HorrorWritersChat (even if I could only attend belatedly, a ghost late to the haunt). Here’s one of my favorite short stories I’ve ever published, inspired by changeling lore + Grimm’s The Nixie of the Mill Pond. corvidqueen.com/stories/fles...

Thank you; @erynmccee.bsky.social ! As always, I rush to remind people my queer Appalachian cosmic horror novel CHILDREN OF SOLITUDE is available all over! www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children... #HorrorWritersChat

Possession by the dead. Poltergeists are fine, and friendly ghosts are fine, and tape recorders and “orb” photos and whatnot are all fine. But I want wicked spirits eager to carjack the living to do evil deeds. #HorrorWritersChat

The old will manifest itself via the new: an app that drains our life force, a self-driving car of the dead, a ghost transmitting packetized EVPs over the network. Any tool invented by the world of daylight will be taken up and wielded by the creatures of night. #HorrorWritersChat

The doppelgänger/evil twin/mirror self. I get that we see doubles of people for mundane reasons of cognition & statistics & dumb luck. But I have more than once met a stranger convinced they knew me & able to describe a life/self I’d neither lived nor been. THAT terrified me. #HorrorWritersChat

Hey hey! I’m Michael, I write queer cosmic & supernatural horror. Mine: recurring childhood nightmares of being in a battle, exhausted, surrounded, unable to lift my weapon or move my legs. Fifteen years ago a card reader told me in a past life I died in hand-to-hand combat. #HorrorWritersChat

Good morning from Salem, who is slowly sinking into her bed. I, too, do not want to get out of bed. But here we are.

I will probably be a little insufferable about this book. It's my birthday in less than four hours. I really want this new collection to find readers, and for those readers to be you. I mean... look at it. Think how good it will look on your shelf. The cover artist is a guest at WFC in a few days!

Hand to gods, the most annoying thing in the world is responding STOP to a fundraising text and getting a message assuring me I will get no further texts. Why do they think I want MORE messages, even confirming ones?