Friends, I got to see a proof of the forthcoming Tales of Sley House 2025, edited by Lillian Ehrhart, and I CAN'T WAIT for you all to see it! If you're a fan of Creepshow, you're gonna love the inspiration - and the interior - of this anthology. Also, I get to share this TOC with...

It’s Spooky Season and our New in Stock is full to the brim! Get your reading list ready for fall with amazing horror books from @ericlarocca.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @rachelharrison.bsky.social @bitterkarella.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social & more!

During this sapphic September, how about adding a bit of toxic yuri to your diet? Enamoured: A Triptych is a historic, erotic, horror novella about love and makeup and capitalism. Come for the steamy scenes and… well… you know 😉

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Check out these titles we received in the office recently! #Enamoured #Pantomime #MagicForNothing from @lrlam @dawbooks @seananmcguire @hedonebooks @shelleylavigne Check out linktr.ee/locusmagazine#Enamoured#Pantomime#MagicForNothingr all new titles and news in the genre fiction world! Link in bio

We are in the midst of the great de-shrimpening! My tasty tasty friends, when will we be able to eat you once more!?

I’m so tired of apps being like pwetty pwease can you like widdle old me access your data and sell it to my widdle buddies pwomise to be good to it🥺 👉👈

Why had no one told me about how amazing In Fabric is? When a movie has a credit for mannequin pubic hair you KNOW you're in for a wild ride. Extremely bizarre department stores, hypnotic laundry repair men, a very killer dress, what more could you possibly need?

Writing smut is so much more fun than writing anything else. Well except for gory gooshy gross smut. That’s probably peak.

Gimmie a list of your favorite novellas published in the last decade- bonus points if it's not from a major publisher (just finished reading The Flesh of the Sea for my local horror book club and LOVED IT. Now I have a taste for more novellas!)

Three-lobed gave a home to one of my favourite stories of all time (www.3lobedmag.com/issue43/3lbe...) and I will always be grateful for them. They’ve also published some truly incredible work, too many to name in a post. Please support them if you can!

A good time to check out one of my short fiction collections!

#horrorwriterschat Honestly too many to name, so I'll just name the incredible @lormaggot.ca : writer, editor, sharer of good and horrific things. Go pick up a copy of "The Flesh of the Sea" (co-written with @shelleylavigne.bsky.social ) and keep your eyes out for the upcoming "Cosmic Dyke Patrol"

My year long writing dry spell is OVER and wow I’d forgotten how good it feels to really sink into a character filled with idiosyncrasies and strange worlds. I feel ALIVE!

Here and in the flesh! Get issue #62: https://bit.ly/4l6fOxT

I have a story in this!! It’s available for free through the lite version if you want to check it and the other amazing stories out! It’s got some body horror, non linear story telling and hire than usual tongue per capita ratio 👅

Yall queer, heart-felt, body horror, eldritch entities, and more This book makes me so fucking happy You need it Trust me

HAPPY FIRST ANNIVERSARY TO THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF THE FLESH OF THE SEA🥳🐠🐡 (A little bit late but what is time keeping?) Though the waters were rocky and the skies were often covered, it was a grand adventure and I couldn’t have been happier to do it alongside my co-captain @lormaggot.ca

Why is it that every time I start a story thinking “oh this is going to be a fun one” it goes depressing? I might be cursed

I messed up with my library holds and had to go pick up A TON of books. On the bright side, I’ve got plenty of books to chose from now! On the not so bright side, sixteen books is a lot of pressure. Still not sure what the max number of books I can have put at once and I’m scared to find out.

It's been basically a year since THE FLESH OF THE SEA dropped. Despite the difficulties getting this book to print, I'm still immensely proud of myself and @shelleylavigne.bsky.social. To work together with my friend is an experience I wouldn't trade for the world. Wil+Jean 4eva💖

You yearn for the mine, you yearn for the soothing formula of Blanche Skin, but mostly you yearn for ENAMOURED: A TRIPTYCH by @shelleylavigne.bsky.social 💄 Get yours today! #queerpress #hedonebooks #indiehorror

very little beats the feeling of figuring out what is wrong with a project you're working on, putting those changes into effect and realize what you've come up with is even better than you thought it would be!

You can't defend gore, violent, gruesome media without defending sex and erotic media. Both go hand in hand, there's eroticism in the grotesque, theres horror in the sensual. Your "purity" about sex won't save you if you think making war is better than making love

Too shy to sport the bold colour of Radium Rouge? 💄Then grab a copy of ENAMOURED: A TRIPTYCH by @shelleylavigne.bsky.social instead! Find it on our website and everywhere books and sundries are sold. #hedonebooks #queerhorror #queerpress #indiehorror

I hope the dust bunnies under the couch like playing with the cat toys that keep making their way under there

why not get my bestie's new book this NB day!!!

Happy book birthday to me!! 🥳Enamoured: A Triptych is OUT!! My smutty, anti-capitalist, cosmetic horror novella (with three illustrations by the incomparable Becca Snow who also did the cover) has emerged, fresh faced and ready to make you blush!

Happy book birthday to the wonderful @shelleylavigne.bsky.social !!

@shelleylavigne.bsky.social is one of my favorite people and a helluva writer, and Enamoured will make you squirm! In fear? In delight? You'll have to pick it up to find out. 😈

Happy release day to a delicious book and a wonderful person! Grab your copy of ENAMOURED today and have the most delightfully upsetting and fascinating time 🥳🥳

Happiest book birthday to Shelley and Enamoured: A Triptych! Everything about this book description has me pumped.

Happy book birthday to me!! 🥳Enamoured: A Triptych is OUT!! My smutty, anti-capitalist, cosmetic horror novella (with three illustrations by the incomparable Becca Snow who also did the cover) has emerged, fresh faced and ready to make you blush!

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💄OUT TOMORROW💄 Now is your LAST CHANCE to pre-order an ebook with a special BONUS story ahead of the crowd at the publishers website @hedonebooks.bsky.social To entice you, here is my last blurb to share, from the erudite queen of femgore.

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@shelleylavigne.bsky.social Shelley Lavigne’s Enamoured: A Triptych has some fantastic early reviews. Be ready for Thursday, July 10th, when this beauty drops! We’re so grateful for everyone’s kind words! Links in bio!

I'm writing something silly and fun and I'd forgotten how fun it is to just do something for the joy of it!

I’m so thrilled to share this blurb by the talented, genre-crossing Sophie White. Where I End is a supremely unsettling book and to have her words of praise means the world! Just a little over a week away from release! If you pre order through the publisher’s website you get a bonus short story!

On this Canada Day, support Canadian artists (especially Indigenous ones, or people of colour folks with disabilities or LGBTQ people) or frequent Canadian businesses. There are so many, but drop your faves below: @lormaggot.bsky.social @sofiaajram.bsky.social @timmcgregor.bsky.social

I got a heck of a lot more followers here recently so quick intro! I'm Shelley, a genderqueer (trans) Canadian horror writer. Last summer I released a gay pirate novella with monsters and romance with my best friend @lormaggot.bsky.social. It's called The Flesh Of the Sea and you should check it out

The final part of my essay series on the making of enamoured is here! Who knew writing a book exploring the interplay between love and capitalism, art and commerce would turn out to cause a bit of an existential crisis about book advertising!

This is such wonderful news!! If you missed out on the initial run of this, you can still get your hands on it! I absolutely adore this novella, it's one of my all time favourites! Do yourself a favour and get yourself a copy!

The band is back on tour! Thank you to @shortwavebooks.bsky.social and @laneheymont.bsky.social for making this happen. I’m thrilled that my succubi get to live on 🎶🩸 🎸 SLEEP ALONE returns January 2026!! 🎸

💄MORE BLURBS💄 This one by the illustrious @elliottgish.bsky.social whose book Grey Dog is an incredible work of historical gothic queer horror. One of my fave reads from last year! If you want something a bit (a lot) perverse check out Enamoured: A Triptych, out July 10th. @hedonebooks.bsky.social

💄This will be closing soon!💄 Get your name on the list if you want an e-ARC

Anyway it's pride and there are lots of queer writers who put out work that isn't best selling! Buy a gay book by an unpopular irrelevant queer today!!!

Sometimes I just sit and stare at the cover of my upcoming book. It’s just so damn neat. (And the interior illustrations are just as if not somehow more amazing!) By Becca Snow

💄e-ARC sign ups now available for reviewers💄 I’m delighted to share another wonderful blurb, this one by the talented, poet , writer and interpreter @tmbwrites.bsky.social. Her stories make me gasp, giggle and squirm. Years later, I still think about them! The book is available for preorder!