Today I saw three kids -- boys, maybe 12, 13, 14 years old -- riding bikes, and they were holding fishing poles and one had a bucket, and they said "hello!" as they passed. Then I, a Normal Adult, yelled after them, "Looking for Ray Brower down by the train tracks?" and they uhh rode away faster.

Comments like this mean the world. 🥹 #amquerying #booksky #writingcommunity #horrorwriters

I think this amount of library checkouts (& recent @bookshop.org purchases) is fine, right? 🫠

#horror #memes

3. Utter Horror!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Devastating. The entire Philly listening area is in mourning right now. 😔

First they turned The Terminator into a documentary; now this. Ffs. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Me and my childhood trauma this week, as I try to avoid all the Thriller memes, gifs, and clips. 🫣😩😭

#booksky My favorite Sarah Anderson comic...

Some thoughts on destroying the illusion of perfection: incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/destroying...

So similar to when life gives you lemons, make lemonade... When everything is on fire, roast marshmallows.

It’s been an embarrassingly long minute 😬😅🫣 but guess who’s finally back in the saddle? #amwriting #writesky #horrorwriter

When you have 20+ books checked out of the library, but you think now might be a good time to re-read IT for the umpteenth time. 🤷🏼‍♀️ #librarianproblems

Nicole is amazing! Query her!

Scenes from a Book Club

Damn, it’s been a rough week. 😔 #amquerying #writesky #horrorwriter

What, this isn’t everyone’s idea of a relaxing vacation read? 😬🤷🏼‍♀️ #TheLongWalk #amreading #horrorcommunity

This is an incredible excursion in the winter on a snowmobile too!

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Happy loaf 🤗🥰

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading

I think we can at least all agree that if you have a text alert tone longer than two seconds you should be thrown into a lightless, soundproof oubliette.

Proud aunt moment - my 13-year-old niece brought “Salem’s Lot” with her to read while on vacation with my parents. 🥹 (I had to remind Mom that I’d already read it at least once when I was that age. 🤷🏼‍♀️) #attagirl #startemyoung #futurehorrorwriter @stephenking.bsky.social

I might be a bit biased 😏, but I concur.

I live for days like this. ⛈⛈⛈

Here for it BUT still not sure why they didn’t just set the reboot movies in the ‘50s & ‘80s like the book 🤷🏼‍♀️

Not much can make me homesick for Jersey, but my favorite middle-grade writer has somehow managed it. ☀️🌊🎡 #Jerseygirl #amreading #booksky

When your pic of the baby deer bedding down in the yard gets photobombed #countrylife #rurallife #farmlife

Bloomsbury Trade will publish Vigil, a "playful, wise and electric" new novel by the Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders 👇

My favorite time of the year - porch-sittin’ season 😌

I think nearly the entire Horror genre boils down to the idea that it is worthwhile to fight until your very last breath. Even, and maybe especially, when there is no hope.

Favorite book I’ve ever written found an INCREDIBLE home with Candlewick. I can’t WAIT to share WHEN I WROTE THE WORLD with you!! 💖💖💖

Gutted. This was my last best hope for this manuscript. As hard as it is to accept, I think the time has come to shelve it. 😞 #amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky

Where am I mentally? A neighborhood friend posted a photo of a foot-long mozzarella stick you can order at a bar and I sighed and said to myself, “this could save me.”

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

Last day of vacation vibes ☀️📖🍺 #lakelife #amreading #booksky

A tad emotional over this full ms request from an agent with a request rate of less than half a percent 😳🥹😭🤞🏻 #amquerying #writesky #horrorwriter #writingcommunity

Happy (?) two-year anniversary of jumping in the query trenches way too early. 😅 But I’m ok with how the journey’s played out. I’ve gotten some incredible feedback, made some incredible contacts…sooner or later, it’ll happen. #amquerying #amwriting #querytrenches #writesky #booksky #horrorwriter

So underwhelmed (by both the movie and my photography skills) 😭 #28YearsLater

We need the rain, but not all at once, please. 😳 #farmlife

TFW you don’t get stuck behind a single other vehicle on your entire 20-mile drive home & your redhead Jersey trash road rage stays dormant for one whole commute 😌 #youcantakethegirloutofJersey #butyoucanttaketheJerseyoutofthegirl

This is AMAZING. See you in Columbia! @richardchizmar.bsky.social @chuckwendig.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social

The calm before the book club storm. …and if you don’t think a book club could wreak that kind of havoc, you obviously haven’t been to mine. 😜🍻 #allinadayswork #BooksOnTap #librarianlife #booksky #amreading

Just when I start thinking it’s time to throw in the towel…🥹 #fullrequest #amquerying #writingcommunity #booksky #horrorwriters

The thought of this panel reading my manuscript…🤢 But I’m fine. Everything’s fine. 😅 #horrorwriters #writingcommunity #amquerying

The Pigman. The cruelty and meanness of the teenagers was so shocking, it kept me up at night. I only read it once, in middle school, but I never forgot it (and have held onto my copy all these years).

Leave it to librarians to be the only ones in the entire fucking federal government with any backbone.

Don’t be fooled by her cuteness - this is a ferocious killer who just consumed a baby bunny & is obviously very proud of herself. 👹🤦🏼‍♀️🤢 #corgisgonnacorg