I have THE BEST news!! I got accepted into my first semi-pro magazine 🎉 I don’t think I can say where yet (I don’t know the rules lol) but wow I am over the moon

It was so good and I’m never shutting up about it. Justin Tipping you beautiful freak

Someone made a fake Facebook for my grandma and the profile photo is slightly threatening

Going to see HIM tonight!!! My first outing after Covid struck me down lol

Having OCD is wild because my brain will repeat a word from morning until night. Today that word is “sopaipilla”

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

I have a few starter packs made for °Women in horror °LGBTQIA speculative fiction authors °Lit magazines and publishers °Horror authors °BIPOC speculative fiction authors I really want to make more so any suggestions would be wonderful!

Hello, #WeeknightWriters 🖤 My name is Tali Graves, author of transgressive horror and dark fantasy. Currently rewriting my first horror novel, about a group of girls in a religious New Mexican reformative institution; been having a lot of fun rediscovering and revamping the whole thing this week:)

Internship meeting went absolutely amazing. Even though I feel old as hell to be interning I’m so excited to be taking the steps to get into publishing! Manifesting that this is a stepping stone to where I want to be

After four years of trying to keep up with the dishes and just not being able to, I got a table top dishwasher. Slowly learning I can’t do everything and that’s okay

I just accidentally took my ADHD meds at 8pm instead of my nighttime meds 🙃

Changing the plot of this lighthouse story a third time and slowly letting it consume me

Wonderful news! The anthology I’m featured in “High Stakes and Bloody Business,” has been fully funded and then some! Extra money will be donated to bat conservation, sooo if you’d like to pre-order a copy and get a very cool bookmark with your purchase, here is the link linktr.ee/WillowNichol...

How to spread the word about your favorite author: ⚬ Write a review! ⚬ Recommend their books to your friends! ⚬ Make a TikTok eating their books! ⚬ Organize a book club that definitely isn’t a cult! ⚬ Start a conspiracy theory about them! Are they a Bigfoot? Let’s steal their DNA and find out!

Mr. Bandit found the catnip today

I accidentally sent a sticker of me in a bonnet holding a baby yoda doll to a discord server of authors I’m in. I panicked so hard I forgot how to delete it and it took at least five minutes. I am humbled

Brushing up on proper grammar is a blessing and a curse. Like, ah yes I’m re-learning so much, but sometimes I look stupid because grammar can be weird. Proper grammar but at what cost?

Whenever I have to sign contracts or have meetings I feel like the three kids in a trench coat from Bojack

I’m reading Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk and nothing could have prepared me for the pool scene

I like that when I tested positive for Covid yesterday I was like “that sucks but I’ll get so much done!” And then I woke up feeling like I was in that unnecessarily scary tunnel from Willy Wonka

Update: I got it anyways

Guys, don’t be mad. I finally watched Weapons and I’m like… it was okay. I didn’t not like it but I also didn’t find any of it scary or groundbreaking for horror. Not to be the person who’s like “oOoOh nothing scares me,” because a lot of things do, but definitely not this movie

I just brought my dog out and to my surprise there were two dogs outside my apartment that looked EXACTLY like him. If he was any other dog I wouldn’t be surprised but this is what he looks like this

It’s official! First mentioning Monday!! (Unfortunately virtual bc covid, but I’m still very excited) it feels weird doing an internship not having gone to college but my resume is gonna be stacked

My partner tested positive for Covid and I’m so sad because she’s quarantined in the bedroom and I miss her

When coming up with my lighthouse story I did not expect to make lighthouses my whole life, but wow I am so into lighthouses now

You are the world’s greatest editor, and I cherish you 🫶🏽

I’m like 99.9% sure I got a publishing internship. Not even on purpose either. I might pass out

Oh my god I just remembered more. At some point I went to a mall bathroom and Tim Robinson was cleaning it and when I asked him if he was Tim Robinson he started talking to me with a British accent

I just had a dream where my neighbors were mean to my grandma when she visited so I threw tomato soup all over their white couch

I got that Tiny Bookshop game and I don’t think I’m gonna get anything done this week besides playing this

I cannot wait for MCR tomorrow, oh my god.

*My mom calling me at midnight* Me, thinking someone literally died: oh my god, is everything okay? My mother: HBO isn’t working

Getting rejections from fairly new publications is always so interesting because most of the time they are very polite and then every so often you get one that’s like “this is trash and I hated reading it” 💀

This is how it went

Today I’m going to try to put together a piece of furniture. Emphasis on “try”

AH

Re-doing my split dye! Wooo!

The My Chemical Romance concert is THIS SUNDAY! I can’t wait!

Recommend me some anthologies pleaseee

Proud to announce—on behalf of the amazing folk over at Corrosion Zine—the cover of the upcoming first issue of this new project for Goths by Goths! An excerpt of my short story “Blood & Hairspray” will be found within its pages alongside the great work of over 30 artists from across the globe! 🖤

And last but definitely not least, starter pack #5!

Starter pack #4!

Starter pack #3!

Fiction to make you feel 👇

Monthly repost for starter pack #2!

Decided I want to repost these once a month, so here is starter pack #1!

Breaking News: Alien Earth threatens to release another episode

Reposting for the nighttime crowd!

Hi friends! My short story “Consumption” has made it into High Stakes and Bloody Business, a vampire anthology coming out this fall! The Whumpy Printing Press will be crowdfunding from Sept 9th-30th. If you’d like to sign up to be emailed when the crowdfunding begins, you can do that here!