Hey, my beloved Fat Monster won 2 awards. Give it a read? Fat people are preyed on by society and by monsters: body horror, multi level marketing schemes, fungus creatures, pyramids... amzn.to/4j1TSn3 #horrorwriterschat

My characters are scared according to the plot more than their gender or lack of gender. #horrorwriterschat

Honestly I don't think that I even think about it this way. If you do, that's great. #horrorwriterschat

I don't look at archetypes as gendered. I love my #madscientist Dr. Lee but I also have a lady mad scientist Mo. And no she isn't named after my cat Mo or vice versa, my cat came from the shelter with that name after the books were published. Dr Lee is horrible; Mo is sweet. #horrorwriterschat

I'm the Bert and I write a bunch of types of horror. I'm not sure I write all my men the same? I hope not. There is one guy I write all the time, Dr Bao Lee, a fun mad scientist. #horrorwriterschat

45011 is my word count for Leet-Z on day 12 of Novel November. #novelnovember #nanowrimo #novnov #amwriting #horrorwriter #wordcount

I am Bert, as always, writing all sorts of #horror. #JurassicPark and #thething (1982) are both very inspiring to me, I fill my stories with genetically engineered #dinosaurs and #shoggoths. #horrorwriterschat

The replay of my horror writing class is available! youtu.be/0K6xZl6u4po?...

Hive mind, I need an #archeologist. Anyone? I know I fake it really well, but in actually, I am not one. I'm at 32K for Leet-Z and my #archeology questions are piling up. #horrorwriting #horrorauthor #amwriting #nanowrimo #novnov #cthulhupunk #pandemic #mummy

here's my #horrorhaiku break open the seal | under the moons at midnight | prepare to wither | #horrorwriterschat

Ah, whatever I don't want to know or see or acknowledge. Animals and people I love die. That lumpy thing could be cancer. The world is shit. Really, no one cares. Those truths just make everyone cry. Hide them inside old socks and Tupperware, for the love of Cthulhu. #horrorwriterschat

The seal does not look like a seal. It looks like anything else, not esoteric or mysterious. Like an old sock or a piece of Tupperware. Not scary at all. It is on the top shelf in a box with similar things, some of which are also Seals. #horrorwriterschat

I'm late, I thought this started at 3. I write all sorts of horror. I have an esoteric horror seal containing a very small shoggoth. We should not open it. #horrorwriterschat

My novel Leet-Z has a character called Rigoberto Ixtlilxochitl whose name came to me in a dream. I am very excited about him and you all need to be excited too. Total WC 12285, day 3. #novnov #horrorwriter #nanowrimo #dailywordcount #cthulhupunk

#novnov Day 2, Total Word Count 9128 Leet-Z #cthulhupunk #nanowrimo #horror #horrorwriter #horrorwriting Not the real cover. Monsters & Metal book 0 #pandemic

My next novel mixes #Cyberpunk with a 500-year-old #mummycurse so I think we can look both ways at once. #horrorwriterschat

What happens is, I hear one & it resonates with me & a "what if" pops into my head. Like #zombies are caused by #brainworms so that's why you have to cut off their heads & destroy the heads utterly or the brain worm will find a new head--like yours. #horrorwriterschat 🧟‍♀️ྀིྀི

I'm Bert & I write all kinds of dark stuff. I used to cry when my parents shut off a certain light because it was my friend & I thought they were killing it ( #autistic much?) so they thought I was scared of the dark. NO MY FRIEND IS DEAD. There was also a #skeleton under the bed. #horrorwriterschat

My review of @datlow.bsky.social newest Best #horror just dropped! booktrib.com/2025/10/27/e...

Fat Monster won 2 second place #Bookfest awards this weekend! Body Horror & Women's Horror. #horrorwriter

Oh, it has to be Dr Bao Lee, I keep putting him in everything. He's so deliciously unhinged and evil and unaware of his insanity. He's in Fat Monster and Metal and his cloned children are in my new Monsters & Metal Cthulhupunk series. #horrorwriterschat

Since I mentioned Fat Monster, please read it. It's really good. I suck at marketing & my webbed feet are 2 ugly to sell feet pics. amzn.to/4lUfELx body horror, obesity, shoggoths, mushroom shakes, multi-level-marketing scams, fungus monsters, weight loss horror, brainwashing #horrorwriterschat

What inspired FAT MONSTER? The 3 biggest fictions would be: Masks of Nyarlathotep, At the Mountains of Madness, & r/antimlm, and the reality would be my 40+ years as a morbidly obese lady. #horrorwriterschat

I'm Miss Bert, I'm SO LATE today, and I'm in my dream room, next to a koi pond and woods with my feets up on the couch and kitties around me. #horrorwriterschat

top 3? #ProWritingAid. Extra Screen ( #DuexPlus). #Evernote #horrorwriterschat. then #Fictionary. #Plottr. Word & Laptop are givens, right?

My class sign-up is up! 1 p.m. Eastern on Halloween fictionary.circle.so/c/events/fre... If you can't go, sign up and you will be sent a link to watch a replay.

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

Almost didn't participate this week because of work, but I’m thrilled I did! Thanks, Eryn for the awesome questions. S.C. Fisher is a friend and she could really benefit from selling more books. Check out her excellent Base Fear books! www.amazon.com/Deadly-Secre...

Thanks for hosting Eryn! Ruins, Book 3 of my Dark England series comes out on Halloween! If you like thriller/chiller tales full of deception, betrayal, conspiracies and vengeful ghosts, check out the first two books of the series here: mybook.to/Dark-England #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for allowing me to expose the chip on my shoulder this week! Folk horror, Harrowfield, is actually driven by an initial decision taken for financial stability. A decision leading to an isolated village & a community with old beliefs & strange stories. mybook.to/Harrowfield #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks Eryn, always fun Here a link to me books and a review that is flattering to me Now please excuse me, I'm off to watch Wonka after two years. Paul King is a genius! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

Thank you, Erin! In the House of In Between tracks semi-wealthy to just making ends meet type folk all experiencing the same haunting in one house through generations of worldwide trauma, available wherever you like to buy books (or ask your library!). #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Eryn! #HorrorWritersChat, "Hannah and Other Stories" has been out a month now. Are you brave enough to face the horrors inside? Including carnivorous horses? Amazon: tinyurl.com/mv8p4shk B&N: tinyurl.com/4fznerfe Kobo: tinyurl.com/3u5fpeb6 Apple Books: tinyurl.com/33xhhdnx

I aim to please! 😈

How about some love for FAT MONSTER, wherein fat people are preyed on by society & monsters, featuring body horror, multi level marketing schemes, fungus/mushroom creatures, pyramids... If you're fat, love someone fat, or don't understand fat people, READ THIS amzn.to/4j1TSn3 #horrorwriterschat

The latter leads to the former, right? The supernatural makes people desperate. The 7-foot Halloween animatronic THING in your yard becomes sentient, that's gonna give you some unhinged feelings. #horrorwriterschat

Wow, I never thought about my audience according to how much they make! So I guess everyone equally? Something new to think about. #horrorwriterschat

I'm creating a post-pandemic world right now and that's one of the things I'm figuring out. Cyberpunk is high-tech, low-life, what will that look like? #horrorwriterschat

I am very lucky in that my beloved spouse makes decent money & I can stay home in a nice house & play with words. Morally, I am probably bankrupt, or maybe it's just my neurodiversity. I know I don't think about things like other people, which is probably why I love horror. #horrorwriterschat

Is anyone doing any form of #NovelNovember now that #Nanowrimo has left us? I'm doing it with #fictionary and #prowritingaid #writing #amwriting #horrorwriter What are you all writing? I'm doing the prequel to my next series, which is "Monsters & Metal" ( #Cthulhupunk)

Please read my lovely novel Fat Monster! It's got mushroom smoothies, fungal horror, body horror, fat ladies, pyramids, and shoggoths. You could have a pretty good weekend with all that. amzn.to/3VSvzye

Here's my #haiku #horrorhaiku scrape of ancient stone | was the last thing you heard in | the ancient graveyard #horrorwriterschat

The unexpected ghost is the best #ghost. You expect to see a ghost in an old Victorian house. You don't expect to see one at a goth concert, a monster truck rally, or by the peaches at Walmart. #horrorwriterschat

I like forest ghosts, animals that died and continue to roam in the woods. Long-dead does looking after generations of fawns. Fat translucent bullfrogs swimming beside tadpoles. A murder of crows that fills an entire tree without weighing it down. #horrorwriterschat

I'm the Bert and I write all flavors and colors of horror from central Connecticut beside a frog pond in the guise of a swamp witch.

Thanks for the first #HorrorWritersChat of October, Eryn. I got a lot of things to promote. The first is that, I just posted a story to The #ShadowBoxArchives, a stoner comedy to welcome the Fall season. It's paywalled now, but it becomes free in a week. www.patreon.com/posts/140073...

Thanks Eryn! Some really thought-provoking questions Tonight I'll plug Fiends & Phantoms, purely because Memento Culpae (one of my favourite stories in it) is very much about regrets of a long life lived as one may not have liked. Also Judiciary seances and imprisoned souls. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks Eryn This topic was true to my heart, since my first book AMNION has an elder protagonist It seems to have had an effect on those who read it Go on, read it It's one of the most fun times reading something bleak you'll have #horror www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

Here's a shout-out for my #90s #kidsonbikes #strangerthings #comingofage #anthology that's entirely set in #connecticut and written mostly by local authors. PB or KU. amzn.to/3IRWLtU #horrorwriterschat A few stories from it were in the #stokercon2025 anthology.

I don't think a lot about my characters' ages except that I don't make them teenagers/children because I don't write YA/MG. When I'm creating them and their backstory, I make their ages work for whatever their lived experiences are. #horrorwriterschat