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

PEEPS!!!!! This place in New Jersey is selling used life-size animatronic #dinosaurs on Facebook marketplace at extremely reasonable prices. I am drooling. BUY MY BOOKS I NEED A #PTERODACTYL in my yard to keep away the #greatblueheron www.facebook.com/madrid.rex.5

Dr Lee is just an asshole. It's got nothing to do with his age. He runs Unieda Corp so he's gotta be older but he's not in any way a valuable mentor. He's got zero wisdom. He's 100% fuckery. You think he's gonna be a wise old Asian dude but he's exactly the opposite. He's chaos. #horrorwriterschat

I have a recurring mad scientist character, Dr Bao Lee, who appears at various ages from about 40+. He has seen some shit. Most of it is his fault. He is smart but not wise. He doesn't take advice. #horrorwriterschat

I'm Bert and I write all kinds of mixed genre horror. I'm an ancient crone of 57, a book witch, a swamp witch, a gasp "older person" #horrorwriterschat

I #amediting a short story and #factchecking. No, it was not the #fullmoon on that day in history. Hire a #neurodivergent #editor for the full service experience!

So many tiny tree #froglets! #tadpoles #greentreefrogs #treefrogs #connecticut #pondlife #frogs #frog #pondlife

I really enjoyed editing the YA scifi book last week. I would like to edit a book a month. I'm really good at it and I love to do it. It's a weird kind of joy, to take a book and make it even better. #developmentaleditor #editing #amediting #horroreditor #horrorwriterschat

This was almost a #haiku as is: you rip out the tooth | its blood gleams with delicious | opportunity | #horrorwriterschat

The cursed person would have to find a person more deserving than they are of the curse and pass it on. If they choose poorly, the curse goes back to them twofold. #horrorwriterschat

I've always been fond of cursing someone with eternal life without eternal youth, health, or wealth, able to age and sicken but unable to die. Trapped in a third rate urine-stinking state-run nursing home forever, their bones thinning, cancer nibbling away at their organs. #horrorwriterschat

I cast my weird and wonderful horror curses and hexes from Central Connecticut beside a frog pond. My favorite and most scary #curse is, "May you have the day that you deserve." #horrorwriterschat

Take a look at my Mickey Crow parnormal horror series, where you will find shark-mermaids, AI Amusement parks, and rampaging robots. amzn.to/48mx2UN

Am I writing #Steampunk or #Cyberpunk? Even with Steampunk I like to make my tech seem new-fangled and exciting, though. No nostalgia for me, always looking forward. #horrorwriterschat

I forgot about PLOTTR. How could I have forgotten about Plottr? Next best thing to index cards. Workflow: Evernote-> Plottr-> Fictionary-> Word-> Fictionary-> Word-> ProWritingAid #horrorwriterschat

Oh, a little of column A, a little of column B. Rogue spider-dog robots, fluffy little pizza-loving genetically engineered dinosaurs with big nasty teeths, protagonists with cyberlimbs, virtual reality amusement parks filled with actual monsters. #horrorwriterschat

I'm Bert, I write & edit horror and horror adjacent. I use Word, Fictionary, ProWritingAid, and Evernote on a Windows laptop and Samsung phone. #horrorwriterschat

I don't know if I will make it to #horrorwriterchat today. I have a class at the same time. Have fun, Halloween Peeps!

Tiniest baby #frog #greytreefrog #treefrog #pondlife #wildlife #connecticut #newengland ❤️ 🐸

Here's a review of a really fun non-fiction book that would be a great resource to #horrorwriters @booktrib.bsky.social booktrib.com/2025/09/08/h... #horrorwriter #horrorauthor #horrorbooks #bookreview

#haiku Now crisp autumn leaves | fall softly on the fresh corpse | under the red tree | #horrorwriterschat #horrorhaiku

I'm a #Fictionary Certified StoryCoach developmental editor! Hit me up for long-form horror, cyberpunk, steampunk, or anything similar. #horrorwriterschat See you next week, my Halloween peeps. #horrorwriter #horrorauthor #horroreditor

Sometimes I dream in book plots. I also dream (wish for) advances with many zeros, and of 4- and 5-figure monthly royalty checks, and a Stoker Award or three. #goals I'm good enough, but I need people to get to know my work, read it, share it, talk about it. #horrorwriterschat

AITAH for teaming up with intelligent fungi to sell weight loss supplements to lure the fatties in so the fungi can eat them? Otherwise the fungi will take over the world and EAT ALL THE HUMANS, this way they only eat the fat ladies. So really, AITAH? Think about it. #horrorwriterschat

I'm the Bert and I write all kinds of horror although I'm currently doing a bit of non-fiction. I'm telling people what to do although I'm not entirely sure that I know what I'm doing but it all sounds good, people like the concept, and it's verra pretty. #horrorwriterschat

Four newly minted baby gray #treefrogs! #connecticut #pondlife #motheroffrogs <3

Look at my wiggly babies! Their tiny leggies! #tadpoles #graytreefrogs #pondlife #frogs <3

This long-awaited anthology with one of my excellent #velociraptor stories in it came out this week! This is the "HOA children's birthday party with raptors" story everyone has been begging to read. amzn.to/4p0wNVj #horrorwriterschat

I use time-travel. I have a multi-verse with an Indra's net kind of connection based on time-traveling lizards mucking about and flinging velociraptors everywhere willy-nilly. This lets the same mad scientist be in two different books (METAL & FAT MONSTER) doing crazy shit. #horrorwriterschat

Oh, I have to say #Victorian, because I could then extrapolate it into #Steampunk and dark #Gothic #horror and throw in #JacktheRipper. If I knew EVERYTHING would I know who Saucy Jack really was? #horrorwriterschat

#Greytreefrog #tadpoles from the #pond I live beside. I <3 my #froglet babies. #horrorwriterschat

I'm here! I have no equal or twin or doppelgänger although I have aspirations. I'm a weirdo from the edge of a frog pond in Connecticut. #horrorwriterschat

Hello #deer! #extremecloseup #blinkcamera #wildlifecamera #pondlife #waterfall #connecticut #whitetaildeer

I have new business cards to promote being a certified Fictionary developmental editor! Obviously, specializing in horror and dark fiction. #horrorwriterschat #horrorwriter #horrorauthor #horroreditor

Death Engine Protocol by @themargret.bsky.social is an excellent cyberpunk novel about a woman being tortured to death over and over. amzn.to/4lLfqFa #horrorwriterschat

"Murder your darlings" actually means to cut bits of writing that you love that don't move the story forward. Not to kill off your characters. Said by Arthur Quiller-Couch. #murderyourdarlings #horrorwriterschat #technicallycorrectisthebestkindofcorrect

ADVICE: Just keep playing "what if" and make sure everything happens BECAUSE and not THEN. What if koi were bloodthirsty and then they ate everyone? What if koi were bloodthirsty and because of that, they bit off the hands of the children that fed them? #horrorwriterschat

I'm the Bert, I write #horror and I guess my elevator pitch on my next horror series would be "previously #conjoinedtwins fight #monsters in a #post-pandemic #Cthulhu-punk world."

It's Wednesday! #horrorwriterschat day! As usual, I am doing at least 3 other things, but I'll do my best to keep up.

FAT MONSTER wherein fat people are preyed on by society and by monsters: body horror, multi level marketing schemes, fungus/mushroom creatures, pyramids... amzn.to/4j1TSn3

I SAW: Pulsing flesh, greyish pink, against the walls of the stairwell. Heat rises, with an odor, like raw hamburger and skunk. A lump might be a nascent eye or mouth about to open, to stare or scream or eat. #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat I think most of my stories are less about that hidden corner, and more about the elephant in the room. Things that are obvious and unavoidable, but too strange or horrible, so people pretend they don’t exist… until they catch up with them.

At night, a window can become a mirror. An old, flaking mirror can become a window. Is there a fundamental difference? A being who can pass through one, see through one, can see and pass through both, & through still water. Pick your fears carefully. What are you summoning? #horrorwriterschat

It's the room full of the past, it's what's behind you, chasing you, always there. You don't want to turn around and face it. It's the BAD THING. It's the chisel that shaped the sculpture that is you. It haunts you because it is you. #horrorwriterschat

Oooh The Threshold! I'm a #bookwitch & #swampwitch from the edge of a #frogpond in #Connecticut, currently writing #non-fiction (writing craft), #Victorian #historicalhorror with #DeepOnes & #shoggoths, & plotting a #Cthulhupunk series. #horrorwriterschat

Here's my awesome book I wrote and sold to a great publisher but nothing matters more than that I did it while thin. Sigh. amzn.to/45SLMch