Just keeping y’all updated: I’m currently working on the second draft of my novella for @clashbooks.bsky.social and the first draft of my novella for @crystallake.bsky.social. I also have a bunch of short stories in various stages of development. Hope things are well with you and yours. ❤️

Me to my distributor: by getting all those returns we are actually selling books.

The sales conference went well even though I’m now basically dead! The Spring/Summer 2026 season is so good, love all these books so much 🥰

I know it’s not true or even possible but I always feel like “Jessie’s Girl,” “Is She Really Going Out with Him,” and “Somebody’s Baby” are all written about the same person.

Love this!

Made an important meme about my publisher legacy

Hi all! I am on the programming team for StokerCon 2026, and I’m happy to share a little guide we’ve put together on proposing panels. Whether you’re new to panels or have a lot of experience with them, we’re hopeful the tips here will be helpful. www.stokercon2025.com/programming

🎶 And that’s fucking team work 🎶

Tonight we party New York City!

Yeah, we're doing this shit. 🤎🤘🐍

Hell yeah!

Literary It Girls > Warmongers

I am coming to Seattle Public Library later this week with @sadiehartmann.bsky.social and I did this post for their "Nightstand Reads" blog series to help promote it. Click here to read more and register for the live event on 11/6: blog.spl.org/2025/11/03/n...

October is over, but the hauntings continue! A week from tomorrow, Book Culture LIC is hosting Indie Horror Night, featuring @ossuary.bsky.social, @lcvonhessen.bsky.social, @sasharavitch.bsky.social, Saskia Nislow, and me. Weirdos of New York, come on down!

I always love seeing people's awards eligibility posts to remind me of things I haven't had a chance to read yet, so I thought I'd post my very first one! Just a couple of articles, I'll link them here: reactormag.com/the-90s-goth... nighttidemag.com/2025/03/21/s...

Went to a fancy lit event and Caroline Calloway drew my face. Retiring from publishing, I’ve reached the top—it only goes downhill from here.

Did someone say Novellavember?! We love the novella format and have a ton of variety in our novella catalog. From body horror, demons, and vampires, to weird literary, westerns, and sci-fi titles. Not to mention our KVHS titles! Happy Novellavember to those who celebrate!

I just donated to Twisted Spine Books and I think you should, too, if you’ve got a little to spare: www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

🎶 The Darkness Knows What I Want 🎶

will be in London for a lot of November, with one event at LRB bookshop on Nov 12 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jackie-ess...

😎 flip book 📕

Looking forward to this one, everyone 👀 Check it out and request on NetGalley if you have it!

It’s Halloween so by law we gotta do a cover reveal for a horror banger. Yall this book is good! Such amazing style combined with a turn those pages fast story. The ending is perfect. It’s up on Netgalley and drops May 2025.

Well, uh, 10,000 of you lot are now following me! So, an intro: I'm a SFF/horror writer (mainly a poet). Poetry collection coming out July 2026 from @clashbooks.bsky.social (Offerings for Ordinary Gods). I post selfies, animal photos, kitchen witchery, & #TinyPoems. Dork. Nerd. Kind. But bitey.

BIG NEWS ALERT BIG BEWS ALERT Happy Halloween, ya creeps. Some fun-size horror treats will be coming your way soooon …

Yes!!!

No tricks, just treats 🤎🤘🐍 Y'all's initial reception has been very kind. I can't tell ya how much it means to me. Wish I could hand you the book today, but you'll have to wait. In the meantime, stay weird n be kind.

I really appreciate all the excitement for this one! I had to fight to do this one and tell my distributor that there something very special here and to trust my crazy ass. Happy Halloween and may your bowels be snake free! 🐍 💩 🎃

they keep letting me write things for some reason! anyway, here’s gothic horror (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

My wife once learned she was the secret love child of Ina Garten and Danny DeVito and she felt really insecure about it, so I assured her, “Ina Garten/Devito Baby, don’t you know that I love you?”

Little Lazarus crawled so the shit snakes could slither

I love it when the lit community gets something to be excited about, a little treat to keep us going.

If this doesn’t win some literary award in 2027 it’s time to cancel all book awards cause we will truly know they are meaningless

publisher claims to not like ska, proves to be a complete degenerate. can't wait to pick this one up!

Every once in a while, my brain does this sort of thing, and every once in a while, it turns into something, and I couldn't be more thrilled that @clashbooks.bsky.social is behind this thing 100% with so much enthusiasm. Here's to a something slithering your way soon 🐍🤎🤘

Once in awhile very important literature crosses your path and you must look in the mirror and ask: am I going to publish a book about a guy who shits snakes? Yes I am. Yes I am. Very excited for @beardedbetts.bsky.social wtf bizarro body horror novel to come out Jan 2027. 🐍 💩 🧑‍⚕️

UNQUIET GUESTS signing with Kirsty Logan and Will Maclean last night at Waterstones Argyle Street, Glasgow.

Next time someone tells you what AI will be able to do tomorrow think about all of those years and all that science and still no one has invented cigarettes that are good for you. No such thing as momentum here. You solve problems or don’t

A very kind reader told me they drove 13 hours round trip to see me at Waterstones in Nottingham yesterday. I feel so grateful and honored 🥹 Queer horror forever!!!!!

So glad you’re a fan!!

Gonna use it to publish a book about a guy who shits snakes 🐍

PM Marketplace are gonna think we are trolls with the book we just dropped there. Tomorrow will be fun 💩 🐍 🧑‍⚕️

If you like tarot cards, witchy things, and horror, this book is for YOU, baby!! ARC (advance reader copy) in my hands! It’s real! (Offerings for Ordinary Gods is out from @clashbooks.bsky.social in July 2026! You can pre-order it now. Doooooo iiiiiiit. Seriously, go on. I’ll wait.)

I’m so excited to announce that ALL OUR TOMORROWS is now available as an audiobook! 🎧 This project was so important to me bc I’m part of the ME/CFS community, and many of my peers can only tolerate audiobooks. I wanted to make sure my book was accessible to everyone. 🩵 Peep my bio!

every single review on Goodreads

Me explaining “SplatterGoth” with my hands like a true Italian 🖤🤌

Authors: here is a one-step method for determining whether that email about an online book club wishing to promote your book comes from an AI spambot. Step 1: you received it.

No important publishing emails today plz, I am watching a combo of college football and a femcel having an adult relationship with a hot rabbi.

A whole bunch of horror-y folks recommend the scariest stories they’ve ever read. I wrote about @lairdbarron.bsky.social ‘s “Tiptoe.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...