Katrina Monroe

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

Pub day for How to Fake a Haunting is a little over four months away, so I’ll be posting some fun early praise for the novel as well as giveaways, preorder campaigns, and reviews as October 7th creeps ever closer!

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When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. Cover photo.

Excerpt from the book in which they are talking about the government cover-up of dragons but it’s also an allegory for the current US government’s attack on science.

If you feel a desire for beautiful sentences and (justified) feminine rage, I highly recommend this one: When Women Were Dragons.

It’s sweet yet politically charged and scratches an itch.

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Minnesota TWICE 😏🥳

House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich.

Thread on the next steps of the process.

I'm also sick of calling congress but please do it this time:

Tonight!

a woman in a suit and polka dot shirt is standing in front of a sign that says `` that 's me '' . ALT: a woman in a suit and polka dot shirt is standing in front of a sign that says `` that 's me '' .

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Twin Cities locals, mark your calendars. MN Mystery Night is calling your name!

100000% Horror is an intimate look at humanity, how we act under impossible circumstances, how we come together (or fall apart). Whether it scares you is irrelevant.

Get your summer scares here! An anthology of women in horror, featuring my short story, "Super Moon."

HOWL - now avaliable on Netgally! 🐺

Prepare to HOWWWWWWL this November!

text: THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, a book title laid over a misty jaundiced forest with a raven on the railing, design by The Boland Design Co

HELLO! Times, they are a dire, so forgive my gentle interruption where I ask that if you’ve read STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS — or any book by any author! — it’d be great if you left a review of it somewhere. And tell friends! Tell family! Tell the whole internet! Tell a random bird! Birds like books too.

Happy birthday! 🥳

A curving wooden staircase containing a copy of The Staircase in the Woods and a silver tabby cat staring off into the distance with wide eyes as though she has seen or heard something surprising? Frightening? Maybe just a bird? Either way the book is fantastic if not for kittens.

Happiest Book Birthday to @chuckwendig.bsky.social's The Staircase in the Woods! 🖤 I didn't let Vesper read it because it is too scary for her but she is disconcerted anyway. Also this book is excellent.

Twin Cities locals, mark your calendars. MN Mystery Night is calling your name!

Several new followers recently (I feel like maybe I should be worried?) But HELLO! I write things! Mostly spooky, but also mysterious and sometimes sad but always queer.

Glad to have you!

Dear @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov,

When this comes up for a vote, maybe don't give your support to the lady who lied on her resume and regularly misrepresents her credentials.

Normally I don’t share one star reviews but you know when bigots post them I can’t help myself

#AlwaysHereAlwaysQueer

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Several months ago, someone brilliant pointed out that Trump’s EOs are designed to terrify people even though they are not the law and most will never take effect.

Keep that in mind.

🐚The Salt Grows Heavy/Cassandra Khaw 🐚All the Murmuring Bones/A. G. Slatter 🐚They Drown our Daughters/Katrina Monroe 🐚Merciless Waters/Rae Wilde 🐚Into the Drowning Deep/Mira Grant 🐚The Sirens/Emilia Hart 🐚Chlorine/Jade Song 🐚Lure/Tim McGregor 🐚Flowers for the Sea/Zin E. Rocklyn

Dark & Disturbing tales about Mermaids, Selkies, Sires, and Water Spirits 🧜‍♀️ @authorkatm.bsky.social @timmcgregor.bsky.social @raewilde.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social full list in the alt text

THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS book cover without its cover text -- it's a creepy image of a spiral staircase in the woods connected to nothing, ascending to nowhere, and on the railing is a crow or blackbird, and it's saying in a word bubble, SOON. The image is cast in a jaundiced haze except for a square of black and white with a blue line in the center that was an accident of the image when editing but I thought "hey that's neat" and I kept it, oh well. At the bottom is the text 4/29/25 indicating the date of the book's release. The cover is by THE BOLAND DESIGN COMPANY. Published by Del Rey Books

One week, the staircase appears.

I am obliged in the midst of the chaos and fuckery of our current era to remind you to preorder THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS from, ideally, your favorite indie bookstore, because indies rule. Also, there's Bookshop-dot-org, Kobo, Libro-dot-fm! Please and thank you!

For no reason at all, here's the campfire story scene in MANHUNT where a character relates the tale of J. K. Rowling's grisly death in her fortified Scottish castle.

If they can do this to one group of people, they can do it to anyone, including you, especially if they find a way to suck up any money left behind.

(And yes, you should care even if it's not happening to you, but a lot of people don't until they're a target, so best to bring that truth home now.)

Currently reading the ARC and it is everything I'd hoped for and more.

Massive crowd at Hands Off rally in St. Paul, Minnesota

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Watching season 9 of RPDR All Stars; Reading Karen Russell's newest book, THE ANTIDOTE (which is incredible, as expected).