Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers)

YouTube video by Tales from the Shift Horror Writer Career: Rejection To Success

The very delightful podcast Tales From the Shift had me on to talk about being a horror writer & horror academic. It was a really fun chat, & I totally confessed that I use horror to keep my mental health and more aggressive urges in check. #booksky

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Not the way I'd hoped things would go, but I was so happy to get home!!

FINALLY in my own bed. We landed in Newark around 5:30, but our Amtrak train back to Philly was delayed by over two hours. I'm so beat.

Manhole cover

Gingerbread

Interestingly, while we've had a good time in Prague, it's a city I'm not sad to leave. I think maybe it's because our hotel was in the wall-to-wall tourist section, & that never feels good or real. I'd give it another chance if we stayed in, say, the Holesovice neighborhood.

An illegal shot from Sedlec Ossuary. No photography allowed, and I did get very loudly called out for it ...worth it, because the exchange gave me a plot bunny.

I'm not sure why, but the VERY tourist-heavy Old Town is awash in bulk candy stores. We did find these delightful gummy eyeballs, so ...

The trains weren't that complicated, although there was an element of mystery & uncertainty coming back to Prague...and Craig was feeling unwell that day, so I was on my own while he napped at the hotel.

Hope springs eternal!!

Crossing the Charles Bridge--statue hiding a cross and pointing, seemingly at an old castle. The sky is blue with puffy white clouds.

Elder Crone with short blonde hair, wearing a gray peacoat and smiling next to a white-bearded guy in glasses. They pose in front of a silver Franz Kafka sculpture.

Not 100% sure what these buildings are--random scenery in Prague, I guess.

Night time in Prague after a heavy rain.

On our way home now from a week in Prague. The highlight was definitely lunch at Taro, which is a Vietnamese fusion restaurant. I also loved visiting the Sedlec Ossuary, as much for the adventure of navigating the Czech Republic regional trains as communing with the bone church itself. #travel

This gives me hope that maybe the rubber band is snapping back.

QR code to my Tiktok account

I finally broke down and started a Tiktok account for my writerly stuff. If you're over there, please pop in to say hello. It's lonely out there for an Elder Crone. #booksky

Thanks, Anne. Samesies. It's been... an interesting ride. Ha!

I have no scoop despite trying to get any info at all.

Weeeeeee!

Sedlec Ossuary, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic - coat of arms designed with human bones.

Waking up at 2:35am with a plot bunny inspired by something I saw today? ✅

Jeebus crisp. And my original college major was Journalism.

I... cannot fathom this ultra bizarre timeline. It seems to go well beyond Idiocracy.

Thinking of everyone living in Jamaica, especially the good folks whose guest house we stayed at in MoBay a few years ago.

the middle class via a bachelors degree & a masters degree. People like Mike Davis & friends would rather I stayed in poverty & starved, & they've yanked up all the ladders that helped me & my family when I was a kid. Gross. 3/3

What "shitty culture" culture should we change? Living in rural PA? Being crackery whitey-mcwhiterson, long-time Americans? Having a family history of farming? I thought they wanted people like us to breed as worker bee/peon workforce?

I'm lucky: I escaped rural America, I clawed my way into 2/

Yeah. My mom worked two-three jobs when I was a kid to keep my brother & I fed, clothed, & housed after my dad ran off & a judge sentenced him to him $25/mo per kid in child support post-divorce--& we qualified for assistance. We lived in rural PA, & have lived in the US since at least the 1800s. 1/

Everyone deserves to eat. Those who use their political power to starve others deserve to rot in a cell.

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

And women are supposed to be too overemotional to be in charge of things? Sure, Jan.

MAGA Site Took Money to Unmask Charlie Kirk Critics—Then Vanished Trumpy donors say the pro-Kirk “exposure” project took tens of thousands before going dark.

I'm constantly amused by how easy it is to fool some folks. I'm in the wrong line of business.

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A yard full of Halloween decor, including two evil clowns trying to treat a child in half.

There are times I pass a house in my area and feel compelled to be friends with the residents.

#halloween

Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?

Elder Crone in a UPenn sweatshirt, holding six lemons

We grew six lemons this year ...in the Philly burbs!

#gardensky

Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon ‘likely written’ by AI Originality.ai scans 558 titles in herbal remedies section between January and September

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Democratic senator’s floor speech condemning Trump enters 19th hour Jeff Merkley of Oregon gives address to make case that president is ‘violating the law’ through authoritarianism

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I often wonder if those types of things are super preservative filled to make it more shelf stable.... but yeah, I shan't be partaking.

I've also seen these in Barcelona. It is an odd thing.