Kimberly Davis Basso

We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for 2025 CHIRBys!!! Congratulations to all of our finalists 🥳🥳🥳

Some October #photography. Summer is about to fade

Hey Rogers Park folks and anyone up for a visit to that fine, fine neighborhood. Checkitout:

If you see this, QTP with a horror movie that shares the same first letter as your name. 👻

#horrorsky #filmsky #promosky

Happy to announce that I have won the Elgin Award for Mexicans on the Moon in the full-length book category. The Elgin Award is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association's highest award for speculative poetry. Truly an honor. Much love!

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

First Friday - Third Thursday QuickRead 6 authors * 8 minutes each - come find your next favorite read with us!

If you like bite-sized readings that you can listen to in your sweatpants, then I highly suggest you sign up for the Strong Women, Strange Worlds event (link in post below, free to attend) on 7th November! I'll be reading a tasty little treat alongside five fabulous authors.

#SWSWQR

eBook and paperback copy of Pyres with a pull quote from author TC Parker and the kindle unlimited logo.

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered, bought, shared, talked about and reviewed #Pyres on its first weekend. It's been a great start!

Have you stared into the flames yet?

#HorrorBooks #BookSky #IndieAuthor 📚😱
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Good morning! This is our little apple tree. It’s not the tallest tree, it’s not even as tall as I am. It seems to have focused entirely on producing fruit, around 300-400 apples a year. We don’t use any fertilizer, no pesticides and we rarely water it unless it’s brutal hot. And yet here it is. 💚

You have the power to make a difference.

I love it when Mary shows up.

A ridiculous array of Halloween themed donuts including an eyeball, and orange monster, spider, a green monster with candy corn teeth, a purple monster with vampire fangs, Frankenstein’s creature, a ghost, Jack Skellington, a pumpkin, an orange Frankenstein’s monster, a witch hat, a Hello Kitty kitty, a skull, and a purple monster.

Sunday is for donuts and Johnny Cash.

SUP FUCKERS. Always a delight. 🖤

I have no idea what is going on here but utterly intrigued and truly grateful for making the record player in my brain skip and slide off the side.

Ah Banned Books Week - when the power of words is never more obvious. Write on! 🖤🖤🖤

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The bent trunk of an ancient apricot tree hold a multitude of soccer, basketball and footballs in its branches. Arranged? Appeared? We don’t know. What does it mean? We don’t know. Will it happen again? We don’t know except we do because this tree fell over.

Both my children at various points made “Toddler Stonehenges” —
what we called it when they arranged objects into random tableaus around the house or in this case the yard. Why? When? How? Guessing he climbed the tree.
Unless it wasn’t them. Unless it was something else. 🖤🎃👻
#halloween

illustration showing a room with a shadowy ghost hiding behind open double doors that lead to a gloomy hallway and staircase. A small grey cat looks up at the ghost.

just passing through

💗 need to feel good about your parenting skills? Compared to Kimberly you are killing it. Seriously. You’re amazing. Everybody says so.

Cover of Birth and Other Surprises with quotes: The best incentive for birth control a teenager will ever get- June Bowser Barrett “Candidness and authenticity blew me away” - @bookedbyvee_ I hope you have seven more just like you- Kimberly’s mom Honest no holds barred account of childbearing, I laughed so hard I was crying - E Mattingly, Doula Services Basso makes you laugh loud and hard… after that you realize through her humor she brings you deeper into the greater truth. - William Quigley, Joy Bliss This

Forgive me #booksky. If I don’t talk about my books who will?
Birth & Other Surprises is a great read if you:
💗want to make someone laugh until they pee. You, your mom, your friend? Someone you’d like to see ruin their pants?* It’s wide open, your call.

* author does not cover dry cleaning

Cover art: the two illustrations feature a foreboding, wildly framed mirror and a human silhouette in the reflection; and two hands clutching a mysterious organic, vaguely heart-like mass; plus a blurb from M.Shaw.

HUGE NEWS DAY!

We have a new @egallagher.bsky.social SPLIT SCREAM cover to share!

(In lesser news, there's a new T-Swift album! And that is literally all the news.)

Anyway! SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES! Featuring novelettes from @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social

April 2026🖤☠️

Erin was the editor/proofreader for my first book THE NOTHING THAT IS.

Probably that’s why it’s my best selling book. Hire her!

“how easy it is for the media, today, to distort by omission…”

even something as straightforward as “where did you get your inspiration” - his answer didn’t fit, it didn’t make the cut.

A graphic that reads Happy Ctenophore Day in glowing pink text twice between three rows of different ctenophore species. The top row is lobate ctenophores including Bolinopsis microptera, Leucothea pulchra, Mnemiopsis leidy, and the bloody belly comb jelly Lampocteis. The second row has three different Beroe species. The lowest row has Pleurobrachia bachei, Dryodora glandiformis, red-x, and Euplokamis dunlapae.

Happy Ctenophore Day!
🐙🦑🧪

But- would you come back as a ghost if it meant you could finish your TBR?

Oh thank you! It was so much fun. They are an incredible group and the stories today were a blast. I’m glad you were there!

This was so much fun! Will post pics and a link to the recording soon 🖤

Check out
@swsworlds.bsky.social and
@tracytodd-author.bsky.social
@paulinechow.bsky.social
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
@catchingwords.bsky.social as well as Linda Robertson Reinhart

👻 A Gothic Romance Retelling 👻
#FREE 10/3–10/7!
Okiku tends prisoners at Himeji Castle… until love, obsession, and a missing plate unleash one of Japan’s most chilling legends.
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#horror #manga #comic #paranormalromance #writerslift

A newspaper clipping of Boris Karloff‘s guacamole recipe. A photo of Mr. Karloff included.

For your Spooky Season pleasure, here is:
Boris Karloff‘s Guacamole Recipe.

Click below for more! 🖤💀🖤💀

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TCR Talks to Daniel A. Olivas, author of Waiting for Godínez By Pallas Gutierrez The last time The Coachella Review checked in with Daniel A. Olivas, we published a review of his short story collection My Chicano Heart, a work that we described as both experi...

Happy #FridayReads, hermano! Pallas Gutierrez of The Coachella Review interviewed me about my new book, Waiting for Godínez: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (University of New Mexico Press). Enjoy! thecoachellareview.com/2025/10/02/t... #playwriting #writinglife

I need this book. And this puppet. Mask? Whichever.