C.J. Goldberg

Picturing you as Lt. Dan right now cursing the storm and cooking your wings. Lol.

Dealing with the exact same thing right now. $62,000 bill or nothing, depending on how things pan out. Bureaucracy is stupid and none of this matters. Head up. Just money and money is imaginary. Good luck to you!

Making eggplant Parmesan. Very drunk. Life is goooood. 😁

My wife, who has described The Lost Boys as being too scary, has agreed to a Halloween horror movie.

What should we watch?

Why is Max Schreck as Count Orlok on the cover of Dracula? That's what I want to know. Lol.

Happy Halloween! My story "Neighborhood Decorations" is out today in the Trembling with Fear Halloween Special. Check it out!

Thinking about how small details illuminates character...

Almost every morning I have a Caffe Americano (Long Black) followed by a large cup of instant coffee with milk and sugar.

What the hell does that say about me as a character? Lol.

@jrblanes.bsky.social's awesome debut novel is out today! Check it out! Please reskeet to share the news!

I worked at a poker dealer for 14 years. If anyone ever needs to make sure the poker game in their fiction rings true, feel free to reach out.

I also make sourdough and know how to distill alcohol...

What practical knowledge do you have that would help other writers?

Hollow Knight, Dark Souls, and the Catharsis of Post-Empire Fantasy Because when you inhabit a crumbling empire, I guess all you want to do is stomp around one that's already crumbled.

Newsletter drop! @bryanpedersen.bsky.social's been telling me to get this done for ages. It still took a month. Herein we've got Hollow Knight, Silksong, Dark Souls, Yahweh, and America mashed up together in an unholy bundle of post-imperial #horror fantasy, plus a few choice words for fascists.

Subscribed!

For like 15-20 years this was Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 for me. Then a couple years ago they rebranded as a luxury shoe and increased their pricing by $100, so I had to stop buying them. I'm still mad about it and yet to find an acceptable replacement. 🤬

I took some time off submitting short stories—had a rough go with life shit there for awhile and couldn't handle rejections on top of it. But now I'm back to the grind.

*Nails spike into wall*

I'm ready.

Thanks Jeff! Btw, your new website looks great!

At a bookstore in France that is featuring my books
If you're seeing this post and you are an aspiring artist know this..I grew up in a trailer in rural Virginia. My mom was disabled. We had very little money
But today my books are all around the world, nothing is impossible if u really want it💙

Happy Halloween Month! Hope it's filled with the good kind of scary and not the current shitty kind. 🎃🦇👻💀

Tonight on Fermented Fiction we debate one of the most 90s-ass trilogies of all time. You've got katanas, sexy vampires, one-man armies taking on corrupt corporate entities bent on ressurecting old gods... what else could you need?

How about an appearance from Brian McAuley?

Link in the commments

I'm stupid excited for my friend JR's debut novel. We've been part of a small critique group for several years, and I've seen first hand the passion, talent, and hard work he put into making this book a reality. Portraits of Decay is awesome and deserves to be read! Please pre-order and share!

My dog had a UTI. I took her to the Vet and said, "My dog has a UTI and needs antibiotics." What did they do? They said it was a UTI and gave me antibiotics. Oh, and charged me $650.00.

The ones that go in are lean and thin.
The ones that come out are fat and stout.
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out.
Your brains come tumbling down your snout.
They eat your eyes and they eat your nose.
They eat the jelly between your toes...

I'm a big fan of Keith Rosson's work. Fever House, The Devil by Name, and Smoke City are really good as well. If you like Coffin Moon, definitely check out his other stuff.

Started Coffin Moon last night. Great book so far!

I used to narrate audiobooks... My one pointer, if you're not using "punch and roll" you should look into it. It saves a ton of time.

Coffin Moon: A Novel A Novel

Uhhhh, just heard that Coffin Moon is already being reprinted. One day after pub. THANK YOU ALL, holy shit.

bookshop.org/p/books/coff...

A light-colored background features torn wrapping paper in black on the vertical edges. There’s an orange bow in the upper right corner. A black and white polaroid of J.R. Blanes is accented with an illustration of an orange and black party hat. Orange and black text reading “Happy Birthday” appears beneath the photo. The Portraits of Decay paperback sits to the right of this. The Ruadán Books logo appears in the upper left of the graphic.

Happy birthday to our author @jrblanes.bsky.social!

Why not give him the gift of pre-ordering his debut horror novel Portraits of Decay?

links.ruadanbooks.com/pod

Painted in occult rituals gone wrong and the Southern Gothic, this book asks: why ruin a painting when you can ruin a soul?

#BookSky

I think y’all are gonna just LOVE Tommy the Leg. He ain’t no witch, but things might’ve turned out better for everyone if he had been…

Box of Goosebumps books.

Unpacking... This box makes me happy.

Can't wait to see what you do with a novel. Loved Greener Pastures and The Inconsolables.

I'd love a "Warning: Trigger Warnings on next page" so I could skip them.

I understand why they exist, but I don't want to know if the dog dies because either way it kills the tension for me.