Kay Chronister

with the caveat that the lovely folks at Counterpoint have already lined up a lot for me and i am also hopefully giving birth 30 days after the book comes out, so i have to be mindful of what i take on, i would love to chat! so please reach out!! 3/3

i have a background as a gothic scholar and i am down to discuss horror, the gothic, weird fiction, eco fiction, bog ecology, and unhappy families. 2/3

hello friends! long time no post. :-) my bog-gothic family drama THE BOG WIFE will hit shelves October 1, so we are entering promo season! if you have a podcast, book blog, etc. and you would be interested in an interview or having me write something, please reach out!! via dm or email. 1/3

emerging from the mire to say that today through Friday, @BNBuzz members get 25% off all pre-orders - an excellent time to pick up a copy of THE BOG WIFE and prepare for swamp hag autumn 🐸

Not to be missed!

would love to have my publisher send a copy over to Reckoning for review when we have more of them!

Six galleys: The Haunting of velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste, Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda, Oracle by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, A Mask of Flies by Matt Lyons, The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister, Midnight on Beacon Street by Emily Ruth Verona

hell of a good few weeks for book mail over here (feat. @cannibalghosts.bsky.social, @kaychronister.bsky.social, & @emilyrverona.bsky.social)

she’s beautiful 🥲

thanks for saying so: exactly why I felt like it was worth posting!

Thanks Andrew - really great to hear that.

thanks Michael - you as well!

on my website, a year in review featuring nothing i published last year, but some thoughts on being slow, producing nothing, and gestation:
kaychronister.com/year-in-review

emerging from social media hibernation momentarily to say: booksellers, librarians! (maybe others?) i have heard a rumor that digital arcs of THE BOG WIFE are now available on edelweiss. come on in, the water is brackish and full of generational trauma 💫

thank you!! they’re very different books but i think DC fans will find some familiar territory!

emerging from social media hibernation momentarily to say: booksellers, librarians! (maybe others?) i have heard a rumor that digital arcs of THE BOG WIFE are now available on edelweiss. come on in, the water is brackish and full of generational trauma 💫

love this reading of Bartleby and weird fiction — unsettlement is what almost all my favorite writers do and what i strive for.

i love her so much

Every Throne Will Fall Slightly belated announcement of my second novel, RAKESFALL, and an essay on the dire necessity for writers to do their work, and to know what work to do, in the face of horror.

I finally wrote up most of my twitter threads on Palestine and writing from recent weeks into a short essay (combined with my belated-for-my-website cover reveal announcement) talking about ways to think about the politics of your art

"I cannot explain it other than to say that something within me opened and I found depths inside of myself, unformed and unfilled, populated then only by naïve darkness but already susceptible to occupation."

#sfstoryoftheday by @kaychronister.bsky.social in @undertow.bsky.social's Weird Horror.

Thank you for reading! 🤍

my latest short story with “Weird Horror” is now online, should you find yourself in the mood for some piano horror

Y'all Wanna See a Death of the Author Body? On the ways the corpse of the author is being bent out of shape

Ranted a bit about art, interpretation, and the ways the corpse of the author is being bent out of shape these days... countercraft.substack.com/p/yall-wanna...

💯 it’s unmistakable

update: my dissertation advisor has weighed in. it’s cooked

update: my dissertation advisor has weighed in. it’s cooked

LOL I love this review. All I needed to know

yeah the last episode is where i went from meh to very frustrated. it was as if they felt the text needed fixing!

I’m sure it’s at least partly Netflix pressure. Didn’t really think about that!

“it has corn syrup in its veins instead of blood” is so real!!!