@danielolivas.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Recent books: CHICANO FRANKENSTEIN; MY CHICANO HEART; WAITING FOR GODÍNEZ. Website: https://danielolivas.com
In Wolf Worm, T. Kingfisher is once again giving me everything I want from one of her horror novels: a strong, funny female hero, science doing unexpected things, and Gothic elements. #BookSky TY #NetGalley and @macmillanaudio.bsky.social for the review copy. Full review:
22.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Yes! And it's held on the beautiful University of Arizona campus, too. I love this book festival.
21.02.2026 17:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Join us at the Tucson Festival of Books on Saturday, March 14, for our panel, "Carrying Home: Migration Memories." I will discuss my latest book, Waiting for Godínez, an immigration play published by the University of New Mexico Press. #immigration #playwriting
21.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Promo image showing the front cover of The Long Con, and 3 smaller covers of the 3 books that make up the omnibus - The Debt, The Push and The Remembrance Copy reads: 3 Sapphic Thrillers 1 Long Con
Thanks Gabino!
My sapphic grifter-thriller omnibus, The Long Con, is now available direct from the Nefarious Bat webstore
It's 3 novels in 1 - perfect for fans of Widows, Ocean's 11, Leverage... and lesbians doing crime in 90s London
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Frankenstein retellings from @joshrountree.bsky.social and @danielolivas.bsky.social, lyrical prose from @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social, and more literary horror recs! #BookSky #HorrorSky #FilmSky
20.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1
Happy #FridayReads, hermano! Here is my essay in Horror Homeroom on my noirish horror/thriller manuscript which is a follow-up to my 2024 novel, Chicano Frankenstein: "On Transformation and Addiction in My Novel-in-Progress, Chicana Werewolf" www.horrorhomeroom.com/on-transform... #Werewolf
20.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share some books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a book full of friendship and love…and creatures from beyond the reef, santería, and vengeance.
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How ICE insulted 28 Mexican immigrants who died in a 1948 plane crash.
www.latimes.com/california/n... #immigrants #history #ICE
Deal Alert: HAUNTED SPACE: PARADISE FOR EXTINCTION. A sci-fi/horror novel pitched as The Expanse meets Lovecraft Country. A universe filled with werewolves, space pirates, vampires, faeries, doomsday cults. Even the Yeti. Appreciate @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for giving my second novel a home.
02.11.2025 15:16 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
#ICYMI Pallas Gutierrez of The Coachella Review interviewed me about my absurdist #immigration play, Waiting for Godínez, published by the University of New Mexico Press. I will be a guest at the Tucson Festival of Books to discuss it. thecoachellareview.com/2025/10/02/t... #playwriting
20.02.2026 15:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover. Naoya Shiga, A Dark Night's Passing
Author photo. Naoya Shiga
“It was beyond him to resign himself to some simple, cynical generality about life. Had he been able to do so, he would have been more comfortable. But because he could not, the heaviness in his heart persisted.”
– Naoya Shiga #botd
#books #literature #naoyashiga
Remember that nothing can stop you from writing (or anything else!). Not rejection, not a bad day, not another pass from an agent, not a negative review, not these fascists, not even that awful voice in your head. No matter what happens, you can always write, so do that.
20.02.2026 00:22 — 👍 76 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 1
Book cover. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde. Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay
Author photo. Audre Lorde
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
– Audre Lorde #botd
#books #literature #audrelorde #poet #writer #activist
#ICYMI My essay in Zócalo Public Square:
Who Is the Real Monster in Frankenstein? Mary Shelley’s Novel and Its Many Adaptations Challenge Us to Explore Bias and Belonging.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/real-monster... #Frankenstein
Kate Deimling (The Story of the Marquis de Cressy by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni) tells @jackewilson.bsky.social about an eighteenth-century Frenchwoman who was a bestseller in her day, but whose best novels are only now available in English, after more than 200 years. #books @modernlanguage.bsky.social
19.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Senators decry surge in deaths at #ICE detention facilities, citing poor medical care. Senate Democrats cited a rise in #immigration detention deaths since the start of the Trump administration, questioning oversight, medical care and facility expansion.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Join me and HWA Lifetime Achievement Award winner and SFPA Grandmaster Linda Addison in Santa Fe on Sunday where you can pick up Dual Cosmologies, a limited-run chapbook exclusive to this event. Only 60 copies. I'll have 6 reprints, never collected, and two new poems exclusive to this chapbook.
19.02.2026 05:49 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Ten books by Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, Paradise, Love, A Mercy, Home
Author photo. Toni Morrison
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
– Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize Lecture 1993
#botd #books #literature #tonimorrison
A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia. www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/p... #dystopias #history #Orwell
17.02.2026 03:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ the Titular Scientist Laments His Nightmarish Creation. But the Real World Can’t Get Enough of His Monster. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-m... #Frankenstein #MaryShelley
17.02.2026 00:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”
– Mary Shelley
@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to poet and biographer Fiona Sampson (In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl who Wrote Frankenstein) about the new book Mary Shelley in Bath.
#books #literature @manderleypress.bsky.social
Really enjoyed editing this episode of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social! Matt and Amy have a super lively discussion full of plenty of awesome reading recs 🎉
09.01.2026 11:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Trump immigration sweeps upended L.A.’s economy, with some businesses losing big. The report found that 82% of businesses reported negative impacts from immigration enforcement, with 44% losing more than half their revenue. www.latimes.com/california/s... #immigration #LosAngeles #ICE
15.02.2026 15:55 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Mil gracias to Arizona Illustrated and @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social for producing my poem "Everybody Dance." Producer Ozlem Ayser Ozgur was amazingl as we worked out ideas, settings, and music. And big thanks to my hubz for his dj cameo, lighting and disco set.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTsj...
A wonderful episode of The History of Literature with host Jacke Wilson and guest Leo Damrosch on Robert Louis Stevenson. I fondly remember reading Treasure Island and Kidnapped as a young boy. Enjoy!
open.spotify.com/episode/2i2p... @holpod.bsky.social #readinglife #books
How Reading for a Lit Mag Improved My Writing.
"...reading so much flash in such a short time..." —Kate Levin litmagnews.substack.com/p/how-readin... #WritingCommunity #writing
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This Valentine’s Day, give love and books.
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