My meager but mighty book haul from AuthorCon. Thanks to Nick, Atlas, Brad, Aaron, and David for sharing their stories with me… and a super special thanks to super-cool Cassandra for my contributor copy of the WITH TEETH anthology, featuring my little werewolf lullaby “the baby on the moon.”
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The First Annual Running of the Authors (with @claymcleod.bsky.social). Photo by @manylittlewords.bsky.social
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Can we just say AuthorCon is the best? Brian Keene & Joe Ripple, every staff member & volunteer has put together something special. They let me use the bullhorn! Thanks to every reader who hung out at our table, to every author who put up with me, and to those who make horror a safe haven.
02.03.2026 01:02 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HAPPY BIRTHDAY
02.03.2026 00:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Waiting for my 0.1 sticker for doing this run! 💪
01.03.2026 17:35 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0THE 1ST ANNUAL AUTHORCON RUNNING OF THE AUTHORS #authorcon
01.03.2026 17:28 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1Last night’s red carpet for the Irish premiere of our film THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR at The Dublin International Film Festival. Director Glenn McQuaid and actors Chris Colfer, Alice Krige, Declan Reynolds, Matthew McMahon and Gabriela Garcia Vargas getting handsy. Not in attendance: meeeeeeee
01.03.2026 13:57 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Raise a glass, AuthorCon…
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Recreating The Seventh Seal with Max Von Chapman at AuthorCon #authorcon #scaresthatcare
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Our queer killer hand movie THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR has its Irish premiere tonight at The Dublin International Film Festival. Cast and crew are in attendance. Wish I could be there. Congrats, everyone!
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So AuthorCon started off with a bang today and I didn’t take any pictures! But I brought Jasper with me and we set up a chess set for him to challenge convention goers to play him. He’s ready to compete Saturday and Sunday… so come by and face the master blaster! #authorcon #scaresthatcare
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“I’m convinced Annie Neugebauer is an apothecary of dread, an archaic chemist capable of constructing disquieting tales that attack the very fabric of my being. The assortment of stories found within You Have to Let Them Bleed are agents of trepidation, fast-moving, panic-inducing narrative narcotics that only a master craftsman of horror could prescribe.” —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
The great @claymcleod.bsky.social weighs in on @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's forthcoming collection, YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED.
This is going to be one of the biggest collections of the year, folks. Get in on it early.
www.amazon.com/You-Have-Let...
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Really bummed at the timing and that I couldn’t make it. 🦋🦋
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Share your demon’s sweet nothings with Clay. #booksky
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27.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The "Undertone" trailer is badass, and I can't wait to read this cover story! Plus (ahem) this issue includes my review of the @claymcleod.bsky.social novella "Bodies of Work."
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Super Secret AuthorCon Special: I have 10 copies of BODIES OF WORK and the paperback edition of WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES available this weekend and this weekend only. First come, first served, no holds. Whisper the codeword “butterfly girls” and it can be yours! Be the envy of all your enemies!
27.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1You can DM it to me!
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I love my ARCs for DEVIL INSIDE. These are for blurbing purposes and giveaways. Want one? Write a love letter to your personal demon by March 18th. Top 3 will get one. (True story: There was a mysterious copy of Simone St. James in the package of ARCs… Why? How? Who? Huh?)
27.02.2026 01:29 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1So happy
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Quick! Someone help Clay. He’s trapped in a horrormance pile and can’t get out!!
Wait. It turns out he’s okay and a happy spooky boy where he is.
#HorrorSky #BookSky
I’m just a spooky boy who finally got ARCs for his spooky horrormance novel
26.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1Not just one of my favorite quotes of Chapman's, but one of my all time favorite quotes from *any* author.
25.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Beautiful.
25.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0No topping this one
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poetry
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Our freshest ep of Fearmongers is now live and listenable! Fostering Your Horror Community w/ Lindy Ryan, V. Castro, Saratoga Schaefer & Chris Panatier
Apple: bit.ly/471bMT5
Spotify: bit.ly/4rDvo8d
Amazon: bit.ly/4rBHtL5
YouTube: bit.ly/4aBfXaz
MASSIVE THANKS to everyone who showed up at The Twisted Spine last night!
Grateful for @claymcleod.bsky.social and @natcassidy.bsky.social for their support. It’s nice to have friends who know what it’s like to be on the hustle for what they love!
I’ve also been told recent sales.. .THANK YOU 😭
Vibe with your tribe…
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Thank you Titan Books for giving all these stories a home. Means the world to me. @titanbooks.bsky.social
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