Just a PSA for all my horror writing pals: Jury submissions for 2025 Stoker consideration are open. If you've published something in 2025 and want to submit it for consideration, you can do that now.
horrorwritersassociation.submittable.com/submit
To anyone with a hankerin' for lost causes and mad gods, may I offer you "Blood for Wind"? Check it out at at Swords & Sorcery Magazine:
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/blood-for-wi...
We are open for submissions. Send us a story!
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I did a thing, and that thing was a podcast interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2840...
Are people who are afraid of clowns, afraid of mimes, too? Are they less scary because you can trap them in boxes?
Since an empty feed looks lonely, here's my novella. If you enjoy ice, blood, and madness, it might be for you. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
My favorite thing about writing is when someone sends me a message to tell me the book resonated with them in some way or that they enjoyed it. I still feel awkward about how to answer. How do you thank someone for validating your entire existence as a writer?
Repost with how people know if you suddenly became rich.
A sudden and abundant influx of rescue dogs. I would adopt as many of them as I could get away with. Also, many more bookshelves.
Justin Long rocking out to 90s music in a big ol' haunted house is a genre of TV I didn't know I needed until Goosebumps.
Saturday I attended the Scary Stories Book Fest in Asbury Park. The highlight for me was meeting readers, but also overcoming my nerves and doing a reading from They Are Cursed Like You. I was shaking all over, @claymcleod.bsky.social is a hard act to follow, but I did the thing!
This was a crazy whirlwind of a weekend! Updates soon, but for now, here is this week's newsletter. You are going to want to read the round up this week as it has a free chapter of THIS WRETCHED VALLEY by Jenny Kiefer!
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I'll be in Asbury Park, NJ on October 14th! Stop by and say hi if you're local!
Get to know your mutual, list 10 things you're into:
- Books (obviously)
- Museums and historic sites
- Anything witchy
- Notebooks/pens/stationary
- Coffee
- Autumn
- Hiking
- Dark Academia
- Goblincore vibes
- Mulled wine
My witchy horror novel, They Are Cursed Like You, the first book in the Trailer Park Witches series www.amazon.com/They-Are-Cur...
Join us for some spooky reading and a Q&A!
Get on this one, people!
Bisexual stories 🌈📚 often disappear in the algorithms that decide our place in search engines and marketplaces.
Time again for our weekly thread to share #bi #books and #art below!
Readers, share your faves!
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#author #writingcommunity #queer
Would you like to win a paperback copy of my book? Here's your chance!
That's more like it! :)
Day Tripper Medley
Cinnamon Girl (cover)
I mean, you really need a top ten.
Woah! Starting your own imprint is huge! Congrats!
Congrats on so many great things. I hope you like the new job!
So far this year I:
- attended StokerCon for the first time
- had my debut (co-written) novel published
- got paid to sit on a spec fiction panel
- was interviewed by my local paper
- curated 2 anthologies
What about you? What are you proud of accomplishing in 2023?
Me trying to figure out TikTok:
You should share your approach with new writers! Otherwise we miss out on different story/prose types. There is a writer out there who thinks they are doing it wrong and needs to hear your method to know they aren't.
One week until the release of FROST BITE so I did one of those arrow things! Look- so pointy! So curly!
Preorder FROST BITE now🥶🖤🥶 linktr.ee/angelasylvaine
I loved this book!
Penny is more interested in being cute than actually hiking.
