Wyrd Wit

Life has been doing its thing, but I’ve finally created space enough to breathe. Indulging in a lazy morning with a coffee and “Overgrowth” by Mira Grant (@seananmcguire.bsky.social). I love plant aliens 💙📚🩸

Review by wyrdwit - You Did Nothing Wrong You may have been told that this is a haunted house story, but you've been deceived. This is a...

Book: You Did Nothing Wrong
Author: CG Drews @paperfury.bsky.social
Rating: 5/5⭐️
Full Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/24b1...

Monsters are real and, sometimes, even monsters are convinced of their good intentions.🩸📚💙

Review by wyrdwit - Between Two Fires This is a redemption arc of epic proportions and epic failures.This is a path to salvation bat...

Book: Between Two Fires
Author: @buehlmeister.bsky.social
Rating: 5/5 ⭐️
Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/6cc3...

Buehlman has flipped the Script(ure): God has abandoned us to fallen angels. How are a knight, a girl, and a priest to overcome the depravity of this medieval hellscape? 💙📚🩸

Is this what they mean when they say, “That girl has range”? 😂 (It isn’t.)

• “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse
• “Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees” by Patrick Horvath

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This week in the world of Wyrd Wit:

1. Partnering with an author who’s submitting her horror novella into a competition tomorrow.

2. Finishing a beta read for a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel.

3. Wrapping up a buddy read of “Between Two Fires” by @buehlmeister.bsky.social (crying)

Books rule 📚💙🪐🩸

Judge's badge for the 3rd Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (aka SFINCS3). The badge features a black sphinx in front of an open book on a white, circular background.

Thrilled to serve as a judge for #SFINCS3! 💙📚🩸🪐

Indie authors don’t receive the recognition they deserve. #SFINCS encourages indie spec fic authors to share their stories with a community eager to hear them.

Thanks to the 100 authors who took the leap. I feel honored to read your creations.❤️

Don’t mind me. Just over here growing my Le Guin, @sgj.bsky.social, @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social, & @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social collections.

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I kind of laugh at the idea of a "reliable narrator". Have you met people?!

Graphic of August reading wrap-up featuring “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Peculiar Peril” by Jeff VanderMeer, and “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson.

August top reads 📚💙🩸🪐

1. Just a guy with a dream who can’t catch a break. Cue that Chumbawamba track.
2. Beware of secret doors to alternate Earths, talking marmots, and being pouched. You may like the pouch though.
3. I also love my sister, cats, and intimidating those who derail my routine.

Oh, we buddy reading 📚🩸

“Between Two Fires” by @buehlmeister.bsky.social

On average, 9/10 books I read are fiction. Call it escapism, if you must.

With nonfiction, I tend to be drawn to themes of interconnection and equality, which naturally lend themselves to social justice and the natural environment. Hoping for a glimpse of hope in “The Serviceberry” 📚💙💡🌱

“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”

From “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin. The perfect distillation of this novel at its core. 💙📚🪐

The Wheel made me do it. The Wheel knows what I crave. The Wheel is omniscient.

Next ARC read = "You Did Nothing Wrong" by CG Drews 🩸📚 💙📚
@paperfury.bsky.social

#ARCreader #indecisivereader #moodreader

The latest PDX heatwave was followed by overcast skies and #Summerween cravings. You can find me tucked into a corner at the book pub with “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson for company 💙📚 🩸📚

Went to school camp in 6th grade at Alliance Redwoods. It had everything—middle school drama, ropes courses, s’mores, bad impromptu skits around the campfire, and the chance to show off to your classmates by licking a slug.

Tenderly, I am about to devour this raspberry lemon poppyseed donut 🍩 🩸📚

@lkclipstone.bsky.social

Me:

#booksky

July was a month for the horrors.

🇵🇸 📚🩸 📚🪐 📚✒️

@mosababutoha.bsky.social
@sgj.bsky.social
@paperfury.bsky.social

“It was a long and firm hug, as the Comet Man wept tears of flame.” 😭❤️

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social #APeculiarPeril 📚💙

Latest book haul is 🔥

🩸📚 | 💙📚 | 🪐📚

@sgj.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @samjmiller.bsky.social @misterkristoff.bsky.social @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social

Snailed it! 🐌

@piercepress.com love this idea. Making boxes would likely be expensive and time consuming, but I can ask the artist where she sources hers! This is one of her decks: www.instagram.com/p/Clq9JY0pEJ...

“Darker Than the Starless Night” by Rebecca Brodkey on Kindle and a latte with heart-shaped latte art.

Is there really a better way to start the weekend than with coffee and a good book? 😍 @rebeccabrodkey.bsky.social

Here’s my recent #LOTR rebind feat. the One Ring, the two towers, the crown of Gondor, and a bookmark with the 9 rings for mortal men. Be warned: one does not simply transcribe into #Tengwar.

Any guesses on what the back cover says?

#bookbinding #booksky

This year, my friends get a custom hardcover #rebind of their favorite book for their bday. Up next:

• A Death in Door County 🦕 Annelise Ryan (@anneliseryan.bsky.social)
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet 🪉Salman Rushdie
• Borne 🐻 Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social)

#bookbinding #booksky

Website is in stealth mode, but exciting things are on the way! Current #editing projects: a high #fantasy novel, a #romantasy series, a collection of short #horror stories, an oracle deck guidebook, and a tarot deck guidebook (the latter two read more as dark poetry than traditional guidebooks.)

Review by wyrdwit - What Hunger What Hunger is a teeth-gnashing coming-of-age horror story of girlhood disrupted by grief and...

Book: What Hunger
Author: Catherine Dang
Rating: 3.75/5 ⭐️
Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b248...

A teen's well-deserved earlobe appetizer sparks her all-consuming hunger for revenge.

#booksky #horror @simonandschuster.bsky.social

current reads are a mix of the weird and whimsical ✨:

• What Hunger🩸Catherine Dang
• A Peculiar Peril 🦫 Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
requesting approval for beaver/marmot substitute)
• Darker Than the Starless Night 🦌 Rebecca Brodkey (@rebeccabrodkey.bsky.social)

#booksky

Review by wyrdwit - Immaculate Conception This is a story about originality and identity. The fallout from the convergence of art and te...

Book: Immaculate Conception
Author: Ling Ling Huang
Rating: 4.5/5 ⭐️
Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b393...

There's so much to lose when technology hamstrings the creative.

#bookstory