JP Relph - Novella OUT NOW!

She was born at a riding school so possibly raised in part by ponies 😝

Ghoul in the Pool
Djinn in the Bin

Today, we received our own void baby! 🖤
Happy one year to your lovely girl 🖤

Honoured to be part of anyone’s spooky reading list 😊🖤

Thank you so much, hope you enjoy 🖤

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Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed...
My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
Read all about them here:
matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...

Signed up!

Funerary Racoons?? Could this be what breaks my writing slump? 🙀🦝

The cover wrap for Silent Screams, An Anthology of Quiet Horrors - featuring a striking, surreal illustration by Eric Brenner, depicting a screaming face with far too many eyes. The book blurb states: The most terrifying horror stories don't churn your stomach. They creep like shadows, chilling with a touch. They build dread through atmosphere and emotion, rather than splatter and gore. Welcome to Silent Screams, an anthology of quiet horror stories. Within these pages, you will face strange and twisted scenes, dark and demonic characters, nightmares great and small, written by a host of talented authors from around the world. These are shattering tales of grief and loss, visitations from strange folk, troubled dreams, and cursed artefacts. These are whispers to make your skin crawl and your toes curl. Words to catch your breath and smother screams.

Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

Here are universal links to my two new collections, the novella I wrote with @matgost.bsky.social which is currently only £6.50!, and the cracking anthology from @trashcatlit.bsky.social 🦝

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Impress a badger and save your friends! 😝

Very proud of this beautiful baby! 🦝
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌

Thank you Junebug 💚💚

If you read anything today, read this. Gorgeous soil and fungi prose, masterful worldbuilding 💚

Thrilled to be part of this absolute stunner with my dialogue-driven dystopia, The Book of Anna.
Congrats on your first issue guys 🌟

Love this story so much 💚

2/2
So excited to share pages with writers I love -
@sarahkat.bsky.social
@terryholland.bsky.social @heatherbooknook.bsky.social
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social
and others I can't wait to get familiar with (in a readerly sense, obvs 😀)

@matgost.bsky.social has curated an incredible collection of quiet horror - I'm still blown away to be part of it with my short, Rockabye.
Stunning cover by Eric W. Brenner, don't miss out on this one - preorder for spooky season 🖤

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This is wonderful! Thrift n Write needs to be a thing 😀

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Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th.

We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.

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Those moments are the best because every now and then it pops in your head, and you think ‘ohmygod, I did that’ 😀

Fantastic achievement 🤩

He’s heard you’re helping raise money for wildlife and is looking for an advance 😆🧡

Oh fantastic Joyce 🌟

Autumn Prompts Open until September 26 Shorter days, longer nights, what memories come to mind when the dark creeps in? What rotten thing lurks beneath the surface? As trees lose their leaves, what do people lose, willingly, or not? What does it mean to have autumn without abundance? The four prompts each have an orange leaf behind them. The background is black. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner.

Prompts to get you thinking:
Shorter days, longer nights, what memories come to mind when the dark creeps in?
What rotten thing lurks beneath the surface?
As trees lose their leaves, what do people lose, willingly, or not?
What does it mean to have autumn without abundance?

Awesome! Thank you so much you absolute star 🖤🖤

This was a LOT of work, but I think you'll agree, worth it. I will be lying down now for several days while you get stuck in and read these 25 imaginative, amazing prompted stories 😀💜

Looking forward to people reading this and, you know, if there are any TV show makers out there, I’d watch this show relentlessly 😀