John Picacio

I’m gonna have to check it out. Never heard of it ‘til Compton mentioned it in his acknowledgments. Curious how many people tonight will know it.

Upper: A still from THE NORLISS TAPES. Lower: Headshots of Compton and Picacio flanking the cover of Compton’s new novel DEAD FIRST.

TONIGHT. @nowherebookshop.bsky.social. 6pm.

@comptonwrites.bsky.social and I will celebrate the #BookBirthday for his noir horror novel #DeadFirst. Discover what The Norliss Tapes are. Find out how to become unkillable. Get your books signed. See you there. ✊🏽

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Photo of I Will Not Be Scared picture book

Photo of the dedication page of I Will Not Be Scared

This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right)

#kidlit

Yeah we’re gonna need you to be 99.999% less reasonable. Your constituents are being kidnapped in the streets, disappeared, and murdered, the minimum acceptable response is hair on fire rage and the voting record to back it up.

San Antonio horror author Johnny Compton to discuss latest novel at Nowhere Bookshop The Bram Stoker Award-nominated Compton will talk about his book Dead First with SA-based writer and illustrator John Picacio.

I’m gonna be at @comptonwrites.bsky.social’s Book Birthday Tuesday night at @nowherebookshop.bsky.social. See you there, #SanAntonio Horror Folx! www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Currently re-reading / studying BWS’ MONSTERS, after first experiencing it last fall. One of the best graphic novels ever. And puts to shame most prose novels I’ve read since. Thanks for posting this excerpt. 💪🏽

Covers of FANTASTIC FOUR #98 and CREEPY #91.

Two scores from today’s discount box diggings — any day when you come home with classic Kirby, Frazetta, Berni Wrightson, Jeff Jones, John Severin, Wally Wood, Alex Toth, and Neal Adams is a good day.

Love this. Thank you! 🙏🏽👊🏽

I’ll be Johnny’s conversation partner that night and we’ll be doing Q&A, but one answer I can give right now — I am NOT the cover artist on this book and that’s not my cover. 🙂 Just finished reading the ARC and it’s an incredible read. You’re gonna love it. 🔥🔥🔥 /2 cc: @sacurrent.bsky.social

Graphic promoting Johnny Compton’s upcoming appearance at Nowhere Bookshop for his new novel DEAD FIRST.

🧵 Horror Folx: @comptonwrites.bsky.social’s new novel DEAD FIRST releases next Tuesday & you’re invited to his Book Birthday Party @ @nowherebookshop.bsky.social. Even if you don’t live in the 210, preorder signed 1st-edition hardcovers from Nowhere. They ship! nowherebookshop.com/book/9780593... 1/

I have space available in my editing calendar, and I'd love to fill these spots. I do developmental editing of novels and novellas. More info and contact link here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing

Graphic depicting the cover of THE INVISIBLE PARADE and its listing on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List.

The 2025 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List released this weekend — and THE INVISIBLE PARADE is amongst the selected in “Illustrated and Art Books”. Congrats to all! Locus Awards voting begins now — deadline April 1st. 👀 Voting open to all: poll.voting.locusmag.com cc: @lbschool.bsky.social

Heeeeyyy! Thank you, Paul! Your post was how I first heard while GoHing at AggieCon. More later. Appreciate you! 🙌🏽

This weekend!

Graphic featuring John Picacio’s ‘La Calavera’ art and his 2026 AggieCon schedule.

I’m Artist Guest of Honor at this weekend’s #AggieCon in #CollegeStation along with Author GoH @marthawells.com. Here’s where to find me. There will be Lotería. ✊🏽 And there will be a limited supply of signed copies of THE INVISIBLE PARADE at the @austinbooks.bsky.social booth!

Site's back up, #booksky! I would have shared earlier, but I wanted to make my own purchase first in case it went down. I'm not even sorry.

I just tried to phone in a book order to DreamHaven & spoke to Greg, he's swamped with orders (book people are THE BEST) but the website's still down. If you're local and web-savvy and available to work with them to address the shop's web woes, give them a call—they could use some help!

Thank you for sharing, @christl.bsky.social. The story isn’t just about Greg, but all of you who have reached out to him and DreamHaven Books. If you’ve been trying to order books from them, or you did order this weekend — watch this and feel good. ✊🏽

Watched the announcements live. Congratulations on a huge day, Cynthia. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

For sure! Love your work, Jill. ✊🏽

Good luck over there, John. Hope you all are able to get the DreamHaven website up and running again soon. All best to you, Greg and the staff. Stay well. 💪🏽

Today I’m helping out at my job from 20+ years ago, helping Greg & the DreamHaven crew ship books across the country to folks who inundated their webstore after seeing him on TV.

Website is still down, but later try DreamHavenbooks.com for all your sci-fi, horror, fantasy, film, & comics needs!

Heeeyyyy! Thank you, Claire! 🙌🏽

Thank you, Janny!

Heeeyyy!! Thank you, Preeti!

Thank you, Rae!

Thank you, Kat!

Appreciated, sir! 🙏🏽