Death Maidens: 9780593953877 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Legends of the fearsome shieldmaidens of Valhalla, the Valkyries, take surprising modern twists in this fantasy anthology featuring short stories from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher...

Preorder:
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#newbook #valkyrie #anthology #norsemythology

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With stories by: Kelley Armstrong Eugen Bacon Kendare Blake Jim Butcher KC Grifant Charlaine Harris Kim Harrison Kevin Hearne Henry Herz Stephen Graham Jones Richard Kadrey Jonathan Maberry & Wayne Brady David Mack Seanan McGuire Yvonne Navarro Madeleine Roux Maggie Stiefvater Catherine Stine Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle Foreword by Ilona Andrews

ICYMI - cover reveal! I am beyond pleased to be part of the “and more” for this awesome anthology edited by Henry Herz ⚔️

My story, “Mother Knows Best,” features an off-duty Valkyrie who has to make an impossible choice between honor and family.

Now Available - cover of DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL by Jendia Gammon. Features an old 80s mall with 3 kids and a warlock.

At last! DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL, my very own @chooseadventure.bsky.social book, is now available! Enter a spooky, abandoned 80s mall overtaken by a warlock from another dimension, if you dare! Perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons! Get it from your favorite bookshop!

Happy pub day!!! 🎉

Using Awards Lists As a RA Tool: National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Edition This is part of my ongoing series on using Awards Lists as a RA tool.  Click here for all posts in the series  in reverse chronological orde...

I will be on the road most of today but before I head out, here is my post on using the @nationalbook.bsky.social 5 Under 35 lists as a resource:

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Working on Stoker Con's virtual panels this year, I've met so many more creators, editors, publishers & supporters, and I'm ever more convinced, the Horror Community is the best community. Why? As @joe-hill.bsky.social says, horror isn't about sadism. "The really effective horror is about empathy."

#Coverreveal!!

My story “Mother Knows Best” will be in this! ⚔️🪽

You can preorder at the link below:

This was so fun!!

Screen shot of the panelist "So You Want to Edit an Anthology." 2 row of 3. Going left to right and listing the names each person included on screen. Top row: Becky Siegel Spratford (she/her), Jamal Hodge- Bestiary f Blood, Richard Thomas he/him, KC Grifant, James Chambers, Kristy Park Kulski (she/her).

Recorded the Virtual StokerCon panel "So You Want to Edit and Anthology" yesterday with this crew. Can't wait for people to see it. Thanks to @igreggreene.bsky.social for running the show. @kcgrifant.bsky.social @richardthomas.bsky.social, Kristy Park Kulski, James, Chambers, and Jamal Hodge.

Cover of Women of the Weird West. Sharp teeth gape wide over a desert canyon scene.

Testament of Youth cover. Image of a WW1 nurse.

Bombyx cover. Drink bottles blending in with vibrant night time cityscape.

My reading has been so varied this past week. Finished Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth (library book club read), @kcgrifant.bsky.social's excellent Women of the Weird West & now I'm about to dive into R.C. Matheson's Bombyx for @horrortree.com 😊

#booksky #amreading

So glad you enjoyed it!! 🤠

Update! I’ll be at the #LATFOB from 12-3 tomorrow (Sat)! Stop by the Horror Writers Association table # 912 for lots of deliciously devious books! 🧟‍♀️

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Looking for a weekend audiobook? My western horror adventure MELINDA WEST: MONSTER GUNSLINGER features monster hunters and supernatural intrigue! This adventure is available on all audio and library platforms 🎧🎙️

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#audiobook #fantasybook #weirdwest

Strong Women Strange Worlds presents Third Thursday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by Jenaiya Delavega Nina Shepardson Val Evermech Sage Tyrtle Jamie Krakover Ayida Shonibar April 16, 7:30pm EDT Free On Zoom

Coming TONIGHT! Check us out at our new time, 7:30 p.m. EDT. Six authors, six stories, endless fun! Sign up below to get a reminder and the link! #SWSWQR

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Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”

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#SanDiego, save the date for a fabulous event with a fabulous author! I am looking forward to chatting with @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social about her new book and all things horror!

May 13 at 7pm
@mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social

#horrorauthors #SoCal #newbooks

Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

11 hours until submissions close. No pressure (please check the guidelines). translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

📢 Open Call for Horror
Extremely Weird Splatter

📅 Open through May 15
💰 $0.08/word (funding contingent)
📏 1,500–5,000 words

Theme: weird fiction fused with extreme horror and splatterpunk.

🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#WritingCommunity #WeirdFiction #Splatterpunk

Exactly 💯

Promo post for the upcoming choose your own adventure book by Jendia Gammon, DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL. Text reads: A toxic spill rendered your local mall hazardous-or at least, that's what your parents told you… ON SALE 04.21. 2026

And now, one week to DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL, my @chooseadventure.bsky.social book out April 21!

Women of the Weird West NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

Reminder - my upcoming anthology, WOMEN OF THE WEIRD WEST, is on #Netgalley! Ideal for readers who enjoy supernatural westerns, dark fantasy, cosmic horror, #feministhorror, historical reimaginings and speculative fiction.

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#bookreviewers #ARC #weirdwest

Weird West Author Spotlight: Grace R. Reynolds Learn more about Weird West author Grace R. Reynolds and her book Neon Moon.

Yeehaw! A new #WeirdWest profile is up! You don’t want to miss this one:

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6 book covers in white, blue, yellow, green, red, and pink with silhouettes of feminine figures on the covers

ENDS TUES 4/14 @ 11AM PDT

#FundraiserPerk This GUNNIE ROSE book set is a treasure! Outlander meets True Blood in this series. All books are signed and personalized by CHARLAINE HARRIS!

Donate at https://twp.ai/9OVDcv or via the link in our bio!

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Looking forward to the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend!! You can find me and other awesome horror writers at the HWA booth 912. I’ll be there on Saturday from 12-2!

#LATFOB #horror

Get your submissions in before the end of the month

Exactly!

Beta reader: “What drugs were you on when you wrote this story??”

Me: “Just my own weird brain…” 🫠

#writing #writinglife

I would rather have an imperfect, awkward response that you took an iota of effort to write than a polished-perfect reply from AI 🥲

Amazing Stories July 1929

hat with bears flying through the air

Couldn't be there due to work BUT I'm an Amazing Stories fan! Enough that I made this hat recreating the cover to the July 1929 issue.

That’s awesome!! 🤩