After being delayed in Chicago for almost two weeks, the signature sheets for @lairdbarron.bsky.social's limited-edition hardcover of NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT are expected to hit my doorstep today. I'll make sure the packing is still looking good and then get them to the printer for insertion.
We've updated our eBooks page at the Bad Hand Books website.
Buy all of our titles, including our latest from @alexgrecian.bsky.social @annieneugebauer.bsky.social and @toddkeisling.com directly from us! It's super easy (and we love direct sales).
badhandbooks.com/ebooks
Absolutely *do* believe the reviews for Pixernia.
It still echoes. Extraordinary book.
It was my honour to illustrate it.
An array of creepy, sepia-toned illustrations.
The front cover of Pixerina: A Haunting features a ghostly figure looming over an old house.
Pixerina: A Haunting by @joanneanderton.bsky.social, illustrated by @tomsbrown.bsky.social is just ONE WEEK AWAY!
"The ending of this one left me shaken."
Shirley Jackson Award finalist, @brackenmacleod.bsky.social, author of Closing Costs and Let Not Your Sorrow Die.
Pre-order your copy.
This series from @badhandbooks.bsky.social is so much fun! I’m starting on issue 6, which is year 13 after a mysterious plague/pandemic (?) called The Reds. @benjaminpercy.bsky.social is the author behind this and Stephen King contributes. I’m intrigued!
#booksky
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
"A good blend of 'Salem's Lot and IT, but feels very distinct in its own voice."
So says the latest Goodreads review of @toddkeisling.com's DEVIL's CREEK, available now in a new glossy Bad Hand edition.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/66...
Hi Bill--Thanks for letting me know. Please go ahead and email us for a replacement. I appreciate your consideration in waiting. Happy to help!
also- THIS.
(no apologies for the volume)
I like this line from the latest Goodreads review of THE BOATMAN a lot:
"It works on a reader the way a long Sunday works on a person who is avoiding a phone call."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
The new audiobook's here! The new audiobook's here!
Hey hey! The audio version of THE BOATMAN by @alexgrecian.bsky.social is available now. Read by the fantastic Sean Hopkins and Patricia Santomasso.
www.amazon.com/Audible-The-...
ICYMI
Ah yes--that's actually better than ours.
The German word for the feeling that is simultaneously "You're welcome" and "I'm sorry." There's gotta be a German word for that somewhere around here.
He will follow you to the ends of the earth! But first, the bathroom.
I typed THE BLOATMAN accidentally just now and I'm thinking that's a waaaaaaayyyy different book than THE BOATMAN by @alexgrecian.bsky.social.
ICYMI
Reminder: Pre-orders are LIVE for the hardcover version of THE END TIMES.
badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
I hear that. I’m mostly unemployable in South Dakota because I refuse to engage in fascism.
Sidewalk art at Bad Hand HQ, courtesy of my daughters.
The latest Goodreads review of @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED says, "These are horror stories to get stuck in your brain, where they will linger and fester..."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Authenticity is free.
Christina says @alexgrecian.bsky.social's THE BOATMAN is, "Possibly the MUST READ of the year."
We agree.
www.uncomfortablydark.com/post/4-19-26...
If you've agreed to read a manuscript for the purposes of giving feedback and then feed it through ChatGPT to produce the feedback, you are the devil. Don't do that to your creative friends. It's not only unethical, it would put them in violation of no-AI clauses in contracts (including ours).
THE END TIMES digital subscribers: Watch your email inboxes today for Issue 6.
Niche post alert: AJ Pierzynski talking smack about Joe Mauer in the Fox broadcast booth is peak AJ Pierzynski.
I think one big reason the xenomorph is unforgettable is because it’s an abomination that kills us while wearing the expression of someone changing a particularly stinky diaper. We disgust it. Our existence disgusts it.
