My usual morning ritual...
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My new novel/novella (it's 46k, call it what you want) has settled into a June release. I'll have a COVER REVEAL and a couple blurbs for you in a few days. YAY!!!!
So excited!!
This are? R. Crumb, of course.
Good morning?
Available in two editions--a gorgeous trade paperback and a pay-what-you-can eBook. ❤️
Monday's in a mood. Looks like I'm going to have to talk it down.
Afterwards, I have errands. Later, there will be Words.
Shall we get to it?
This art comes courtesy of Ali Warren.
"The world tells itself it is “normal” and pretty and entitled to have nice things. Horror says, 'Let’s remove these bandages and take a look, shall we?'"
Thanks again to Ivy Grimes for interviewing me during Women in Horror Month. Ivy's latest, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR is available now.
The latest #blog post. Because I'll be getting you a new one again...next week. Going to be consistent, what with the new novel coming out soon.
Anyway, this one's got my massive Covid poem in it. Heavy, rough stuff.
Enjoy?
;-)
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Women in Horror month? It’s a year round deal for me. Here’s a couple of just received purchases. I’m already deep into the Elsby book. 😅📖
Inspiration for all the writers...
Wait! What?
Hahaha...
Let me get writing.
Saturday goals...along with writing, seeing my son, surfing on the Milky Way, exploring the caves of Mars, and probably having pizza.
This art comes courtesy of Jose David Morales.
Reposting for the evening crowd.
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Listening to a live performance by BRUIT ≤ from last September.
Phenomenal "cinematic post-rock."
Just really damn good!
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Allow me to really mess with your head this morning, friends.
This new blog post was written March 19-20, 2020. Yes, exactly six years ago. Just when Covid was hitting its stride...
Read it if you dare.
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David Bowie kicking off my morning, with Mick Ronson's muscular guitar leading the way.
I have errands to run, but afterwards there will be Words.
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Holding a copy of WRETCH
My first novel published by Simon & Schuster comes out in exactly one week!!!! AHHHHH I’m terrified, overjoyed, nervous, and ridiculously excited all at once… I hope you love this deeply unpleasant story about love and loss. 🖤🕯️🪲
My muse is in a mood.
Excuse me, guess I should quit messing around online and get to writing...
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cover of the March 2026 issue of Three-Lobed Burning Eye. The art shows a toothy creature emerging from a figure surrounded by butterflies, while a mist spreads out causing suffering to some armored goons. The text says there is fiction by Wendy N. Wagner, Hailey Piper, Eugen Bacon, Keith Rosson, Maxwell I. Gold, and Clay McLeod Chapman
New @3lobedmag.com is out today with 6 fresh tales of horror!
3 are free to read online, like my first new story of 2026, "Our Darkness to Take."
Tara can't tell how long she's been kept in this basement. Weeks? Months? All she knows for sure is, she's no longer alone.
www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/
Mother Nature/The World has had enough of our shit. Our being humanity.
I completely understand.
Going to work out. Write. Take a walk. Whatever it takes to hold on to my sanity.
Still waiting on new glasses, so this art is exactly how I feel right now...
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Going to see about Words, as in writing. If my eyes cooperate.
Good morning/afternoon.
This art comes courtesy of Lola Dupre.
Completed a 37,700+ word novella today. "The Great God Pollock." SF with horror/cosmic horror trimmings.
Does anybody know of a publisher who would be into such a beast?
Here's me with a Pollock painting in Rome, Italy.
Available NOW: Weird Fiction Quarterly. The AI-themed issue. Includes my grim lil' tale, "Her Father's Voice," and a fully-loaded TOC.
You know what to do.
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We have a fantastic new novelette up today at Nightmare about a small-town animal control officer just trying to save a dog during the apocalypse.
DO NOT MISS "Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights?" by @gordonbwhite.bsky.social !!
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/will...
Looking to deal with revisions/edits on the novella, if my eyes cooperate (waiting for new glasses that cannot come soon enough!).
And you, Cthulhu?
Good morning/afternoon all.
Women in Horror month, eh? I'm good with that, but never limit it to one month. These books are from my current tbr stack next to the bed. I've read some, am reading one, and have a few more to read. And this doesn't even include what's on my kindle.
Women in Horror?
Always!
woodcuts from Compendium Maleficarum, witch-hunter's manual by the Italian priest Francesco Maria Guazzo Milan
1608
colored by Adam McLean
Cats do not fear the Funhole.
You will though. Preorders are right now, from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
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and TY to @lostmirror.bsky.social for the Riddle portrait ♥️🐈
Good morning.
I'll take a hazelnut mocha as I do not drink coffee, believe it or not.
Final revisions on the novella are in progress shortly. Just looking to have a constructive day as it's been a very busy week dealing with stuff.
Let's get to it!
25 tales, over four-hundred pages of weird horror & psychological horror, with a strong dose of Body horror threaded through it all.
