"Lyrical and terrifying, Helm's portrait of generational trauma will leave you aching in its wake. Our Cut of Salt is not just a powerful exploration of injustice and survival, but also a testament to the power of love." - Monika Kim, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Eyes are the Best Part

"Our Cut of Salt is the must-read of the year. Longing and rage are woven beautifully in this multi-generational family story, taking readers to the steps of a house in Haifa that they will not forget." - Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times bestselling author of She Is A Haunting

"Devastating...Our Cut of Salt rages and aches and demands your complete attention, recontextualizing the very notion of what a haunted house is...Alongside such modern marvels of horror as Alison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless and Tananarive Due's The Good House." - Clay McLeod Chapman, Author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Praise is here!!

If you're interested in a book about a haunted house in Palestine that fights its occupiers, and the three generations of Palestinian women who have to put the haunting to rest, you can preorder my debut novel, Our Cut of Salt, here :) linktr.ee/deenahelm

The cover for my next novel, CHIMERA, is here.

Skin dancers, cannibals, kinslayers, monsters. The Vargers are many things, but family always comes first.

Cover illustration by Xuanwei Su
Cover design by Esther S. Kim

Pre-order it here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Bookcover for Morsel by Carter Keane. Image shows a carnivorous animal skull, jaw open with plenty of teeth, covered by flora and fauna cascading upwards. The title is among the vines and there is a line of red-winged cicadas spiraling upwards along the vine. Text: "Bite the hand that feeds you" is in red, above the skull.

#booksky 💙📚 WOW! Absolutely a "right book, right time" read for me! I hung on every word, the whole wild ride! There is a passage excerpt that resonates so hard for a world-weary soul (you'll re-read it twice or more when you get to it). Just heart-exploding sentences that scream I FEEL SEEN! (1/2)

A white and gray tabby curled up and sleeping with his paws over his face

A gray cat sleeping on an orange blanket

A gray cat and white/gray tabby cuddling on a chair

Timeline cleanse because what the fuck

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

An image of an advanced copy of Our Cut of Salt sitting on a table

ARCs are here and even more beautiful than I thought they’d be 😭 I cannot believe my story about a Palestinian haunted house is HERE and REAL!

(And if you’re down to read about a haunted house that fights its occupiers, preorders are here: linktr.ee/deenahelm)

idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple

a good story is a good story.

also like. lmao. whether or not a venue is explicitly queer, sff publishing is full of queer editors and copyeditors and art directors and PEs and MEs and marketers and publicists and and etc etc etc etc who are going to be thrilled to see themselves in your story

Iceland’s Act4, Co-Led by ‘Severance’ Star Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Teams With Kari Skogland, Director of ‘The Handsmaid’s Tale,’ to Adapt ‘Dead Weight’ (EXCLUSIVE) The adaptation marks the first feature from Act4, behind ‘Reykjavik Fusion,’ to bow on Arte next month,  and “Death of a Horse, with RÚV and ZDF.

Very excited to have @olafurdarri.bsky.social and Kari Skogland bringing Dead Weight to the screen!

I can tell this is gonna be a banger episode

instead of watching the new harry potter trailer, why not pick up some horror books by trans and nb writers for the trans rights readathon?? there are so many good options.
For example, check out some of these writers:

Graphic with Barnes and Noble logo, cover of Our Cut of Salt, and text that says March 24-26, and 25% off pre-orders using code PREORDER25

Baby’s first Barnes and Noble preorder sale 🥳 you can grab Our Cut of Salt off for 25% with code PREORDER25: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-cut-of...

Author Interview: Hildur Knútsdóttir I’m excited to be joined by Hildur Knútsdóttir, the author of Dead Weight, releasing May 26th. Known for her sharp, unsettling storytelling and ability to blend psychological depth with eerie atmos…

Hey, wanna know more about Dead Weight?

The cover of my book Dead Weight, it's peach coloured and has the head of a broken statue lying in a puddle of blood

If you were planning on preordering Dead Weight from B&N, today and tomorrow is an excellent time to do it.

They are doing a 25% discount on all preorders for Rewards Members and an extra 10% discount for Premium Members, so 35% off of printed!

More here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-weigh...

A graphic with the cover of the book OUR CUT OF SALT by Deena Helm and text above that says "NOW AVAILABLE TO REQUEST ON NETGALLEY AND EDELWEISS"

my furious and murderous palestinian haunted house book is now up to request on netgalley & edelweiss!!

👀👀👀👀

I got shipwrecked once

Oh Wendy, sending big hugs 🖤

I just fundamentally cannot understand people who choose hate and fear over love and empathy.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

An ‘astonishingly’ large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara | BBC Science Focus Magazine This school-bus-sized predator was so unusual that scientists didn't recognise it at first

WAKE UP EVERYONE UNICORN SPINOSAURUS JUST SPAWNED
www.sciencefocus.com/news/new-din...

Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir A woman leading a routine life is pushed by circumstance to violent extremes in this impressively subtle and slow-burning psycho...

DEAD WEIGHT just got a ⭐starred⭐ review from Publishers Weekly!

“[An] impressively subtle and slow-burning psychological chiller from Knútsdóttir... Anyone looking for character-driven horror with a very sharp edge will be thrilled."

It's out May 26th!

The UK cover for Our Cut of Salt, which depicts the title on the top half on a beige background. The bottom half shows the bottom half of a woman's face, overlaid with windows and doors, and shaded in red as the top part of her face crumbles. On the side is Palestinian embroidery in the colors of black, green, and red.

✨ UK COVER REVEAL ✨

If you're interested in a story about a Palestinian haunted house, the three generations of women who are ancestrally tied to it, and discovering the price of the past, this comes out September 22, 2026! Preorder here: linktr.ee/deenahelm

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

NO

THIS BOOK!!! THIS BOOK!!!! THIS BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!!!!

this is a gorgeous and moving book and you should preorder it right fucking now

A cover for the debut novel OUR CUT OF SALT by Deena Helm, showing a dark green wallpaper and a hand ripping it away, revealing a flowery yellow pattern underneath. Tagline in the corner says, "The house is waiting for them."

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨

I am THRILLED to share the cover for my debut novel, a horror about what happens to a Palestinian home after decades of occupation, and the lives of three Palestinian women who are connected to it. Coming September 22, 2026 - preorder here: linktr.ee/deenahelm