I loved it! I had no idea of the history of the term at the time!

Hello! 👋🏻 My name is Donna Taylor, and I write YA horror! Mostly inspired by 80s and 90s horror. 😁 The one WIP I have is for book4 in my San Nico Slayers series. Book 1, Blood on the Boardwalk, comes out 9/25 and is inspired by The Lost Boys! 🎠 #horrorwriterschat

No story NEEDS a moral or thematic lesson baked into it. Those stories tend to feel preachy and even scolding depending on how it’s told. I never write with a specific moral or theme in mind. That doesn’t mean one won’t develop, but my goal is to tell a story. Not lecture people. #horrorwriterschat

I generally don’t develop a story/plot/characters much beyond the page unless it’s relevant. It just depends on what the story requires.

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BOOK COVER REVEAL!!

Been dying to see this cover! Now I'm just dying to read it!

- Inspired by The Lost Boys & 90s teen horror
- A modern day horror comedy
- A perfect dopamine hit of nostalgia

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The number of Lost Boys fans I regularly run into is astounding!

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This looks so fun! 😍🩸

Inspired by The Lost Boys and 90s teen horror novels, Blood on the Boardwalk is a modern day horror comedy perfect for those looking to dip their toe into horror, as well as the dopamine hit of nostalgic horror easter eggs for older fans 🩸

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Thank you!!!

I know I neglect this little profile on the butterfly app, but I hope you’ll forgive me. Because I have a glorious new book cover to show you for my YA horror novel, and I want to scream it from the rooftops!

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The cold has cometh! Grab your copy of BURY ME COLD & MORE LAST WORDS through your favorite retailer or at TheCrowShoppe.com 💀❄️

That title is 🤌🏻.

Book cover: Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror's Ultimate Guide to Reading Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women. The artwork is of a woman in a ball gown holding a candlestick with flame. Her hair is caught up by the wind, the title is in the darkness of the night above her swirling hair. The estate behind her is on fire. There is a border of twisting vines all around the art

COVER REVEAL: Feral & Hysterical: Mother Horror's Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women by Sadie Hartmann
-Page Street Publishing
August 19th, 2025
Cover Artwork: María Amaya/Design: Rosie Stewart
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It’s between doorways release day! Check it out for some awesome liminal horror, including my story “#blessed”

Ooooo that’s a hard one. As much as I love the old New England vibes of Salem, I’m just a hair more drawn to the beach carnival world of San Nico (fictional) from my San Nico Slayers series. I’m just such a complete sucker for carnival vibes. #HorrorWritersChat

If I want to set something in a real place I haven’t been, I find the immersion difficult. I’m a very visceral writer. Vibes are a thing for me and I like getting them right. So I tend to go down rabbit holes trying to make sure I’m getting more than tourist vibes of a place. #HorrorWritersChat

I don’t have a preference. I tend to get hitched up in someone uses a real place that I’m familiar with and gets it wrong, but that doesn’t deter me from reading real place works. As long as the place is developed and visceral, I’m all for it. #HorrorWritersChat

I love this! My name is Donna Taylor, and I write primarily YA horror. My current WIP is book 4 in my San Nico Slayers series, about a girl who has to stop a vamp from ☠️ her, and opens a whole new can of worms doing it. Book 1, Blood on the Boardwalk, comes out later this year. #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks!

My one “resolution” for the year is watching the stuff I have on my streaming watchlists. I finished The Gentlemen (loved), and watched Greta Gerwig’s Little Women before it left Hulu (also loved). Now I’m finishing Buffy. I never watched past S3 originally and I’m into S6 now. Good news replacement

Listen. Learn. Make changes. Repeat. Check out the updated submission guidelines.

So I’m making my way through Buffy (stopped watching after season 3 originally), and I’m at the musical episode. I…kind of hate it. Like, the idea is great. Quirky take on choreomania. But the sheer amount of musical numbers to plot is like smashing three musicals into a single run. It’s A LOT.

I mean, if you have a structured settlement and you need cash now…

Ah, man! I missed it! Next week, then!

In just 10 days, my second horror collection BURY ME COLD & MORE LAST WORDS hits shelves! From the mighty @quillandcrowpublishinghouse.com comes a collection of 14 tales (including 3 originals) calculated to chill the blood and haunt the dreams.

Readers, it's time to come in from the cold.

I know I have a lot of books on my TBR pile, but now we’re just being hyperbolic. What number is that, anyway? Quintillion?

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