Awake In The Night Jessica and Nicole think they’ve finally found their dream house by the sea in the West of Ireland. 17 Montpellier Street has history, character… and so many rooms you could easily lose your way, if y...

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Go ahead: perceive me, textually!

(I'm happy to say, there are dykes as far as the eye can see in every book I've written: horror dykes; con artist dykes; Dykes To Watch Out For, Lest They Turn Into Werefoxes...

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Grab your copies of The Denizens, and the wonderfully terrifying Saltblood.

Image of cover of TC Parker's Saltblood, with the text: BLACK MIRROR, WITH CRYPTIDS FIVE STARS ~ SCREAM MAGAZINE

Cover image of Brennan LaFaro's The Denizens, with the text: REST IN PEACE? NOT IN THIS TOWN.

📢 2-FOR-1 HORROR BOOKS ALL WEEKEND! 📢

Grab @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's small town zombie epic THE DENIZENS from the digital Batstore this weekend... and get @tcparker.bsky.social's dystopian isolation horror SALTBLOOD *absolutely free*!

It's a steal!

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My first collection of horror short stories, The Nine O’Clock Horses, is out in the world. If you like The Magnus Archives, Old Gods of Appalachia, NoSleep, Wrong Station, Daisy Johnson or Eliza Clark - it might be one for you...

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I think AMZ/3rd party sites have got a lot of mileage out of the DRM/piracy prevention argument - I remember seeing absolute panic among some authors on TikTok when they announced the pdf thing
But for what it's worth - as a media research person as well as a publisher - I see no benefit for authors

I think that's true for publishers as well as self-pubbed authors. The bulk of all of our ebook revenue comes from AMZ, because they've got such a stranglehold

All we can do is try to encourage people to vote with their digital feet - and make it desirable to do so by not punishing them with DRM

Unfortunately DRM isn't much of a protection against piracy - as the OpenAI/Anthropic cases have demonstrated

But giving people ownership of the items they bought feels like a solid, ethical strategy for publishers/writers

Should also add: because AMZ is a vertically-integrated system (via Kindle, etc) and Kindle files tend to be Kindle-supported only, DRM gives them the power to determine not just who owns the file but how/on what device the reader can read the book that should by rights be theirs. They should decide

In terms of piracy in practice: the biggest threat to all of us, as writers and publishers, is the scraping of our work for LLM training

By comparison, the relatively small risk of someone sharing a DRM-free file they actively purchased from us feels sort of negligible

When you sell books direct, you can choose whether or not to use DRM (third party sites often mandate - or used to mandate - that epub files were sold with DRM)

Theoretically it's an anti-piracy mechanism, but in reality all it does it give ownership rights to the third party, e.g. AMZ

Woohoo! (And happy payday for tomorrow!)

Not only is this a good reminder, but a quick peek at the OP shows some very interesting books…and they are women owned, independent and specialize in queer horror, crime and dark fiction!

Win win! #Books #reading

Thank you!

Buying ebooks with DRM isn't actually buying books, it's renting them. If you buy a print book, it's yours forever. Books don't go "obsolete". Ebooks should be the same. Don't buy ebooks with DRM.

@libreture.com has a huge list of DRM-free e-booksellers. Weightless is among them

The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Helping hundreds of readers a month discover over 400 DRM-free bookshops.

If you don't want to buy your ebooks from Amazon, you can buy from hundreds of other e-bookshops instead!

Here's my regularly updated list of over 500 (so far) online shops that sell DRM-free #ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs.

All legit! All personally checked by me! 💜

All our ebooks are DRM-free when you buy them direct from us. All ebooks should be

We're not a lending library: if you buy the book, you OWN the book. Anything else is exactly the sort of technofeudalism we despise

Possibly the best description we've read of anything, ever

I enjoyed this book a lot. A sort of social realist psychosexual neighbourhood Quatermass/Doctor Who type story, if that helps you triangulate. Absolutely rips along.

Check PHENGARIS out for yourself - and feel the crawl of insects of unnatural origin under your skin...

Ta!

Huge sale on these titles over at the Bat store!

Huge sale on these titles over at the Bat store!

Phengaris There's something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood.Mark Warner never noticed it before. He's there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.Birds sing in ...

Thanks so much Erin. Phengaris is an eco-horror novella featuring grief, suburban malaise and gigantic bugs.
I should stress @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social do a fab job, but it's tough for indie publishers. They're developing a brilliant list anyway, worth checking out.
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