It makes me so happy when (very early) readers of 🕷️🥩SMALL BITES🥩🕷️ call it wierd or strange because wierd and strange is exactly what I shut down in myself for years; making practical choices, until I couldn't any more. And that's sort of what 🕷️🥩SMALL BITES🥩🕷️ is about. @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social
Saaaaaaaaame
once again, my vote this primary is NOT HALEY STEVENS.
*straps hypno toad to forehead * Yesterday you rushed out and bought all my books. Today you will sign up for the upcoming fantasy novel Kickstarter pre-launch and/or boost this post as high as a secretary of war's breathalyzer score
THE HYPNOTOAD COMMANDS
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Two women standing in front of stacks of books at a bookstore. Both smiling while posing for the camera. One is holding a yellow book titled Aviary. Two comfy chairs half viable on both sides of them.
Excited for and proud of my friend @mariadongwrites.bsky.social on her new book, Aviary.
I'd heard pieces about it over the years and after the QnA today I really can't wait to dive in.
It "mixes fantasy, gothic vibes and queer longing, with a shot of feminist body horror."
www.mariadong.com
If you call sexual assault a “two-sided problem,” you’re a waste of functioning organs.
I keep posting about @mariadongwrites.bsky.social's book AVIARY (which JUST CAME OUT!) and how it's horror--and it is--but it's also weiiiiiiird.
If you like when things start out weird, get weirder, slide into absolute surreality, and then end in a climax you gotta wolf down, then this is the one
It was so wonderful listening to it! (Also you do a *really* convincing airline pilot?)
Author @mariadongwrites.bsky.social (AVIARY) talks how POV is a great tool in a writer’s toolbox, keeping your characters under control, trauma’s effect on the brain, and how it all started with an episode of 90-DAY FIANCEE
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Guess who TOTALLY missed that I was just featured on @wilwheaton.net 's STORYTIME:
I THINK I KNOW WHAT I'LL BE LISTENING TO TODAY
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I love the cover, too!!!
Fanbase Press' @barbrajdillon.bsky.social Interviews @mariadongwrites.bsky.social on the Release of the Novel, ‘Aviary,’ with @severnhouse.bsky.social
This was such a fun interview!
Seriously is this reviewer reading my journal 👀👀👀👀
@mariadongwrites.bsky.social wrote one hell of a horror novel with AVIARY and I hope you will all go read it.
But listen, don't take my word for it! This review will convince you juuuuust fine: theblogwithoutaface.com/2026/04/10/a...
Fuck this guy forever
I hope you enjoy. I'm 3 for 3 on books that become hallucinatory fever dreams so I guess you can kind of pick your genre poison
Oh I also write queer hallucinatory fever dreams!
Cover: Psychopomp, by Maria Dong
Psychopomp is a grungy, dark and brooding novel set on a prison moon where your crime might just be "owed some money".
A slow burn, but the mystery that unravels is well worth the investment.
Heed the trigger warnings the author includes - I'm not kidding - it is dark.
🪐📚💙 #books #scifi
the latest Lightspeed aka @lightspeedmagazine.com includes my review of Psychopomp by Maria Dong, pubbed by @darkmatterbks.bsky.social - TLDR: IT'S GOOD!
Recent reviews include:
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo
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Currently reading the sci-fi novel PSYCHOPOMP by Maria Dong. A penal colony, a mining accident, and a narrator torn asunder by trauma, paranoia, and hallucinations. "...what if everyone—her new crew, the station staff, even her lover—are all part of the deadly conspiracy?"
A woman's face in red, covered in clues: a bridge, flowers, postcards. She stares outward against a sea of black.
Book 3 of today's awesome shelf pull.
Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson, Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong, and Billy Summers by Stephen King
Things I read in December! I especially loved Liar, Dreamer, Thief by @mariadongwrites.bsky.social - it kept surprising me all the way through ❤️ I'm not sure if I'll keep tracking my 2026 reads as I'll be busy with baby number 2, but it's been fun posting book & short story recs for the past year :)
My 12 favourite books of 2023: Strange Loops - Liz Harmer Liar, Dreamer, Thief - Maria Dong The Sleepless - Victor Manibo The Black God’s Drums - P. Djèlí Clark The Stardust Thief - Chelsea Abdullah The Odd Woman and the City - Vivian Gornick Bunny - Mona Awad Binti: The Complete Trilogy - Nnedi Okorafor A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland Avalanche - Jessica Westhead Reuniting With Strangers - Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
My 12 favourite books of the year:
Strange Loops
Liar, Dreamer, Thief
The Sleepless
The Black God’s Drums
The Stardust Thief
The Odd Woman and the City
Bunny
Binti
A Taste of Gold and Iron
Avalanche
Reuniting With Strangers
The Spear Cuts Through Water
(PS I read 22 books in 2023 ✌🏼)
Liar, Dreamer, Thief
298/400 💙📚⚡️📚
📖: Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong
Genre: Literary, Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5
Thoughts: I appreciate how the mental state of our protagonist has us questioning everything.
A woman sits at a table with a stack of books in front of her. She holds up Family Meal by Bryan Washington.
Book cover of The Woo-Woo: how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons and my crazy Chinese family by Lindsay Wong . Book cover of At Last Count by Claire Ross Dunn Book cover of I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Se-hŭi Paek And Then We Rise: a guide to loving and taking care of self by Common (Musician) Enchantment: awakening wonder in an anxious age by Katherine May Letters to the Sons of Society: a father’s invitation to love, honesty, and freedom Shaka Senghor
Book cover of Lavender Clouds: comics about neurodivergence and mental health by Bex Ollerton Book cover of Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson Book cover of What My Bones Know: a memoir of healing from complex trauma by Stephanie Foo Family Meal by Bryan Washington And Then She Fell: a novel by Alicia Elliott Middle Distance: a graphic memoir by Mylo Choy The Price She Pays: confronting the hidden mental health crisis in women’s sports -- from the schoolyard to the stadium by Katie Steele
Book cover of Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong Book cover of Midlife Bites: anyone else falling apart or is it just me? by Jen Mann Book cover of Tiny Threads: a novel by Lilliam Rivera Uncle of the Year & Other Debatable Triumphs Andrew Rannells Victoria Sees It Carrie Jenkins Hardcore Anxiety: a graphic guide to punk rock and mental health Reid Chancellor The Reading List: a novel Sara Nisha Adams
Mental Health Awareness Month is here — and your well-being matters all year. 💚
Find comfort, healing & hope in our spotlight on mental health and wellness. buff.ly/qI8nuNI
ONE OF YOU by Erin E. Adams MONUMENTAL by Adam L.G. Nevill VILE LADY VILLAINS by Danai Christopoulou THE COUNTING GAME by Sinéad Nolan BLOOD TRAIL by Matt Query & Harrison Query THE BOATMAN by Alex Grecian BODIES OF WORK by Clay McLeod Chapman THE SEVENTH SISTER by Dawn Kurtagich WE CALL THEM WITCHES by India-Rose Bower AVIARY by Maria Dong MRS. JEKYLL by Emma Glass SARAFINA by Philip Fracasse THE BEAST YOU LET IN by Dana Mele ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN by Mónica Ojeda FEMME FERAL by Sam Beckbessinger MORSEL by Carter Keane THESE FAMILIAR WALLS by C.J. Dotson WIFE SHAPED BODIES by Laura Cranehill THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN by Gwendolyn Kiste INVASIVE SPECIES by Ellery Adams
THE HIVE by Ronald Malfi PERDITION by Brian Kubarycz THE CARETAKER by Marcus Kliewer JAPANESE GOTHIC by Kylie Lee Baker ODESSA by Gabrielle Sher MAY THE DEAD KEEP YOU by Jill Baguchinsky MONSTERS IN THE ARCHIVES: MY YEAR OF FEAR WITH STEPHEN KING by Caroline Bicks WITCH QUEEN RISING by Savannah Stephens COME SING FOR THE HARROWING by Dan Coxon OLDER THAN GHOSTS by Brandon White SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES by Sonora Taylor & Matthew Pritt THRALL by Rebecca Mahoney THE URBEX TRIP by E.M. Lund HOW TO SURVIVE CAMPING: THE LADY IN CHAINS by Bonnie Quinn HONEY by Imani Thompson MOLKA by Monika Kim DARK IS WHEN THE DEVIL COMES by Daisy Pearce THE BLOOD YEAR DAUGHTER by G.G. Silverman HEX HOUSE by Amy Jane Stewart PIXERINA: A HAUNTING by Joanne Anderson
TRANSCENDENCE by Katrina Kimball THE BIZARRE DISAPPEARANCE OF BELLA RILEY by Luna Rey Hall
There's lots of horror books coming out in 2026 so I'll be posting a bunch each month. Here are the ones publishing in April. 🫣🩸🔪
Book lists in ALT text.
#2026horror #horrorbooks #2026publication #aprilpublication #horror #postseries #bookpost #booksky #books
New Books: 4/7/26 Full details on my Patreon Aviary/Maria Dong The Seventh Sister/Dawn Kurtagich Sarafina/Philip Fracassi How to Build a Haunted House/Caitlin Blackwell/Baines We Call Them Witches/India-Rose Bower The Reaper (UK) Jackson P. Brown Bodies of Work/Clay McLeod Chapman Mrs. Jekyll/Emma Glass Love & Other Monsters/Emily Franklin Blood Trail/Matt & Harrison Query The Boatman/Alex Grecian EXIT 8/Genki Kawamura
New Books today! I have the full catalog on my Patreon with full-size book covers, descriptions and shopping links. I curate a list like this every Tuesday for members but it's open to the public today.
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A pink background with black feathered borders, and the book "Aviary" in the bottom left
If you ever wondered what kind of fiction The Prisoner reads to keep him in a revolution mindset between getting chased by gigantic beach balls, you need Maria Dong.
New from her, just released: AVIARY
#WeirdGirlLit #HorrorBooks #ThrillerReads #QueerBooks #booksky