I can’t believe I have to say this. But! If you make a lot of money selling your anthology where you have not paid writers
Send bonuses. Or at the very least put that money into paying them for the next volume.
Do not keep exploiting them.
💀 COMING SOON - 4 new titles!
🩸My Apologies to Tanya Grace by
@Cat_Voleur
🩸Fatally Yours by
@elton_skelter
🩸The Thickest Soup You’ve Got by Nikki R. Leigh
🩸A Hole in the World: White Harbor - Book 3 by
@criveraauthor
Check out the deal reports and keep an eye out 👀
I will never understand writers who use AI. I get that it's free (stealing) or whatever, but working with artists on books is one of the coolest feelings in the whole world.
You get to promote someone's art. With your words. They go together now! It's amazing!
I can't stress this enough: this is not a vague tweet. This just a... general request for good vibes. I took one of those scary, big steps today and could use every ounce of luck.
When you're a writer, so everyone buys you pretty journals, but you can't use them because you don't trust you can write anything as pretty as the journal so you just hoard them.
Going to
#AuthorCon
was one of the best professional and personal decisions I have ever made.
The biggest thanks in the world to
@CultNobody
for coaxing me there, the Zombacon team for being great, and
@BrianKeene
with the whole Scares that Care team for hosting an epic event
If I don’t vibe with a book, or a cover or whatever, I’m going to keep quiet about it.
But if I find out you intentionally used AI when a real artist offered a free cover, or that you scammed multiple artists for cover concepts?
I’m gonna trash the hell out of your book
𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 ✍️ 💀
Slashic Horror are pleased and excited to announce that we have signed 𝐂𝐚𝐭 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐫 (
@catvoleur
) for an exclusive book deal!
We will be publishing Cat’s novella 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 in early 2024!💀🏝️
My debut novella, REVENGE ARC, is coming out in August. If you have a show, podcast, blog, or anything of the like, and would be willing to have me on, I would love to come talk to you 🖤
Personal announcement:
I will not be writing a novel this November for the first time in many, many Novembers.
I will however, be participating in NaNoWriMo in a much dumber way with a challenge I have set for myself.
/1
I have been up 30+ hours but in that time I have:
Written an entire novella
Added 17k words to my next writing contract
Did a book launch for my 7th (!!!) book
Recorded a podcast and our Patreon content
Literally my most productive day ever
Yes! My weird little book is up for nominations in 4 categories and I would absolutely love to see it make it to the final ballot for Prettiest Interior Formatting! The team worked so hard to make the inside of the book look the way it does 🥰🥰🥰
Finally in awards eligibility is Revenge Arc (33k words) by
@Cat_Voleur
! This found fiction novella takes you through the deepest corners of the internet, where fandom turns to obsession.
Revenge Arc is also currently on the ballot for the Indie Ink awards!
Celebrating my birthday in style by dropping a new, ridiculous book.
Puppet Shark: The Novelization is available today! With amazing cover art by
@ruthannaevans
!
(Link in the Tweet Below)
Bittersweet announcement time: I will be quitting NaNo this year. The accusations floating around led me down a rabbit hole of bad behavior from the website that I was previously unaware of, and I no longer wish to show my support to the event
/1
SO proud to announce that we have surpassed 50 submissions to our cannibal-themed charity anthology! Thank you all so much for the support and please, please keep those stories coming. They're for a good cause🖤
Submission details here:
Does anyone want to let me on their blog/podcast/show to come talk about my book? (Or to talk about anything and then plug my book?)
I was scheduled to be on a certain Terrifying podcast and that will no longer be happening. No great loss there, but still hoping to promote.
RELEASE DAY!!
I am celebrating with an insane annual writing challenge, and a livestream later this evening.
So if any of you would like to help me spread the word so I can focus on getting my 50k that would be fantastic 🖤🖤🖤
🩸 IT’S RELEASE DAY!
📕 𝙈𝙮 𝘼𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙖 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚 by
@Cat_Voleur
is available to purchase where books are sold online!
We’re so excited for people to read this book!
Purchase below!
👉
We also have a live launch tonight…
Can we have a conversation about premade book covers real quick?
Because they're my favorite things in the whole world, but I'd love if we, as a community, respected the artists who make them a little more /1
Hypothetically.... how would we feel about a novel in the form of free verse poetry that stylistically is somewhere between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silent Hill?
I meant to do a self-promo Pride thread at the beginning of the month, but have only had the bandwidth to promo one thing at a time. Please consider checking the thread below for links and consider supporting a pan horror author (me) this Pride Month.
Lots of bad news today on top of what was already a terrible, stressful work week. If anyone is willing to share cute pet pics and some positive things going on right now, that would be great.
Oh my goodness, YAY!!! I cannot imagine a better cover for my book, I am so excited! 🖤🖤🖤
Thank you so much for hosting this contest, and to Matt for being amazing as always
Congratulation to
@Cat_Voleur
who won this awesome cover for her book, created by
@MattSeffBarnes
!
Thanks to everybody who entered and shared the contest!
COVER REVEAL!!! Look at this beautiful art by
@UglyByProxy
.
The book (sponsored by
@FromMausoleum
and edited by
@tmr_8706
) will be available through Amazon on July 1st.
For about a year and a half now I have been aggressively hoarding premade book covers, seemingly for no reason.
It took awhile for all the gears to start turning, but I will have you know progress is finally being made. I have things in the works.
If you are someone who has been impacted by the recent press discourse to the extent your book is displaced, and you’re looking to selfpub, please reach out to me for formatting free of charge 🖤
Look!!! New proof in today of SINCERELY, DEPARTED and this version looks SO much better.
I honestly could adjust and fiddle with the formatting forever, but I am SO PROUD of how it has turned out 🥰
Publishing is wild, because you can have nothing but wins across the board for a long time, and all it takes is one dropped contract for you to feel like you're terrible at your job.
The last thing I need right now is another project to work on, with a full year of exciting collabs and self-pubs lined up.
But.
I just figured out the missing piece to an idea I had over a year. And you guys.
This is the one.
I was going to wait until later today, but I can't. It's cover reveal time. PUPPET SHARK: THE NOVELIZATION is coming this November with gorgeous art by
@ruthannaevans
Sharing this thread, because I saw just the highlights floating around first, and this provides much more important context. Supporting and sending love to Evelyn and everyone who has felt pressured, silenced, or harassed
For the past two years I’ve suffered harassment from Zach Rosenberg. I never wanted to make this public, but his ongoing bullying has made this impossible. I considered my conflict with him to be personal, it seemed inappropriate to drag it out into the public, inviting a dogpile
If anyone is willing to have me on their podcast/show/blog to talk about book-ish things, I have a book coming out on June 15th that I would really love the chance to plug 🖤
Today was a bad, messy day in the indie horror community. So I'm going to do what I always try to do on these days, and wind down my night by prioritizing reviews and blurbs 🖤🖤🖤
I'm doing site maintenance for
@sinisterscoop6
. So if anyone has any of the following to promote, please reach out:
🖤Open Submission Calls
🖤Shows/Podcasts/Blogs looking for creatives to plug their work
🖤Open Crowdfunding campaigns
🖤Charity Anthologies
🖤Open Preorders
In a world where body modifications are a sign of status, surgeons learn to trade in secrets. And it only takes one woman hellbent on revenge to bring down the whole system.
American Mary x Repo! The Genetic Opera (with the presentation of A Clockwork Orange)
2nd Offical Premade Pitch Contest!
QT this tweet with your story pitch for this cover. The person with the most Likes on their QT by the end of September 15th wins a full wrap of this cover.
(Title can be whatever)
Good luck, everyone!
Oh my god, I almost slept through my entire release day because I am sick. KILL YOUR DARLINGS is out now from PsychoToxin with this amazing cover from
@grimpoppydesign
🖤
It’s been a rough time in the community lately, but I had a wonderful evening collaborating with other writers and friends, coming up with punny titles for about 3 hours today and getting collection feedback. It’s nice to remember there is good here sometimes as well 🖤
I try not to be pushy about promoting my book. But I just saw the comic pages in full-color for the first time, and I really need everyone to see them because they're gorgeous.
Please preorder. The art alone is going to be worth it. 🖤
It is finally surgery day, so I will be drugged up and offline. BUT! First I wanted to share my very exciting book mail 🖤
I teared up a little to finally be holding a copy of this. Thank you so much to
@archiveoftheodd
🥰
Join us over on IG this Monday for the launch of THE DESERT ISLAND GAME 🏝️💀
I'll be chatting with
@slashic_horror
about lesbians, purgatory, and how my book cover might be haunted??
Would love to see everyone there 🖤
Oh my god…
I am working on edits for a book now. And it’s been one of the wildest, most ambitious, scattered things I’ve ever done. I’m super proud of it.
But I’ll be glad when I’m done with edits.
Way too many moving pieces to indulge basically JUST myself
RELEASE DAY!!
I announced in my pinned already, but here is the algorithm friendly version. Huge shout out to
@UglyByProxy
for the amazing art and
@FromMausoleum
for sponsoring!!!
I don’t want to alarm anyway but it’s possible that we could hit over 100 subs if all you lovely weirdos keep sending us your work 🖤
(please and thank you 😘)
SO proud to announce that we have surpassed 50 submissions to our cannibal-themed charity anthology! Thank you all so much for the support and please, please keep those stories coming. They're for a good cause🖤
Submission details here:
Sitting on this news has been one of the most difficult things I've ever done, but it's finally time!
My book is on the way. 🖤
Big thanks to
@archiveoftheodd
for seeing the vision and giving me the amazing opportunity to bring something strange to everyone.
🚨🚨 CODE RED! 🚨🚨
@Cat_Voleur
's novella REVENGE ARC is emerging from the Archives SUMMER 2023.
Files on the strange circumstances of the controversial webcomic author Riley Langdon will be released to the public. Stay tuned for further details.
Obviously I can't reveal anything about our decisions just yet. But listen. This anthology is going to be top tier.
Thank you so much again to every single person who submitted. The quality was phenomenal across the board. And thank you to
@CassandraDaucus
and
@AuthorIseult
🖤
Also, huge shoutout to
@waynefenlon
who I dragged from his social media and art hiatus for this cover 🖤
And continued thanks to Slashic Horror for putting up with my nonsense. 🏝️💀
Two of my least favorite types of fiction are westerns and pirate. This year I have read two excellent horror westerns, and two excellent pirate horrors.
The moral of the story is read outside your comfort zone, sure, but also to read horror. (Specifically gay horror)
The finalized and full programming schedule for
@ScaresThatCare
's AuthorCon III has been posted. Scroll down to bottom of page and peruse or download as PDF.
I have decided I will not be buying any book covers in 2024 as I focus on the insane, over-ambitious publishing schedule I have worked out for the year.
But the temptation to buy a few extra covers heading into 2024 is now very real.
I have been keeping my mouth shut about Tor Nightfire for too long, because they’ve released some of my favorites.
But they also have some of the poorest editing quality of any books I regularly see in stores, and this AI thing is pissing me the hell off.
I am having a very stressful week. So until it’s over I’m instituting a new health policy where as long as I get all my steps and water in, I can eat whatever the hell I want.
me, violently sick and having to stay up to watch 6 more movies I wanted to rank on a podcast: Well, well, well. If it isn’t the consequences of my own actions
I hope no one needed or wanted me for anything today because I just got this beauty in as my book mail 😍
Thank you so much to
@_Rae_Knowles
for sending me a physical copy 🖤🖤