My novella, COUP DE GRÂCE, is officially out today! 🚇
I’m so emotional 🥹 Thank you all so much for supporting this.
It’s about a man trapped in a labyrinthian subway station, and depression, and choice, and liminality, and if you see yourself in any of that, this is for you.
Reverse image search takes 2 seconds & would reveal that I made this ring. Noncredit of visual art is an epidemic online. You have no idea how much it could help an artist to have their name shown WITH their art. So many opportunities just lost this way.
Or—hear me out—you could get the Sofia Zakia ones which are:
✨real 14k gold
✨ natural rubies
✨ custom-cut tourmaline cut and mined from the Cruzeiro Tourmaline Mine or the Minas Gerais São José da Safira in Brazil
✨ handmade, piece by piece, by me & my team in montreal
NEW! Customizable Library Cards 📚
Handmade in 14k gold, then engraved especially for you. Do you have a favourite book? Carry it with you always laying over your heart- a sigil of your love customized by:
Title
Author
Name
Date it was pulled from your favourite library
🎉🎉🎉BIG, BIG NEWS TODAY🎉🎉🎉
My heart is BURSTING!!! I could not be more excited to share that my architectural horror novella has found a home with
@TitanBooks
! Thank you,
@DanCarpenter85
for championing this lil brutalist fever dream 🩶
COUP DE GRÂCE is about a man trapped in a labyrinthian subway station. Its architecture expands and refracts off itself into a liminal nightmare.
If this sounds for you, the novella is available to pre-order everywhere. *please* do!
For the umpteenth time:
Ratings are for the community. Pressuring readers away from rating if their feedback is less than 5 stars is so whack. Respect your own work enough to know it’s still good even if someone rates it 3 stars, goddamn.
'Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Queer Horror' from
@GhoulishBooks
and edited by
@SofiaAjram
is looking for short story submissions! Learn more now on Dread Central.
I made a very tiny Necronomicon locket.
Solid 14k gold, hand engraved & set with 4 diamonds 🖤 engraved “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn” very tiny on the cover.
Today’s my birthday! 🎂
I’m 34! Going to a tea house to celebrate.
If you see this, please consider pre-ordering Coup de Grâce, my upcoming anomalous architecture novella about a man trapped in an infinite underground labyrinth! 🚇💕 sold anywhere book are!
Happy pub day! Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror is now available 🪦💕
If you’re looking for a book that has:
🌈 queer rep BY queer writers
🪦 dark & horror themes
🏹 gay, sapphic, and t4t characters
This one’s for you. Happy reading!
Tried my ✨first binder✨ the other day and—god, the sensation of seeing my body like that for the first time was..surreal in the best possible way. Had to return (too small), but I can’t wait to get the right size so I can wear it out.
Some beautiful news after a hard week:
COUP DE GRÂCE is already going into its second print run!!! 🥳🥳🥳🎉 My editor said this was "absolutely unprecedented for a novella". I'm so happy I want to cry.
You can add a clause to your publishing contracts stipulating you won't work with AI-generated cover art or design. Good publishers will see no problem with it.
I will be at StokerCon too!
If you see me, please come say hello! I love meeting new friends.
If I am quiet, it’s because I am a bundle of nerves! If I am chatty, it’s also because I am a bundle of nerves!
Hugs are ok if we’re mutuals!
Don’t let me forget to feed myself 😅
Not long till I fly to Pittsburgh for Stokercon! Couple of things to note:
If I don't immediately make eye contact, its because I'm shy
If I interrupt I'm so sorry I'm just very excited
Approaching me from behind is not the best idea for several reasons, I may bolt
I like gin
How do you feel about feel-bad endings in horror? Where the characters don’t overcome evil, or succumb to it (I’m talking novella/novel-length stories)
Some beautiful news after a hard week:
COUP DE GRÂCE is already going into its second print run!!! 🥳🥳🥳🎉 My editor said this was "absolutely unprecedented for a novella". I'm so happy I want to cry.
Teaching myself so many photoshop tricks to make these posters 👼
Anyway—you still have 50 days left to submit to BURY YOUR GAYS! 7c/word. Anthology deets are on the Ghoulish site. Send me your stories!
To celebrate
#TransDayofVisability
here’s another Bury Your Gays poster!
Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer horror is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS!
7c/word. Closes May 31.
We are thrilled to announce our next anthology project will be BURY YOUR GAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRAGIC QUEER HORROR. Opening for submissions in February (pro payment). Edited by the one and only
@SofiaAjram
.
Currently working on tiny customizable library cards! Will be customizable with your favourite book title/author (and yes, longer titles like
@hystericteeth
’s THGWSWLS fit. It’s the first title I checked 😂)
(Sterling silver, WIP)
I AM SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE 🚨 Coup De Grâce cover reveal is here! 🚨
Pre-orders are up, and you can read an early excerpt from the novella on
@tordotcom
.
Current writing WIP, which has gone through several iterations, is at its core is a love letter to liminality & Montréal’s brutalist subway architecture
To be completely clear: this is NOT AI. I don't support or endorse AI.
This was created by an artist named Chris McAllister. He's an immensely skilled self-taught animator. We've been working on this since last october. Here's some behind-the-scenes storyboarding we did together
🚨 TOC ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
It’s here, it’s here! We are so unbelievably proud to announce the authors for BURY YOUR GAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRAGIC QUEER HORROR!
Pre-order available now! (1/5)
Dread Central is excited to announce the authors and table of contents for 'Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror', edited by
@SofiaAjram
and released by
@GhoulishBooks
! Authors include Cassandra Khaw, Joe Koch, Robbie Banfitch, and more.
OUT TODAY! Zine of my debut body horror romance short story The Arborglyph.
SIGNED & LIMITED to 30; I wasn't sure how many people would want to read it. You have my heart forever if you do!
Link below 🖤 Cover art by lovely
@yesterdhir
It’s my birthday week if anyone would consider pre-ordering either of my books 🙇
Coup de Grâce (Oct 1) is about an infinitely expanding brutalist subway station
Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (March 19) is just that—tragic queer horror
dear buckaroos
@sofiaajram
released anthology this week titled BURY YOUR GAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRAGIC QUEER HORROR and although it is not MY 'bury your gays' there are many wonderful authors on it proving love. CHECK IT OUT AND CONGRATS
@ghoulishbooks
So, we received a total of 615 submissions for BURY YOUR GAYS 😳💗 pinch me!!
Thank you to everyone for sharing, supporting, championing, and writing for this call (and of course to
@GiveMeYourTeeth
for giving it the best home)!!
Mix n matching is the funnest part of finishing new rings. New Demeter ring pictured below! Designed this over a year ago, finally got around to making her this week.
Had a jewelry video go viral and the amount of comments from people PRESSED about my facial expression & fit in what amounts to a 1.5 second clip at the start of the vid is wild.
How did it take me so long to read this?? It just sat on my shelf, and for what? Why were y’all gatekeeping this fucked up masterpiece? This sits in a league of its own. I’m not even finished yet and I’m obsessed. It’s like Lake Mungo-level of dread. Acid fever dream.
Shout out to
@scottderrickson
for ruining waking up at 2:59am for the last 13 years of my life. I’m dying of thirst or gotta take a piss but instead I’m stuck lying abso-fucking-lutely still in my bedsheets like an overheated human burrito of TERROR BECAUSE DEMONS MIGHT GET ME
Traded cutting a ring off of a friend’s finger for some updated portrait shots! My old ones were 2+ years old and didn’t feel reflective of current ✨gender stuff✨