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J.A.W. McCarthy

@jawmccarthy.bsky.social

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2x Bram Stoker & 2x Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Author of SLEEP ALONE and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Stories: Best Horror of the Year Vol 13, PseudoPod, Vastarien, Split Scream 3, more. Cat & lipstick enthusiast. She/Jen. Rep: Lane Heymont. jawmccarthy.com

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hey, new friends, about me:

I’m the author of the sex, drugs & rock & roll, queer succubi novella SLEEP ALONE, the collection SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL, & numerous horror stories involving monstrous women and Thai folklore. I like it dark, sad, & decadently deranged. Prose 🖤er. Beauty in the grotesque.

My books Sleep Alone and Sometimes We’re Cruel, surrounded by matching bookmarks and stickers. Stuff I bring to cons.

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 6h

SLEEP ALONE: PBR, sweat, burnt rubber

I promise the next book will smell better (kinda).

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 8h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Monday (if you're into that sort of thing). Start it off right with some short fiction. "Tongue-Tied" by Shelley Lavigne is FREE to read on the CHM website.

https://bit.ly/491CT2b

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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Alex Ebenstein @alexebenstein.bsky.social · 4d

I have a story on PseudoPod! This one means a lot to me. Check it out?

PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 4d

Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be

“Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.”

The Wind Beneath, byAlex Ebenstein
They Still Haven’t Found Stevie, by Scott Weisser
Precious Darlings, by Annie Diao

Various CWs: please follow the link

PseudoPod 997: Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be

Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful. There’s a gale when dawn illuminates our world. The morning light arrives as though leached from my son’s eyes, his gaze cast skyward…

pseudopod.org

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♿️ Eva Roslin (They/She) is going to Can*Con! 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social · 6d

Hi everyone! I've been accepted to the once-in-a-lifetime writing workshop Under the Volcano, in January, in Mexico! I'm raising funds to help cover tuition, lodging, and airfare. If you are able to donate or boost the signal, thank you! www.gofundme.com/f/53fw2-help...

Donate to Help Eva get to a life-changing writing workshop!, organized by Eva Roslin

Hey everyone! I'm Eva Roslin (she/they), a queer, disabled horror and da… Eva Roslin needs your support for Help Eva get to a life-changing writing workshop!

www.gofundme.com

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 4d

Aahhh Eva!! Congrats!!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 5d

The most important art advice possible

DannyAraya @dannyaraya.bsky.social · 5d

Creators, be less tasteful and more indulgent.

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Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social · 6d

Mosaic-like painting in dark colors with skeleton and snakes

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 6d

Okay new favorite 🤩

J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 7d

Wow! Congrats to you both! 🥳🥳

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 7d

Love how you celebrate. Cheers! 🥃

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Emily Ruth Verona @emilyrverona.bsky.social · 11d

So the place I'd been freelancing for is scaling down and I'm looking for work, preferably full time or part-time. I am an award-winning writer with 19 years of experience.

Works | Emily Ruth Verona

www.emilyruthverona.com

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 12d

This sounds awesome! Congrats! 🥳🥳

J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 12d

This is exactly what I want to read! Congrats, Gwendolyn! 🥳🥳

J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 13d

Send Ruadan your essays and articles! They are a pleasure to work with.

Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 13d

Calling nonfiction writers! Our online column, Thoughts From the Writer’s Desk, is OPEN.

We are looking for unpublished, original essays about the writing life, from in-depth tips on the craft and business to thoughtful columns on genre fiction.

Details: links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs

#WriterSky

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 13d

Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 13d

Happy release day! 🥳🥳

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 14d

DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰

Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳

Photograph of a smiling Chinese American woman in a skull crown holding a copy of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 14d

Congrats, Kelsea! 🥳🥳

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 14d

Happy release day to Michael and The October Film Haunt! 🥳🥳

Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.social · 14d

Now available in bookstores and libraries everywhere! The October Film Haunt is my debut novel and a love letter to horror films and all of us who carry them in our hearts. And, if I may say so, pretty damned scary.

Sappier stuff after I visit a bookstore.

static.macmillan.com/static/smp/o...

Cover of The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15d

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:

NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.

and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 16d

The art kids and the horror kids are often the same kids, so yes, with SPLIT SCREAM Vol 3 from me and @patrickbarb.bsky.social you can have it all 🎨 🩸

Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · 18d

#buymybook Well mine AND @jawmccarthy.bsky.social’s book. Split Scream Vol. 3 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social is for the art kids AND the horror kids. Includes my folk/slasher horror novelette about creation & destruction: “So Quiet, So White.”

SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 3 - Two Novelettes (softcover; includes eBook)

SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! The third volume of editor Alex Ebenstein's acclaimed series is back in print, featuring two novelettes: So Quiet, So White – Patrick Barb Roger Grimsby...

store.tenebrouspress.com

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 17d

Hell yeah! All of this is so cool 🖤

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 17d

Joining the chorus about how damn good @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s BLACK FLAME is. Finished it last week & I’m still thinking about the locations, visions, the Baroness & the beautiful boy, those endless lengths of glossy black film slithering to life and bursting through long barricaded doors 🎥

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 22d

'The Veldt Institute' book release!
This Saturday @ 6pm!
Lost Avenue Books!
Portland, OR!

'The Veldt Institute' book release poster: Saturday September 27th at Lost Avenue Books in Portland Oregon with Samuel M. Moss and Laura Cranehill

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