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Weird/Horror Fiction Author & Editor Gevera Bert Piedmont (she/her) Neurodivergent Cyborg Swamp Witch Fictionary Certified StoryCoach Developmental Editor Member: HWA-NE. NEHW. CAPA. ~HORROR TEACHES US TO FIGHT MONSTERS~ https://linktr.ee/bybertabird

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · Apr 21

It's out! amzn.to/4jckTo2
#bookrelease #horror #fungus #shoggoths #fatpeople #mlm #bodyhorror

Fat Monster

Fat Monster [Piedmont, Gevera Bert] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Fat Monster

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 6d

Please read my lovely novel Fat Monster! It's got mushroom smoothies, fungal horror, body horror, fat ladies, pyramids, and shoggoths. You could have a pretty good weekend with all that. amzn.to/3VSvzye

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 6d

Here's my #haiku #horrorhaiku
scrape of ancient stone |
was the last thing you heard in |
the ancient graveyard
#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 6d

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

Question Four

There he is! Baron Crescendo! Oh how the skies split open to his guitar, how more of us fly in the air! And look, a note from him, just for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Well? Go on! Word or rhyme, continue his Muse!

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 6d

And how awesome of a ghost would that be?

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote a really awesome ghost animal story that's still looking for a home. Sigh.

Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 6d

The unexpected ghost is the best #ghost. You expect to see a ghost in an old Victorian house. You don't expect to see one at a goth concert, a monster truck rally, or by the peaches at Walmart. #horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 6d

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

Question Three

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

It is always a delight to see our violinists perform! How the living bend their splintering bones as they float above us all! Tell us, our ghostly compatriots – which of us are better? Of the folkloric kind? Or invented by our shadowy creators?

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 6d

I like forest ghosts, animals that died and continue to roam in the woods. Long-dead does looking after generations of fawns. Fat translucent bullfrogs swimming beside tadpoles. A murder of crows that fills an entire tree without weighing it down. #horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 6d

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 6d

I'm the Bert and I write all flavors and colors of horror from central Connecticut beside a frog pond in the guise of a swamp witch.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 6d

Be welcomed to the ethereal music hall! A stringed aperitif is in order… do tell the Symposium what do you write, from where… and what IS, indeed, your wraithful visage for tonight?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Rosé Black @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks for the first #HorrorWritersChat of October, Eryn. I got a lot of things to promote. The first is that, I just posted a story to The #ShadowBoxArchives, a stoner comedy to welcome the Fall season. It's paywalled now, but it becomes free in a week.

www.patreon.com/posts/140073...

Dude, where's our Ouija board? ✨Fall Featured Story✨ | Shadow Box Archives

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks Eryn! Some really thought-provoking questions

Tonight I'll plug Fiends & Phantoms, purely because Memento Culpae (one of my favourite stories in it) is very much about regrets of a long life lived as one may not have liked. Also Judiciary seances and imprisoned souls.

#HorrorWritersChat

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fiends & Phantoms

6 tales of horror for fans of M R James and E F Benson

Featuring:
- academics delving too deep into the dark
- folk horror slug gods in the Bavarian hills
- vengeful saints
- Judiciary Mediums with regrets
- ironic fates for bodysnatchers

#booksky 📚💙

Fiends and Phantoms - Lawrence Harding's Ko-fi Shop

Lawrence Harding presents six tales of the Victorian weird, including: An occultist paying his dues A dark entity among the bookstacks An ancient h...

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HD Beird @thebeird.bsky.social · 13d

#HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Eryn

This topic was true to my heart, since my first book AMNION has an elder protagonist

It seems to have had an effect on those who read it

Go on, read it

It's one of the most fun times reading something bleak you'll have

#horror

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

Here's a shout-out for my #90s #kidsonbikes #strangerthings #comingofage #anthology that's entirely set in #connecticut and written mostly by local authors. PB or KU. amzn.to/3IRWLtU #horrorwriterschat A few stories from it were in the #stokercon2025 anthology.

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

I don't think a lot about my characters' ages except that I don't make them teenagers/children because I don't write YA/MG. When I'm creating them and their backstory, I make their ages work for whatever their lived experiences are. #horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 13d

#HorrorWritersChat

Ageing comes to us all, if we're lucky. And while we might not self-insert, our fears colour our horror.
Does it matter if our characters are young or old? Do our ages, and our feelings about ageing, slip quietly out of their mouths?
Do we speak our fears?
10 minutes to outro

In Horror, ageing itself can be terrifying or empowering.
What does it mean to you and your stories?

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

PEEPS!!!!! This place in New Jersey is selling used life-size animatronic #dinosaurs on Facebook marketplace at extremely reasonable prices. I am drooling.
BUY MY BOOKS I NEED A #PTERODACTYL in my yard to keep away the #greatblueheron www.facebook.com/madrid.rex.5

Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

I had my knees replaced and now the metal ones creak. Being a cyborg is not what Cyberpunk 2020 promised me.

Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

He makes pet dinosaurs and sentient spider-dog robots so I enjoy him. Your mileage may vary. #horrorwriterschat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

Dr Lee is just an asshole. It's got nothing to do with his age. He runs Unieda Corp so he's gotta be older but he's not in any way a valuable mentor. He's got zero wisdom. He's 100% fuckery. You think he's gonna be a wise old Asian dude but he's exactly the opposite. He's chaos. #horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 13d

#HorrorWritersChat

Puberty or kids brings one element to a story. Hero's journey, finding themselves, etc. An older character might have that too. Or it might be entirely different. What say you?

Age brings history - regrets, resilience, trauma, wisdom.
how do you use an older character’s lived experience to heighten the horror in your writing?

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

I have a recurring mad scientist character, Dr Bao Lee, who appears at various ages from about 40+. He has seen some shit. Most of it is his fault. He is smart but not wise. He doesn't take advice. #horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 13d

Gather close, #HorrorWritersChat bods, whether you creak, or not. And believe me, many of us creaked in our teens, it's all good.
Age is just one factor.
But it's an interesting one that we do overlook. How many of us actually have older characters in our books, that aren't the wise mentor type?

Horror is chock full of young characters. What about your older ones? How do they shape the story differently?

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

I like you but that was the least helpful answer I've ever gotten. I'm going to assume they are robotic, acrobatic, reconstituted dinosaurs made of candy corn and wearing tiny top hats. #horrorwriterschat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

We get all the frogs!

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

Excellent. May their blessings rain upon you.

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

You just gonna make everyone ask what the hell a "womp rat" is? It sounds like an artesial haircut. #horrorwriterschat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

It's the microplastics. I've been featuring them in my horror lately.

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 13d

I'm Bert and I write all kinds of mixed genre horror. I'm an ancient crone of 57, a book witch, a swamp witch, a gasp "older person" #horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 13d

Here we go, #HorrorWritersChat!
Today is the 1st October, beginning of spooky season, if you ever let it end, and that means it's International Day of Older Persons.
I like the idea of it being International Longevity Day but it isn't that yet. Today is about ageing and horror.

roll call!
What’s your name, what do you write and ...
how old are you?
Don’t be shy. There’s a method to it.

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 14d

I #amediting a short story and #factchecking. No, it was not the #fullmoon on that day in history. Hire a #neurodivergent #editor for the full service experience!

photos of the phases of the moon, from Griffin Observatory https://griffithobservatory.org/explore/observing-the-sky/whats-in-the-sky/the-moon/2017-phases-of-the-moon/

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 15d

So many tiny tree #froglets! #tadpoles #greentreefrogs #treefrogs #connecticut #pondlife #frogs #frog #pondlife

Many tadpoles and grey tree froglets in a bucket with green hyacinth leaves