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Fine writing for foul minds. 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. #NSFW. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · Nov 16

You may know the tale of Sweeney Todd, but what of the tale of Mrs. Lovett? The Butcher’s Daughter, by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark. Serving customers May 2025 🥧🔪

The US and UK covers for the novel The Butcher’s Daughter, set against a map of Victorian London

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 5h

This is embarrassingly funny

David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 5h

you are doing a wonderful job of selling this game

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 5h

SOLD

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 6h

That was the entire reason for the trip 😂

David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 8h

It’s a good one!

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 9h

I am so looking forward to this! 👻

Karmen Wells @nomadiceditor.bsky.social · 10h

I'm so excited to announce @daviddemchuk.com will be joining the author Q&A on the fifth and final week of my Horrific Writing Course, alongside V. Castro and Clay McLeod Chapman!

Class starts in ONE WEEK and we only have THREE SPOTS left!
Sign up here:
ravensendbooks.com/events/35275...

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 11h

Oh I know you did! 😂 To say it’s dated is an understatement.

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 11h

Crafting my invitation now. ✍️

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 11h

this is why I could never do your job, because I would treat every workday like a level in DOOM

David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 11h

LIKE WTF

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 11h

One reader’s review of The Butcher’s Daughter said they originally thought the book was YA and I *shrieked*

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 13h

I pre-ordered this and so can you!

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 12h

Could be saltier!

David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 13h

this is so very much me

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 13h

good afternoon 👅

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 22h

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 1d

I will talk about it more closer to the book’s release, but I did have the feeling that I was reading an instant classic— and also that that first 70 pages was some of the toughest, most uncomfortable writing that I have read in a long time; and then every page after that was a revelation

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 1d

yeeeeek

David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 1d

outstanding work, Aoife 🖤

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 1d

HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE is two years old. My monster mash of memoir and criticism exploring the experience of PTSD is my less popular book, but I love it and I'm proud of it. Thank you to everyone who has supported this one with your blurbs, reviews, and recommendations—you're all diamonds.

The book HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE: ON VIOLENCE AND MEMORY laying on white painted wooden slats, next to three spent bullet casings.

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 1d

Thank you Violet! 🥧

David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 1d

Thank you so much!

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 1d

Everyone read Aoife’s stunning debut novel!

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

"I can’t imagine I will read a better novel this year, it is just that brilliant."
—David Demchuk (@daviddemchuk.com)

PRE-ORDER 2DAY 🔥

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 1d

Overseas friends! Waterstones is offering 25% off online pre-orders of the paperback edition of The Butcher’s Daughter for a limited time starting on Tuesday. check out the tasty promo image for more information, including the handy discount code.

The image with the cover of the Titan books edition of The Butcher’s Daughter indicates that Waterstones is offering 25% off on upcoming books: pre-order now with code OCTOBER25 - October 14-17, online only, selected lines only, T&Cs available on waterstones.com

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