Hazel E. Baumgartner - Author of "The Woods: A Horror Novel"
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - Author of "The Woods: A Horror Novel"
@hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social
Artist, author, musician, witch, and Hot Wheels collector. I make music under the name Hazel Bee and write books under the name Hazel E. Baumgartner, which is also my name.

30, she/they, 99% lesbian, USA 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

Buy my book: https://a.co/d/6Aanpc7
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My pinned post disappeared again so HI! If you like gorey monster stories, suspenseful mysteries, supernatural thrillers, cryptid horror, and books where the killer in the woods is a metaphor for grief, you should check out my debut novel, "The Woods: A Horror Novel", out now!

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This is what RFK Jr's anti-health policies are speedrunning us back towards.

I was a NICU baby. I am alive because of the advancements made to infant childcare in the last hundred years. Anti-vax baby killers like RFK Jr are evil, plain and simple. The "pro life" party is supporting dead babies.
The 1911 census outright asked people to tabulate their living and dead children. Just out and asked it right there. Seven of my eight great-grandparents lost siblings in infancy.
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Got my tree up and decorated today
December 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
It wasn't supposed to snow more today but it currently is. I suppose that's what I get for moving back to Colorado. Spending the day working on my book inside where it's warm anyways.
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Fuck you of you think trans rights should be sacrificed "for the good of democracy".

The anti democracy machine is the anti-trans machine. Get that through your skulls.
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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“I say we take off and nuke the White House from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This could've been the cover for my book lol
Tree Trunks in Snow
by Svend Rasmussen Svendsen, not dated
Oil on canvas
81 cm x 61 cm
Private collection

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I have jokingly said my goal word count for every book is 69,420. Well now I'm working on the third draft for "Heliruna" and my projected word count is awful close to 69,420... I might just have to go for it. 🤣
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I mean "The Woods" does take place in the woods, but a better title might be "Some Of You Will Die, But That Is A Sacrifice I Am Willing To Make". Or "Don't Get Attached To Anyone".
My WIP, "Heliruna", would be called "High School Love Triangle Drama But One Of Them's A Ghost".
Books with honest titles(see video link for full sketch)

What would your book be titled?

My WIP would be: A Dark and Stormy Night when a Lady Burglar and a Miller's Daughter's Fall in Love and Bury Several White Men Who Was Mildly Inconvenient to Their Existence

youtu.be/lp3oW8_jf2I?...
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I got another warning on my Reddit account for "violent threats". This time it was from describing one of the kills in my book. If my horror author account gets taken down for violent content on Reddit because of kills I wrote in a slasher novel, I will wear it as a badge of honor.
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
If you're in the Twin Cities, be advised that the terrorist organization known as ICE is ramping up attacks up there this weekend.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I took this picture of my Jeep from about a thousand feet away while my phone was on 0% battery so it wouldn't focus and it turned out kinda fuzzy and grainy and tbh it's an aesthetic.
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Stanley Kubrick's final work was a film about exactly why AI toys are a horrible idea.
And more recently we had M 3 G A N. Do y'all just not read or watch movies oooor?
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
These corporations need to learn how to advertise to millennials/zoomers. If you interrupt my show mid-sentence to advertise your stupid paper towels to me, I will go out of my way to buy every brand of paper towels EXCEPT yours for the rest of my life.
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Real exvangelicals know who the real OG AI tech bros were. Letting a computer dictate their morals all the way back in the '90s.
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
In positive news, there's something truly magical about the snow. I just took like a two mile walk and it's completely silent and light outside at 10 pm. You'd never guess I live in the 40th largest city in the country.

Life is occasionally good.
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Release the reverse-Spotify Wrapped showing us how many times their ICE recruitment ads run, how much money Spotify gets paid to air them, & how little money everyone's Top 5 bands make on their platform
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
When you ask someone who bought your book a year ago what their favorite part was and they just... don't respond.

Your silence speaks volumes. 🤣
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This site is on my bucket list maybe for next summer?
I visited these nearly 900 year old cliff dwellings today. So magical. Montezuma Castle National Monument. Loved being able to see the wooden beams.
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This is on par with the dude who said firing an AR-15 once gave him PTSD lol
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Just finished my 15th book of the year, pretty decently ahead of my 12 book reading goal. Might even shoot for 20 next year.
December 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections...

#AccountabilityIsComing
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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your party is a shambling debacle - is mass infiltration by nefarious gender ideology extremists to blame? new polling points to yes.
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
When this is all over, the American people need to realize that the democrats are and have always been a center-right party, form a new party to the left of them, and never let anyone further right than Chuck Schumer into a position of power again.
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Every Democrat that ever voted to extend the PATRIOT Act is at least partially responsible for this btw.
"the federal government now openly says it will use its supercharged spy capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. Labeled as “domestic terrorists” by the administration, these targets include anti-ICE protesters and anyone who allegedly funds them"
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Because she's a jealous ex that refuses to move on (in more ways than one)
Why is the antagonist of your MC their antagonist? What caused the friction? #WritingPrompt
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM