J.A.W. McCarthy
@jawmccarthy.bsky.social
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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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.
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.
This sale is so good for many reasons:
* I just ordered The Extra (I’ve been looking forward to this one)
* Two of the books in this image are on my TBR
* One of the books is an all time favorite with a gorgeous new cover
* Hey, look—that’s Sleep Alone, which is getting a cover reveal next week!
* I just ordered The Extra (I’ve been looking forward to this one)
* Two of the books in this image are on my TBR
* One of the books is an all time favorite with a gorgeous new cover
* Hey, look—that’s Sleep Alone, which is getting a cover reveal next week!
Our biggest holiday sale ever just launched! 35% off almost everything with code HOLIDAY35!
- New releases? 35% off!
- Pre-orders? 35% off!
- Hardcovers? 35% off!
- That book you heard great things about three years ago but haven't picked up yet? 35% off!
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- New releases? 35% off!
- Pre-orders? 35% off!
- Hardcovers? 35% off!
- That book you heard great things about three years ago but haven't picked up yet? 35% off!
shop.shortwavepublishing.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This sale is so good for many reasons:
* I just ordered The Extra (I’ve been looking forward to this one)
* Two of the books in this image are on my TBR
* One of the books is an all time favorite with a gorgeous new cover
* Hey, look—that’s Sleep Alone, which is getting a cover reveal next week!
* I just ordered The Extra (I’ve been looking forward to this one)
* Two of the books in this image are on my TBR
* One of the books is an all time favorite with a gorgeous new cover
* Hey, look—that’s Sleep Alone, which is getting a cover reveal next week!
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My horror non-fiction work is going to be INSANE in 2026, and I'm so incredibly proud of this essay contained in DARKEST MARGINS: 24 ESSAYS ON LIMINALITY & LIMINAL SPACES IN THE HORROR GENRE from 1428 Publishing Ltd.
Let me know if you'd like to read it!!
Let me know if you'd like to read it!!
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My horror non-fiction work is going to be INSANE in 2026, and I'm so incredibly proud of this essay contained in DARKEST MARGINS: 24 ESSAYS ON LIMINALITY & LIMINAL SPACES IN THE HORROR GENRE from 1428 Publishing Ltd.
Let me know if you'd like to read it!!
Let me know if you'd like to read it!!
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Eligibility post! Here’s my new work for 2025. Thanks for your consideration 🖤
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Eligibility post! Here’s my new work for 2025. Thanks for your consideration 🖤
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A perfect holiday gift for the bookworm in your life who loves books AND worms 📚🪱
Our anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION features 23 stellar tales from today's best rising stars and established voices! 🌍🪻
Get your copy here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
Our anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION features 23 stellar tales from today's best rising stars and established voices! 🌍🪻
Get your copy here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A perfect holiday gift for the bookworm in your life who loves books AND worms 📚🪱
Our anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION features 23 stellar tales from today's best rising stars and established voices! 🌍🪻
Get your copy here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
Our anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION features 23 stellar tales from today's best rising stars and established voices! 🌍🪻
Get your copy here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
Eligibility post! Here’s my new work for 2025. Thanks for your consideration 🖤
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Eligibility post! Here’s my new work for 2025. Thanks for your consideration 🖤
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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
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Join us, buy books, fight hunger:
Ruadán Books is donating 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23/2025 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well!
Get our books direct:
🔗 ruadanbooks.com
📚 or wherever books are sold!
#BookSky #charity
Ruadán Books is donating 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23/2025 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well!
Get our books direct:
🔗 ruadanbooks.com
📚 or wherever books are sold!
#BookSky #charity
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Join us, buy books, fight hunger:
Ruadán Books is donating 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23/2025 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well!
Get our books direct:
🔗 ruadanbooks.com
📚 or wherever books are sold!
#BookSky #charity
Ruadán Books is donating 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23/2025 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well!
Get our books direct:
🔗 ruadanbooks.com
📚 or wherever books are sold!
#BookSky #charity
My first translation/non-english publication! “Consider This an Opportunity”—my dark sci-fi story about a woman gifted a “brother” to make her a better person—has been translated into German for Your Body the Ship: The Best International Science Fiction Stories. This is a milestone for me 🤖 🖤
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My first translation/non-english publication! “Consider This an Opportunity”—my dark sci-fi story about a woman gifted a “brother” to make her a better person—has been translated into German for Your Body the Ship: The Best International Science Fiction Stories. This is a milestone for me 🤖 🖤
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Deal alert! Frost Bite and The Dead Spot are randomly on sale on the Zon! Check it out if you want to grab a copy for cheap! ❄️
You can also spend a bit more and order signed copies (with swag) directly from me. Links for all these options are in my bio😘
a.co/d/24SEAmx
You can also spend a bit more and order signed copies (with swag) directly from me. Links for all these options are in my bio😘
a.co/d/24SEAmx
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Deal alert! Frost Bite and The Dead Spot are randomly on sale on the Zon! Check it out if you want to grab a copy for cheap! ❄️
You can also spend a bit more and order signed copies (with swag) directly from me. Links for all these options are in my bio😘
a.co/d/24SEAmx
You can also spend a bit more and order signed copies (with swag) directly from me. Links for all these options are in my bio😘
a.co/d/24SEAmx
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Fancypants Eligibility Graphic for 2025 Works
You’re under no obligation, but Wednesday IS my birthday. Just sayin’. 😉
You’re under no obligation, but Wednesday IS my birthday. Just sayin’. 😉
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Fancypants Eligibility Graphic for 2025 Works
You’re under no obligation, but Wednesday IS my birthday. Just sayin’. 😉
You’re under no obligation, but Wednesday IS my birthday. Just sayin’. 😉
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Previous graphic incorrectly states Sunday when this is occurring on **SATURDAY**. Apologies!
Don't forget to register!
www.nypl.org/events/progr...
#nypl #authortalk #silkandsinewantho #badhandbooks
Don't forget to register!
www.nypl.org/events/progr...
#nypl #authortalk #silkandsinewantho #badhandbooks
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Previous graphic incorrectly states Sunday when this is occurring on **SATURDAY**. Apologies!
Don't forget to register!
www.nypl.org/events/progr...
#nypl #authortalk #silkandsinewantho #badhandbooks
Don't forget to register!
www.nypl.org/events/progr...
#nypl #authortalk #silkandsinewantho #badhandbooks
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We're coming up on five years of Cursed Morsels, which feels absolutely wild! If you don't know us, our whole thing is anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and pro-queer short horror and Weird fiction. If that sounds like your thing, grab something(s) from our store!
www.cursedmorselspress.com
www.cursedmorselspress.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We're coming up on five years of Cursed Morsels, which feels absolutely wild! If you don't know us, our whole thing is anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and pro-queer short horror and Weird fiction. If that sounds like your thing, grab something(s) from our store!
www.cursedmorselspress.com
www.cursedmorselspress.com
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It's nearly time to nominate your best speculative ecofiction for ECO25! Full guidelines here: www.violetlichen.com/ecofiction-guidelines
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🚨 And don't miss your 30% preorder discount on ECO4. Only a couple days left to preorder - release day is Nov 18!
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🚨 And don't miss your 30% preorder discount on ECO4. Only a couple days left to preorder - release day is Nov 18!
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November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It's nearly time to nominate your best speculative ecofiction for ECO25! Full guidelines here: www.violetlichen.com/ecofiction-guidelines
🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
🚨 And don't miss your 30% preorder discount on ECO4. Only a couple days left to preorder - release day is Nov 18!
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
🚨 And don't miss your 30% preorder discount on ECO4. Only a couple days left to preorder - release day is Nov 18!
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
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🚨 Today is the LAST DAY for my book drive and I’d love to go out with a bang! For every book sold, I'll donate $1 to AFAC, my local food bank. Ebooks, paperbacks, and signed copies all count. Please share! sonorataylor.square.site #booksky
sonorataylor.square.site
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🚨 Today is the LAST DAY for my book drive and I’d love to go out with a bang! For every book sold, I'll donate $1 to AFAC, my local food bank. Ebooks, paperbacks, and signed copies all count. Please share! sonorataylor.square.site #booksky
Finally visited my PO Box and it was well worth it. Thank you to @perfidiousscript.bsky.social for this gorgeous copy of his new novel THE VELDT INSTITUTE! I was lucky enough to get to read early chapters, so I’m excited to see how it progresses.
Also LOOK at the details in this paperback 🤩
Also LOOK at the details in this paperback 🤩
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Finally visited my PO Box and it was well worth it. Thank you to @perfidiousscript.bsky.social for this gorgeous copy of his new novel THE VELDT INSTITUTE! I was lucky enough to get to read early chapters, so I’m excited to see how it progresses.
Also LOOK at the details in this paperback 🤩
Also LOOK at the details in this paperback 🤩
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Our 2026 Book Box campaign closes this Sunday! We're down to the last few days!
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Our 2026 Book Box campaign closes this Sunday! We're down to the last few days!
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
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Time for an Eligibility post!
Thanks to everyone who spent a little time with my words this year. I always appreciate your kindness :)
If you want to nominate anything for anything…that’s wonderful.
If you don’t, that’s cool too :)
Thanks to everyone who spent a little time with my words this year. I always appreciate your kindness :)
If you want to nominate anything for anything…that’s wonderful.
If you don’t, that’s cool too :)
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Time for an Eligibility post!
Thanks to everyone who spent a little time with my words this year. I always appreciate your kindness :)
If you want to nominate anything for anything…that’s wonderful.
If you don’t, that’s cool too :)
Thanks to everyone who spent a little time with my words this year. I always appreciate your kindness :)
If you want to nominate anything for anything…that’s wonderful.
If you don’t, that’s cool too :)
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I was having a conversation with a friend over this past weekend about publishing's insistence that marginalized writers aspire to having overt moral lessons in their stories for readers who lack perspective.
Like, there always has to be a lesson.
Like, there always has to be a lesson.
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I was having a conversation with a friend over this past weekend about publishing's insistence that marginalized writers aspire to having overt moral lessons in their stories for readers who lack perspective.
Like, there always has to be a lesson.
Like, there always has to be a lesson.
This is a really good reminder. Some recent acquisitions from @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @laurelhightower.bsky.social with a snippet of @haileypiperfights.bsky.social’s latest novel in the background bc we’ve gotten to a point where my TBR has bled over onto the dining room table.
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is a really good reminder. Some recent acquisitions from @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @laurelhightower.bsky.social with a snippet of @haileypiperfights.bsky.social’s latest novel in the background bc we’ve gotten to a point where my TBR has bled over onto the dining room table.
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Buy everyone (our) books this holiday season: the shopping's done & you fight hunger!
We will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23 to the @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy direct at ruadanbooks.com.
#BookSky #foodbank
We will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23 to the @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy direct at ruadanbooks.com.
#BookSky #foodbank
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Buy everyone (our) books this holiday season: the shopping's done & you fight hunger!
We will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23 to the @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy direct at ruadanbooks.com.
#BookSky #foodbank
We will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23 to the @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy direct at ruadanbooks.com.
#BookSky #foodbank
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Working on novels, but 2 stories in 2025: “The Project."
And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel from @patrickbarb.bsky.social
“The Interior” from @3lobedmag.com 🔥 narration from @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social : www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...
And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel from @patrickbarb.bsky.social
“The Interior” from @3lobedmag.com 🔥 narration from @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social : www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Working on novels, but 2 stories in 2025: “The Project."
And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel from @patrickbarb.bsky.social
“The Interior” from @3lobedmag.com 🔥 narration from @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social : www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...
And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel from @patrickbarb.bsky.social
“The Interior” from @3lobedmag.com 🔥 narration from @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social : www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...
ICYMI: I’m really proud of this story and @pseudopod.org did a beautiful job producing it (as always). I’d love it if you gave it a listen/read.
The power of knowing oneself, accepting oneself, and spontaneous human combustion under the shadow of religious expectations. Please note the CWs
The power of knowing oneself, accepting oneself, and spontaneous human combustion under the shadow of religious expectations. Please note the CWs
PseudoPod 965: The Ecstasy of the Saints
I’m six the first time it happens. I’m sitting in the backseat of the family sedan, staring at the rearview mirror so I can see when my father’s big eye peels upward and focuses on me…
pseudopod.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ICYMI: I’m really proud of this story and @pseudopod.org did a beautiful job producing it (as always). I’d love it if you gave it a listen/read.
The power of knowing oneself, accepting oneself, and spontaneous human combustion under the shadow of religious expectations. Please note the CWs
The power of knowing oneself, accepting oneself, and spontaneous human combustion under the shadow of religious expectations. Please note the CWs
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It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
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Redoing this because I realized I forgot a couple!
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Redoing this because I realized I forgot a couple!