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Lindsay Merbaum she/her

@pickyourpotions.bsky.social

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Witchy author of strange tales ✨📚 Study Coven leader and founder of Pick Your Potions 🖤💀 High priestess of home mixology 🍸🥃 Horror-comedy novella VAMPIRES AT SEA setting sail 10/7! 🛳️🌊☠️🩸🏳️‍🌈🍆🍒

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Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · Jan 21

4-year plan: witch it up, keep writing super queer stuff with lotsa queer sex, and maybe join some Satanic Temple events because those folks really know how to troll/terrify fascists. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍆🍒💋📚📚📚📚⚡️💀

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 1d

This was so fun! My first podcast interview re: Vampires at Sea!

Jenn Jordan @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social · 1d

Some really great interviews this week-- starting with one of my favorite reads of 2025. Thank you @pickyourpotions.bsky.social!

Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 1d

Ep. 371A is here! Lindsay Merbaum stops by to talk about VAMPIRES AT SEA, a seductive horror-comedy about a pair of chic emotional vampires from San Francisco vacationing– and feeding– on a queer cruise of the Black Sea. @pickyourpotions.bsky.social

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Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 1d

So honored to find Vampires at Sea on this list! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩸🛳️🌊💋🍆

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for October 2025

It's October, and you know what that means! Lots of new queer and trans horror heading your way! And plenty to choose from other genres, too.

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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 1d

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Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 2d

Rebekah, the eternally sexy emotional vampire and narrator of my book VAMPIRES AT SEA, which launched yesterday, will answer your sex and relationship questions at Politics and Prose in DC on Halloween! Reply with questions or dm me to stay anonymous! You don’t have to attend to submit a question!

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Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 3d

Yay!

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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 10d

Build your @spookyseason TBR with these #horror new releases:

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Build your @spookyseason TBR with these #horror new releases:

Herculine - Grace Byron

Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World - Mark Waddell

Crafting for Sinners - Jenny Kiefer

The Cold House - Angela Slatter

The Night That Finds Us All - John Hornor Jacobs

Atlas of Unknowable Things - McCormick Templeman

How to Fake a Haunting - Christa Carmen

The Descent - Christian Francis

Quantum Nightmares - Jose M. Rodriguez Jr.

The Night Is Not for You - Eman Quotah

Thin Places - Kay Chronister

I Bought a Haunted Summer Camp - Sam Whittaker

Sister Creatures - Laura Venita Green

NightBorn - Theresa Cheung

Savage Blooms - S. T. Gibson

Vampires at Sea - Lindsay Merbaum

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Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for including Vampires at Sea!

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks for reading!

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 17d

Events, events! Vampires at Sea events! Come see me in MI, Chicago, NYC, and DC! For more: www.lmerbaum.com/events

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you!

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you!

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 17d

San Francisco kinksters: @bayareareporter.bsky.social thinks you should read my book about SF-based emotional vampires on a queer cruise! 🛳️🌊💔💋🍆🩸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 18d

The more savage these reviews get, the more I want to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir.

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 25d

Vampires at Sea is smutty and super queer, and now it’s a @libraryreads.bsky.social October bonus fiction pick! 😱🛳️🌊🩸🍆♥️💋🏳️‍⚧️

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Pauline Chow (My gothic fantasy is Chasing Moonflowers!) @paulinechow.bsky.social · 25d

Kirkus Review BEST INDIE BOOKS of September includes Chasing Moonflowers! #bestof #tbr #booklist #gothic #writingcommunity #historicalfantasy #horror

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Best Indie Books of September | Kirkus Reviews

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

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Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 25d

Omg congrats!

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · 29d

A loss to his family, sure. But not a loss to our country or our culture. He was a vile person.

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · Sep 11

I don’t mourn evil. I grieve the violence and hatred, but the loss of a fascist is not a loss.

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · Sep 1

Enjoying this read so much. @thelincoln.bsky.social is hilarious!

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Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just here for the rumors

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · Aug 26

😂😂😂😬

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · Aug 26

Oh my gods VAMPIRES AT SEA comes out in just SIX weeks. Brace yourselves for some unbridled narcissism! 🩸🛳️🌊💋🖤😂🍆💔🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · Aug 23

Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s menopause

Lindsay Merbaum she/her @pickyourpotions.bsky.social · Aug 21

I haven’t seen it either!

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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · Aug 14

new on DIS/MEMBER: Rebekah the Emotional Vampire, star of @pickyourpotions.bsky.social's upcoming VAMPIRES AT SEA, is back with a highly subjective list! www.dis-member.com/fiction-rebe...

[FICTION] REBEKAH'S MOST FUCKABLE VAMPIRES OF FILM • DIS/MEMBER

Rebekah the Emotional Vampire, star of Lindsay Merbaum's novella Vampires at Sea, returns to DIS/MEMBER with a ranking of her favorite film vampires.

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