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Joe Butler
@writelikeashark.bsky.social
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Weird/Curio/Sci-Fi/Horror writer, novelist, & creator of the Haunted Hotel Project. Founder/editor/cover artist for @TLDRpress. Imperfect Creatures out 18 November 2025, published by Diachroneity Books. (He/Him) www.writelikeashark.com
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · Jul 30
Cover reveal, and release announcement!!

My next book, Imperfect Creatures, is out 18th November!

This is the weirdest and best thing I've ever written, and I'm so excited for people to read it.

More news soon!!
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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · Jul 30
👻🏘️ Book announcement 🏘️👻

Our next release will be Imperfect Creatures by @writelikeashark.bsky.social

diachroneitybooks.com/Imperfect-Cr...
The cover of Imperfect Creatures by Joe Butler. A close-up of a distorted face with three mouths and four eyes, overlaid with a red rectangle, which is surrounded by four red frames.
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 51m
Happy birthday!!!
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 16h
We’ve got books! We’ve got New Weird Horror books! (And we’ve got five days straight of chronic insomnia but we swear it’s just making us charming and hilarious and not a lifeless husk).
Join us in the Void🖤☠️
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Tenebrous table, NOW WITH BOOKS
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 17h
Scared the absolute nonsense out of me when I was a kid.
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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 1d
I could write a long, angry thread about how AI is the biggest act of piracy ever. About how it's stealing art from artists, words from writers... But fuck it, instead, let's go hard on circling the wagons, protecting those in our community, and amplifying the talents of those being robbed 🖤.
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 1d
Congrats!!
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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 1d
My hands are shaking a little as I type this but...ITCH! IS OUT TODAY!!

I'm finally a big 5 published author!

Feminist, formication folk horror with creepy crawlies, ancient traditions, unsolved murders, weird processions, masks, an old pub and an excellent dog.

www.hachette.co.uk/titles/gemma...
Gemma Amor dressed in pink holding a copy of ITCH!
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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 4d
Hey all, remember that found footage book @gabino.bsky.social and I put together? Well, we did it again! If you dug FOUND, check out FOUND2. Eighteen more stories of found footage horror! 🖤📼 www.amazon.com/dp/0648731561
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 4d
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 4d
Celebrating my one year since I got covid by getting ill again. Awesome stuff.
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 4d
a man with a beard is laying down with a quote that says i 'm going to cut your heart out with a
ALT: a man with a beard is laying down with a quote that says i 'm going to cut your heart out with a
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 5d
Weird! I'm watching it right now. Just finished up S1. So good.
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 6d
That sounds amazing!
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 7d
**eBook ANTHOLOGY BUNDLE SALE**

GREEN INFERNO - Eco-Horror
IN SOMNIO - Gothic gone Weird
YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY - New Weird Horror by an all Trans/GNC crew

All 3 for just $8.99!

Why? Dunno, but they all seem pretty thematically relevant these days🖤☠️

store.tenebrouspress.com/products/ten...
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 7d
Only one regard though. Ice cold.
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 7d
Love the very formal triple space before full name. Assuming you will also be asking for an extended pause before being addressed.
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 8d
Huge congrats, Alex. Sounds rad.
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CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social · 8d
When you’re publishing your publisher friend. @alexwoodroe.com wrote an amazing horror sci-fi banger! So stoked be publishing her!
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Vesper Doom 🧡🤍🩷 @vesperdoom.com · 8d
I am tentatively looking for published authors who would be interested in being a part of a second space horror anthology, the sequel, so to speak, to Astrophobia.
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 8d
Sounds amazing!
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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 8d
The Night Ship is up on Netgalley for those of you so inclined! Reviewers, friends, enemies, anyone, if that's not accessible for you drop me a line, I *am* keeping a list of who has asked and will be dropping emails shortly. ♥️

www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
As the world goes dark, smuggler Rosi and her crew sail their truck across a murky sea of nothingness. But something hungry lurks below... THE NIGHT SHIP BY ALEX WOODROE PREORDERS OPEN! Coming January 20, 2026 from Flame Tree Press
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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 9d
Sinister portents
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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 9d
IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The best of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 10d
Fantastic read!!
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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 11d
If trans rights get taken away then that opens the door for them to take away others’ rights also. Saying trans rights are human rights is not hyperbole or an exaggeration because you know it’s not so don’t leave anything to chance. especially when dealing with legitimately gleefully evil people.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 11d
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned
The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.
www.thepinknews.com
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