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Alex Woodroe
@alexwoodroe.com
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Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social‬. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
she/her

WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP coming Jan 2026
SECRET THIRD PROJECT Fall 2026

https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe
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Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
The author holding her book like it's the lion king A hardcover in oranges and reds, truck on the cover, title is The Night Ship, Alex Woodroe The same book open to chapter three, called "the land of lonesomeness"
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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If you think you might wanna have the book that got this review, there's ten foiled hardback copies up for grabs!

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Goodreads giveaway, enter for a chance to win a free copy, The Night Ship (book cover orange toned truck & radio panels)
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I might need to be pinched because I can't quite believe this Library Journal review is really real and really mine

❤️❤️❤️❤️😅 Who over there needs an alibi? I'm great in a crisis and you were with me all day that day I swear
"When the world goes dark in 1980s Romania, Rosi is trapped on the truck she uses as a smuggling vessel along with the driver, Gigi, her arranged-marriage fiancé. The mood of the novel perfectly matches the grim and oppressive descriptions of this newly changed world. As cosmic horrors erupt around them, Rosi gathers the other survivors together to make their way to a hoped-for safety, led only by the radio signals they pick up. Woodroe’s writing is tight and clean, emphasizing the desperation and also the real fear that people would experience in this apocalyptic setting. The novel skillfully mixes celestial terror and off-the-wall weirdness while making good use of tweaked and twisted science, the Communist Romania setting, and believable characters. The ending hopefully paves the way for a sequel. VERDICT: Woodroe (Whisperwood) offers a haunting and propulsive treat in this survival horror story, whose read-alikes include The Mist and The Langoliers, both by Stephen King, and God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines."
December 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The first few snowflakes of the winter caught me outside, running, therefore I'm considering myself divinely blessed and will take no arguments.
I will however take any suggestions as to which divinity this might have been, currently idk where to send the thank you note?
Fucking freezing ass looking landscape, frankly. It's overcast and the hills are various shades of dead and you can feel the fog and cold in your bones just from looking at this. Person in the foreground is wearing several thermal layers and looks very pleased with herself for someone who is about to throw back two burgers and an order of crepes
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Either that or I'm starting to rot, like the wood
A rose trellis that used to be a ladder, and now isn't even a rose trellis anymore
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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We've been in this fog bank for weeks, and if you're asking whether I'm well, it is debatable at this stage who is more self-aware: the lichen, or I
A walnut tree starkly outlined against a foggy background A drop of water hanging from a bowed branch, more fog in the background Some kind of fungus growing from a lichen-covered, rotting tree. More fog More lichen. Multiple colors of lichen. More fog. The lichen and the fog never end
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Anyone want an editing sample? This email in our inbox volunteered—the only logical explanation for why anyone would be pitching AI slop to Tenebrous
An edited and annotated document saying: Joint Venture Proposal - Tenebrous Press Inbox 8:32 PM (1 hour ago) to me Hello, I generate concept trash, including sci-fi composite images designed to obliterate the value of games, books, and wall art. My trash combines visual development, narrative design, and AI-supported production. What I offer: • Nothing • Emptiness • A hollow sense that our time on earth is passing • Shame I’d like to explore a JV with you. In the meantime, here’s a document highlighting my abilities and providing samples of my work. Best,
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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First sub zero run is out of the way, and so far so good! Fueled by turkey curry, roasted chestnuts, and sweet pears, the weather can't keep this balkanlander down
Frosted branches on the side of an empty road, sunset behind them
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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STUCK IN THE MUD
AND I'M TO BLAME
BABY I GIVE MUD A BAD NAME
An editor in the headlights of her car which is decidedly where it shouldn't have been and is categorically not going anywhere But there's a beautiful view, at least
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Today's run needs no introduction
Sunset. A beautiful road across the countryside, fall colors, distant hills.
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"...unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller. Readers will be on the edges of their seats."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BABY

www.publishersweekly.com/9781787589186
The Night Ship Alex Woodroe. Flame Tree, $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-787589-18-6 Woodroe (Whisperwood) expertly maintains suspense throughout this unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller about an apocalyptic event in 1987 Romania. Heroine Rosi has “made it a point of survival to think as little as possible about... goings-on beyond what was strictly in front of her.” She’s taken advantage of the logging truck used by her fiancé, Gigi, to facilitate her smuggling business. On a routine excursion in that vehicle, the pair pick up a hitchhiker, Sorin, who claims to be a philosophy student, though Rosi soon comes to suspect that he is a government informant, if not actually a member of the country’s notorious secret police. Before she can test this theory, darkness falls like a physical force from the sky and “swallows the world.” In this new pitch blackness, segments of once solid ground are replaced by an inky substance that drags down all objects that land in it. With the truck’s cabin one of the only safe refuges, this unlikely trio set out to make sense of what’s happened and rescue survivors. Woodroe parcels out reveals about the nature of the dark void gradually but effectively. Readers will be on the edges of their seats. (Jan.)
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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May the void (and the tiramisu I snarfled half an hour ago) bless me with a good run
Punk ass editor in shorts running shoes and a Voidcon t-shirt
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Every interview ever: fiction editor & horror writer huh? What have you been reading lately
Me: 😬😬😬
Practical programming Sightly reduced performance capacity in Selye's stage 1. Such fatigue is short-lived; an acute variable. Comprehensive recovery processes are the collective repair status of the various organ systems and processes affected by the training bout: endocrine and immune systems, chronic inflammatory processes, and protein synthetic responses. Fatigue and recovery together contribute to adaptation and progress, with supraconpensation...
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Continuing the very important work of building arms for the girls
A shameless editor shamelessly flexing
October 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Day one of jetlag recovery: everything hurts. Tired, nauseous, confused, crampy, and missing my friends. Showed up for a run because what's the point of these bodies if not to enjoy the time we get to the utmost
Bit of a sunset, stretch of road, semi-miserable editor in a beanie and a Jaws shirt
October 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Hey guess what?
I'm stuck in an airport for the foreseeable several to infinity hours!
Ask me anything about anything at all.
A crude but dare I say brave piece of art of a crashing plane that says "your flight is not boarding (crossed out and replaced with fucked)" Said fucked editor with a massive, massive cup of coffee the likes of which can only be sourced on American soil
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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My last American Diner breakfast of this trip has come and gone in all of seven minutes.
Until next time, Diners. I'll be back. I'll conquer your potatoes. You'll never get rid of me.
A plate of eggs, burger steak, potatoes, toast, and coffee, and a side of pancake An empty plate
October 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Grateful to friends whose gifts cover a broad range of my special interests and keep me company when I'm blue because I miss them.
Strength training, The Night Land art, and unusual chocolate truffles actually make more sense as a combo than you'd think 😅
An open book showing deadlifting position diagrams, an art print in super dark high contrast line work of a man battling a massive worm-like creature, and a box of very colorful and cheerful looking chocolate truffles
October 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Summary of @voidcon.bsky.social: life doesn't owe us much and publishing even less, every chance we get to live new things, be happy in these skins, and love on our people is gravy.
Appreciate the Void for giving us gravy time. They did a great job and looked cool doing it.
Hail Void crew!
A collage of photos including selfies, group shots, food photos, book photos, and a can of spam
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Two weeks on the other side of the planet?
All packed
A backpack and a little crotch pack. They're not even that stuffed
October 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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"Horror sci-fi banger" is an incredibly generous interpretation of the genre chaos magic going on in this book that I am SO FREAKING EXCITED TO GET TO TELL YOU ABOUT oh my gosh this is gonna be so fun
Author of Whisperwood and editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press Alex Woodroe's TATRATEA in which a lone researcher arrives at an ancient Romanian manor to investigate the source of a virus driving the world insane, but is quickly locked in and caught between local hyperactive flora, invasive cosmic forces, and her own ability to remain lucid, to Christoph Paul at CLASH for publication in fall 2026 Clash Fall 2026 Alex Woodroe (photo of the author wearing a tenebrous press shirt and wielding a mean rusty axe)
October 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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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
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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May you have whatever day this is
An incredibly cozy terrier in a very fuzzy bed, a lit fireplace behind him warming his little rump
October 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Now playing, on the one true champion of movie platforms Night Flight, is whatever the hell this is gonna turn out to be. How can we go wrong with a character named Lord Zirpola, honestly
Deathsport One thousand years into the future, following the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastes and isolated city-states. Lord Zirpola captures the notorious "Desert Ranger" Kaz (David Carradine) to fight to the death in his game, Deathsport.
September 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Just a couple cuties discovering the marvels of beanbag chairs in the great outdoors
The author making a silly scrunchy face because there's a lot of sun. She's laying back in the grass and her trusted companion the demon dog Charlie is curled up nearby Demon dog Charlie looking majestic in the grass. He's surrounded by beanbags and there's a terrace and an ice cream truck in the distance and a pretty impressive cliff behind that
September 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM