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Andrea Morstabilini

@andreamorstabilini.bsky.social

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Writer, editor. Milan, mostly, but sometimes Kraków. I like cats and cemeteries. A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON out now with Titan Books. https://www.andreamorstabilini.com/

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · Sep 2

BLOOD publishes today! 🧛🏻‍♂️🦇🌕🩸 I’m feeling as if I’m on a rollercoaster, speeding (and looping) through several different emotions, the most prominent of which are fear and incredulous happiness. But I’m also proud of BLOOD and can’t wait for you to read it or listen to it.

(More below!)

A picture of a crowded bookshelf, with a copy of A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON, a glass vase holding a wilting white rose, a bronze model of Bran Castle and a litograph depicting Sighișoara.

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 7d

Writing is a solitary activity, it's often said, but it's also an ecosystem—I really believe this. So thank you to all writers who were kind enough to find time to read and say something nice about BLOOD, and of course, thank you to who's reading! I hope you'll enjoy some on BLOOD's strange vistas!

Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 7d

A Blood as Bright as the Moon is one month old!

To mark the occasion the wizards at @titanbooks.bsky.social have made a beautiful booktrailer, at the end of which you can see some endorsements, from Mariana Enriquez, @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social and @ericlarocca.bsky.social ❤️🌕🩸

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🪱💀mindy💀🪱 [dirt ceremony era] @garbagesauce.bsky.social · 8d

the latest new & restocked horror available at b&n sioux falls!

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 9d

Happy birthday! 🍰

Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations Pedro!! 🎉

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20d

Things are powerfully bad right now, bleak business in and around every corner, so I feel like I need to counterbalance just a little, just a touch, with a daily nature pic for a while. So today's pic is a cheeky little red-eyed vireo in a magnolia tree. Photo by me.

A slowly bowed branch by a roofline is framed by the green leaves of a magnolia tree, which was a tree I once thought only grew in the south but that's silly. On this branch sits a bird -- a red-eyed vireo, which is a kind of greige bird, still pretty, with a dramatic eyeliner mask across its (not apparent here) red eyes. Its beak is small but mighty, ready to peck out a fascist's eyes. It has a yellow ass. Just a yellow ass, right there for all the gods and all the children to see, under its tail. The yellow ass is facing you. Can an ass face you? I dunno. Either way, the bird is looking over its shoulders -- do birds have shoulders? shit -- with a cheeky little "oops I did it again" vibe. And I have no idea what the bird did except steal and eat berries from the magnolia tree. Perhaps that's a bird crime, but I don't care, eat the berries, bird, that's why they're there. Wait, where is my wallet? (photo by me, Chuck Wendig)

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 21d

A Blood as Bright as the Moon, by @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social (pub by @titanbooks.bsky.social), is a different take on the vampire myth, a queer gothic horror novel that experiments with genres and writing styles to deliver a powerful experience.

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 21d

😍😍😍 Thank you so much! I'm so happy BLOOD resonated with you, and thank you for this beautiful review! ❤️

Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 21d

Belated happy publication day, Hailey! 🎉💛

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 22d

finally, the September shopping list is live! new books from @almakatsu.bsky.social @brianmcwriter.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @brackenmacleod.bsky.social @bitterkarella.bsky.social & MANY more!

All the New Horror Books Coming in September 2025

August 2025’s new horror books, featuring titles from Nadia Bulkin, Sarah Gailey, Rachel Harrison, Bitter Karella, Clay McLeod Chapman, Hailey Piper, Keith Rosson, Eric LaRocca, Alma Katsu, M…

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27d

ME: Okay, time to just blow through these copyedits!

BOOK: 468 pages

ME: …fuck.

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 27d

The best! 💜

Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 27d

It really, really is! 😍 It's already been commandeered by my husband! 😉

Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 27d

I have the best publisher. Thank you @titanbooks.bsky.social for this and thank you to the whole team, @dancarpenter.bsky.social, @baharkutluk.bsky.social, @fallintofiction.bsky.social, Katherine, Caitlin and Hannah.

I'm oh so lucky!

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A celebratory pin of A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON with a message from the Titan Books team.

The pin, held by a hand, for size reference.

The author wearing the pin on a black shirt with a Vanda orchid in the background.

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you!! 🌕🩸❤️

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Brittney 🌙 more espresso, less depresso @abrittlebee.bsky.social · 28d

maybe one of the weirder books I've read this year, but incredibly imaginative and excellent all the same. See my full spoiler free review for A Blood as Bright as the Moon by @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social over on my IG
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Brittney🌙 on Instagram: "Thank you to @titanbooks for sending me a copy of this. A Blood as Bright as the Moon by Andrea Morstabilini Not going to lie, this was a weird one—but in a good way. While A...

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 28d

We're only 10 days into September and we've already received all these fantastic brand new #SFF paperbacks!

Nice to see some good horror coming out in time for spooky season too #Halloween 💀🍁

Which would you choose?

Titles and authors in alt/below

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#Horrorsky

A stack of books in a bookshop:
Roots of my Fears – anthology,

Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim,

The Great When - Alan Moore,

A Blood as Bright as the Moon by Andrea Morstabilini,

The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch,

The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson,

Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison,

Red Sonja – Consumed, by Gail Simone,

Moonflow by Bitter Karella,

The Morrigan by Kim Curran,

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn,

Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi,

The City and its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 28d

You won't... because I'll be masked! But I'll be there!!

Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 28d

🧛🏻‍♂️🦇🌕🩸 Hope you liked it! Thank you for reading!

Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 28d

Booked accommodations for the @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social Really looking forward to those five days in Brighton! 🧛🏻‍♂️

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 29d

Happy pub day Eric!!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's Mailbag Monday!! This week brings us gay monsters from the vampiric to the lupine, haunted houses & far future hustlers, a Rome that wasn't, weird cities, magic schools, dark Filipino short stories, world history, & a pattern deck from the world of the Rook and the Rose. What looks good to you?

A stack of books (bottom to top): THE GOLDEN ROAD by William Dalrymple, DAYS OF SHATTERED FAITH by Adrian Tchaikovsky,THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, SARGASSA by Sophie Burnham, RED STAR HUSTLE by Sam J. Miller and APPREHENSION by Mary Robinette Kowal (A Saga Double), SIGNOS from Radix Media, SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED by Josh Rountree, BORED GAY WEREWOLF by Tony Santorella, A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON by Andrea Morstabilini, PATTERN DECK by M.A. Carrick

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book:

Interview with the Umpire

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book:

Stephen King's The Sit

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book

Finite Jest

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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · Sep 7

*Truer, that is! 😅

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · Sep 7

So many incredible horror books come out on the 9th. So proud of @manylittlewords.bsky.social and ROOTS OF MY FEARS, @claymcleod.bsky.social and ACQUIRED TASTE, and @johnnymains.co.uk whose BOUND IN BLOOD anthology gets a paperback outing.

Read more horror. Buy more horror.

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