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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 16h

Big big thanks as always to @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social for this lovely, thoughtful, fun, and funny interview!
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Sley House Presents @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social · 16h

Ever wonder How to Fake a Haunting?

Wonder no more because @christaqua.bsky.social is here to talk about her latest novel and about the ways we haunt each other!

All that plus an extra credits outro for you on this episode of Sley House Presents! Links below:

Sley House Presents Episode #169: How to Fake a Haunting with Christa Carmen. Available on all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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Sley House Presents @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social · 16h

Ever wonder How to Fake a Haunting?

Wonder no more because @christaqua.bsky.social is here to talk about her latest novel and about the ways we haunt each other!

All that plus an extra credits outro for you on this episode of Sley House Presents! Links below:

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 18h

Oh Jesus Christ.

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 21h

Q&A with Christa Carmen about her new novel, HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING.
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@christaqua.bsky.social

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Nicholas Kaufmann @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social · 1d

Happy book birthday to my pal @christaqua.bsky.social, whose new novel HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING hits bookstores today!

How to Fake a Haunting

Amazon.com: How to Fake a Haunting eBook : Carmen, Christa: Books

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Erin Al-Mehairi, Editor & Author @erinalmehairi.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to my friend @christaqua.bsky.social for the release of How to Fake a Haunting today! 🕯️

You’ll want this one for your October reads (or anytime)! She’s such a magnificent writer. 💛

www.amazon.com/How-Fake-Hau...

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so so so much, Nick! Looking forward to seeing you in, what? A week and a half?!?! 😮😮😮

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so so so much, Erin. Xoxoxoxo Appreciate you!

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Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 2d

In two weeks I’m getting spooky with Christa Carmen and Daria Lavelle so yeah you damn well better write. #YeahYouWrite @christaqua.bsky.social @darialavelleauthor.bsky.social

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC will be at Newburgh B&N w/ @robertottone.bsky.social & @catmscully.bsky.social + many other talented folks! 1-4pm!

Ashaway Free Library in RI at 2pm on Sunday w/ @christaqua.bsky.social

& Monday I'm signing at the great @wickedgoodbooks.bsky.social in Salem, 2:30-5!

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 5d

Ohmygosh HOORAY!!!!!

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 5d

Check it out to learn about work from @kristinoffiler.bsky.social, Vanessa Lillie, @tsierraauthor.bsky.social, Deborah Goodrich Royce, @leannareneehieber.bsky.social, Thomas D'Agostino, @claymcleod.bsky.social, Levi Lionel Leland, @victoriadalpe.bsky.social, and many more!!!

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 5d

Just launched a Substack that's my love letter to all the amazing authors with whom I'll be reading and conversing over the next two months for the HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING book tour.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

How to Fake a Haunting Book Tour...

Madness. Mayhem. But most importantly, MEET-UPS!

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 6d

Big thanks to Dp Lyle and Outliers Writing University for having me back on the podcast to discuss How to Fake a Haunting!!!

youtu.be/d7cip-Q29Qc?...

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Christa Carmen

YouTube video by Outliers Writing University

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 8d

A little note to rev me into writing more later this evening...

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks so much for including How to Fake a Haunting, Jack!

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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 8d

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

@emotrophywife.bsky.social
@markwaddell.bsky.social
@jennykiefer.com
@angelaslatter.bsky.social
@johnhornor.bsky.social
@christaqua.bsky.social
@emanquotah.bsky.social
@kaychronister.bsky.social
@pickyourpotions.bsky.social

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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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 9d

OMG tomorrow. Out tomorrow. It's been years of research, literal blood, sweat & tears went into this. It's full of heart & very personal stuff. And if I do say so myself, I also think it's very smart & unique. Your support of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC will mean the world. Thanks for signal-boosting. 🖤

Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · Aug 5

Available for pre-order wherever books are sold!
Kensington/Penguin: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781356...
Thank you for pre-orders & signal-boosts, it's a difficult time to promote right now but your support is *dearly* appreciated!

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 12d

A big thanks to @hughminor.bsky.social for alerting me to this mega-cool Book Riot article today!!! Some fine company and a fun compilation!

bookriot.com/horror-books...

Horror Books with How-to Titles

Have you noticed a lot of horror novels are instructional guides to doing scary things?Here are some of the most frightful how-tos.

bookriot.com

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 14d

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 14d

Oh, nice! Right?!? You can see how one might have been rattled, lol.

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Sley House Presents @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social · 14d

Experts agree: this book is really freaking good.

Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 14d

With release just two weeks out, it’s time to unveil the final blurb for How to Fake a Haunting.

Did a part of me die with gratitude every time one of these amazing authors, @natcassidy.bsky.social included, agreed to read HtFaH early? Yes, 100%. Was receiving these thoughtful and humbling blurbs…

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 14d

… The Strangers-esque jump scare. Take from that what you will… 😮😂🤷🏻‍♀️👻

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 14d

… the highlight of preparing this book for publication? Abso-freakin’-lutely. Thank you so much, Nat!

Also, @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social, this is the Beatles song I told you about, that randomly started blasting from my Amazon Echo while I was working on a scene that needed an unsettling…

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 14d

With release just two weeks out, it’s time to unveil the final blurb for How to Fake a Haunting.

Did a part of me die with gratitude every time one of these amazing authors, @natcassidy.bsky.social included, agreed to read HtFaH early? Yes, 100%. Was receiving these thoughtful and humbling blurbs…

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