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J.A.W. McCarthy

@jawmccarthy.bsky.social

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2x Bram Stoker & 2x Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Author of SLEEP ALONE and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Stories: Best Horror of the Year Vol 13, PseudoPod, Vastarien, Split Scream 3, more. Cat & lipstick enthusiast. She/Jen. Rep: Lane Heymont. jawmccarthy.com

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hey, new friends, about me:

I’m the author of the sex, drugs & rock & roll, queer succubi novella SLEEP ALONE, the collection SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL, & numerous horror stories involving monstrous women and Thai folklore. I like it dark, sad, & decadently deranged. Prose 🖤er. Beauty in the grotesque.

My books Sleep Alone and Sometimes We’re Cruel, surrounded by matching bookmarks and stickers. Stuff I bring to cons.

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Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social · 6h

Mosaic-like painting in dark colors with skeleton and snakes

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 5h

Okay new favorite 🤩

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Wow! Congrats to you both! 🥳🥳

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Love how you celebrate. Cheers! 🥃

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Emily Ruth Verona @emilyrverona.bsky.social · 5d

So the place I'd been freelancing for is scaling down and I'm looking for work, preferably full time or part-time. I am an award-winning writer with 19 years of experience.

Works | Emily Ruth Verona

www.emilyruthverona.com

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 6d

This sounds awesome! Congrats! 🥳🥳

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This is exactly what I want to read! Congrats, Gwendolyn! 🥳🥳

J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 6d

Send Ruadan your essays and articles! They are a pleasure to work with.

Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Calling nonfiction writers! Our online column, Thoughts From the Writer’s Desk, is OPEN.

We are looking for unpublished, original essays about the writing life, from in-depth tips on the craft and business to thoughtful columns on genre fiction.

Details: links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs

#WriterSky

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 7d

Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 7d

Happy release day! 🥳🥳

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 8d

DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰

Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳

Photograph of a smiling Chinese American woman in a skull crown holding a copy of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats, Kelsea! 🥳🥳

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 8d

Happy release day to Michael and The October Film Haunt! 🥳🥳

Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.social · 8d

Now available in bookstores and libraries everywhere! The October Film Haunt is my debut novel and a love letter to horror films and all of us who carry them in our hearts. And, if I may say so, pretty damned scary.

Sappier stuff after I visit a bookstore.

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Cover of The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 9d

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:

NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.

and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 10d

The art kids and the horror kids are often the same kids, so yes, with SPLIT SCREAM Vol 3 from me and @patrickbarb.bsky.social you can have it all 🎨 🩸

Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · 12d

#buymybook Well mine AND @jawmccarthy.bsky.social’s book. Split Scream Vol. 3 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social is for the art kids AND the horror kids. Includes my folk/slasher horror novelette about creation & destruction: “So Quiet, So White.”

SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 3 - Two Novelettes (softcover; includes eBook)

SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! The third volume of editor Alex Ebenstein's acclaimed series is back in print, featuring two novelettes: So Quiet, So White – Patrick Barb Roger Grimsby...

store.tenebrouspress.com

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 10d

Hell yeah! All of this is so cool 🖤

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 10d

Joining the chorus about how damn good @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s BLACK FLAME is. Finished it last week & I’m still thinking about the locations, visions, the Baroness & the beautiful boy, those endless lengths of glossy black film slithering to life and bursting through long barricaded doors 🎥

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 16d

'The Veldt Institute' book release!
This Saturday @ 6pm!
Lost Avenue Books!
Portland, OR!

'The Veldt Institute' book release poster: Saturday September 27th at Lost Avenue Books in Portland Oregon with Samuel M. Moss and Laura Cranehill

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Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social · 13d

Upcoming: I'll have a table at the Idaho Authors' Book Fair, Saturday, October 4. 10 am-2 pm, Boise Library! at Cole & Ustick

Yellow poster with an open book and the words Idaho Authors' Book Fair, Saturday, October 4. 10 am-2 pm, Boise Library! at Cole & Ustick

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Tiffany Michelle Brown (she/her) @tmbwrites.bsky.social · 13d

THIS SATURDAY! Come see me in Anaheim, friends! The Central Anaheim Library is hosting Spinal Dread: Horror Literature and Culture Festival. There will be vendors, activities, and me in a killer outfit with books for sale! Let's kick off spooky season right, Halloween People! 🎃🖤☠️🦇🧛‍♀️📚

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 14d

Ivy! This is so cool. Congrats!!

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Angela Sylvaine @angelasylvaine.bsky.social · 14d

Coffee and a donut to celebrate Chopping Spree’s one year birthday! 🎂 Thank you to everyone who’s read my little anti-capitalist slasher, and thank you to Dark Matter Ink for publishing this stabby cutie! 🛍️🔪

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 14d

Happy book birthday to two stabby cuties! 🥳🥳

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💬 @dubonicplague.bsky.social · 15d

It’s Rapture Day! What better way to celebrate than by listening to this unrepentantly gorgeous story by @jawmccarthy.bsky.social from @pseudopod.org?

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PseudoPod 965: The Ecstasy of the Saints

I’m six the first time it happens. I’m sitting in the backseat of the family sedan, staring at the rearview mirror so I can see when my father’s big eye peels upward and focuses on me…

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 15d

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