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Matt’s Books and Drams @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social · 23h

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Thank you @rapturepublishing.bsky.social & @scribeofhades.bsky.social !!!

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Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 7d

31 Days of Horror begins today. This year, it will be posted in one single thread.

Day 1-- Here We Go Again for the 15th Year and the First Giveaway

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31 Days of Horror: Day 1-- Here We Go Again for the 15th Year and the First Giveaway

Today is October 1st and here we are again with 31 Days of Horror . Each year 31 Days of Horror grows in readership. While some of you ar...

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Jesse Lawrence @jesselawrence.bsky.social · 4d

This is so cool.

Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 4d

Check with your local bookstore in the next couple weeks to preorder! In the meantime, here's the book description from Amazon:
www.amazon.com/States-Grace...

States of Grace: Stories

States of Grace: Stories - Kindle edition by Jones, Stephen Graham. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading States of Grace: Stories.

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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 4d

STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES newsflash! Open Road's reissue of @sgj.bsky.social's ultra-rare flash fiction collection, STATES OF GRACE, gets an expanded edition on 12/9/25, with 20 stories not in the original, 10 of them published here for the first time! SGJ's flash fiction is the bourbon of storytelling 🥃

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5d

"There is nothing funny about calling me or Donald Trump a fascist, and if you do, we will ship you to Guantanamo."

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You

President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...

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Philip Fracassi @pfracassi.bsky.social · 5d

Really shocked and incredibly pleased to see AUTUMN SPRINGS on this list of BEST HORROR OF 2025 from BookBub.

A great list of books.

www.bookbub.com/blog/best-ho...

@bookbubpartners.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social

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Red Sox @redsox.com · 11d

YOUR BOSTON RED SOX ARE POSTSEASON BOUND!

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Anna Rose Reads @annarosereads.bsky.social · 21d

WHY I LOVE HORROR edited by the incredible @raforall.bsky.social offers a sneak peak behind the curtain of modern horror fiction, with essays from Clay McLeod Chapman, Rachel Harrison, Hailey Piper, and Stephen Graham Jones (to name a few).
Pick up a copy on 9/23 from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social :)

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unstable.books @unstablebooks.bsky.social · 21d

My very first short story was accepted into the anthology With Teeth, curated by the awesome Cassandra Celia. Proceeds will go to the Lakota Wolf Preserve!

My story is heavily based on my mother’s stories about growing up in Texas with a Mongrels by @sgj.bsky.social flair 🐺

Pub: February 10, 2026!

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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 21d

Some notes from my reading of @michaelwehunt.bsky.social’s eerie & thought-provoking THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT. Drops Sept 30 from @stmartinspress.bsky.social.

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Matt’s Books and Drams @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations!!!!

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Rachel Harrison @rachelharrison.bsky.social · 21d

So I’m a NYTimes bestselling author…

12 is my new favorite number 😭😭😭

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Syn @thesimplysyn.bsky.social · 26d

Chatting about Josh Malerman’s newest book about creativity, writing, and being an artist. His enthusiasm literally leaps off the page at you! #books #booksky youtu.be/3XAWLju9AWQ

Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within by Josh Malerman

YouTube video by Syn's Book Nook

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 28d

Re-reading this @jonathanjanz.bsky.social gem for @novelnightmares.bsky.social book club with my friends @amberkreu.bsky.social and @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social.

Want to read with us? I've posted a few ebook codes below. Happy reading!

Jonathan Janz @jonathanjanz.bsky.social · 28d

Flash sale! These beauties are only 99 cents each at the moment. www.amazon.com/Children-Dar...

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Matt’s Books and Drams @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social · Sep 1

It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be

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Philip Fracassi @pfracassi.bsky.social · Aug 30

Last few days to order copies of my early novels, now in deluxe editions from Thunderstorm Books.

The books can be ordered through 9/2, after which they will be out of print.

thunderstormbooks.com/thunderstorm...

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Matt’s Books and Drams @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social · Aug 30

😂😂😂

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Matt’s Books and Drams @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is better than all those Hard Mtn Dews and the Baja/vodka mixture (the latter of which was fucking horrid)

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Matt’s Books and Drams @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s not nearly as bad as I thought it would be

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Matt’s Books and Drams @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’m trying a Whiskey Code Red so you don’t have to @rebelsam94.bsky.social

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

The saga concludes next week!

Baroness of the Eastern Seaboard (Sept 2nd) is the final book in the Amid the Vastness of All Else saga from @cshumble.bsky.social

All six titles are available in paperback or eBook, and together as one low-price eBook box set.
shortwavepublishing.com/boxset/amid-...

The text "C.S. Humble - The Saga Concludes - September 2, 2025" surrounded by six book covers featuring all titles in the Amid the Vastness of All Else saga.

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tomorrow we're announcing our single longest title yet at around 120,000 words.

*Well, the book is 120,000 words, not the *title*, we're not Fiona Apple.

**Fiona Apple is a musician from the 90s who released an album whose title was an entire 90-word poem.

***I'm really dating myself here.

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

A message from The Management.

When you give fascists the finger, do it with a bad hand.

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Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · Aug 26

welp, new novel's submitted, is away from me now. probably an announcement . . . this fall? earlier than later, I'd guess. wish I could just go ahead and say it. but @sagapressbooks.bsky.social's on a high floor, could easily push a safe out a window, to crush me into the sidewalk.

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unstable.books @unstablebooks.bsky.social · Aug 20

Make sure you go subscribe to my Substack! Today I posted Episode 2 of Unstable Table Talks with my bestie @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social

I have a lot in store for this series so don’t miss out!!

open.substack.com/pub/unstable...

Unstable Table Talks Episode 2 with Matt Morris

Pour yourself a dram and join us for some yapping about the Bookstagram world

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