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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now!

@saratogaishere.bsky.social

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author of SERIAL KILLER SUPPORT GROUP (3.18.2025) & TRAD WIFE (2026) ITW member 🖤 queer enby 🖤 sober 🖤 rep: Amy Giuffrida

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Mar 18

I AM OFFICIALLY A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!!! today, SKSG is out in the world. endless thank yous to everyone who has supported this book and to my team for killing it (pun intended).

SKSG is available in all formats (hardcover, paperback, audiobook, and ebook) everywhere books are sold.

SERIAL KILLER SUPPORT GROUP by Saratoga Schaefer

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · 19h

what's your favorite banned book? mine is ALL OF THEM because FUCK THAT you can't tell me what i can't read.

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · 1d

it's time for my weekly "fuck your company if they try to shove AI down my throat" post

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · 6d

thank you @capesandtights.com for this fantastic 5 star review of TRAD WIFE!

"Schaefer peels back the facade of influencer-style domestic bliss with an unsettling, timely, and impossible to put down tale."

capesandtights.com/trad-wife-re...

Trad Wife Review: Home Sweet Horror

Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer blends social commentary with raw, visceral horror in a unsettling, timely, and impossible to put down tale.

capesandtights.com

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · 7d

on the surface, TRAD WIFE is an unhinged book about a tradwife influencer who has a demon baby, but it's also deeply critical of the rise of "traditional" living, examines the real body horror of pregnancy/motherhood & explores abusive power dynamics. this is the most political thing i've written.

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · 8d

emerging authors who also work a day job have very active sympathetic nervous systems. 😅 it takes a different kind of stamina to stay afloat when you're hitting deadlines or juggling multiple projects/genres WHILE working full-time. give yourself flowers if you do that shit cus it's not easy.

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · 14d

so excited to share that my next thriller, THE LAST TIME WE DROWNED, will be hitting shelves summer 2026 with Cosmo Reads 🌊😍

Saratoga Schaefer's THE LAST TIME WE DROWNED, in which a
bookstagrammer joins an elite club of influencers on a private yacht but is
haunted by her own past when a terrible storm traps the group onboard
with a potential murderer, to Alessandra Roche at Cosmo Reads, in a pre.
empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Amy
Giuffrida at Belcastro Agency (world English).

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · 20d

ik the algorithm suppresses stuff about giveth aways and the world sucks rn, but obligatory "W I N a copy of my horror book from GR!!!" post

🩸 9/18-10/5
🩸 5 physical copies
🩸 US only

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · 27d

if you're looking for a book set DURING spooky season with NYC-in-autumn vibes plus lots of seasonally appropriate murderous activity and Silence of the Lamb-type energy, BOY do i have a book for you!!

(hint: it's mine.)

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · 28d

you'd think by this point i'd have gotten used to the interminable waiting that defines the publishing industry and yet.

i have not.

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Sep 8

it's a complete and utter travesty that i don't live in a cottage on a cliffside with a herd of sheep i tend to and a garden full of magical veggies and a dark liminal forest seething with hunger that steadily creeps up the incline toward the house whenever i'm not looking.

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Sep 5

TRAD WIFE is the most requested horror book on netgalley right now. 🤯 THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who is interested in reading!!

(i have no control over approvals, but it means so much to see that people are intrigued. seriously, it's made my day!)

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lit agent tasneem motala @seraphecda.bsky.social · Sep 3

get hyped up!! the EXCLUSIVE cover reveal and novel excerpt are out with People Magazine for this brand new horror novel, TRAD WIFE!!

repped by my amazing colleague @kissedbyink.bsky.social and written by her amazing client @saratogaishere.bsky.social 💜

people.com/trad-wife-co...

'Trad Wife' Is 'Rosemary's Baby' for the Digital Age — Read an Excerpt! (Exclusive)

Saratoga Schaefer unveiled the new cover for their new horror book, 'Trad Wife,' exclusively with PEOPLE along with an excerpt for the book which releases on Feb. 10, 2026.

people.com

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Sep 3

thank you!!

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Crooked Lane Books @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out the official cover reveal for @saratogaishere.bsky.social's 🤰🏼TRAD WIFE😈 on @people.com and read an exclusive excerpt!

Coming 2/10/26, you can preorder now!

#tradwife #horror #horrornovel

https://loom.ly/CK2PfzY

'Trad Wife' Is 'Rosemary's Baby' for the Digital Age — Read an Excerpt! (Exclusive)

Saratoga Schaefer's unveiled the new cover for her new horror book, 'Trad Wife,' exclusively with PEOPLE along with an excerpt for the book which releases on Feb. 10, 2026.

people.com

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Sep 3

i am so excited to share that the cover of my horror TRAD WIFE (out 2.10.26) was exclusively revealed by PEOPLE today, along with an excerpt from the book!

get your copy now!! (hint: b&n is doing another 25% off preorder event until friday)

be warned. this book might make you a bit...hungry. 🥩

PEOPLE magazine cover reveal for TRAD WIFE, which features a pregnant woman in pink and black lighting holding her stomach alongside a shadowy demon hand

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Sep 2

the cover reveal for TRAD WIFE is TOMORROW!!! 11am EST, and there may be some additional surprises you don't want to miss 😈

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Aug 28

for our anniversary my partner got me a water bottle with my debut novel’s title on it so I can casually promote it everywhere I go 😂😍

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Aug 26

absolutely feral for the cover reveal of my horror novel TRAD WIFE, next week, on Sept. 3 at 11 AM EST. you do NOT want to miss this one!!

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Aug 25

TODAY ONLY! SKSG is 1.99, so if you haven’t read it yet or if you want a fun, portable version of this murdery "good for her" revenge book, make sure you grab it for your kindle!

serial killer support group by saratoga schaefer ebook only 1.99

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Aug 22

weekly reminder that AI is trash garbage crapola and if i see your company or product using it i will move heaven and earth to NOT buy that thing.

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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Aug 20

me reading this knowing i have a horror novel about a tradwife influencer who gives birth to a demonic, very hungry baby coming out in february: 👀😏🥩

NYT screenshot of cambridge dictionary adding the word tradwife

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Aug 14

every time i get a reader message from someone who loves/saw themselves in Cyra, i get so happy. i knew she would find her people despite being a bit....morally gray. 🤭 #serialkillersupportgroup

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Aug 13

juggling 3 different writing projects at the same time, which is exhausting but also energizing, which is how i know that this is what i want to do for the rest of my life.

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Aug 11

this timeline is such a hellhole

Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 SKSG out now! @saratogaishere.bsky.social · Aug 11

look, what my characters do once they're on on the page is none of my business. i can't control them; they are not avatars. they are terrible little gremlins with a mind of their own.