We are so excited to reveal the cover for YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW by @adenpolydoros.bsky.social! 🖤 An unsettling horror in which a young man returns to his Pennsylvania hometown to confront the traumatic demons of the past... Coming in February 2027 🩸

So thrilled to reveal the cover of YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW! (2/27, with Titan Books) Elliot, a childhood trauma survivor, is dragged back to the scene of the crimes he experienced by a documentary filmmaker, and finds the ghosts of his past, alive and bloodthirsty.

I was trying to find an old draft of YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW, and it's ridiculous the number of drafts I have. Over 300 since 2022, then probably 50+ more from 2020. Every time I make a major change, I make a new draft.

The City of Slaughter is available on Netgalley!! #Netgalley #TheCityofSlaughter

I do not use AI. In fact, I have never once queried AI and when it pops up asking if I require help I usually spend a few minutes figuring out how to disable it. I don't want AI thinking for me, writing for me, or editing for me. I don't want AI drawing for me, painting for me, or composing for me.

Laura Keating@lorekeating.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

DEAD RINGER is a return to form, one of my inclusive, big-cast Gaslamp Fantasy novels! An adorable disaster of a telephone operator assembles a team of amateur detectives (a hot immigration lawyer & labor activists!) to solve the murder of a ghost who pops through her console & prevent another one!

I'd really love to know if the reason I got banned on Instagram and Threads is because I antagonized an account that called me a kike and a rat for responding to their posts calling trans people 'degenerates' or is it because a bunch of trans people misinterpreted my post as transphobic.

Can anyone help a queer writer and ask Instagram and Threads why they banned my accounts? I'm pretty sure transphobes filed malicious reports.

Banned from Instagram and Threads!! Are any mutuals able to reach out to them and file a complaint? I don't know why I was perma-banned, my accounts are being deleted, and there's no way to file an appeal. I can't even log into the sites anymore.

Blown away by this blurb for HUNTING BY THE RIVER from Sunday Times bestselling author Jake Arnott.

I'm so upset. I can't believe my Instagram and Threads accounts are disabled and going to be deleted, when I did nothing wrong.

This is horrible. Instagram and Threads suspended my accounts for literally no reason! They won't tell me why.

WTF? My Threads and Instagram accounts just got suspended for no reason.

I filmed my first short back in January. Just under 8 minutes, cost $750 for locations, and I'm incredibly proud of it. It might not look as flashy as all these AI videos flooding my timeline, but I did it all myself. Shot it, acted in it, edited it. It's all mine.

I think, the worst part of realizing I have DID, is struggling with the feeling, that I am not a person. That I don't quantify the necessary amount (of my daily life, of my piecemeal past) to be a whole, complete person. Like, I think, a few years ago, after an adult assault, there was a schism.

A few years ago, I was living in Vancouver, and hanging out with my friend and his GF at the beach. We were drinking and smoking, and my friend went over to him to ask to use his charger. The man asked me friend if he could buy me, which my friend relayed to us when he returned.

CSA ruins lives. It literally destroys a part of you, of the child you could have been and the adult you could've become. I began having symptoms of DID several years ago, but even before that, since I was a kid, I felt horribly wrong, broken, rotten. And I didn't know why. 1/2

I'd really love to start talking more about DID, and how getting this diagnose in my late 20s, really changed my life. It's such a stigmatized disorder, I feel like there's so many stereotypes and misconceptions, I want to help combat that.

Ever come across someone and get an explicably bad feeling? A few days ago, I was at the grocery store, and made eye contact with this couple--the moment I met the man's gaze, I felt an immediate sense of danger, and actually decided to immediately check out and leave the store.

I hear all the time about how reviews are for readers, but do any other authors read their own reviews, in order to learn how to improve their craft or see where they fell short? For me, reading reviews of TCB and the pacing in the novel, definitely influenced how I wrote the sequel.

It's honestly wild editing IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU. I wrote the book before GenAi became a thing, and early revisions of the killer AI in my book reflected the many-fingered, many-toothed atrocities of early AI images. Now that's obsolete lol.

I've been taking acting classes for the last several months, and it's amazing how much I feel they've improved my own writing, both for screenwriting and novels. It's really made me pay much deeper attention into 'Show not tell', characterization, and dialogue.

Just want to throw it out into the universe, but I think THE CITY BEAUTIFUL would make an excellent gothic horror movie with noir elements.

I always envisioned BONE WEAVER to be the first book of a duology, and never intended for the story to end with Mikhail keeping his throne. 🥲 Always feel a little pang when I see reviews commenting on that ending, and inside, I'm like, "But I wanted to write a sequel!!"

It feels scary and vulnerable being public about mental health, especially when it's such a stigmatized and misunderstood disorder. But 1.5% of the population has DID, and many people with DID don't realize they have it until later in life or after an adulthood trauma.

One thing that's so interesting to me, after getting diagnosed with DID, is seeing how themes of DID, repressed memories, and identity changes run through my decade-long bibliography. PROJECT PANDORA: Brainwashed teenage assassins, different identities linked to different code names

Really excited for IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU, my queer thriller about a killer romance simulator. Can't wait to finish this revision and start sharing. 😊

Like how THE CITY BEAUTIFUL explored Alter's grief, I really wanted the supernatural subplot and atmosphere of THE CITY OF SLAUGHTER to reflect Frankie's own psychological landscape--in this case, the trauma over his abusive childhood, and the way abuse follows.

Love how bad ass Frankie is in THE CITY OF SLAUGHTER. He was such a fun, interesting character to write. Even just the way he talks compared to Alter.

This dude is intense and correct