ROUGH BEAST: A PRE-SALE starts today! Don't sleep! (Unless it's the sleep.... of the dead!) Coming from @blacklawrence.bsky.social 10/13/26. Thank you in advance!

The blurb-ening continues... "Like his namesake Percy Bysshe Shelley, ROUGH BEAST's Percy is a well-born, restless and tragic figure, reimagined as a doomed exemplar of the NOLA black metal scene. It’s spot on, and frankly kind of hot."- @gracekrilanovich.bsky.social, The Orange Eats Creeps

ROUGH BEAST: The Blurb-ening begins today, with a total gem from Jim Ruland... "...Adrian Van Young’s riffs on music are nothing short of sublime but make no mistake: Rough Beast is a five-star sewer ride." --Jim Ruland, author of Mightier Than the Sword @blacklawrence.bsky.social

I created a real/fake Tumblr for one of the main characters in my forthcoming black metal noir novel, ROUGH BEAST (October 2026 from @blacklawrence.bsky.social). BEHOLD: www.tumblr.com/blog/lordbyronisdead

This is one of the coolest exhibits I’ve ever seen in my life. Breathtaking. Like nitro fuel for the soul!

Amidst the utter psychosexual wildness that is JANE EYRE, why don't more film adaptations traffic in the scene where Mr. Rochester disguises himself as a parlor fortune-teller woman to plunder the single ladies' secrets? WHAT IN THE WHAT

I'm currently accepting clients & the manuscripts they love in my new-ish capacity as a professional freelance editor of fiction and creative non-fiction. So, you know, if you or anyone you know is in need of such a thing, please send yourself or them my way--DM or email.

Hey, everyone. Your favorite New Orleans eccentrics are moving to Paris for 5 months--hopefully longer!--at the end of January, where brilliant spouse Darcy has nabbed a research fellowship connected to her PhD. A bientot, mes ami!

Behold! Cover reveal for my black metal crime novel, ROUGH BEAST, slouching towards Bethlehem to be born from @blacklawrence.bsky.social in October 2026. (Photo credit by photographer extraordinaire, @peterbeste.bsky.social ) (Black metal font design courtesy of Alexander Jackson.)

Behold! Cover reveal for my black metal crime novel, ROUGH BEAST, slouching towards Bethlehem to be born from @blacklawrence.bsky.social in October 2026. (Photo credit by photographer extraordinaire, @peterbeste.bsky.social ) (Black metal font design courtesy of Alexander Jackson.)

Mona Awad's BUNNY: loved parts, didn't care for others. But I'll admit it does linger pleasantly in the mind. More fairy tale-inflected dark academia, please! I also dug how directly it seems to channel Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman.

I reviewed Ana Paula Maia's novel On Earth As It Is Beneath for @southwestreview.bsky.social. Read it here: southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...

At the Edge of the Known | Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath

By Adrian Van Young

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New Orleans, 1872. The Pontalba Apartments. Ophelia Mundt is a Confederate widow who just may be having a late-in-life affair—with a statue.

The President | Adrian Van Young

Another promenade, my dove—

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“And just like that, so long and sweet, the president bends down to her level, the chill of his lips finding hers in the dark as his knee comes up between her thighs, and she strains to wrap her arms around him, saber and epaulettes, coattails and—”

The President | Adrian Van Young

Another promenade, my dove—

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“It is so undeniable, bronze against flesh, that when she wakes the feeling lingers.” New fiction from Adrian Van Young is on our site now:

The President | Adrian Van Young

Another promenade, my dove—

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Delighted to usher you back into the Halloween grimoire with this brand new tale out today in @thebaffler.com: "The President." It's about a Confederate widow with dementia who has an affair with an Andrew Jackson statue. Happy creeps! thebaffler.com/fiction/the-...

The President | Adrian Van Young

Another promenade, my dove—

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While it's a very clever inversion of American Psycho, and also kind of its own thing, it didn't always hit for me at the same depth as the "source material." But damn, is this book WICKEDLY funny at times, especially to a sick twist like me, I guess. I LOL'd all the way to the churchyard!

Feels like the only thing scarier this year than finding out the CW NEA was cancelled would be GETTING an NEA. 👀

Writers & educators of New Orleans! Check out poet-teacher wunderkind @bradrichard.bsky.social 's new suite of curricular & manuscript consultation services on his newly revamped website. Definitely vouch for this altogether capable & brilliant human, who you shan't regret working with....

Brad Richard

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Hey @thelincoln.bsky.social ‘s METALLIC REALMS is smart, funny, and thrilling. Highly recommended

Afternoon beer visiting the in laws in NM with @sgj.bsky.social The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Simply stunning! One of the freshest and most gorgeously written vampire stories I’ve ever read...

Delighted to let you know that my New Orleans black metal crime novel, ROUGH BEAST, will be published with steadfast & marvelous @blacklawrence.bsky.social in October 2026!! This will be my fourth book, my third with BLP, and I couldn't be happier about it.