If you were thinking about buying the Australian Kindle edition of What the Bones Know, it's discounted for the month of June . . .

Angela Slatter interviewed by Cristina Jurado #darkfantasy #fantasy #romantasy @angelaslatter.bsky.social @cristinajurado.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/themadri...

I set up this free ebook called Shadow Bites as a sampler of my work. It includes "Out on a Rim" (the opening novella from The Gulp), three complete short stories, and the opening chapters from six of my novels. Please feel free to share the link with anyone. Thanks! dl.bookfunnel.com/2ug895z1m2

An Alan Baxter horror sampler.

Shadow Bites is a sampler of my work, including a novella ("Out on a Rim", the opening story from The Gulp), three complete short stories (Crow Shine, Simulacrum of Hope and The Normandy Curse), and t...

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If you're in Australia or New Zealand, there is a discount promotion happening this month for What the Bones Know! You can grab the ebook at apple.co/WhatToReadThisMonth and the audiobook at apple.co/new-release-...

If you get your digital media on Apple then you might want to check out the promo pricing for What the Bones Know that's on until 10 April.

Every rec here is excellent. And here's some Aussie women in horror to check out too: @kaaronwarren.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social @joanneanderton.bsky.social @fearofemeralds.bsky.social Lisa L Hannett (not on BSky 😯) @kylaw.bsky.social @jsbreukelaar.bsky.social

Villimey Mist ✨️ is querying ✨️@villimeymist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hey, Women in Horror Month has started, so I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd read some horror books written by women & femme authors, because we are amazing 😉 Here are some of my favorite women horror authors: @hildur.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @eveharms.com 1/2

In most exciting news, my novel What the Bones Know is the QBD Fiction Book of the Month! I am so grateful to QBD for their support and to all the wonderful booksellers I met over the last week travelling to all their stores in Victoria. You can order it here: www.qbd.com.au/what-the-bon...

What the Bones Know by Kirstyn McDermott - 9781038922762 - QBD Books

A child's bones, a lost girl, a mind adrift - sometimes what is lost comes back to haunt you...from an award-winning author comes a contemporary gothic tale of guilt, grief and redemption. In the vil...

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This book, oh this wonderfully creepy, haunting, disquieting book by @hildur.bsky.social must be at the top of all your TBR lists!

"Women aren't done when menopause hits," says A.G. Slatter. We interviewed her about her new novel, A FOREST, DARKLY, featuring a fifty-something witch, found family, and the monsters of the woods. #FantasyBooks @angelaslatter.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/a-forest-dar...

A Forest, Darkly, The Witch In The Woods Gets A Voice: A.G. Slatter On Menopause, Monsters, And A Feminist Gothic Fantasy - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Enter the Sourdough universe with A.G. Slatter's A Forest, Darkly. We interview the author about her fifty-something witch Mehrab, godhounds, menopause.

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The unboxing of author copies NEVER gets old!

If you'll be in Ballarat on the evening of 5 March, I'd love to see you at the launch of my new novel, What the Bones Know! Tickets and event info: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/in-convers...

I loved this novella so much!

Titan Books@titanbooks.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Have you picked up THE COLD HOUSE by @angelaslatter.bsky.social yet? 💚 When Everly’s husband and daughter die in a car crash she finds out nothing is what she thought… Secrets and grief collide in this utterly compelling novella. https://tinyurl.com/3zmsb6e7

For your edification and/or infuriation, I wrote an essay on screen horror and late-stage capitalism for Ruadán Books that has just been published. It seems more timely with each passing week. ruadanbooks.com/when-eat-the...

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Does my next novel have a fabulous cover that I can finally reveal to the world? WHY YES IT DOES THANK YOU FOR ASKING. To be released March 2026 and you can pre-order it here: www.harpercollins.com.au/978103892277...

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

This is a magnificent collection which will stick to your ribs like nothing else!

Brain Jar Press@brainjarpress.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy Book Birthday to Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, coming out in ebook and paperback today! Available everywhere good books are sold, but we always have a special love for folks who buy from Brain Jar Press directly :) Details: www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...

I hate that "AIs" (aka people-pleasing hallucinating plagiarism engines) are trained on work stolen from writers, incl. all my books. I hate more that it's eroding our ability or even desire to think. I get it. Thinking is hard. It's ALSO the work. It's the whole point. It's what makes us human.

My author copies of Never Afters have arrived! It's such a beautiful book and I am so thrilled to see this collection of revisioned fairy tales out in the world.

Happy Book Birthday to @fearofemeralds.bsky.social's NEVER AFTERS omnibus, which is out in ebook and trade paperback today. Brain Jar Press Store: www.brainjarpress.com/product/neve... Other Retailers: books2read.com/NeverAftersO...

100% agree. It's probably my top tip for new writers. Read your work aloud. Even novel-length manuscripts. Make the time - and stay hydrated!

Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2y ago

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 291: Read your work aloud. Not only does it help refine your dialogue, avoid difficult to pronounce words and eliminate repetitiveness, but it also means that your future audiobook readers will have an easier job making your work sound as good as it can possibly be...

ICYMI earlier, here's the cover for my new novella (out in October this year): The Cold House! It's contemporary folk horror and published by Titan Books, the fabulous cover is by @missnatmack. 😍😍😍

One of my very favourite novels. So wonderful to see it available again in print!

Kathe Koja@kkoja.bsky.social · 2y ago

SKIN is a very intense book about love, art, pain and letting it all go, and if @lostmirror.bsky.social didn't make me laugh so hard this would have been a very serious portrait 💀 And @meerkatpress.bsky.social has the presales now plus incredible swag #queerhorror #industrial #art

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

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Excellent summary of the Creative Australia debacle to date from @beneltham.bsky.social and Catriona Menzies-Pike www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/17/k...

Instead of defending its artists, Creative Australia hangs Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry

If conservative media is going to dictate cultural policy, Australian culture will face a reckoning.

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If you want to erase a group of people, you begin with the language that describes them.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2y ago

Protest at Stonewall tomorrow. You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.

On sale, today through March 7th. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

We're extraordinarily pleased to open pre-orders on Angela Slatter aka AG Slatter's chapbook, The Night Stair, featuring a tale of vampires, vengenace, and treachery set in Angela's Sourdough universe. Get the free ebook today at offers.brainjarpress.com/thenightstair