Oh go on then, I'll call it work. Hashtag marketing myself, hashtag booksky

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

To avoid any ambiguity. If you use (commercialised LLM-based probabilistic text/image extruders masquerading as) "AI," you are contributing to the destruction of everything we value about the world. You are, to paraphrase someone smarter and better than us, anti-life. Ergo, we hate you.

Sophisticated book marketing strategies be damned: Salvation Spring is Twin Peaks in the desert. With lesbians. If that's your cup of tea, it may be the book for you. payhip.com/b/3rQYx

And... we're open!

Nefarious Bat Press@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 We're opening to QUEER CRIME NOVEL SUBMISSIONS in August! 📣 Details in screenshots - and the🧵 below:

we require everyone's gay dollars please process them here (if you have straight dollars we will take them as well but the exchange rate is weird so you should give us twice as many)

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · last wk.

You can back the crowdfund here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

And tomorrow... we're open to submissions! (Always read the label)

Nefarious Bat Press@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 We're opening to QUEER CRIME NOVEL SUBMISSIONS in August! 📣 Details in screenshots - and the🧵 below:

Last day for the Nefarious Bat sale.

TC Parker (she/her)@tcparker.bsky.social · 5d ago

Thanks Gabino! Today's the last day of all our books being 25% off at the Nefarious Bat webstore (using the coupon BUYINDIE at the checkout) - so I'd love it if people had a look around, and maybe grabbed a new read for the weekend! payhip.com/NefariousBat...

Look, if you liked Yesteryear you’ll LOVE TradWife. And while you’re there you might as well impulse buy a few more titles to read while the days are long & too hot. Or save them for when the days are short & too cold. They’re books, they’ll always love you no matter the season!

TC Parker (she/her)@tcparker.bsky.social · 5d ago

Thanks Gabino! Today's the last day of all our books being 25% off at the Nefarious Bat webstore (using the coupon BUYINDIE at the checkout) - so I'd love it if people had a look around, and maybe grabbed a new read for the weekend! payhip.com/NefariousBat...

Thanks Gabino! Today's the last day of all our books being 25% off at the Nefarious Bat webstore (using the coupon BUYINDIE at the checkout) - so I'd love it if people had a look around, and maybe grabbed a new read for the weekend! payhip.com/NefariousBat...

Hi. I'm Anna. Eco-horror is my jam, cosmic horror my marmalade :) I do still love The Day Of The Triffids. Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris is amazing. #HorrorWritersChat

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · 7d ago

Howdy, #HorrorWritersChat ! The leaves whisper secrets at the edge of a forest that melts into a garden. Its quiet murmurs guide you. You take a step. Q1 - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... share your favorite piece of horror media with plants, poisons, forest, or eco-horror.

Yes. I have a WIP centered on carnivorous plants and horrible high rise property developments with poor doors :) #HorrorWritersChat

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · 7d ago

The garden is bright and vibrant with a wash of flowers. Oleander. Monkshood. Hydrangea and Mountain Laurel bushes. Small placquards stand beside each one. You realize as you read them, they're symptoms. QUESTION 2 - Have you ever written anything centering plants or poisons? #HorrorWritersChat

Hello! I'm Nat, I write horror/crime as TC Parker, and it would be remiss of me not to mention @anna-orridge.bsky.social's phenomenal ecohorror novella PHENGARIS at this juncture... #HorrorWritersChat

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · 7d ago

Howdy, #HorrorWritersChat ! The leaves whisper secrets at the edge of a forest that melts into a garden. Its quiet murmurs guide you. You take a step. Q1 - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... share your favorite piece of horror media with plants, poisons, forest, or eco-horror.

I have! My short story Defensive Architecture (originally in the anthology Good For Her, now in my collection THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES) is literally about a girl who, in response to the aggressive awfulness of the world around her, transforms into a poisonous, carnivorous plant #HorrorWritersChat

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · 7d ago

The garden is bright and vibrant with a wash of flowers. Oleander. Monkshood. Hydrangea and Mountain Laurel bushes. Small placquards stand beside each one. You realize as you read them, they're symptoms. QUESTION 2 - Have you ever written anything centering plants or poisons? #HorrorWritersChat

Thank you! Given the horticulture theme... I'd love people to take a look at my recent collection THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES, and especially the story Defensive Architecture, which addresses the age-old question: Who WOULD you kill first, if you transformed into a deadly plant? #HorrorWritersChat

The Nine O'Clock Horses & Other Stories

Urban legend, body horror and suburban paranoia collide in THE NINE O’CLOCK HORSES - a collection of short stories, novelettes and micro-fictions from the author of TRADWIFE, HUMMINGBIRD and SALTBLOOD...

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Aw, thank you, Nat. Doing my marketing there for me. Here's the payment link. Yes, indeed. Eco-horror. Bugs. Forest. Bioacoustics. payhip.com/b/58paC #HorrorWritersChat

Phengaris

There's something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood.Mark Warner never noticed it before. He's there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.Birds sing in ...

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TC Parker (she/her)@tcparker.bsky.social · 7d ago

Hello! I'm Nat, I write horror/crime as TC Parker, and it would be remiss of me not to mention @anna-orridge.bsky.social's phenomenal ecohorror novella PHENGARIS at this juncture... #HorrorWritersChat

Just a few days to go until we open to submissions! Get those queer crime novels ready (and please, read the guidelines)!

Nefarious Bat Press@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 We're opening to QUEER CRIME NOVEL SUBMISSIONS in August! 📣 Details in screenshots - and the🧵 below:

!!NEW RELEASE!! Excited to let everyone know that THE HOUSE OF STOLEN OBJECTS, the brand-new novelette from the Bat's own @shaunamceleney.bsky.social, is now available to download at the Batcave! payhip.com/b/sh1Mz

I've mostly used Canva - with "AI" features disabled - in the past to pull together these not-always-very-beautiful images I am, however, EXTREMELY open to other platforms. Ideally ones with no bolted-on "AI" features of any kind (And no fucking Adobe/Firefly, either)

Nefarious Bat Press is a great name for a great #indie pub with great books. They also have a SALE 🩸📚💙📚 Great! 🤣

Nefarious Bat Press@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's 25% off all titles at the digital Bat store this week! Use coupon code BUYINDIE at the checkout - and go wild in the aisles! (All likes and shares very much appreciated :) )

Thanks Gabino! We're offering 25% off all ebooks at the Nefarious Bat store this month - including my books & titles by @brennanlafaro.bsky.social, @anna-orridge.bsky.social & @shaunamceleney.bsky.social - so would love everyone to have a browse! Code is BUYINDIE :) payhip.com/NefariousBat...

You can take our backrooms... But you'll never take our BATROOMS, AI-loving horror bros Also, you suck

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 3w ago

A24 is issuing takedowns for all sorts of backrooms content on social media, as well as merch elsewhere right now, that have nothing to do with the movie. I feel like a lot of people were afraid this would happen. They just... own the backrooms concept now I guess. Frustrating

Thanks, Eryn. Great discount on e-books from @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social right now, including Phengaris #HorrorWritersChat bsky.app/profile/tcpa...

TC Parker (she/her)@tcparker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Queer horror, crime and dark fic at a low, low price? We've got it... Featuring titles from me, @anna-orridge.bsky.social, @brennanlafaro.bsky.social, @shaunamceleney.bsky.social and more... payhip.com/NefariousBat...

👀#booksky!

Nefarious Bat Press@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's 25% off all titles at the digital Bat store this week! Use coupon code BUYINDIE at the checkout - and go wild in the aisles! (All likes and shares very much appreciated :) )

It's 25% off all titles at the digital Bat store this week! Use coupon code BUYINDIE at the checkout - and go wild in the aisles! (All likes and shares very much appreciated :) )

Nefarious Bat Press

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@tcparker.bsky.social just finished The Long Con. Amazing.

The Long Con (my Leverage-esque crime trilogy) is one of those series that I love and am hugely proud of, but that never really landed with readers on release So it's wonderful to hear that people are still reading and enjoying it @bleakhousing.bsky.social - think TLC might be my Boris :)

MattSaysHello@mattsayshello.bsky.social · 4w ago

@tcparker.bsky.social just finished The Long Con. Amazing.

It would delight us no end if all of you picked up a couple of queer horror and/or crime morsels from the Batcave this weekend That is all #booksky 📚💙

Nefarious Bat Press

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From TC's personal account, but she's speaking for us both here If you're a publisher and you do this: do us all a favour and shut up shop If you're a writer and your publisher does this: we're so sorry you've been put in this position. You deserve better ~ S and TC/N

TC Parker (she/her)@tcparker.bsky.social · 4w ago

Embarrassing enough that there are writers out there, indie and trad both, that use "AI" in their creative work* But when a *publisher* does it... do they not realise they're torching the reputations of their writers, as well as their own brands? Repulsive behaviour, and I hope you all go bust

THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS by @discobooks.bsky.social - coming this September Preorder now: www.amazon.com/This-World-E...

This September we're bringing @gemmafiles.bsky.social's first two collections, KISSING CARRION and THE WORM IN EVERY HEART, back to bookstore shelves! These collections have been out of print for years. Now's your chance to own them again, now with new full-page art by the author for every story!