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Caryn Larrinaga 📚👻
@carynlarrinaga.bsky.social
Award-winning mystery & horror author. 📚😱 Hauntings are my happy place. Property of a small handful of cats.
Bookworm | Basque | she/her

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I’m three chapters into the book I got in the Utah Horror Writers bloody elephant book exchange, and it’s absolutely delightful so far. I’ll report back on whether it sticks the landing later.

Anyone else indulging in some holiday horror?

📚 😱
#booksky
December 22, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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It's time again #HorrorWritersChat!

Tune in to answer four fun questions about you and your work!

2PM EST, 7PM UK
December 4, 2024 at 4:53 PM
It’s December 1, and I’m setting my goals for the month:

🖊️ Finish re-plotting the new book
🖊️ Write 20,000 words

Anyone else have targets they’re hoping to hit before the end of the year?

#amwriting
#horrorwriter
December 1, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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I WANT YOUR STORIES!
Latin American Shared Stories | Call for Submissions - We want your stories for our new title in our Beyond & Within series: Latin American Shared Stories ✨ Edited by the one and only @vlatinalondon
Deadline is the 15th December 2024
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Flame Tree anthologies, short story collections and Flame Tree Press. Original and own voices, independent horror and suspense, science fiction and fantasy, crime and mystery.
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December 1, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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I've updated the #HorrorWritersChat feed to ask people refrain from using the tag for anything else.

If you're promoting horror books, I strongly recommend using this string of emojis 💙📚👀📢📚😱

That's all emojis for both general book feeds, and for horror feeds.

Fewer characters and greater reach.
December 1, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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My starter pack needs more space than the 150 allotted so I’ll make a part two of horror folk, creatives, and evil doers. Also, why does Bluesky allow me to change the title of the pack but the graphic still says “horror writers”. Anyways, go celebrate these artists go.bsky.app/QBuj23L
December 1, 2024 at 5:13 AM
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Go grab a copy of LONG DIVISION with stories by (me 🙀), Eric LaRocca, Chuck Palahniuk, Ai Jiang, Gary Braunbeck, Clay MacLeod Chapman, Zoje Stage, Alex Grecian, Lora Senf, Eugen Bacon, Anna Taborska ++ more

badhandbooks.com/preorders/lo...
December 1, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Happy #caturday from my very handsome grayby baby boy, Goose
November 30, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Whoa. 55 reviewers & 11 presses interested in the first *2* days of cooking up "100 Notable Small Press Books 2025"

We need:
BIPOC reviewers & presses
LGBTQIA reviewers & presses
Reviewers for Romance, Horror, YA/kidlit

Please keep sharing. www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress

#100smallpress
100 Notable Small Press — Miriam Gershow
www.miriamgershow.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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We're getting into holiday season and spooky books are always a great gift! Use the code SHADOW15 and save 15% off your entire order!

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November 19, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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#diversebooksky seeking any 2025 book releases you know that have disability rep, written by disabled authors! Drop them in the comments or requote this 🫶🏻

#booksky #disabilitybooks
November 28, 2024 at 4:58 AM
Just finished playing through Thank Goodness You’re Here with a friend this fine Thanksgiving Eve. It’s hilarious, weird, and genuinely as much fun to watch as to play. Took us about 2 hours to play it all the way through, and I laughed out loud the entire time.
Five stars / 10 bob.
November 28, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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📞 #blackbooksky
black owned indie bookstore, resist booksellers, launched their black friday sale online early. starting at midnight EST. everything is 20% off 👀

black indie books, black fantasy books, black romance books, candles, etc

they also ship FAST, like 2-3 days ✨

resistbooksellers.com
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November 28, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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I love this cover. Take a look at the cloud, I didn't see the face there at first, but it makes it that much creepier.
After visiting and becoming enamored with Astoria, OR, I set my gothic supernatural grief horror novella in one of Astoria’s gorgeous Queen Anne Victorians. The smell of the rain, the lumbering energy of the cargo ships on the river, the SEAFOOD - I love that town.

#HorrorWritersChat
November 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Get to know your mutuals! In no particular order, post 10 things you like:

🐈‍⬛ Cats
☕️ Chai lattes
👻 Ghost stories
🎶 Synthwave
🧁 Baking
📚 Horror books (esp. gothic & paranormal)
🍿 Horror films (more campy than devastating)
🎮 Zelda
✈️ Travel (the being there part, not getting there)
🎸 Playing my bass
Get to know your mutuals! In no particular order post 10 things you like:

🐱 Cats
🔮 ARCANE
🎻 Symphonic metal music
📚 Graphic novels/comics
👻 Spooky things
🛡️ Fire Emblem
🫖 Victorian classic literature
🎥 Animation (and imagining animated music videos of my OCs in my head)
⚔️ Zelda
🗺️ Traveling
Get to know your mutuals! In no particular order post 10 things you like:

🐓 Chickens
🐩 Dogs
💀 Taxidermy (and curiosities)
⚔️ World of Warcraft
🚣‍♂️ Rusty Lake
🎨 Painting
🐟 Goldfish (and advocating for their proper care)
☕ Chai and Coffee (but not together)
🌻 Warm Colors (yellow W)
🌊 The Beach
November 27, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Genuinely refreshing compared to certain other spaces.
Love that this place is so much about art instead of hate.
November 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Hi, I'm Beverley Lee and I'm a dark fiction writer from the UK. My work specialises in atmosphere and the build up of dread, and is entirely character driven. This week I've been working on a new story, codenamed Birds, which is a folk horror/dark fantasy/revenge tale.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat question 1:

Introduce yourself: tell us who you are, what you write, and what you've been up to this week writing-wise.

P.S. Don’t forget to include the tag when reposting!
November 27, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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I'm Kelly Martin. I write mostly haunted house books, haunted people, ghost hunting gone bad. This week, I've been working on the sequel to my latest book and trying to keep cats out of my lap bc I am actually off from work and they are confused lol #horrorwriterschat
#HorrorWritersChat question 1:

Introduce yourself: tell us who you are, what you write, and what you've been up to this week writing-wise.

P.S. Don’t forget to include the tag when reposting!
November 27, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Hello, I'm Catherine McCarthy, a dark fiction author from Wales. If you want gothic rather than gore, then I'm your girl.
This week I've been editing my forthcoming novella, Death of a Clown, the metaphorical tale of an outsider.🤡
#HorrorWritersChat.
Hi, I'm Beverley Lee and I'm a dark fiction writer from the UK. My work specialises in atmosphere and the build up of dread, and is entirely character driven. This week I've been working on a new story, codenamed Birds, which is a folk horror/dark fantasy/revenge tale.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat question 1:

Introduce yourself: tell us who you are, what you write, and what you've been up to this week writing-wise.

P.S. Don’t forget to include the tag when reposting!
November 27, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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I can answer this. YES. Caryn is awesome and her stories are awesome and you should read them! The Soul Searchers series has cats and ghosts!
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November 27, 2024 at 10:35 PM
After visiting and becoming enamored with Astoria, OR, I set my gothic supernatural grief horror novella in one of Astoria’s gorgeous Queen Anne Victorians. The smell of the rain, the lumbering energy of the cargo ships on the river, the SEAFOOD - I love that town.

#HorrorWritersChat
November 27, 2024 at 9:47 PM
I’m Caryn, and I write horror blended with mysteries (sometimes more on the cozy end, sometimes decidedly not, nearly always with cats and ghosts).

I’ve been re-plotting my new witchy thriller that I’m seriously behind on with hopes of catching back up over the long weekend.

#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat question 1:

Introduce yourself: tell us who you are, what you write, and what you've been up to this week writing-wise.

P.S. Don’t forget to include the tag when reposting!
November 27, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 6:11 PM