Kimberly Davis Basso
@kdbwrites.bsky.social
writer she/her
Humor: I’m a Little Brain Dead; Birth and Other Surprises; No Help at All: 2025
Horror: Next Door; Revolve
Voter suppression is a sign of weakness & poor hygiene #strokesurvivor
linktr.ee/kdbwrites
Humor: I’m a Little Brain Dead; Birth and Other Surprises; No Help at All: 2025
Horror: Next Door; Revolve
Voter suppression is a sign of weakness & poor hygiene #strokesurvivor
linktr.ee/kdbwrites
Pinned
Me desperately searching bookstores for the men’s fiction section.
Here’s to being left behind by AI in the new year 🥂
December 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Here’s to being left behind by AI in the new year 🥂
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Remember my stroke? Me neither. Grab my most popular book for $1.99 today.
“I got as far as the dedication and peed myself” (author not responsible for dry cleaning).
Thanks for a great year Gabino & #FridayReads 🖤
a.co/d/3JShBeF
“I got as far as the dedication and peed myself” (author not responsible for dry cleaning).
Thanks for a great year Gabino & #FridayReads 🖤
a.co/d/3JShBeF
December 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Remember my stroke? Me neither. Grab my most popular book for $1.99 today.
“I got as far as the dedication and peed myself” (author not responsible for dry cleaning).
Thanks for a great year Gabino & #FridayReads 🖤
a.co/d/3JShBeF
“I got as far as the dedication and peed myself” (author not responsible for dry cleaning).
Thanks for a great year Gabino & #FridayReads 🖤
a.co/d/3JShBeF
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Thanks so much, Gabino!
If people's book vouchers are burning a hole in their pockets, maybe they need a story about fire gods burning holes in evil politicians! 🔥🔥
My new book, Pyres has you covered! 💀
books2read.com/pyresnovel
If people's book vouchers are burning a hole in their pockets, maybe they need a story about fire gods burning holes in evil politicians! 🔥🔥
My new book, Pyres has you covered! 💀
books2read.com/pyresnovel
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thanks so much, Gabino!
If people's book vouchers are burning a hole in their pockets, maybe they need a story about fire gods burning holes in evil politicians! 🔥🔥
My new book, Pyres has you covered! 💀
books2read.com/pyresnovel
If people's book vouchers are burning a hole in their pockets, maybe they need a story about fire gods burning holes in evil politicians! 🔥🔥
My new book, Pyres has you covered! 💀
books2read.com/pyresnovel
I don’t want to brag or anything but my pajama pants have pockets.
December 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I don’t want to brag or anything but my pajama pants have pockets.
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Released this year, my best collection to date! It’s weird and horrifying. And illustrated!
Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!
Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq
Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ
Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!
Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq
Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ
December 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Released this year, my best collection to date! It’s weird and horrifying. And illustrated!
Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!
Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq
Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ
Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!
Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq
Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ
Reposted by Kimberly Davis Basso
It’s the last #FridayReads of 2025 AND folks have book money, so let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a festive little monster full of magic, violence, friendship, revenge, and ghosts.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
December 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It’s the last #FridayReads of 2025 AND folks have book money, so let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a festive little monster full of magic, violence, friendship, revenge, and ghosts.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
Just heard Miss Piggy sing Santa Baby, so on that note- peace and joy to you all.
December 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Just heard Miss Piggy sing Santa Baby, so on that note- peace and joy to you all.
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Krampus, Zarbustibal (me), Watercolor Pencils/Pencil, 2025
December 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Krampus, Zarbustibal (me), Watercolor Pencils/Pencil, 2025
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December 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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William Holbrook Beard
Santa Claus, ca. 1862
Oil on canvas
Santa Claus, ca. 1862
Oil on canvas
December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
William Holbrook Beard
Santa Claus, ca. 1862
Oil on canvas
Santa Claus, ca. 1862
Oil on canvas
Whatever I give to the Girl she’s likely to burn my house down so probably something I could use like a fireproof jacket or an extinguisher.
Q2
#horrorwriterschat
Q2
#horrorwriterschat
It’s a time of giving #HorrorWritersChat
QUESTION TWO
Give a gift to your favourite protagonist/antagonist.
Introduce your character.
Tell us what gift you’d give them.
How would they react?
QUESTION TWO
Give a gift to your favourite protagonist/antagonist.
Introduce your character.
Tell us what gift you’d give them.
How would they react?
December 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Whatever I give to the Girl she’s likely to burn my house down so probably something I could use like a fireproof jacket or an extinguisher.
Q2
#horrorwriterschat
Q2
#horrorwriterschat
I’m Kimberly Davis Basso, I write horror across genres, and for Christmas horror I favor the classic ghost stories by Dickens- yes A Christmas Carol but he wrote loads of them. Weird Women is an anthology I also associate with the holidays for some reason.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
It’s that time again #HorrorWritersChat
QUESTION ONE
Introduce yourself.
Share the horror subgenres you write.
And recommend a festive season horror story you’ve enjoyed.
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Chat in the comments of fellow HWC posters!
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Save the self-promo links and self-promo images for the outro!
QUESTION ONE
Introduce yourself.
Share the horror subgenres you write.
And recommend a festive season horror story you’ve enjoyed.
---
Chat in the comments of fellow HWC posters!
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Save the self-promo links and self-promo images for the outro!
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I’m Kimberly Davis Basso, I write horror across genres, and for Christmas horror I favor the classic ghost stories by Dickens- yes A Christmas Carol but he wrote loads of them. Weird Women is an anthology I also associate with the holidays for some reason.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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You will be visited by three spirits. One of them has notes on your novel.
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
You will be visited by three spirits. One of them has notes on your novel.
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22!
Watercolor sketch of a lotus done at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, because lotuses are cool!
Watercolor sketch of a lotus done at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, because lotuses are cool!
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22!
Watercolor sketch of a lotus done at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, because lotuses are cool!
Watercolor sketch of a lotus done at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, because lotuses are cool!
Reposted by Kimberly Davis Basso
We're at day 22 of #artAdventCalendar.
630 participants have posted nearly 8000 images.
An average of 360 per day.
97% of them have AltText.
If we can do it. So can you.
630 participants have posted nearly 8000 images.
An average of 360 per day.
97% of them have AltText.
If we can do it. So can you.
IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
December 23, 2025 at 5:13 AM
We're at day 22 of #artAdventCalendar.
630 participants have posted nearly 8000 images.
An average of 360 per day.
97% of them have AltText.
If we can do it. So can you.
630 participants have posted nearly 8000 images.
An average of 360 per day.
97% of them have AltText.
If we can do it. So can you.
Writers: ugh I love the writing process but hate promo
Tech: let’s take away ALL the writing bits and leave you with nothing to do but promo AND no will want your book cause it’s AI crap so the promo won’t work no matter how much of your soul you sell is that good? Did we fix writing? High five!!!
Tech: let’s take away ALL the writing bits and leave you with nothing to do but promo AND no will want your book cause it’s AI crap so the promo won’t work no matter how much of your soul you sell is that good? Did we fix writing? High five!!!
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Writers: ugh I love the writing process but hate promo
Tech: let’s take away ALL the writing bits and leave you with nothing to do but promo AND no will want your book cause it’s AI crap so the promo won’t work no matter how much of your soul you sell is that good? Did we fix writing? High five!!!
Tech: let’s take away ALL the writing bits and leave you with nothing to do but promo AND no will want your book cause it’s AI crap so the promo won’t work no matter how much of your soul you sell is that good? Did we fix writing? High five!!!
Just read the 2nd issue. Concerned about both dogs Yeu Yeu & Manx & the wolves. Odd for wolves to take a sheep & chickens when the lack of humans should mean loads of game for them.
🖤 this bit & the art: “knowing a little about everything… isn’t as substantive as knowing everything about a little.”
🖤 this bit & the art: “knowing a little about everything… isn’t as substantive as knowing everything about a little.”
Currently reading The End Times Issue No. 1
Concerned about the missing dog Yeu Yeu.
@badhandbooks.bsky.social
Concerned about the missing dog Yeu Yeu.
@badhandbooks.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Just read the 2nd issue. Concerned about both dogs Yeu Yeu & Manx & the wolves. Odd for wolves to take a sheep & chickens when the lack of humans should mean loads of game for them.
🖤 this bit & the art: “knowing a little about everything… isn’t as substantive as knowing everything about a little.”
🖤 this bit & the art: “knowing a little about everything… isn’t as substantive as knowing everything about a little.”
Got the 2nd issue of the paper @badhandbooks.bsky.social I’m in SoCal
December 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Got the 2nd issue of the paper @badhandbooks.bsky.social I’m in SoCal
It’s simple:
Create something yourself and its existence validates you as an artist. Share it or don’t.
Practice. Creative effort feels great. Full.
Take someone else’s work and you are not an artist but you are a thief and a sham. That validation you’re seeking can never exist. Empty.
Create something yourself and its existence validates you as an artist. Share it or don’t.
Practice. Creative effort feels great. Full.
Take someone else’s work and you are not an artist but you are a thief and a sham. That validation you’re seeking can never exist. Empty.
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It’s simple:
Create something yourself and its existence validates you as an artist. Share it or don’t.
Practice. Creative effort feels great. Full.
Take someone else’s work and you are not an artist but you are a thief and a sham. That validation you’re seeking can never exist. Empty.
Create something yourself and its existence validates you as an artist. Share it or don’t.
Practice. Creative effort feels great. Full.
Take someone else’s work and you are not an artist but you are a thief and a sham. That validation you’re seeking can never exist. Empty.
Reposted by Kimberly Davis Basso
Counting down our staff picks for 2025!
See all at locusmag.com and donate to our year-end fundraiser at bwc.io/locus2025 . All links in bio!
#NewEdgeMagazine #PaulaGuran #MollyTanzer #JirelandtheMirrorofTruth #JirelofJoiry
See all at locusmag.com and donate to our year-end fundraiser at bwc.io/locus2025 . All links in bio!
#NewEdgeMagazine #PaulaGuran #MollyTanzer #JirelandtheMirrorofTruth #JirelofJoiry
December 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Counting down our staff picks for 2025!
See all at locusmag.com and donate to our year-end fundraiser at bwc.io/locus2025 . All links in bio!
#NewEdgeMagazine #PaulaGuran #MollyTanzer #JirelandtheMirrorofTruth #JirelofJoiry
See all at locusmag.com and donate to our year-end fundraiser at bwc.io/locus2025 . All links in bio!
#NewEdgeMagazine #PaulaGuran #MollyTanzer #JirelandtheMirrorofTruth #JirelofJoiry
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We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!
Alright scientists! It's that time again!
Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester.
Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026?
Sign up now 🥰
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester.
Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026?
Sign up now 🥰
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!
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Not to jump on discourse, and I know I am but a lowly peon when it comes to the swath of authors in the industry, but maybe if you hate writing something, it shouldn't be in your book?
This is obviously an extremely BROAD generalization but why would people enjoy reading it if you hated writing it
This is obviously an extremely BROAD generalization but why would people enjoy reading it if you hated writing it
December 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Not to jump on discourse, and I know I am but a lowly peon when it comes to the swath of authors in the industry, but maybe if you hate writing something, it shouldn't be in your book?
This is obviously an extremely BROAD generalization but why would people enjoy reading it if you hated writing it
This is obviously an extremely BROAD generalization but why would people enjoy reading it if you hated writing it
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#UrbanGaze #ColorADay #YellowThu #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast #SensoryArt #Moments #ArtAdventCalendar
Full moon, light. Fire walk, night. - Last month
#Phonetography
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #pedestrianview #rainflection #hotXing #glowy
Full moon, light. Fire walk, night. - Last month
#Phonetography
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #pedestrianview #rainflection #hotXing #glowy
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#UrbanGaze #ColorADay #YellowThu #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast #SensoryArt #Moments #ArtAdventCalendar
Full moon, light. Fire walk, night. - Last month
#Phonetography
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #pedestrianview #rainflection #hotXing #glowy
Full moon, light. Fire walk, night. - Last month
#Phonetography
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #pedestrianview #rainflection #hotXing #glowy
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Written by a human.
Every time I see some AI nonsense, whether it’s a take, an ad, an industry org losing its mind, whatever- I’m sharing my human made work.
If they are gonna shovel that sh*t at us the least I can do is give you an alternative.
Every time I see some AI nonsense, whether it’s a take, an ad, an industry org losing its mind, whatever- I’m sharing my human made work.
If they are gonna shovel that sh*t at us the least I can do is give you an alternative.
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Written by a human.
Every time I see some AI nonsense, whether it’s a take, an ad, an industry org losing its mind, whatever- I’m sharing my human made work.
If they are gonna shovel that sh*t at us the least I can do is give you an alternative.
Every time I see some AI nonsense, whether it’s a take, an ad, an industry org losing its mind, whatever- I’m sharing my human made work.
If they are gonna shovel that sh*t at us the least I can do is give you an alternative.