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Laura Cranehill
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Strange motherings and odd bodies. Weird horror written by a weird horror. 🌈
WIFE SHAPED BODIES coming in 2026 from Saga Press
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Laura Cranehill @lauracranehill.bsky.social · Sep 29
Goodreads giveaway for Wife Shaped Bodies, my queer mycological horror novel! 🍄🖤 Enter to win a digital copy, giveaway ends 10/14
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#spookyseason, #halloween, #samhain is all about folk tradition.

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October 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Just a little more than a week before Halloween! Anybody reading any good horror novels?
I just finished an ARC of @lauracranehill.bsky.social's upcoming WIFE SHAPED BODIES, and it was gorgeous!!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wife-S...
Wife Shaped Bodies
Sorrowland meets Manhunt in this literary horror debut in which an isolated newlywed—covered in mushroom growths like all the other wives in her co...
www.simonandschuster.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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perfidiousscript.bsky.social
Thanks to Ben Lockwood for some kind words on 'The Veldt Institute' in Brief Ecology!
briefecology.bsky.social Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · Oct 11
A new Eco-Update is live! Stories about capitalist wind-grabbing, a new study on desert ecology, and an eco-fiction review of @perfidiousscript.bsky.social’s The Veldt Institute

🏡🌐🌎🧪

www.briefecology.com/p/the-eco-up...
The Eco-Update #19
Dispatches from the planet.
www.briefecology.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
lauracranehill.bsky.social
Hello New York Comic Con attendees! There's a Daily Secret Word you can whisper to the Saga Press booth and they will give the first two people with the password a free galley of my queer mycological body horror Wife Shaped Bodies!

The password for October 9th giveaway is: "mushroom" good luck! 🤞🍄🫶
October 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
lauracranehill.bsky.social
Goodreads giveaway for Wife Shaped Bodies, my queer mycological horror novel! 🍄🖤 Enter to win a digital copy, giveaway ends 10/14
September 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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kristalstittle.bsky.social
At last it's been revealed! I've been wanting to show people since I saw it. Thank you so much @kerissonlp.bsky.social, it's amazing! And oh my gosh, what kind words from @sonorataylor.bsky.social, @lauracranehill.bsky.social, and @davidmoody.bsky.social!
tenebrouspress.bsky.social Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Sep 26
🔥COVER ART REVEAL🔥

Subscribers to our newsletter got a first look yesterday at @kerissonlp.bsky.social's stellar work for 2026's KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social!

NIGHT OF THE COMET x A QUIET PLACE, it's an epic extraterrestrial creature feature—Tenebrous style—out next February🖤☠️
Cover art by Kerisson Wemerson; illustration, birds eye view of a lone kayaker drifting into an inlet of trees and shrubs shaped like the gaping-jawed skull of a monster. Favorable blurbs for KAYAK from Sonora Taylor, David Moody and Laura Cranehill
September 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Tomorrow!
perfidiousscript.bsky.social Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · Sep 26
Tomorrow at Lost Avenue book in Portland, OR will be the release reading for my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

With @lauracranehill.bsky.social and an exclusive new track from @pulseemitter.bsky.social

6pm
'The Veldt Institute' book release poster
September 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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perfidiousscript.bsky.social
This Saturday at Lost Avenue books in Portland Oregon!

The release and reading for my first book 'The Veldt Institute' with @lauracranehill.bsky.social and an exclusive new track inspired by the book from @pulseemitter.bsky.social!

Be there or be square.
Or be both. It is a book release after all.
perfidiousscript.bsky.social Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · Sep 22
'The Veldt Institute' book release!
This Saturday @ 6pm!
Lost Avenue Books!
Portland, OR!
'The Veldt Institute' book release poster: Saturday September 27th at Lost Avenue Books in Portland Oregon with Samuel M. Moss and Laura Cranehill
September 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
lauracranehill.bsky.social
This books looks sooooooo good, I ordered my copy already
midnightpals.bsky.social The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · Sep 17
this is the worst possible time to do this, since i need to be promoting my debut horror novel moonflow. so hey if you miss my sardonic jibes during my uneventful absence, consider getting yourself a copy! (or request it from your local library) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...
Moonflow
"A bizarre and fiercely original splatterpunk phantasmagoria of queerness. Deranged and gleefully weird as f*ck, this is an impressive debut from a singular...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
lauracranehill.bsky.social
Hello Portland people! I’m doing a reading with Samuel M. Moss for his new book The Veldt Institute
perfidiousscript.bsky.social Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · Sep 13
'The Veldt Institute' book release in Portland w/ Laura Cranehill at Lost Avenue Books on September 27th!
A sonic literary experience to celebrate the release of The Veldt Institute a novel by the writer Samuel M. Moss with support from Laura Cranehill and sound by Pulse Emitter Hosted by Lost Avenue. 6PM, Saturday September 27th. 2732 MLK Jr. Blvd Portland, OR 97212
September 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Hey! It’s a full moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. It’s a giveaway! Win an annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC and some moon-themed stickers! 🌚 Details in thread.
A signed, annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC propped up against a stack of other copies of HIGHER MAGIC with some moon- and magic-themed stickers. GIVEAWAY Want to win an annotated copy of Higher Magic and some moon-themed swag? 1 Follow my account 2 Reply to this post (see caption) 3 Repost or tag a friend by Sunday, Sept. 14th!
September 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Just booked a writing retreat, so, er, I'd love to fit in a couple more clients/workshops for fall to help offset the cost!

I'm a writer, editor, & marketing coach. My sweet spot is helping authors w forthcoming titles navigate the book marketing engine + plan for launch. (pottern.com) 🧵
"Writing and Marketing consults with Allison Pottern Hoch. You've spent years crafting your book to get it out into the world — and I've spent 20+ years helping authors develop and market theirs. Now let me help you! Does publishing or marketing overwhelm you? Are you a debut author with book launch jitters? Does it feel like your publisher isn't giving you the marketing guidance you need? Do you need help getting your speculative fiction novel over the finish line? Are you struggling to figure out what publishing path is right for you? Book a consult today: pottern.com/book-a-session"
September 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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crkellogg.bsky.social
I finished the first draft of my WIP right before WorldCon and it got me thinking about the parallels with my other hobby: sewing. Check out 4 things I've learned from sewing and applied to drafting a novel.

open.substack.com/pub/crkellog...
What Sewing Can Teach Us About Drafting Novels
I always get the bug for drafting in the summer.
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August 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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New Books in My House!!
@buehlmeister.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @lauracranehill.bsky.social @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social @pennyzang.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @vanessalilie.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social @readlandmark.bsky.social
Demon Song by Kelsea Yu (w/swag!) Blood as Bright as the Moon by Andrea Morstabilini Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite Roots of My Fears: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror ed. Gemma Amor The Needfire by MK Hardy (signed) Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill (signed arc) Doll Parts by Penny Zang (with swag) thank you @bookmarked Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie (signed/swag) The Daughter’s War by Christopher Buehlman (signed)
August 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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You can now request Wife Shaped Bodies on Netgalley!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Wife Shaped Bodies
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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August 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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sadiehartmann.bsky.social
Kicking off the weekend RIGHT
Text list in the Alt ✔️
Casually dropping 2026 books in your feed like a little b*tch- a pin-up girl with a list that reads "not sorry" Cruelty Free Spoiled Milk On Sundays She Picked Flowers The Infamous Gilberts A Slow and Secret Poison House of Splinters (US 2026) Wolf Worm Innamorata Invasive Species Wife Shaped Bodies Only Spell Deep Wretch The Summer of the Serpent The Darkness Greeted Her You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom The Midnight Muse Japanese Gothic This House Will Feed Dead First We Call Them Witches Cabaret in Flames The Body Ballad of the Bone Road Morsel Mother is Watching
August 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I am so excited for this
tenebrouspress.bsky.social Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Jul 16
🎉💀SIGNING ANNOUNCEMENT💀🎉

HOUSE OF ROT's @dangerslater.bsky.social returns to Tenebrous w/a vicious blend of social satire & surreal body horror!

PORTLANDIA x LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS x Tenebrous finally gets cancelled in...WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE.

Out around Halloween 2026🖤☠️
Publishers Marketplace announcement: Danger Slater’s “We are Good People”, an over-the-top body horror social satire in which two privileged, self-described “good people” may not be as good as they think they are when they inexplicably become biologically bonded to their own house, and blood is the only thing that can sustain this new symbiotic organism, to Matt Blairstone of Tenebrous Press with Alex Woodroe editing, for release in Fall 2026. accompanied by a dog sniffing Danger's face
July 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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DEMON SONG is on Netgalley! 🥳

🎭haunted Beijing opera house
🎭decades-old secrets
🎭modern gothic horror
🎭inspired by Phantom of the Opera
🎭Chinese mythology
🎭novella: quick read!
🎭complicated mother-daughter relationships
🎭demi MC

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
Graphic that says “available now on Netgalley, Titan Books” alongside the cover of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu
July 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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B&N is having a preorder sale for rewards and premium members, 25% off with code PREORDER25, you can get Wife Shaped Bodies (ebook, paperback, audio) and other great upcoming titles
#BNPreorder
July 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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This is a badass keynote speech
June 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 20
I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people.

Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.
wuffles.bsky.social Sol Brennan (3D Rigger/Looking for work) @wuffles.bsky.social · Jun 20
#Trans folks in the US who are reapplying for their passport to be fixed. Don't bother. Just had an emergency appointment today (I travel on the 30th) and they cannot issue me a corrected #passport. All decisions regarding this 'issue' are on hold until they receive guidance from the head office.
June 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
WE LIKE IT CHERRY is out August 5th, and you can preorder it now!
💀Supernatural Indigenous Horror
💀Arctic Weird
💀Blood on Ice🩸

One of @pastemagazine.bsky.social's Most Anticipated Horror Books of Summer 2025!

Preorder:
store.tenebrouspress.com
BOOKLIST starred review for WE LIKE IT CHERRY: “Not for the faint of heart. Morris’ narrative does not pull punches…Highly recommended for fans of Stephen Graham Jones.”
June 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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We hung out w/good buds @jacymorris.bsky.social @dangerslater.bsky.social & @lauracranehill.bsky.social, whose WIFE SHAPED BODIES is out from Saga in 2026, last night.

Jacy's WE LIKE IT CHERRY release party will be at @powells.bsky.social on Hawthorne 8/7! MC'd by Danger.

Things will get Weird🖤☠️
POWELL'S BOOKS event poster for Jacy Morris's upcoming book release/Q&A/reading/"in conversation with" Danger Slater, but it's been tweaked so that Jacy is staring lightning bolts through Danger and Danger looks lovely in a flower laurel, starry eyes and a teardrop on his cheek. POWELL'S ON HAWTHORNE, THURSDAY AUG. 7, 7PM
June 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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crkellogg.bsky.social
I cannot wait - Laura is an INCREDIBLE writer and this book is going to be a delight 🍄 also this cover is absolute fire.
sagapressbooks.bsky.social Saga Press Books @sagapressbooks.bsky.social · Jun 9
We couldn’t be more excited to share the stunning cover for Laura Cranehill’s WIFE SHAPED BODIES!

The paperback, featuring illustrated French flaps, is out in April 2026. Preorder your copy now!

Cover design by Ella Laytham (IG @ellaytham)
Cover illustration by Kior Ko (kior.bsky.social‬)
June 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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contrariannews.org
In light of this week’s unprecedented law enforcement escalation, now is a time for all Americans—documented or not—to know their rights.

Here is what to do if you are stopped or feel threatened by immigration authorities:
June 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM