Nefarious Bat Press
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
We're a women-owned independent publisher specialising in queer horror, crime & dark fiction, operated by TC Parker & Shauna Mc Eleney
We like intersectional feminism. A lot
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www.nefariousbatpress.com
Absolutely no AI anywhere
We like intersectional feminism. A lot
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪
www.nefariousbatpress.com
Absolutely no AI anywhere
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Phengaris
Phengaris - Kindle edition by Orridge, Anna. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Phengaris.
www.amazon.com
And... Phengaris is available for preorder!
Fancy a slice of bug-laden cosmic eco-horror from the Bat's own @anna-orridge.bsky.social?
Get your orders in now!
Fancy a slice of bug-laden cosmic eco-horror from the Bat's own @anna-orridge.bsky.social?
Get your orders in now!
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Only 4 days left until the campaign ends and as it stands at under 30% that we cannot afford to make Season Two.
Please share our Kickstarter below and help us make Season Two a reality
You can also help by writing your own social media posts and tagging friends you think will enjoy us!
Please share our Kickstarter below and help us make Season Two a reality
You can also help by writing your own social media posts and tagging friends you think will enjoy us!
The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two
Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!
Www.tinyurl.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Only 4 days left until the campaign ends and as it stands at under 30% that we cannot afford to make Season Two.
Please share our Kickstarter below and help us make Season Two a reality
You can also help by writing your own social media posts and tagging friends you think will enjoy us!
Please share our Kickstarter below and help us make Season Two a reality
You can also help by writing your own social media posts and tagging friends you think will enjoy us!
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💫Four days until The Haunting of Wounded Birds takes flight!
💫4 days until you meet Jackdaw
💫4 days until the crows gather
💫4 days until the haunted past bleeds into the present
💫4 days until Martinmas...old Halloween
mybook.to/woundedbirds
💫4 days until you meet Jackdaw
💫4 days until the crows gather
💫4 days until the haunted past bleeds into the present
💫4 days until Martinmas...old Halloween
mybook.to/woundedbirds
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
💫Four days until The Haunting of Wounded Birds takes flight!
💫4 days until you meet Jackdaw
💫4 days until the crows gather
💫4 days until the haunted past bleeds into the present
💫4 days until Martinmas...old Halloween
mybook.to/woundedbirds
💫4 days until you meet Jackdaw
💫4 days until the crows gather
💫4 days until the haunted past bleeds into the present
💫4 days until Martinmas...old Halloween
mybook.to/woundedbirds
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So hard being a Percy. Our Stream Manager hard at work (Join us in 15 mins to watch Episode Two!)
You can find us on our YouTube and Twitch!
Links below ⬇️
You can find us on our YouTube and Twitch!
Links below ⬇️
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So hard being a Percy. Our Stream Manager hard at work (Join us in 15 mins to watch Episode Two!)
You can find us on our YouTube and Twitch!
Links below ⬇️
You can find us on our YouTube and Twitch!
Links below ⬇️
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BOGO books! 💙📚
2-for-1 weekend sale on intersectional feminist rage!
Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!
payhip.com/b/TDowG
Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!
payhip.com/b/TDowG
![Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with:
A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it
B. Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering
Blurb reads:
"In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ymvq37du2ncmuxomlys5n6le/bafkreicabysn3te4qilkxbju4asyy3opea2i536tlleuyttezb2qnfwfbq@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
BOGO books! 💙📚
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Don't miss out on this amazing deal, both books are wonderful!
2-for-1 weekend sale on intersectional feminist rage!
Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!
payhip.com/b/TDowG
Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!
payhip.com/b/TDowG
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Don't miss out on this amazing deal, both books are wonderful!
2-for-1 weekend sale on intersectional feminist rage!
Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!
payhip.com/b/TDowG
Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!
payhip.com/b/TDowG
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
2-for-1 weekend sale on intersectional feminist rage!
Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!
payhip.com/b/TDowG
Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!
payhip.com/b/TDowG
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Happy Day Of The Dead 🖤
It's Sunday, so we thought we'd share a 🧵 of some of our promo videos - and see if they can persuade you to grab a copy of one of our titles...
First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!
(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!
(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Happy Day Of The Dead 🖤
This is, if we say so ourselves, an EXCELLENT (and cosmically unsettling) Halloween read ⬇️
Would also be deeply chuffed with sales for my Grief And Arthropods cosmic horror novella out with @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
#FridayReads
payhip.com/b/58paC
#FridayReads
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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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October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is, if we say so ourselves, an EXCELLENT (and cosmically unsettling) Halloween read ⬇️
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The necromancer's told them if they're in competition and only one group gets out alive.
If these students don't unite, they're all going to die.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015UIIPSA #horrorbooks
If these students don't unite, they're all going to die.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015UIIPSA #horrorbooks
October 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The necromancer's told them if they're in competition and only one group gets out alive.
If these students don't unite, they're all going to die.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015UIIPSA #horrorbooks
If these students don't unite, they're all going to die.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015UIIPSA #horrorbooks
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You know what? I'm not too proud to piggyback on that Louvre theft to try to sell you on a heist trilogy
Like Leverage, Hustle, Frauds, and elaborate takedowns of billionaires, techbros and adjacent bastards?
You might well like The Debt (and its sequels)
payhip.com/b/duvxV
Like Leverage, Hustle, Frauds, and elaborate takedowns of billionaires, techbros and adjacent bastards?
You might well like The Debt (and its sequels)
payhip.com/b/duvxV
October 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You know what? I'm not too proud to piggyback on that Louvre theft to try to sell you on a heist trilogy
Like Leverage, Hustle, Frauds, and elaborate takedowns of billionaires, techbros and adjacent bastards?
You might well like The Debt (and its sequels)
payhip.com/b/duvxV
Like Leverage, Hustle, Frauds, and elaborate takedowns of billionaires, techbros and adjacent bastards?
You might well like The Debt (and its sequels)
payhip.com/b/duvxV
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I *blazed* through Tradwife on a plane ride, it is SO GOOD. one of my favorite buys of the year.
October 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I *blazed* through Tradwife on a plane ride, it is SO GOOD. one of my favorite buys of the year.
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Oh! I am thrilled with this!
Many thanks to the Bat 🖤
(Also, it's Creepy Christmas, you want a book to match, right?)
Many thanks to the Bat 🖤
(Also, it's Creepy Christmas, you want a book to match, right?)
It's Sunday, so we thought we'd share a 🧵 of some of our promo videos - and see if they can persuade you to grab a copy of one of our titles...
First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!
(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!
(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Oh! I am thrilled with this!
Many thanks to the Bat 🖤
(Also, it's Creepy Christmas, you want a book to match, right?)
Many thanks to the Bat 🖤
(Also, it's Creepy Christmas, you want a book to match, right?)
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What happens when the dead can no longer be contained?
Next: the upcoming The Denizens, by @brennanlafaro.bsky.social!
(Preorder here: www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...)
(Preorder here: www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...)
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What happens when the dead can no longer be contained?
It's Sunday, so we thought we'd share a 🧵 of some of our promo videos - and see if they can persuade you to grab a copy of one of our titles...
First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!
(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!
(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It's Sunday, so we thought we'd share a 🧵 of some of our promo videos - and see if they can persuade you to grab a copy of one of our titles...
First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!
(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!
(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
Neither of us noticed this for several months... but TRADWIFE is in Stylist!
(And apparently has been since the summer 🤣)
Like the sound of it? Grab a copy yourself! payhip.com/b/TDowG
(And apparently has been since the summer 🤣)
Like the sound of it? Grab a copy yourself! payhip.com/b/TDowG
Twisted tradwife fiction is the next big thriller genre – here are 6 books to have on your radar
From murder mysteries to chilling tales of domestic life.
www.stylist.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Neither of us noticed this for several months... but TRADWIFE is in Stylist!
(And apparently has been since the summer 🤣)
Like the sound of it? Grab a copy yourself! payhip.com/b/TDowG
(And apparently has been since the summer 🤣)
Like the sound of it? Grab a copy yourself! payhip.com/b/TDowG
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Kicking off this November, I'll be taking a look at the world of WRITING SHORT STORIES for four weeks - and it's all happening online, so you can join us from anywhere! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-sh... #shortstories #shortstory #writing #writers #authors #fiction
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Kicking off this November, I'll be taking a look at the world of WRITING SHORT STORIES for four weeks - and it's all happening online, so you can join us from anywhere! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-sh... #shortstories #shortstory #writing #writers #authors #fiction
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First review for The Denizens is in and I’m so pleased to share it with you all.
“The premise is an attention-getter, an interesting metaphor for needing to let go in the grieving process”
“The premise is an attention-getter, an interesting metaphor for needing to let go in the grieving process”
October 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
First review for The Denizens is in and I’m so pleased to share it with you all.
“The premise is an attention-getter, an interesting metaphor for needing to let go in the grieving process”
“The premise is an attention-getter, an interesting metaphor for needing to let go in the grieving process”
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And to think, you can get your horror-loving mitts on this book in just four short months.
3 Image Book Challenge for your Saturday:
Show your book (or the book you're reading) in 3 images
We'll start, with @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming The Denizens...
Show your book (or the book you're reading) in 3 images
We'll start, with @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming The Denizens...
October 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
And to think, you can get your horror-loving mitts on this book in just four short months.
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An independent bookshop is one of the best things you can support right now.
Visit one today & spend £10 on a book.
#bookshopday
Visit one today & spend £10 on a book.
#bookshopday
October 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
An independent bookshop is one of the best things you can support right now.
Visit one today & spend £10 on a book.
#bookshopday
Visit one today & spend £10 on a book.
#bookshopday
3 Image Book Challenge for your Saturday:
Show your book (or the book you're reading) in 3 images
We'll start, with @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming The Denizens...
Show your book (or the book you're reading) in 3 images
We'll start, with @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming The Denizens...
October 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
3 Image Book Challenge for your Saturday:
Show your book (or the book you're reading) in 3 images
We'll start, with @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming The Denizens...
Show your book (or the book you're reading) in 3 images
We'll start, with @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming The Denizens...
Inasmuch as we have a mission statement - it's something like this ⬇️
A Discworld message for the rest of us, this Party Conference season
October 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Inasmuch as we have a mission statement - it's something like this ⬇️
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Preordering from your indie (or any indie) is a great way to not only support your local bookshop and favorite authors, it also tells indies what books people want (so they can order more of them)!
Getting some genuinely FASCINATING results from this survey. I had no idea how many people (23%) aren't interested in reading excerpts before the book comes out! :O
(Also shout out to the 40% of people who report that they preorder from indie bookstores. [fistbump] hell yeah)
(Also shout out to the 40% of people who report that they preorder from indie bookstores. [fistbump] hell yeah)
There's a lot of received wisdom about what motivates readers to preorder, but I've been wondering if cold hard data can back that up -- so I'm doing SCIENCE!
Got ~20 minutes to do a survey on your preorder habits (or non-habits)? forms.gle/RhfegAyrAWcM...
Please signal boost for sample size! 📖✨
Got ~20 minutes to do a survey on your preorder habits (or non-habits)? forms.gle/RhfegAyrAWcM...
Please signal boost for sample size! 📖✨
October 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Preordering from your indie (or any indie) is a great way to not only support your local bookshop and favorite authors, it also tells indies what books people want (so they can order more of them)!
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Oh wow! They didn’t distribute many of our books, fortunately for us, but this is a big hit for a lot of presses, authors, libraries, etc. :-(((
Consider buying a book or two direct from an author or press if you can (Us too, of course). We all get paid faster and more when you do this.
Consider buying a book or two direct from an author or press if you can (Us too, of course). We all get paid faster and more when you do this.
Yes, Baker and Taylor is shutting down. Not good news. The big question is how much they owe to publishers:
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.
www.publishersweekly.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Oh wow! They didn’t distribute many of our books, fortunately for us, but this is a big hit for a lot of presses, authors, libraries, etc. :-(((
Consider buying a book or two direct from an author or press if you can (Us too, of course). We all get paid faster and more when you do this.
Consider buying a book or two direct from an author or press if you can (Us too, of course). We all get paid faster and more when you do this.
It's Prime Day... so please consider buying your books direct from (ideally indie) bookstores and publishers today, instead of from the Big River that's gouging us all into penury
We'd love you to grab one of our books, from our estore or as a signed paperback
But really: any indie is good :)
We'd love you to grab one of our books, from our estore or as a signed paperback
But really: any indie is good :)
Nefarious Bat Press
We're a female-owned independent publisher specialising in queer horror, crime and dark fiction
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October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It's Prime Day... so please consider buying your books direct from (ideally indie) bookstores and publishers today, instead of from the Big River that's gouging us all into penury
We'd love you to grab one of our books, from our estore or as a signed paperback
But really: any indie is good :)
We'd love you to grab one of our books, from our estore or as a signed paperback
But really: any indie is good :)
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Love this book! The investigative style and social commentary are brilliant.
#booksky
#booksky
Had a great time with TRADWIFE by @tcparker.bsky.social. True crime social horror bringing The Handmaid’s Tale even closer to home, extremely smart riffs on the reportage style/structure to boot. Thank you @almakatsu.bsky.social for the nod!
October 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Love this book! The investigative style and social commentary are brilliant.
#booksky
#booksky