Rebecca Cantrell
@rebeccacantrell.bsky.social
NY Times bestselling writer, cat slave, and nerd. No DMs unless I actually know you. No AI in my posts or my books. I wring them out of my writer brain drop by drop. (she/her)
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Firegazer
Firegazer - Kindle edition by Cantrell, Rebecca. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Firegazer.
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I have a Halloween short story collection out for your reading pleasure. #booksky #halloween www.amazon.com/Firegazer-Re...
Taking a break to go write something. Back in 6 weeks or so. Have fun without me!
October 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Taking a break to go write something. Back in 6 weeks or so. Have fun without me!
Follow a young boy on All Hallow's Eve as he gazes into the fire of a magic lantern and discovers a foul family legacy that spans centuries in FIREGAZER. www.amazon.com/Firegazer-Re... #horrorwriterschat
October 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Follow a young boy on All Hallow's Eve as he gazes into the fire of a magic lantern and discovers a foul family legacy that spans centuries in FIREGAZER. www.amazon.com/Firegazer-Re... #horrorwriterschat
And yet you persisted, walking to your fate, skirts gathered in one pale hand. Delivering yourself to the monster at the appointed time to save your family, little knowing that you were dooming each generation to carry forward the curse #horrorwriterschat
Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!
Behold, a note from him, for you!
“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”
Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!
#HorrorWritersChat
Behold, a note from him, for you!
“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”
Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!
#HorrorWritersChat
October 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
And yet you persisted, walking to your fate, skirts gathered in one pale hand. Delivering yourself to the monster at the appointed time to save your family, little knowing that you were dooming each generation to carry forward the curse #horrorwriterschat
I'm not going to get into the business of ranking ghosts. That's how you call down an eldritch haunting that crosses generations. I love them all equally, like a good mom. #horrorwriterschat
Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
October 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I'm not going to get into the business of ranking ghosts. That's how you call down an eldritch haunting that crosses generations. I love them all equally, like a good mom. #horrorwriterschat
Ghosts are like cats and haunt wherever they please. I prefer to find them in ancient ruins, gloomy streets and hidden alleys. Or anywhere good chocolate is sold. #horrorwriterschat
Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
October 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ghosts are like cats and haunt wherever they please. I prefer to find them in ancient ruins, gloomy streets and hidden alleys. Or anywhere good chocolate is sold. #horrorwriterschat
I'm Rebecca Cantrell and I usually write dark stuff--horror, thrillers, mystery, and a little science fiction. I write them from sunny Waikiki, where gloom is hard to come by. I'm wearing a tattered velvet dress, red with long sleeves and pointed cuffs and a jet choker. #horrorwriterschat
Be welcomed to the ethereal music hall! A stringed aperitif is in order… do tell the Symposium what do you write, from where… and what IS, indeed, your wraithful visage for tonight?
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
October 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm Rebecca Cantrell and I usually write dark stuff--horror, thrillers, mystery, and a little science fiction. I write them from sunny Waikiki, where gloom is hard to come by. I'm wearing a tattered velvet dress, red with long sleeves and pointed cuffs and a jet choker. #horrorwriterschat
Working on converting a Christmas romance short story (I know! Not my usual) to a screenplay. What's your favorite Christmas romance movie? #christmas #christmasmovie #booksky
October 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Working on converting a Christmas romance short story (I know! Not my usual) to a screenplay. What's your favorite Christmas romance movie? #christmas #christmasmovie #booksky
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Don't stop searching for joy.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, movie theaters, spooky cemeteries, and mossy forests.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, movie theaters, spooky cemeteries, and mossy forests.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.
September 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Don't stop searching for joy.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, movie theaters, spooky cemeteries, and mossy forests.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, movie theaters, spooky cemeteries, and mossy forests.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.
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Macavity Award Winners #mystery #crimefiction mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/10/maca... @swierczy.bsky.social and more!
MACAVITY AWARD WINNERS 2025
The Macavity Award Winners 2025 (for works published in 2024) The Macavity Award is named after Macavity: The Mystery Cat , in...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Macavity Award Winners #mystery #crimefiction mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/10/maca... @swierczy.bsky.social and more!
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The Kickstarter for my brand-new #Fey #novel just went live. If you’ve read the series, you want this book. If you haven’t, you can find a reward that will give you the previous books at a discount. Take a look!
#booksky
#fantasy
www.kickstarter.com/projects/403...
#booksky
#fantasy
www.kickstarter.com/projects/403...
THE UNEXPECTED HERO
Magic, Steampunk, and the Fey
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October 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The Kickstarter for my brand-new #Fey #novel just went live. If you’ve read the series, you want this book. If you haven’t, you can find a reward that will give you the previous books at a discount. Take a look!
#booksky
#fantasy
www.kickstarter.com/projects/403...
#booksky
#fantasy
www.kickstarter.com/projects/403...
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It's that time of year again... is there anything spookier than impediments to free and open access to information? We think not!!
Make sure you follow along with us this Banned Books Week—we'll be sharing all the resources, updates and cool events they don't want you to know about.
Make sure you follow along with us this Banned Books Week—we'll be sharing all the resources, updates and cool events they don't want you to know about.
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It's that time of year again... is there anything spookier than impediments to free and open access to information? We think not!!
Make sure you follow along with us this Banned Books Week—we'll be sharing all the resources, updates and cool events they don't want you to know about.
Make sure you follow along with us this Banned Books Week—we'll be sharing all the resources, updates and cool events they don't want you to know about.
Darwin Awards, but for AI. Who will win the HAL 9000? aidarwinawards.org/nominees-202... #ai
2025 AI Darwin Award Nominees - Worst AI Failures of the Year
Meet the 2025 AI Darwin Award nominees - from database-deleting AI agents to fake legal citations. See this year's most spectacular AI failures.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Darwin Awards, but for AI. Who will win the HAL 9000? aidarwinawards.org/nominees-202... #ai
I have a Halloween short story collection out for your reading pleasure. #booksky #halloween www.amazon.com/Firegazer-Re...
Firegazer
Firegazer - Kindle edition by Cantrell, Rebecca. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Firegazer.
www.amazon.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Boycott U-Haul. They rented to ICE for hauling human beings around.
October 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Boycott U-Haul. They rented to ICE for hauling human beings around.
October 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Boycott U-Haul. They rented to ICE for hauling human beings around.
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In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.
October 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.
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Wish I could. So glad you're there!!!
It's our birthday on Friday! Come celebrate 36 years of Poisoned Pen! We'd love to see you there.
October 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Wish I could. So glad you're there!!!
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It's our birthday on Friday! Come celebrate 36 years of Poisoned Pen! We'd love to see you there.
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's our birthday on Friday! Come celebrate 36 years of Poisoned Pen! We'd love to see you there.
Thanks @erynmccee.bsky.social for another lovely. #horrorwriterschat This week I'm promoting my collection of Halloween short stories about a young boy and time travel and grim death. The usually cheery stuff. www.amazon.com/Firegazer-Re...
October 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Thanks @erynmccee.bsky.social for another lovely. #horrorwriterschat This week I'm promoting my collection of Halloween short stories about a young boy and time travel and grim death. The usually cheery stuff. www.amazon.com/Firegazer-Re...
The horror I write is all about my personal fears. I can't even pretend otherwise. It's not all self insert, but everything I write is steeped in my consciousness and aged in the me. Aging is empowering, but not as much as I hoped. It's not me, the world has gotten dark. #horrorwriterschat
#HorrorWritersChat
Ageing comes to us all, if we're lucky. And while we might not self-insert, our fears colour our horror.
Does it matter if our characters are young or old? Do our ages, and our feelings about ageing, slip quietly out of their mouths?
Do we speak our fears?
10 minutes to outro
Ageing comes to us all, if we're lucky. And while we might not self-insert, our fears colour our horror.
Does it matter if our characters are young or old? Do our ages, and our feelings about ageing, slip quietly out of their mouths?
Do we speak our fears?
10 minutes to outro
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The horror I write is all about my personal fears. I can't even pretend otherwise. It's not all self insert, but everything I write is steeped in my consciousness and aged in the me. Aging is empowering, but not as much as I hoped. It's not me, the world has gotten dark. #horrorwriterschat
I probably don't use is as well as I should. Cumulative trauma is in there. Regrets, too. But also a general weariness with the status quo and a search for new ways to answer old questions instead of knee jerk enthusiasm and charging around. Having seen it all before is exhausting #horrorwriterschat
#HorrorWritersChat
Puberty or kids brings one element to a story. Hero's journey, finding themselves, etc. An older character might have that too. Or it might be entirely different. What say you?
Puberty or kids brings one element to a story. Hero's journey, finding themselves, etc. An older character might have that too. Or it might be entirely different. What say you?
October 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I probably don't use is as well as I should. Cumulative trauma is in there. Regrets, too. But also a general weariness with the status quo and a search for new ways to answer old questions instead of knee jerk enthusiasm and charging around. Having seen it all before is exhausting #horrorwriterschat
IT WANTS US ALIVE has a menopausal woman as the main character, kicking ass and taking names. She's got a gun, a harp, and a falcon. Her knees crack and her back hurts and she admires how the younger soldiers bounce. But she also has the wisdom to look deeper for answers.
#horrorwriterschat
#horrorwriterschat
Gather close, #HorrorWritersChat bods, whether you creak, or not. And believe me, many of us creaked in our teens, it's all good.
Age is just one factor.
But it's an interesting one that we do overlook. How many of us actually have older characters in our books, that aren't the wise mentor type?
Age is just one factor.
But it's an interesting one that we do overlook. How many of us actually have older characters in our books, that aren't the wise mentor type?
October 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
IT WANTS US ALIVE has a menopausal woman as the main character, kicking ass and taking names. She's got a gun, a harp, and a falcon. Her knees crack and her back hurts and she admires how the younger soldiers bounce. But she also has the wisdom to look deeper for answers.
#horrorwriterschat
#horrorwriterschat
Rebecca, fifty-seven and a halfish. I write dark stuff--horror, mysteries, thrillers--and the rare cheerful Christmas story and one humorous series. All over the map really. #horrorwriterschat
Here we go, #HorrorWritersChat!
Today is the 1st October, beginning of spooky season, if you ever let it end, and that means it's International Day of Older Persons.
I like the idea of it being International Longevity Day but it isn't that yet. Today is about ageing and horror.
Today is the 1st October, beginning of spooky season, if you ever let it end, and that means it's International Day of Older Persons.
I like the idea of it being International Longevity Day but it isn't that yet. Today is about ageing and horror.
October 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Rebecca, fifty-seven and a halfish. I write dark stuff--horror, mysteries, thrillers--and the rare cheerful Christmas story and one humorous series. All over the map really. #horrorwriterschat