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Charlene Elsby
@charleneelsby.bsky.social
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Books at Weirdpunk, House of Vlad, Apocalypse Party, Clash Books, Merigold Independent.
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PSYCHODEMONICS is the writing course I would design if I were in charge of a writing course.

Registration at burnt-tongue.net
July 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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THE DEVIL THINKS I’M PRETTY is now in Spanish with @dilatandomentesed.bsky.social ♥️

Una obra de corte experimental, filosófica, excesiva, abyecta, amante de la perversión, agónica, cruel, a ratos despiadada, a ratos enfermiza, que coqueta conceptos como la sumisión y la dominación… 😈♥️
July 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I got five skulls in Scream Magazine!

Thanks to @igotbigbooks.bsky.social whose words consistently brighten the light in my heart.

So yeah, go read my “damning critique of capitalism, control and conformity,” my “surreal Kafkaesque nightmare” out through @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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If you have a local socialist/communist library, send me the address, and I will mail them a copy.
June 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Look Ma, they’re talking about me in Rue Morgue!

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May 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Big news for VoidCon 3!

New place, same vibe. VoidCon 3 will be at Gettysburg College, October 9-11, 2025.

Now accepting applications for book fair tables. Horror creators, go to VoidCon.org

Let’s go!

🖤🕳️🖤
April 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Hey, I wrote these books.
April 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I have new work out today with Blake Butler’s new project WANTED on whatiwanted.org

Thank you so much for including “The First Time that I Killed Someone Because of What I’d Done to Them” on this all-star TOC for Issue 0.
April 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Get back to work!
April 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Today I am in two places: the art gallery coffee shop and on Writing the Rapids with @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social for the fifth time.

Yes, this is a hanging out with Joe competition. Yes, I am winning.

Gonna go write more books so I can talk to Joe some more.
March 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Today I am on The Wolf podcast with Ed Rathke and Kyle Muntz, where we analyzed the fuck out of Whitefish for Luna, the first story in Red Flags (House of Vlad, 2024). Damn, that was fun! Thank you for recognizing my Larry David-ness.

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March 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU

is out TODAY from @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social, and we are ranking on Canadian Amazon!

An existential dystopian bureaucratic horror satire.
March 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Kim Vodicka has a new thing. 😍
March 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU

An existential dystopian bureaucratic horror satire.

March 15, 2025

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March 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU is getting love on Goodreads, and this is your antepenultimate reminder to pre-order it from @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social before it’s released in FIVE DAYS.

The cat lives.
March 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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March 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Thanks to Anthony at @mykindofweird.bsky.social for reviewing The Organization is Here to Support You, out in 10 DAYS from @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social !

Read the full review: www.mykindofweird.net/book-review-...
March 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU is out in less than two weeks from @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social !

I have paper ARCs but in order to access them, you have to defeat the final boss (Special Agent Fox Mulder).

DM me for tips and tricks.
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Read my blurb from Brian Allen Carr and bask in its glory!

“If Kafka had set out to write A Brave New World, the result would be a story like this. Clever and terrifying.” -Brian Allen Carr, author of Opioid, Indiana

Pre-order from Weirdpunk Books at tinyurl.com/498y7tdy

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“Charlene's latest is a taut and terrifying journey through a horrific world of conformists---office people who seek to normalize all things into best practices. At stake is a life worth living. At play are all of modern-life's biggest mysteries: What does it mean to be an individual in increasingly homogenized societies? Why does individuality give us hope? Does my cat even like me? If Kafka had set out to write A Brave New World, the result would be a story like this. Clever and terrifying. Charlene Elsby is an artist.” - Brian Allen Carr, author of Opioid, Indiana Very good cat
March 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Sign by my cover designer, @eyerarat.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I am ready to be perceived, but do not stare for too long. 👁️
February 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I love my blurb from Emma E. Murray, my new and fierce friend who specializes in touching open wounds inappropriately.

Pre-order @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social and read the E-ARC at booksirens.com/book/VH3J5LC...

Selfie for the algorithm featuring rain hair and basement lighting.
“Pitch black humor meets the existential dread of contemporary corporate culture in this tour de force from Elsby. Surreal, hilarious, and heartbreaking all at once, you’ll keep going despite the pain, like a cancer-ridden lung wheezing out another smoky laugh. A must-read if you’ve ever been ensnared in bureaucratic hell.” - Emma E. Murray, author of Crushing Snails and The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions Selfie
February 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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They’re here! Real physical copies that exist in nature. That means I’m sending ARCs out to reviewers, librarians and bookstore people like, right now. Get at me.

E-ARCS are on Book Sirens

booksirens.com/book/VH3J5LC...
February 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU

An existential dystopian bureaucratic horror satire. (Weirdpunk, 2025)

“If Kafka had set out to write A Brave New World, the result would be a story like this. Clever and terrifying.” -Brian Allen Carr, author of Opioid, Indiana
Cover of THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU by Charlene Elsby published by Weirdpunk Books depicting a floating rock supporting an office building
February 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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HAILEY PIPER SAYS

And I love her.

THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU up for pre-order from @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social
"A fascinating, sometimes dizzying look at the narratives we build out of other people and what they build upon us. Sometimes you have to revel in the obsessive weirdness of the world. Elsby turns the skull into a cubicle for the mind." - Hailey Piper, author of A Game in Yellow Selfie for the algorithm
February 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM