My first piece of writing for grownups is out today! I'm very excited to share my story "Tallow's Cove" in These Dreaming Spires: A Dark Academia Anthology. This is also my first piece of writing set in New England... and it's a ghost story!

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A fun bit of news: I have a very weird short story coming out sometime in the next year with the horror fiction podcast @talestoterrify.bsky.social! I had a ton of fun writing this piece (that's inspired by my eldritch horror of a chihuahua), so I am excited to see the podcast bring it to life!

Ten years ago today I finished a first draft of my first novel. That book will never see the light of day, but all these years and books later, I still remember that feeling so clearly—the astonishment of having actually done something so huge. It changed my whole life.

This beauty, which includes a story of mine, releases in exactly three months. It's my first piece of writing set in New England, and it's a ghost story.

My queer dark academia, All That Consumes Us, is on sale for $1.99 wherever you buy your ebooks.

I’d rec it for you if you like gothic lit, sapphic romance, found family, and ghosts! 👻

A bit of springtime spookiness: Ghost Wood Song’s ebook is $1.99 wherever you buy your ebooks.

-A ghost-raising fiddle
-Set in rural Florida springtime
-Murder mystery
-A bluegrass band
-Sweet little romance 💜

If you’re looking for something spooky to read, The Restless Dark is on sale for $1.99 wherever you get your ebooks. 🖤

If you'd like to read my published short fiction, check out The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror and the forthcoming dark academia anthology, These Dreaming Spires.

Private Rites by Julia Armfield was my most anticipated read of the year, and it was as good as I had hoped. Gorgeous writing and such interesting worldbuilding. This felt like a perfect follow-up to Our Wives Under the Sea. Highly recommend if you like moody sapphic lit and swooning over sentences.

Dark academia is for lovers 🖤

This book might be about ghosts and secret societies, but it's also about queer love and found family, and I think you'll like it.

Given the increase in book bans and the quiet removal of queer literature from school and public libraries over the last few years, the ALA’s Rainbow Book List is essential. I am so honored that All That Consumes Us is included this year.

I am trying to replace scrolling with analog habits. I love doing puzzles but am trying to think of other things. I can’t do anything with repetitive hand motions, so knitting is out. Building models?

My first book, Ghost Wood Song, is currently $1.99 wherever you get your ebooks. Ghosts, bluegrass, and a murder mystery.

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All That Consumes Us is a YA gothic dark academia novel about a first-generation college student who joins a secretive academic society and soon comes to believe she is being haunted by the girl whose spot she took. ericawaters.com

Hi Bluesky! An introduction: I'm Erica Waters, author of queer Southern dark fantasy/horror like The River Has Teeth. All of my published books are YA, but I'm currently working on some projects for grownups too. I like tea, bugs, gothic lit, and grumpy little dogs.