Kay Chronister
@kaychronister.bsky.social
kaychronister.com
THE BOG WIFE out 10/1 🌾
THE BOG WIFE out 10/1 🌾
hello friends! long time no post. :-) my bog-gothic family drama THE BOG WIFE will hit shelves October 1, so we are entering promo season! if you have a podcast, book blog, etc. and you would be interested in an interview or having me write something, please reach out!! via dm or email. 1/3
August 7, 2024 at 5:10 PM
hello friends! long time no post. :-) my bog-gothic family drama THE BOG WIFE will hit shelves October 1, so we are entering promo season! if you have a podcast, book blog, etc. and you would be interested in an interview or having me write something, please reach out!! via dm or email. 1/3
emerging from the mire to say that today through Friday, @BNBuzz members get 25% off all pre-orders - an excellent time to pick up a copy of THE BOG WIFE and prepare for swamp hag autumn 🐸
April 17, 2024 at 2:51 PM
emerging from the mire to say that today through Friday, @BNBuzz members get 25% off all pre-orders - an excellent time to pick up a copy of THE BOG WIFE and prepare for swamp hag autumn 🐸
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Not to be missed!
January 22, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Not to be missed!
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hell of a good few weeks for book mail over here (feat. @cannibalghosts.bsky.social, @kaychronister.bsky.social, & @emilyrverona.bsky.social)
January 17, 2024 at 5:18 PM
hell of a good few weeks for book mail over here (feat. @cannibalghosts.bsky.social, @kaychronister.bsky.social, & @emilyrverona.bsky.social)
she’s beautiful 🥲
January 22, 2024 at 5:17 PM
she’s beautiful 🥲
on my website, a year in review featuring nothing i published last year, but some thoughts on being slow, producing nothing, and gestation:
kaychronister.com/year-in-review
kaychronister.com/year-in-review
January 9, 2024 at 8:04 PM
on my website, a year in review featuring nothing i published last year, but some thoughts on being slow, producing nothing, and gestation:
kaychronister.com/year-in-review
kaychronister.com/year-in-review
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emerging from social media hibernation momentarily to say: booksellers, librarians! (maybe others?) i have heard a rumor that digital arcs of THE BOG WIFE are now available on edelweiss. come on in, the water is brackish and full of generational trauma 💫
December 13, 2023 at 6:48 PM
emerging from social media hibernation momentarily to say: booksellers, librarians! (maybe others?) i have heard a rumor that digital arcs of THE BOG WIFE are now available on edelweiss. come on in, the water is brackish and full of generational trauma 💫
emerging from social media hibernation momentarily to say: booksellers, librarians! (maybe others?) i have heard a rumor that digital arcs of THE BOG WIFE are now available on edelweiss. come on in, the water is brackish and full of generational trauma 💫
December 13, 2023 at 6:48 PM
emerging from social media hibernation momentarily to say: booksellers, librarians! (maybe others?) i have heard a rumor that digital arcs of THE BOG WIFE are now available on edelweiss. come on in, the water is brackish and full of generational trauma 💫
love this reading of Bartleby and weird fiction — unsettlement is what almost all my favorite writers do and what i strive for.
My piece on Bartleby and weird fiction and unsettlement is now available to read at Nightmare!
The H Word: Bartleby and the Weird - Nightmare Magazine
Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” ( bit.ly/3PIvslrgutenberg) first published in 1853, is not typically considered a work of horror. The tale of a law clerk who absents himself from hi...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
November 15, 2023 at 4:49 PM
love this reading of Bartleby and weird fiction — unsettlement is what almost all my favorite writers do and what i strive for.
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I finally wrote up most of my twitter threads on Palestine and writing from recent weeks into a short essay (combined with my belated-for-my-website cover reveal announcement) talking about ways to think about the politics of your art
Every Throne Will Fall
Slightly belated announcement of my second novel, RAKESFALL, and an essay on the dire necessity for writers to do their work, and to know what work to do, in the face of horror.
vajra.me
November 9, 2023 at 6:53 PM
I finally wrote up most of my twitter threads on Palestine and writing from recent weeks into a short essay (combined with my belated-for-my-website cover reveal announcement) talking about ways to think about the politics of your art
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"I cannot explain it other than to say that something within me opened and I found depths inside of myself, unformed and unfilled, populated then only by naïve darkness but already susceptible to occupation."
#sfstoryoftheday by @kaychronister.bsky.social in @undertow.bsky.social's Weird Horror.
#sfstoryoftheday by @kaychronister.bsky.social in @undertow.bsky.social's Weird Horror.
SottoVoce — Weird Horror Magazine
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com
November 10, 2023 at 2:11 PM
"I cannot explain it other than to say that something within me opened and I found depths inside of myself, unformed and unfilled, populated then only by naïve darkness but already susceptible to occupation."
#sfstoryoftheday by @kaychronister.bsky.social in @undertow.bsky.social's Weird Horror.
#sfstoryoftheday by @kaychronister.bsky.social in @undertow.bsky.social's Weird Horror.
my latest short story with “Weird Horror” is now online, should you find yourself in the mood for some piano horror
What's this? A new story from the fantastic @kaychronister.bsky.social? "Sotto Voce" is an elegant, melodic tale about the dangers of following your muse. A lament. A sorrow. A queer dread.
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/sottovoce
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/sottovoce
November 5, 2023 at 6:26 PM
my latest short story with “Weird Horror” is now online, should you find yourself in the mood for some piano horror
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Ranted a bit about art, interpretation, and the ways the corpse of the author is being bent out of shape these days... countercraft.substack.com/p/yall-wanna...
Y'all Wanna See a Death of the Author Body?
On the ways the corpse of the author is being bent out of shape
countercraft.substack.com
October 26, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Ranted a bit about art, interpretation, and the ways the corpse of the author is being bent out of shape these days... countercraft.substack.com/p/yall-wanna...
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update: my dissertation advisor has weighed in. it’s cooked
October 18, 2023 at 8:18 PM
update: my dissertation advisor has weighed in. it’s cooked
despite KNOWING that Mike flanagan has undoubtedly filed all the edges off yet another elliptical gothic masterpiece to make a tiresome therapy drama… the temptation to watch “usher” remains… someone tell me not to do it
October 13, 2023 at 5:29 PM
despite KNOWING that Mike flanagan has undoubtedly filed all the edges off yet another elliptical gothic masterpiece to make a tiresome therapy drama… the temptation to watch “usher” remains… someone tell me not to do it
goodreads is giving away 100 copies of the paperback of DESERT CREATURES between now and the 21st. enter to win! push entering to win on your friends! etc.!
October 9, 2023 at 12:39 PM
goodreads is giving away 100 copies of the paperback of DESERT CREATURES between now and the 21st. enter to win! push entering to win on your friends! etc.!
locus official 🩷
October 6, 2023 at 4:30 PM
locus official 🩷
utterly convinced dark academia is a genre no actual academic can write, for whenever I consider it, the spooky-old-libraries-occult-secrets-aesthetic collides with the realities of administrator emails in comic sans, financial precarity, and pleading with students to do the 5-page reading
October 5, 2023 at 2:16 PM
utterly convinced dark academia is a genre no actual academic can write, for whenever I consider it, the spooky-old-libraries-occult-secrets-aesthetic collides with the realities of administrator emails in comic sans, financial precarity, and pleading with students to do the 5-page reading
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Today my story "The Sound of Children Screaming" is out in @nightmare-magazine.com. This story is my attempt to wrestle with the gun culture that leads to school shootings here in the USA.
Because school safety when it comes to shooters *is* gun culture.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...
Because school safety when it comes to shooters *is* gun culture.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...
October 4, 2023 at 1:28 PM
Today my story "The Sound of Children Screaming" is out in @nightmare-magazine.com. This story is my attempt to wrestle with the gun culture that leads to school shootings here in the USA.
Because school safety when it comes to shooters *is* gun culture.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...
Because school safety when it comes to shooters *is* gun culture.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...
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you can call literally anything “liminal” and everyone has to nod sagely and agree, it’s the law
October 3, 2023 at 12:06 AM
you can call literally anything “liminal” and everyone has to nod sagely and agree, it’s the law
The Dark is an amazing mag and would be a mammoth loss for short horror. Very worth supporting!!!
4) So, if you want to support one of the few semi-pro dark fantasy/ horror markets that is open year round to authors, and provides, every month, great fiction to its readers, consider subscribing or tossing us a few dollars every month . . .
October 3, 2023 at 12:21 AM
The Dark is an amazing mag and would be a mammoth loss for short horror. Very worth supporting!!!
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1) I’m going to make this public: for The Dark the loss of Amazon Newsstand effectively resulted in ten thousand dollars of revenue going poof, for the entire year. (Yes, that much!) I’ve made some cost-saving changes, but I don’t hold much hope for the monies from Kindle Unlimited . . .
October 2, 2023 at 8:56 PM
1) I’m going to make this public: for The Dark the loss of Amazon Newsstand effectively resulted in ten thousand dollars of revenue going poof, for the entire year. (Yes, that much!) I’ve made some cost-saving changes, but I don’t hold much hope for the monies from Kindle Unlimited . . .
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like a girl in a horse book, i am contemplating something very financially irresponsible
September 18, 2023 at 7:38 PM
like a girl in a horse book, i am contemplating something very financially irresponsible
in a turn of events that every book i read in 4th grade should’ve prepared me for, the neurotic misunderstood and possibly unridable horse at the barn may be euthanized because he is just Too Neurotic for his owner to sell him to anyone and she can’t afford him
September 18, 2023 at 7:38 PM
in a turn of events that every book i read in 4th grade should’ve prepared me for, the neurotic misunderstood and possibly unridable horse at the barn may be euthanized because he is just Too Neurotic for his owner to sell him to anyone and she can’t afford him