Lindsay Merbaum she/her
@pickyourpotions.bsky.social
Witchy author of strange tales ✨📚 Study Coven leader and founder of Pick Your Potions 🖤💀 High priestess of home mixology 🍸🥃 Horror-comedy novella VAMPIRES AT SEA setting sail 10/7! 🛳️🌊☠️🩸🏳️🌈🍆🍒
DC friends, are we looking for some grown-up fun on Halloween? Vamp up and head over to Politics and Prose and watch me in conversation with @verakurian.bsky.social re: my smutty horror-comedy novella, VAMPIRES AT SEA! I will be taking audience questions and signing books!
October 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
DC friends, are we looking for some grown-up fun on Halloween? Vamp up and head over to Politics and Prose and watch me in conversation with @verakurian.bsky.social re: my smutty horror-comedy novella, VAMPIRES AT SEA! I will be taking audience questions and signing books!
Events, events! Vampires at Sea events! Come see me in MI, Chicago, NYC, and DC! For more: www.lmerbaum.com/events
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Events, events! Vampires at Sea events! Come see me in MI, Chicago, NYC, and DC! For more: www.lmerbaum.com/events
San Francisco kinksters: @bayareareporter.bsky.social thinks you should read my book about SF-based emotional vampires on a queer cruise! 🛳️🌊💔💋🍆🩸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
San Francisco kinksters: @bayareareporter.bsky.social thinks you should read my book about SF-based emotional vampires on a queer cruise! 🛳️🌊💔💋🍆🩸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Vampires at Sea is smutty and super queer, and now it’s a @libraryreads.bsky.social October bonus fiction pick! 😱🛳️🌊🩸🍆♥️💋🏳️⚧️
September 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Vampires at Sea is smutty and super queer, and now it’s a @libraryreads.bsky.social October bonus fiction pick! 😱🛳️🌊🩸🍆♥️💋🏳️⚧️
Enjoying this read so much. @thelincoln.bsky.social is hilarious!
September 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Enjoying this read so much. @thelincoln.bsky.social is hilarious!
Oh my gods VAMPIRES AT SEA comes out in just SIX weeks. Brace yourselves for some unbridled narcissism! 🩸🛳️🌊💋🖤😂🍆💔🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
August 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Oh my gods VAMPIRES AT SEA comes out in just SIX weeks. Brace yourselves for some unbridled narcissism! 🩸🛳️🌊💋🖤😂🍆💔🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I am in shock. My silly sexy VAMPIRES AT SEA got a shoutout from LitHub! Pinch me! lithub.com/our-33-most-...
July 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I am in shock. My silly sexy VAMPIRES AT SEA got a shoutout from LitHub! Pinch me! lithub.com/our-33-most-...
If you’re watching the 💩 cruise doc on Netflix, you might like my forthcoming novella VAMPIRES AT SEA where emotional vampires go on a queer cruise around the Black Sea. Cheers!
June 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If you’re watching the 💩 cruise doc on Netflix, you might like my forthcoming novella VAMPIRES AT SEA where emotional vampires go on a queer cruise around the Black Sea. Cheers!
I have a feeling this is going to be delicious
June 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I have a feeling this is going to be delicious
I repeat, VAMPIRES AT SEA is gonna be an audiobook via Podium!👂🏻🖤🩸🛳️🌊💋
May 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I repeat, VAMPIRES AT SEA is gonna be an audiobook via Podium!👂🏻🖤🩸🛳️🌊💋
Big book news!
Finally I can announce the audiobook of Vampires at Sea has been sold to Podium! So brace your👂🏻for some smutty hilarity! Huzzah!
Finally I can announce the audiobook of Vampires at Sea has been sold to Podium! So brace your👂🏻for some smutty hilarity! Huzzah!
May 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Big book news!
Finally I can announce the audiobook of Vampires at Sea has been sold to Podium! So brace your👂🏻for some smutty hilarity! Huzzah!
Finally I can announce the audiobook of Vampires at Sea has been sold to Podium! So brace your👂🏻for some smutty hilarity! Huzzah!
GOLD FAME CITRUS is set in an American West that's turned into a desert wasteland. A young couple stumbles across a toddler who's clearly being abused and decide to take her home.
The booktail I designed for Alta is easy to make and super refreshing. Cheers!
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
The booktail I designed for Alta is easy to make and super refreshing. Cheers!
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
May 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
GOLD FAME CITRUS is set in an American West that's turned into a desert wasteland. A young couple stumbles across a toddler who's clearly being abused and decide to take her home.
The booktail I designed for Alta is easy to make and super refreshing. Cheers!
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
The booktail I designed for Alta is easy to make and super refreshing. Cheers!
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
Is Easter actually pagan? open.substack.com/pub/lindsaym...
April 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Is Easter actually pagan? open.substack.com/pub/lindsaym...
I publish a monthly Substack re: occult history and mythology because that’s my vibe. 🖤📚💀This month, I’m talking about theophagy and cannibalism, just in time for Easter! 🩸 If that’s your vibe too, subscribe! It’s free! open.substack.com/pub/lindsaym...
April 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I publish a monthly Substack re: occult history and mythology because that’s my vibe. 🖤📚💀This month, I’m talking about theophagy and cannibalism, just in time for Easter! 🩸 If that’s your vibe too, subscribe! It’s free! open.substack.com/pub/lindsaym...
If you liked White Lotus, BookTrib says my smutty horror-comedy novella VAMPIRES AT SEA is right up your alley 🛳️🌊🍆🖤🩸💋💀https://booktrib.com/2025/04/06/11-cures-for-your-season-three-white-lotus-hangover/
April 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you liked White Lotus, BookTrib says my smutty horror-comedy novella VAMPIRES AT SEA is right up your alley 🛳️🌊🍆🖤🩸💋💀https://booktrib.com/2025/04/06/11-cures-for-your-season-three-white-lotus-hangover/
March reads, all fantastic: HUNGERSTONE reimagines CARMILLA; THE ATMOSPHERIANS is brilliant and inventive; THE ABSINTHE FORGER taught me SO much; and BLOB is wonderfully messy.
Currently devouring STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE by the one and only @kristenarnett.bsky.social
Currently devouring STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE by the one and only @kristenarnett.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
March reads, all fantastic: HUNGERSTONE reimagines CARMILLA; THE ATMOSPHERIANS is brilliant and inventive; THE ABSINTHE FORGER taught me SO much; and BLOB is wonderfully messy.
Currently devouring STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE by the one and only @kristenarnett.bsky.social
Currently devouring STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE by the one and only @kristenarnett.bsky.social
I got to read to some delightfully curious and fun kiddos at the Flint Public Library today for Story Hour. These two 📚I brought with me from my own collection. The librarian’s picks included one about a stick monster and another re: a skeleton who wishes he had skin. 🖤🖤🖤
March 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I got to read to some delightfully curious and fun kiddos at the Flint Public Library today for Story Hour. These two 📚I brought with me from my own collection. The librarian’s picks included one about a stick monster and another re: a skeleton who wishes he had skin. 🖤🖤🖤
“What is a monster but a creature of agency?” #lesbianvampirefiction
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“What is a monster but a creature of agency?” #lesbianvampirefiction
New manuscript crossed the 20k threshold 🎉🩸🖤💀🛵 🇮🇹
February 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New manuscript crossed the 20k threshold 🎉🩸🖤💀🛵 🇮🇹
When life serves you strawberries slightly past their prime, make strawberry vodka
February 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
When life serves you strawberries slightly past their prime, make strawberry vodka
It’s Sunday. It’s snowing. Time for some poetry by Jennifer Schomburg Kanke.
February 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It’s Sunday. It’s snowing. Time for some poetry by Jennifer Schomburg Kanke.
Feminist horror is powerfully subversive and timely AF. Come study and write with me online, Thursdays in March. Helen Phillips will be visiting us! #writingcommunity
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February 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Feminist horror is powerfully subversive and timely AF. Come study and write with me online, Thursdays in March. Helen Phillips will be visiting us! #writingcommunity
politics-prose.com/list/online-...
politics-prose.com/list/online-...
Current read: “The desire to please people is the desire not to be singular.”
January 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Current read: “The desire to please people is the desire not to be singular.”
Getting ready for Imbolc! Spring is on its way, for realz. In the meantime, let’s drink creamy cocktails and eat blackberry lavender cheesecake.
January 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Getting ready for Imbolc! Spring is on its way, for realz. In the meantime, let’s drink creamy cocktails and eat blackberry lavender cheesecake.
New booktail recipe I crafted for Considering Us by @jennbouchardbos.bsky.social drops February 6!
Considering Us is a delicious read: a sweet, satisfying tale of personal growth and love lost and found. #writingcommunity
Considering Us is a delicious read: a sweet, satisfying tale of personal growth and love lost and found. #writingcommunity
January 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
New booktail recipe I crafted for Considering Us by @jennbouchardbos.bsky.social drops February 6!
Considering Us is a delicious read: a sweet, satisfying tale of personal growth and love lost and found. #writingcommunity
Considering Us is a delicious read: a sweet, satisfying tale of personal growth and love lost and found. #writingcommunity