🥳🥳🥳 DOLLFACE is an Instant USA Today Bestseller! I am so excited and so grateful for all the support this snarky, bloody, murderous novel has received in its first week out in the big wide world! Thank you for embracing Jill, Darla, and the rest of the group!
I am THRILLED to announce NIGHT LIGHTS, coming 2027 from Gallery Books! This is my DREAM anthology, and I consider myself the luckiest editor alive to work with these amazing authors and the amazing team at Gallery! With stories from Christina Henry, Josh Malerman, Delilah S. Dawson, Richard Chizmar, Gwendolyn Kiste, Thommy Hutson, Jamie Flanagan, Angela Slatter, Christopher Golden, Erika T. Wurth, Sarah Gailey, Tim Lebbon, Dan Franklin, Kristi DeMeester, Clay McLeod Chapman, Nat Cassidy, Ai Jiang, Brian McAuley, Neena Viel, Jonathan Maberry, Sam Rebelein, and poems from Stephanie M. Wytovich & Maxwell Ian Gold.
Out later this month, a new standalone horror from Lindy Ryan - the Astra Award-winning DOLLFACE!
BARBIE meets SCREAM in this new slasher from the Stoker Award nominated author of BLESS YOUR HEART and ANOTHER FINE MESS.
Preorder now from all good bookshops!
"Horror author Jill has just moved to suburban New Jersey, hoping to fit in with the new PTA moms and maybe not weird everyone out with her Final Girl coffee mug. You know. Make some real friends.
But then a plastic face-masked serial killer begins slashing their way through town, one overly made-up mom at a time. The police are incredulous. The moms are indignant. And Jill is slowly wrapped into a killer’s murderous spree, until she might just be the last woman standing."
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If you missed me on tour and want your very own signed copy of DOLLFACE, BLESS YOUR HEART (US & UK), ANOTHER FINE MESS (US & UK), or another one of my titles: the signed book sale is live while stock lasts! US only.
All available books are on my website at (link in bio)
Happy Sunday, friends! Just received my @thehorrorwritersassociation Bram Stoker Award finalist certificate in the mail this week for HOWL, and had to share! This is my third nomination for an anthology—each of the three women-in-horror anthos I’ve edited have been Finalists—and my fourth overall nomination. I’m SO PROUD of HOWL, co-edited with my bestie @swytovich —the fiercest collection of women’s voices to date. Will HOWL be the one who brings home the castle? Maybe, maybe not. Winning isn’t the important part—amplifying the voices of women in horror, and having the work recognized by the horror community, IS. Congratulations to ALL this years nominees. It’s another banger year for horror!!! 🖤
OUT THIS MONTH!
DOLLFACE by @lindyryanwrites - a new standalone slasher perfect for fans of SCREAM!
THE NEEDFIRE by @mkhardywrites - a sumptuous gothic horror now out in PB
TERRIBLE WORLDS: DESTINATIONS - The second bind up of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Terrible Worlds novellas featuring Walking to Aldebaran, One Day All This Will Be Yours and And Put Away Childish Things
Preorder now from all good bookshops!
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Took a break from my WIP to blurb MONSTERA, forthcoming from @delilahsdawson and @titanbooks -- and loved every page.
Full thoughts on Substack. Link in bio!
TODAY ONLY readers can snatch a copy of THE DARKEST NIGHT for only $1.99 on Kindle! The perfect winter horror anthology to give you the chills this summer âť„âť„âť„
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🚨AWARD WINNER!🚨
Huge congratulations to @lindyryanwrites ' DOLLFACE, winner of the inaugural Astra Award (from @hollywoodcreativealliance ) for Best Horror Book!
BARBIE meets SCREAM in this new slasher from the Stoker Award nominated author of BLESS YOUR HEART and ANOTHER FINE MESS.
Out in the UK May 2026. Preorder now from all good bookshops!
"Horror author Jill has just moved to suburban New Jersey, hoping to fit in with the new PTA moms and maybe not weird everyone out with her Final Girl coffee mug. You know. Make some real friends.
But then a plastic face-masked serial killer begins slashing their way through town, one overly made-up mom at a time. The police are incredulous. The moms are indignant. And Jill is slowly wrapped into a killer’s murderous spree, until she might just be the last woman standing."
#astraaward #astrabookaward #astrabookawardwinner #dollface #lindyryan #dollfacelindyryan #blessyourheart #anotherfinemess #horror #horrorbooks #newhorrorbooks #newhorrorbooks2026 #slasher #slasherhorror #slasherbooks #scream7
I've been heads down in my WIP, watching my TBR stack up, but when DEATH ON THE LANAI, the second in the Golden Girls Cozy Mystery series by @rachelekstromcourage landed, I HAD to tuck in--because there's absolutely nothing better than solving a who-dun-it with these four best friends.
Check out my quick review on Substack. Link in bio!
And now...cheesecake!
