THE COLOR OF BLOOD is on sale on the Zon marketplace and free to read with KU! 📚☺️🎨 I will also have a restock of signed copies available at the end of June! 🌸🩸
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This is an extreme horror romance with cosmic and psychological elements not for the faint of heart! 🖌️ If you’re looking for something depraved and toxic, this is the read for you! 🥹🖤 Thank you for watching!
Vanilla’s 2 year book anniversary is coming up which is crazy because that means time is flying WAY too quickly. (It’s been 3 years since I wrote The Bell Chime 😱) I’d really like for time to calm down for a moment here so I can catch a breath. 🙃 Also is this how I’ll be measuring the sections of my life from now on? In published books? 😂
Vanilla was the first novel I ever wrote. She’s the first project I ever started on and I actually paused through the rewrite of her to write The Bell Chime amidst the pandemic. It took me about two years from start to finish to finally publish her so I guess she’s been alive for 4 years now. 😍
Of all my books, The Bell Chime definitely steals the spotlight but Vanilla holds a special place in my heart. It was the first time I actually saw myself being able to write and publish a book in full. 🖤
Anyway…. Vanilla is a couple reviews away from 100 on Goodreads so y’all should give her a read if you haven’t yet already! 👀 (Also be sure to drop those amazon reviews. 😝) I can guarantee you’ll enjoy her. And if that’s not enough convincing, here’s a creepy video to pitch her horrors to ya! 😆🖤
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My book, For You, has been out in the world for over a month now and I’m so happy to hear people have been enjoying it deeply. I love this story and I wanted to create another mood board for it with this lovely Vincent Price sound!
Have you picked up For You yet? Do you plan to? 🥰
As always, support your favorite indie authors by leaving reviews and talking about the books you love!!! Your words keep us alive and we will forever be grateful. 🖤🩸⚔️
If you’d like to order a signed copy of For You or any of my books, please DM me. 🥰
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“Some stories seem to have always existed, just waiting to be excavated from the earth.” Damian McCarthy’s HOKUM was introduced as ground breaking and grew past my expectations.
Just before the movie started, Jack asked me, “Do you think you’ll get scared?” And I replied, “Mm, no. I don’t really get scared anymore.”
I was wrong.
This story works for me because not only does it attack you on a supernatural, what-goes-bump-in-the-night level, but also a psychological one. I sympathized with the main character so deeply, my fear grew tenfold.
Thank you to @neonrated for the premiere invitation. I’m so glad I got to see this movie ASAP and fall in love with horror all over again. 🖤
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So honored to have been invited to the New York premier of Exit 8 shown at the Crown Hill Theater in Brooklyn! 🎥🎬
As a horror video game dork who has attempted quite a few speed runs of Exit 8, I was thrilled by this invite and curious how the narrative would handle the nature of the game. The movie is described as a liminal thriller and I find that to be a perfectly apt. Even though I am quite familiar with the game and the various anomalies, the movie still caught me off guard and had me on the edge of my seat. It was genuinely really good 😭 and the director, Genki Kawamura, clearly showed love, care, and immense attention to detail. 💛
Exit 8 comes out in theaters April 10th!! Support indie, weird, experimental horror and check the film out! Let me know what you think! 💭🖤✨
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Happy Friday, baby bats! 🦇 World news has been bleak as of late but I am determined to maintain both my political outrage and ghoulish whimsy. Have a glorious weekend, beauties. 🖤
Index finger ring from @eyeba.nyc . Give me a prosthetic eye as a piece of jewelry any day. Middle ring I thrifted, and the rest are from @littlerooms ! Love both these jewelry creators!
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Celebrating Black History Month with some horror book recommendations! 📚 These are all books I look back on fondly. Enjoy! 🖤✨
White Smoke, Tiffany D. Jackson
The Weight of Blood, Tiffany D. Jackson
House of Hunger, Alexis Henderson
An Academy for Liars, Alexis Henderson
Darkly, Leila Taylor
The Reformatory, Tananarive Due
The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark
Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark
Hide and Seeker, Daka Hermon
The Taking of Jake Livingston, Ryan Douglass
Model Home, Rivers Solomon
The Body, Bethany C. Morrow
Planet Dead, Sylvester Barzey
The Wiccan Chronicles, D.A. Barney
The Midnight Man, D.A. Barney
Broken Persons, Besu Tadesse
The Ghost of Poplar Valley, Besu Tadesse
Price Manor; The House that Seeks, Mocha Pennington
✨Extras✨
The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
Masquerade, O.O. Sangoyomi
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Happy Friday the 13th. 💖🖤
Today marks 5 years that Jack and I have been together and our ghoulish hearts couldn’t be happier. 🦇 Here’s to many more nights of decadent meals concluded by endless horror gaming, my love. 🎮🥰
Imagine a marriage where you are wed to the love of your life but so is the congregation. Your guests from that great day a looming judgement of your daily marital duties. What happens when you slip up? When insecurity gets the better of you, a lifetime of being told you are the reason for your exe’s infidelity clouding your judgement. So you make a mistake. And that very night, you hear a strange digging in your garden. What then?
It’s a wonder this book is called The Body and not The Vow; a supernatural, religious horror novel sure to make you think twice about legally binding yourself to someone. The curse of marriage can really have multiple meanings here. What is one’s own identity in a marriage bound by the threat of blood? What are the implications of your relationship, the balance of interpersonal dynamics, the trust, the love. When you turn over in bed at night, do you see your future? Is it bright?
The overwhelming sense of dread, the psychological claustrophobia that riddles our main character, Mavis, is palpable. Bethany C. Morrow provides some profound writting, offering a rich well of character insight, but as well as Mavis is written, I did not like her. I found her to be weak-minded and illogical, her willingness to turn over belly-up too instinctual, too pathetic. However, over the course of this story, she transforms, and I can certainly declare it for what it is: A “good for her” moment.
I’d recommend this book to anyone looking for a thrilling, supernatural buildup, but I’d especially recommend it as a book club read. I believe The Body provides much to chew on in terms of real life family planning implications—messaging that might otherwise be lost to the individual attempting to navigate the morbid curiosities of this book alone. Regardless, I think any reader will uncover something haunting in this narrative; that there is a heavy cost to hesitantly whispering, ‘I do.’
Had such an incredible day at the @mybloodyvalentinepjny event! So grateful to have been invited, to have met so many wonderful authors, and picked up new books! 📚🤤🖤 It may have been freezing cold outside, but it was warm and full of gooey horror-y goodness on the inside! 🥰💖
Special thank you to my dear friend @authorcassandracelia who sent me these pics because I am terrible at remembering to take pictures. 😅
A mad composer dabbling in dark magic. Four records that bring about hell’s infernal chord. A family bound together by a tradition of music. A father who can’t help his collecting spirit, even if it means disinterring a curse that was feverishly quartered over a century ago.
Schrader’s Chord opens with a stellar premise. Character’s that set the stage for some amazing lore building. Countless rich pop-punk-rock references that are a joy to research and discover. The strained family dynamic involving a naturally talented, pitch-perfect son forced to reckon with his begrudged but caring father provides a tension that harmonizes so nicely with the story’s demonic cacophony. I couldn’t put the book down.
Until I hit about the 75% mark. Although the story was still a joy, the plot switched to something a little more formulaic, a little more unimpressively familiar. Which does not detract from the overall validity of the book, but was just a bit of a disappointment when I built up expectations of a different means of resolution. Ultimately, that’s on me. But the ending felt rushed and kind of plopped on my lap when I still had so many questions, a need for emotional catharsis.
Overall, I still can’t get over how this book made me feel for that first 75%. I felt connected to music in a way that was both enlightening and haunting. I can’t express how fun it was to research all the references on my own and learn about artists and sub-genres and listen to albums I would never otherwise be exposed to. This book has certainly struck a chord. Perhaps you, too, might give it a listen.
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