Another training day in the books! Excited to do the Chicago Big10K race again! I am also planning on attending a cool bookish event in the area that day, too! Fingers crossed it all works out! 🖤🏃🏻♂️📚🎉
I said that if I sold enough books during Indie April I would read one of my stories on Instagram, and here it is! This is Are You Lost, Too from the horror anthology Of Beasts & Bones from Inky Bones Press (@robinknabel )
Be sure to check out this collection if you love spooky cryptid, ghost, or ghouls stories. I promise you won't be disappointed! #indiebooks #sciencefiction #scifi #shortstories #horror
Writing Prompt Contest!!!! 🎉🖤✍
It's been a little while since I did one of these! This is a photo from a tree a few miles from my house. I snapped a pic, because it seemed like a great prompt for a horror story.
How can you participate?!?!? I'm glad you asked!
***HOW TO ENTER:
1. Write a 150-500 word short horror story inspired by this pic
2. Email story with subject line SPOOKY TREE to [email protected]
3. Deadline: 11:59pm EST on June 15, 2026
WHAT'S THE PRIZE? 🎉🏆📲
Winners will receive one e-book copy of their choice:
—Dark Decades: A Century of Technological Terror
—One of the 6 Dark Decades quick-read anthologies
—Hope Screams Eternal
—Of Beasts & Bones
The winning stories (the ones that creep me out the most!) will be shared in the June 28th IBP newsletter. GOOD LUCK!!!! I can't wait to read your stories! 😱
Thank you to Sarah Reads for reading & reviewing Of Beasts & Bones and shouting out the authors within the anthology! 🙏🖤🎉
***Link in bio🔗
/OfBeastsandBones 💀📚🔗
I did this the first time I was published with IBP, it feels like a tradition I now have to continue 🙂↕️
I'm lucky @robinknabel publishes such fan (contributor) edit-worthy books 😂🖤
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❝Creatures. Grotesqueries. Aliens. Cryptids. Ghosts. These are just a few of the anomalies we’ve unearthed.
Join us as we pursue monstrosities, unwittingly stumble upon unspeakable horrors, and bring terrifying abominations to life. They’re all waiting for you—the monsters from your nightmares, the noises you ignored as a child, the shadows hiding atrocities you can’t fathom. They’re all there—creeping in the darkness, waiting to be discovered.
Allow us to lure you in. Let us captivate and tantalize you with the unknown. But beware, you might not be ready for what you find. Or what finds you.❞
🔗: tinyurl.com/ofbeastsandbones
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📽️: video & cover ➝ my own
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【 #inkybonespress #horrorauthor #ofbeastsandbones #creaturefeature #horror 】
On the IU campus today to record my StokerCon virtual reading, and I couldn’t resist this backdrop. 🖤📚 It’s the perfect place to read Of Beasts & Bones! I did my official recording indoors. I’ll share it sometime after StokerCon.
I’ve been creating merch and getting some for myself, and today as I look at the fridge I’m in awe of these magnets.
These are all of the books I’ve published since July 2024–and a piece of art I commissioned for Inky Bones Press.
And guess what!
I’m excited for more! 🖤📚😱
After a few days of editing, I needed to get back out into nature! A nice run in a local trail was perfect. I’m just wondering about that gate . . . 😱🏃🏻♀️💚☀️
Good morning! I heard a little friend outside, so I popped out to say hello. You’ll see one of the red-bellied woodpeckers showing off toward the end. AND—the tree is from the cover photo I took for Hope Screams Eternal! 🖤
