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My novella, COUP DE GRÂCE, is officially out today! 🚇 I’m so emotional 🥹 Thank you all so much for supporting this. It’s about a man trapped in a labyrinthian subway station, and depression, and choice, and liminality, and if you see yourself in any of that, this is for you. A huge thank you to @DanCarpenter85 and @titanbooks for believing in me and taking this experimental story under their wing 🥹💕 it was truly such a pleasure to work with them. Thank you to allll the people who have preordered COUP DE GRÂCE, and to the readers and podcasters who took the time to read and write reviews about this devious little creature. Thank you in particular to Becky Spratford for her limitless support of indie horror writers 🥹💕 And thank you to blurbers for being so enthusiastic. I am in a debt of gratitude 😭🩶 To my writer friends, you are my everything. Thank you for supporting me 🥺 Anyway, enough yapping, or I’m gonna start crying. Available wherever books are sold! You can read it in an afternoon (130 pages)—off you go!

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1 year ago

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The full book trailer for COUP DE GRÂCE 🚇 A horror novella about a man trapped in an infinite subway station. Available for preorder now. Hardcover and ebook: Oct 1. Please add to your Goodreads or share this or preorder if you can! Trailer by the inimitable @chris.mcalli_3d .

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2 years ago

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Happy 🏳️‍⚧️ Day of Visibility! It’s simultaneously the last day of @transrightsreadathon so here are some last minute suggestions! Books mentioned: Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram (Titan Books) Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Qųeer Horror Here’s what I read (and very much enjoyed) for the readathon: Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas Night Night Fawn by Jordy Rosenberg

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1 month ago

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Reading from my short story The Roses of Heliogabalus. It’s m/m, filled with opulence. A queer, speculative tale inspired by the spellbinding painting of the same name by the artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It follows the tyrant emperor, Heliogabalus, as he starves a city of his people so that he can grow thousands of roses for a banquet. His muse: the queer poet Abu Nuwas—an anachronism plucked from time. The banquet is filled with poetry and Bacchic opulence, and its apex depicts the moment in the painting where he smothers his guests to death under petals of roses. Zine version is on my sìte! 🥀 #writersofinstagram #heliogabalus #poetry #spokenword #readingrecommendations

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1 month ago

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Today is my birthday! Suddenly I’m 36. Big year for me, lots of milestones (I’m 2 years on T) and big changes (I closed my flagship and moved my jewelry studio) and I won a Stoker Award for Coup de Grâce and there were surgeries (plural!) and believe me, nothing puts your life into perspective quicker than when you think you’re going to die from a rare surgical complication. So. It’s been a scary year but a joyous one, too! I wish for this next year to go on more adventures and spend more time with my craft, gently restoring the rooms of my imagination that have come to be rather neglected during such a tumultuous year. You have my permission to eat sweet treats and dabble in HRT today (hey, trans rights readathon starts tomorrow, it’s only fair).

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2 months ago

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The Sofia equivalent of Groundhog Day, where I appear exactly once (1) a year to share what I’ve written in case you’d like to read a trans-authored/edited horror book for @transrightsreadathon ! Works mentioned: 🚇 Coup de Grâce Elements: liminal space, depression, philosophy of choice, m/m, meta Formats: Digital, paperback, hardcover, audiobook 🪦 Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror Elements: Queer-identifying authors and characters, body horror, romance Formats: Digital, paperback, hardcover 🌳 The Arborglyph Elements: short story, m/m, body horror, romance, “brought back wrong” Formats: Paperback zine (and digital, probably… message me!) 🥀 The Roses of Heliogabalus Elements: short story, m/m, opulence, poet, historical, erotica, body horror (a lil at the end) 💉 Acid Bath Elements: transmasc protagonist, body horror, “ginea pigging”, f/f, complicated friendship Formats: Digital, paperback, hardcover I hope you discover something that speaks to you! Happy reading!

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2 months ago

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Some of the stunning portraits that came from Len & I modelling at @queerbodiesmontreal last week. I’m obsessed and wish I could’ve seen them all. Drawing and portraiture have been such a happy discovery this year!

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3 months ago

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In the throat of Coup de Grâce’s infinite station (I love an interactive exhibit, and when I saw this one it felt made for me!) ‘Thresholds’ by @michel_de_broin (currently on exhibit at the Arsenal Contemporary Museum)

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3 months ago

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The audiobook version of Coup de Grâce is here! 🚇 A 3h23m ride, available everywhere they do audiobooks. A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station. Written by @sofiaajram Performed by @grahamhalstead Produced by @tantoraudio

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3 months ago

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A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station. Written by @sofiaajram Performed by @grahamhalstead #newrelease #audiobookrecs #horror #horrornovella #psychologicalfiction

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4 months ago

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The audiobook version of Coup de Grâce is out TODAY! @tantoraudio Narrated by @grahamhalstead . I’ve been so offline these past few months but I’m excited to share this with you (it’ll be my first time listening to it too. Curious how they’ll tackle the, uh… idiosyncratic format of it. If you give it a listen, PLEASE let me know! I’m dying to know what folks think.

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4 months ago

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We just won a British Fantasy Award!!!

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6 months ago