20 Things I Want to Tell You

In One Sentence or Two

1. It’s hard to have an intellectual brain and an empathetic heart and a healthy sense of justice right now. I understand and it helps me to think of all the people who agree.

2. Love and kindness are free and radical in dark times. Be extreme & liberal with both.

3. Reasons: I’m fighting ongoing/recurring skin cancer in all its various forms right now and I’m winning

4. I won’t be at StokerCon this year (see *Reasons) but I hope you all have the best time (I know you will) community is essential. Good luck to all the nominees

5. My book, Feral & Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Guide to Reading Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women is available to request on NetGalley

6. June is the halfway mark and I want to highlight my 2025 favorites so far (please note the top 12 and the 3 backlist titles)

   

7. I have book reviews for January-May posted in an on-going article over at The LineUp

8. Audiobooks are changing my life. I can listen to them at 2X now and have horror piped into my brain most of the day. Recent favs: All the Colors of the Dark, American Rapture, Something in the Walls, The Starving Saints, She’s A Lamb, Hungerstone, Honeysuckle and Bone, and The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery

9. We recently traveled to Victoria, Canada and fell in love with it. What a charming and beautiful city *The Butchart Gardens

   

10. I was born and raised and lived for 40 years in Northern California. There has always been a Nor Cal vs. So Cal beef because our differences divided us. Not anymore. We’re united now and even though many of us moved to other parts of the West Coast, we are UNIFIED

11. Oh! Libro.FM is an audiobook platform that helps you support an indie bookstore of your choice. Members get to enjoy a BOGO sale starting tomorrow and if you combine it with the SWITCH sale, you can get 6 audiobooks for the price of one

12. Please remember to hydrate and use sunscreen (50 SPF) please

13. Stay safe if you’re going out to protest June 14th and ongoing, stay safe and alert

14. HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! The new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is incredible! I have enjoyed: At Dark I Become Loathsome, Sour Cherry, The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery, I Can Fix Her, The Scald Crow, and Hell Followed With Us

    

    
    

15. Night Worms July packages are on sale now and you should subscribe this month so you don’t have to worry about trying to get August’s package which will have a signed book AND a new release with a signed bookplate! Hint: The signed book is mine lol

    

16. I’m having a book launch at WorldCon and I’ll be on a lot of panels so stay tuned for more info! If you’re a horror person and going to WorldCon, let’s find each other

17. I have some spooky plans coming up with Goodreads-stay tuned

18. I’ve been thinking about my Patreon tier benefits and I’m kicking around some ideas that would involve indie horror authors. More info soon

19. Get out in nature, a lot and put your phone in a time out while you do it.

20. Please enjoy this post:
    

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