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Laura Keating

16 days

IT'S HERE!! 🎉🎉🎉 What folks are saying about THE TRUEST SENSE: ⏳💀⌛️💀 Get your copy from Amazon, @CemeteryGatesM , or ask at your local bookstore or library!

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Laura Keating

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1 year

One of my favourite real Titanic stories is the tale of this guy, Chief Baker Charles Joughin, who really did end up on the stern of the sinking ship - but not after being kind of a badass 🧵

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So when times get tough, just remember to distribute bread, help others, get drunk, and keep your head above water. It'll all work out. Charles John Joughin (August 3, 1878 – December, 9 1956)

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4 years

@Polygon The twist damn well better be that a) she's alive b) she hired them to investigate her murder so that c) she could continue a bigger ongoing investigation while her target thought her dead only to reveal herself to her friends at the finale. Because that's how Nancy Drew would do

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2 years

You will die with books unread. It's not morbid, just a fact. So buy what you want, get to what you like when you can. This isn't a school project, a book report isn't due. You've supported an author and collected art you love. A library of unread books is a beautiful thing 🖤📚

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He was later taken aboard the RMS Carpathia with many other survivors, and despite his ordeal had no more than swollen feet. He moved the USA and died in 1956 at the age of 78.

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Laura Keating

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2 years

Winnie the Pooh is in the public domain. The entire Lovecraft canon is in the public domain. Do what you will with that information.

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1 year

Temperatures were -2.2 degrees Celsius, about 28 Fahrenheit. INCREDIBLY he tread water for TWO HOURS. Most people would not have survived more than 15 minutes. It's thought that the alcohol he'd drunk helped to stop him from feeling the shocking cold & thereby survive.

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1 year

She's a ghost. I've read Goodnight Moon 1000xs now, and am convinced. Even the cats know. The scared kid keeps listing things in his room until she disappears and it's safe to sleep. This is a ghost story.

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1 year

The sole person on the back of the ship as it went down, he said he rode it down like an elevator, stepping off into the water as it disappeared into the ocean, not even getting his head wet.

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1 year

Despite being captain of lifeboat 10, he refused to board, allowing others to get in. As the boat was lowered to the water, he did what many would do in a disaster with no way out: Drank.

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1 year

With all the lifeboats gone, he walked up and down the now badly listing promenade and proceeded to throw about 50 wooden deck chairs in the water. He figured the ship was going down & a lot of people would need flotation devices.

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1 year

He was assigned as captain of Lifeboat 10, and he helped to load women & children aboard. When some got scared, saying they'd rather stay on the ship, he chased them down began THROWING them into the lifeboat.

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1 year

Maynard helped him hold onto the side (his legs & feet were still in the water) until later Joughin spotted another lifeboat. He let got, swan to that, and was rescued from the water at last.

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1 year

At daybreak, he spotted Collapsible B lifeboat, with about 30 men standing on the side. They could not pull him up out of the water as there was no room. However, cook Isaac Maynard was aboard & recognized him.

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1 year

Back on A Deck, he heard a huge crash "as if part of the ship had buckled." With a crowd, he ran toward the poop deck. The ship suddenly listed to port, throwing all but him, and he was able to climb over the safety rail on the outside.

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1 year

@_Rae_Knowles He deserves more fame! Also of interesting note, the fact that he was standing on the stern alone as it went down made him technically the last person to leave the ship/to ever stand on the Titanic.

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1 year

When the Titanic struck the iceberg, he was in his bunk. He ordered his fellow staff above deck. Seeing they were readying lifeboats, he ordered his 13 men to get provisions for the boats - about 40lbs of bread, each.

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Laura Keating

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6 years

@SoaresAgDuchess @ericsmithrocks Nine years and fourteen days. Lowest moment was probably when I made a really good joke about destroying horcruxes that was met with confused silence. But day by day, you know? ⛅️

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1 year

"Writers" admitting they've been using AI to "write" and trying to sneer at actual writers for fighting against it is a great way to stretch my block hand. Don't make me tap the sign: A machine wrote a thing for you? You. Didn’t. Write. Anything. You are lazy greed with a name.

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Laura Keating

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2 years

@muranofiction Get'em! Destroying her art is a bully's move. If the art was troubling, they should of saved it to show you to discuss. Somehow, this doesn't seem like that. Some teachers never grow up from being the mean kid on the playground.

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Laura Keating

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6 years

@ericsmithrocks I'm living proof it can still work out! *stands up in support group* Hi, my name is Laura and my partner has never read Harry Potter.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

1 year

The response to this thread has been unbelievable, I'm so glad you've all enjoyed learning about CJ Joughin. I have a debut book to plug (but you can find all the info on my profile). Mostly I want to use this space to say to remember to be kind & to have a lovely day 🤍

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Laura Keating

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10 months

What's a horror thing that just doesn't scare you? For me, dolls. Just kick it over and set a laundry basket on it.

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Laura Keating

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2 years

Full manuscript request! FULL MANUSCRIPT REQUEST!! 🎉 🎉🎉

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Laura Keating

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1 year

If I said the word "sook" would anyone not from the Maritimes know what I meant without looking it up, or is this purely an Atlantic Canada thing?

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

1 year

"Agony's Lodestone" was comped/pitched as @flanaganfilm 's adaptation of "Haunting of Hill House" meets "Blair Witch Project." If that sounds like it's up your alley ... 👀 🌲📼🌲Paperback & eBook is available everywhere books are sold today.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

4 months

🚨Warning Authors🚨 Spotify has updated their audiobook TOS and it's super sketchy. "You hereby grant Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid, irrevocable, worldwide license to reproduce ..." 1/2

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Laura Keating

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6 months

Today's Writing Drama

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Laura Keating

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1 year

@benedict_rs Both cheese and bread (fantasy staples) are foods that should have been beyond human comprehension. But stew not possible? It's stuff added to stuff seasoned with yet more stuff; if it doesn't kill you, it's stew.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

2 months

Absolutely unacceptable; no one should be threatened like this for just living their lives. Fight hate with love and books. Little Ghosts is one of my favourite bookstores in the world and the folks who work there are super cool & kind. 🤍

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Just figuring out how many books we lost when a woman decided to whip her coffee at the shelves and verbally assault a bookseller because we think that gender affirming care is health care. If you don’t think trans rights are human right don’t come in, don’t follow us. Just Don’t

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Laura Keating

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2 years

🎊 PUBLISHED! I'm having a BOOK published!! 🎊 AGONY'S LODESTONE will hit shelves April 2023! I can't begin to describe how excited I am, truly a dream come true. And to be working with @TenebrousPress on this? Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

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Laura Keating

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5 years

@RebeccaPodos Girl in Her Enemy's Dress Super capable woman is kidnapped by the bad guy/enemy and .... is immediately put in a pretty dress/made to have dinner. Frequently needs saving. (Kate in Lost; Miriam in Raiders; Laureline in Valerian; Clarice in Hannibal, spring first to mind)

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

3 years

sound on

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Laura Keating

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7 years

@gavinguidry @_AlexHirsch I would happily pay for a print/sticker (colour or otherwise) of this. Is it possible to make that accessible?

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Laura Keating

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1 year

If you like ... Found Footage - Terror in the Woods - Fractured Families - Cosmic Horror - Cold Cases - Waking Nightmares - Survival Horror - Gut Punches - I've got a novella for you 🌲📼🌲 AGONY'S LODESTONE. April 14, 2023

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Laura Keating

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2 years

Happy 106th Birthday to Shirley Jackson, godmother of horror.

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9 months

And it's not even close

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9 months

OK so we have been doing favorite fictional detective but who is your favorite fictional clergy person?

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Laura Keating

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1 year

@FlyIngenuity @k8themorrigan In an interview he gave years later, he said never mentioned a pull. Seems it was just Hollywood drama.

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Laura Keating

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1 year

At times I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I wrote my first novel 20 years ago. You wouldn't believe the number of rejections I've wracked up over the years. But I need to write, and I figured there was no point in quitting, so I never did. My debut book comes out in April 🤍📖

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1 year

To every author out there going "it took me twenty years, three dozen books, and six vital organs to get here", some days y'all are the only thing keeping me going. Bless you

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Laura Keating

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2 years

I don't know the science behind why smacky-smacky duck feet are one of the funniest and most delightful sounds, I'm just here to spread the joy.

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Laura Keating

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11 months

There is a family of crows who live in the graveyard behind our house and occasionally chill in the big tree outside my office window. How do I make friends? Raisins? Fascinate them with cheese?

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Laura Keating

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4 years

@N9_L5 Dawson's Creek. Particularly the early seasons.

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Laura Keating

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1 year

@Jen_Marshall Always happy to share a good (especially when true) story!

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Laura Keating

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4 years

@ChuckWendig OP: I've lacerated my hand! It's not deep but long and shit! There is so much blood! Twitter: Sooooo, that's actually an incised wound. Lacerations are the tearing of flesh resulting from blunt-trauma mechanism. Don't go crying for sympathy if you can't get your facts straight.

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Laura Keating

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5 months

Get in the bin. GET IN THE F*CKING BIN

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

2 months

Boom!! Look at this!! "The Truest Sense," a collection of Horrors; look for it June 11th from Cemetery Gates. Pre-order links available soon ⌛️ I couldn't be more overjoyed to share this stunning cover with you, @ChadWehrle is a genius.

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Laura Keating

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1 year

@StevenPatchett7 Right? She's just a "quiet old lady." A stranger.

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Laura Keating

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4 months

"make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works ..." It goes on. So basically, you upload your book with them, they can take it, your characters, etc. and create derivative works, sequels, run ads, train ai - whatever they want 😐

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Laura Keating

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3 years

If I can write an urban legend even a wavering fraction as good as Candyman for this call from @GordonBWhite , I'll buy myself a bottle of good Scotch

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Laura Keating

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7 months

You ever have a hamster? I did. Today I learned they hibernate. Almost no heartbeat, but still alive. They hibernate, friends.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

5 months

To the surprise of no one, @slimyswampghost knocked it out of the park for AGONY'S LODESTONE. I was so STOKED when @MattBlairstone said Trevor would be doing the cover, he tapped right into the uncanny, haunted heart of story 🖤🌲📼🌲

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Authors! Please come flaunt your human-drawn covers. Quote this naming the artist of your cover and what you like about it!

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Laura Keating

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2 years

Jurassic Park (1993) is a horror film.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

1 year

This photo from the set of "The Shining" (1980)

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Laura Keating

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5 years

@rlynn_solomon Told my family I'm looking for an agent. They just looked confused. Was asked why I didn't just print of my MS and a resume, march right into a publishing house, and apply, why did I need the agent? A resume, I almost died.

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1 year

Author and Editor, or the Women in White to Haunt Your Night? So happy to have finally met you, @AlexWoodroe 🖤💀🔥 Have a great rest of Stoker!

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Laura Keating

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1 year

House Hunting update: It's official. We bought a house 🥹❤

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Laura Keating

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2 years

Contract signed, my first acceptance of 2022 🥳 Pleased to announce my story "The Wind" will appear in the @shacklebound Planetside anthology!

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

1 year

LOOK AT THIS SHIRT! From one of @slimyswampghost 's interior illustrations! He NAILED this scene from the book (Trevor, you're a genius)

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Laura Keating

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5 years

@laurenbeukes @haszombiesinit You know in sci-fi horror movies when the scientists do something dumb like take off their helmets or touch things with bare hands, and the audience is like, "Psff, real scientists would never do that"? Hollywood, for this, you are vindicated.

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Laura Keating

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1 month

Feeling like I'm seeing a ton of incredible pitches in #PitDark today, getting TONS of RTs ... but none getting any agent likes. What's up? 🤨

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Laura Keating

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1 year

My mom's my biggest fan ... She is also TERRIFIED of everything even remotely spooky. But she bravely read my book (and liked it, success!) and put on the t-shirt for me. I think it's a good look! Thanks, mom! 😘🖤

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Laura Keating

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11 months

My first hater 🥰

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Laura Keating

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10 months

@PseudoPod_org It is the Cricket. He has been revealed. Cower, running will not save you.

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Laura Keating

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2 years

It's my birthday! 35 and feeling fine.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

2 years

My library is housed in an old church. So, you might say, it's remained a religious site.

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Laura Keating

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2 years

@BBolander More than the smug smirk + wave from Cruz (expected), for me it's the chuckle at the end of the guy filming, the laughing smile of the guy in the foreground, the content lady's shout of "get out of here!" It's not just the women sitting by, it's everyone. Every damn one of them.

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Laura Keating

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1 year

I was interviewed by the CBC about my novella AGONY'S LODESTONE in March, not once but twice! You can read the second interview here:

Horror novelist explores Saint John's creepy side in debut book | CBC News

With fog hanging over old-growth forest and breakers crashing against jagged cliffs, the Fundy coast can have an uncanny, Maritime-gothic mood, which Laura Keating thought was perfect for her debut...

www.cbc.ca

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

8 months

tw: pregnancy loss I wasn't going to write this. I'm a private person. But last week I had a miscarriage. My third in a row. I'm trying to do ok. If I seem scattered/off, it's because I am. Sorry if I'm late with anything. I'm going to finish up some WIPs then take a rest.

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Laura Keating

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1 year

Let's gooooooooo!! 🌲AGONY’S LODESTONE📼 Day!!🌲 📸 Disgraced Reality TV star 🚪 Missing Sister 🌲 Dark Forest 📼 A Mysterious Videotape 🩸Fractured Family Available EVERYWHERE today!!

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

1 year

The groundhog that predicts the end of winter here in Quebec, Fred la Marmotte ... um, died. Hours before he was due to appear. I'm sure that bodes well ...

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

4 years

@NaturelsLit Aw, speedy murder bois just want a chat

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

2 years

"I'm fine," I say, paralyzed by the idea of replying to messages from friends, finding no joy in reading, barely writing, while eating mostly junk as I watch equally junk YouTube for weeks on end. "Feelin' fine."

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Laura Keating

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1 year

I've now had two bookstores decline to stock my book and I ... okay 🥲 Maybe I'll just erect a lil lemonade stand out front and start hand-selling them.

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Laura Keating

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7 years

@DEKA_bot Adding only because it was invited: Are You Afraid of the Dark, Students Bodies, and of course Breaker High feat. mini Ryan Gosling.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

1 year

Meanwhile, at the @TenebrousPress table, the kids are too cool for school.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

10 months

What is with this awful trend of folks cracking an egg on their kids face, laughing as they look confused & hurt, and then posting that video for others to laugh AT their kid?? Guess what cracks as easy as an egg? A small child's trust in their parents. Stop it.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

2 years

Read novels by women. Read short stories by women. Read novellas by women. Read essays by women. Nominate women. Don't just let your eye pass over our names and titles. Read. Work. By. Women. And tell your friends.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

6 years

In NYC getting on the subway, doors open and I'm face-to-face with Robert Pattinson. Had places to go, so he stepped off and I got on. My little sis (16 at the time) standing behind me, double-takes like, "Really?" He just shrugs, "Yeah" and the doors close.

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Your most boring, mundane, inconsequential celebrity encounter. Go!

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1 year

Today at Stokercon, I'm: -The Woman in White - Haunted Victorian -Bride of Dracula -Ghost Staring Longingly for the Sea -Having a Blast -All of the Above

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Laura Keating

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29 days

Anyone else just getting zero engagement these days? Great time to be trying to promote an upcoming book 🙃

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

1 year

THE CAT CAME BACK! RIPLEY CAT HAS RETURNED! Not the very next day, but after eight days under the floorboards. Dad looked up one evening, and there she was in the kitchen staring content & curiously at him. We're all very relieved and happy that she's emerged. Utter Scoundrel 🖤

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

7 years

@kateleth "You are the pockets to my dress" are wedding vows to get every woman in assembly nodding in deep approval.

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

3 years

This holiday season, I'd like to see a return to Tradition: Ghosts tormenting the rich into paying a living wage

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Laura Keating

@LoreKeating

3 years

Reminds me of a Pratchett book where a witch can't convince villagers to walk a bit for good health. A practical witch shows up, tells them their health trouble is from an offended faerie. Cure? Leave a pebble at her well (a few miles off) once a day. Nonsense, but gets results.

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This is actually such good news, quick, let every anti vaxxer in your life know!!!! They can avoid the toxins as long as they have a potato on hand!! PHEW

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Laura Keating

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1 year

Started "We Have a Ghost" (Netflix). About a third of the way in and really enjoying it. Has that 80s Spielberg/Amblin Films vibe that many people aspire to and few ever hit. Anthony Mackie, David Harbour, Jennifer Coolidge, Tig Notaro. I'm enjoying it so far, hope it pans out!

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1 year

@BrennanLaFaro Hard toss-up between the Greats: Rowlf the dog, Sam Eagle, Swedish Chef, & Miss Piggy

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Laura Keating

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1 year

Hard to overstate the impact that Stephen Gammell's art had on me. Terrifying, mesmerizing. The sort of thing that felt like I shouldn't be looking at but couldn't look away. Happy 80th Birthday🖤

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Laura Keating

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11 months

I usually avoid Discourse (especially obviously baited ones) but ... Horror Resolution/Monster Killed at end? That's just the 1934 amendment to the Motion Picture Production Code, not a "horror rule" 🙄

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Laura Keating

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1 year

🌖I am OVER THE MOON! 🌔 A collection of my short fiction is set to release this summer from @CemeteryGatesM with @ChadWehrle providing cover art! Get ready for monstrous secrets on rocky shores, backwoods witches, basement demons, and the dark twins that lurk inside ...

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: It's important to be bored from time to time.

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1 year

GOOD MORNING boils and ghouls! It's creeping right up on us - The San Antonio Ghoulish Book Festival! Hope you can join @GiveMeYourTeeth , @MattBlairstone , @cinapelayo , @slimyswampghost , @vlatinalondon , @JoshMalerman & more for what looks like a blast!

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Laura Keating

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7 years

Anyone: What are you listening to these days? Me: @julytalk A/o: You said that last month - Me: Did I stutter?

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Laura Keating

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1 month

Good luck to everyone taking part in #PitDark today. Will be doing my best to boost cool pitches throughout the day 🖤

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Laura Keating

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3 years

First story acceptance of 2021!

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1 year

@JeremyHepler Over TWO HOURS! And giving up his seat on a lifeboat? 🫡

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1 year

It's just a walk in the woods walk in the woods walk in the woods walk in woods walk in the just a walk in the woods in the woods in the woods Cosmic/body/survival horror; found footage, missing persons AGONY'S LODESTONE, a new novella from @TenebrousPress available April 2023