Happy release day to my third horror and Weird fiction collection, Lonesome Pyres! This book is for people who have known loneliness in many forms, people who are drawn to the strange and grotesque, and people who always seek out love in this brutal world. 🖤
Novels sell way better than short story collections, which is why we should have a Buy a Short Story Collection Day. Few things are better than a gorgeously crafted short story!
Okay, this seems to happen at least once a week, but I have another fun horror anthology idea: hauntings in unexpected places. No more spooky Victorian houses. I'm talking haunted fast food joints, dentist offices, etc.
Would folks read something like that?
Things I promise as a publisher:
1) Your book will have a great-looking cover.
2) I will pay your advance and royalties in a timely manner without having to be chased down.
3) I will give a shit about marketing your book and will continue marketing it long after the release.
My weird/eco-horror collection EXTINCTION HYMNS has found a publisher just in time for Christmas. I'm so damn happy. More details when I can share them.
In response to Sam Elliott's homophobic rant about The Power of the Dog, I will now begin drafting the script for an even gayer cowboy movie called The Power of the Dong.
And just like that, the job search is over. I'll be an academic advisor starting on the 21st of this month. Plus they offered me a higher salary than I originally thought I'd get, so that's awesome. Intensely relieved!
Since SSRIs are trending again, let's talk about some common side effects, all of which I suffer from:
1) Having a juicy ass
2) Having a great personality
3) Magnet for hot dads everywhere
4) "Built different"
5) Lycanthropy
SSRI users, any I missed?
We're excited to announce a book deal for a horror/weird fiction collection by Eric Raglin titled "Extinction Hymns." Coming December 2022.
@ericraglin1992
Some good things from the past week:
-Told my parents and sister that I have a boyfriend. They were normal about it!
-Climbed my first two V4s at the bouldering gym. It was difficult but fun!
-Proposed a cool split collection project that's gradually coalescing.
Given the number of steps between conceptualizing a novel and publishing it, you'd think someone would've stopped and considered whether this one was actually worth publishing.
Grammatical transphobes will be like, "The only proper use of they/them pronouns is when referring to James Patterson, who is a collective of uncredited writers hiding under a trench coat."
Anthology titled "You Are Dead To Me" in which all contributors write stories symbolically severing their ties to real-life shitty people. Some lawsuits could come of it, but at least it'd be interesting.
I'm writing a grotesque, erotic bizarro story about a guy who breeds living houses infused with his own DNA. I have no clue where I'll be able to submit it, but I'm hyped about where it's going.
Me to my Creative Writing students: publishing is a slow-moving industry, but some publishers get back to you quickly. For example, this publisher called The Dark rejected a story of mine in under an hour.
Student: wow, it must have been really bad!
😂
Okay, contract signed: my story about ghostly coral reefs, the connections between personal and climate grief, and the horrors of tourism will be published in
@HavenSpec
this September!
Can't help mentioning another idea: a housing horror anthology. Monstrous landlords, grotesque living conditions, and denied maintenance requests turned terrifying. I'd read the hell out of that.
It's my 29th birthday! For today only, I've made the NIGHTMARE YEARNINGS e-book free on Gumroad. Celebrate this day with traumatized Mothman, a seven-tongued cosmic horror, a demon who lives in your toilet, and more!
Happy book birthday to...me??? My debut
#queer
weird
#horror
collection NIGHTMARE YEARNINGS is out today. Follow this link to pick it up or DM me for signed copy!
The audiobook of my queer, weird horror collection NIGHTMARE YEARNINGS is out now! I'm looking for reviewers and new readers. Share around, tag a friend, and hit me up for free promo codes!
My Horror Lit course got NCAA approval, which the school district told me would "require an act of god" in order to happen. Well, it happened and now student athletes can get English credit for the course. It's a small thing, but I'm celebrating.
I'm so happy Peanut Butter (the cat) has returned after two days of adventuring in the neighborhood! She was under our porch tonight, so we got lucky in finding her.
Which of these anthology ideas catch your interest? I've left some off the list because I'd like to co-edit them with someone else.
-Midwest Weird
-The Weird Years: Weird Horror of the Middle and High School Experience
-Sports and Fitness Body Horror
-Strange Birds
I'm on a book buying ban right now, but I just learned that Margaret Killjoy has a novella called Escape from Incel Island, so I have to make an exception. I have no choice.
Excited to announce that
@ericraglin1992
is joining the Off Limits Family! His collection, Lonesome Pyres, will be released under our Off Limits Pulp imprint in 2024!
Just signed a pro-rate contract for my story about a horny and horrible rich gay man and the start of the crabpocalypse!
What's the crabpocalypse? And how sexy is the end of the world? You'll have to read to find out.
Okay, I have permission to mention the acceptance I vague-tweeted about earlier today. My weird Midwest Gothic possession/love story, "A Coarse Yellow Sea," will be published in Hell Is Real: A Midwest Gothic Anthology!
My next short story collection EXTINCTION HYMNS is coming out through Snow-Capped Press in October! If you like dread-inducing eco-horror, Midwest weirdness, and gnarly splatter, this collection is absolutely for you.
With the stories I've sold this past month, I've been able to pay off my phone bill and internet bill. I don't expect sales like this every month, and I'm nowhere near being able to financially support myself with writing alone, but I'm still damn happy about it.
Gotta go with what my heart wants most (sorry bird folk!) The next book I edit will be a sports and fitness body horror anthology. I'm still finalizing the submission guidelines and title, but expect to see an announcement soon. In the meantime, title suggestions are welcome!
Student: "Don't underestimate me. I am supremely online and found your writer name in three minutes. All I had to do was look up Hailey Piper's Instagram and see who was following her. I liked your Mothman story, but why'd you write it about lesbians when Mothman is bi?"
One of my most polite, shy, and kind Horror Lit students submitted a wildly gnarly splatterpunk story for her modernization of Poe's Masque of the Red Death. I'm very much okay with Splatterpunk Poe.
Despite my complaints yesterday about having no energy for writing, I've cranked out an entire sci-fi horror flash piece in the past two hours. Thanks for the energy, universe!