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Your friendly neighborhood horromance evangelist. Out now: THE HACIENDA & VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE. Up next: THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ | Clarion West and Odyssey alum | Bram Stoker & Locus Award nominee | UChicago PhD https://www.isabelcanas.com/
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SCREAMING my way through the last 10% of @isabelcanas.bsky.social's upcoming The Possession of Alba Diaz. Every book just gets better. Horror romance at its finest. This one had me BY THE THROAT! (out in August)

psst—want a print ARC of The Possession of Alba Díaz? GOODREADS GIVEAWAY NOW LIVE 🎉 www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

i really need like 15 more hours in the day to do all the sleeping, reading, writing, and childcare i need/want to do

psst—want a print ARC of The Possession of Alba Díaz? GOODREADS GIVEAWAY NOW LIVE 🎉 www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

Gobsmacked that my story “Three Things That Happen The Night My Dad Dies” is on the Locus Recommended list. Thank you so much.

fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by Diana Oropeza, @ezhang77.bsky.social, @awprihandita.bsky.social, @isabelcanas.bsky.social, & @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social 🦇⚡ don't subscribe to this haunted letter? well, you should still read these stories! here's the link:

finished "Asunder" by Kerstin Hall last night at 2 a.m. and honestly, i kinda sat there, staring at the wall for a while ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. the non-literary way to describe this book would be "give a b*tch a break" and unfortunately, she never gets a break, and even when she does—

a great thread that sums up the experience of reader Asunder.

oh shit i should probably get my worldcon membership sorted given that I *checks notes* actually live in the city where it's taking place

Here is the link to the comic version of Project 2025 stopproject2025comic.org

Gobsmacked that my story “Three Things That Happen The Night My Dad Dies” is on the Locus Recommended list. Thank you so much.

The Locus Recommended List is live! locusmag.com/2025/02...

so very delighted! congrats to: Rachel Is at a Protest @esther-alter.bsky.social Three Things That Happen The Night My Dad Dies @isabelcanas.bsky.social doorbell dot mov @authorizedmusings.bsky.social The Rerebirthof Slick @kearse.bsky.social The Empty Ones @ceruleancynic.bsky.social

😱 TERROR Y MONSTROS! 😱 Come down to Ghoulish Books to check out our new latine horror reads display! All titles also available in our webstore (we ship!) at ghoulish.rip.

THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ is available for request on NetGalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

🦇⚰️ You want vampires? We got vampires. For some #FridayFun, here's 4 Solaris books to read in The Age of The Vampire... 3 with very different vampires to get your teeth into and 1 bonus Gothic Horror! Inc: @isabelcanas.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social & more

Reading 2024 poetry? Try the poem "syzygy" by Roshani Chokshi! You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/syzygy/

iconic ✨

Perhaps publishers should try to do marketing, rather than rely on influencers and authors to do it. Just a thought!

This hunter's tale in issue 13 by Avra Margariti is hauntingly beautiful. Check out "In a Cradle of Antlers" here:

Anxious People in Ancient Assyria:

regular reminder that ASUNDER by @kerstinhall.bsky.social fucking SLAPS it destroyed my LIFE it has lived in my head rent free since last MARCH and i am NOT OVER IT bookshop.org/p/books/asun...

My life as an author, plotting in my own head before I send my grand ideas to my agent:

Rewatching Master & Commander for the first time in like 15+ years has been a transformative experience, I will not be taking questions at this time

BAILE INoLVIDABLE on repeat 🎧🐸

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Incredibly honored to have my @strangehorizons.bsky.social story from May on this list, in such excellent company; it's been a very rich year for good SFF short fiction and Maria reads so much of it. <3

I'm sick of this WOKE DEI crap 😤 Disney hired a BISEXUAL to paint its villains and LOOK at what happened 😡

Remember Bigolas Dickolas? That was word of mouth & it got This is How You Lose the Time War to the top 30 of multiple Amazon markets' listings for ALL books You probably won't be someone's Bigolas Dickolas, but you'll help them sell some books... and you MIGHT be their Bigolas Dickolas, who knows

This is one of the 40 titles featured in my Anticipated 2025 Horror episode. If you missed it, no time like the present to catch up! youtu.be/PCbozK6iK4I?...

THIS COVER. Out Aug 19,2025! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737414...

This has been extended to Jan 8. I let my membership lapse because I was too disgusted by the org’s failure to produce even the most lukewarm condemnation of ongoing genocide, but if you’re currently a SFWA member & haven’t forfeited your humanity I think signing it is a good thing to do.

This is publication day for the new trade paperback compilation editions of The Murderbot Diaries! Cover art by Jaime Jones, published by @tordotcom.bsky.social, edited by @leeharris.xyz, cover design by Shreya Gupta. Note the "Coming to Apple+" sticker for All Systems Red. 👀

Writing out my goals for the year. For the first time, I’m planning to throw 100% of my energy into novels instead of splitting that focus between long and short fiction. I’m curious to see how it goes.

the artistic mantra i'm taking into 2025: BAD BUNNY [singing] I dooooooon'ttttt caaaaaaaare

Can't forget to shout out @emilyhughes.bsky.social, whose annual list of upcoming horror books was invaluable when it came time to put this together. readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...

It's #nosferartu's release day, so we're entering the #yearofthevampire! If like your vampires gruesome and scary with a side order of yearning horroromance and historical conflicts, we have the vampire book for you: @isabelcanas.bsky.social's VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE Buy: https://geni.us/VoEN

I've just read "Babywings" by @isabelcanas.bsky.social and what a beautifully written story it is, dealing with the love & anxiety felt by a newborn's mother. ♥️ A stunning last line too. In @lightspeedmagazine.com www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/baby...

in lieu of making an eligibility post, I had a baby last week