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scottjmoses.bsky.social
Writes horror that isn’t, but is, sort of. Peddler of existential hope. https://linktr.ee/scottjmoses
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Sucks being such a slow writer, but I’m enjoying this fourth draft.

I'm a week late in posting about this, but I'm so honored that both Red Skies in the Morning and Why Didn't You Just Leave were nominated for Shirley Jackson Awards! Huge congrats to all the nominees. Special high fives to the WDYJL contributors. www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2025/06/09/t...

This is what happens to you if you visit Maryland 😔

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

A story in 4 parts

I spoke with an old man today who said he and his wife sold everything they owned and sailed the world for six years. Said it was his worst financial mistake, and some of the best years of his life.

Getting the urge to disappear for a year.

I’ll make it to Stoker Con one of these days, but for now, I’m content as the spider in the dust-ridden corner looking out on it all.

I WON A BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR COUP DE GRÂCE!!! TRULY OVERJOYED!!! Thank you so much to the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social and to @titanbooks.bsky.social for championing this dark experimental book about a man who finds hope and choice in the depths of despair. I’m so honoured.

Devil’s beating his wife.

I’ll miss the Stoker banquet livestream tonight as I’ll be strumming guitars over cursed graves in the Virginian mountains with my dad around midnight, but good luck to everyone.

Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, the new collection of cosmic horror from Bram Stoker Award-winning author John Langan coming in early August, featuring this haunting cover art by Matthew Jaffe! www.wordhorde.com/books/lost-i...

I plan on querying this Japanese ghost novel in October. I've a taste for pain, I guess.

I’m thankful the gap between feeling down and listing what I’m grateful for narrows each day.

Have fun at Stoker, all. I'll get around to it one of these days.

Buying and returning leather jackets because they don’t fit perfectly like it’s my full time job. I’m not sure I’ll ever find the one.

One of my writing dreams has come true. Coup de Grâce and Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror are nominated for 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards!

Thrilled to see Eynhallow on the Shirley Jackson Award novel list! This may call for a mid-strength lager to celebrate. Cheers, @rdspress.bsky.social

“And the world keeps turning, sun keeps burning.” Don’t hurt yourselves thinking too much today, yeah?

Did you miss the announcement? A special edition jacketed hardcover of The Deadlands Omnibus will also feature two new stories (a prequel to Undead Folk and a short sequel to Nothingland) and new art (all done by me). There's only 35 left! Order yours: www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/shop/the-dea...

Hot take(?): I’ve started marking DNFs on Goodreads “Read” as payment for lost time.

This is my biggest writing fear. "Making it," then losing all freedom.

Part of me wants to sell it all, get any ol’ remote job, and car/van camp for a year.

Write in silence. Write as a practice. Write for the love of it. If it makes you miserable, you’re doing it for the wrong reasons.