Conner

💿 👻 ✨ Out in November! Dead New World, my Queer scifi book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes. Links to preorder: books2read.com/deadnewworld

I completed my comic book "To read" pile... I am now allowed to buy more comics... ...I already bought more comics...

Horror is my primary genre. But if I had to give it up I'd probably want to write pulpy crime or sword and sorcery.

The difference between a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant is the difference between a $20 bill and a napkin that a fascist wrote "twenty dollars" on.

I never post. Because generally I think who cares what I think or feel. Posting online is frequently just screaming into the void. Sometimes I need that though. So-- FUCK FASCIST. FUCK ICE. FUCK TRUMP.

“Animist gods are real, because I got high and spoke with a pigeon.” #onelinewed #WIPWednesday

This is from a 1990 She-Hulk comic. They're passing through a universe called the "Trashiverse" where everything is trash.

Hey Toronto, these homophobes/transphobes harassed my friends and pepper-sprayed them on the TTC last night. Let me know if you can ID them.

On this day in 1928, James Randi was born in Toronto. An accomplished stage magician, he was also a scientific skeptic who challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims using his magician background. He was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

We stayed up to watch The Perseids, but with every streak of light there was a single scream. Not from the earth, but from above. We wanted to watch, but we didn't want to hear. So hands against ears. We enjoy the show, without the trouble of having to listen. #HorrorWritersChat

Question 3 "Couch blamed for series of missing person cases" Also, "Trailer park mummy may or may not be a god." #HorrorWritersChat

Question 2 What would make me give up writing horror?... I'll be honest, if there's a steady paycheque in it, I'll write whatever you want. #HorrorWritersChat

Question 1 Conner. I write a bit of everything. Primarily horror comedies. I love hearing about peoples jobs. The weird little details. #HorrorWritersChat

I hate in movies with medieval combat to make one side seem like tactical geniuses the other side has to be completely brainless. Just put the bar on the floor and pretend a shield wall was a brilliant singular maneuver rather than a obvious standard.

Conner. I write a little of everything. This is my neighborhood owl.

Professor Beatrice Abracadabrantesque, the hero of A Journey into the Abyss, lost her spouse in a tragic failed mission to the stars. Now it is her sole goal to honour her love and make sure their death was not in vain. Follow Beatrice’s story when the Kickstarter campaign launches on June 24!

If you see this, post a Frankenstein.

"Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" in the 6th grade. Do I really need to explain?

THE LAST OF US but it's 90 minute experimental film about the staff of a restuarant silently and solemnly cleaning up for the night... occasionally someone of camera wails... but no one reacts, and we never see who...

Peanuts.

Coming out of this election, while we celebrate a torie defeat, lets not just focus on the big bad losing, lets also look at the PPC, whose vote counts in some places seem so low, that it's clear that candiates couldn't convince there own familes to vote for them.

Sometimes, you labour over whether or not a character should stab another character, and then you struggle with the decision of... "Should they stab them again?"

How I arrived on bluesky

Some times, writing is plotting, exploring themes, letting the poetic prose flow... other times you're just sitting there thinking, "Should this character stab this other character?"

I put on music for my baby every day, and recently I've been playing "Sharon, Lois, and Bram" and... well this has been stuck in my head for days: youtu.be/u8MX9tIskXc?...

Reminder to writers out there. Some times a break is exactly what you need. Walk away for a few hours, or even a few days. Put your mind elsewhere and come back. I know, if you're not writing you're not breathing. But it's okay, play a fucking video game, read a book, watch tv. Then come back.

I don’t, actually, some of my followers might. Any be of help here?

Five romance movies to get to know me: Take this waltz Harold and Maud Before Sunset When Harry Met Sally Pumpkin

#HorrorWritersChat q4 She'd probably keep eatting comfort food, but probably not eat meat for awhile...

#HorrorWritersChat q2 I don't drink, so no idea how this would taste... maybe it tasting bad would be appropriate actually... it'd be called a Muddy Mummy. Chocolate milk and gin with ice.

#HorrorWritersChat q1 Conner. Horror comedies. WIP is a cult/mummy novella. No title yet.

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Back in 2020, I was nearing the complition of a comic, I was 7 pages away from finishing the art. Then I entered the worst point of my life, and stopped drawing comics, and started writing prose. Last night for the first time in years I looked at that comic... Here are some of my faviourite pages:

Hi #PortfolioDay! My name is Matt McGrath and I’m a comic writer from Toronto! This June I’ll be launching my science fantasy graphic novel with co-creator Merissa Mayhew on Kickstarter. We’d love it if you would sign up for a prelaunch page! 👇👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

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#HorrorWritersChat Q3 To busy answer everything today. But... You can leave a house with black mold, but you can't leave a lung infection at the door. That's going with ya.

Hold on, you're telling me women overwhelmingly don't support this guy? Wild.

#HorrorWritersChat Q4: The safe word was "Equinox". Saddly he didn't remember it until after the hot coals, prods and flaying.

#HorrorWritersChat He was an idiot. He thought ‘Equinox’ was skin cream for horses. I managed to convince him that ‘snap, crackle and pop’ was a form of capital punishment in mediaeval times. You could make him believe anything. Like ‘drinking bleach is good for you’. He was only 12, the poor lad.