Laura Keating

[Very Attenborough voice] The Author, startled by onlookers, observed in her natural New Brunswick habitat. Help keep this isolated creature's environment thriving. Buy the paperback (+ ebook FREE) here ➡️ store.tenebrouspress.com/products/ago...

I've got two events in Nova Scotia coming up this October! Truro: See you at NovelTea Bookstore on Oct. 24 for a chill signing event! Bridgewater: See you along with @brittnibrinn.bsky.social & @lorekeating.bsky.social on Halloween/Oct. 31 for some spooky horror readings and a Q&A + signing!

Excited to read some creepy stories with @slhawthorn.bsky.social and @lorekeating.bsky.social on Halloween! 🖤🧡🖤

Greetings from the Query Trenches (but at least I made my word count today)

“My best writing usually comes from a personal place, and Whalefall is no different.” — Daniel Kraus

Can't wait to share some creepy tales with you all!

Go be terrified, Nova Scotians! #Bridgewater #Horror

This Halloween I'll be in Bridgewater with @brittnibrinn.bsky.social and @slhawthorn.bsky.social for a sPoOoOky reading. Join us 🎃🕯️📖🦇

ok, I'll let my husband know we're getting married again

incredibly humbling to have been first through the breach on this. no trans woman had ever had a horror novel at a big five publisher before MANHUNT, which is not to slap myself on the back but to comment on how lonely and scary it was. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I need a Hypeman/woman to keep me up when I'm burning out but my loved ones have heard my full pacing chain-smoking gin martini-spilling lament one time too many. Hype for Hire. A world of apps I don't want, I want that.

America is so fucked up that I went looking for the source of "is 30,000 a lot of money" posts only to learn the 30,000 is...medical debt from giving birth in a hospital that somehow got turned into a hypothetical windfall by economists???? Marie Antoinette only said let them eat cake!

It's been more than a decade. I bet I can play The Vanishing of Ethan Carter again like it's the first time, now.

I'm getting rid of all of my (non-sentimental clothes), hiring a tailor, and having a small perfect wardrobe of three gorgeous fitted suits, several dresses for different seasons, and one silk one cotton set of pyjamas, made for me, all of extremely good quality material. With matching hats.

Watching BELOW last night, wondering how many viewers from further away will think that getting "Screeched In" is just a bit they made up for the show. And do they know it's not just Kissing the Cod, but you sometimes get the option to Kiss a Puffin's Arse. Yes b'y.

And a hint of snow/frost on the air. It's a proper October, bebe.

deleting your posts about your in-progress good shit is how you know it's the great shit my darlings, shut the fuck up more

VIBE CHECK🔥 KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social ✅They hear your every move... ✅...and they come from underground ✅coming of age under the worst possible circumstances ✅So, the world has ended & everything's fucked. What happens next? KAYAK is out now at your preferred bookstore or direct from us⬇️

"This is the way Paxton, Vance, and the rest of the GOP have gone after Talarico all year, branding him “Talafreako” for his pro-LGBTQ stances and constantly suggesting that he is both weird and gay." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Starting a new project, spur of the moment, something I've never done before. A picture book. This one means a lot to me.

Just remembered this underrated Feist gem youtu.be/OETsKhoMrbc?...

Do you have a friend who likes scented candles? Do you hate them?

14 more queries sent off (more to go.) Now, we continue to play the waiting game.

With TEN requests for full, it is time to go over the trench top. I'm sending out queries to all remaining (open and available) agents in my Query List. ✨Wish me luck!!✨

Obviously, it sucks to constantly have to deal with them, but it's also a little funny that author scams are so prevalent. Like, you're trying to get people's money and you chose...authors?

[eats turkey non-stop for three days] me: gosh why am I so tired?

way to bury the lede

Nova Scotia lost a legend this weekend. Love you always, Grandad ❤️ A man who released a CD at 84, was still stacking his own firewood at 91, who reminded us at every toast that "Pleasure shared is pleasure multiplied," who laughed loud, sang in a deep baritone, and moved like the wind in a canoe.

Another Request for FULLLLLLL

And when she thought it impossible, she stripped another 1000 words from her manuscript

Just hear me out…

A lot of folks have never listened to/the lyrics of Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy" and it shows youtu.be/fZokPAuhD6k?...

We have the most dangerous people on the planet insisting the most harmless things are dangerous and the most dangerous things are harmless and anything in-between is exploitable, so yes we should all be very angry and scream Joy for the things that bring us Joy for every day we have them.

YOU CAN BE A WRITER AND NOT THINK YOUR DRAFTS ARE TRASH IT'S OKAY I PROMISE

[Me, reading through my latest novel]: This is really good I like it and think I did a great job :)