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TOAD PSALM by B.R. Yeager A clairvoyant woman falls backward and forward in time following the death of her husband. Cover art by DD Herschlein Coming in 2027!!

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Just a reminder that in a month I’ll be slinging horror books at @voidcon.bsky.social in the nightmare realm of… Pennsylvania!

I feel like doing talk about this much. There was a span of years where I didn't create. Didn't write , draw or paint.. I discovered gravely unusual magazine, and they opened a door.Now in 2026, I'm creating, painting, writing. I've found my friends. I'll see many of them at @voidcon.bsky.social

greasygoat.substack.com/p/arc-review... @dangerslater.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social #booksky #horrorsky #arcreview #horrorreview #bookreview

Laid out a 52-page spread, including a cover and a full-page ad on the back, in just a few hours. You don’t need AI to create, you just need a little time, a little skill (in my case a very little skill). AI wouldn’t help with the actual time-consuming part: printing, stapling, packing.

I used stuff from the public domain and made a cover for a thing that I will have available at VoidCon then online afterwards:

One of the high-points of the last decade for me has been watching the deserved rise of David. Met him at a signing (where he told me he was writing a book). Heard him read at the first Voidcon. Then read his 1st book. I’m a fan. Amazing writer and person. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/arts...

Chatted with @bleakhousing.bsky.social about his excellent THE SHIP OF DEATH! www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/10/06/i...

"I’m trying to complicate it and make it do something different, which is not to say that I don’t love books where someone opens a door and they do pass through a fantastical world and have an adventure..." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/10/06/i...

Hey, I'll be here, and unless I chicken out I'll be reading Saturday night. Not sure about making that midnight GOOP panel, might need a six of monster energy drinks at my age.

No charge to drop by, say hi, get your books signed! bsky.app/profile/void...

Winds of putrescence. A corrupt autumn. A dark abyss that sings hymns with no throat. Come hang!

One of our absolute fave things in indie publishing is New Art Day. Just this week we got cover roughs in from @slimyswampghost.bsky.social & @kerissonlp.bsky.social for a pair of 2027 titles & CHRIST Y'ALL🔥 At this point I just feel fuckin' BAD for the deluded idiots who opt not to work w/humans🚫🤖

"THIS DISNEY+ SHOW IS THE ANTI AI STORY WE NEED RIGHT NOW" "THIS AMAZON PRIME SHOW IS A NEEDED UPDATE TO A STORY ABOUT BULLYING" is the corporation your friend is the brand ip gonna save us is walt disney my mother

GOOD

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Can't stop thinking about the people who want horror to be hopeful and uplifting and why that is so diametrically opposed to what horror is and why we need horror

DRACULA CAR will be available very soon—printer says the books should arrive this weekend. I plan to put it up for sale early next week. I'll have copies available for international shipping by request, too, and will have copies on-hand at @voidcon.bsky.social next month.

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Every Voidcon shirt I design is fire

THERE IS A DARKNESS TO THE WORLD A BITTERNESS TO LIFE YOU CANNOT ESCAPE IT YOU CAN ONLY CHOKE IT BACK VOIDCON T-shirt design by @ossuary.bsky.social

We’re just normal men

VOIDCON 4 SCHEDULE HATH DROPPED

SHITWORDMUSEBOMB COMING SOON. self-collaborative ergodic short story collection mangled into a text-based oracle 100% handmade to make your own meaning. 19 decks only available @voidcon.bsky.social but stay tuned for the game adaptation coming 2027

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Me rolling up to @voidcon.bsky.social this November

I need everyone to order Midwestern Chrome today. Jesus Christ this story broke me. You know, like in a good way? Why are we all weird like this

HWA- “we had no idea what this person represented whose editorial/advertisement we sent to all our members in today’s newsletter. Please admire our vigilance as we throw her under the bus. You see, we here at the HWA run a very tight ship.”

Came straight here after reading that HWA newsletter and you guys did not disappoint

I am opposed to "AI" writing, and I am opposed to the HWA. But I repeat myself.

Horror "writers" inventing fun new ways to be quislings.

I wonder sometimes what it must feel like to be deeply embedded in the HWA. Because from the outside, it generally appears as though the real mission statement of the organization is about sheltering mediocrity, and I’d assume at times an awareness of that must insist itself, however unbidden.

“There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” wasn’t meant to be a warm blanket to wrap themselves in that these grifters always treat it as.

I heard that the HWA, that rapscallion of an organization, is using racist parallels to shill AI slop to writers while calling us “cowards” in their latest newsletter because we…*checks notes* don’t want to use AI. Oh HWA, you forget - cowards bend the knee - and I only see you on the floor.

To the surprise of no one, the hwa included some very out of touch, incredibly ignorant, pro-ai shit in their newsletter. Fuck ai. Fuck the hwa. Fuck em all.

It is worth noting that the writer of that HWA newsletter telling people to embrace AI, has an AI based coaching app they are selling

Had a great time at @fokusphoto.bsky.social at their studio getting some photos of some of my paintings done. Look for prints of these and other pieces at my table at Sparta Metal Fest on 8-22 and One Of US Midwest Horror Book Fair on 9-5, and of course @voidcon.bsky.social in November.