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• Post #2973178

  RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/05/18/limited-time-offer-1-99-ebooks-available/ Popping in to say my books are on offer this month & I have sales coming in June as well. #Horror #HorrorBooks #BookMastodon #Romance #RomanceReaders

• Post #2973177

  Popping in to say my books are on offer this month & I have sales coming in June as well. I'm just a human-passing creature in an A-line dress writing unhinged Gothic Horror, weird-girl genre mashups, asexuals in terrible situations, and the occasional contemporary queer romance as a treat. Links and stuff: https://cmrosens-fiction.carrd.co/ #Horror #HorrorBooks #BookMastodon #Romance #Romance

• Post #2973176

  On a Dario Argento kick tonight! What's your favourite Argento? #Films #Giallo

• Post #2973175

  RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/05/25/media-highlights-the-best-of-the-best/ All my favourites from the last 6 months (from Nov)! Books, Podcasts, Shows, Films. #Horror #HorrorBooks #Film #FilmMastodon #TV

• Post #2640495

  RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/05/06/author-spotlight-gothic-horror-author-julie-lew/ I posted this one on Wednesday, Lew's novel is out now (brand new this week, I think!) and here they tell us all about it. #HorrorBooks #horror #gothicHorror #writers #authorInterviews

• Post #2640494

  @jimrion.com@bsky.brid.gy Which books have you read like this?? And what subgenres do you like in horror - I can think of a few that match your preference like The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steel, but not sure if that would be your type of book

• Post #2042840

  Rewatching BEING HUMAN - does anyone remember that show? I loved it when it first came out! #BeingHuman #Fantasy #Horror #TVShows

• Post #1921003

  RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/05/01/april-2026-writing-round-up/ I've posted my writing round-up for April if anyone's interested! #writing #writer #horror #fantasy #writers #indieAuthor

• Post #1916844

  RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/04/24/author-spotlight-british-horror-crime-thriller-author-wm-parslow/ WM Parslow writes a combination of crime thriller & folk horror, with the fictional prison HMP Page as the setting for his novel THE STANDING DEAD. #HorrorBooks #Horror #Read #Reading #AuthorInterviews

• Post #1916843

  #PennedPossibilities 996 Share some of your favorite lines from your WIP I'm writing a story from the perspective of eldritch horrors passing as people: Those eyes were seeing through her, through the human flesh she wore, and into the vastness of what it contained. They were looking through the mask of skin, and into the abomination of human-passing sickness and corruption that passed as a ‘family’, into the blood and bone of her. The dread weight of it nearly dropped her to the floo...

• Post #1916842

  #WritersCoffeeClub April 24. Share a silly mistake you've made while writing. Oops I did the wrong date on my previous post??? There we go, there's a silly mistake... I don't know, loads. I think because I'm a jigsaw writer, experimenting with lots of pieces, that when I put things together my draft isn't always coherent/cohesive. So there are plenty of continuity errors and stuff like that to smooth over in the *total overhaul* stage, and then the rew...

• Post #1638907

  #WritersCoffeeClub Apr. 24 — Share your current biggest creative frustration. I think my biggest current frustration is that I am spending so much time trying to market my existing work, design Bookbub ads and try to come up with reels and TikTok videos and YouTube shorts, that I'm not creating as much as I want to. I genuinely would hire a PA or content creator to do all that for me. I have 2 trad pubbed titles, and my publisher does behind-the-scenes stuff, but not social media.

• Post #1520605

  RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/04/22/author-spotlight-gothic-weird-fiction-author-nikoline-kaiser/ Interview with Nikoline Kaiser spotlighting her Gothic Weird novella THE DREAMING OF MAN, out now with Neon Hemlock. #HorrorBooks #gothichorror #gothicfiction #WeirdWednesday #weirdfiction

• Post #1464957

  Curious, as it's #IndieApril, has anyone picked up indie horror books this month, if so what have you picked up/read? #HorrorBooks #WhatToRead #IndiePub #Indie #BookMastodon #Booktoot

• Post #1317365

  I've given this advice (solicited) before to someone really struggling with a WIP and idk who else needs to hear this, but if what you're writing is deeply traumatic and personal, you REALLY need to think about how you're going to cope with *productising your own trauma* if you're hoping to sell that finished book. Readers won't know it's your trauma. They may not even find it interesting. The actual act of writing it and/or having it dismissed as a product might even ret...

• Post #1219776

  I've been watching a lot of John Carpenter films lately. Wondering which are people's favourites? I really love In the Mouth of Madness and Dark Star, also Prince of Darkness and The Thing, and They Live. Those would be my top 5 I think. #horrorMastodon #HorrorMovies #FilmMastodon #JohnCarpenterRanked

• Post #1210704

  Sci Fi Horror where it's not about the AI getting sentient, it's about humans starting to think only in AI patterns, from writing to speech to an 'ethical' system, and nobody knows if they're interacting online with real people or not bc nobody can tell the difference anymore #Horror #WritingPrompt #StoryIdea #Dystopia

• Post #1210703

  #HorrorMovies I've enjoyed so far this month: Pretty Lethal (2026) dir. Vicky Jewson. Livide/Livid (2011) dirs. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury. The Void (2016) dirs. Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski. (REWATCH) Sauna (2008) dir. Antti-Jussi Annila. They Live (1988) dir. John Carpenter. I also saw Kill List (2011) dir. Ben Wheatley; yeah, it was fine, I get why it polarises people. The Howling (1981) dir. Joe Dante (rewatch for the ungroomed Bichon Frise design) (continued)

• Post #1210702

  If anyone wants cheap books, Haunt Publishing is closing its doors and has 66% off them all with the code HAUNT66 at checkout. I love this press - they have loads of Gothic goodies, and also carry one of my fave poem collections, WHERE DECAY SLEEPS by Anna Cheung, and one of my fave novels, BENOTHINGED by Alvar Theo. Really sad it's going. https://www.hauntpublishing.com/ #Writing #Books #Booktoot #DiscountBooks #Indie

• Post #1210700

  RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/04/15/author-spotlight-meet-a-poet-pixiewithpens/ New Spotlight up for Pixie, a poet based in Sweden but writing in English. Their new collection, Poetry F☆cks, is out now. You can either read the post on Mastodon, or head to cmrosens.com to read the original. Follow the quoted account & subscribe to notifications to get posts and spotlights weekly, although pixie is the only poetry spotlight for this year. Check out cmrosens.com/author-spotlight-seri...

• Post #1210699

  Me: watching the end credits of literally any film TV: let's watch The Hound of the Baskervilles now Me: has seen multiple versions many times: not today, thank you TV: :((((( Me today: finishes another John Carpenter film, gets distracted with end credits music in the background TV: AND NOW - SIR IAN RICHARDSON IS ....... SHERLOCK HOLMES

• Post #1011852

  QueerLit.co.uk is the biggest LGBTQ bookshop in Europe, so as I still haven't got around to querying agents but I do have trad pubbed books (!) I've contacted them myself to see if they'll host my titles. I really need more people to know that THE CROWS is ace rep, with a touch-starved ace monsterboi who loves touch but is sex averse. There are unconvential relationships, a sentient house with a genderfluid avatar and plural vibes, & it's contemporary Br...

• Post #1011850

  It's bank holiday so husband's doing DIY The big saw is out on the workbench (not a euphemism) Listening for the hierarchy of swearing: 'soapy tit wank' & other choice phrases = something has not quite gone according to plan, this is annoying but not life threatening 'shitshitshit' = investigate, ensure First Aid kit is accessible 'incoherent screaming' = dial 999 immediately dead silence = suspicious #BankHoliday #Hap...

• Post #1011848

  I'm now snowed under with author spotlight requests so closing early - no longer open to **new** requests. If people don't get back to me I don't usually chase them, so I will just move stuff around and get others in their slots then reopen for first come first served to fill the gaps. Idk though I have such overwhelming dread about what might happen tomorrow or the next day with everything that it seems so bizarre to be planning things like this in advance. Still. O...

• Post #1011846

  RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/04/08/author-spotlight-paranormal-ecohorror-author-s-m-mack/ New author interview is up! Spotlighting S.M. Mack, author of DEATH VALLEY BLOOMS, a novella from Neon Hemlock Press. #writingcommunity #HorrorBooks #paranormalbooks #ecohorror

• Post #1011845

  RE: https://social.horrorhub.club/@CMRosens/116353029097595187 They said yes!! And so did Gay's the Word (the oldest queer bookshop in the UK, based in London). They can only get 1-2 copies though it looks like. I'm wondering if I've nearly gone through 1 print run?

• Post #1006193

  Occult & Supernatural Giveaway! I've got a free short story in this (The Sound of Darkness), which you can also listen to on Mick Dark's YouTube channel or on my podcast as a bonus episode. The Sound of Darkness was originally published with the anthology F is for Fear by Red Cape Publishing as part of their A-Z of Horror anthologies. The theme of the anthology was common fears and phobias, so I picked nictophobia for my spooky tale. https://books.bookfunnel.com/horror_and_super...

• Post #917467

  #WritersCoffeeClub 4th of April: Do you switch between past and present tense? How do you make it work? ooh I honestly don't remember if I have tried this or not; I think in some experiments, but nothing that worked for me enough to use it.

• Post #912314

  #WritersCoffeeClub Apr. 03 — Have you studied writing? Did it prepare you, or did you learn more by doing? I studied it at school, and then the rest has been self-taught. I definitely think school gave me the basics - I was already writing stories by age 10/11 - and my English teacher sent a piece of mine off to a Uni lecturer mate of his to mark it as a Uni piece. It got a 2:1 iirc. So I think that pushed me to learn more by myself & work out WHAT works, WHY it works, etc. Def a lot of Doi...

• Post #910707

  @art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art Fab! Thanks!