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Eric LaRocca@ericlarocca.bsky.social |
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Bram Stoker Award® finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning Author | Lit Rep: Priya Doraswamy | Film/TV Rep: Ryan Lewis (He/They)
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Andrew S. Fuller
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Finished reading EVERYTHING THE DARKNESS EATS by Eric LaRocca, which I found to be frightening, devastating, and all at once full of hope.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
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This is a smart thread about "separating the art from the artist", something white men always get from the public and minorities almost never do.
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Alex de Campi
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I wish you knew how much shit marginalized creators get for just EXISTING. There’s always some insecure hater digging up our contact details to tell us how vile we are, because we don’t have the default body, because we succeeded in spite of that
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Alex de Campi
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When someone talks about whether you can separate someone from their work, I know the someone they’re talking about is a white man. Marginalized creators (including young women who are that man’s victims) are never allowed to have their work considered apart from their marginalization.
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Lincoln Michel
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People really need to give up the idea there's any connection between morality and art. Immoral people are capable of creating moving, empathetic art. Nothing about writing dark and violent art implies the artist is themselves dark and violent. Etc. There just isn't a connection.
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Hailey Piper
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It's an interview with the vampire ... novelist!
Not only did ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT get a starred review in Publishers Weekly, but I got to interview with PW too, talking about queer horror, vampires, and the novel itself, coming Oct 15th from Titan Books! 🫀
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Also this is mindset is extremely dangerous for POC and GLBTQ authors. Because they're already vulnerable, so people can easily say oh "black writer wrote horror story? We must yank it from shelves because it's horror, horror is only written by immoral people."
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Lincoln Michel
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Similarly, there's no connection between enjoying art and morality. Reading happy, hopepunk work doesn't make you a good person. Enjoying dark, and challenging art doesn't make you a bad person. We are all drawn to create and consume art for many indiscernible and unknown reasons.
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Gabino Iglesias
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Write that thing. Make it weird. Make it sad. Make it funny or kinky or scary or whatever you want. Write what makes you happy.
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Indrapramit Das
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I will never understand how people can, through luck, privilege, hard work, attain that level of being beloved and wealthy through their art, such a rarity, and waste it by being so horrendous and abusive to others.
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Shortwave Publishing
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"Profoundly devastating... and nasty as hell." — @ericlarocca.bsky.social on @natcassidy.bsky.social's REST STOP
👀 Full cover wrap reveal! 👀 Featuring some intense blurbs and a lot of googly eyes. Watch your step... we're still cleaning up the blood.
REST STOP is out everywhere October 15th!
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Stephen Graham Jones
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surprise, I'm a People person:
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Joe Koch
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Happy Invaginies Day! It's here, my new collection! If you like literary horror, surrealist trash, lyrical splatter, or poetic discomfort and rage, this may be the book for you.
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Christopher Golden
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So there's some news coming soon. But while you're waiting...you're going to want to have read this. Get yours today! :)
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Joe Koch
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Two days until my book birthday, should I order an INVAGINIES cake from a grocery store but not give them any explanation of what that means? It's a made up word so it means whatever you think it means!
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
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Well deserved. Vajra is doing some of the best work in spec fic.
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Gabino Iglesias
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If House of Bone and Rain becomes a hit, I’m gonna keep writing. If no one reads it, I’m gonna keep writing. Not writing is not an option.
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Me and @ericlarocca.bsky.social in conversation with Meaghan from Brookline Booksmith last night! We had a great chat with a lovely audience. Posting this from the airport because I was in Boston for under 24 hours this time haha
(photos via Eric)
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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This is happening in just a few hours! If you're in the Boston area and looking for a distraction from the heatwave, come say hi
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Eric LaRocca
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Great to see my upcoming novel “At Dark, I Become Loathsome” included in the PW Fall 2024 Preview for SF, Fantasy, and Horror! ❤️⚰️
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Joe Koch
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I love short fiction, both reading and writing it, so much more than novels. The changes in the past few years have been dire indeed.
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Hailey Piper
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Queer writers don't owe anyone purity in their queer characters, not even to queer readers. These aren't Aesop's fables or role models. They're part of a fictional story. And we have to keep pointing out this obvious fact year after year because more clueless people keep being invented.
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Gabino Iglesias
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I know things like query letters require comps and that many reviewers love comparisons, but when you’re writing, fuck being “the next (insert writer)”; always focus on being the first you.
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Gabino Iglesias
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Here’s your mood for today: no one can stop you. You can create whatever you want. Will it be everyone’s cup of tea? Hell no, and that’s okay. Do the thing.
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Eric LaRocca
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. @paultremblay.bsky.social on @scumbelievable.bsky.social and…. Me?? Spotted recently in the Los Angeles Times. Cool 🤙
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
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Starting the 13th, I'm on tour for the release of CUCKOO! 6/13, 6:30pm: MCNALLY JACKSON, 4 Fulton St, NYC 6/14, 6pm: DOYLESTOWN BOOKS, Doylestown PA 6/16, 5pm: GREEDY READS, Baltimore MD 6/20, 6pm: FOUNTAIN BOOKSTORE, Richmond VA 6/21, 6:30pm: LOYALTY BOOKSTORE, Washington D.C.
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Hailey Piper
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Congratulations to all last night's Nebula winners! 🎉🎉
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Clay McLeod Chapman
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At Dark, I Become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca hits—wounds, perhaps—shelves January 2025.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
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my advice to writers is to simply not take work that pays pennies. don't ever do it. you can't get the time back.
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Laura Blackwell (she/her)
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So glad I made it to the #StokerCon panel on horror playwriting! Great insights from @natcassidy.bsky.social, @narfnitsirk.bsky.social, @ericlarocca.bsky.social, Matt Kennel, and @kevinwetmore.bsky.social. @rebelsam94.bsky.social kept the conversation popping! So good!
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This Is Horror | Michael David Wilson
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100 days of This Is Horror Podcast guests. Day 14 is Eric LaRocca. We spoke with @ericlarocca.bsky.social in episodes 431, 432, 486, 488, 515, 516, 518, 559, and 560 of This Is Horror Podcast.
This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances is out now.
www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-431-eric...
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Chuck Wendig
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PSST. If you were like, "Hey I really want that evil apple book by Chuck Wendig but all I have are these accursed one-hundred and ninety-nine pennies," you will find it on sale for *exactly that price* at all your favorite electronic bookmongers.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
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It's here. The cover for my new novella, BLACK FLAME, coming 2025. Art by DYSPHIC Design by Esther Sarah Kim
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Lee Mandelo
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Watched “I Saw the TV Glow” last night with friends and it fucked me alllllll the way up, down to the bone. Absolutely fucking stunning film—and if you can see it in a theater you should, for the affective experience alone. Though be ready to dread-sob
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Hailey Piper
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Everything Wrath says here is absolutely damn right:
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Delilah S. Dawson
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Look, y'all. If @ericlarocca.bsky.social says it's gruesome, it's GRUESOME. Please preorder a copy of Guillotine from your favorite place, in your favorite form. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763731...
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Eric LaRocca
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NOW AVAILABLE TO REQUEST ON NETGALLEY!!! ⚰️⚰️⚰️
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Eric LaRocca
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Rec 10 Lesser Known Horror Movies 1. The Third Part of the Night (1971) 2. The Devil (1972) 3. Gemini (1999) 4. Strange Circus (2005) 5. Lunacy (2005) 6. Medusa (1998) 7. Cold Fish (2010) 8. The Reflecting Skin (1990) 9. Heartless (2009) 10. Aswang (1994)
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Eric LaRocca
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That same thing happened to me in NYC!!
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Eric LaRocca
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Signed a bunch of stock at Barnes & Noble in Newington, NH. Everyone at the store made me feel so welcomed and loved! ❤️
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Eric LaRocca
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$urgical fe+i$$$hhhh ;)))
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Eric LaRocca
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That’s fair I get it
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Eric LaRocca
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Did a lot of writing today and finally the sun came out ❤️
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Gabino Iglesias
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Cat’s outta the bag! Titan is bringing House of Bone and Rain to the UK.
www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...
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Hailey Piper
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This is why horror awards are either the Stoker's beautiful brick or a pointy sundial for the Shirley Jackson. Even the Shirley Jackson finalist trophies are Lottery rocks. Because we care 😌
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Hildur Knútsdóttir
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I see another "it is impossible to make a living writing" post making the rounds so I just want to tell you again about something the Icelandic government does. They give writers salaries to write books. Icelandic is such a small language, which makes for a very small book market ... 🧵
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Hailey Piper
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I just knew that portrait looked familiar
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Amal El-Mohtar
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It will never not stupefy me that there exist people who sincerely, with some combined action of their heads & hearts, think that the number of Palestinian dead just sort of stopped at 30K for months, or who doubt even that number, who don't know how bombs or building collapse or starvation work.
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Andrew Otis Weiss
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"Tonight's exhibit asks a simple question: How much blood can a single family have on their hands?"
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tj neer
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book 7: THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE SINCE WE LAST SPOKE by @ericlarocca.bsky.social
i do not often (see: never) read short story collections but this collection is going to single-handedly change that. a collection of some of the most haunting writing i’ve read, in a compact package
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