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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼

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Horror Writer of the Queer Kind 🛸 • Award-winning playwright • Chronically Tired Dude Made Out of 90s Arcade Carpet Fabric • [🇵🇷✊🏽/🏳️‍⚧️/🏳️‍🌈] They/He 🌐 https://mitchmiller.carrd.co/

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · Aug 25

• One serial killer
• One Final Boy
• A hungry mall
• An ever-watching state-of-the-art security system
• And management? Planning the next employee pizza party.

Keep an 👁️ out and trust no man in uniform.

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#horrorsky

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Get Ready for Monitored Activity

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 10h

oh how i'd kill for a little anya mouthwashing on my desk....

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Good Smile Company @en.goodsmile.com · 11h

Preorders open now!

Good Smile Company
Mouthwashing
Nendoroid Anya

From the horror game "Mouthwashing" comes a Nendoroid of Anya!

Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/dBcdSM

#goodsmile

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Ripley 👽💖 @skullingway.bsky.social · 8d

#iwtv #interviewwiththevampire #art

Drawing of Louis de Pointe du Lac wearing Armani, covered in blood, looking soulless

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Ripley 👽💖 @skullingway.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely one of my fave films tbh #art #horror

Illustration of the film Jacob’s ladder from 1990. The top is a panel of Jacob with his back to the fence and string spotlight on him. Second is the serene from the film on the train with the ghostly looking doctor looking out the back. The bottom is a pinkish red panel, dog tags with no name and string. The title of the film is in large bold letters.

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 12h

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 12h

Jumping on the "fauxflix" #TheBookBazaar25 promo bandwagon.

Since I was already working on a 'little' something for MonAct, figured I'd get flashy with it.

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 12h

Jumping on the "fauxflix" #TheBookBazaar25 promo bandwagon.

Since I was already working on a 'little' something for MonAct, figured I'd get flashy with it.

tinyurl.com/monitoredactivity

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 14h

10/10 would absolutely go see in concert.

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S.S. Genesee @geneseedraws.bsky.social · 1d

Here's one with the whole band—the Dusty Brooms! 🧹 They're the band in my new 1970s rockstar romance, SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES 🎸

SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES is now available on KU, ebook or paperback!
📖: books2read.com/SFTB

Retro anime-style artwork of the main characters from S.S. Genesee's book, SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES. From left-to-right: Ray Roderick, Gene Hillard, Pat Taylor, Santiago Arteaga, and Stefan Grzeskowiak.

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Matthew the Spoopiest of Ducks @backwardsknight.com · 1d

Good morning and happy hump day, friends! We're one day closer.... to what, you may ask?

To The Book Bazaar! A collaborative crowdfunding campaign where 25 projects are banding together to bring The Hype™

I'm aiming to bring The Dark Side of Super to life as an audio book!

#TheBookBazaar25

Promotional image for The Dark Side of Super, that makes it look like a show on Netflix. In the image, it is called Fauxflix, and features a moodboard overlaid with a Netflix-like UI.

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 15h

whoa! I haven't thought about Darkness Falls in YEARS.

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Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 15h

I've done the thing! Just in time for dnd to start. Here's my Netflix mock-up for Fairy Seasons. I think I did a pretty decent job. There was a really cool template I got from @valwrites.ca. Thanks Val!

A fun graphic of a mock Netflix show for Fairy Seasons. There are related movies to the "show", such as Midsommar, The Last Unicorn, Labyrinth and more.

The main graphic for the show is the fairy that's on the cover of Fairy Seasons. One side of her is pristine and golden. The other side is rotten and stringy.

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 15h

Look who had the budget for AppleTV while the rest of us have to share viewership with Stranger Things or whatever. 😂

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 23h

Everyone in #BookBazaar25 is posting these "manifesting" Netflix faux screens, but hey, if I want anyone to pick me up, it's high-budget AppleTV. Not me putting me next to Foundation 😂

If this looks interesting, you should follow: TheLuckyMachine.com Maybe someday it will happen!

#TLM #Writing

A faux screenshot of the AppleTV home screen, showing The Lucky Machine, a Sci-fi TV-Show on season 2. It features various images of a glitzy bot and some other faces.

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 19h

Woohoo! My latest is a queer Appalachian cosmic horror novel called CHILDREN OF SOLITUDE. It's available all over!

www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...

#HorrorWritersChat

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Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction) @markguyer.bsky.social · 19h

Almost didn't participate this week because of work, but I’m thrilled I did! Thanks, Eryn for the awesome questions.

S.C. Fisher is a friend and she could really benefit from selling more books.

Check out her excellent Base Fear books!

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Deadly Secrets: Base Fear: A Novel of Horror

Amazon.com: Deadly Secrets: Base Fear: A Novel of Horror eBook : Fisher, S.C.: Books

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A Local Cryptid @michelleheller.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks for another fun week! I would like to use my spotlight this week to draw attention to a friend in need instead. A beloved member of my writing community on discord has been suffering from Crohn's disease in a catastrophic way this year. 🧵

Donate to Making up lost wages after a string of hospitalizations..., organized by Nathan Sprayberry

Hi, I'm Nathan and I'm fundraising because Amanda, the love o… Nathan Sprayberry needs your support for Making up lost wages after a string of hospitalizations...

www.gofundme.com

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 19h

#HorrorWritersChat

A few years ago I wrote a book about the Ealing Studios classic portmanteau horror film Dead of Night, released in 1945. To mark its 80th anniversary, STUDIOCANAL will release a new 4K version on October 20th. If you haven’t seen this film, correct that deficit immediately.

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 19h

Appropriately thematic, MONITORED ACTIVITY's main character is a minimum wage worker in a mall trying to eat him and everyone else whole. ✨

#HorrorWritersChat

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you for hosting, Eryn! Wonderful week as usual.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 19h

Here we go, #HorrorWriterChat, the chance you've all been waiting for. Let's pimp our books.
And if you could share others, get them seen as well, that would be good.
Finally, I would love it if you could repost some of Matt's posts. He's having a rough time and could do with a boost.
Tanks.

there is no algorithm here, so visibility depends on engagement with others.
hit the questions, use the hashtag, share other writer’s stuff.
finally, have you got something to shout about? Now’s your chance.

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J. Neira @jneiraauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Ooh I might have to say yes by default due to rarely having supernatural be part of my sci-horror. But are Rose Marie's financial woes scarier than the killer animatronics? No, but they DO complicate things & add misery.

#HorrorWritersChat Q4

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 20h

Q4.
Do hang around for the outro, in around 10 minutes.

Which is the easier route? Or the more satisfying?

#HorrorWritersChat

Q4
In your stories: is desperation scarier than the supernatural?

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 20h

My guiding principle is "comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable" and if I'm not doing both, I've missed the mark #HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 20h

#HorrorWritersChat Q3.

Who do you scare? As a writer, it's our chance to bite back, perhaps.

Q3
Do you write horror that scares the poor, the wealthy or everyone equally?

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 19h

If you're too poor to move, you've no option but to deal with your haunted house.

If you're desperate to work, you won't feel able to risk standing up to your (possibly demonic) boss.

Real-life can be scarier than the supernatural - but writing horror allows us to explore both

#HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 20h

Q4.
Do hang around for the outro, in around 10 minutes.

Which is the easier route? Or the more satisfying?

#HorrorWritersChat

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 19h

Desperation, 100%

My flavor of "supernatural" veers into "sillier" frights like aliens and such, so raw human desperation feels like the right way to go most of the time.

#HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 20h

Q4.
Do hang around for the outro, in around 10 minutes.

Which is the easier route? Or the more satisfying?

#HorrorWritersChat

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 19h

#HorrorWritersChat

The horror I write is more likely to scare people with certain opinions rather than rich/poor.

But those folks probably won't read my books anyway.

Example: one wealthy character is a child-free black Professor who runs her own goat sanctuary & pays off folks student debt 😊

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 20h

#HorrorWritersChat Q3.

Who do you scare? As a writer, it's our chance to bite back, perhaps.

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