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Weird/Horror Fiction Author & Editor Gevera Bert Piedmont (she/her) Neurodivergent Cyborg Swamp Witch Fictionary Certified StoryCoach Developmental Editor Member: HWA-NE. NEHW. CAPA. ~HORROR TEACHES US TO FIGHT MONSTERS~ https://linktr.ee/bybertabird

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · Apr 21

It's out! amzn.to/4jckTo2
#bookrelease #horror #fungus #shoggoths #fatpeople #mlm #bodyhorror

Fat Monster

Fat Monster [Piedmont, Gevera Bert] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Fat Monster

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · Aug 1

Sseeing as you all desperately want it to be autumn right now, I suppose it's acceptable to start promoting these 😂

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Angel's Mass: books2read.com/angelsmass
Bronze Carriage: books2read.com/bronzecarriage
James Hotel: mybook.to/jameshotel
Spooky S'weird: books2read.com/salmonweirder

Icy cracked background. Cover shows a sketch of a medieval church. Text: Angel's Mass: A Medieval Ghost Story. At Tintern Abbey in Wales, brother Edmund is an ordinary onk haunted by a man only he can see and hear. And Edmund will uncover a mystery that has consequences for everyone.

Creepy forest background image. Book cover shows a simple sketch of a horse and carriage. Text reads: The Small Bronze Carriage on the Mantelpiece: A Gothic Ghost Story. Two men who had not seen each other in decades. An 80-year-old tales of newlyweds travelling across the country to see family. Both encounters linked by one curious and mysterious artefact.

A rainy tarmac background. Book cover shows a simple sketch of a smal manor house. Text reads: The Residents of James Hotel: A 1970s Ghost Story. Stranded at the side of the road one stormy November night, Vince is offered a complimentary room by a local hotelier.

Creepy cemetery background. Book cover shows the same. Spooky Salmonweird: Tales from the village. From the Iron Age to WWII, thirteen spine tingling tales from the periods in which these supporting characters lived.

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Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction) @markguyer.bsky.social · 16h

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!

www.amazon.com/Deadly-Secre...

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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Gary Kruse @garykruseauthor.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for hosting Eryn!

Ruins, Book 3 of my Dark England series comes out on Halloween!

If you like thriller/chiller tales full of deception, betrayal, conspiracies and vengeful ghosts, check out the first two books of the series here:

mybook.to/Dark-England

#HorrorWritersChat

The books Badlands and Bleak Waters against a white and red background.

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for allowing me to expose the chip on my shoulder this week!
Folk horror, Harrowfield, is actually driven by an initial decision taken for financial stability. A decision leading to an isolated village & a community with old beliefs & strange stories.
mybook.to/Harrowfield
#HorrorWritersChat

Full cover spread for Harrowfield novel. Bottom half, a very dark, almost pitch field, the sky above sludgy green. On the front is a single tree sheltering 2 small standing stones. On the back is a larger stone with 2 birds flying above it.
Blurb reads:
Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales. On the edge of this village lies another field, the Harrow Field, the one from which the settlement takes its name. At its entrance stands the Mother Stone, guarding her Children, the two smaller monoliths at the top of the field. This is the ancient site of the Harrowing.

When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. Midsummer approaches and, even though they find him unharmed, they become caught up in strange events which lead them to the Harrowing. An ancient act of penance … or sacrificial revenge?

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HD Beird @thebeird.bsky.social · 16h

#HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Eryn, always fun

Here a link to me books and a review that is flattering to me

Now please excuse me, I'm off to watch Wonka after two years.

Paul King is a genius!

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 16h

Thank you, Erin!
In the House of In Between tracks semi-wealthy to just making ends meet type folk all experiencing the same haunting in one house through generations of worldwide trauma, available wherever you like to buy books (or ask your library!).
#HorrorWritersChat

In the House of In Between

Check out In the House of In Between - <p>The Backlund House is haunted, but no one knows why. No violence has taken place there, no one has died inside its walls. Over the course of a century, what-o...

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Rami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks Eryn! #HorrorWritersChat, "Hannah and Other Stories" has been out a month now. Are you brave enough to face the horrors inside? Including carnivorous horses?

Amazon: tinyurl.com/mv8p4shk
B&N: tinyurl.com/4fznerfe
Kobo: tinyurl.com/3u5fpeb6
Apple Books: tinyurl.com/33xhhdnx

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Beverley Lee @beverleylee.bsky.social · 16h

I aim to please! 😈

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 16h

How about some love for FAT MONSTER, wherein fat people are preyed on by society & monsters, featuring body horror, multi level marketing schemes, fungus/mushroom creatures, pyramids...
If you're fat, love someone fat, or don't understand fat people, READ THIS
amzn.to/4j1TSn3
#horrorwriterschat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 16h

The latter leads to the former, right? The supernatural makes people desperate. The 7-foot Halloween animatronic THING in your yard becomes sentient, that's gonna give you some unhinged feelings. #horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 16h

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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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, I never thought about my audience according to how much they make! So I guess everyone equally? Something new to think about. #horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 17h

#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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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 17h

I'm creating a post-pandemic world right now and that's one of the things I'm figuring out. Cyberpunk is high-tech, low-life, what will that look like? #horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 17h

Q2. So many of you are diving in courageously. I salute you. Don't worry, now we go more abstract.
#HorrorWritersChat

Q2
How does scarcity or deprivation shape the worlds you build in your stories?

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 17h

I am very lucky in that my beloved spouse makes decent money & I can stay home in a nice house & play with words. Morally, I am probably bankrupt, or maybe it's just my neurodiversity. I know I don't think about things like other people, which is probably why I love horror. #horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 17h

Oh right then here we go, if it glitches I'll wait till it's back up then fire the next.
Can't say fairer than that. Hi #HorrorWritersChat, let's talk riches. Or poverty. Moral or cash, I don't mind which.
Horror is one of the more egalitarian genres I think. More room for poor...

No links please.

Question One
Assemble, horror bods!
Tell me what kind of horror you write, and how poor are you - financially or morally? You choose....

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 17h

Is anyone doing any form of #NovelNovember now that #Nanowrimo has left us? I'm doing it with #fictionary and #prowritingaid #writing #amwriting #horrorwriter
What are you all writing? I'm doing the prequel to my next series, which is "Monsters & Metal" ( #Cthulhupunk)

Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 17h

I'm in a class during this hour today so I don't know how timely I will be, but I'll try to get some of the questions done!

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 7d

Please read my lovely novel Fat Monster! It's got mushroom smoothies, fungal horror, body horror, fat ladies, pyramids, and shoggoths. You could have a pretty good weekend with all that. amzn.to/3VSvzye

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 7d

Here's my #haiku #horrorhaiku
scrape of ancient stone |
was the last thing you heard in |
the ancient graveyard
#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

Question Four

There he is! Baron Crescendo! Oh how the skies split open to his guitar, how more of us fly in the air! And look, a note from him, just for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Well? Go on! Word or rhyme, continue his Muse!

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 7d

And how awesome of a ghost would that be?

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote a really awesome ghost animal story that's still looking for a home. Sigh.

Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 7d

The unexpected ghost is the best #ghost. You expect to see a ghost in an old Victorian house. You don't expect to see one at a goth concert, a monster truck rally, or by the peaches at Walmart. #horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

Question Three

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

It is always a delight to see our violinists perform! How the living bend their splintering bones as they float above us all! Tell us, our ghostly compatriots – which of us are better? Of the folkloric kind? Or invented by our shadowy creators?

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 7d

I like forest ghosts, animals that died and continue to roam in the woods. Long-dead does looking after generations of fawns. Fat translucent bullfrogs swimming beside tadpoles. A murder of crows that fills an entire tree without weighing it down. #horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 7d

I'm the Bert and I write all flavors and colors of horror from central Connecticut beside a frog pond in the guise of a swamp witch.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

Be welcomed to the ethereal music hall! A stringed aperitif is in order… do tell the Symposium what do you write, from where… and what IS, indeed, your wraithful visage for tonight?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Rosé Black @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks for the first #HorrorWritersChat of October, Eryn. I got a lot of things to promote. The first is that, I just posted a story to The #ShadowBoxArchives, a stoner comedy to welcome the Fall season. It's paywalled now, but it becomes free in a week.

www.patreon.com/posts/140073...

Dude, where's our Ouija board? ✨Fall Featured Story✨ | Shadow Box Archives

www.patreon.com

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks Eryn! Some really thought-provoking questions

Tonight I'll plug Fiends & Phantoms, purely because Memento Culpae (one of my favourite stories in it) is very much about regrets of a long life lived as one may not have liked. Also Judiciary seances and imprisoned souls.

#HorrorWritersChat

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fiends & Phantoms

6 tales of horror for fans of M R James and E F Benson

Featuring:
- academics delving too deep into the dark
- folk horror slug gods in the Bavarian hills
- vengeful saints
- Judiciary Mediums with regrets
- ironic fates for bodysnatchers

#booksky 📚💙

Fiends and Phantoms - Lawrence Harding's Ko-fi Shop

Lawrence Harding presents six tales of the Victorian weird, including: An occultist paying his dues A dark entity among the bookstacks An ancient h...

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HD Beird @thebeird.bsky.social · 14d

#HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Eryn

This topic was true to my heart, since my first book AMNION has an elder protagonist

It seems to have had an effect on those who read it

Go on, read it

It's one of the most fun times reading something bleak you'll have

#horror

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

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