David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚
@daviddemchuk.com
I put the sewer into connoisseur. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk
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You may know the tale of Sweeney Todd, but what of the tale of Mrs. Lovett? The Butcher’s Daughter, by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark. Serving customers May 2025 🥧🔪
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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“You’re in my seat”
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“You’re in my seat”
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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My TWIN PEAKS series is nearing its conclusion. The penultimate essay is live, and it is the first of two features on episode 18. I wrote about Diane, the structure of the 18th episode, the context of Laura Palmer's experiences, and how they are reflected in Diane's.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My TWIN PEAKS series is nearing its conclusion. The penultimate essay is live, and it is the first of two features on episode 18. I wrote about Diane, the structure of the 18th episode, the context of Laura Palmer's experiences, and how they are reflected in Diane's.
www.patreon.com/posts/twin-p...
www.patreon.com/posts/twin-p...
If anyone's still stuck for a Christmas gift for someone they want to terrify, this vintage German circus set is currently for sale on eBay and it looks absolutely cursed.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23645365...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23645365...
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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"All I did was embolden a series of anti-queer, right-wing and anti-trans hate groups, and now there are more anti-queer hate crimes! I am appalled"
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after niece and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"All I did was embolden a series of anti-queer, right-wing and anti-trans hate groups, and now there are more anti-queer hate crimes! I am appalled"
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
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Oh, it's nearly the end of the month so time use up some gift links...
Here's my review of Heated Rivalry (Crave; HBO Max), some queer Canadian hockey smut that's part of a national psyop to destabilize America during its thanksgiving weekend. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e60f469...
Here's my review of Heated Rivalry (Crave; HBO Max), some queer Canadian hockey smut that's part of a national psyop to destabilize America during its thanksgiving weekend. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e60f469...
Crave’s Heated Rivalry is hot as h-e-double-hockey-sticks Canadian television
Jacob Tierney, of Letterkenny and Shoresy fame, crafts crisp and elegant scenes for both domestic audiences and those watching abroad on HBO Max
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Oh, it's nearly the end of the month so time use up some gift links...
Here's my review of Heated Rivalry (Crave; HBO Max), some queer Canadian hockey smut that's part of a national psyop to destabilize America during its thanksgiving weekend. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e60f469...
Here's my review of Heated Rivalry (Crave; HBO Max), some queer Canadian hockey smut that's part of a national psyop to destabilize America during its thanksgiving weekend. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e60f469...
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
This is the stuff
The opening page of 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens is always a treat.
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This is the stuff
Strande Paradise, a wackadoo riff on Dark Shadows youtu.be/BIQd7zGqLbs?...
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Strande Paradise, a wackadoo riff on Dark Shadows youtu.be/BIQd7zGqLbs?...
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An underrepresented identity is the gay oldest son
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
An underrepresented identity is the gay oldest son
Merry Christmas @christmasgay.bsky.social 🎄
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Merry Christmas @christmasgay.bsky.social 🎄
Oh interesting, the San Diego Zoo has messaged me to ask if I’d take her place
After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. https://to.pbs.org/43Tdww9
Gramma the Galapagos tortoise, oldest resident of San Diego Zoo who delighted visitors for almost a century, dies at about 141
Known as "the Queen of the Zoo," Gramma lived through two World Wars and 20 U.S. presidents.
www.pbs.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Oh interesting, the San Diego Zoo has messaged me to ask if I’d take her place
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If you like an author’s work, tell them. Buy their work. Follow them home and make them dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs. Or maybe something with shrimp. Run them a bath. Not too hot. Buy them a sea monster toy for the bath. Rrwarrr! Feed them grapes. But not in the bath. That would be weird.
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you like an author’s work, tell them. Buy their work. Follow them home and make them dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs. Or maybe something with shrimp. Run them a bath. Not too hot. Buy them a sea monster toy for the bath. Rrwarrr! Feed them grapes. But not in the bath. That would be weird.
I am a relatively successful writer. Each of my three novels has earned out. I have a day job, one that I have had for many years. I will have it until I am forced to retire at gunpoint. If I did not have this day job, I would not be able to write, it’s as simple as that.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I am a relatively successful writer. Each of my three novels has earned out. I have a day job, one that I have had for many years. I will have it until I am forced to retire at gunpoint. If I did not have this day job, I would not be able to write, it’s as simple as that.
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As you head out for your very own blood feasts this week, check out our @tendersubject.bsky.social episode on Hershel Gordon Lewis’s splatter fest Blood Feast with @laborkyle.bsky.social from @horrorvanguard.bsky.social. On the menu: Egyptomania! Walter Benjamin! So much blood! Enjoy!
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
As you head out for your very own blood feasts this week, check out our @tendersubject.bsky.social episode on Hershel Gordon Lewis’s splatter fest Blood Feast with @laborkyle.bsky.social from @horrorvanguard.bsky.social. On the menu: Egyptomania! Walter Benjamin! So much blood! Enjoy!
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100%. screenwriting mentors went from, 'do your homework' to 'wait HOW are you doing your homework exactly?' #ai
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
100%. screenwriting mentors went from, 'do your homework' to 'wait HOW are you doing your homework exactly?' #ai
Read Victor’s book!
Happy #bookbirthday to THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED by @victormanibo.com! 🎉
"Manibo has written a chilling gothic tale, using classic tropes to explore history, corruption, and injustices, both of the nation and the family"
—Library Journal
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"Manibo has written a chilling gothic tale, using classic tropes to explore history, corruption, and injustices, both of the nation and the family"
—Library Journal
awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-v...
The Villa, Once Beloved – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
awfulagent.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Read Victor’s book!
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sharing this industry-wide initiative for Canada's film & tv 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, w thanks to researchers, organizers @queeringthescreen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Research, real data; help make positive changes in workplaces, and queer lives :)
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com/whatshappeni...
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com/whatshappeni...
inkAmplifies Queering the Screen Survey — inkcanada: canadian screenwriters & friends
OPEN NOW - QUEERING THE SCREEN RESEARCH SURVEY (closes 5th December 2025) #signalboost #inkAmplifies inkcanada encourages all eligible members to participate in this important research survey...
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
sharing this industry-wide initiative for Canada's film & tv 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, w thanks to researchers, organizers @queeringthescreen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Research, real data; help make positive changes in workplaces, and queer lives :)
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com/whatshappeni...
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com/whatshappeni...
@csmith03.bsky.social Happy birthday Colin! (Had I known when we were at lunch!)
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@csmith03.bsky.social Happy birthday Colin! (Had I known when we were at lunch!)
What a surprise—The Bone Mother receives a shoutout from @reactorsff.bsky.social !
“Such a chilly atmosphere that even in sequences set in the summer, the cold still whips through the characters’ bodies, just as the quiet dread still engulfs everything around them.” reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
“Such a chilly atmosphere that even in sequences set in the summer, the cold still whips through the characters’ bodies, just as the quiet dread still engulfs everything around them.” reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
Six Dark, Chilly Reads to Liven Up Late Fall - Reactor
Ghost stories, gothic tales, and other works perfect for autumnal evenings...
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
What a surprise—The Bone Mother receives a shoutout from @reactorsff.bsky.social !
“Such a chilly atmosphere that even in sequences set in the summer, the cold still whips through the characters’ bodies, just as the quiet dread still engulfs everything around them.” reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
“Such a chilly atmosphere that even in sequences set in the summer, the cold still whips through the characters’ bodies, just as the quiet dread still engulfs everything around them.” reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
Now watching 🩸
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Now watching 🩸
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extremely excited to see this found footage horror short, Amber Deer, in a theatrical showing next Saturday. It was produced and directed by my former sister-in-law, Amy Stewart and filmed here in New Brunswick, Canada.
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
extremely excited to see this found footage horror short, Amber Deer, in a theatrical showing next Saturday. It was produced and directed by my former sister-in-law, Amy Stewart and filmed here in New Brunswick, Canada.
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GTA friends I will be at this Canadian-Caribbean showcase on Dec 14 discussing Writing Speculative Fiction with Terese Mason Pierre and Lue Palmer! All of it is free. There are workshops on poetry, self pubbing, non fiction, short stories etc!
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
Diaspora Dialogues Presents the 2025 Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase - Diaspora Dialogues
The Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase is a three-day celebration of Caribbean voices and their influence on Canadian literature, art, and culture. Over the course of the showcase, audiences are inv...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
GTA friends I will be at this Canadian-Caribbean showcase on Dec 14 discussing Writing Speculative Fiction with Terese Mason Pierre and Lue Palmer! All of it is free. There are workshops on poetry, self pubbing, non fiction, short stories etc!
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...