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Laura Keating

@lorekeating.bsky.social

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Writer of Fiction; Bae of Fundy Website https://www.lorekeating.com/ Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print She/Her

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · Aug 12

[Very Attenborough voice] The Author, startled by onlookers, observed in her natural New Brunswick habitat. Help keep this isolated creature's environment thriving.

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The Author, startled by the viewer, in her natural New Brunswick habitat.

Laura Keating crouched under a rock pretending to be a squirrel (?) on a walk in the Irving Nature Park in Saint John, NB. The park served as inspiration for Canon Park in her horror novella, "Agony's Lodestone."

The cover of "Agony's Lodestone" by Laura Keating
Art by Trevor Henderson.
Publisher: Tenebrous Press
Ghostly arms reach desperately out of a barren tree in a dark forest; in the trees roots a videotape growing into the soil.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 7h

Reading back the whole statement in a ham-fisted Peter Lorre villain parody and the yikes

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 7h

This reads like a panting dweeb. We got to make "dweeb" a thing again.

That reealll skeezy dude who was creepy & wholly sex-focused in every way because they couldn't manage a basic "Hello" without breaking a sweat has to be brought back. Because this is some fully creepy dweeb nonsense.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 8h

100% agree and about the debate space and literally is there a re-do Oscar because my GOD! Has ANY other character been this discussed?? (real side question)

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 8h

Christopher Lee always understood the assignment.

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · Jul 6

Canadian rural horror classic RITUALS (1977) is must-watch summer viewing. It's paced like an excellent novel by someone like Peter Straub, and follows a group of doctors, all lifelong friends, going on their annual trip into the remote Northern Ontario wilderness. Only this time, they're not alone.

The group of protagonists at the start of their adventure, wherein surely nothing truly horrible will happen to them.

Two of the main characters struggle, one of the doctors has his hands grasped around the others' throat.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 8h

I honestly (perhaps unpopular opinion) think she is the greatest written character ever put to screen. The complexity is all laid out bare. For me, all sympathy. Brutally tragic.

That Robin Wright didn't even get an Oscar nom (for a character we talk about 30 years on!) is mind-blowing.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 9h

I saw that movie for the first time when I was nine. I got it then. I thought everyone, everywhere, would.

Holy moly, has the internet and an array of cocktail parties proved me otherwise in the interim.

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 9h

‪A strong litmus test, should you want to get to know someone, is how a person perceives Jenny from "Forrest Gump."

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 12h

This might not be "unhinged" but I've gotten weird push-back from this idea in the past, so

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 15h

👀 Been on my tbr for ages! 🖤

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 17h

*this is not a dig at the authors listed above, god knows I'd like to be in their shoes one day!

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 18h

Issue I'm running into querying this novel is that many agents say don't worry! I want Dark Suspense/Thrillers! Like Lucy Foley 😊*
Me: Um ... can we go darker?
Ruth Ware
Me: ... darker?
Tana French
Me: .... Might I interest you in Gillian Flynn + Thomas Harris? 👀

Well, might I?

Amy Dunne of Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" stares just off camera, thoughts unknowable.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 21h

Genre is the well from which all literature drinks. It is vital. Despite this, genre has been excluded from the halls of literature. This needs to change.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 23h

Adverbs are good, actually. Anyone who eschews adverbs is a coward.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 21h

Mom: "What's the book about?"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 21h

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of 📺

The cartoon version of the Crypt Keeper holding a remote control from "Tales from the Crypt Keeper" (1993)

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 21h

Is that from Belle and Sebastian!?

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 21h

Mom: "What's the book about?"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

made this at 5am idk

the fall i turned into a withered old crone

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 5d

Took ungodly number of English courses 1st year of Uni (not even my degree). An essay/week sometimes 2 for a year.
Wrote an modern/personal rendering of Dante's Inferno: 48 hours no-sleep bare-kuckling the Divine Comedy to make it to Indie Pop Night. Got an A.
LIVE folks LIVE! And trust yet smarts!!

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 5d

In fourth year first semester I had four english papers due the last week of term. On Sunday night I started the one due Monday. I wrote essays, Tuesday, Wednesday. I handed in the Thursday one late on Friday. I consumed so much black coffee and had so little sleep it messed up my speech for a bit.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 6d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 6d

Turns out the ship was a metaphor for hubris and - that's right, the crew an allegory about hope amidst despair. Well, gotta let you go, Jenkins is banging at the blast door begging to be let back inside but also sitting here next to me. Yessir, it's a head scratcher.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d

hey admiral, we stopped on planet X-14938-J7 in response to a federation emergency beacon broadcast and -- yeah, yeah, it was our ship we found crashed. yep. yeah. no the bodies of the crew were us. yeah Twilight Zone bullshit, that's what we figured. we'll take off and nuke it.

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 6d

I bet screaming into a hole in the ground until the Earth screamed back would fix me.

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 6d

Feels right

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 6d

This is terrible, Beau. I'm so sorry!

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