Michael G. Williams 🏳️🌈
@mcmanlypants.bsky.social
I write queer horror & sci fi. Gay, Appalachian native, infosec professional, 2020 Manly Wade Wellman winner, co-host of Arcane Carolinas. He/him. michaelgwilliamsbooks.com #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #SFWA #HWA #LGBTQ
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Reginald Voth's mother is (finally) dead. When he returns to the ancestral Appalachian homestead where she raised him, he finds it haunted (or worse) and hi
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Matt was a pillar of the horror community on Bsky and an absolutely magnificent person. Hug the ones you love, folks.
I'm very sad to share the news that our lovely @chaoticauthor.online has passed away. His ending was peaceful and surrounded with love but came far too quickly after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.
I've known Matt for years. He was a warm, gentle, generous, all-weather friend. I miss him.
I've known Matt for years. He was a warm, gentle, generous, all-weather friend. I miss him.
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Matt was a pillar of the horror community on Bsky and an absolutely magnificent person. Hug the ones you love, folks.
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His widow, Cat, has invited friends to leave messages and donations in his memory to Macmillan, Matt's chosen charity. I've helped set up a memorial page so please feel free to share this to anyone who knew and loved him.
www.justgiving.com/page/mattmas...
www.justgiving.com/page/mattmas...
Fundraiser in Memory of Matt Mason for Macmillan Cancer Support
Help Louise Willingham raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support
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November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
His widow, Cat, has invited friends to leave messages and donations in his memory to Macmillan, Matt's chosen charity. I've helped set up a memorial page so please feel free to share this to anyone who knew and loved him.
www.justgiving.com/page/mattmas...
www.justgiving.com/page/mattmas...
The parts of MST3K: TIME CHASERS during which they have Eddie as the human riffer are both independently hilarious in their own right *and* a masterful way to distract from the most boring parts of a truly awful movie.
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The parts of MST3K: TIME CHASERS during which they have Eddie as the human riffer are both independently hilarious in their own right *and* a masterful way to distract from the most boring parts of a truly awful movie.
Hey hey! Time for another #folklore and #weird #history deep dive in #NorthCarolina. This morning I'm going to tell you a rocking good story about one of the strangest group sightings/experiences I've had the pleasure of reading: airborne beings in "shining raiment" above Chimney Rock, NC. 1/n
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Hey hey! Time for another #folklore and #weird #history deep dive in #NorthCarolina. This morning I'm going to tell you a rocking good story about one of the strangest group sightings/experiences I've had the pleasure of reading: airborne beings in "shining raiment" above Chimney Rock, NC. 1/n
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But today I came up with a new solution. My solution is to say, Agent Cooper-style, "Diane. Wednesday November 26th. 9 am. The dog got his pill." I think adding the date should keep it from blurring into all the other pills given? Plus it's entertaining.
a man in a suit and tie is talking on a cell phone and says diane 11:30 am february 24th
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking into a tape recorder and says diane 11:30 am february 24th
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November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
But today I came up with a new solution. My solution is to say, Agent Cooper-style, "Diane. Wednesday November 26th. 9 am. The dog got his pill." I think adding the date should keep it from blurring into all the other pills given? Plus it's entertaining.
OK, so yesterday didn't work out for posting that story from Chimney Rock, NC, but this morning might!
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
OK, so yesterday didn't work out for posting that story from Chimney Rock, NC, but this morning might!
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Added a few more books to the queer sff list and I have the full blog post scheduled for tomorrow.
So if there are any I missed...
So if there are any I missed...
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Added a few more books to the queer sff list and I have the full blog post scheduled for tomorrow.
So if there are any I missed...
So if there are any I missed...
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Moss sporophytes in the sun.
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Moss sporophytes in the sun.
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#Booksky #Minneapolis We’ll be a vendor at Queer Voices MN’s Queer Market, happening 10-4PM at the Open Book in Minneapolis on 11/29. There’ll be author readings, vendors and more! Shop small, local and queer-owned this holiday season! queervoicesmn.org/market25
General 2 — Queer Voices MN
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November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#Booksky #Minneapolis We’ll be a vendor at Queer Voices MN’s Queer Market, happening 10-4PM at the Open Book in Minneapolis on 11/29. There’ll be author readings, vendors and more! Shop small, local and queer-owned this holiday season! queervoicesmn.org/market25
Oh, yay, turning off the feed-your-emails-to-the-LLM features in Gmail also makes tabs and spam filtering go away. Huzzah.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Oh, yay, turning off the feed-your-emails-to-the-LLM features in Gmail also makes tabs and spam filtering go away. Huzzah.
When authors (such as I) plead for reviews, this is actually what we mean.
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
When authors (such as I) plead for reviews, this is actually what we mean.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
OK, so Tuesday if everything goes well I'll post a long thread about a super-weird story of people seeing stuff in the sky at Chimney Rock, NC. #folklore #history #weird #NorthCarolina
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
OK, so Tuesday if everything goes well I'll post a long thread about a super-weird story of people seeing stuff in the sky at Chimney Rock, NC. #folklore #history #weird #NorthCarolina
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How about a line of the WiP, completion of the high fantasy Forest duology which is nearly done? (First book is The Wolf and the Wild King.) www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
"I made a song of wolves and ravens and summer sunlight ..."
"I made a song of wolves and ravens and summer sunlight ..."
K.V. Johansen | The Wolf and the Wild King
About The Wolf and the Wild King, book one of The Forest high fantasy duology, by K.V. Johansen
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November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
How about a line of the WiP, completion of the high fantasy Forest duology which is nearly done? (First book is The Wolf and the Wild King.) www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
"I made a song of wolves and ravens and summer sunlight ..."
"I made a song of wolves and ravens and summer sunlight ..."
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Day 2 of PAX Unplugged is complete! We bought a cute new cooking game, as well as the tile game pictured below.
Hey, and we're 82% funded on the campaign AND only $75 away from breaking $5000! Who's going to push us over the top?
#amediting #amwriting
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Hey, and we're 82% funded on the campaign AND only $75 away from breaking $5000! Who's going to push us over the top?
#amediting #amwriting
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Day 2 of PAX Unplugged is complete! We bought a cute new cooking game, as well as the tile game pictured below.
Hey, and we're 82% funded on the campaign AND only $75 away from breaking $5000! Who's going to push us over the top?
#amediting #amwriting
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Hey, and we're 82% funded on the campaign AND only $75 away from breaking $5000! Who's going to push us over the top?
#amediting #amwriting
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Oh Oh Oh! I have a poem just out in IEEE Spectrum honoring the 75th year of Human Use of Human Beings!
Please check it out and support poetry in @spectrum.ieee.org
spectrum.ieee.org/on-rereading...
Please check it out and support poetry in @spectrum.ieee.org
spectrum.ieee.org/on-rereading...
On Rereading Norbert Wiener’s The Human Use of Human Beings at 75
Read Paul Jones’s poem from our December 2025 issue
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November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Oh Oh Oh! I have a poem just out in IEEE Spectrum honoring the 75th year of Human Use of Human Beings!
Please check it out and support poetry in @spectrum.ieee.org
spectrum.ieee.org/on-rereading...
Please check it out and support poetry in @spectrum.ieee.org
spectrum.ieee.org/on-rereading...
For a very long time I have been without a US news app on my phone giving me push notifications and now I’m considering getting one because it is way too hard to keep up with everything. This is an invitation for recommendations of good ones for me maybe to consider.
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
For a very long time I have been without a US news app on my phone giving me push notifications and now I’m considering getting one because it is way too hard to keep up with everything. This is an invitation for recommendations of good ones for me maybe to consider.
"Conan! What is best in life?"
Me: "When the cat wants to be held like a baby."
Me: "When the cat wants to be held like a baby."
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Conan! What is best in life?"
Me: "When the cat wants to be held like a baby."
Me: "When the cat wants to be held like a baby."
[checks watch] oh shit, it’s Don’t Post That Thing You Just Thought About Posting o’clock!
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
[checks watch] oh shit, it’s Don’t Post That Thing You Just Thought About Posting o’clock!
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*looks around at assorted trash fires*
HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
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HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
1/
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
*looks around at assorted trash fires*
HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
1/
HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
1/
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Today is the North Carolina Rabbit Hole's fifth birthday. Because I hate making an entire newsletter out of earnest reflection, here's a story about the guy who lost his race to become North Carolina's governor because he told people that barbecue sucks www.ncrabbithole.com/p/the-politi...
The Politician who Refused to Eat Barbecue and Lost (also, it's the Rabbit Hole's Fifth Birthday)
An update on the state of the Hole, but first, the most ridiculous North Carolina political food story ever told.
www.ncrabbithole.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Today is the North Carolina Rabbit Hole's fifth birthday. Because I hate making an entire newsletter out of earnest reflection, here's a story about the guy who lost his race to become North Carolina's governor because he told people that barbecue sucks www.ncrabbithole.com/p/the-politi...
Reskeeting myself solely to tag @aaronanother.bsky.social because I think he'd get a kick out of this story. :)
Tremendous joint pain today, but it isn't affecting typing so let's fire up a thread on #folklore and #weirdhistory here in #NorthCarolina. I was originally going to talk about a weird story from Chimney Rock, but I awoke with a burning desire to talk about Duncan McFarland, Werewolf Legislator. 1/n
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reskeeting myself solely to tag @aaronanother.bsky.social because I think he'd get a kick out of this story. :)
As always, thank you for an amazing week, @erynmccee.bsky.social!
My novel CHILDREN OF SOLITUDE is about a prickly queen, a house that's haunted (or worse), and the adult star next door. It's fun, funny, ambient, & creepy as hell.
www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...
#HorrorWritersChat
My novel CHILDREN OF SOLITUDE is about a prickly queen, a house that's haunted (or worse), and the adult star next door. It's fun, funny, ambient, & creepy as hell.
www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...
#HorrorWritersChat
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
As always, thank you for an amazing week, @erynmccee.bsky.social!
My novel CHILDREN OF SOLITUDE is about a prickly queen, a house that's haunted (or worse), and the adult star next door. It's fun, funny, ambient, & creepy as hell.
www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...
#HorrorWritersChat
My novel CHILDREN OF SOLITUDE is about a prickly queen, a house that's haunted (or worse), and the adult star next door. It's fun, funny, ambient, & creepy as hell.
www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...
#HorrorWritersChat
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#HorrorWritersChat
I'm the Media Director for The Horror Zine. Check out the zine for free here:
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My interview with John A. Russo, co-writer of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with George Romero, comes out in Feb at The Horror Zine.
My web site: trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com
I'm the Media Director for The Horror Zine. Check out the zine for free here:
www.thehorrorzine.com
My interview with John A. Russo, co-writer of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with George Romero, comes out in Feb at The Horror Zine.
My web site: trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
I'm the Media Director for The Horror Zine. Check out the zine for free here:
www.thehorrorzine.com
My interview with John A. Russo, co-writer of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with George Romero, comes out in Feb at The Horror Zine.
My web site: trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com
I'm the Media Director for The Horror Zine. Check out the zine for free here:
www.thehorrorzine.com
My interview with John A. Russo, co-writer of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with George Romero, comes out in Feb at The Horror Zine.
My web site: trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com