Violet James McMaster
@violetjmcmaster.bsky.social
Bookseller & Events Coordinator @ Big Blue Marble Bookstore
Reviewer @inavioletnature (IG) & @violetjamesmcmaster on Substack
https://linktr.ee/violetjamesmcmaster
Reviewer @inavioletnature (IG) & @violetjamesmcmaster on Substack
https://linktr.ee/violetjamesmcmaster
Pinned
violetjamesmcmaster | Twitter | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.
linktr.ee
Since I’m receiving new follows and such, I wanted to put up my Linktree here so you can follow my reviews and other goodies! linktr.ee/violetjamesm...
For anyone who loves the 2006 remake 💜☺️
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
For anyone who loves the 2006 remake 💜☺️
Came home last night to some awesome bookmail. Thank you to @thesuiway.bsky.social and @erewhonbooks.bsky.social for sending along this ARC of a tile I’m IMMENSELY excited for in the beginning of 2026. So pumped to dive into these pages.
October 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Came home last night to some awesome bookmail. Thank you to @thesuiway.bsky.social and @erewhonbooks.bsky.social for sending along this ARC of a tile I’m IMMENSELY excited for in the beginning of 2026. So pumped to dive into these pages.
Hilarious, astonishing, manic, clever, and 410% All Natual Chapman… @claymcleod.bsky.social knocks it out of the park yet again with a collection of tantalizing and poisonous appetites, brewed to test your imagination just as much as your tummy. (1/2)
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Hilarious, astonishing, manic, clever, and 410% All Natual Chapman… @claymcleod.bsky.social knocks it out of the park yet again with a collection of tantalizing and poisonous appetites, brewed to test your imagination just as much as your tummy. (1/2)
Right now I need Derek Bloom, drummer of From First to Last on the 2004 album “Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount,” to perform his double-bass pedal performance on “Note to Self” on my back. Please.
September 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Right now I need Derek Bloom, drummer of From First to Last on the 2004 album “Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount,” to perform his double-bass pedal performance on “Note to Self” on my back. Please.
I’m trying something new with reviews, just sent two authors some interview questions (with their blessing ofc), and I think I may do that from time to time, to allow the author’s voice in the review process. Who wants to get whacky questions from this gal????
August 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I’m trying something new with reviews, just sent two authors some interview questions (with their blessing ofc), and I think I may do that from time to time, to allow the author’s voice in the review process. Who wants to get whacky questions from this gal????
I’m just seeing this and am in tears. Chuck is such a lightning bottle of a human being and to engage with his work is such a privilege and honor. And to those who sweetly commented, thank you 😭. Thank you for all you do, buckaroo 💜.
this review of LUCKY DAY is amazing. profound understanding of books trot around aspects like the casino theme and the current trot of our timeline. i would say DO NOT READ until youve finished lucky day but then very worth checkin out @violetjmcmaster.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/violetja...
"This isn't the home I imagined it would be" - Facing the Void in Chuck Tingle's Lucky Day - Review
Down the rabbit hole of absurdity, we go!!
open.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I’m just seeing this and am in tears. Chuck is such a lightning bottle of a human being and to engage with his work is such a privilege and honor. And to those who sweetly commented, thank you 😭. Thank you for all you do, buckaroo 💜.
If anyone may be able to help a writer out, I will be eternally grateful 💜. Things have been hard, but I’ll be damned if that takes me down. Share this around if you can!
July 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If anyone may be able to help a writer out, I will be eternally grateful 💜. Things have been hard, but I’ll be damned if that takes me down. Share this around if you can!
Howdy writer friends. I’ve been looking to see if anyone might be interested in taking a look at some of my early sketches from the fiction project, or even the short story I had published, just to get more eyes on it! If anyone happens to be interested, please let me know 💜.
July 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Howdy writer friends. I’ve been looking to see if anyone might be interested in taking a look at some of my early sketches from the fiction project, or even the short story I had published, just to get more eyes on it! If anyone happens to be interested, please let me know 💜.
Any folk horror fans out there who have read Eleanor Scott? I finally dove into the “Randall’s Round” collection and it’s an unnerving piece of folk horror history, but also serves to show how many modern movies owe to her dark dreams. Combine two of these stories and you essentially have Midsommar.
June 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Any folk horror fans out there who have read Eleanor Scott? I finally dove into the “Randall’s Round” collection and it’s an unnerving piece of folk horror history, but also serves to show how many modern movies owe to her dark dreams. Combine two of these stories and you essentially have Midsommar.
Wedding stunning for Diana and Andrew’s wedding!!
(This was a moment of joy where I wasn’t crying from not being at StokerCon 😭😭🤣🤣)
(This was a moment of joy where I wasn’t crying from not being at StokerCon 😭😭🤣🤣)
June 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Wedding stunning for Diana and Andrew’s wedding!!
(This was a moment of joy where I wasn’t crying from not being at StokerCon 😭😭🤣🤣)
(This was a moment of joy where I wasn’t crying from not being at StokerCon 😭😭🤣🤣)
Who would have thought research for the book would turn into reading an entire series by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social but here we are! I’m not sure I’d ever be able to thank the man enough for The Department of Truth.
June 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Who would have thought research for the book would turn into reading an entire series by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social but here we are! I’m not sure I’d ever be able to thank the man enough for The Department of Truth.
I’ve never put stickers on a notebook before so this is new for me haha.
May 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’ve never put stickers on a notebook before so this is new for me haha.
Pretty sure this awful moment in my life is going to spawn some…fascinating speculative poetry. Potentially.
May 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pretty sure this awful moment in my life is going to spawn some…fascinating speculative poetry. Potentially.
Y’all, this review of @rachelharrison.bsky.social ‘s Play Nice is going to be the death of me. If that’s any indication for you about how excellent this book is…then I’m doing my job correctly.
May 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Y’all, this review of @rachelharrison.bsky.social ‘s Play Nice is going to be the death of me. If that’s any indication for you about how excellent this book is…then I’m doing my job correctly.
Showed the roomies May (2002) tonight and I just realized we NEED a modern re-imagining with a trans girl as the lead. Like…yesterday.
April 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Showed the roomies May (2002) tonight and I just realized we NEED a modern re-imagining with a trans girl as the lead. Like…yesterday.
I feel like every time I read V for Vendetta I get something different from it. While the graphic novel goes places politically that the movie obviously did not, it’s such a glaring piece of speculative fiction and if only people can see where we are and connect those dots.
April 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like every time I read V for Vendetta I get something different from it. While the graphic novel goes places politically that the movie obviously did not, it’s such a glaring piece of speculative fiction and if only people can see where we are and connect those dots.
I finally got to see Caveat after having watched and adored Oddity. Alright, I am a Damian McCarthy fangirl.
February 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I finally got to see Caveat after having watched and adored Oddity. Alright, I am a Damian McCarthy fangirl.
I recently returned to Substack for my review posts, so here are some of the recent ones, plus a brand new one! Head to my bio to read about some amazing books!
February 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I recently returned to Substack for my review posts, so here are some of the recent ones, plus a brand new one! Head to my bio to read about some amazing books!
Oh my god, @natcassidy.bsky.social IS THAT YOU?????
February 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Oh my god, @natcassidy.bsky.social IS THAT YOU?????
I’d like to think my younger self would be over the moon to know her future self has become a full-blown, obsessive, pseudo-scholar of all things horror. Strap in, you spooky bitch, your time will come 🤣🤣🤣.
February 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I’d like to think my younger self would be over the moon to know her future self has become a full-blown, obsessive, pseudo-scholar of all things horror. Strap in, you spooky bitch, your time will come 🤣🤣🤣.
So far this year, @rebelsam94.bsky.social has definitely tested my limits of fear and discomfort with his story, “Allison’s Face” from the upcoming The Poorly Made collection. I hadn’t felt the way I did reading that story since listening to “Mr. Strings” on the NoSleep podcast.
February 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
So far this year, @rebelsam94.bsky.social has definitely tested my limits of fear and discomfort with his story, “Allison’s Face” from the upcoming The Poorly Made collection. I hadn’t felt the way I did reading that story since listening to “Mr. Strings” on the NoSleep podcast.
There’s something really fun about diving into a new @rebelsam94.bsky.social book and remembering what it feels like to lose your mind after the first time. If you’re about 60% of the way through and NOT questioning your humanity? Are you even reading the book?? 🤣
February 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
There’s something really fun about diving into a new @rebelsam94.bsky.social book and remembering what it feels like to lose your mind after the first time. If you’re about 60% of the way through and NOT questioning your humanity? Are you even reading the book?? 🤣
I hadn’t posted it here, but I finally finished up my list of the 100 books I loved from 2024, featuring many of the fine folks here on bluesky. I would love if you gave it a read! And maybe subscribe? 🥹🥹
vi-the-librarian-reviews-musings-everything-books.ghost.io/my-100-favor...
vi-the-librarian-reviews-musings-everything-books.ghost.io/my-100-favor...
My 100 Favorite Books of 2024
2024 was a hell of a year, and that’s truly an Everest of an understatement considering we continue to witness several active genocides, the erosion of humanity and empathy as we know it, and the very...
vi-the-librarian-reviews-musings-everything-books.ghost.io
January 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I hadn’t posted it here, but I finally finished up my list of the 100 books I loved from 2024, featuring many of the fine folks here on bluesky. I would love if you gave it a read! And maybe subscribe? 🥹🥹
vi-the-librarian-reviews-musings-everything-books.ghost.io/my-100-favor...
vi-the-librarian-reviews-musings-everything-books.ghost.io/my-100-favor...
I couldn’t think of a better guide through one of our greatest poets’ early work than Danez Smith 💜.
December 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM
I couldn’t think of a better guide through one of our greatest poets’ early work than Danez Smith 💜.