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Holly Wade Matter

@weemallard.bsky.social

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Writer. White-knuckle knitter. Superannuated Pre-Raphaelite stunner. Punk- and Goth-adjacent. My novel, Damned Pretty Things, is available from Aqueduct Press (and the usual suspects). I like perfume.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · Jul 4

Fortune is an itinerant musician without a past who braids memories into her hair. Maud is a sheltered small-town girl and an unwitting heir to the notorious McBride family magic. The two young women meet when Fortune is commissioned to bring Maud to a rich man whose grandson she cursed. United by their love of music and their hunger for the road, Fortune and Maud form a friendship... one that is threatened not only by Fortune's mission but by their mutual desire for a man called Lightning.
"Damned Pretty Things is beautiful and wise, haunted and haunting. Sui generis. Brilliant. Enjoy." Cynthia Ward, author of the Blood-Thirsty Agent series
"Sweet as vanishing dreams, tender to the touch as new memories, wise as nursery rhymes, tasty as blueberry pancakes, Holly Wade Matter's Damned Pretty Things is a wondrous redemption tale of the triumph of love and friendship over pain and difference."
Nisi Shawl, author of Everfair

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 7m

That's so out of line it's not even funny. If I didn't have the encouragement of family and friends I would not still be writing today. And believe me, my first stories were faaaaaaar from good.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 5h

I think it would be cool to cook dinner using each day's spice or herb.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 7h

Penzeys advent calendars ahoy! $5 off until tomorrow.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 8h

What an ass. A dangerous ass.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 11h

There comes a time with every project when I ask myself, "Is this garment going to look like utter ass?"

An amorphous blob of knitted, cabled, white fabric studded with stitch markers.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 12h

Once, completely exasperated, I said "Who do I have to fuck around here to get a response?" I had an acceptance letter a few days later. Sadly, that tactic only worked that one time.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 12h

For me, it was wait times a month or (much) more. An empty mailbox was not a happy sight. Before that, though, was typing the manuscript, taking it to the copy place, and always having manila envelopes and postage on hand.

Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 1d

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 12h

So cool! I hope it can make it to the US before some stupid tariff or another.

Nash the Slash Rises Again! @nstra.bsky.social · 12h

London! 🎶 Nash The Slash Rises Again world premieres Oct 29 at THE ICA, part of Doc’n Roll.
See you there 👀

www.docnrollfestival.com/films/nash-t...

#filmsky 📽 #MusicSky #moviesky #horror #cinema #musicdocumentary #documentary #onemanband #london #experimental #synthpop #80smusic #progrock

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 22h

For the novel, honey, campfire smoke, and L'Heure Bleue.

For the novella, humus, apples, and elephant.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 23h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 22h

I'm so sorry for your loss. It's so hard to say goodbye to the little guys.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 22h

Yes!!!

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 23h

Really good, and, alas, something I shouldn't be snarfing.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 23h

We went to Costco today for three huge bags of Halloween candy (we get a lot of kids). Naturally, when I saw the bag of Annie's Organic Extruded Crunchy Cheese Product (their version of Cheetos), I could not resist. Two thumbs up. Will not buy again.