C.J. Dotson
@cj-dotson.bsky.social
Generally cheerful, scaredy-cat horror-lover & horror author. THE CUT is available now! THESE FAMILIAR WALLS coming 4/14/26
https://read.macmillan.com/lp/these-familiar-walls-9781250336583/
rep: Chris Bucci
member HWA | #PitchWars 2020
bi, she/her
https://read.macmillan.com/lp/these-familiar-walls-9781250336583/
rep: Chris Bucci
member HWA | #PitchWars 2020
bi, she/her
What songs are on your werewolf themed playlist?
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What songs are on your werewolf themed playlist?
One of the best kinds of fun!
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
One of the best kinds of fun!
That sounds so cool
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
That sounds so cool
That gave me an immediate little tingle of dread on the back of my neck
December 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
That gave me an immediate little tingle of dread on the back of my neck
Oh that's a fun concept!
December 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Oh that's a fun concept!
#HorrorWritersChat The End:
My hotel horror novel, THE CUT, is available here: static.macmillan.com/static/smp/t...
You can pre-order my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, here: read.macmillan.com/lp/these-fam...
My short stories: www.cjdotsonauthor.com/short-stories
My hotel horror novel, THE CUT, is available here: static.macmillan.com/static/smp/t...
You can pre-order my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, here: read.macmillan.com/lp/these-fam...
My short stories: www.cjdotsonauthor.com/short-stories
#HorrorWritersChat
You know the drill. If you've not participated I won't allow your quote to stay up. Those who chat, promo.
Come and chat next time. Do better.
Repost each other. Lift each other up.
It's what Matt always did for us all, tirelessly. Now we keep it going.
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You know the drill. If you've not participated I won't allow your quote to stay up. Those who chat, promo.
Come and chat next time. Do better.
Repost each other. Lift each other up.
It's what Matt always did for us all, tirelessly. Now we keep it going.
Reposting. Wrong image.
December 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#HorrorWritersChat The End:
My hotel horror novel, THE CUT, is available here: static.macmillan.com/static/smp/t...
You can pre-order my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, here: read.macmillan.com/lp/these-fam...
My short stories: www.cjdotsonauthor.com/short-stories
My hotel horror novel, THE CUT, is available here: static.macmillan.com/static/smp/t...
You can pre-order my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, here: read.macmillan.com/lp/these-fam...
My short stories: www.cjdotsonauthor.com/short-stories
#HorrorWritersChat Q4:
Ooh this question goes so well w/ the song I linked above. Eyes. The MC's girlfriend's eyes change first. Then things get bad.
"I got a girlfriend that's better than that,
She has the smoke in her eyes,
She's coming up, going right through my heart..."
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
Ooh this question goes so well w/ the song I linked above. Eyes. The MC's girlfriend's eyes change first. Then things get bad.
"I got a girlfriend that's better than that,
She has the smoke in her eyes,
She's coming up, going right through my heart..."
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
December 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
#HorrorWritersChat Q4:
Ooh this question goes so well w/ the song I linked above. Eyes. The MC's girlfriend's eyes change first. Then things get bad.
"I got a girlfriend that's better than that,
She has the smoke in her eyes,
She's coming up, going right through my heart..."
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
Ooh this question goes so well w/ the song I linked above. Eyes. The MC's girlfriend's eyes change first. Then things get bad.
"I got a girlfriend that's better than that,
She has the smoke in her eyes,
She's coming up, going right through my heart..."
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
Oops, I was responding to the question in the post, instead of in the image!
Actually the first thing that comes to mind isn't music that disturbed me when I heard it, rather a song that, after many listens, started to inspire a horror-story-idea for me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X...
Actually the first thing that comes to mind isn't music that disturbed me when I heard it, rather a song that, after many listens, started to inspire a horror-story-idea for me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X...
Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (from Stop Making Sense
YouTube video by Lucaas
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Oops, I was responding to the question in the post, instead of in the image!
Actually the first thing that comes to mind isn't music that disturbed me when I heard it, rather a song that, after many listens, started to inspire a horror-story-idea for me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X...
Actually the first thing that comes to mind isn't music that disturbed me when I heard it, rather a song that, after many listens, started to inspire a horror-story-idea for me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X...
#HorrorWritersChat Q3:
I have an idea for a future horror story in which the main character is gonna be in a band, and it's not high on my list of next-things-to-write, but this question will be occupying my mind a lot when I get to it. I'm looking forward to the challenge!
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
I have an idea for a future horror story in which the main character is gonna be in a band, and it's not high on my list of next-things-to-write, but this question will be occupying my mind a lot when I get to it. I'm looking forward to the challenge!
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
Q3, #HorrorWritersChat.
Us writers are weird creatures. We can't help but shake and quake over a perfect line, but all the senses will get you, if you're open to it.
And music is a story in the ears. Just like a perfume is a story for the nose.
But can you translate it into writing? Do you?
Us writers are weird creatures. We can't help but shake and quake over a perfect line, but all the senses will get you, if you're open to it.
And music is a story in the ears. Just like a perfume is a story for the nose.
But can you translate it into writing? Do you?
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
#HorrorWritersChat Q3:
I have an idea for a future horror story in which the main character is gonna be in a band, and it's not high on my list of next-things-to-write, but this question will be occupying my mind a lot when I get to it. I'm looking forward to the challenge!
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
I have an idea for a future horror story in which the main character is gonna be in a band, and it's not high on my list of next-things-to-write, but this question will be occupying my mind a lot when I get to it. I'm looking forward to the challenge!
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
#HorrorWritersChat Q2:
I haven't yet used music in my writing, but sound or its absence are the most fun to utilize when they subvert expectations; silence when there shouldn't be, noises that are out of place, the wrong tone in someone's voice...
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
I haven't yet used music in my writing, but sound or its absence are the most fun to utilize when they subvert expectations; silence when there shouldn't be, noises that are out of place, the wrong tone in someone's voice...
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
Q2.
How do you use sound, music, or the absence of it?
And if we're speaking of the absence of it, Disturbed's Sound of Silence (with Myles Kennedy) is way better than the original of it and you'll just have to accept that.
I will die on this hill!
#HorrorWritersChat
How do you use sound, music, or the absence of it?
And if we're speaking of the absence of it, Disturbed's Sound of Silence (with Myles Kennedy) is way better than the original of it and you'll just have to accept that.
I will die on this hill!
#HorrorWritersChat
December 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
#HorrorWritersChat Q2:
I haven't yet used music in my writing, but sound or its absence are the most fun to utilize when they subvert expectations; silence when there shouldn't be, noises that are out of place, the wrong tone in someone's voice...
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
I haven't yet used music in my writing, but sound or its absence are the most fun to utilize when they subvert expectations; silence when there shouldn't be, noises that are out of place, the wrong tone in someone's voice...
bsky.app/profile/eryn...
When I was struggling my worst with that, switching to drafting in docs on my phone and only making myself do ten minutes a day got me out of it.
But resting is also a great thing that we should let ourselves do more often, especially in difficult times. ❤️
But resting is also a great thing that we should let ourselves do more often, especially in difficult times. ❤️
December 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
When I was struggling my worst with that, switching to drafting in docs on my phone and only making myself do ten minutes a day got me out of it.
But resting is also a great thing that we should let ourselves do more often, especially in difficult times. ❤️
But resting is also a great thing that we should let ourselves do more often, especially in difficult times. ❤️
That book was in my high school's library!
December 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
That book was in my high school's library!