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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Children of Solitude – Paperback
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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Some of my favorite gaming memories were in a game of Aeon: Trinity. Such an amazing setting! I would have given anything to write tie-in fiction for that world.
28 years ago today White-Wolf took you to the Stars with Æon 1st Edition! Explore 2nd Edition with Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2... and Trinity Continuum: Æon www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2... in POD & PDF via our partners at @drivethrurpg.com & at your FLGS!
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Some of my favorite gaming memories were in a game of Aeon: Trinity. Such an amazing setting! I would have given anything to write tie-in fiction for that world.
I hope all my fascist relatives just keep having bad days, honestly.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I hope all my fascist relatives just keep having bad days, honestly.
It is my pleasure to declare that homophobic county clerk can kiss my *entire* gay ass.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It is my pleasure to declare that homophobic county clerk can kiss my *entire* gay ass.
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Email [email protected] to get a code for a free download of the audiobook of my modern non-traditional ghost story GHOST OF A MARRIAGE.
Did I mention it's FREE?
Of course I did. But it's FREE!
Email [email protected] to get a code for a free download of the audiobook of my modern non-traditional ghost story GHOST OF A MARRIAGE.
Did I mention it's FREE?
Of course I did. But it's FREE!
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
FREE STUFF FREE STUFF FREE STUFF
Email [email protected] to get a code for a free download of the audiobook of my modern non-traditional ghost story GHOST OF A MARRIAGE.
Did I mention it's FREE?
Of course I did. But it's FREE!
Email [email protected] to get a code for a free download of the audiobook of my modern non-traditional ghost story GHOST OF A MARRIAGE.
Did I mention it's FREE?
Of course I did. But it's FREE!
TFW something said to me by my own deceased father pops right out of the mouth of the protagonist's father and I realize, oh, *that's* what *this* book is about. Jeez. Another book my therapist will have to read, I bet. Heh.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
TFW something said to me by my own deceased father pops right out of the mouth of the protagonist's father and I realize, oh, *that's* what *this* book is about. Jeez. Another book my therapist will have to read, I bet. Heh.
Memo to self: OK, but what if this book kind of *is* a mirror image of Children of Solitude, but with a completely different emotional flavor, and instead of just being "Jesus I hate the people who raised me and everything they believe" it's more like "I could be mad or I could fix the future"?
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Memo to self: OK, but what if this book kind of *is* a mirror image of Children of Solitude, but with a completely different emotional flavor, and instead of just being "Jesus I hate the people who raised me and everything they believe" it's more like "I could be mad or I could fix the future"?
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A good point as well -- having more kids puts more burden on women, removing them from the work pool and, in the mind of this administration at least, forces them into subservient family service.
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They want the desperate rookeries of the Victorian slums. They want women to lose control of their reproductive lives, to make everyone even MORE afraid of falling into poverty all the time, to create a vast reserve army of the unemployed. A poorer country is desirable, if they get more power.
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A good point as well -- having more kids puts more burden on women, removing them from the work pool and, in the mind of this administration at least, forces them into subservient family service.
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It's hard not to conclude the only reason they want people to have more children is to put them to work in the mines or at some current iteration of an Epstein island. Children as servants, tools, objects. Grotesque.
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's hard not to conclude the only reason they want people to have more children is to put them to work in the mines or at some current iteration of an Epstein island. Children as servants, tools, objects. Grotesque.
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Sseeing as you all desperately want it to be autumn right now, I suppose it's acceptable to start promoting these 😂
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Bronze Carriage: books2read.com/bronzecarriage
James Hotel: mybook.to/jameshotel
Spooky S'weird: books2read.com/salmonweirder
August 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Sseeing as you all desperately want it to be autumn right now, I suppose it's acceptable to start promoting these 😂
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Angel's Mass: books2read.com/angelsmass
Bronze Carriage: books2read.com/bronzecarriage
James Hotel: mybook.to/jameshotel
Spooky S'weird: books2read.com/salmonweirder
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Angel's Mass: books2read.com/angelsmass
Bronze Carriage: books2read.com/bronzecarriage
James Hotel: mybook.to/jameshotel
Spooky S'weird: books2read.com/salmonweirder
TFW one has an idea for the WIP and one thinks, “Oh, that is so fucked up (complimentary),” and then ten seconds later one thinks, “no, that is SO fucked up (condemning).”
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
TFW one has an idea for the WIP and one thinks, “Oh, that is so fucked up (complimentary),” and then ten seconds later one thinks, “no, that is SO fucked up (condemning).”
No, Facebook, I do not want to join that group devoted to life choices/hobbies/interests/fandoms I find anathema to who I am as a person. Christ already.
November 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
No, Facebook, I do not want to join that group devoted to life choices/hobbies/interests/fandoms I find anathema to who I am as a person. Christ already.
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Hey #Hopepit! I'm Olivia Wylie. I write about ways to climb out of the dark under the pen name O.E. Tearmann, and on today's theme: ta da! I run both a VERY big collaborative list of solarpunk books and a positive future review blog. Got a book? Add it here! www.oetearmann.com/positive-boo...
What Could Go Right: Open List Of Positive And Hopeful Futures — O.E. Tearmann
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November 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Hey #Hopepit! I'm Olivia Wylie. I write about ways to climb out of the dark under the pen name O.E. Tearmann, and on today's theme: ta da! I run both a VERY big collaborative list of solarpunk books and a positive future review blog. Got a book? Add it here! www.oetearmann.com/positive-boo...
"The pages, ancient but resilient, were blank. All that effort, all that cruelty, and what had I found? That the secret is there is no secret, that the collected wisdom of humankind is as empty as the space between frozen stars. I think that's what drove the gods mad."
#HorrorWritersChat
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I knew you all were fine additions to our Collegiate. Here – an ancient scroll, on which a sentence has been carved, and you must finish it: “My chisel cracks the seal open. Only then, did I understand the folly of my curiosity.” Continue it as you see fit, my friends.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"The pages, ancient but resilient, were blank. All that effort, all that cruelty, and what had I found? That the secret is there is no secret, that the collected wisdom of humankind is as empty as the space between frozen stars. I think that's what drove the gods mad."
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That the only meaning in life is that which we make, and the less it's *about* ourselves the more it means. The big ripples in the pond come from what we do for others. Why is that terrible? Because we're all lazy as hell and addicted to shortcuts. Just ask Charles Dexter Ward.
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A moment; let me note this. The Primrose Collegiate appreciates your honesty and insight. Hm, an explosion? Yes, a seal is being pried open tonight. Now, listen carefully; what IS a Terrible Truth to you? What must be hidden from Humanity, lest it destroys us?
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November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
That the only meaning in life is that which we make, and the less it's *about* ourselves the more it means. The big ripples in the pond come from what we do for others. Why is that terrible? Because we're all lazy as hell and addicted to shortcuts. Just ask Charles Dexter Ward.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
Embossed in gold on the cover of a book containing forbidden and disastrous lore. Why? Because it would make people (well, me, anyway) so incredibly eager to open it. Terrible Truths are always the Chekov's Gun. Why dawdle? Let's crack that thing open and get eldritch already!
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Tonight’s attendance is most fortuitous, wouldn’t you agree? Mind the arcane energies coruscating in the laboratory; our work is, as always, dangerous. Now then, tell me; how would you describe an ideal seal containing a Terrible Truth? Where is it located?
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November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Embossed in gold on the cover of a book containing forbidden and disastrous lore. Why? Because it would make people (well, me, anyway) so incredibly eager to open it. Terrible Truths are always the Chekov's Gun. Why dawdle? Let's crack that thing open and get eldritch already!
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
OK, I know, it's on me I missed #HorrorWritersChat yesterday, but I love it so much I'm doing it 18 hours late. Sorry!
I'm Michael, I write queer cosmic and supernatural horror. My seal is the Elder Sign, for sure. I have a tattoo of one. Wait, am I the Terrible Truth? Is it protecting me or y'all?
I'm Michael, I write queer cosmic and supernatural horror. My seal is the Elder Sign, for sure. I have a tattoo of one. Wait, am I the Terrible Truth? Is it protecting me or y'all?
Ah, good evening, friend. Dr. Bedlam, at your service. Our esoteric laboratory has just opened. Come in, we are doing vital work on studying the cosmic unknown. Tell us, what do you write, and what seal do you own that contains a Terrible Truth hidden from Humanity?
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November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
OK, I know, it's on me I missed #HorrorWritersChat yesterday, but I love it so much I'm doing it 18 hours late. Sorry!
I'm Michael, I write queer cosmic and supernatural horror. My seal is the Elder Sign, for sure. I have a tattoo of one. Wait, am I the Terrible Truth? Is it protecting me or y'all?
I'm Michael, I write queer cosmic and supernatural horror. My seal is the Elder Sign, for sure. I have a tattoo of one. Wait, am I the Terrible Truth? Is it protecting me or y'all?
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#Booksky In honor of Catherine Lundoff’s upcoming reading at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis on 11/12, and in recognition of the numerous glowing scammy emails we’re getting about it, may we recommend her collection OUT OF THIS WORLD? Queer fantasy and sf short stories! books2read.com/b/3J88zg
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#Booksky In honor of Catherine Lundoff’s upcoming reading at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis on 11/12, and in recognition of the numerous glowing scammy emails we’re getting about it, may we recommend her collection OUT OF THIS WORLD? Queer fantasy and sf short stories! books2read.com/b/3J88zg
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NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
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C'est si bon! I translated my short story to French. Yes my tutor of 5 years reviewed my work but still MY HARD WORK! Find the English version in my upcoming release, THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE AND OTHER WORDS TO DIE FOR, coming April 21, 2026! More French translations on the way!
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
C'est si bon! I translated my short story to French. Yes my tutor of 5 years reviewed my work but still MY HARD WORK! Find the English version in my upcoming release, THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE AND OTHER WORDS TO DIE FOR, coming April 21, 2026! More French translations on the way!
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Only 8 days until the start of Year 4 Part 2 with seven new queer books! Check out the author interviews at the link below!
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November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Only 8 days until the start of Year 4 Part 2 with seven new queer books! Check out the author interviews at the link below!
#lgbtqbooks #lgbtqsciencefiction #lgbtqfantasy #Newrelease #queerbooks #BackerKit #campaign #sapphic #achillean
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#lgbtqbooks #lgbtqsciencefiction #lgbtqfantasy #Newrelease #queerbooks #BackerKit #campaign #sapphic #achillean
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I just read @jameslsutter.bsky.social's "Make of Your Chest a Place for Birds" in the latest issue of @wnwagner.bsky.social's NIGHTMARE magazine and good GODS what a story. I want to go find a quiet spot and stare into space for a while. A perfect depiction of grieving and of being alive.
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I just read @jameslsutter.bsky.social's "Make of Your Chest a Place for Birds" in the latest issue of @wnwagner.bsky.social's NIGHTMARE magazine and good GODS what a story. I want to go find a quiet spot and stare into space for a while. A perfect depiction of grieving and of being alive.
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Live on your feet, not on your knees.
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Live on your feet, not on your knees.
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[Dick Cheney on his way to hell] My belief is I will, in fact, be greeted as a liberator
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
[Dick Cheney on his way to hell] My belief is I will, in fact, be greeted as a liberator
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Autumn is a good time to start reading The Wolf and the Wild King. It's an autumn book, the dying of the year cycling into winter: www.kvj.ca/wolf.html A land of forest and a great lake, an assassin sent to investigate a murder, a mysterious warrior reborn from a place of sacrifice. Also a dragon.
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 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Autumn is a good time to start reading The Wolf and the Wild King. It's an autumn book, the dying of the year cycling into winter: www.kvj.ca/wolf.html A land of forest and a great lake, an assassin sent to investigate a murder, a mysterious warrior reborn from a place of sacrifice. Also a dragon.
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Loads of great stuff in case you missed it.
This week's #MustRead horror is up!
@lithub.com.web.brid.gy study the intensely human sub-genre of body horror, @gnofhorror.com explain why The Lost Boys remains a perfect choice for your Halloween movie night, @nighttidemag.bsky.social discuss the appetites of cannibal women in horror ...
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@lithub.com.web.brid.gy study the intensely human sub-genre of body horror, @gnofhorror.com explain why The Lost Boys remains a perfect choice for your Halloween movie night, @nighttidemag.bsky.social discuss the appetites of cannibal women in horror ...
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Halloween may be over, but the 5 must-read horror articles online, curated by @kevharrison.bsky.social, will never die! Only at @thisishorror.bsky.social.
November 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Loads of great stuff in case you missed it.