X Avila (they/them)
@xavilawrites.bsky.social
Author of Horror & Spec Fiction 👻 Querying my Queer Mexican Bug Horror Novella MARIPOSA. Slusher at Cat Eye Press 🐈⬛️👁
Icon by (my husband) @harboretum.bsky.social
https://xochilt-avila.ghost.io
https://xochiltavila.carrd.co/
Icon by (my husband) @harboretum.bsky.social
https://xochilt-avila.ghost.io
https://xochiltavila.carrd.co/
It's Award Season, and this is Baby's First Award Eligibility Post 🖤👻
If my publications have made an impression on you, please consider my work for your nominations this year! Below I'll spotlight each piece with more detail.
Publication Links: xochiltavila.carrd.co
🧵1/9
#booksky #indiebooks
If my publications have made an impression on you, please consider my work for your nominations this year! Below I'll spotlight each piece with more detail.
Publication Links: xochiltavila.carrd.co
🧵1/9
#booksky #indiebooks
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It's Award Season, and this is Baby's First Award Eligibility Post 🖤👻
If my publications have made an impression on you, please consider my work for your nominations this year! Below I'll spotlight each piece with more detail.
Publication Links: xochiltavila.carrd.co
🧵1/9
#booksky #indiebooks
If my publications have made an impression on you, please consider my work for your nominations this year! Below I'll spotlight each piece with more detail.
Publication Links: xochiltavila.carrd.co
🧵1/9
#booksky #indiebooks
In other amazing author news - I finally got a copy of September's issue of @chmmagazine.bsky.social. I'm still so happy to be in it among many amazing writers (including the great @jongensler.bsky.social) #horror #booksky #horrorsky
October 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
In other amazing author news - I finally got a copy of September's issue of @chmmagazine.bsky.social. I'm still so happy to be in it among many amazing writers (including the great @jongensler.bsky.social) #horror #booksky #horrorsky
My story "Closed for Maintenance" is in the Dread Mondays anthology launching THIS Saturday!!
My short is gross, brutal, and pro-Union 🖤 Please check it out! And thank you @whisperhousepress.bsky.social
#whisperhousepress #horror #costsofliving #DreadMondays #booklaunch #booksky #horrorsky
My short is gross, brutal, and pro-Union 🖤 Please check it out! And thank you @whisperhousepress.bsky.social
#whisperhousepress #horror #costsofliving #DreadMondays #booklaunch #booksky #horrorsky
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My story "Closed for Maintenance" is in the Dread Mondays anthology launching THIS Saturday!!
My short is gross, brutal, and pro-Union 🖤 Please check it out! And thank you @whisperhousepress.bsky.social
#whisperhousepress #horror #costsofliving #DreadMondays #booklaunch #booksky #horrorsky
My short is gross, brutal, and pro-Union 🖤 Please check it out! And thank you @whisperhousepress.bsky.social
#whisperhousepress #horror #costsofliving #DreadMondays #booklaunch #booksky #horrorsky
This is my third earnest attempt at sourdough and I'm SO proud of it. It's far from perfect but it's delicious.
October 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is my third earnest attempt at sourdough and I'm SO proud of it. It's far from perfect but it's delicious.
Back from Voidcon and I want to WRITE but my cats kept me up all night
October 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Back from Voidcon and I want to WRITE but my cats kept me up all night
Lmao it's okay because I GOT THE SCREENSHOT but then I started reading Spy x Family and forgor
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Lmao it's okay because I GOT THE SCREENSHOT but then I started reading Spy x Family and forgor
I don't normally think too hard about my follower count, but I'm two away from the funny weed number!!!
September 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I don't normally think too hard about my follower count, but I'm two away from the funny weed number!!!
SATURDAY PLANS CANCELED JUST GOT @valdevia.art's DREADFARER THIS IS MY LIFE NOW.
September 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
SATURDAY PLANS CANCELED JUST GOT @valdevia.art's DREADFARER THIS IS MY LIFE NOW.
Stopped by @atomicbooks.bsky.social today!! It was so amazing 😭 Peak the @tenebrouspress.bsky.social rep
August 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Stopped by @atomicbooks.bsky.social today!! It was so amazing 😭 Peak the @tenebrouspress.bsky.social rep
Apollo, it's pride month. There's gonna be daddies.
June 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Apollo, it's pride month. There's gonna be daddies.
Can I share my husband’s amazing work with our deck garden?? :"3 I look at these every evening to remind me how much I love nature.
June 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Can I share my husband’s amazing work with our deck garden?? :"3 I look at these every evening to remind me how much I love nature.
Also :3c I also can't DM images but if you're still doing doodles... would u draw a Pokémon? Dealer's choice
May 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Also :3c I also can't DM images but if you're still doing doodles... would u draw a Pokémon? Dealer's choice
Me: Okay, let's come up with some new stories with some unique, fresh types of characters.
*Writes some remix of this for the 1,000,000 time*
*Writes some remix of this for the 1,000,000 time*
May 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Me: Okay, let's come up with some new stories with some unique, fresh types of characters.
*Writes some remix of this for the 1,000,000 time*
*Writes some remix of this for the 1,000,000 time*
Galarian Zigzagoon I'd say!!
January 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Galarian Zigzagoon I'd say!!
Stuck with a hell of a layover, but on the plus side there's always work to be done 😅
(Also probably the first time I've called myself an author to my parents - Very cool!)
(Also probably the first time I've called myself an author to my parents - Very cool!)
December 17, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Stuck with a hell of a layover, but on the plus side there's always work to be done 😅
(Also probably the first time I've called myself an author to my parents - Very cool!)
(Also probably the first time I've called myself an author to my parents - Very cool!)
Family Visit 🖤🏜
December 15, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Family Visit 🖤🏜
I'm still shopping my Mexican bug horror gay tragedy MARIPOSA. I take marketing seriously so here's a very serious taste of what's on offer
December 14, 2024 at 9:30 PM
I'm still shopping my Mexican bug horror gay tragedy MARIPOSA. I take marketing seriously so here's a very serious taste of what's on offer
Excited for a week in Cali! Already reading, petting dogs, and cooing at my parent's chickens 🐔
December 12, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Excited for a week in Cali! Already reading, petting dogs, and cooing at my parent's chickens 🐔
Ready to properly crack this open!! @amandaheadlee.bsky.social I hope there's nothing about airplanes in this one 🤣
December 11, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Ready to properly crack this open!! @amandaheadlee.bsky.social I hope there's nothing about airplanes in this one 🤣
holy fuck it's the Gunch
December 3, 2024 at 12:26 AM
holy fuck it's the Gunch
What a great find it my mailbox this Thanksgiving!! Can't wait to read @maeisafraid.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 6:49 PM
What a great find it my mailbox this Thanksgiving!! Can't wait to read @maeisafraid.bsky.social