It’s my debut novel publication day!! It’s still surreal and I cannot thank the talented people at @unbounders enough or all the Cold Flames whose interest and support over the years directly led to this! 🖤🦷 You can order it from these places and more jordanshiveley.com/hsiyaorder

In spite of the week we’ve had, this lovely review made me smile today!

Writing is the only art that anyone can make without a budget or access to equipment or expertise. In one sentence you can contain what 50 films could never, then you can follow that with another sentence. The price of entry is a willingness to explore

Friday book haul. Some Bolaños, my first Tokarczuk, and a pre-release Malfi (thanks, @titanbooks!)

As promised, I put together my 7 essays in 7 days challenge into a free book, available for download at my website. PDF and epub versions available. gordonbwhite.com/pph

# 108 – THE PAINTED LADY with Jesse Herron We chat about brothels, ghosts of the Old West, The Philosophy of Beer, working with GHOST ADVENTURES and  the Paranormal-Industrial Complex, brewing horror movie beer, starting a ‘Spookeasy’ and the haunted PAINTED LADY BED & BREW!

Walter Benjamin's Rules for Writing

Happy to share that I wrote an essay for Nightmare Magazine about liminal space and depression. It feels a little on the nose right now but perhaps it’ll fill you with some semblance of hope. Read it for free on their site 🩶 nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the…

New York! Come hear bilingual writers from across the Spanish speaking world this Friday at 5 PM! I’ll be reading from my novel-in-progress and hopefully speaking Spanish with many of you!

I JUST GOT A FEVER AND LAID DOWN ON THE GROUND AND STARTED PANTING 😮‍💨

Hey, Let me make your fucking book cover. Don't resort to AI. I'd rather work with your budget and discount my rates than see another AI abomination representing a story on my timeline.

Tomorrow! Seattle - Central Library! Come talk horror with a bunch of cool people (including me).

Oh no - it was recorded.

Oh, I really agree with this. Deeply connecting to a piece of fiction - creating 9t as an author - is one of the strangest, most affecting experiences we can have, but because it's so subjective and hard to quantify, we end up trying to teach it via "objective" formulas.

Watched “Blast of Silence” - a 1961 neo-noir re: a hitman in NYC is technically a “Christmas movie," but plays the loneliness to great effect. Has a weird, bleak use of second-person narration in the film (Inner monologue? Fate? Demon?) and real cold splash & nihilistic ending.

Don't let anyone gaslight you. Everyone saw what happened.

We're now in the 2nd month of submissions for THE JOINING, so here's some stats! 55 subs logged. 5 holds issued (so far!) The good news is, you've still got 'til March 1 to get your nuptial nightmare to our friendly inbox! Looking forward to reading your work! Crystal Lake Publishing

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m so stoked to reveal the cover for my upcoming collection PORTRAITS OF DECAY (6/16)! There’s a lot I want to talk about regarding this book (and believe me I will), but for today I just want to talk a little about what went into this cover.

You can catch my flash fiction "Plan Z" on this podcast! It's about making plans for when the zombies show up ... but not in the way you're thinking.