New episode! This week weβre hunkering down and talking about Apocalypse Horror!
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Authors Carson Winter and P.L. McMillan languish in the woes and joys of being horror writers. Come join us as we chat craft, movies, books, and more! π€ Deadlanguagespodcast.com π₯΅ patreon.com/DeadLanguagesPodcast
New episode! This week weβre hunkering down and talking about Apocalypse Horror!
open.spotify.com/episode/3Wpy...
This week, we're talking Regional Horror! open.spotify.com/episode/2Hd8...
Bored office workers discover a reality distortion that makes some days don't count. Uh oh.
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Listen to @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social for such gems as:
some books are "built from the comps up" and "value familiarity over innovation"
and
"Wuthering Heights the movie. 50 Shades of Grey meets Crimson Peak"
Has Carson gone too far??? Can the horror community survive the heat of his hot takes about mainstream horror? Listen here to find out: open.spotify.com/episode/68pJ...
This week on Dead Languages weβre talking BUG HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!
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10 more days to submit to this free competition for women writers! Good luck everyone!
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This interview was so fun! So happy to learn about PLM's special interest in fairy tales, and v excited the idea of either @ivygrimes.bsky.social or @carsonwinter.bsky.social writing a Pied Piper X J R0gan retelling. I NEED TO READ THIS
(Pied Piper is one of my faves too π)
Thanks to Carson Winter and PLM for having me on their podcast to gossip about fairy tales and stuff!
This week weβre talking fairy tales with @ivygrimes.bsky.social! Check out the new DL here: open.spotify.com/episode/3lGx...
What are your writing resolutions this year?
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*donβt mind us, just clearing off a couple more genitalia-sized spaces on the mantle *
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Thrilled to say FEEDING THE WHEEL has earned a Cummie Award for the "novels are too long" novella category. I say this without hyperbole; this is the height of my writing career. Extremely honored and grateful. I am going to turn my vagina statuette into a rapper chain and wear it to formal events
This is it! The winners of the Cummies are announced here!
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Dead Languages is back for a recap of our favorite books we read from the last half of 2025. open.spotify.com/episode/0Krl...
Alright, I did the Year in Review thing. Bad year? Or good year with bad expectations? You be the judge.
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Last chance to vote for the 2025 Cummies finalists!
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These Cummies aren't gonna vote for themselves... I was taking a look at the back end and we have a couple of ties that need to be broken.
Come on and vote for the dumbest award in horrorlit: forms.gle/J2KVcpWcb8tu...
Reminder that if you can't afford an artist, you can create the cover yourself. @carsonwinter.bsky.social painted his own cover.
Not only was it free, but it's also completely unique and representative of him as an artist and author.
No AI, no stealing, no excuses, no slop.
It's that easy.
We do not support AI generated writing OR art here at the Tower and will accept neither as submissions.
The Tower craves souls. AI is a hollow shell. It would be like feeding a dog nothing but pizza crust; sure, they might act like they want it, but it causes nothing but farts and pancreatitis...
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
ICYMI, The Barre Incidents is nominated for a Cummie, and voting is open through the end of December!! If you want to try and help me earn a gorgeous, colorful dick sculpture, this is your *one* chance.
NMH has a song w/ the lyric βSemen stains the mountaintop,β therefore, Iβm legally obligated to ask you to vote for the anthology I edited AND ONE DAY WE WILL DIE: STRANGE STORIES INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL in @deadlanguagespod.bsky.socialβs Cummies Awards for Best Anthology. Vote!
Vote for scrote! Errr...the Cummies!
FEEDING THE WHEEL IS UP FOR A CUMMIE AWARD! Yes I realize this probably puts me on several watch lists, but I'll gleefully spend my life waving hello to the plumbing van with the satellite dish on it that'll be parked in front of my house if it means winning a little clay genitals statuette for FtW
The Cummies Final Ballot has been announced! This is the greatest literary prize in horror, because we said so. Please vote through December on the winner here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
As is tradition, @authorplm.bsky.social and @carsonwinter.bsky.social are taking December off to regroup for the new year! Our last episode of the season is up today, featuring Luciano Marano talking with us about holiday horror!
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This week on the Dead Languages Podcast weβre talking Final Girls! Grand horror tradition or tired, sexist trope????
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