@edcrockerbooks
🧛♀️🐺🧙♂️ Spec fic author. LIGHTFALL (#1 of THE EVERLANDS) out now. MOONFALL June 2026 🖊 Freelance editor. 📚 SFF & horror reviewer for Grimdark Magazine & FanFiAddict. He/him Linktree: https://linktr.ee/edcrocker
10 years ago, per New Yorker reporting, Pete ‘permanently overdosed on war viagra’ Hegseth was at a bar drunkenly chanting ‘kill all Muslims’
He must have been wasted because he forgot to add Americans, too
Never underestimate a failing empire’s desire to kill its underclass for a quick hard-on
Big announcement coming this week apparently, it’s hope time Phil!
This is 2026 too, actors in their fifties are basically 30, it will be like nothing has changed (apart from time)
FIREFLY MIGHT BE COMING BACK WITH ORIGINAL CAST
Let’s all calm down
I said calm down
Are you calm yet
Melissa is absolutely right. We might be traditionally published, and we might occasionally break out with a bestseller, but midlist authors are often neglected by publishers while the big titles suck up all the oxygen. There are some brave and exciting books out there that deserve a lot more hype!
I care about people’s sanity too much
Recent midlist SFF books that deserve everything:
The Tales of the Plains trilogy by @davewragg.com
The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social
Seven Recipes for Revolution by @ryanprose.bsky.social
A bit older but The Graven trilogy by @essahansen.bsky.social
I thank you but in all honesty it’s taken years of training
Me with new Jane eyre book
Addicted to this edition of Jane Eyre I found today
Happy world book day you forest creatures
Headline: Israeli military tells hundreds of thousands to flee Beirut
Every single headline in the last week has read as if someone’s on ketamine playing Total War
Cannot emphasise enough how much I despise this multiverse timeline
Happiness yet humidity, there are no easy wins ever
Me: oh look it’s March I feel good for the first time in four months
Corpse of winter: I can hear you I’m literally lying right here
WHO’S COMING TO SHREWSBURY TO SEE ME DISPENSE ADVICE?
stop running away so fast, at least don’t make it obvious
They look more stupid than a man in shorts with a parasol cocktail in the middle of the arctic
winning green party candidate in manchester byelection
Extremely proud of my city for rejecting racism
Britain might be toying with immigrant hate instead of focusing on the real villains, the late stage capitalist bros, but Manchester fucking isn't
Hooray to Tower and Scour!
Ward weaves her usual magic of mystery and subtlety, with easy prose and weighty chills.
I've got a proof copy, I'm scared to start it because it looks like one of those read-in-one-sitting fellows and I'll need to eat at some point
Guardian headline: Mandelson accuses police of arresting him over 'baseless' claims he planned to flee abroad
Man obsessed with islands denies wanting to flee to islands
I can get on board with a husk life
You are the bravest of us all
I haven't yet had the confidence to try clicking "reject all" on the cookies box you have to click on every single website these days because I'm afraid of the consequences but if you don't hear from me for years know that I finally did it and I regret nothing and I'm at peace
my very silly goodreads giveaway graphic for Moonfall
🩸🧛♂️🐺 GOODREADS GIVEAWAY 🐺🧛♂️🩸
Don't save face... save YOUR face.
Nailed it.
(US AND CANADA ONLY)
Link in comment
The ending is mad, I like it
Genre spotlight: Gaslamp fantasy
What is it? A subgenre of fantasy that generally features realistic 19th century settings with magical, occult, or supernatural elements, and often includes Gothic horror tropes.
Genre classics. Covers of: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman, A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray, Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare, The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Further reading. Covers of: DuMort by Michelle Tang, A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab, The Tarot Reader of Versailles by Anya Bergman, The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner, The Extravaganza Eternia by Kristin Osani.
Are you a fan of gaslamp fantasy? Check out our list of classic genre staples and newer titles in this genre - including a couple of our own publications.
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📚⚫🗣️ New interview! 🗣️⚫📚
I chat with horror author & EiC of Tenebrous Press, the legendary @alexwoodroe.com, about:
⚰️ Her new book, the Weird apocalypse horror The Night Ship
⚰️What really scares her
⚰️Her work with Tenebrous
⚰️The future of horror
⚰️Why her next novel is her weirdest
and more!
I like 3 but you’re Tantalisingly close to one of the greatest games ever made (4)
It’s very unfair of you to make fun of him using the magic room he can’t access for some reason
100% though, nice.
Ha I did not have fun he genuinely terrified me (running away from things I can’t fight in games really does a number on me) although terror is fun I guess
