I’ll be at Readercon this weekend, so please say hello if you’re going to be there. My schedule is below, or you can find the full schedule here.

I’m honored to have a poem upcoming in UNDER HER EYE, with cover illustration by Lynne Hansen and design by Najla Qamber. Black Spot Books‘ second annual women-in-horror showcase, UNDER HER EYE is edited by Lindy Ryan and Lee Murray and features poems from 112 women (cis, trans, and non-binary femmes) around the world. Developed in partnership with The Pixel Project, all net proceeds from the collection will be donated to help support efforts to end violence against women worldwide. Release November 2023.

If you’re a Lovecraft eZine patron on Patreon, you can listen to me talk about my experience watching a TV show that had a tremendous influence on me – GHOSTWATCH.

Here’s what Mike Davis had to say about the episode:

Listen to our GHOSTWATCH discussion: https://patreon.com/posts/79406029

Halloween night, 1992. A Saturday. That evening, a faux documentary aired on BBC1. Though it was clearly labeled as a drama, the style and actors involved caused many to believe that everything that was happening was real.

Writer Emma Gibbon (https://bit.ly/podcast-emma-gibbon) is a Patreon, and she suggested this Patreon Podcast episode. I watched it again recently myself. It holds up and I really enjoyed it.

BUT… hearing Emma describe the actual experience of being 16, babysitting several younger brothers and sisters as they all watched GHOSTWATCH, was truly amazing!

Enjoy.

I was lucky enough recently to interview one of my favorite authors, M. Rickert, for the Lovecraft eZine Podcast! You can watch it here:

My poem, Consumption, has been reprinted in this season’s issue of Northern Frights. You can grab it here and read more work by some great Maine writers!

Today is the day! BLOOD FOREST is unleashed (get it?) on the world. Visit Langeley, Maine, where Frank and Eva discover that the creatures in the woods are not the only monsters they have to worry about.

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Available to listen for FREE. New episodes every week (Blood Forest stands alone so you don’t have to watch the first season of Undertow—although you totally should)

Starring Jack Falahee and Bree Klauser, created for Realm by Fred Greenhalgh, Marco Palmieri, Shawn French, Bob LeBlanc, Morgan Sylvia, and me!

The contract is signed, so I can now announce that my poem “Plain White Cotton Dresses” will be published in Under Her Eye by Black Spot Books. Thanks so much to editors Lindy Ryan and Lee Murray! I’m honored to help raise money for The Pixel Project.

So I’ve had to be pretty quiet about what I have been working on recently. I can finally announce that I was part of the writing team, along with Fred Greenhalgh, Marco Palmieri, Morgan Sylvia, Shawn French and Bob LeBlanc behind Blood Forest, a new horror podcast series coming to Realm. Here is the trailer. The first episode drops TOMORROW on most places where you find podcasts—just search for Undertow: Blood Forest.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/undertow-blood-forest/id1605246301

Maine’s just lousy with werewolves, turns out.

The audio play version of my story, Janine, has just been re-released on the Realm app. Huge thank you to Fred Greenhalgh for making it happen (again)!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simpson-falls-ripples-2-janine-by-emma-j-gibbon/id1605246301?i=1000580407724

Quick review by Well Read Beard of my short story, Home, Safe and Sound from 13 Haunted Houses edited by Curtis M. Lawson from Weird House Press!

https://youtu.be/jcfha-SdAy8