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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 15/05/2026

Was feeling a little writer-low and then I stumbled on this review of The Night Ship and I am probably good for the rest of the month now, this is gonna carry me through writing the next three chapters of what I'm working on, thank you, whoever you are

It felt like Disco Elysium under an incomprehensible alien attack. Cosmic Horror in Revachol. - storygraph review

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 11/05/2026

How your query letter letter finds me

Snarky editor having much too lovely a time outside in the sun with the laptop on her lap. Lots of green grass, a hammock in the background, an improvised table made out of pallets next to her with coffee and apricots on it.

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 24/01/2026

What do we think, haunted? Y/N Should I go inside? Y/N

A very haunted abandoned building completely covered in snow and dead grasses. Looks like some old farm building, maybe a barn

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 20/01/2026

The Night Ship is out today, marking the end of my fifth year in publishing since my very first little publication. So in honor of that milestone, here's the five most important things I've learned as an artist in that time:

Something hungry lurks below. THE NIGHT SHIP (orange and black cover, a truck and radio dials). Unsettling and immersive, readers will be on the edge of their seats - publishers weekly. OUT NOW from flame tree press

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 20/01/2026

Feast your ears on Transmission zero, and welcome The Night Ship into the world! Released today wherever you can grab it, and ready to be just about the strangest journey into the vast of night you'll ever go through. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 07/01/2026

Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...

The author holding her book like it's the lion king

A hardcover in oranges and reds, truck on the cover, title is The Night Ship, Alex Woodroe

The same book open to chapter three, called "the land of lonesomeness"

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 17/12/2025

If you think you might wanna have the book that got this review, there's ten foiled hardback copies up for grabs! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 16/12/2025

I might need to be pinched because I can't quite believe this Library Journal review is really real and really mine ❤️❤️❤️❤️😅 Who over there needs an alibi? I'm great in a crisis and you were with me all day that day I swear

"When the world goes dark in 1980s Romania, Rosi is trapped on the truck she uses as a smuggling vessel along with the driver, Gigi, her arranged-marriage fiancé. The mood of the novel perfectly matches the grim and oppressive descriptions of this newly changed world. As cosmic horrors erupt around them, Rosi gathers the other survivors together to make their way to a hoped-for safety, led only by the radio signals they pick up. Woodroe’s writing is tight and clean, emphasizing the desperation and also the real fear that people would experience in this apocalyptic setting. The novel skillfully mixes celestial terror and off-the-wall weirdness while making good use of tweaked and twisted science, the Communist Romania setting, and believable characters. The ending hopefully paves the way for a sequel.

VERDICT: Woodroe (Whisperwood) offers a haunting and propulsive treat in this survival horror story, whose read-alikes include The Mist and The Langoliers, both by Stephen King, and God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines."

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 14/12/2025

The first few snowflakes of the winter caught me outside, running, therefore I'm considering myself divinely blessed and will take no arguments. I will however take any suggestions as to which divinity this might have been, currently idk where to send the thank you note?

Fucking freezing ass looking landscape, frankly. It's overcast and the hills are various shades of dead and you can feel the fog and cold in your bones just from looking at this. Person in the foreground is wearing several thermal layers and looks very pleased with herself for someone who is about to throw back two burgers and an order of crepes

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 02/12/2025

Either that or I'm starting to rot, like the wood

A rose trellis that used to be a ladder, and now isn't even a rose trellis anymore

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 02/12/2025

We've been in this fog bank for weeks, and if you're asking whether I'm well, it is debatable at this stage who is more self-aware: the lichen, or I

A walnut tree starkly outlined against a foggy background

A drop of water hanging from a bowed branch, more fog in the background

Some kind of fungus growing from a lichen-covered, rotting tree. More fog

More lichen. Multiple colors of lichen. More fog. The lichen and the fog never end

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 24/11/2025

Anyone want an editing sample? This email in our inbox volunteered—the only logical explanation for why anyone would be pitching AI slop to Tenebrous

An edited and annotated document saying:

Joint Venture Proposal - Tenebrous Press
Inbox

8:32 PM (1 hour ago)
to me

Hello,

I generate concept trash, including sci-fi composite images designed to obliterate the value of games, books, and wall art. My trash combines visual development, narrative design, and AI-supported production.

What I offer:

• Nothing

• Emptiness

• A hollow sense that our time on earth is passing

• Shame

I’d like to explore a JV with you. In the meantime, here’s a document highlighting my abilities and providing samples of my work.

Best,

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 24/11/2025

First sub zero run is out of the way, and so far so good! Fueled by turkey curry, roasted chestnuts, and sweet pears, the weather can't keep this balkanlander down

Frosted branches on the side of an empty road, sunset behind them

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 22/11/2025

STUCK IN THE MUD AND I'M TO BLAME BABY I GIVE MUD A BAD NAME

An editor in the headlights of her car which is decidedly where it shouldn't have been and is categorically not going anywhere

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 14/11/2025

Today's run needs no introduction

Sunset. A beautiful road across the countryside, fall colors, distant hills.

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 13/11/2025

"...unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller. Readers will be on the edges of their seats." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BABY www.publishersweekly.com/9781787589186

The Night Ship
Alex Woodroe. Flame Tree, $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-787589-18-6
Woodroe (Whisperwood) expertly maintains suspense throughout this unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller about an apocalyptic event in 1987 Romania. Heroine Rosi has “made it a point of survival to think as little as possible about... goings-on beyond what was strictly in front of her.” She’s taken advantage of the logging truck used by her fiancé, Gigi, to facilitate her smuggling business. On a routine excursion in that vehicle, the pair pick up a hitchhiker, Sorin, who claims to be a philosophy student, though Rosi soon comes to suspect that he is a government informant, if not actually a member of the country’s notorious secret police. Before she can test this theory, darkness falls like a physical force from the sky and “swallows the world.” In this new pitch blackness, segments of once solid ground are replaced by an inky substance that drags down all objects that land in it. With the truck’s cabin one of the only safe refuges, this unlikely trio set out to make sense of what’s happened and rescue survivors. Woodroe parcels out reveals about the nature of the dark void gradually but effectively. Readers will be on the edges of their seats. (Jan.)

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 29/10/2025

May the void (and the tiramisu I snarfled half an hour ago) bless me with a good run

Punk ass editor in shorts running shoes and a Voidcon t-shirt

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 23/10/2025

Every interview ever: fiction editor & horror writer huh? What have you been reading lately Me: 😬😬😬

Practical programming

Sightly reduced performance capacity in Selye's stage 1. Such fatigue is short-lived; an acute variable. Comprehensive recovery processes are the collective repair status of the various organ systems and processes affected by the training bout: endocrine and immune systems, chronic inflammatory processes, and protein synthetic responses. Fatigue and recovery together contribute to adaptation and progress, with supraconpensation...

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 20/10/2025

Continuing the very important work of building arms for the girls

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 19/10/2025

Day one of jetlag recovery: everything hurts. Tired, nauseous, confused, crampy, and missing my friends. Showed up for a run because what's the point of these bodies if not to enjoy the time we get to the utmost

Bit of a sunset, stretch of road, semi-miserable editor in a beanie and a Jaws shirt

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 17/10/2025

Hey guess what? I'm stuck in an airport for the foreseeable several to infinity hours! Ask me anything about anything at all.

A crude but dare I say brave piece of art of a crashing plane that says "your flight is not boarding (crossed out and replaced with fucked)"

Said fucked editor with a massive, massive cup of coffee the likes of which can only be sourced on American soil

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 15/10/2025

My last American Diner breakfast of this trip has come and gone in all of seven minutes. Until next time, Diners. I'll be back. I'll conquer your potatoes. You'll never get rid of me.

A plate of eggs, burger steak, potatoes, toast, and coffee, and a side of pancake

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 14/10/2025

Grateful to friends whose gifts cover a broad range of my special interests and keep me company when I'm blue because I miss them. Strength training, The Night Land art, and unusual chocolate truffles actually make more sense as a combo than you'd think 😅

An open book showing deadlifting position diagrams, an art print in super dark high contrast line work of a man battling a massive worm-like creature, and a box of very colorful and cheerful looking chocolate truffles

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 14/10/2025

Summary of @voidcon.bsky.social: life doesn't owe us much and publishing even less, every chance we get to live new things, be happy in these skins, and love on our people is gravy. Appreciate the Void for giving us gravy time. They did a great job and looked cool doing it. Hail Void crew!

A collage of photos including selfies, group shots, food photos, book photos, and a can of spam

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 05/10/2025

Two weeks on the other side of the planet? All packed

A backpack and a little crotch pack. They're not even that stuffed

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 02/10/2025

"Horror sci-fi banger" is an incredibly generous interpretation of the genre chaos magic going on in this book that I am SO FREAKING EXCITED TO GET TO TELL YOU ABOUT oh my gosh this is gonna be so fun

Author of Whisperwood and editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press Alex Woodroe's TATRATEA in which a lone researcher arrives at an ancient Romanian manor to investigate the source of a virus driving the world insane, but is quickly locked in and caught between local hyperactive flora, invasive cosmic forces, and her own ability to remain lucid, to Christoph Paul at CLASH for publication in fall 2026

Clash Fall 2026 Alex Woodroe (photo of the author wearing a tenebrous press shirt and wielding a mean rusty axe)

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 02/10/2025

The Night Ship is up on Netgalley for those of you so inclined! Reviewers, friends, enemies, anyone, if that's not accessible for you drop me a line, I *am* keeping a list of who has asked and will be dropping emails shortly. ♥️ www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

As the world goes dark, smuggler Rosi and her crew sail their truck across a murky sea of nothingness.
But something hungry lurks below...

THE NIGHT SHIP BY ALEX WOODROE
PREORDERS OPEN! Coming January 20, 2026 from Flame Tree Press

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 01/10/2025

May you have whatever day this is

An incredibly cozy terrier in a very fuzzy bed, a lit fireplace behind him warming his little rump

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 20/09/2025

Now playing, on the one true champion of movie platforms Night Flight, is whatever the hell this is gonna turn out to be. How can we go wrong with a character named Lord Zirpola, honestly

Deathsport
One thousand years into the future, following the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastes and isolated city-states. Lord Zirpola captures the notorious "Desert Ranger" Kaz (David Carradine) to fight to the death in his game, Deathsport.

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 07/09/2025

Just a couple cuties discovering the marvels of beanbag chairs in the great outdoors

The author making a silly scrunchy face because there's a lot of sun. She's laying back in the grass and her trusted companion the demon dog Charlie is curled up nearby

Demon dog Charlie looking majestic in the grass. He's surrounded by beanbags and there's a terrace and an ice cream truck in the distance and a pretty impressive cliff behind that

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 04/09/2025

Soon, The Night Ship is touching down, and I need your help. As an editor, the task below the bottom of the list is always promoting my own work, even though it means so very much to me. So if you think you'd like to review this, or blurb it, or heck, catapult a copy at your enemies? Hit me up.

As the world goes dark, smuggler Rosi and her crew sail their truck across a murky sea of nothingness.
But something hungry lurks below...

Transmission #0
“...This message is a warning about danger.
The center of danger is here.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
The danger is to the mind, and it can kill.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
This danger will touch down in five.
Four.
Three.
Two.”

"A high-gear hurtle through the vast of night with a remarkable cast of characters, human and otherwise..."

Coming January 20, 2026, from Flame Tree Press

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 04/09/2025

When the local grill guy aims for "inspirational" and lands squarely on "threatening"

It's the side of a terrace shot from inside, but picture a really shoddy diy one. There's license plates hanging across the lower side of the side wall, and dangerous looking farm tools hanging from the rafters. On one pillar, there's both what looks like a pair of rusty steel shackles, and a "motivational" plaque with a mandala and the scribbled words "you are not ALONE".

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 27/08/2025

I wonder where the dog went

A gorgeous looking pinsa with a tail wagging from under it

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 20/08/2025

Hiiiii! What's everyone up to? I'm going to the hardware store to say "no, I don't need any help" and "yes, I do know what I'm doing with that saw chain" a lot

Dark haired chick looking cute in shorts and a crop top but if you zoom in on the eyes your room inexplicably gets several degrees colder

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 19/08/2025

Sorry I haven't been around. I've been toasting my toes on an improvised fire pit under a walnut tree.

Toes resting on a ceramic tile used as the side of a small fire pit in which a happy little fire is fwooshing away

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 17/08/2025

It's part of my charitable contribution to literature

Decibel meter showing 112 decibels or "night club" loud

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 16/08/2025

Good morning! A little art on my lunch break. Working on something for 10p, enjoying the process of making something just because the little imp in my head said "go." Can't cheat that kind of energy

Couple of corn tortillas with Boston steak chunks and veggies, there's a laptop open on clip studio paint in the background and a bright sunny day beyond that

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 07/08/2025

Volunteer corn popped up by the stream, seeds spread probably from last year's harvest in nearby fields. Plants are cool

A cute terrier sniffing at a corn stalk in a very, incredibly green hillsy setting

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 07/08/2025

Having a rough one, so I'm cheering myself up by looking up what's good on Night Flight for tonight's viewing. Check this out, never heard of it before but damned if it isn't speaking right to my interests

Nightwish
Your innermost fears lead you inexorably to a dream of death... your own death! Using sensory deprivation techniques, a doctor of parapsychology provokes his students to examine their own deaths in evermore horrifying circumstances. Roles are exchanged and shuffled as reality and fantasy become indistinguishable and each new dreadful death

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 05/08/2025

A'ight friends, it's almost time. Revisiting guidelines, planning plans, reticulating splines. We have inbox zero. (Also just in case: this system is nearly perfect but with thousands of submissions there may well still be blips so check your spam & check in if you should have heard but didn't)

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 25/07/2025

This time last year I would have said, I've had an immeasurably hard day so I have every excuse not to do anything else. Today I said, I've had an immeasurably hard day so I deserve a sunset run. I'm beat but not defeated and my mind is clearer and I feel stronger.

Myself looking beat up in my little running outfit. It's sunset and the scenery behind me is pastoral and beautiful and peaceful

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 25/07/2025

Just because it's hot doesn't mean we shouldn't be fabulous

A terrier lounging in a pink pouffy bed, spilling over every side

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 22/07/2025

My favorite Ozzy song is, predictably, a weird one that I wish more people knew about. It's on Rick Wakeman's concept album, Return to the Centre of the Earth, and Ozzy's song is called Buried Alive. The whole album is excellent and it always made me so happy to hear his voice on it.

Album cover r return to the center of the earth by Rick Wakeman. A Roger Dean abstract of dirt and cliffs and rocks

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 22/07/2025

Timeline cleanse! My friend who always greets me on my run brought me her puppies for the first time today ❤️

A smug looking momma dog, scruffy terrier, getting neck scratches. A baby nibbling on my thigh

Two tricolor terrier poofs chewing on my fingers, a third off to the side considering chewing my fingers

The same two demon puppies pulling on my shirt with the cutest scrunchy faces

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 21/07/2025

Hahahaha this is so good though. Oh I love the breakdown at the end! I was like "See, social interactions, totally nt, communication, superduper nt" and then social camouflage, self-regulatory behaviour, and sensory sensitivity entered the chat feet first. Idk how this last one is even possible

Non-autistic
14-24
Autistic
24-32
My score: 35

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 21/07/2025

It's hot out there today. Wear sunscreen ❤️

A wild Alex Woodroe in a red crop top and Jean shorts

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 20/07/2025

Left the house with nothing but the dog and two percent phone battery, aka a classic Alex

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 16/07/2025

Matching my friends' energy, how did I do

Probably the most challenging alt text I've ever written. So. I'm sitting in a gopnik squat dressed head to toe in an Adidas track suit holding a glass of palinka and a big ass fucking drill. I'm just trying to copy the other picture

Tichy doing the gopnik squat in an Adidas track suit drinking vodka and holding what I'm gonna choose to assume is a water pistol

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