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Chris DiLeo @authordileo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I’m reading eight books, but screw it, I’m adding another. @brianmcwriter.bsky.social

BREATHE IN,
BLEED
OUT
BRIAN
McAULEY
(And my cat, Tabes!)

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Rachel 💚📚 Book Blogger @racheyreads.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Weekend has arrived! What's everyone reading?? 😊 My CR ✨️ #BookSky 💙📚

Cover image of Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley

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Jaime @jaimeisahellpriest.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This book is so damn fun. Please grab it when it comes out on sept 2nd. It's absolutely 5 stars. @brianmcwriter.bsky.social has done a damn good job with this one.

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Books in the Freezer Podcast @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Picked up some library holds today One is one of my one of my daughters favorite movies, and the other will be a first-time watch (🫣) for an episode with @brianmcwriter.bsky.social

Hand holding two DVDs one is Elmo in Grouchland and one is Tremors

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We’re taking this retreat on tour! 🙌⛏️ Come see me in conversation with some truly amazing writers & readers this September. I can’t wait to breathe in & bleed out with you! 🧘🏻‍♂️🩸

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We love a slasher silhouette! 🤩⛏️ Link below to preorder this exclusive sprayed edge edition of BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT!

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 28/06/2025

Breathe In, Bleed Out A) isn't recommended yogic practice, I don't think, but B) it's a flat-out blast all the same.

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Anna Rose Reads @annarosereads.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

somehow squeezed in two banger slasher-esque books from @sgj.bsky.social and @brianmcwriter.bsky.social this week. and that makes it a good week.

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Bobzbay Books @bobzbay.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This is creeping up on my TBR, but you can preorder now from Bobzbay and get some sweet swag. (Today is a good day to preorder since it’s a profit share day for the Bloomington-Normal branch of PFLAG!) bobzbay.square.site/product/brea... @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social @brianmcwriter.bsky.social

A graphic advertising a preorder campaign for Brian McAuley’s BREATHE IN BLEED OUT. Preorders include a sticker, a signed bookplate, and a poster. Bookcover is primarily red with a pulp-art style girl reaching out in terror in the center of the cover.

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Another ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read!! A love letter to Scream, I couldn't put this slasher down. Grab your popcorn, and prepare for a bloody ride of disgusting kills and laugh out loud one-liners. I absolutely LOVED it! My favorite from @brianmcwriter.bsky.social so far. 🖤🩸🖤🩸 #booksky

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The kills in this book are disgustingly awesome. ☠️

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Bobzbay Books @bobzbay.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

New ARCs from @brianmcwriter.bsky.social & @joshmalerman.bsky.social just arrived. My TBR pile is out of control but you can bet that both of these are going towards the top.

A hand holds up copies of the books UNEARTHING THE RADIANT ARTIST WITHIN and BREATHE IN BLEED OUT

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Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

@brianmcwriter.bsky.social with the one two punch of the gnarly kills and the hilarious one liners. I couldn’t put this awesome slasher down, I read it in 2 days! 5 huge stars for this one, out Sept 2. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Breathe in bleed out book by Brian McAuley

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wanna get your bloody hands on a print ARC of BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT? Enter the Goodreads Giveaway now! 🩸

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Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Spending some time with @brianmcwriter.bsky.social while waiting for an oil change!! @poisonedpen.bsky.social

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

When your destination retreat becomes your final destination 🧘🏻‍♀️💀 BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT 🩸 9.2.25

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Horror-Reads @horrorreads.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Slasher fans unite! Breathe In, Bleed Out by @brianmcwriter.bsky.social is a bloody, twisted, and twisty slasher novel set at a spiritual retreat in the desert. This one will make you SCREAM... Pre-order yours today.

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Join us for monstrous mayhem WHEN THE NAT COMES HOME this Thursday 5/1 at @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social! 🐺 Let’s give AZ native @natcassidy.bsky.social a warm welcome back to the deadly desert as we celebrate his latest horror masterpiece! 🏜️

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unstable.books @unstablebooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

II have collected the thoughts of authors and champions of the book community into a Cannibal Compendium ™️ click the link to take a peek 🍖 I will tag contributors in the comments because of the character limit 😭 unstablebooks.substack.com/p/the-forbid...

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The Forbidden Meat

A Cannibal Compendium - Authors & Horror Champions in Book Community Lent Me Their Voices (including Stephen Graham Jones!)

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Congrats to @toddkeisling.com! THE SUNDOWNER'S DANCE (out today!) is our fifth bestselling title of all-time with over 1,400 hardcover pre-orders! 🎉 Todd joins @natcassidy.bsky.social, @brianmcwriter.bsky.social, @aijiang.bsky.social, and @alandistro.bsky.social on our front page showcase.

Screenshot of the front page of Shortwave Publishing showcasing their top five bestselling titles of all time, including Nat Cassidy's Rest Stop, Brian McAuley's Candy Cain Kills, Ai Jiang's I AM AI, Alan Lastufka's Face the Night, and Todd Keisling's The Sundowner's Dance.

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Very kind of my King-crowned friend @natcassidy.bsky.social to grant me prince status. 🤴🏻🔪 His latest brilliant bloodbath drops TOMORROW, so pick up WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME and preorder BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT! 🐺🩸

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Follow the stars to read BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT on @netgalley.bsky.social now ✨

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Todd Keisling @toddkeisling.com · 18/04/2025

FOUR DAYS until THE SUNDOWNER'S DANCE is released. Your hearts and minds aren't ready. But don't take my word for it. Listen to @brianmcwriter.bsky.social!

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Check out this beaut of an eARC I have on deck. 👀🩸🖤 #booksky

Cover of Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley with a screaming woman reaching through the word "OUT"

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🪱💀mindy💀🪱 [exorcism bondage era] @garbagesauce.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

holy shit the book mail this past week has been UNREAL 😭😭 thank u @brianmcwriter.bsky.social & emily @ sourcebooks!!

the book breathe in bleed out by brian mcauley

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Nothing more healing than a blurb from a slasher legend. 🥹🔪 Endlessly grateful to @sgj.bsky.social for taking the trip. 🙏🩸 BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT manifests on 9.2.25 from @poisonedpenpress 🌀✨

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Trish Lundy @trishlundy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Binged this one so fast! A bloody fun time by @brianmcwriter.bsky.social

My e-reader copy of Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley courtesy of Netgalley.

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Books in the Freezer Podcast @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Back to Fear Street we go! @brianmcwriter.bsky.social joins me to talk about the second entry in the series, The Surprise Party. A book that's mostly about whether to throw a party and every character desperately needs therapy. Full episode on Patreon, but there is snippet in the main feed 🖤

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 17/03/2025

It’s pure slasher goodness:

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Cover Reveal! Breathe In, Bleed Out by @brianmcwriter.bsky.social coming September 2025 from Poisoned Pen Press. A spiritual retreat gone horribly, horribly wrong 🩸I love Brian's brand of horror and I'm really looking forward to this! bookshop.org/a/7576/97814...

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Spooky Sterling @spookysterling.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Got one last round of PUNKS to hold you over until NEXT WEEK @nwreader.bsky.social . Remember hearing protection. No safety pins in the pit. Cover charge is a pint of your blood, spilled on either @brianmcwriter.bsky.social @carsonwinter.bsky.social or @rachelharrison.bsky.social 's altars.

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

PSA! If you’re a proper romantic who plans on watching MY BLOODY VALENTINE (1981) with your lover tonight, beware the censored cut on Shudder! You can head to The Internet Archive & stream the vastly superior remastered uncut version for free. And this, dear creeps, is my bloody valentine to you. 💘🩸

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Heading off to shape young minds at school after spending the pre-dawn hours doing murder in my manuscript:

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a man is walking up the stairs of a house .

ALT: a man is walking up the stairs of a house .

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Brian McAuley @brianmcwriter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’ve reached the point in drafting my new book where I miss my characters when I’m not writing. It’s the best kind of flow & I can’t wait to dive back in with them.

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Horrifically Well Read @thehauntedlibrary.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My daughter just finished Candy Cain Kills by @brianmcwriter.bsky.social and immediately started Kills Again yesterday. It’s a proud parent moment, for sure.

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