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Dane Erbach

@browntrowsers.bsky.social
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Teacher, writer, husband, dad, coffee-drinker, news junkie, aging punk-rock kid. MEAT BEES available now from CLASH Books. Now Writing: 🏈😸🩸

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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
True to its title, MEAT BEES has both bees (well, wasps) and meat! I’ve tried not to say much about the meat lump on Stovetop Mountain—I don’t want to spoil anything. Let’s just say it plays a prominent role in the story. MEAT BEES is now available from CLASH Books.
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Lord Samper @lordsamper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kicking off the week with some thoughts on 'Meat Bees' by @browntrowsers.bsky.social... I didn't think it was possible for me to be more scared of wasps but, here I am 👍 @clashbooks.bsky.social lordsamperlibrary.blogspot.com/2026/09/meat...
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‘Meat Bees’ – Dane Erbach (Clash Books)
Page Count: 270 Pages As a kid, I used to be scared of flies (especially the big fat bluebottles) but that was a long time ago now. It too...
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am so excited that you can now preorder SKITTERS, my upcoming time-travel horror novel. Head to the Crow Shoppe to pick up a copy at a special “Early Bird” price! If you liked MEAT BEES, I think you’ll dig SKITTERS too. Thanks for being willing to give the book a shot this early ahead of pub day!
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So, right now, I'm working on a novella that I'm planning on pitching it as FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS x "The Lottery" — and, you know, I'm pretty excited about it.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now that the school year has started, I guess it’s back to writing in my kids’ bedroom floor while I wait for them to fall to sleep. Do any other writer-parents out there squeeze in their writing whenever they can in unusual locations?
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am very grateful that The Sunlight Press published my nonfiction story “The Five Stages of Being Cut from the Varsity Soccer Team.” You can read it now. Check the link below. www.thesunlightpress.com/2026/09/13/t...
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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Next. Back of the book says "Jaws with wasps." Excited 🔥 #booksky @browntrowsers.bsky.social
Meat Bees by Dane Erbach
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I made some cool promo items for my books, including a gnarly MEAT BEES bookmark and a HUMBLE HOUSE postcard with artwork of Harvard, IL (the town that inspired the book) from the late 1800s. For now, you can get one (and some books!) at One of Us Horror Fest next month. Maybe I’ll see you there?
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I know rankings like these are pretty random and fluctuate wildly, but it’s kind of cool that MEAT BEES make it into the top 100 of an Amazon chart, right? If only for a day?
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It’s pub day. MEAT BEES is out now from CLASH Books. I couldn’t be more proud of this book. I hope you give it a try.
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Capes and Tights @capesandtights.com · 24/07/2026
Bees, Wasps, and other fly insects frighten people. Author Dane Erbach discussed how this might draw people into Meat Bees and more on this week's episode! From Episode 291: Dane Erbach (capestights.com/ep291) @clashbooks.bsky.social @browntrowsers.bsky.social
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Capes and Tights @capesandtights.com · 23/07/2026
Meat Bees is a lot of things, but also came from some real life horrors. Author Dane Erbach discussed this and more on this week's episode! From Episode 291: Dane Erbach (capestights.com/ep291) @clashbooks.bsky.social @browntrowsers.bsky.social
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Capes and Tights @capesandtights.com · 22/07/2026
Jaws with Wasps. The beginning of what turned into the fantastic and horrifying story of Meat Bees. Author Dane Erbach discussed this and more on this week's episode! From Episode 291: Dane Erbach (capestights.com/ep291) @browntrowsers.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social
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Capes and Tights @capesandtights.com · 22/07/2026
This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author Dane Erbach to the program to discuss Meat Bees, his upcoming novel from Clash Books, and more! Watch or listen: capestights.com/ep291 @browntrowsers.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Am I too late for this trend? Should I have done this last week? Either way, I like doing stuff like this, so whatever!
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I've been vacationing in Rejection Town for the past week or two, so I'm trying to put the right energy out there in the hopes that I find that right publisher, agent, or publication. In case no one has told you: Querying ain't for the weak.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The past few years, I've leaned into horror as my main writing genre, but I'd say all of my books lean YA. I've made a lot of horror friends, but I'm not sure I know enough YA authors. Do I know any contemporary YA authors? Published, querying, or drafting; traditional or indie — let's be friends!
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Three more months…
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Things Max finds when he stumbles through a portal back to 1986... • Slinkies • Ben Franklin stores • "These Dreams" by Heart • Old Country Buffet • Ashtrays everywhere • Aqua Net big hair • Metal spiders with razor-sharp legs that want to gut him • Skor bars #QuestPit #Q #YA #scifi #horror
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
BACK TO THE FUTURE x PSYCHO While working at his aunt's struggling hotel, Max discovers metal spiders that dig portals in time. He follows one to 1986, when the hotel is thriving. Turns out time-travel is sort of fun—until the spiders start slicing up hotel guests. #QuestPit #Q #YA #scifi #horror
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I wish querying was as easy as asking, "Any agents or small publishers interested in reading a horror novel with BACK TO THE FUTURE X PSYCHO vibes?" Alas.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Author 🐝 The First Page 🐝 The Cover
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Okay. I’m officially querying another book. It’s exciting and nerve-wracking pitching a new book with two others in the trad pipeline. Will they help just get in the way? Small publishers / agents, let me know if you want to read a horror novel with humor and heart and time travel and gore.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Huh. Somehow, MEAT BEES ended up on Goodreads’ Month-by-Month Peek at 2026’s Most Anticipated Horror list. Excited is an understatement. Surreal might be more accurate. Even cooler, I’m on there with my fellow CLASH authors and some of my favorite authors of all time.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Crawling off the couch to share that MEAT BEES has hit 100 ratings on Goodreads. Didn't expect to get 100 ratings in the lifetime of this book, let alone this far from its publication date. If you've read and reviewed, even if MEAT BEES wasn't your cup of tea, thank you.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Dang, writing the climax of a novel is so exciting and stressful and fun and excruciating.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Noticed this morning that MEAT BEES has over 100 reviews on NetGally, and over 50 ratings at Goodreads. Considering that the book won't be published until August, I'd say that's kind of awesome. It brings me so much joy just knowing that people are reading my book.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It’s been a wild ride watching people enjoy MEAT BEES—and the book still has eight months until it’s released! Thanks for the boost, Capes and Tights!
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
My Newspaper Class: Squealing about boys, crying about grades, swiping through memes, breaking into spontaneous song, maybe writing or posting stories, but probably just eating Munchkins. Me: This class is a hot mess. Student: It's just because this class is a safe space for us. Me: 😕🥹😭
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Gotta admit: MEAT BEE's cover is gnarly in the best possible way. Props to cover artist Joel Amat Güell and the fine folks at CLASH Books for giving my book the cover it deserves. I hope the story moves readers as much as the cover does.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love Halloween, and I love dressing up ridiculously at school. I was expecting everyone to know who I was today but, so far, it’s just been a lot of “Who are you supposed to be?” When I tell them my daughter is a KPop Demon Hunter, some of them figure it out.
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
As utterly, gloriously bonkers as its cover and title all but screams, @browntrowsers.bsky.social ‘s “Meat Bees,” is a Jaws-Candyman hybrid that stuns with visceral imagery, before planting its mandibles somewhere tender. @clashbooks.bsky.social AUG ‘26 fanfiaddict.com/review-meat-...
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Review: Meat Bees by Dane Erbach | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of course, she d ...
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
And, just like that, I’m 2/3 of the way through my current novel. I’m on track to be done by the end of 2025. If you like creepy hotels and time traveling and spiders with knifes for legs, this Bud’s for you.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Proud to say that my dad was one of the inflatable tyrannosauruses at our local No Kings rally.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
My first grader Maeby has been writing "Maeby 2000" on the name line of all her worksheets — totally unprompted, by the way — and I never expected when I became a parent that my children would be so incredibly cool.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
WHAT?! MEAT BEES is the most requested horror novel on NetGalley right now?! Who knows how long it'll be there, this is an AWESOME milestone, and I'm very proud. Are you one of the readers who requested it? I hope you love it. Please let me know your thoughts, and thank you for reading!
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Listen: I don't even know if anything I do at my job makes any sense to anyone any more, but I made this meme this morning to remind my Book Club kids of when our next meeting is, and it made me happy.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
*nervous laughter* Uh, MEAT BEES is currently in the top five most requested horror novels right now on NetGalley with some other rad looking books. I suppose that means you should request the ARC now while you can.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Woke up this morning and realized that I have three stories coming out in three different spooky anthologies this month! Like monsters in any good scary story, I suppose they snuck up on me. The stories include a micro-story, a reprint (with an updated ending), and a story I wrote a long time ago.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
MEAT BEES has a cover!!! AAAA!!! 😭🤮🫠🫣🥳
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Being a writer is hoping that not hearing back from a magazine that normally rejects your short stories pretty quickly is a good thing.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
As for today's edition of "An Author's Google History..." • snowblower engine • 1986 children's clothing • popples • what's a spider's elbow called?
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
RE: The biomechanial spider in my current work-in-progress. My subconscious mind has drawn inspiration from these two characters, unrelated except for how important they are to me. How they combine to make a deadly monster that slices up characters and digs wormholes through time, *shrug emoji*
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I, uh, just wrote a pretty gory, violent part of my WIP during my lunch break where a charcter gets carved up by a biomechanical spider. I don’t exactly know how to transition from this to teaching my students how to interview a source effectively. Being a writer/teacher is weird.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I feel like I can go months without hearing about any of my short story submissions. Then I'll get literally a half dozen rejections in the span of a couple days—and a few more rejections the day after that. The universe wants to break us writers, I tells ya.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Today, I sat in silence for 10 minutes with 18 ninth grade students in the corner of my classroom during a lockdown drill. The entire time, I thought about how unfair it is for students and teachers and schools to train to mitigate the harm of an active shooter—that it's their responsibility.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
As of today, I’ve officially been published indie author for a whole year. 😎
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Hitting that point in my WIP (around 10K) where I'm simultaneously like, "Dang, this story's writing itself!" and "I can't tell if this story is really bad or not." Still, I never thought I'd write a story about metallic spiders digging time portals in a failing Holiday Inn Express, but here I am.
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I can’t find it annoying that Gen Alpha is singing ”Steve’s Lava Chicken” everywhere they go. After all, I still remember the summer that my generation wouldn’t stop singing (and headbanging) to “Bohemian Rhapsody” because of WAYNE’S WORLD
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Dane Erbach @browntrowsers.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Okay, I guess I’m going to write this short story then, aren’t I?
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