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Curtis Schlak

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Gregarious introvert, certified Book Coach, novelist, new media platform designer curtis.schlak.com specficcoach.com

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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 3h
I love Allan’s movies and can’t wait for HIGHWAY GOTHIC! If you haven’t seen their movie EVIL SUBLET, go watch it on Tubi or Amazon Video! www.amazon.com/eVil-Sublet-... tubitv.com/movies/10003...
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Watch eVil Sublet | Prime Video
A couple finds their dream apartment in New York City. Who cares if it's haunted if the rent is cheap? But when murderous ghosts come after them, they must enlist the help of unusual friends to fight the evil.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 04/10/2026
It rained like the Flood, yesterday, in New Orleans, Flash Flood Warnings and all. Today is shaping up to be the same.
Storm clouds over NOLA
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 04/10/2026
Wrote only -700 words, yesterday, on Chapter1 on a new novel. Still trying to really find that voice so I can write faster. It’s my first co-authored novel. Luckily, it’s with creative partner @stacieherrington.bsky.social, a really great writer. I always learn a lot from her. #WritingCommunity
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 03/10/2026
Working in the lobby of a hotel.
Me acting goofy in the lobby of the Hotel St. Marie.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 02/10/2026
My creative partner @stacieherrington.bsky.social and I are making our first short film, TOIL AND TROUBLE. Follow along on our journey! curtis.schlak.com/2026/09/30/d...
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My First Short Film - In Pre-Production
In which I describe the <i>very</i> short journey into my first film project
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 02/10/2026
Had a great dinner last night with friend and author @vslaw.bsky.social. Seriously, everyone, go but hey books. vslawrence.com/publications
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V.S. Lawrence
Explore V.S. Lawrence publications, featuring thrilling ghost hunting tales, horror novels, and captivating anthologies for every horror fan.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 26/09/2026
Used my leftover ricotta mixture from a lasagna to make gnocchi. Can’t wait to try them this week.
Drying ricotta gnocchi.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 22/09/2026
Finished WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix. 🫂 GH completely knocks me out with the humanity in his books, this one most. 🙏 Thanks to @stacieherrington.bsky.social for loaning her autographed copy to me. 🤩 I was bowled over by GH’s supplemental presentation about witchcraft, last year.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 21/09/2026
Finished GOD’S JUNK DRAWER by @peterclines.com 👍🏻 Incredibly satisfying Dark Academia Sci-Fi. 🙏 Thanks for the encouragement, @sabazinus.bsky.social! 🥰 Really got invested in the lives of Beau, Sam, Josh, Parker, and Olivia. 🐣 Now to figure out the Easter eggs…
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 18/09/2026
Finished VILLAIN by Natalie Zina Walschots,the long-awaited sequel to HENCH. 🖖🏻👍🏻👏🏻 VILLAIN, an emotionally fulfilling novel, demands a sequel. While I could have lived with the ending of HENCH, NZW has captured my attention, and (dammit) I now am invested in The Auditor’s schemes and relations ships.
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Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com · 17/09/2026
Please share this to help spread that Ken Paxton was protecting child predators when he was Texas’s attorney general.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 15/09/2026
When you’ve had insomnia and a mower in the neighborhood wakes you, that makes it a “weapon of grass destruction.”
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 14/09/2026
Sorry about that, everyone. I believe that we live in a shared world. When people act selfishly or thoughtlessly, it makes me sad for us all.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 14/09/2026
HEY! THIS PLANE IS MY HOUSE! I’M A TAXPAYER! I DON’T NEED SOCKS…I AM A REPUBLICAN. SMELL MY MAGA FEET, LIBS. #badtraveler #douchecanoe
Some asshole decided to put his foot on the front wall of the cabin because obviously he’s a bad traveler.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 13/09/2026
Oh, dang it, my laptop screen just gave up the ghost. 💻👻😢
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 13/09/2026
#WriterLife #WriterSky TIP: Use NoveList Plus to find comps, a resource offered by many libraries! I hate finding comps for my unconventional mashups which satisfy my personal criteria. With NoveList, I can search by story, theme, and appeal factors like “banter-filled buddy science fantasy”!
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 13/09/2026
Yesterday was nice. Wrote the first 1000 words of a new dark fantasy, working title of DARK MAGIC OF DAWN. #writerlife #booksky #writersky #amdrafting #specfic #darkfantasy
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 13/09/2026
I am so very fortunate to be at the Fangoria Compendium book launch as a plus one. A brilliant event, a beautiful book. @fangoria.bsky.social www.fangoria.com/state-of-the...
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First In Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium Update
With mere hours to go to pre-order, here's the scoop on our brand-new history of Fango book!
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 12/09/2026
Just noting that I’ve never read a book by @peterclines.com that I didn’t like. Double negatives aside, read his books, y’all. I first started reading him with his Ex-Heroes series, five books I’m hoping get a sixth. For some reason, I’ve yet to read GOD’S JUNK DRAWER. Library, here I come.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 11/09/2026
I’m in LA this weekend (wishing that I am) taking generals at the studios. Hit me up, @a24movies.bsky.social! #writersky #screensky @wgawest.bsky.social
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 07/09/2026
Happy What-Started-As-A-Socialist-Rebuke-Of-US-Government-Overreach-(While-Overlooking-the-Plight-Of-Black-Railway-Workers)-But-Is-Now-A-Day-US-Retailers-Provide-Meaningless-Discounts Day!
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 30/08/2026
My grandfather’s leisure wear for 40 years: dark polyester slacks, light pastel short-sleeve button down shirt, a sports coat, and one hell of a crooked smile.
Adolph Schmidt wearing the clothes described in the post.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 27/08/2026
‼️ ‼️ BLOOD MOON TONIGHT ‼️ ‼️ MOVE AT YOUR OWN PERIL!
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 26/08/2026
I’ve been using Proton Pass since it first came out. While other offerings (like 1Password) exist and most browsers (like Chrome) will manage your passwords, Proton Pass is the ONLY ONE that protects YOUR PRIVACY. I highly recommend it.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Allan Piper @apiper13.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Imagine having a president who thinks about the American people all day everyday instead of us having to think about him all the time
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 13/08/2026
🪦 John White, reformed Scientologist, amazing pair programmer, a person of immense appetites, and his liberal (and completely incorrect) use of “supposably.”
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 13/08/2026
Hail to the king, baby. ‘The Evil Dead’ Made the Camera the Monster and Changed Horror Forever #evildeadforever www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How ‘The Evil Dead’ Point-of-View Shots Changed Horror Movies Forever (Gift Article)
The racing point-of-view shot is a signature of this franchise. But once you know to look for it, you’ll see it everywhere.
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Tabrizia @cupofteawiththatbookplease.com · 02/08/2026
Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts!⁠
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In Conversation with Shazleen Khan
Listen to our conversation with comic book writer and illustrator, Shazleen Khan!
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Allan Piper @apiper13.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The existence of a Tom Holland and a Tom Hollander implies that there's a Tom Hollandest
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 06/08/2026
Yayay! Finally here! Not even a spine crease. Thank you, Fort Bend County Libraries, for getting a book I asked for. And, of course, thank you, @realjacksonford.bsky.social, for the words.
Book cover of _Sisters of The Lizard_.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 28/07/2026
I live in Texas where there has been talk of responding women’s health data against them in state forums. Texas ladies, please read.
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Allan Piper @apiper13.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I need your help. Highway Gothic’s fund campaign is 2% short of the Green Light, with only one day left. If we don’t reach the Green Light, all the pledges get canceled, and we get nothing. Please consider pitching in, and please help spread the word. Thank you! 🙏🏼 ❤️🚙
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Lindsey B @lindsey.codes · 23/07/2026
Made another thing aether-arcana.love
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Aether & Arcana
Tarot divination for the modern age. Draw a reading or explore all 78 cards.
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Allan Piper @apiper13.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Is donating blood while reading @fangoria.bsky.social & wearing a Dracula shirt too on the nose? The U.S. is suffering a blood shortage. Please consider giving, too. And the last admin repealed the discriminatory restrictions based on orientation, so now more people are eligible to give than ever.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 17/07/2026
Very excited to be at @bookpeople.com with @stacieherrington.bsky.social to see @paultremblay.bsky.social and @gabino.bsky.social Weather has delayed them, but we shall remain strong for them!
Stacie and I sitting at Book People in a crowd of Iglesias and Tremblay fans.
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 22/06/2026
I read two books yesterday. THE CENTRE by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi delighted me with its prose, theme, and plot. I fell in like with the protagonist and her best friend. So many fine words, it was a meal. FAV SENTENCE: All patriotism, in the end, is patriarchal and deadly. @ayesha24.bsky.social
A book cover for THE CENTRE by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi featuring a large floral arrangement with Venus flytraps in it, and on the table it’s in, a human skull, a spiked cup of coffee, a smartphone, a medical file, an hour glass
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Allan Piper @apiper13.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Highway Gothic is just $660 away from the 25% milestone! Thanks, everyone! Highwaygothicmovie.com
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Molly Looby - Author @mollylooby.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Getting back into the swing of BlueSky again, is this the hashtag we’re using for writing now? Would be great to reconnect with people again 😊 #WriteSky
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Allan Piper @apiper13.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We just crossed 10% of our our total goal at highwaygothicmovie.com ! And our matching challenge is still in effect! If you want to support this movie, now is the perfect time!
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Allan Piper @apiper13.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
MATCHING CHALLENGE - This week only, all contributions to Highway Gothic’s Seed & Spark campaign will be matched up to $2,500 by a generous supporter! Double your impact by becoming a supporter today!
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 14/06/2026
Got my library to buy two copies of SISTERS OF THE LIZARD. I'm very excited for it to arrive. (That "Current holds: 1" is MEEEEEE.)
Screenshot of the library system showing that the book Sisters of the Lizard is on order.
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Allan Piper @apiper13.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Highway Gothic’s crowdfund campaign is off to a great start. Can we get past the $5K mark today?
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Allan Piper @apiper13.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The official announcement of our new movie, Highway Gothic in @ruemorguemag.bsky.social !
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Exclusive art/comments: Gabe Bartalos and Bill Plympton are creating a new slasher for “HIGHWAY GOTHIC” - Rue Morgue
The surreal forthcoming feature mixes live action and animation.
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Lindsey B @lindsey.codes · 09/06/2026
Come work with me job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly...
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Full Stack Engineer, Foundation
Remote - US
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 09/06/2026
The geniuses behind Evil Sublet are at it again, but with even more musical numbers! Please, if you can, support this amazing movie at highwaygothicmovie.com!
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Highway Gothic - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark
From the Makers of Evil Sublet: A family's holiday road trip takes a dark turn when they're trapped on a highway stalked by a killer in a car that might be haunted. Highway Gothic stars Sally Struther...
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 09/06/2026
Thank you, #Pittsburgh! You’re a lovely city and I look forward to coming back next year for #stokercon2027 hosted by @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social. I met lovely people such as @authorcthompson.bsky.social @mwmercier.bsky.social and @rebamcqueen.bsky.social. #stokercon #horrorsky #writersky
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 08/06/2026
For the next two years, I am a happy member of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh system! Why? They have the BEST access for Libby and Hooplah.
My library card for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
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Threema @threema.ch · 08/06/2026
🍌 A banana is food ✏️ A pencil is made of wood ⚠️ Big Tech is no good
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Curtis Schlak @curtis.schlak.com · 07/06/2026
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