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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2k words on This Rotten World 13, bringing it to 114k words, all available on my substack for you stackers out there. Been revising now, at 71/124 pages on the first revision of One Night Stand #9. Signed some bookplates that'll be dished out for pre-orders of Don't Open the Vault. Back 2 revising.

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Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We've formed a talented crew for this project including @interrobangbus.bsky.social, @mattbrownwrites.bsky.social, @lormaggot.ca, @kcgrifant.bsky.social, Michael Knost, @jacymorris.bsky.social, Stanley Péan, @shanmonster.bsky.social, Zach Sherphard, @christinawilder.bsky.social, and Dave Zeltserman!

Full author list for Don't Go for the Vault

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cool anthology over here, which has one of my stories in it! Get you a copy now!

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Added another 2k to This Rotten World 13. I'm seeing the end of it in my head. Now up to 112k words. My zombie novels are chonky. Uploaded it on my substack. I'm gonna have so much revising to do soon... four novels worth. Do I have the will to not start writing another one? Remains to be seen.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did some work today, making up for my lack of productivity during the week. Finished my slasher novel at 61k words, gonna need to stretch it out, which will be easy. Also added 2k words to This Rotten World 13. Now up to 109k words and still chugging along. Stoked to only be working on 1 novel.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Been a busy week school-wise. Been doing lots of extra things, so I wrote maybe 7k words since Monday (which is like 13k less than I'd hope to do). Hoping to get some more words tomorrow, but I'm done for today. Sometimes, you just need a weekend, and the writing goes by the wayside.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I read this one. It rocks. Consider getting you one.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finished up my grading... for now, added 2k words to This Rotten World 13. Now at 105k words. Going to rock out this back to school night on an empty stomach, and then head home and be a zombie myself for a minute.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"One of my favorite books of the year. I can't shut up about it" @greasygoat.bsky.social Now's the time! Get MIDWESTERN CHROME & discover the Next Big Thing *before* their popularity explodes & they become insufferable😀 (jk @beardedbetts.bsky.social we love you🖤☠️) store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by AriBo, a bustling downtown area rendered in electric purples, pinks, whites and blues; a cyberpunk dude in mirrored shades and sleek zipless clothes lurks in an alleyway, clutching the severed head of an android woman intimately to him; a passerby looks back curiously.
Blurb: “An immediately engrossing
and engaging collection of
Cyberpunk Noir.
One of my favorite books
of the year. I can't shut up
about it.
- Books for Decaying Millennials

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Added 2k to This Rotten World 13. Now up to 103k words. Figure I'll probably be done near 120k. Updated the old substack... where you can read 103k words of zombie goodness right now, and 75k of the weirdest fantasy you've ever read in The Bardtender. Onto my slasher story.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Been busy with school stuff all week, sinking into my writing time, but that's how it goes sometimes as a teacher. Still managed to add 8k words this week to This Rotten World 13. Now at 98k words. Only added 3k word to my weirdo slasher novel, bringing it up to 56k.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In this semi-historical horror novel, The Pied Ppiper of Hamelin, we need someone who can do historical, horror, and dark fantasy elements. If I could throw Guillermo Del Toro on this, that would be perfect. One of my favorite weird stories. Love what I did with the Piper in this one!

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wrote 2k words for today. Bringing This Rotten World 13 up to 92k words. More to come. Gonna work on my weirdo slasher novel now, see if I can add 2k to that one.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My third novel, an Indigenous, horror Tomb Raider. Originally meant as a trilogy, but I've never gone back to it. First one is good on its own though. I want gothic vibes, and someone capable of gore. Uhh Robert Eggers, although, he might not be able to handle the dark humor that shows up sometimes.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rocked out 4k words this weekend. Added 2k to This Rotten World 13, stacking bodies. Now up to 90k words. Added 2k to my weirdo slasher novel, bringing it up to 53k words. All 90k words of TRW 13 are live on Substack for maid paid subscribers.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The 2nd book I ever wrote, became a trilogy... full of dark gods, cannibalism, and all pre-Colombian Indigenous horror. If I was going to have a director work on this, Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Valhalla Rising) has the right amount of artistry and unflinching brutality to pull it off.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy Friday everyone. Racked up 2k words today on This Rotten World 13. Now at 88k words on it, and thinking this might be the longest TRW yet... but I've also thought that before and it suddenly ended. Anyway, new words will be thrown into my substack tomorrow, so keep your eyes peeled.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Managed 4k words today. 2K words on This Rotten World 13. At 84k words. Added 2k to my weirdo slasher novel... may wind up doing two versions of this thing. I took a hard left, when I should have kept going straight. Now at 51k words on that one.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In this series, I pair random directors up with my books for imaginary adaptations. First up, my zombie series. I need someone gritty who likes practical effects and can make the downtime with characters as entertaining as the zombie action. So I'm going to go with Frank Darabont (The Walking Dead).

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My substack keeps growing and growing... well, slowly, but not with word counts. I now have over 150k words over on my substack. 80k words (320 pages for non-writers) of the new This Rotten World. 75k words of my bizarro, fantasy story The Bardtender (300 pages). Check it out. Link in the comments.

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

August reads 💙📚

Dark is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce
The Poorly Made and Other Stories by Sam Rebelein
The Cipher by Kathe Koja
These Walls Remember by Del Sandeen
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
Marla by Jonathan Janz
It's Under the Deck by Jacy Morris
The September House by Carissa Orlando
Tombs by Junji Ito
You Have to Let Them Bleed by Annie Neugebauer
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Worry Box by Chris Panatier
Meat Bees by Dane Erbach
Moan by Junji Ito
The Lost Ones by Chris DiLeo
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
What They Did by Rio Youers
Sleep Alone by J.A.W. McCarthy
The High Window by Raymond Chandler
Tracking Death by Nikki R. Leigh
Out of Body by Chris Vanjonack
What Ever Happened to Jo Rose? by Chris DiLeo

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Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Nominated in horror for the 2026 Small Spec Book Awards: WE LIKE IT CHERRY by Jacy Morris (@tenebrouspress.bsky.social). Congratulations! #SSBA #SSBA2026

Shows the book cover for WE LIKE IT CHERRY

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yesterday's bookmail from Spineless Reads bookstore 📚💙 We Like it Cherry by Jacy Morris The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions by Emma E Murray

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Updated This Rotten World 13 on the substack. Added 2k words on it, bringing it to 76k words. Also added 2k words to my weirdo slasher novel. Now at 46k words on that one. No weekends for writers... but I'm done with work until tomorrow.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"After reading this, I got the holes fixed in my deck... not a euphemism for anything weird... unless you want it to be." - Imaginary Reviewer. Looking for some more actual readers/reviewers for this thing. Also, I did get the holes in my deck fixed.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

2k words on a Friday. Now up to 75k words in TRW 13. Hoping to get them all posted up on substack tomorrow. Been a good week, but a long week. I'm looking forward to an uninterrupted writing session. Also started revising One Night Stand #9. Now at 6/122 pages on that one.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Decided I wanted to work on my weird slasher novel today instead of TRW 13. Added 2k words to it, bringing it up to 44k words. I will have fun patching all the holes on this thing. It is appropriately dark, but I'm also wondering if I'm not making it dark enough then I'm wondering, what's too dark?

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mmmm... so neeeeewsy. Read til your eyes bleed, over at the substack. Paaaay me while you're there, and you can read some weird stuff... but the newsletter is free, you know... if you don't believe in souls.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Love this cover. Love this book. Love Tenebrous.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's a Tenebrous Warehouse Sale! (i.e. Matt's rearranging his office🖤☠️) More & more books gotta fit in the same space, so it's time to trim the stock a bit. 1 recent book! 1 backlist book! 33% off! 💀@ashesandmochi.bsky.social's eco-horror DEHISCENT 💀BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4 store.tenebrouspress.com

cover art by ivyteas, a girl's silhouette falls across a vividly colored wall and cabinet;
blubs by Ai jiang, Kelsea Yu and Wendy Wagner

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Monday's are rough. Ain't nobody want to be at school on a Monday. Managed to write 2k words on This Rotten World 13, bringing it up to 69k words. Started a newsletter, but ran out of time. Gonna try and bang it out after I do another 2k words on my weirdo slasher novel which is up to 40k words.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Posted about something new. Now time to post about something old (well, a year old to be exact). If you find yourself feeling hot, why don't you cool yourself down with this chilling, icy novel? Not for the squeamish. We Like It Cherry, and you will too.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Billionaire Hunting Club is one of those novels that's so off the wall, I worried it would never find a home. When I pitched the concept at bizarroCon workshop, Jeff Burk said he'd seen it before. My response was, "Not like this you haven't." Join the hunt coming Fall 2027 from @darkforestpress

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Only wrote a thousand words today, but it's the end of the first week back at school, so I'll count it as a victory. Now at 65k words on This Rotten World 13: A Tide of Blood. Will update the old substack tomorrow if I get the chance.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Racked up 4k words today. 2k on This Rotten World 13. Now at 61.5k words. Added 2k to my weirdo, eco? slasher, horror novel, bringing it to 38k words. Feel like I'm over halfway through both of them. Can't wait to finish, dial my word count down to 2k and do some revising.

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Sobelo Books @sobelobooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's release day for THE LOST ONES by @authordileo.bsky.social ! John wants to tell you about the summer a psychopath tried to kill him. He also wants to tell you about a little boy who was abducted four years earlier, and how he helped solve the case. GET YOUR COPY! sobelobooks.com/shop/p/the-l...

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The Lost Ones — Sobelo Books

The Lost Ones, a novel by Chris DiLeo

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ahh... there we go. Two hours and (checks watch) nine minutes for 4k words. Added 2k to TRW 13. May edit later, maybe tomorrow, but now up to 60k words on that one. Added 2k to my weirdo slasher novel, bringing it up to 36k words. Gonna veg out now.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Started back up at school. Writing time has been hard to find, but here I am after meetings all day, trying to wrangle some words together. Should get a bit easier from here on out. Anyway, better get to it.

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J. Ichabod Whateley @divershands.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today’s reading when I should be writing is Jacy Morris’ novella ‘It’s Under the Deck’. A character study in aging curmudgeonly, the lonely horror of the suburbs, and the worst case scenario for the newest PNW Saint: Jimothy. (Look, as the self-proclaimed Bishop of Cathedral Park I can pick saints.)

A copy of Jacy Morris’ ‘It’s Under the Deck’, complete with miasma and unsuspecting cyclist.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Print proof. Getcher punk asses preordering @allisonmick.bsky.social’s scuzzy masterpiece pronto. “A vivid, nasty trip so dank you'll feel like you're snorting blow off the seat of the men's room toilet (complimentary)” - @bitterkarella.bsky.social Cover: Matias San Juan store.tenebrouspress.com

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Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are plum pleased with our new bsky banner. The art selected for Issue 06 is particularly wide, and so we had to choose which vertical section to use on the cover. But now, we also have a new, glorious banner image to boot! Thank you, @brucedraws.bsky.social for your wonderful work.

Seafloor bed giving way to a galactic night rife with nautilus, turtle, and various other sea creatures. Some animals appear more mechanical in nature. In the center is the word PLOTTHOUND.

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Richard Leis @richardleis.com · 28/04/2026

Several HWA Oregon friends and other volunteers have joined forces to create a new dark fiction magazine titled Northern Shadows Magazine.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Got to meet up w/Rue Dickey at last week's GHOSTS OF SUMMER event; Rue wrote the introduction for our upcoming YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM & they were, unsurprisingly, an utter delight. We have heaps of events planned for the Oct. 6th release; stay tuned! Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by Mx Morgan G Robles, a swan alights on a cosmic sea, flanked by the colors of the trans flag.

Plus a promo pic of Rue Dickey

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Shane Hawk @shanehawk.com · 20/08/2026

People Magazine requested @tvayyyy.bsky.social and me to highlight some Indigenous Horror novels for folks to check out in celebration of the release of our new anthology, NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT, PART II: BACK FOR BLOOD, which is now available wherever books are sold. people.com/terrifying-n...

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9 Terrifying Native American and Indigenous Horro Books to Welcome Spooky Season (Exclusive)

‘Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II’ editors Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. share their favorite Indigenous horror novels to mark the book’s release.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Did all my business today. 2K words on This Rotten World 13. Now at 52k words. 2k words on my weirdo slasher novel, which is uhh... becoming maybe to weird to be a slasher. Now at 32k on that one. Might be my last day of 4k words until the weekend, as I'm starting up with school stuff soon.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Getting back into the swing of writing. Added 2k words to This Rotten World 13. Now up to 50k words, all of which you can read on my substack with a paid subscription. Found this display at Weird Providence Bookstore in Providence. Signed that sucker up. Cool store!

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wrote about my Necronomicon adventures on my substack. It's a free one, so give it a read. Link in the comments.

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