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Lana Casiello

@lanacasiello.bsky.social
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I write folk horror influenced by my heritage that includes things like the Hawaiian diaspora, colonialism, identity, spirits, and curses. I’m chronically inconsistent with social media. 🕸️ www.lanacasiello.com

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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Reading Journal The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa Psychological Takeaway: A passive majority sustains oppression, but equally, a regime that eradicates the public it controls destroys the foundation of its own existence. Lingering Question: To destroy oppression, must we destroy ourselves? (1/2)
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Cover Reveal: Hollow Folk, @theandrewkclark.bsky.social As a beta reader, I can confirm: you can judge this book by its cover! Expect a place where nighttime defies all the normal rules, and falling for someone could save or damn you. Pre-order and spread the word Link in thread! ⬇️ (1/2)
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A heart like lightning Quick to stir with bright grandeur Then nothing, nothing #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
New to NetGalley. So psyched to get to read & review I Know A Place by @natcassidy.bsky.social , and Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher. Wasn’t approved for a 3rd request though. Perhaps I’m not popular enough. Yet. I’m a late bloomer, there’s still time. Right? (High School 30+ years all over again 🤓)
I Know a Place and Wolf Worm ARCs on NetGalleyRejection letter for Bodies of Work ARC. I’ll be patient and wait for the release date.
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A page, a window Glimpses into other times Haunted questions drift If those boats never landed Imagine what could have been Drawing 135 by: @completethehaiga.bsky.social #tanka #poetry
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Watching The Beast In Me Why is everyone always answering their phones in tense situations? It’d be way more realistic if we just had a close up of the actors faces watching their calls get dumped to voicemail.
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A) Lana Casiello, I ❤️ a sneaky social metaphor in folk horror. My series is influenced by my Hawaiian heritage, identity in the diaspora, curses, spirits, & legends. B) International Paranormal Day, May 3 Because it’s not too hot, not too cold, and we all share stories. #horrorwriterschat
#horrorwriterschat
Introduce yourself, the kind of horror you write, and your favorite international day and why.
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A gear without teeth Is a wheel spinning in place Going nowhere fast #haiku #haikufeels
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
No one cares for prunes Those wrinkles mean life’s fleeting But plums don’t stay plums #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt
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nat weaver @weaver.wtf · 07/01/2026
I know there’s a lot happening today. Here’s an excerpt from the short story I’m currently writing as a distraction if you need a break from the shit world we live in. #ShortStories #Booksky #WritingCommunity www.facebook.com/share/p/1LZ2...
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Redirecting...
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Finished my 1st book of 2026 The Lantern of Lost Memories is the 1st book by Sanaka Hiiragi to be translated into English. It’s a cozy story about the place between life & death. About how sacrifice, memory, and identity intersect like shattered glass across planes of existence. #bookreviews
The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi.
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Fruit of old growth vines Twelve grapes of wrath plucked sun ripe Poison on the lips #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #newyear
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ルル | Ruru | Team Daydream Lyricist @rhubarbpiart.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
十二月 花の思い出 雪の下 Jyuunigatsu Hana no omoidé yuki no shita December Memories of flowers Under the snow #Haiku #Poetry #俳句 #詩 #DailyHaikuPrompt : December #Haikufeels : #under
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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
lone silhouette… a something bird in december #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (December)
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Red drops in the snow What eyes hold color brightly What see only white #haiku #haikudailyprompt #decembercherries
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
#HaikuFeels Prompt: Dusk @annemorrigan.bsky.social
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lessEthereal @lessethereal.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This morning at Seabeck, Kristen Lindquist presented on crow haiku from Bashō to now. Here are a few of my own crow pieces:
Ambassador crow line drawinga crow or the wind on the mesa, line drawing for haiga.

edging the mesa
wind or
a crowLine drawing of a crow outline for haiga:

cleansing the day
sun trailing the old crow’s patha woman sitting from behind, or is she a crow?
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Inexperience Desired by psychopaths Release the Files #haikuhorrorprompt
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Wild geese fly north against their better nature #onelineoctober #monoku #haikufeels
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
These hands hold wonder Cloud’s chilled mist turned Sunday dew Invisible ink #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Writing draft one is no easier than it was for the last book. Why is my MC procrastinating? Stop with the poetry and get on with being haunted already!! #booksky #amwriting #firstdraft #horrornovel
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Beauty dipping low Sun returning to its grave Blinding westward eyes #dailyhaikupromp #haiku
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Chopstik @chopstik.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Cannot win at peace until having survived war - yet still wish not to
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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Yay! ARCs are now available for The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel, sequel to my nebula, and BSFA finalist novel The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern (writing is J. Dianne Dotson). Comes out October 21 via @press-android.bsky.social. #scifi #Fantasy #YABooks #books #SFF
Advance reader copy book cover for THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL by Jendia Gammon, writing as J. Dianne Dotson, featuring a blue-haired teeanage girl and a white-haired teeanage boy in futuristic outfits, edged by deep red light, surrounded by huge thorny vines and swirling blue light, and something glowing among the thorns.
Text reads: 
Sequel to THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN
A Nebula &. BSFA Award Finalist
J. DIANNE DOTSON
The in white, scripted font:
The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel
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nat weaver @weaver.wtf · 12/08/2025
I write and edit a newsletter. I made a goal for myself this year to hit 100 free email subscribers. That hasn’t quite happened yet. Please consider signing up for free #ShortStories, #poetry, and deep thoughts delivered to your inbox.
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Subscribe — Weaver's Deep Thoughts
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#completetgehaiga #haiku Feathered angel wings Touch upon the earth too late Mercy’s charred remains
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Simpler times… were yesterday. 1830s rural New England was anything but simple. #oldsturbridgevillage #photography
Woman in period dress walking down a country road Woman in period dress working the family vegetable patch Somber self portrait in a living history museum mirror. I’d last 3 days if I was transported back to the 1700s, when this home was built. #plumbing
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Andrew K. Clark ✨ @theandrewkclark.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Read. More. Poetry
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I love gloomy beach days more than the sunny ones. I’ll take wandering the shore in the fog over baking on the sand any day. #photography #newengland
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A week ago I finished a non-fiction book about a BBC Micro. I can’t stop thinking about it. My mind melted. The first computer we bought was a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack. Nobody from the 1500s left us notes on it though. Unless you count Sir Graham of King’s Quest. #dodleston #verticalplane
BBC Micro Computer circa 1984 is the computer model featured in the novel, The Vertical Plane.The Tandy 1000 home computer my mom bought the family in 1986. King’s Quest. You used the arrow keys to move around, and typed in action prompts to get the game to progress. Check out those graphics! Way advanced compared to the dos screen
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I could watch flames dance all night. Mesmerizing. #summer #photography #firepit
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Hopefully this doesn’t fall into The BlueSky Abyss. 🤞 My next book takes place in 1979, help a gal out & drop some killer books from (or influenced) the 1970s that you recommend as a must read, any genre. TY ❤️ (Tolkien = Led Zeppelin) #booksky #1970s #vintagebooks #writerresearch #jiveturkey
Tolkien is in there because of its cultural influence on the 1970s. I know it was published outside the decade 😉
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nat weaver @weaver.wtf · 09/07/2025
On my newsletter, I have a growing library of free #ShortStories and #poems by a diverse group of writers. In this thread, I’m going to link to each one that is currently available. There are 7 as of this week. “Missed” a short story by Vincent Marshall @vincentmarshall.bsky.social. 🧵 #Booksky
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"Missed" by Vincent Marshall, a FREE short story — Weaver's Deep Thoughts
Is Anthony Ward the best player in college basketball? You bet. And he's about to take the big shot in the tournament final. Rated PG: Contains addiction.
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Honey scented green Sweet seas of clover mowed down Blood suckers hang on #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt #PoliticalPoetry
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Haiku Crush @haikucrush.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Please share, thanks! The Best #Haiku international search is underway. $330USD of honorariums with a $150 top prize. At least 50 haiku to be selected by 3 judges for annual #anthology. Enter up to four of your best at haikucrush.com #poetry #senryu #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #callforsubmissions
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Haiku Crush – the annual search for the best haiku
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
For S&Gs I put MTV on this morning. And they are actually playing music videos. I don’t understand the trend of putting duck tape over your nipples. Someone please explain. #mtv #musicvideos #iamold
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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
There was a time, not too long ago, when a close advisor to the president of the united states making public, genocidal ideations would've led the news for several days in a row.
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Exquisite brush strokes Blood-red swirls on fine paper Made with soft, dead things #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #weasel
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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
And now I can finally update this post! Here are my current and forthcoming books: jendiagammon.com/2024/09/25/c...
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Current and Forthcoming Books - Jendia Gammon
In 2024, I signed a number of book deals, and I was nominated for several awards for my 2023 books. In addition to those books, my earlier works are finding new audiences. Now that it's 2025, I have m...
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Marking the end of spring with a walk through the countryside. #summersolstice #photography #massachusetts
Abandoned farmland in Western MAFields in Western MAEndless blue skies
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Copy and paste the line(s) and then add your own to keep it going… The moonlight paves a path toward the ocean… More solid than footprints all washed away #poetrycommunity #micropoetry
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.
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Andrew K. Clark ✨ @theandrewkclark.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
All the cool kids are getting their preorders in You want to be cool, right ?
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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My two latest books are ATACAMA and DOOMFLOWER. Here are their respective vibes: #books #horror #scifi #thriller #mystery
ATACAMA Vibes
JENDIA GAMMON
ATACAMA 
The X-Files
The Thing
The Echo Wife
Black Mirror
Fringe
Resident Evil
Severance
The Sleepless
The Twilight Zone
May 13, 2025Picture of the novel DOOMFLOWER by Jendia Gammon

DOOMFLOWER vibes: 
🦹‍♀️Mean Girls
💄Heathers
🌿Day of the Triffids
👾The Thing
👛Clueless
🌊The OC
🩸Buffy
☄️Night of the Comet
🎬2020s via 80s teen drama 💔and 50s disaster sci-fi🛸

April 8, 2025
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I’m Lana. My WIP blends spiritual folklore, Hawaiian myth and legend, and real world horrors like the legacy of colonization. I’m drawn to horror because it provides an opportunity to explore what it means to live and die, and asks the question: whose world is this? #horrorwriterschat
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Another one bites the dust. Only three more chapters left to edit in my WIP before it goes off to get chopped up some more! #Amwriting #horrornovels
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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My book drops in 2 months! “This is an essential, long-overdue guide, and a wonderful read.” -Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter @sgj.bsky.social Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/7576/97988... Barnes: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feral-and-...
FERAL
AND
HYSTERICAL
MOTHER HORROR'S ULTIMATE
READING GUIDE TO DARK AND DISTURBING
FICTION BY WOMEN
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Lana Casiello @lanacasiello.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Hawaiian Shave Ice Delicate ice flakes Dance with lilikoi syrup No comparison #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #hawaiianshaveice
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