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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin

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Rare book author of over 50 works you've never heard of who produces word processor-to-shelf, artisanal, organic, non-GMO horrific stories. Drafted, edited, and produced by free range humans. Hard to find, harder to put down. martin-shannon.com

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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is good advice. I'll share my process as well: Three ways to promote a book without social media: 1. Find random people walking dogs on the street. Chase them down if necessary. 2. Train squirrels to leave torn pages in conspicuous locations. 3. Offer free candy from your van (pitch story).
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@tcparker.bsky.social Since you are on payhip too, did you recently notice a huge spike in traffic and then a drop to basically nothing? Or was that just me?
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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I confess. I'm an Author Enabler. I want you to write your next story, your next book, and all your WIPs. And I can help make it happen. I'm an #AuthorAssistant ready to help with everything from one-off tasks to regular monthly support! Learn more at www.marywyrd.com/author-assis...
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Author Assistant — Mary Wyrd
Mary Wyrd - Copywriter, Graphic Designer and book cheerleader in one Author Assistant package. Write more, get Wyrd
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@comicrelief.bsky.social if there is a comic relief morlock then must there be an overly dramatic eloi?
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Rebecca Cantrell @rebeccacantrell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@martinshannon.bsky.social Recommended this wonderful piece about human vs AI writing. Powerful stuff. I wanna join that second group. sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-co... #booksky
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The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Time to update the map! Below you'll find a ⭐ on every book store in the United States that carries my books.
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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Many thanks to @scottymilderhorror.bsky.social for having me. Tune in on your preferred podcasting apparatus for a great discussion about dead babies, irresponsible pet ownership, crippling anxiety and maybe aliens. open.spotify.com/episode/50Iu...
Horror from the High Desert podcast hosted by Scotty Milder and featuring T.L. Bodine, author of These Kids Are Not Alright
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"No human being could stack books like this." martin-shannon.com/blog/rare-wo... 🩸📚
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One Martin Tall, or Stacking Books For Fun and Silliness
We've all got goals. Some of you want to write your own novel. I know one guy who tells me he's trying to watch a movie every day this year. Hell, I wrote a million words during the pandemic. The bott...
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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Apparently it's self-published author appreciation week. I could talk about myself (maybe I will later), but for now may I recommend these authors? Just to name a very small few @diannalgunn.bsky.social @esteemedbastard.bsky.social @martinshannon.bsky.social @dyre.bsky.social 📚💙
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"You're right, Ray. No human being could stack books like this..." martin-shannon.com/blog/rare-wo... 🩸📚
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One Martin Tall, or Stacking Books For Fun and Silliness
We've all got goals. Some of you want to write your own novel. I know one guy who tells me he's trying to watch a movie every day this year. Hell, I wrote a million words during the pandemic. The bott...
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This looks like such a cool place.
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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One Martin Tall, or Stacking Books For Fun and Silliness
We've all got goals. Some of you want to write your own novel. I know one guy who tells me he's trying to watch a movie every day this year. Hell, I wrote a million words during the pandemic. The bott...
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@grahamwalmsley.bsky.social Picked up Cthulhu Dark and having fun going through it, however one thing I'm struggling with: What is the difference between an Investigate roll and a Do Something Else roll? I see in the original rules they were one and the same. Can you help me see the difference now?
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@ephson.bsky.social Any chance of an update for Cthulhu Deep Green and Cthulhu Dark for Foundry v14?
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
And it was my pleasure. You backers are in for a treat for sure! bookshop.org/p/books/eat-...
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Eat the Rich: Stories of Carnivorous Anti-Capitalism
Stories of Carnivorous Anti-Capitalism
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Depth. There are no good guys. There are no bad guys. There's ambiguity, confusion, and a loss of reality. Good horror makes you think, great horror makes you want to go back and think *again*. #horrorwriterschat
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hmm, that's a tough one. My guess is that it would be the lack of usable verbs because I mainly play text games. There's something just wrong about a parser that doesn't understand esoteric verbs. #horrorwriterschat
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hah! I did exactly this! I took "When the Television Decides to Murder Your Girlfriend" and turned it into a very much enjoyed text game! #horrorwriterschat ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
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When the TV decides to Murder your Girlfriend - The Game
Todd talks to appliances and they talk back. He’s got a good life, a girl who loves him, a friendly microwave, and a decent vacuum. It’s his girlfriend Amanda’s television that’s keeping him up at ni...
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Sorry, it's gonna be short, guys. I've got a meeting to step into. I'm your favorite Martin, rare book author of weird stuff you've never heard of. I have to say I've always been a deep fan of Day of the Tentacle. #horrorwriterschat
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Day of the Tentacle: Franzeta Pixel Art Scene
ALT: Day of the Tentacle: Franzeta Pixel Art Scene
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Damn. Albuquerque is cool. Not me jealous. Nope. Not at all. 😭
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Rebecca Cantrell @rebeccacantrell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Rebecca Cantrell, write vampire horror/mysteries/thrillers. Fairies steal babies and time, the most precious commodities we have. Also, some have very pointy teeth. #horrorwriterschat
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What a fascinating little read...
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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Q: Who cheers on the cheerleaders? A: Everyone can. Support your BlueSky book cheerleaders today 🤗 #BookSky
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
@djwaglmuffin.bsky.social next up? Brownie loaf?
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mary knows her stuff.
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
27.25 inches of Original Martin Works (tm). Confused dog for scale. 🩸📚
golden retriever next to 27.25 inch stack of books
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
martin-shannon.com -> Too many things to count.
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Seth Meyers' Expressive Gestures on Late Night
ALT: Seth Meyers' Expressive Gestures on Late Night
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Thanks, Eryn. Good to see you! This week I bring you an amazing review for a book by a certain author who shall remain unnamed. #horrorwriterschat substack.com/@themindflay...
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BOOK REVIEW: OF DUST & DEMONS
Constantine meets Grady Hendrix in this superb occult epic
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Stephen H Wilder - Horror Author 🩸📚 @stephenhwilder.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“It’s just one pill, what’s the worst that could happen?” You think to yourself as you place it on your tongue. You’ve never even heard of rubidium, it can’t be that dangerous. The scientists all stand behind a screen of bulletproof glass, ready and waiting for the explosion. #HorrorWritersChat
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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#HorrorWritersChat You make the perpetrator human. Friendly even. Almost nice. Oh what a lovely nurse she was, the one who smothered you with your own pillow…
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Centipedes, Nature's spider-snakes. Coming to a medical trial near you! #horrorwriterschat
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Dustin Pinney @markguyer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The drug would rewire your brain to become your “best self.” Less stressed, more patient, confident, happier, slimmer. Instead, you become your “best consumer.” Neurologically augmented to keep taking the drug for survival. #HorrorWritersChat
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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#HorrorWritersChat I can make it after all - just a bit late! Jez, Living in Scotland, writing ‘kitchen sink horror’. I wouldn’t sign up to anything involving electric shocks.
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Tomas Peiser🇨🇦 🗡️ Debatable Morality 💉 @writinginsawdust.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Gore is the easy way out. Your reflection, when it blinks and you didn't. The shadow cast by a light you cannot see. The warm breeze in a room where there is no window. #horrorwriterschat #adhdwriters
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Pythonmelon (Comms open) @pythonmelon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#HorrorWritersChat This is your only hope. Someone passes you a consent form, one of many in the hands of people around the waiting room who are equally desperate. Most sign without reading. You do. The list of minor side effects takes up half the page, garbled at the end. But it has to be worth it.
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It's a deeply inspired tale of poor decisions, out-of-network complications, rampant billing, and one very useless eleventh finger. Sadly, it ends with me being chased by an Indigo Montoya cosplayer. #horrorwriterschat
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Rami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My diabetes interacts badly with the drugs, which never would have happened if I had been honest about my medical condition in the first place. Now I need to eat sugar directly from other people's blood, or I will go into a coma. And I have the teeth to get that blood now. #HorrorWritersChat
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Spooky Simon 🛸🏳️‍⚧️ @spookiestsimon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#HorrorWritersChat It was early enough in the day that the waiting room was bare of people. Just him and the receptionist and empty chairs. His eyes scanned the form, nails tapping the underside of the clipboard. Caught, at the bottom: "minor side effects may include.." He scoffed. He signed.
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Tom [ghostly voice] Coooooooooooombe @calmtomb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What's scary about dealing with the medical field is the not knowing. I haven't written much medical horror, but when I have, I try to build scares by just throwing out weird/disturbing details almost in passing, to make the readers say "Wait, what?" #HorrorWritersChat
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Rebecca Cantrell @rebeccacantrell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The waiting room smelled like coffee. Something else underneath it. Something she could almost taste but didn't want to. The consent forms were still paper. The side effects list was so long they'd used 3 point font to keep it on one page. Letters slithered like ants. #horrorwriterschat
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Stephen H Wilder - Horror Author 🩸📚 @stephenhwilder.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
You wonder when the procedure will begin. Soon, you hope. You reread the consent form for want of something to do. “Minor side effects,” it had said before. It doesn’t say that now. “Slow and painful death,” it says now. A man in a blood-splattered apron calls your name. #HorrorWritersChat
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"...minor side effects?" my voice trickles the words into the waiting room. "Yes." The doctor's eyes were pools of dull mercury. Old-fashioned lamps creaked above them on bronze chains. "Organ transplants from mermen engender... certain particularities." "...mermen?" #HorrorWritersChat
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Just Some Phil @justsomephil.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#HorrorWritersChat She counted the patients getting out one by one, refusing to lay her eyes on the consent form: “Minor effects include legs off, visions of the horrors from the void, transformation into a cockroach, and bills.” She was the only one who stayed in the waiting room. No choice left.
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Recursive Medicine! #horrorwriterschat
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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 20/05/2026
#HorrorWritersChat "Minor side effects may occur from the medication," said the doctor as he handed me the clipboard with the shiny, red pen. "Okay," I said, looking around the waiting room. Had I been here before? "Minor side effects may occur from the medication," said the doctor as -- Oh god.
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Wait, didn't I fill out this form?" "Yes." "Why am I doing it again?" "It's a minor side effect? The form." "This form is a minor side effect?" "Yup. Please fill this out." "Damn it. I just did." "Right. Minor side effect." "Is this ever going to end?" "That's the major effect." #HorrorWritersChat
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This was plot of the unreleased film "Spiders on a Plane." #horrorwriterschat
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Spooky Simon 🛸🏳️‍⚧️ @spookiestsimon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#HorrorWritersChat Heeeey I'm Simon. I write character dramas and body horror and cosmic horror. I wouldn't sign up for a clinical trial that involved anything that would need to be charged and/or possibly have a subscription put into me
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Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Something beneath the skin that shouldn't be there." I see you've been to my derm appointments. #horrorwriterschat
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