Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This 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). 130
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? 130
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinMary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I 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...marywyrd.comAuthor Assistant — Mary WyrdMary Wyrd - Copywriter, Graphic Designer and book cheerleader in one Author Assistant package. Write more, get Wyrd 042
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? 120
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinRebecca 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... #bookskysightlessscribbles.comThe Colonization of Confidence., Sightless ScribblesA fabulously gay blind author. 061
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Time to update the map! Below you'll find a ⭐ on every book store in the United States that carries my books. 020
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinT.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Many 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... 063
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... 🩸📚martin-shannon.comOne Martin Tall, or Stacking Books For Fun and SillinessWe'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... 050
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinVincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Apparently 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 📚💙 5268
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... 🩸📚martin-shannon.comOne Martin Tall, or Stacking Books For Fun and SillinessWe'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... 041
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This looks like such a cool place. 031
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026martin-shannon.com/blog/rare-wo...martin-shannon.comOne Martin Tall, or Stacking Books For Fun and SillinessWe'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... 010
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? 120
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? 010
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026And it was my pleasure. You backers are in for a treat for sure! bookshop.org/p/books/eat-...bookshop.orgEat the Rich: Stories of Carnivorous Anti-CapitalismStories of Carnivorous Anti-Capitalism 010
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Depth. 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 0186
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Hmm, 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 0132
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Hah! 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=...ifdb.orgWhen the TV decides to Murder your Girlfriend - The GameTodd 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... 1135
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Sorry, 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. #horrorwriterschatstatic.klipy.comDay of the Tentacle: Franzeta Pixel Art SceneALT: Day of the Tentacle: Franzeta Pixel Art Scene 2153
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Damn. Albuquerque is cool. Not me jealous. Nope. Not at all. 😭 040
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinRebecca Cantrell @rebeccacantrell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Rebecca Cantrell, write vampire horror/mysteries/thrillers. Fairies steal babies and time, the most precious commodities we have. Also, some have very pointy teeth. #horrorwriterschat 34817
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026What a fascinating little read... 020
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinMary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Q: Who cheers on the cheerleaders? A: Everyone can. Support your BlueSky book cheerleaders today 🤗 #BookSky 084
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026@djwaglmuffin.bsky.social next up? Brownie loaf? 130
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Mary knows her stuff. 120
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19/06/202627.25 inches of Original Martin Works (tm). Confused dog for scale. 🩸📚 121
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026martin-shannon.com -> Too many things to count.static.klipy.comSeth Meyers' Expressive Gestures on Late NightALT: Seth Meyers' Expressive Gestures on Late Night 011
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Thanks, 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...substack.comBOOK REVIEW: OF DUST & DEMONSConstantine meets Grady Hendrix in this superb occult epic 0146
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinStephen 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 0195
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinJez 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… 0196
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Centipedes, Nature's spider-snakes. Coming to a medical trial near you! #horrorwriterschat 072
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinDustin Pinney @markguyer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The 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 0165
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinJez 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. 2178
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinTomas Peiser🇨🇦 🗡️ Debatable Morality 💉 @writinginsawdust.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Gore 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 0164
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinPythonmelon (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. 0186
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026It'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 3165
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinRami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026My 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 2195
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinSpooky 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. 0194
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinTom [ghostly voice] Coooooooooooombe @calmtomb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026What'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 0164
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinRebecca Cantrell @rebeccacantrell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The 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 1196
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinStephen H Wilder - Horror Author 🩸📚 @stephenhwilder.bsky.social · 20/05/2026You 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 0207
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinGree_ @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 22410
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinJust 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. 1226
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Recursive Medicine! #horrorwriterschat 063
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinBlair 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. 3227
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 1207
Martin Shannon, Your Favorite Martin @martinshannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026This was plot of the unreleased film "Spiders on a Plane." #horrorwriterschat 092
Reposted by Martin Shannon, Your Favorite MartinSpooky 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 0198
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 1143