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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 21/02/2026

Retailers, please for the love of all that is holy, please stop putting stickers on the actual album covers. That's what the cellophane wrapper is for. Thanks, fuckers!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Just finished Pre-approved for Haunting by @patrickbarb.bsky.social and it's an awesome collection. Definitely give it a read if you get the chance!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hell yes! Get some indeed, but also make sure you get onto Beau's Bishop Rider books. So good!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Coming from Andy Cull, this is high praise! And yeah, this other lot are all rad af!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Wahey! Thanks for the in-depth review!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Hey check it out! How cool is this!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Check it out: a reading from my new novella, TROG. Meet Aisha, our protagonist, right at the moment the bad guys show up!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

In the interests of giving people a teaser about my new novella, one that starts out as a home invasion story like The Strangers and that becomes a creature feature like Abominable, I've recorded a live-at-home reading. Come meet Aisha, the teen protagonist in my latest! youtu.be/HumyVqMV1Y0

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Zachary Ashford live reading of TROG.

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Ross Jeffery @rossjefferyauthor.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

TROG is out today from @zacharyashford.bsky.social - I read it a while back and it still lingers in my mind…if a creature feature is on the cards for your reading, make sure you dive into this bloody, thrilling, propulsive read!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

TROG is now free to disrupt a home invasion near you! It's a tightly paced book about an escaped cryptid amping up the terror in the knife's-edge atmosphere of a home invasion, and the young girl fighting to survive the night. Think ABOMINABLE X BECKY. Huge thanks @eddiegenerous.bsky.social

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Austrian Spencer @austrianspencer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

@zacharyashford.bsky.social and @eddiegenerous.bsky.social release Trog today - Congratulations! I really enjoyed this one - Pure monster mayhem!

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

... Dancing Through the Shadows - edited by @e-r-vickers.bsky.social all proceeds to My Sister's Place domestic abuse survivor's charity, Trog by @zacharyashford.bsky.social coming 11 March @eddiegenerous.bsky.social, One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com - out now @psychopomp.bsky.social ...

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 14/02/2025

My inaugural review for FanFiAddict is live now! Come see what I thought about @zacharyashford.bsky.social's forthcoming brutal home invasion creature freature via @eddiegenerous.bsky.social, TROG. fanfiaddict.com/review-trog-... #bookreview 🩸📚 💙📚 #horror

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Review: Trog by Zachary Ashford | FanFiAddict

Synopsis After Aisha is traumatized by a stalker, her parents decide to move to a property in the outback. They say it's in her best interests. But the ...

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Please forgive my continued promotional push in the lead-up to release day for this one. Early reviewers are loving this Home Invasion tale with a cryptid twist. Think Becky X Abominable! Out through Unnerving this March. Pre-order in all the usual places.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTONE X THE HAUNTED MASK When Ethan saves a cursed old man from thugs, he earns an ancient mask and is sent for revenge. BUT every retaliatory beating he inflicts is a step towards accepting the old man's curse as his own. Can he stop before it's too late? #YA #H #2025pit

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Hung out with this fella while I was writing at a national park today.

Large, placid lace monitor. A species of monitor lizard native to Australia. This specimen is approximately two metres long from nose to tail

Large, placid lace monitor. A species of monitor lizard native to Australia. This specimen is approximately two metres long from nose to tail. In this image, it is flicking its forked tongue out.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Time to shout about POLYPHEMUS again. (Looks like I found an old Encyclo logo...oops...) @encyclopub.bsky.social Also...just truck me: POLYPHEMUS and enCYCLOPocalypse. Match made in heaven. Or hell. Whatever.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Not gonna lie, I'm mindful of oversharing and spamming, but this blurb from @aarondries.bsky.social (which is cut from a way longer, way cooler one) made my day when it came through. Of course, I had to bastardize it and make it fit this promotional image.

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Yolanda Sfetsos @yolandasfetsos.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

ICYMI earlier: Check out the paperback version of my debut short story collection! Also, a new 5-star review has been posted: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... Yay. Thank you @emilymarie82.bsky.social. ☺️

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JustinallecBOO @justinallec807.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Cool-as-all-hell vampire novel unleashed (for a second time)!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I just realized how close we are to TROG time! I need to start promoting this bad boy. Coming from Unnerving in March. If you're a reviewer and you'd like a copy for your blog, let me know. I'd also love to lock in some podcasts/interviews/readings, etc. Send me a message if you can help.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If anyone knows of any publishers looking for Middle-Grade spec fic, I'd love if you could point me in their direction. I've got the first in a Goosebumps/Witching Hours esque series here, ready to go.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Want to buy one of these just so I can have cheeses on the cross.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Want to buy one of these just so I can have cheeses on the cross.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Last few days, I've been walking a local bush trail. The lace monitors are out in force.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Got to love starting the new year by hitting the 20k point on your latest manuscript. Things in this one are starting to get gnarly.

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Yolanda Sfetsos @yolandasfetsos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Tonight I finished reading an ARC of @zacharyashford.bsky.social's upcoming horror novella & really enjoyed it: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... We definitely need more Yowie stories!

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Yolanda Sfetsos's review of Trog

5/5: Firstly, I want to thank Zachary for sending me an ARC of his upcoming novella. After a traumatic ordeal in the city, Aisha's parents decide to relocate to a property in the middle of nowhere to...

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

@caitlinmarceau.bsky.social Have you paid what's owed to the DarkLit authors yet?

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Check it out - I talk about other people's books too! I jhad the great pleasure of listening to Last Night of Freedom by @danhowarth20.bsky.social this week, and it kicked my butt! Like a cross between Calibre and Ready or Not, this buck's party gone wrong made for one hell of a read!

Front cover of Dan Howarth's excellent novel Last Night of Freedom. It depicts the skull of a stag, complete with antlers, on a red background. The bottom caption reads: One weekend. One hunt. One survivor.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm shouting about my books a fair bit on here right now - sorry/not sorry - but I have a new release and an upcoming one! So, POLYPHEMUS, my 3X award nommed death metal-focused faustian horror novel POLYPHEMUS has been re-released by @encyclopub.bsky.social. I'd love for you to check it out!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I had a great time hanging out with Jon. We had a real fun conversation. Check it out.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hell yeah, for the first time in a long time, I just sat and busted out a 5000 word story. Another one set in the Australian wilderness. Needs a read and a polish, but kinda feels like the sort of session that gave me Blood Memory, my first published story.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

And go on then, let's have another one. This Transylvanian kitty was chilling on a car while we were walking around Brasov. My wife, a wonderful cat lady, takes treats everywhere just for them.

An orange, black, and white cat, sitting upright and staring at the camera. It wants treats. 10/10 would pat.

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is probably (easily) my most brutal book. Wolf Creek X Aliens/The Fly. I love when it finds new readers, and hope you'll check it out!

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Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Please hmu with recent recs for stories (for comps) that prominently feature: 1) A young protagonist is taken under the wing of a manipulative elder and gaslit into becoming the unwitting victim of their plan. 2) A bullied boarding school student snaps and seeks revenge on his bullies.

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