Rowan

No Fair Maidens From Earth to Mars arrived today. The wonderful Robert P. Ottone was so kind to blurb and I'm forever grateful. Purchase here if you like your horror with sci-fi. a.co/d/cInsp0f

I’ve been sending stories to @FantasyMagazine for years and today is the day I finally have a story out with them! Wicked proud of this little post apocalyptic haunted highway tale :) psychopomp.com/fantasy/issue-…

@CoreyFarrenkopf @FantasyMagazine Heck yeah, Corey! Very well deserved!

New story out in Chthonic Matter Quarterly! This one’s about a cursed art exhibit of statues made from the reclaimed wood of haunted houses and the poor docent that has to deal with them :) Fun stuff! chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/chthonicmatter/

As far as composers go, John Williams is the goat, but did you ever hear what Bear McCreary did with Along the watchtower?

In my continuing series of ‘You’re short story is likely good, it just hasn’t found the right editor yet’, happy to say my Soylent Green sci-fi horror story (rejected many times) was in the 1.3% of 1800 stories that found a home at Diabolical Plots.

This is actually hilarious because instead of doing them, Secdef just got rid of them.

Looks like certain people need to take their annual JKO course.

@CoreyFarrenkopf I’m sorry, Corey. I feel this so ill too check out Carl.

So the last year and a half has been pretty rough on a personal level. You know what’s really gotten me through though? Dungeon Crawler Carl, that’s what :)

The ebook of my novel is on sale for 99 cents this weekend! Just 1/10th of the price to enter a corn maze! amazon.com/Ghosts-Blaubar…

Three master-of-craft scenes I still think about: 1. American Psycho, Patrick Bateman suddenly switches to third person in his killing craze. 2, Red Station and the boot to the head. Iykyk. 3. Annihilation and when the biologist abruptly addresses the reader. Any I should add?

@davidbelcher 100%

@WriterRowanHill Badass?? 🤔 🤣🤣🤣

It’s silly, but the shocked looks from Japanese people in the Japanese market when I say something small in passing (sumimasen, daijobu) reminds me that I was once young and cool and lived around the world and was generally a badass.

@Gabino_Iglesias thought you’d like this. In a tiny bookstore in a mid-size city (still small) in Australia, there was one measly section for horror and you were in it.

I know the actual movie is gonna be meh, but as a ND writer who thrives on lofi night beats, I’m fucking psyched for the Tron Aries soundtrack

I’m just a girl trapped at a blue screen of death and a linux kernel fail.

Friends! I’m starting a newsletter next month called Corey’s Stories! I’m going to write about stories I love, share some flash fiction, and ask other authors what their favorite stories are. Short stories! Short stories! Short stories! Sign up? coreyfarrenkopf.substack.com/subscribe?para…

@Gabino_Iglesias @mulhollandbooks @NovelSuspects That color scheme is the sexiest

Look at all that sexy stuff!

My first novella is available for free this weekend at the place you hate! amazon.com/Star-Shapes-Iv…

The illogical part of my brain is still rooting for Halbrand and Galadriel

@TimMcGregor1 I'm taking that as gospel now.

@WriterRowanHill Let the fucks fly in that first draft. Trim down in subsequent drafts. That's my approach, for what it's worth.

Realistically, how 'fucks' is too many 'fucks' in a novel?

@VictorGodinez Well that's a fuck-ton of good company! ;)

@WriterRowanHill There is virtue in volume, too! I mean, The Big Lebowski is one of my favorite movies of all time. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f…