I’m so excited to share that What Feeds Below is on Edelweiss!

You can request Here

I cannot wait for you all to start reading this book that I just could not put down (I’m currently on my 3rd reread!)

Once you read it PLEASE review on Edelweiss, Goodreads and on your socials!

If you haven’t already, please add to your Goodreads Want to Read Shelf. We would love to hit 2,000 by Valentine’s Day!

Speaking of Valentine’s Day, you may have missed but I have extended the Contest to Win A What Feeds

Below PR BOX until 2/14!

If you haven’t preordered yet, could you help give us a chance at a bestseller list by Pre-ordering your copy today.

For those of you without Edelweiss, I’m hoping it hits Netgalley soon. Will let you know as soon as it happens! Let me know down below if you’ll be requesting to read (or submitting your dance video!!!)

Our first book, What Feeds Below is listed next to CG Drews on the Barnes and Noble Bestsellers in teen fiction!

Tatiana and I could not be more thrilled! Your support and preorders mean everything! Seeing your response has been incredible! If you haven't preordered yet, it's actually cheaper on Bookshop right now.

Your early support gives What Feeds Below and Tatiana a shot at all kinds of bestseller lists, media attention and can even help with store placement.

You will love What Feeds Below if

• you love horror or quest fantasy

• you loved Annihilation or The Descent

• you loved Attack on Titan, Made in Abyss, Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

• you always think about quicksand

• you love books that read like video games

Hi All,

So excited to share February's read: This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers! Grab your copy at the link above if you’ve haven’t preordered this one!

And the coolest news: Courtney will be joining us for a bookclub zoom. Still working out the date, so stay tuned!

Did you know This is Not A Test has been turned into a movie! (limited theater release 2/20, and then we should be able to watch on Shudder, I think!

Check out the movie trailer here.

Women in Horror book club takes place primarily in the community Discord. It's a very low stakes book club. Discussions are left up a few months so conversations continue for people who are unable to read the book during bookclub month.

If you're not in the community Discord already, that's is where all the magic happens, so make sure you're a member today.

Hi Friends,

Back with another 10 more horror books written by women that I can't wait for this year! There are way too many books coming out this year, I have no idea how I'm going to read them all. Have you heard of any of these?

1. I Love You Don't Die by Jade Song (3/17) This one is for the weird girls.

   For as far back as she can remember, Vicky has been fascinated and obsessed with death as the only inevitable thing in life. From living above a Chinatown funeral parlor to working at a celebrity start-up for bespoke urns, she has surrounded herself with death—in her home, in her work, and in her ever-growing collection of zhizha, paper creations meant to be burned for the dead, adorning the walls of her apartment. Yet, though living in Manhattan and working her dream job is all she ever wanted, she still struggles to have meaningful connections—or find any meaning at all—in her life. Too often she spends the day in bed, only drawn out from time to time by her best (and only) friend, Jen.

   That changes when a dating app leads her into a throuple with an artist and a labor organizer, who offer exactly the kind of love she needs. For some time, it’s perfect, but no one understands better than Vicky that all things must end. As doubts grow over the love in her life, her friendship with Jen, and her professional success, the oddly comforting abstraction of death starts becoming something else altogether. With everything beginning to feel hollow and temporary, Vicky must decide how to keep moving forward. To try and hold on to what she has, or to once again do what she does best: destroy.

2. Afterbirth: Novel by Emma Cleary (3/24) An unsettling, hypnotic descent into the visceral heart of “mommy horror,” Afterbirth is a story of fractured sisterhood, aching hunger, and irrevocable transformation—reverberating with the echoes of classic horror cinema.

3. Wayward Souls by Susan J Morris ( 3/17) gothic sequel to Strange Beasts, a delicious gothic suspense following the daughter of Dracula's killer and the daughter of criminal mastermind Moriarty.

4. Indigent by Briana Cox (3/20)

LEIGH PIERCE ESTATES is home to a diverse array of tenants: families, immigrants, students, the forgotten elderly. All working poor, and all in danger.

Because the tenants of Leigh Pierce are disappearing.

Live-in handyman Xavier seems to be the only one who notices. Or cares. After a chance encounter with the culprit leaves him infected with something horrifying, Xavier is thrust into a surreal nightmare of starvation and consumption all too familiar to his gentrifying Atlanta neighborhood.

Succumbing to his infection, Xavier is drawn into the cobbled-together family squatting in Leigh Pierce's basement. People who, through a myriad of doomed roads, fell into the same self-destructive cycle of indigency, harboring dark secrets... and darker appetites. Trapped in a dynamic of codependency and complicity, Xavier and his family- new and old- are forced to confront the cost of survival in a world that has disregarded them

1. Hex House by Amy Jane Stewart (4/28) A feverishly told, dark and unsettling Scotland-set fairy-tale about a safe haven for women which transforms them into vessels of revenge, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, A. G Slatter and Julia Armfield

2. The Lady in Chains by Bonnie Quinn (4/28)

Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled “How to Survive Your Camping Experience.” It includes a list of rules to help campers have an enjoyable experience and hopefully survive any encounters with the campgrounds other…inhabitants.

With the campground in the throes of a bad year, it will take more than a list of rules to keep everyone safe. Monsters that were previously lying dormant are starting to stir and they’re waking up hungry. Among them is the Lady in Chains, a creature feared by both human and inhuman things alike.

Her reappearance creates an upheaval in the balance of power in the campground by renewing an old grudge with the harvesters, who are willing to sacrifice anyone they get their hands on in order to gain an advantage. On top of all this, the man with the skull cap has started taking an unusual interest in Kate. But with the harvesters on the prowl, the Lady in Chains hunting her down, and a sinister spider infestation, Kate is going to need all the allies she can get, even if those allies aren’t actually…human.

1. Wife Shaped Bodies by Lauren Cranehill (4/14) Sorrowland meets Manhunt in this literary horror debut in which an isolated newlywed—covered in mushroom growths like all the other wives in her community—strikes a precarious balance between following her husband’s strict rules and pursuing an intense connection with a woman who makes her question everything.

2. Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker (4/21) In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds.

3. Molka by Monica Kim (4/30) Dahye can't believe her luck when she finds herself in a whirlwind romance with handsome, charismatic Hyukjoon, the heir to a multi-million dollar fortune. But then a shocking revelation threatens everything: the couple has been caught on a spycam amid Korea's growing molka epidemic, and the video is all over the internet.

4. Dark is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in, doesn’t come out.
   
   Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in the English countryside for years. Now returned in the wake of a traumatic divorce and crumbling personal life, her simple plans are to lay low at her parents’ vacated house, reconnect with her prickly sister Cathy, and slowly get back on her feet.
   
   Cathy is surprised when Hazel doesn’t show. Their relationship strained from a fallout half a decade ago, she didn’t expect them to get back into a sisterly rhythm…though she hadn’t counted on Hazel bailing, either.
   
   But something isn’t adding up. Other people in town whisper of a threat that can’t be shaken. The woods are known for being restless. And Cathy knows the old saying.
   
   If you go looking for trouble, you just might find it.

Which ones are you preordering? Which ones are you adding to your TBR?

I want to read ALL of these and I want to read them RIGHT NOW!

Enter To Win A WHAT FEEDS BELOW PR Box (once available)

Box will include a finished copy of What Feeds Below and other goodies (still to be determined, tell me your wildest PR box dreams below!)

To Enter:

1. Create a video showing us your best Void Tavern Dance (note: you don't have to be a good dancer, you just have to have fun. You can watch our fearless leader, Tatiana's dance here:

   https://www.instagram.com/p/DTeT2IBkQgF/

   https://www.tiktok.com/@thebuffwriter/video/7595026468439215415

2. Include text in video: "When this banger comes on in the Void Tavern" You can choose ANY song!

3. include the image of What Feeds Below cover in your video, post on Instagram or Tiktok or BOTH

4. tag me (fromthemixedupdesk) and author Tatiana Schlote Bonne (thebuffwriter) in your post

5. use hashtags "whatfeedsbelow" and "horrorbooks"

One winner will be selected on February 1. If we hit 20 entries, I will also make a dancing video.

Hello Friends!

Coming to drop another 10 horror books written by women that I can't wait to read this year (The Curse of Hester Gardens is a book club read!)

1. 3/17 Mother Is Watching by Karma Brown, - an art conservator’s obsession with a mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, where the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life

2. 3/3 The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu, -an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a razor-sharp eye for the absurdity and melancholy of the internet age.

3. 3/24 Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher, woman of science, 1800s, gothic, insects

4. 3/31 The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson- public housing haunted house, gun violence

5. 3/10 Cabaret in Flames by Hache Pueyo, novella, Interview with the Vampire meets Certain Dark Things in an alternate-Brazil where brutal flesh-hungering Guls stalk the night streets and manipulate the government from their glittering cabaret

6. 3/3 When I Was Death by Alexis Henderson, YA girls doing Death's bidding

7. 3/3 Turn Off The Light by Jacquie Waters, 2 women centuries apart, beach read haunted house

8. 3/24 The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery

9. 3/10 Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran, gothic, boarding school, queer desire

10. 3/17 Only Spell Deep by Ava Morgyn, Rebecca meet The Craft

Hello Friends!

Happy New Year! You may think I'm late, but the French say Happy New Year for the entire month of January and I like this tradition! So HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I spent the New Year in the Redwoods (The North Coast is my favorite part of California)!

Publishing Updates

I am so thankful for all of you and your support of What Feeds Below. One of my immediate goals was to get 1,000 adds on Goodreads and because of you, in just over two weeks we are at 927! That is so incredible! You may have heard me say it before, but supporting indie and marginalized authors on Goodreads is so important! Adding books to your Want to Read shelf helps these books get noticed, gets them on media lists, gets book box attention and signals to publishers that the book is going to do well. This can help author's land future contracts. I know many of my supporters have migrated to author platforms, but if you want to support marginalized author's, I strongly urge you to consider using both. If you haven't added What Feeds Below to your Goodreads shelves yet, please do so here.

PREORDERS: I've been pretty blunt (surprise, surprise lol) about my very ambitious preorder goal for What Feeds Below. I want to hit 1,000 preorders early, like by tomorrow haha! There are 2 BIG reasons why:

1. I am absolutely obsessed with this book. I think it has the potential to be such a huge hit (I'm thinking big: movies! I'm already preparing my red carpet dress. PLEASE! Dare I say...TRILOGY?) I think this is the best book Tatiana has written so far. I think most people will read it in one sitting. I think there are so many cosplay opportunities! I think you're going to sleep with the lights on! I want this book to compete with trad pub releases this year. I want book box options. I want to hit a best seller list.

2. I want to publish more books. I want the books I publish to be in conversation with some of the hottest books of the year. (I have great taste, so they should be LOL). After WFB, we have Cracks in an Ocean of Glass, an incredible literary horror coming out in Spring 2027. I want ensure a book for Fall 27. (I've already received a pitch for an Indigenous sci-fi fantasy that I'm pretty sure the world needs). The way to make sure we get there is to hit these preorders early!

There are over 2,000 of you here now! That's 2,000 readers who believe in this mission, who believe traditional publishing has failed us, who believe women in horror deserve equal conversation time to their male counterparts and Indigenous authors need more books on the shelves at your local bookstore. If all 2,000 of you pre-ordered this book today, you would not only change my life, but the lives of our current and future authors. The book is $16.73 on bookshop right now. GRAB IT HERE. If you can spare the $16.73 this month, investing in marginalized authors, investing in indie publishing, investing in this change we want to see in the world is a great way to spend it.

READING UPDATES

I've read 3 books so far this year:

• Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson, this is an adult mystery where the main character has 7 days to live and needs to solve her murder before she dies. I did enjoy this one, but I'm going to recommend that you read a physical copy or E reader version.

• The Sky Was Once A Dark Blanket:Poems by Kinsale Drake, beautiful Indigenous poetry collection. I am going to read more poetry this year!

• The Last Witch by CJ Cookie, holy crap! My first book by CJ Cooke and I'm hooked. I need to read all of their books right now! 15th century Innsbruck, women accused of witchcraft, historical horror at its finest!

Current reads:

• This is Not A Test by Courtney Summers, a Bindery spring release! and Women in Horror Book Club February pick (and yes Courtney will be joining us for a bookclub meeting!) I'm reading the audio as a Libro ALC and this is a zombie book full of feelings! You're going to have them! Wow!

• Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, this was supposed to be a 2025 reread but I started in 2025 and now I read multiple books at the same time apparently. A mood reading queen! Loving every minute of this reread. And annotating! YES!

• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, Women in Horror Book Club read for January! Oh, I'm loving this collection of short horror stories. I need Machado to put out another book like this year please.

On deck:

• To The Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage, this is Good Day to Read Indigenous book club selection for January!

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

To join the Women in Horror book club and Good Day To Read Indigenous Book Club, connect to our community Discord on the main page.

Journal CLUB!

We are starting a 100 day project tomorrow using the prompts in The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice For An Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad. You don't have to start tomorrow to join, just have a love for journaling (or wanting to try!)

Upcoming for Paid Members:

Paid members get publishing news first. They get to see the cover process in action. They get to hear about all the publishing meeting that happen and provided input! If you're interested in how the book all comes together, consider upgrading to $5.

$5 members will get e*arcs of all Boozhoo Books.

$12 members will get physical arcs of all Boozhoo Books AND their name on the thank you page.

Your paid membership makes this community run. Part of the funds go into the production of the books and I'm using the rest to host giveaways (and sometimes buy a latte!)

Letter Club: you heard it here first. I'm starting a penpal club for paid members (still working on the name? IDEAS??? Will keep you posted in the upcoming weeks!

Traveling Arc Club: more details to come, but I've wanted to start a traveling arc club for a long time! Books chosen will have permission from the publisher or author. (If you are an author reading this and want to participate, DM me!)

Traveling Journal Club: the idea here is that everyone has their own journal to start off, and we rotate, adding things to the journal, the journal gets circulated to all members until it's full and then mailed back to the original owner as a keepsake. Details to come!

Upcoming Content:

• more On Your Radar lists are coming!

• Get A Rec responses (If you didn't notice the button at the top of the page, you can now request a rec! I have a few to work through and give responses so will be working on them this week!)

• Recommendations for books to read for the Read More Indigenous Non Fiction Storygraph Challenge

2026 is the year of the brain and that means that we are reading more non-fiction!

You know that I love a challenge, so I created this one on Storygraph!

The challenge is to read a total of 6 non fiction books written by Indigenous authors. If you've already read a book, you need to reread it in 2026 for it to count.

I've added just a few Indigenous non-fiction to this post for you to check out and many more on the challenge page itself.

If you plan on buying any, please shop from the attached books below. I earn a small commission for each book you purchase (whether I listed it or not!)

Hello and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? (wouldn't know. never seen it! Ha!)

I love this time of year because it's a time to reflect on the year and to plan for the next.

I recently picked up The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice For an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad.

The book centers on the art of journaling and 100 different influential people ranging from Kiese Laymon, Jon Baptiste, Lindy West, John Green, Elizabeth Gilbert, Salman Rushdie share essays on what they've learned from journaling, how they've survived, how they've grown, how they've loved, how they've found magic and creativity. At the end of every section is a journal prompt.

I've read the intro by the author (I need to pick up her memoir Between Two Kingdoms immediately). and I'm looking to take this on as a 100 day project done in community (that means WITH YOU, if you're game!) starting January 11.

You can request the book from the library now so it's available, but my recommendation is to pick up a physical copy (I've linked it below). This is going to be one you'll want to revisit.

Let me know if you're a journaler and if you're interested in joining!

(I've created a Discord channel!)