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Jessica Leonard

@jessicaleonard

Horror writer. Author of ANTIOCH and CONJURING THE WITCH. Feminist Whirlwind. Doing my best. She/Her https://linktr.ee/jleonardhorror

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Sometimes I get distracted in that fantasy where I imagine going back and reliving my life and doing everything right this time. But the truth is, the hard scary truth, is that I'd probably repeat every single fuck up.

04.11.2025 04:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hi! regarding our BEST TRANS HORROR OF THE YEAR reprint anthology. we are looking for authors who identify as trans only because we specifically want to platform (and pay) trans voices.

06.12.2024 17:55 πŸ‘ 175 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5

It is a fact that anytime Max posts outgoing orders, and one of my books is not included, Amelia Earhart vomits dirt into his home. Luckily, I spy CONJURING THE WITCH in there. Max's carpets are safe for another day.

06.12.2024 19:22 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is amazing! Congratulations, Hailey!

05.12.2024 16:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from The Bookseller, headline "Titan scoops a three-book deal with horror writer Hailey Piper", article by Katie Fraser, December 5, 2024, with a photo of Hailey Piper

Screenshot from The Bookseller, headline "Titan scoops a three-book deal with horror writer Hailey Piper", article by Katie Fraser, December 5, 2024, with a photo of Hailey Piper

Editor Daniel Carpenter acquired world English rights from Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency. The short story collection, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, will be published in September 2025 with the novel, This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, following in September 2026. The new deal "promises to bring more inventive and heart-wrenching queer horror" that Piper is known for.

Editor Daniel Carpenter acquired world English rights from Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency. The short story collection, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, will be published in September 2025 with the novel, This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, following in September 2026. The new deal "promises to bring more inventive and heart-wrenching queer horror" that Piper is known for.

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons will contain 13 "coming-of-rage" stories which take "our most difficult years of transformation and twist them into a new and terrifying shapes".

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons will contain 13 "coming-of-rage" stories which take "our most difficult years of transformation and twist them into a new and terrifying shapes".

At last, the announcement! 🀩 @titanbooks.bsky.social and I are signed up for a three-book deal!
September 2025 will bring my coming-of-age horror collection TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS 😈
September 2026 will bring a new novel THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT 🎞️
With one more novel in 2027 πŸŽ‰

05.12.2024 12:56 πŸ‘ 534 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 118 πŸ“Œ 12

What are y'all reading today? I'm reading and enjoying Antioch by @jessicaleonard.bsky.social #horrorbooks

29.11.2024 22:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Big nerves today over a big (good) thing! Send me those positive vibes!

18.11.2024 21:15 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So. Are we all deleting Twitter? Leaving it as a placeholder? Is there a consensus?

15.11.2024 14:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Support queer horror & indie bookstores!
Here is the shopping list:
bookshop.org/lists/horror...
Here is my substack with links to my reviews for almost this entire list:
open.substack.com/pub/sadiehar...
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social @tiffmorris.bsky.social @eveharms.com @horrorsong.blog

14.11.2024 13:48 πŸ‘ 249 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5
Publishers marketplace announcement for CRAFTING FOR SINNERS by Jenny Kiefer.

Publishers marketplace announcement for CRAFTING FOR SINNERS by Jenny Kiefer.

I never posted this here - my next book, CRAFTING FOR SINNERS, releases next year (October now!). I'm finishing the dev edits now & can't wait for everyone to read this gay, cathartic book

13.11.2024 01:05 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 7

Define weird...because my roasted garlic, pepper jack, bacon mac and cheese is nontraditional but excellent!!!

12.11.2024 16:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A meme from The Simpsons with a bus driver tapping a sign that reads "The South is full of good people that are on your side that are held back by gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, and regressive policies"

A meme from The Simpsons with a bus driver tapping a sign that reads "The South is full of good people that are on your side that are held back by gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, and regressive policies"

Fan PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN.

You are not better just because you live in the North. Stahp joking about merging with Canada. Stop joking about throwing Florida in the ocean.

It helps no one.

11.11.2024 22:10 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Hearing this is where the fun is. Would like the fun. Do you have the fun?

12.11.2024 14:40 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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I absolutely *loved* Conjusring the Witch by @jessicaleonard.bsky.social. Definitely my favorite small / indie press book I’ve read so far that was published in β€˜23.

10.11.2023 01:43 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much!

10.11.2023 03:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Only a week away from this awesome event! I'll be there!

27.10.2023 19:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Home alone today and living like a happy feral ghost. Snackys all day. Binging TV. Watching Instagram reels and stories. Randomly wandering outside. No agenda. I am my only god.

22.10.2023 20:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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TIH 530: Max Booth III and Michael David Wilson on The Last Haunt and House of Bad Memories In this podcast, Max Booth III and Michael David Wilson talk about their brand new books, The Last Haunt (Max Booth III) and House of Bad Memories (Michael David Wilson), and much more in this spec…

The latest episode of This Is Horror Podcast is a crossover with @ghoulish.bsky.social. I interview @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social about his new @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social book THE LAST HAUNT and he interviews me about HOUSE OF BAD MEMORIES.

www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-530-max-...

18.10.2023 11:03 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Submitted for the approval...πŸ₯°

18.10.2023 15:06 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Conjuring the Witch from @jessicaleonard.bsky.social was excellent and put Antioch on my radar. And thanks to @ghoulish.bsky.social I've conjured Antioch into my reality.

18.10.2023 12:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you've never read my books, this is your moment to shine.

17.10.2023 02:30 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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our very own @jessicaleonard.bsky.social is destroying the occult section on The Bad Place as our 99c sale nears its end. you still have today to snag CONJURING THE WITCH for a dirt-cheap price, if you want it: www.amazon.com/Conjuring-Wi...

14.10.2023 14:31 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Let’s Conjure Some Witches for 99cents Today ghoulish.rip/lets-conjure... (CC: @jessicaleonard.bsky.social)

11.10.2023 16:13 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

I'm going to see John Waters in Nashville tonight, and I'm so excited I can't sit still.

07.10.2023 13:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Inside Llewyn Davis is a beautiful tragic masterpiece and I think about it all the time.

01.10.2023 21:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Important: My turtle friend had come back for a visit.

24.09.2023 21:35 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't written a short story in one thousand years and I'm not sure I remember how.

20.08.2023 19:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've done it again (I caught a summer cold).

18.08.2023 00:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0