C. M. Rosens

Me: watching the end credits of literally any film

TV: let's watch The Hound of the Baskervilles now

Me: has seen multiple versions many times: not today, thank you

TV: :(((((

Me today: finishes another John Carpenter film, gets distracted with end credits music in the background

TV: AND NOW - SIR IAN RICHARDSON IS ....... SHERLOCK HOLMES

RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/04/15/author-spotlight-meet-a-poet-pixiewithpens/

New Spotlight up for Pixie, a poet based in Sweden but writing in English. Their new collection, Poetry F☆cks, is out now.

You can either read the post on Mastodon, or head to cmrosens.com to read the original.

Follow the quoted account & subscribe to notifications to get posts and spotlights weekly, although pixie is the only poetry spotlight for this year.

Check out cmrosens.com/author-spotlight-series for more poets!

#poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #PoetryOnMastodon

If anyone wants cheap books, Haunt Publishing is closing its doors and has 66% off them all with the code HAUNT66 at checkout.

I love this press - they have loads of Gothic goodies, and also carry one of my fave poem collections, WHERE DECAY SLEEPS by Anna Cheung, and one of my fave novels, BENOTHINGED by Alvar Theo.

Really sad it's going.

https://www.hauntpublishing.com/

#Writing #Books #Booktoot #DiscountBooks #Indie

#HorrorMovies I've enjoyed so far this month:

Pretty Lethal (2026) dir. Vicky Jewson.

Livide/Livid (2011) dirs. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury.

The Void (2016) dirs. Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski. (REWATCH)

Sauna (2008) dir. Antti-Jussi Annila.

They Live (1988) dir. John Carpenter.

I also saw Kill List (2011) dir. Ben Wheatley; yeah, it was fine, I get why it polarises people.

The Howling (1981) dir. Joe Dante (rewatch for the ungroomed Bichon Frise design)

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Sci Fi Horror where it's not about the AI getting sentient, it's about humans starting to think only in AI patterns, from writing to speech to an 'ethical' system, and nobody knows if they're interacting online with real people or not bc nobody can tell the difference anymore

#Horror #WritingPrompt #StoryIdea #Dystopia

RE: @CMRosens@social.horrorhub.club

They said yes!! And so did Gay's the Word (the oldest queer bookshop in the UK, based in London). They can only get 1-2 copies though it looks like. I'm wondering if I've nearly gone through 1 print run?

RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/04/08/author-spotlight-paranormal-ecohorror-author-s-m-mack/

New author interview is up! Spotlighting S.M. Mack, author of DEATH VALLEY BLOOMS, a novella from Neon Hemlock Press. #writingcommunity #HorrorBooks #paranormalbooks #ecohorror

I'm now snowed under with author spotlight requests so closing early - no longer open to **new** requests.

If people don't get back to me I don't usually chase them, so I will just move stuff around and get others in their slots then reopen for first come first served to fill the gaps.

Idk though I have such overwhelming dread about what might happen tomorrow or the next day with everything that it seems so bizarre to be planning things like this in advance. Still. On we go.

It's bank holiday so husband's doing DIY
The big saw is out on the workbench (not a euphemism)

Listening for the hierarchy of swearing:

'soapy tit wank' & other choice phrases = something has not quite gone according to plan, this is annoying but not life threatening

'shitshitshit' = investigate, ensure First Aid kit is accessible

'incoherent screaming' = dial 999 immediately

dead silence = suspicious

#BankHoliday #HappyEaster #DIY

QueerLit.co.uk is the biggest LGBTQ bookshop in Europe, so as I still haven't got around to querying agents but I do have trad pubbed books (!) I've contacted them myself to see if they'll host my titles.

I really need more people to know that THE CROWS is ace rep, with a touch-starved ace monsterboi who loves touch but is sex averse.

There are unconvential relationships, a sentient house with a genderfluid avatar and plural vibes, & it's contemporary British Gothic. #Asexual #Horror #BookToot

For any #writers with books out (old, new, trad, hybrid, indie, doesn’t matter!) I have 1 slot left in May for an Author Spotlight interview, and then lots free from June-Dec (some slots spoken for in advance around launch dates etc).

I don’t charge for Spotlights.

No AI please, I think I’ve spotted some AI covers creeping in & want to nip that in the bud…

Fiction & Poetry only at this time.

Contact me here: https://cmrosens.com/contact/

#AuthorInterviews #IndieAuthor #Writer

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar. 30. What got in the way of your writing this month?

Oh gosh. Not "in the way of" but writing definitely took a backseat while we cared for a close relative, whom we lost last week. I haven't really felt like writing much, honestly. (Not a pity me post, but that's what's happened this month).

My ADHD gets in the way A LOT, but I have found ideas to settle on, a couple of them fairly recently, so we'll see where they go (if anywhere).

#WritersCoffeeClub 28/03. Do you ever sacrifice blunt clarity for prose that flows well?

(Catching up)

Hmm. I would say that if your prose doesn't flow well, and also it's unclear, then there's work to be done on that prose.

I think you can be clear about what's happening, what someone is doing/thinking/feeling, but if it's blunt & doesn't flow well then it also needs work.

Short sentences can flow well. Spare prose can flow well. I think it's about skill & balance.

#WritersCoffeeClub 29/3: Share one of your writing milestones.

In 2024 I walked into my local Waterstones and saw my debut novel there on the shelf. I also got tagged by my favourite independent queer bookshop with a pic of both my novels on their Gothic Horror shelf.

Absolutely banging

#PennedPossibilities 970 — MC POV: Have you ever experienced something that couldn’t be logically explained?

Katy: *laughs bitterly and walks away*