Bert Piedmont author and editor

It's out! Atlas of Deep Ones! amzn.to/48zM1dr

www.thebookfest.com/award_entrie... First place, anthologies, Atlas of Deep Ones 🥇 #award

Please submit to my next anthology! #subcall #horror #LGBTQ #cosmichorror #cthulhu Queering Cthulhu obsidianbutterfly.com/qrcthsub.html #horrorwriterschat

#horrorhaiku #haiku I am so tiny | but also so very sharp | and now you bleed out | #horrorwriterschat Squeak

IN ULTHAR NO MAN MAY KILL A CAT. but am i a man or a mousey? 🐈‍⬛🐁🔪 #horrorwriterschat

There be knives in the kitchen. I am big mouse. I can wield a paring knife. Come at me longshanks. #horrorwriterschat

Squeak. Squeak squeak squeak. Squeak squeak. Bert. Squeak. Horror. #horrorwriterschat.

I have a submissions call! #subcall #lgbtq+ #cthulhu #cosmichorror #horrorwriterschat obsidianbutterfly.com/qrcthsub.html

#horrorhaiku battlefield contains | so much fresh blood for slurping | it's vampire heaven | #horrorwriterschat

That's why I don't like war stories. They are already horror. What more can I add? I did have an idea once about vampires and battlefields that I never wrote. #horrorwriterschat

Hmm, I don't write about war. Maybe a ghost, someone with amnesia, or literal phantom limbs. #horrorwriterschat

I'm Miss Bert and I write weirdness and horror-adjacent. I'm not super fond of war fiction so I'm going to go with Good Omens, which is not horror but has the character WAR in it. #horrorwriterschat

Submissions for Queering Cthulhu are OPEN a few hours early. Please spread the word to your #LGBTQ+ writing brethren. obsidianbutterfly.com/qrcthsub.html #horrorwriterschat #cthulhu #subcall

Leet-Z reflects "The Purge" from In This Moment: Maybe, maybe we're all fucked/Maybe we'll all burn...Maybe you were right/Maybe we're all just parasites. #horrorwriterschat

It's already happened. Nine Inch Nails quoted Clive Barker ("stale incense old sweat and lies" Barker's In the Hills The Cities//NiN's Sin) and AC/DC's soundtrack for Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (Trucks). I guess a musican I love would have to do a soundtrack for me. #horrorwriterschat

Often, my stories have a soundtrack. A song I listen to on repeat that shapes the flavor of the story. As in, for best results, listen to this while you read. Sometimes I hear a song and want to write about it (Nitzer Ebb "Getting Closer" for instance) #horrorwriterschat

I'm Miss Bert, I write horror and weird stuff. I like my music hard and loud. The soundtrack to my upcoming novel Leet-Z was In This Moment's song "The Purge." The soundtrack to my next novel (sequel to Leet-Z), Tick, is DeathByRomy's "HellHound." #horrorwriterschat #music

Submissions for Queering Cthulhu are OPEN a few hours early. Please spread the word to your #LGBTQ+ writing brethren. #subcall #cthulhu #queerhorror obsidianbutterfly.com/qrcthsub.html

The newest edition of Weird Fiction Quarterly is out, and my name is on the cover! It includes my illustrated story Room 600, about the Stokercon 2025 hotel. amzn.to/4AXEzFJ

weirdfictionquarterly.com/liminal-spac... This has my illustrated story, Room 600, based on the hotel where Stokercon 2025 was held.

Can Fat Monster get some love this week? Award-winning FAT MONSTER, wherein fat people are preyed on by society and by monsters, featuring body horror, multi level marketing schemes, fungus/mushroom creatures, pyramids... amzn.to/4j1TSn3 #horrorwriterschat

@rebecca-rowland.bsky.social has been a good friend as have many people in my local HWA group and in New England Horror Writers. I try to carry that forward. #horrorwriterschat

He's not quite horror, but @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Our birthdays are a day apart and I've been compared to him a little bit and I admire him greatly. I didn't get to meet him at #NecronomiconPVD and that was upsetting. #horrorwriterschat

Oh, don't make me pick. I've been to so many good panels on crazy topics! I would love to know how to really catch the eye of a good agent. #horrorwriterschat

I'm Miss Bert and I write all sorts of weirdness and horror. I'm working on a book tentatively titled TICK. "During a resurgence of global hemorrhagic fever, something tiny arises, controlled by an ancient intelligence." #horrorwriterschat

I bought a new pair of Levi's this weekend. They are 27" waist. I'm not humble bragging. My waist size used to be my height. Anyway, read Fat Monster. amzn.to/4j1TSn3

I've not gotten far enough in either of the two newest novels to say. In Leet-Z it was the milagro charms outside the funeral cave. #horrorwriterschat

Beloved blankie | Oh, why are you engulfing | that rotting zombie? | #haiku #horrorhaiku #horrorwriterschat

A sense of family and being comfortable at home. Except that's where the murders are happening... #horrorwriterschat

I'm Miss Bert, I write all sorts of horror-adjacent stuff and I would hate for my security blanket to become evil. #horrorwriterschat

I'm Miss Bert and once again I doubt I'll get through all 4 questions but I'll try. I write and edit horror and horror adjacent stories. The most horrible thing I've seen lately is the footage of the flooding from Nepal. It's unreal. That's cosmic horror. It doesn't care. #horrorwriterschat

In Fat Monster, the monsters represented society preying on fat people. And the ultimate question was who did the title refer to, who was the fat monster? I think monsters are always a metaphor in horror. #horrorwriterschat

I'm Miss Bert and I write horror-adjacent horror. When I was little, I was terrified of the skeleton under my bed that would turn any of my body parts that stuck out over the mattress into skeleton parts. ☠️ #horrorwriterschat

LAUNCH PARTY for ATLAS OF DEEP ONES at #necronomiconpvd which is basically a lifetime writer's goal checked off. I'm the weirdo mermaid hugging John and Jackson. I hope to have Queering Cthulhu ready for launch there in 2028. If you want to sub for it, hit me up. #cthulhumythos #deepones

Had a lovely time at #necronomiconPVD running the vendor room. My toes haven't recovered from the blisters (but my purple tentacle shoes are SO COOL). See you all in 2028.

Lovely bookmarks I made to give out at #necronomicon-providence in 2 weeks for my next novel LEET-Z. Yes, the cassowary is a character. #cocoliztli #scifihorror #mummy #mummycurse #aztechorror #archeology #cassowary #horrorwriterschat

Lovely bookmarks I made to give out at #necronomicon-providence in 2 weeks for my next novel LEET-Z. Yes, the cassowary is a character. #cocoliztli #scifihorror #mummy #mummycurse #aztechorror #archeology

I'm Miss Bert, I've been gone for a while, sorry. I write weird horror. My favorite eco-horror has got to be Jeff Vandermeer's Area X. #horrorwriterschat

Oh, something carnivous with teeth that eats people. Audrey for instance. #horrorwriterschat #plants

the roots dig so deep | foxglove leaves sprout through my skin | now I too am plant | #horrorhaiku #haiku #horrorwriterschat

Fat Monster is about sentient fungus, does that count as a plant? I know fungus is kinda liminal... #horrorwriterschat

I don't think I've ever written a fairy story but I did write one about a woman ripping out her own teeth. Maybe she was giving them to the tooth fairy? #horrorwriterchat As far as little things being scary... The Lone Star tick that makes you allergic to mammals is terrifying.

I'm Bert and I write all sorts of horror adjacent stuff. Real fairies have teeth; it's spelled "faery" and they are not little or cute. You pay the tooth fairy in the bloody bones of children. #horrorwriterschat

Yesterday I brought up "At the Mouth of the River of Bees" and today my friend has to put down her THIRD pet in six months and I'm sitting her sobbing for her. #liveforever

Atlas of Deep Ones, a Cthulhu Mythos Lovecraft anthology amzn.to/48zM1dr Over fifty stories, poems, articles, and strange hybrids, span the Deep Ones’ history from the ancient Norse seas to the frozen moons of Jupiter, and everywhere in between. #horrorwriterschat

Oh, someone from the longago times, the paperback world. I read The Other by Thomas Tryon as a child, #evilTwin trope at its finest. Probably why I still write about twins to this day. #horrorwriterschat

I'm very frustrated that my #horrorwriterschat feed is broken. I'm not seeing anyone's posts from today no matter how I refresh, just posts of someone who is abusing the tag. It's been getting worse every week, and now it is functionally dead for me. Ideas? I want to participate more.

How about if I can make Jules Verne and Mary Shelley collaborate, and I get to make suggestions and be there? (giggles in mad scientist) #horrorwriterschat #scifi

I wrote a lovely story about a vengeful sad ghost and a girl with autism that got rejected and I reused the ghost & setting in another story. Can one resurrect a ghost? 👻#horrorwriterschat

I'm Miss Bert and I'm HERE this week! YAY. I write all kinds of horror and horror-adjacent stuff. I adore Kij Johnson's "At the Mouth of the River of Bees" and if you've read it, you know why I sob like a baby every time I read it. #liveforever 🐈‍⬛ #horrorwriterschat

I missed the #horrorwriterschat today. But my new publisher Spinebreaker Books featured me! Details in alt text.