David Cates

Coming October 1st, Kunaloa, a new kaiju series. Los Angeles will burn to embers. #kaiju #Kunaloa #book

Just got the first order of paperbacks, I can barely believe it!

Just got my proof copies! I'm so excited

Less than two weeks left to get a signed copy of Gravesbarrow. #mg #mghorror www.kickstarter.com/projects/306...

Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you get to do amazing things in 2025.

I'm so excited! The Kickstarter for Gravesbarrow is now live. Come get your signed copy now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/306...

Finally got the cover art for my first book! So excited for how it turned out. #mg #horror #writingcommunity

My book cover is late and it's driving me crazy.

What's something that surprised you when you started writing? Mine is the number of great books I only found through publishers websites or from other authors I've met.

How about a little giveaway to celebrate new #booksky friends? If you follow and repost, I'll pick someone on Friday to win a preorder of my upcoming middle grade horror, THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY! It's about ghosts and doorways and the secrets that haunt us. Also lake whales.

Had an early snowstorm today, sitting here watching it as I write about a haunted summer camp.

Once, at our local used book store they had a cat that would stalk the stacks, I was in the middle grade section when I felt something hit my back, it was the cat who climbed up onto my shoulder and sat there. I walked around the store with the cat perched on my shoulder. It was awesome!

A cold and windy day with leaves falling like rain, a perfect day to write a #spooky #mg book.

I hadn't heard from an agent I'd submitted to in weeks, then today got two rejections and a request for the full manuscript! So excited to send it off!

I need to go take leafs, which means it's time to put that off with more writing!

AITA: I was trapped in a pond for decades until some stupid kid accidently frees me. So I offer to take his annoying cousin and leave him alone and he refuses! Now I'm going to replace both of them and trap them in my pond, it's only fair right? #unhingedpit #MG #H #writingcommunity

ARCANE X She-ra: Princesses of Power Because who doesn’t love fighter craft flying bisexuals who sometimes do magic only very very badly #unhingedpit

**AITA for making my brother go spelunking in a volcano? My bro (26M) & I (23F) have an airship that needs (A LOT) of repairs, so I took a job for big $. We have to find a magic artifact inside a not-so-dormant volcano. His BF will kill me, but after this, we’re free… I think? #UnhingedPit #Q #F

Have you ever seen the Bob’s Burgers episode Stand By Gene? Same idea but replace the two-butted goat with a crashed UFO, a megalomaniac billionaire & an exact duplicate of the kids neighborhood all set in 1988. #MG #unhingedpit

BREAKING NEWS! ⛪️ FIVE mentally unwell Baptist teenagers play BUILD-A-GOD in the woods of RURAL GEORGIA; instead of CHRIST, they worship a LOCAL DEAD GIRL! YES, it goes just as HORRIBLY as you'd expect! 🐊 #UnhingedPit #H #LGBT #W

AITA for coming back to my cursed town and digging up family secrets? I returned to care for my grandma, but found cryptic warnings sacrifices, and a family curse tied to a sinister town pact. Now people are vanishing and I’m losing my grip on reality. Should I have stayed away? #unhingedpit #H #T

r/AITA I (24F) i ran into my ex (24F) over my political rival’s dead body (long story) and now we’re both suspects. AITA for teaming up with her to solve this murder even though i think my sentient, rotten magic is the killer?? #unhingedpit #A #F #AG #OS

👀 #UnhingedPit but it's just the fact that I've built every major location from How To Stage A Murder in the Sims #AG #M #A #LGBTQ

AITA: I was trapped in a pond for decades until some stupid kid accidently frees me. So I offer to take his annoying cousin and leave him alone and he refuses! Now I'm going to replace both of them and trap them in my pond, it's only fair right? #unhingedpit #MG #H #writingcommunity

When your controlling mother dies and literally possesses you and forces you to die on repeat during your senior year of high school. #unhingedpit #WIP #H #F

AITA for accidentally resurrecting my school’s bloody-thirsty ghost to get the attention of my bf and now he’s disappeared? I mean, he did ghost me, so… #unhingedpit #YA #H #Q

And we're LIVE!!! Dungeon Flippers is officially campaigning for EPISODE TWO! Consider backing us TODAY!!! Link in the 🧵! #dungeonflippers #kickstarter #indieanimation

Just got my first look at the Gravesbarrow cover art and I love it, I'm so excited for it to be finished so I can share it all of you.

Had to scrap my opening tonight, gave away to much and needed to change where I started. Flowing much better now. #writingcommunity #mg

Me editor making sure I don't over do it with regular cuddle breaks.

Ben and Wendy climbing through their schools ceiling.

What is everyone doing today? Personally I'm preparing a Kickstarter for my first book. Writing the sequel to it. And querying another book. How about you?

Hello everyone, guess it's time for a proper introduction. I'm David Cates, Halloween enthusiast and #mg #horror writer. My debut book Gravesbarrow will be releasing soon. About cousins Ben and Wendy surviving a monster in a town that can't believe in the paranormal.

Gracie has settled in for her afternoon cuddle.

I'm so excited! Any day now I should get my first look at the cover art for Gravesbarrow!

If you're part of the writing community, could you please holla and RT so we can find each other? I want to build up what we once had on Twitter (but better) #writers #writing

What do you do when you're stalked by a monster in a town that can't believe in the paranormal? Find out in Gravesbarrow, coming soon.