Lin Darrow

💿 👻 ✨ Out in November! Dead New World, my Queer scifi book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes. Links to preorder: books2read.com/deadnewworld

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! Oct 17 and 18 are the Twins from Kubrick’s The Shining! 🕯️coordinated fashions 🕯️child ghosts get bonus points 🕯️parodied into infinity so you know they’re quality specs

The Cinema Museum in London is trying to buy its building and they are about 1/4 of the way to their goal. It's a converted Victorian workhouse where Charlie Chaplin lived and worked as a child. Could you share or donate a bit? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cinema...

I am glad to wake up in an Alberta that chose Canada, but furious to wake up in an Alberta that chose to show how deeply stupid and racist they are with the rest of the votes. Glad we poured millions into this instead of healthcare and education! But then the UCP WANTS to gut those things, huh?

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for #Halloween! Oct 17 is Mother from Crimson Peak (2018)! 🕯️lots of great ghosts 🕯️but I like a classic Victorian mourning lady 🕯️the best ghosts creep and weep

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! Oct 16 is Fiona from Hokum (26)! 🕯️leaves spooky recordings behind 🕯️happens pretty early so hopefully no major spoilers?? 🕯️something about a ghost our protagonist only hears about but never sees…

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! Oct 15 is Dr. Crowe from The Sixth Sense (99)! 🕯️spoilers sorry but it’s been over 25 years 🕯️I would love a ghost psychiatrist 🕯️good guy tbh

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! Oct 13 and 14 are a couple: the Maitlands from Beetlejuice (88)! 🕯️he loves miniatures 🕯️she is geena davis 🕯️perfect couple tbh

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! Oct 12 is Extoplasm Ghost from Personal Shopper (2016) 🕯️spiritualist photo vibes 🕯️one for the ghost history girlies 🕯️goopy 🫡🫡🫡

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! Oct 11 is SPOILER from Carnival of Souls (62)! 🕯️Post car crash hallucinations 🕯️Spooky dancing 🕯️Actual carnival not click bait

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! Oct 10 is whatever walks alone in Hill House (The Haunting, 63)! 🕯️maybe not real 🕯️barely defined at all beyond noises and voices 🕯️appears once as a wall

Tag yourself, ghost edition! And come join me, I’m posting 31 ghosts for #Halloween!

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! Oct 9 is ZERO from Nightmare Before Christmas! 🕯️ghost dog 🕯️good boy 🕯️saved/ruined Christmas

Tag yourself, ghost edition! And come join me, I’m posting 31 ghosts for #Halloween!

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 8 is Capt. Daniel from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (47)! 🕯️less spooky, more seafaring! 🕯️titles his biography “blood and awash” 🕯️haunts an amazing seaside house

"But while First Contact stories are ostensibly about humans meeting aliens, they aren’t really about that. Not really. They’re about us." Author @wtalabi.com recommends five African First Contact stories:

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 7 are the Marleys from Muppet Christmas Carol! 🕯️Dickens adaptation so these ghosts are classy 🕯️only the muppets give us TWO Marleys! 🕯️capitalism makes up your chains in hell

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 6 is Pipes from Ghostwatch (92) 🕯️featured in famous BBC prank documentary 🕯️that was so realistic it traumatized generations 🕯️”pipes” appears largely as a voice and via background cameos

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 5 is Irena from Curse of the Cat People (1944). 🕯️somehow has nothing to do with cat people 🕯️haunting your cheating husband’s daughter benevolently 🕯️and doing it in fantastically beautiful robes

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 4 is for The Others (2001) 🕯️Grace Stewart is in denial over her treatment of her children. 🕯️Her servants and husband are also mysteriously missing. 🕯️Her children are allergic to sunlight.

#SFFChat i find it sooo interesting to think about ghosts in the future and how such an ancient concept adapts to technology. How will we conceive of the soul 1000 years from now you know?

#SFFChat my name is Lin, I write queer genre bendy sff, and I love ghosts! I wrote my PhD dissertation on how ghosts get goopy in the 19th century thanks to science.

Hey, so cool, Dead New World is being featured on the front page of NetGalley this week! If you're interested in Queer hopepunk cybernoir mysteries pitched as Murderbot meets Beetlejuice...? www.netgalley.com

I think there's a difference in writing between characters who are sexy and who are physically attractive and everyone assumes the first comes from the second but oh boy it DOESN'T.

Barnes and Noble is having a 25% off preorder sale and that includes my ghost-y noir book, DEAD NEW WORLD! Rewards nonmembers will need to enroll, BUT joining their rewards program is free! Link here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-new-w...

pledging to the birds is a privilege😍

resist AI melting your brain by reading books tbh

This is going to sound like the most obnoxious humble brag but today I found out from my doctor that I literally gave so much blood it made me anemic. Six months recovery 💪💪💪 Hope they savour that B+ brew like fine wine. Blood Canada you are my revenant.

I was inspired to do this vibe comp grid for my upcoming book, Dead New World! It's spooky, it's noirish, it's funny, it's Queer, it's romantic, it's got ghosts AND cyber kidnappings... I was really trying hard to bend every genre.

Mine and @lindarrow.bsky.social 's webcomic Shaderunners is now available to read in vertical format on Webtoon Canvas as well as Tapas 🍸 💚 Webtoon: buff.ly/97QDtve 💛 Tapas: buff.ly/3N5TOih There will be an update every Friday on both platforms, starting from the very first page!

Some exciting Shaderunners news! Alex has been working really hard to make sure the comic flows for the vertical format.

Everyone who works in visual mediums needs to rediscover old technicolor films and realize they don't just pulse with color and fashion and stylization, they also sometimes have plots that involve things like cursed marriages, champagne beds and Paul Newman exploding. (What A Way to Go!, 1964)

Academic Disney Con't. Alright did you guys know that there's a Macbeth quote in Disney's Beauty and the Beast and it's used in such a rich and layered and gendered way I actually had to break out the timestamps for this one. Review: letterboxd.com/wisteriajone...

Just dropping this here for anti-Prime day, with a discount on Bookshop.org! Still in preorder mode but preorders help out new authors a loooot! I will post about something non-book related and weird again soon like the history of spoons or something. Link: bookshop.org/p/books/dead...