Enter To Win A WHAT FEEDS BELOW PR Box (once available)

Box will include a finished copy of What Feeds Below and other goodies (still to be determined, tell me your wildest PR box dreams below!)

To Enter:

1. Create a video showing us your best Void Tavern Dance (note: you don't have to be a good dancer, you just have to have fun. You can watch our fearless leader, Tatiana's dance here:

   https://www.instagram.com/p/DTeT2IBkQgF/

   https://www.tiktok.com/@thebuffwriter/video/7595026468439215415

2. Include text in video: "When this banger comes on in the Void Tavern" You can choose ANY song!

3. include the image of What Feeds Below cover in your video, post on Instagram or Tiktok or BOTH

4. tag me (fromthemixedupdesk) and author Tatiana Schlote Bonne (thebuffwriter) in your post

5. use hashtags "whatfeedsbelow" and "horrorbooks"

One winner will be selected on February 1. If we hit 20 entries, I will also make a dancing video.

Hello Friends!

Coming to drop another 10 horror books written by women that I can't wait to read this year (The Curse of Hester Gardens is a book club read!)

1. 3/17 Mother Is Watching by Karma Brown, - an art conservator’s obsession with a mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, where the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life

2. 3/3 The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu, -an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a razor-sharp eye for the absurdity and melancholy of the internet age.

3. 3/24 Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher, woman of science, 1800s, gothic, insects

4. 3/31 The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson- public housing haunted house, gun violence

5. 3/10 Cabaret in Flames by Hache Pueyo, novella, Interview with the Vampire meets Certain Dark Things in an alternate-Brazil where brutal flesh-hungering Guls stalk the night streets and manipulate the government from their glittering cabaret

6. 3/3 When I Was Death by Alexis Henderson, YA girls doing Death's bidding

7. 3/3 Turn Off The Light by Jacquie Waters, 2 women centuries apart, beach read haunted house

8. 3/24 The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery

9. 3/10 Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran, gothic, boarding school, queer desire

10. 3/17 Only Spell Deep by Ava Morgyn, Rebecca meet The Craft

Hello Friends!

Happy New Year! You may think I'm late, but the French say Happy New Year for the entire month of January and I like this tradition! So HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I spent the New Year in the Redwoods (The North Coast is my favorite part of California)!

Publishing Updates

I am so thankful for all of you and your support of What Feeds Below. One of my immediate goals was to get 1,000 adds on Goodreads and because of you, in just over two weeks we are at 927! That is so incredible! You may have heard me say it before, but supporting indie and marginalized authors on Goodreads is so important! Adding books to your Want to Read shelf helps these books get noticed, gets them on media lists, gets book box attention and signals to publishers that the book is going to do well. This can help author's land future contracts. I know many of my supporters have migrated to author platforms, but if you want to support marginalized author's, I strongly urge you to consider using both. If you haven't added What Feeds Below to your Goodreads shelves yet, please do so here.

PREORDERS: I've been pretty blunt (surprise, surprise lol) about my very ambitious preorder goal for What Feeds Below. I want to hit 1,000 preorders early, like by tomorrow haha! There are 2 BIG reasons why:

1. I am absolutely obsessed with this book. I think it has the potential to be such a huge hit (I'm thinking big: movies! I'm already preparing my red carpet dress. PLEASE! Dare I say...TRILOGY?) I think this is the best book Tatiana has written so far. I think most people will read it in one sitting. I think there are so many cosplay opportunities! I think you're going to sleep with the lights on! I want this book to compete with trad pub releases this year. I want book box options. I want to hit a best seller list.

2. I want to publish more books. I want the books I publish to be in conversation with some of the hottest books of the year. (I have great taste, so they should be LOL). After WFB, we have Cracks in an Ocean of Glass, an incredible literary horror coming out in Spring 2027. I want ensure a book for Fall 27. (I've already received a pitch for an Indigenous sci-fi fantasy that I'm pretty sure the world needs). The way to make sure we get there is to hit these preorders early!

There are over 2,000 of you here now! That's 2,000 readers who believe in this mission, who believe traditional publishing has failed us, who believe women in horror deserve equal conversation time to their male counterparts and Indigenous authors need more books on the shelves at your local bookstore. If all 2,000 of you pre-ordered this book today, you would not only change my life, but the lives of our current and future authors. The book is $16.73 on bookshop right now. GRAB IT HERE. If you can spare the $16.73 this month, investing in marginalized authors, investing in indie publishing, investing in this change we want to see in the world is a great way to spend it.

READING UPDATES

I've read 3 books so far this year:

• Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson, this is an adult mystery where the main character has 7 days to live and needs to solve her murder before she dies. I did enjoy this one, but I'm going to recommend that you read a physical copy or E reader version.

• The Sky Was Once A Dark Blanket:Poems by Kinsale Drake, beautiful Indigenous poetry collection. I am going to read more poetry this year!

• The Last Witch by CJ Cookie, holy crap! My first book by CJ Cooke and I'm hooked. I need to read all of their books right now! 15th century Innsbruck, women accused of witchcraft, historical horror at its finest!

Current reads:

• This is Not A Test by Courtney Summers, a Bindery spring release! and Women in Horror Book Club February pick (and yes Courtney will be joining us for a bookclub meeting!) I'm reading the audio as a Libro ALC and this is a zombie book full of feelings! You're going to have them! Wow!

• Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, this was supposed to be a 2025 reread but I started in 2025 and now I read multiple books at the same time apparently. A mood reading queen! Loving every minute of this reread. And annotating! YES!

• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, Women in Horror Book Club read for January! Oh, I'm loving this collection of short horror stories. I need Machado to put out another book like this year please.

On deck:

• To The Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage, this is Good Day to Read Indigenous book club selection for January!

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

To join the Women in Horror book club and Good Day To Read Indigenous Book Club, connect to our community Discord on the main page.

Journal CLUB!

We are starting a 100 day project tomorrow using the prompts in The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice For An Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad. You don't have to start tomorrow to join, just have a love for journaling (or wanting to try!)

Upcoming for Paid Members:

Paid members get publishing news first. They get to see the cover process in action. They get to hear about all the publishing meeting that happen and provided input! If you're interested in how the book all comes together, consider upgrading to $5.

$5 members will get e*arcs of all Boozhoo Books.

$12 members will get physical arcs of all Boozhoo Books AND their name on the thank you page.

Your paid membership makes this community run. Part of the funds go into the production of the books and I'm using the rest to host giveaways (and sometimes buy a latte!)

Letter Club: you heard it here first. I'm starting a penpal club for paid members (still working on the name? IDEAS??? Will keep you posted in the upcoming weeks!

Traveling Arc Club: more details to come, but I've wanted to start a traveling arc club for a long time! Books chosen will have permission from the publisher or author. (If you are an author reading this and want to participate, DM me!)

Traveling Journal Club: the idea here is that everyone has their own journal to start off, and we rotate, adding things to the journal, the journal gets circulated to all members until it's full and then mailed back to the original owner as a keepsake. Details to come!

Upcoming Content:

• more On Your Radar lists are coming!

• Get A Rec responses (If you didn't notice the button at the top of the page, you can now request a rec! I have a few to work through and give responses so will be working on them this week!)

• Recommendations for books to read for the Read More Indigenous Non Fiction Storygraph Challenge

2026 is the year of the brain and that means that we are reading more non-fiction!

You know that I love a challenge, so I created this one on Storygraph!

The challenge is to read a total of 6 non fiction books written by Indigenous authors. If you've already read a book, you need to reread it in 2026 for it to count.

I've added just a few Indigenous non-fiction to this post for you to check out and many more on the challenge page itself.

If you plan on buying any, please shop from the attached books below. I earn a small commission for each book you purchase (whether I listed it or not!)

Hello and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? (wouldn't know. never seen it! Ha!)

I love this time of year because it's a time to reflect on the year and to plan for the next.

I recently picked up The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice For an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad.

The book centers on the art of journaling and 100 different influential people ranging from Kiese Laymon, Jon Baptiste, Lindy West, John Green, Elizabeth Gilbert, Salman Rushdie share essays on what they've learned from journaling, how they've survived, how they've grown, how they've loved, how they've found magic and creativity. At the end of every section is a journal prompt.

I've read the intro by the author (I need to pick up her memoir Between Two Kingdoms immediately). and I'm looking to take this on as a 100 day project done in community (that means WITH YOU, if you're game!) starting January 11.

You can request the book from the library now so it's available, but my recommendation is to pick up a physical copy (I've linked it below). This is going to be one you'll want to revisit.

Let me know if you're a journaler and if you're interested in joining!

(I've created a Discord channel!)

Friends, I can’t express how grateful Tatiana and I are for everyone who shared the cover reveal for What Feeds Below! Thanks to you, we earned a Top New Releases banner on Amazon which means people are definitely pre ordering!!! (just FYI, What Feeds Below is cheaper on Bookshop right now if you haven’t pre-ordered yet!)

You’ve seen the outside of the book, now we want to give you this early look at the first page (before we share it publicly!)

Let me know below if you’d sign the waiver and enter the Void.

Friends,

I know it’s been a busy week, but I’ve got one more very hot news slice to share! We are publishing another book!!!

Cracks in an Ocean of Glass is a lush literary horror and I know you are all going to devour it!

Want to get a taste of Kristy's writing? Pick up some of her other books tagged below!

Hello Friends,

I am so happy to be able to share with you the cover for the first book from our imprint, WHAT FEEDS BELOW by Tatiana Schlote Bonne.

This cover, illustrated by Niclas Mortensen is absolute perfection and I think it lets you know just want you're going to be getting into when you pick up What Feeds Below.

This YA Horror Fantasy is perfect for:

• horror lovers

• quest/adventure fantasy lovers

• video game and anime lovers

• people who thought they'd see more quicksand in their lives

• people who love Annihilation and The Descent

• poeple who love books that read like love letters to the horror genre

Before we get to the goods, I want to share a quick message about pre-orders.

Pre orders are important to all authors, but especially BIPOC authors, it signifies interest in the book to book boxes, media, book clubs , book lists, the early energy surrounding a book has a huge impact on success.

I want Tatiana to have the best publishing experience she has ever had and get all the things that she's ever wanted. (Can you help us make a best seller list?!) I am so passionate about Bindery's mission and the stories that I am choosing to put out in the world and I want to keep doing it (and excelling!)

Our goal is to hit 1,000 preorders by the end of January. Most trad published authors would laugh at that and say BEST OF LUCK! but I believe in this book, and I believe in the power that this community has, and I believe when we work together we can perfectly compete with Big Publishing. It's time to do the work.

I have a second book announcing this week (stay tuned) that is set to publish in Spring 2027. 1,000 preorders could guarantee a book for Fall 27 (super secret: but I've met with an Indigenous author whose work I am very interested in reading and if I love it, I don't want to wait until Spring 28!)

WILL YOU JOIN MY SCREAM TEAM?

• Will you pre-order What Feeds Below today? Even if you don't like horror or fantasy, gift it to someone?

• Will you post the book with the pre-order link and encourage others to pre-order?

  
  WHAT FEEDS BELOW SYNOPSIS:

The darkness isn’t empty. It’s hungry.

At the edge of the City of the Void, a massive chasm extends miles into the earth, its treacherous terrain overrun with vicious monsters and carnivorous plants. For orphaned best friends Petra and Jade, guiding treasure-seeking tourists down into the Void is the only way to earn enough to pull themselves up out of the slums for good.

Petra prefers to play it safe and take jobs only in the Void’s upper levels, where the dangers are better understood, while Jade wants to risk a descent to the deepest and most mysterious Sixth Layer. Because the deeper they go, the better the payout, and the sooner their dreams can become reality. Their friendship is Petra’s whole world, and Jade’s approval means everything—so Petra agrees to do it Jade’s way.

When their job goes wrong and Jade is lost in the Void, Petra must plunge deeper than she’s ever dared to save her friend. But she doesn’t know the truth of the Void . . . or what really waits for her in its depths.

Oh my GOSH, you guys! I was so busy making THE BIGGEST BOOK COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS (Here and Here) that I forgot to remind everyone about this weekend’s Soup Readathon!

FAQ: q: WTF is soup readathon

a: we make soup, we read all weekend, we chat and stay cozy! Connect to the community Discord to participate (lazy ppl can join, too! I made a shopping error last time and door dashed curry lol)