Raven Demory, Authoress 🌿💀🌿

Would you still love me if I was an ungeheuren Ungeziefer?

Thanks so much! I'm super excited and appreciative of your advice 😊 it's so surreal to see it happening!

Omg thank you so, so much! I'm really excited to see where this story goes and reading this made my whole week :)

Thanks so much! I'm so excited 💜

Thanks so much! Excited doesn't even begin to describe how I'm feeling rn

A publishers marketplace deal announcement for the Barrowvine Saint, sold for publication in summer 2027

A photo of a woman standing at the mouth of a cave, holding a mandible at arm's length. The woman has stitching around her neck, and a shotgun lays by her feet with vines growing around it. Art by Marten Norr!

🌿I'm going to be published!!!🌿

It's surreal knowing people are going to read about all the (damaged, dreadful, decaying) characters I've grown to love over this past year. I'm so proud of my weird little skeleton book!💀

Loch Ness at Foyers/Boleskine, just after Storm Amy in October 2025.

Bow Fiddle Rock, a sea arch just east of Inverness, en route to Aberdeen.

Scotch and wine at a bed and breakfast on Loch Ness, set beside a fireplace. The house had no electricity so the fire was the only light.

A misty moor in Glen Coe

Wrapping up 2025 by finishing a round of manuscript revisions and remembering that time my partner and I took a road trip across Scotland. Here's to another year of travel!

my new hobby is pronouncing it "Florence Plus The Machine" until people ask me if that's how they should say it

A Remington Rand model 1 "noiseless" typewriter with a glossy black case

Spent my time in the "between projects and looking for inspiration" doldrums fixing up typewriters and listening to Harrow the Ninth. My pride and joy is looking pretty spiffy with its new ribbon covers 👀

I'd love to be added if that's alright!

Grace would immediately forget she had it and then go back to threatening everyone she meets with a straight razor.

Either that or use it as a nervous fidget and commit accidental manslaughter😅

it's interesting what happened to the Hell House LLC series. the first one was just a really efficient haunted house of a movie, one good scare after another. it did well and the screenwriter's eyes rolled back in his head and he started mumbling "more lore, more lore"

I've read a few horror novels with "explainer" endings recently and it certainly seems to be a trend. Feels like they only ever succeed at slowing down when they should be careening off the rails.

Dale Gribble would've really fucked with Muse

Man walking through giant doors and up stairwell AT THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE OF WISDOM Bound with the cabletow of limitation, poor in spirit and body, man seeks admittance to the University of Understanding. the Ancient Mysteries the order of the steps was seven, five and three-the seven liberal arts and sciences, the five senses and emotions, and the three steps symbolic of the Trinity of God 1n 1n1a1l.

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Oh this is brilliant! What's this from?

cartoon: in the style of Egyptian heiroglyhics the lyrics to the Time Warp have been phonetically translated and help illustrate characters from RHPS Caption; Rocky Horus Picture Scroll

From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)

New profile blurb, who's this? 🌿👀🌿

This may or may not also be a spoiler for the whole second half of the book

The Barrowvine Saint would smell like an oddities shop if it was set up in Mammoth Cave and drenched in blood.

RIP my sense of smell. 5 years without covid and the woman in row 26 just *had* to cough the whole way from Edinburgh to Dulles 🙄

Desiderata: chastising the candle stand for not selling anything jasmine-scented
Grace: being hunted down like a dog by Sereth in the corn maze
Fletcher: ten pints deep in spiked cider, trying to get punched

Pippin: yeah, I've been working on my mental health. I've limited my time looking into the Palantir of Orthanc to 3 hours a day.

I mean, Eschatological ideation often arises in moments of sociopolitical upheaval as a kind of hedge against uncertainty, even tho the referent text explicitly says "none shall know the day/hour" & basically tells you to live your life like god might call you to account any second but sure, fuck it

Putting the Complaint Tablet to Ea Nasir on my TBR ziggurat. It's a cozy coppercore clients-to-enemies-to-lovers pen pals romysterantasy.

Dessert mode ACTIVATE:

Best pie: key lime
Best ice cream: coffee/affogato
Best donut: French cruller
Best bar: lemon
Best cake: red velvet
Best other: black licorice

H.P. Lovecraft: Your limited human mind cannot comprehend Cthulhu

Me: (comprehending easily) Squid guy

Currently vacillating between two prospective projects so fast it sounds like beetle wings.

To prequel, or to sequel?

Conversely, I'm learning just how bad for my sanity all this extra screentime is 😅

Halfway through my first week in 8 months of not working on this novel and realizing that writing really is the one thing keeping me sane