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Cinders in Cinema 1898-2024

Here's a post on #Cinderella adaptations from 1898-2024, including #horrormovies with similar themes and upcoming releases. #fairytales #folktales #movies

Cinderella Adaptations There are over 300 adaptations of Cinderella in this list, from 1898 to 2024 (the present year) and there’s no way I’m going to be able to cover them all in one post individually! This post is going to be an overview by decade highlighting a few things for each one, and including the noir and horror versions. Cendrillon (1899) by Georges Méliès is usually hailed as the…

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THE CROWS: Re-Release Final Countdown

Counting down to relaunch of THE CROWS - excited to continue this journey and share the next steps with you. #booksbooksbooks #gothichorror #gothichorrorwithtentacles #indieapril #horrorbooks #horrorfiction

It’s the final countdown! Dadalaaada dada la da daaa UK Preorder/Order Link: https://www.canelo.co/books/the-crows-c-m-rosens/ US Preorder/Order Link: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Crows/C-M-Rosens/Pagham-on-Sea/9781667207285 THE CROWS began life in 2013, with an attempt at writing a murder mystery with a B-plot romance. It did actually work out that way but I pantsed it…

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OTD in my novel THE CROWS, re-released by Canelo Horror on 09 May 2024

"Ricky grinned, sharp and bloody. “I ain’t praying to benevolent deities, here. None of that ‘blessed be’ bullshit.”"

UK (May 2024): tinyurl.com/38258z5v

US (Oct 2024): tinyurl.com/msvz4pbp

15 days to go!

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16 days to go until THE CROWS is re-released, so I thought I'd do a countdown with the book's timeline. OTD in Pagham-on-Sea, Carrie tries to come to terms with the fact her house is alive.

"Carrie lay awake inside a sleeping house, listening to its ticking heartbeat keeping time to her pulse and striking the hours."

THE CROWS - C. M. Rosens

UK (May 2024): tinyurl.com/38258z5v US (Oct 2024): tinyurl.com/msvz4pbp

Her fate is sealed. Her death is inevitable...

Carrie Rickard, leaving an abusive relationship back in London, tries to escape her past by throwing herself into her restoration project: Fairwood House, known to locals of Pagham-on-Sea as The Crows.

Unable to resist as it whispers to her, Carrie’s obsession only grows when she discovers it was the site of a gruesome unsolved murder. As she digs deeper into the mystery, she awakens dark and dangerous forces.

Cue an introduction to her foul-mouthed neighbour, Ricky Porter, who is as obsessed with The Crows as Carrie is, and who has several secrets of his own. Not least of which are what’s really under his hood, and what he’s got in the cellar...

A chilling gothic horror novel of haunted houses, eldritch monsters and things that go bump in the night.

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Cinders and Glass (Book Edition)

This post has a lot of folktale versions, some very dark, and book recs for retellings collected from around the wide green internet. Next time: #Cinderella in Cinema 1898-2024! #fairytale #folktale #folklore #fairytaleretelling

Fairytale and Folklore Catch up on the whole series of these here. There are A LOT of retellings and reimaginings of that, but the tale of Cinderella – essentially a wish-fulfillment rags-to-riches story that gives poor, downtrodden people the hope that they might be raised above their station and find a measure of affluence and good fortune and love – is such a universal one that there are…

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Yaaaaas 😍

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Films To Know Me... 2020s Edition

Just a fun post while I’m researching Cinderella stories for the final part of the series! I picked 4 films to know me (2020s) on Bluesky and realised they were all from 2020, and none from other years this decade, so I’ve decided to pick 5 for each year so far because I’m indecisive. 2024 hasn’t had much out that I’ve actually seen, so I’ll throw in ones I’m excited for that are meant to be out…

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Vincent Price guest stars on The Muppet Show (1977)

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with the news Gumroad is going to be cracking down on nsfw content due to payment processor pressure, reminder that itch.io is mostly known for games but explicitly allows books/zines/etc too and many nsfw creators swear by them as a host for their paid works. (with the caveat that they do limit this to nsfw content that is fictional, not eg irl porn work, among other content requirements; the full policy is here.)

itch.io is especially noteworthy because their approach to creator/platform split is incredibly flexible; you as the creator choose the split. you can in fact choose to take 100% and give itch.io nothing, only losing out on any payment processor fees. obviously itch does need people to choose to share some revenue with them to continue going, but if you as a creator need to retain your profits to keep going, you can set it wherever you like and itch honours that. and as itch has a culture of people choosing to set it above zero because the community wants to keep it going, if you need to reduce their cut, it's an option!

itch isn't as popular as a platform to share non-game works so promoting your stuff elsewhere is important for visibility. but as someone who regularly buys both comics and books off there, it is very, very viable. here is a basic 101 guide:

now: itch uses the same payment processors that prompted the gumroad changes, and may at some point be challenged on the same grounds. it's not inherently a safe haven. but itch.io has historically made its commitment to working to keep nsfw content viable on its platform clear (look up the epic store apple lawsuit nonsense sometime; it didn’t result in a nsfw ban despite everything) and as of now is still small and niche enough they are not getting challenged the way larger, more generally popular sites like gumroad are; they are not trying to be a big commercially viable site, just stable enough to keep trucking, so they are less likely to be subject to that much scrutiny, or cave to it.

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horror sub-genres: folk horror

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POV: you write a blend of both

There’s two ends of the horror spectrum

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Ok but look at my book child look at it pls

Illustration is by Thomas S Brown

You can get this soon!!!

https://www.canelo.co/books/the-crows-c-m-rosens/

All the info you need ^^^^

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BEHOLD MY BOOK BABY - author copies from Canelo came in!

Features asexual and aromantic monster man, genderfluid sapient house, and the doomed woman sucked down a rabbit hole of supernatural eldritch shenanigans.

You can preorder this here:

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I read A Botanical Daughter and it changed me profoundly as a person. Sometimes family is an evil scientist, an autistic dandy, a lesbian in a waistcoat, and a fungus 🩷🌺

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Anyone who enjoys Frankenstein should definitely read The Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

It's basically Frankenstein but the gays are canon and it's a botanical creature instead of one made of human body parts. AND ALSO THE GAYS ARE CANON. AND REALLY CUTE

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BEHOLD MY BOOK BABY - author copies from Canelo came in!

Features asexual and aromantic monster man, genderfluid sapient house, and the doomed woman sucked down a rabbit hole of supernatural eldritch shenanigans.

You can preorder this here: