Nat Weaver

📚 Already up to 70+ downloads and still growing. There’s still plenty of time today for more folks to get their alien paws on a free ebook of my queer YA sci-fi horror comedy Blood Frequency. 🌈 👽 And don’t forget to browse and find other good stories from other authors. I went through and got a handful just a bit ago. My TBR is a mountain of good intentions. Go to Midsummer Night’s Scream

I wrote this little poem about men who send unsolicited dick pics to women on social media at my local writer’s group during our writing prompt. Enjoy. I haven’t written a poem in like 20 years, so savor this, I guess. No Thank You By nat weaver No thank you, I must be going. You’re annoying And I don’t like it, too. So no thank you, I must be going. You’re unsolicited Dick pic Ain’t it, Nick. I must be going. No thank you, I must be lamenting. I screenshot your dm Shared with mentioning. My followers are dunking And reporting. So no thank you, I must be going. No thank you, Nick, In the dms with the dick, You must be going. Your LinkedIn is found, Your boss has been warned. You’ve been fired, Won’t be retired. But don’t thank me, It was an internet sleuth, You must be going. You deactivated, Must be aggravated. You must be going. No thank you necessary.

I forgot to post this earlier, but I recently picked up this Nancy Drew book from the 1980s. Not gonna lie, I mostly picked it up for the fabulous cover but the plot sounds fun too. Check it out:

It’s time for a book cover reveal! This is the wholly original cover for my queer YA comedy horror sci-fi short story called Blood Frequency. Front cover. Back cover. If you previously bought the ebook, that was released last Thanksgiving, I’ll be updating it for free with the new cover. And I’ll be releasing a paperback version in the near future as well with this lovely cover. I’m so happy Jamie Hahn could help me bring to life this weird alien creature I wrote in the story and with an old VHS rental vibe. If you look closely at the fake movie credits, you may recoognize a few names. This was my way of shouting out other indie artists and authors. And… on July 18, I’ll be participating in the Midsummer Night’s Scream event by making the Blood Frequency ebook available for free — with the new cover and all! 🔗 Follow the link with the button below and bookmark that page and come back to it on July 18: Go to Blood Frequency product page

I finally started watching Dark Winds. I’ve been wanting to watch it since before the first season had even aired. It’s everything I hoped it would be and then some multiplied by ten thousand. Currently about halfway through season two and absolutely loving this show. Anybody else a lover of Dark Winds? Sound off in the comments.

The first draft of my Nancy Drew horror mystery novella cover art work arrived yesterday. I’ve made notes and sent them back. Y’all this is so exciting. It looks fabulous and will continue to improve. Can’t wait to share it with y’all in the near future. I’ll be participating in the Midsummer Night’s Scream book event by giving away free ebook copies of my short queer YA comedy sci-fi horror story called “Blood Frequnecy.” Mark your calendars for July 18! 🌈 👽 Other authors will be involved in this event as well across Threads and Instagram either with discounted works or free ones.

With the whole Sony PlayStation “no more games ownership” crap, it seems like a good time to remind people I’ve created a “library” on my newsletter where I’m building up a collection of short stories and poetry across genres. These are free and DRM-free ebooks from a diverse group of authors and poets. Meaning, you can download them and keep them forever. No license, no subscription. Just save them somewhere safe and back them up. Go to Weaver’s Library

A round-up of my writing this month – with sales updates (grab my books at discount prices!), PUBLISHING NEWS (exciting announcement!), and more! The… June 2026 Writing Round-Up Fellow indie author @cmrosens has some new publishing news with Dead Fox Publishing. Super exciting. Check it out! And look around Rosens’ website for stories you may want to read. She’s an excellent author. 🖤 nat

It can be hard to keep the writing going sometimes. Sometimes we get imposter syndrome, sometimes we lack confidence, or take a hit in our confidence from external forces. Sometimes it just all feels out of reach, like maybe we just don’t have the right stuff. But I say, nah, believe in your own self. Believe in your stories. Believe in your characters and bring them to life for us. You have such wonderous stories to share, and your voice may be just the one some kid who feels unseen needs to read. So keep on writing. Keep on thinking. Keep on imagining.

The amount of things I’ve learned about life and people and how to not behave by just keeping my mouth shut and watching people fuck up is countless.

Horror author and poet Andrew K. Clark. Two days ago, I met online with horror author and poet Andrew K. Clark to talk writing, Christian fundamentalism, and a bit about his home Asheville, North Carolina — his body of work takes place in his backyard, Appalachia. Like the previous interview with horror author Lana Casiello, the conversation went long and covered a lot of ground. Clark and I both were raised in Christian fundamentalism, though different flavors as he came up in a Baptist church and I came up in a Church of Christ. Much of his horror writing does delve into religious horror, a direct response to his own experiences. And of course, it’s hard if not impossible to not draw comparisons between our current Christian nationalism state when discussing Christian fundamentalism. They are all intertwined. For example, during the last presidential election, I opened up the Heritage Foundation plans for a second Trump presidency and as I read through it, it was clear to me that they were taking many of those fundamentalist beliefs and codifying them into politics. Which, if you’re unfamiliar with fundamentalist ideologies, you might have missed some of it or may not realize how far they plan to go. I’m sure there were some women who voted for Trump who may be confused now that discussion is going around about abolishing the woman’s vote. But that’s fundamentalism for you: women aren’t supposed to have a vote, be able to make decisions of import, or hold leadership positions. Even this week, the Southern Baptist Convention moved to ban women pastors from their ranks. All that to say, I think you may find my interview with Clark intriguing. I’ll be working on editing it down into episodes over the next month or two. In the meantime, you can pre-order his upcoming horror novel Hollow Folk which is set to release September 29th.

📚 Indie authors: people will complain about you and call you too political, and beg you to stick to writing fiction. But if we don’t speak up and push back, our stories will be banned from libraries, book stores, and online. It’s already happening. Literally if I don’t get political there’s a real chance I won’t be able to write stories anymore because it’ll be illegal for me to do so. So I say: write like hell and yell like hell. Because our stories deserve to be read.

So back to Obsession… there’s a lot to unpack in it. At the end of the day, this dude sucks. He trapped the real Nikki in a relationship she didn’t want while being brutally tortured mentally and physically, and yet he kept trying to make it work. Or work it out. His friends would offer to help and he’d just lie to them.

I often forget that I have this free sci-fi short story called “The Experiement.” It first appeared in a local newspaper in England with this incredible artwork (above) by their in-house artist (I think his name was David Hitchcock). About the story: Three individuals at the end of their ropes agree to an experiment not understanding the purpose, outcomes, or even potential consequences. The Experiment above all else. Download and Read “The Experiment”