Happy Pride Month! I’ve got some very fun Pride content planned for later this week, but right now, I want to share my own upcoming book release: I have a retelling/sequel to The Great Gatsby coming out in the fall, and it’s absolutely, totally queer!

My novella, In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts, is due out from Creature Publishing on September 15th. In it, my main character, Pamela “Mel” Buchanan, the daughter of Daisy and Tom, is bisexual, and she’s dealing with what that means for her in the 1950s, which is when the story is set. I also feature the middle-aged versions of both Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway who are also canonically bisexual in my novella (and let’s face it: they’re canonically bi in the original book too).

The Great Gatsby was one of the queer-coded books that really shifted my perspective growing up, and I wanted to explore that queerness and put it front and center in my horror reworking. This is my first standalone story since The Haunting of Velkwood, so I am seriously delighted for my Gatsby ghosts to make their way into the world!

Also, I don’t think I ever posted the cover reveal on this blog, so here it is in all its gilded glory!

The cover design is by Luísa Dias, and I love it so very much! It’s such a perfect encapsulation of the ghosts, gilded glamour, and body horror in the novella.

In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts is now available for pre-order through Riverstone Books, and if you put in your pre-order now, you’ll also get a gorgeous sticker to go along with it! And I mean, really, what’s better than a ghostly book AND a ghostly sticker to match?

And of course, you can pre-order the book through your own local bookstore as well as at Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.

I’ll be talking plenty more about In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts in the coming weeks and months, but needless to say, I’m absolutely thrilled about the book’s release as well as working with Creature! They’ve been producing some of the very best feminist horror over the last few years, and I’m so happy to be part of their incredible roster of authors!

Happy reading, and happy pre-ordering!