Lane Heymont

NONFICTION. Experts. All about platform. Pop culture. Science. Technology. History. Current events. Self-help (inspirational is tough for me). Memoirs are super tough because most people don’t care about your life, they have their own to live. So it better be wild! #MSWL 🧵

SFF is hard for me because I grew up in it so it’s difficult to feel fresh. Look at who I represent for a feel of my tastes: THE Linda Addison (@nytebird45), Hailey Piper (@HaileyPiperSays), Cynthia Pelayo, etc. #MSWL 🧵

Domestic suspense and thrillers are also up my alley. Think more drama (YELLOWJACKETS, FROM, GONE GIRL) than espionage. #MSWL 🧵

ALL THE WHITE SPACES. Another historical event (alternative). Trans protagonist but it’s not about that, it’s about dudes exploring a place they shouldn’t be. We have isolation, land as an antagonist, and it felt Frankenstein-ish. Going a place you weren’t meant to be. #MSWL 🧵

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS. You fuck around and find out. I’m a animal lover and this worked for me because numbskulls violate a cultural taboo by killing a deer (think MoH’s “Deer Woman) and then find out. The whole “demon” thing feels played out so a ghost deer was new. #MSWL 🧵

Cultural. LONE WOMEN focuses on little known history, Lone Women venturing off to claim land. I’m a history buff and had no idea this existed so it’s like a whole new world. Why’s it work? Isolation, the unknown, the land itself ready to kill you. Relatable fear. #MSWL 🧵

Horror. Upmarket. Think Victor LaValle’s LONE WOMEN, Stephen Graham Jones’ THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS, and Aly Wilkes’ ALL THE WHITE SPACES. Why? Here’s why. #MSWL 🧵

What am I looking for? Horror, horror, HORROR. Obviously. Also, thriller, suspense, and nonfiction by experts in their fields. So let’s dive in a little more a #MSWL 🧵

Oy. Forgot the #mswl

WHITE HORSE? Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis. Awful father disappears his own daughter and no bothers to investigate. Not even her friends or family. The monster? The crisis itself.

Okay, that’s it for horror. Hope it’s help.

Now onto nonfiction!

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS? No monster without those kids breaking, forgetting, discarding their tribe’s tradition. It’s modern day people scoffing at what their ancestors held holy.

Sure, there were monsters but only monsters driven by humanity’s own misdeeds. There would be no horror in ALL THE WHITE SPACES without the sins and guilt those explorers brought with them. Even the fact they traveled there showed their dark desires.

Forget serial killers and the Albert Fishes. Show me SOFT AND QUIET. The horror everyday people do. Examples? WHITE HORSE, ALL THE WHITE SPACES, THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS.

What makes the best horror? The unknown. We don’t need monsters that go bump in the night because we are the monsters. Show me the evil darkness of humanity. What do I actually mean?

Transgender, LGBTQIA horror.

Some fave authors (besides my own!) are Stephen Graham Jones, Sheridan Le Fanu, Octavia Butler, Alma Katsu, Erika T. Wurth, Waubgeshig Rice, Cherie Dimaline.

I’ve been feeling survival horror in the vein of ALL THE WHITE SPACES. Give me isolation, hauntings, nature vs humanity, cli-fi, upmarket. Think EVENT HORIZON without the sci-fi. IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS is another good one. Also, horror from marginalized voices: #mswl

What am I looking for? HORROR and NONFICTION ! My #mswl thread:

Looking for more LGBTQIA+ horror, including in the vein of Carpenter’s PRO-LIFE, so eff SCOTUS, the GOP, and TERFs. #mswl

Horror. All the horror. Grounded, psychological, cinematic. Also, nonfiction. Unique true crime. Pop science. Passing this to @Jacqui_Lipton ! #MSWL