Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff

💿 👻 ✨ I’m thrilled to show off Barbara Ciardo’s glorious cover for Dead New World, my Queer scifi book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes that’s available for preorder now: buff.ly/xWdY6xp

Hey, so cool, Dead New World is being featured on the front page of NetGalley this week! If you're interested in Queer hopepunk cybernoir mysteries pitched as Murderbot meets Beetlejuice...? netgalley.com

Barnes and Noble is having a 25% off preorder sale and that includes my ghost-y noir book, DEAD NEW WORLD! Rewards nonmembers will need to enroll, BUT joining their rewards program is free! Link here: barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-ne…

Academic Disney time. Alright did you guys know that there's a Macbeth quote in Disney's Beauty and the Beast and it's used in such a rich and layered and gendered way I actually had to break out the timestamps for this one?? Review: letterboxd.com/wisteriajones…

Just dropping this here for anti-Prime day, with a discount on Bookshop.org! Preorders help out new authors a loooot! Ok my marketing job done, will post about something freakish again soon like the history of spoons or whatnot. tinyurl.com/deadnewworld

Happy Pride month! My book is very Queer and features demisexual librarians wooing reformed gangsters AND nonbinary musicians falling in love with emotionally repressed polar explorers. Also they're all technologically-resurrected ghosts.

Now available for preorder at Audible! Preorders help authors SO much so if Queer cyber-ghosts and funny noir appeal to you... Audio or Paperback: buff.ly/VaAmnoY Ebook: buff.ly/RUx9xwu

Digital Pre-Orders. I'm bad at self-promotion but preorders help authors SO MUCH if the book interests you: books2read.com/deadnewworld

Reading Count of Monte Cristo for the 1st time, Ch. 1-2. ⚓ Imagine being a CAPTAIN at 20?! I'd hate Edmond too. ⚓ Ok he wants to plant clematis for his old dad, maybe impossible to hate this guy... ⚓ So French to be appalled your elderly dad does not have wine in the house.

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As a reminder, though I'll make major updates here about the book and things, I'm much more active on BluSky these days, where it's less actively depressing to log in and we can talk about books, movies, and all sorts of art without getting tons of bots! bsky.app/profile/lindarrow.b…

Oh to be a tree nerd named John Lowe in 1897, writing rapturously about yews (From "The yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland," John Lowe, 1897)

After watching the National Theatre Importance of Being Earnest, I can't stop thinking about a version of the play that's gender-mixed where Jack and Gwendolen are played by women, Algie and Cecily by men, and it's Queer couples PLAYING straight couples and THAT'S the pitch!!

Just a reminder that I'm more active on BlueSky which is less ravaged by bots: bsky.app/profile/lindarrow.b…

You honestly just find the wildest dynamics imaginable in old movies. My roommate and I were watching Pillow Talk (1955) last night--a movie about two people who have to share a phone line--and he described them as having "a real Iago and Othello kind of sexual tension."

More 'I Can Fix Her' Hobbit movie thoughts, but I really feel like Martin Freeman deserved an award for his line reading of WHAT DOES THAT MEAN here. He saw the inherent comedy potential of being a normal guy dealing with unnecessarily mysterious dwarves.