Dead Birds Publishing

09/03/2025

Dead Birds will be participating again in the Horrorsmith Publishing Terrify Your Tablet event this October 🎃

Horrorsmith Publishing is hosting the third annual Terrify Your Tablet event Oct 4!

Both free and $0.99 books will be offered in horror, thriller, dark fantasy, horror romance, and young adult genres.

This year's charity is Reading Is Fundamental—a non-profit organization that focuses on providing books and literary resources to underserved communities.

Readers, save the date!

Authors, you still have time to sign up! Reach out to Lyndsey Smith for the Google Form.

09/01/2025

If today is Labor Day, so we’re one holiday closer to Halloween 🎃

08/31/2025

Have you seen the world’s first horror movie? It’s 3 minutes and 22 seconds of wonderfulness 😈

The Haunted Castle (French: Le Manoir du Diable which means "The Manor of the Devil") is a 1896 three-minute-long French film by Georges Méliès and number 78...

08/25/2025

We can’t help but notice National Park Service forgot to mention one of their most important roles of keeping our cryptids safe and elusive…

Happy birthday to our national parks! Make sure you all get out to a park soon to enjoy some fresh air, some sunshine, and hug a tree 🥰

Please be patient with us, we’re from the 1900s.

That old? The National Park Service was created on August 25, 1916 to "preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations." Over 109 years, we've grown into more than 433 national parks and many programs that reach communities around the country.

Today, using , share your favorite park stories, trip photos, and best memories from visiting a national park!

08/23/2025

Who wants to discuss miniature narratives 🙋‍♀️ We have a new post up.

Link: https://substack.com/inbox/post/171706921?r=5uk1r8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true&triedRedirect=true

08/15/2025

Someone ranted about AI in an eloquent way so that we didn’t have to 😊

We here at Dead Birds have our own issues with AI. Mostly that we will under zero circumstances use it because why on earth would we use the ‘bots (who stole their creative juices from authors and artists) to do the best part of our day: the creative stuff! But since Angelique so eloquently explai...

08/05/2025

Moment to be sentimental! The driving forces behind Dead Birds Publishing have a friend-a-versary today 🥳

We met in a dorm study room, spent countless late hours discussing writing and Joseph Campbell and Black Sabbath, and have shared thousands of cups of coffee since.

Cheers to us! It’s been a fruitful friendship, with a few books under our belts and plans to unleash many many more 😈

(There’s a solid chance this date and year are wrong, but it’s what FB says and we don’t argue with FB.)

07/31/2025

Happy World Ranger Day! Thank you to all the park rangers who keep us safe, the animals safe, nature safe…and Cryptids hidden from the general public 😈

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07/29/2025

Everyone have a good last week?