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Make Me Better is here

Have you ever wished things could be different? Less painful? More free? Come to Kindred Cove, where transformation is possible, healing is mandatory, and nothing is ever lost.

MAKE ME BETTER is my novel about grief, belonging, and control. It's out today everywhere books are sold.

If you're in the SF Bay Area, you can join me and Charlie Jane Anders tonight at 7pm to celebrate the release of this book at Books Inc Opera Plaza! I'll also be in SoCal, SLC, St Louis, and Des Moines. More information and tickets here.

Here's what some folks had to say about MAKE ME BETTER:

Bloody Disgusting: "one of the most honest and unflinching depictions of a cult I’ve ever read in fiction… a work of stunning verisimilitude."

Nerd Daily: "…arguably Sarah Gailey’s best writing to date and Kindred Cove is perhaps the most full and complete world they’ve built on the page."

Grimdark Magazine: "Make Me Better explores the idea of faith as an abdication of responsibility… Gailey asks, how much are you willing to overlook to keep the peace and belong? How much horror can you abide at the promise you will be made better?"

Library Journal 🌟Starred Review🌟: "The folk horror feel of Gailey's must-read novel might remind readers of Ari Aster's movie Midsommar, while others might read this thoughtful book and think of George Orwell's 1984."

Booklist 🌟Starred Review🌟: "…devastatingly compelling, with emotional and eerie images that will last long after the final page."

Bookpage: "Spanning 16 years and incorporating multiple perspectives and flashbacks, Sarah Gailey’s twist-filled cult story is a thrilling ride."

FanFiAddict: "… a dizzying array of themes, from motherhood, sex, religion, and the self-help industrial complex, to the bedrock need for human belonging and purpose and the way that need can be twisted into the foulest sorts of manipulations."

Publisher's Weekly: "Captivating characters and evocative prose… Readers are sure to be unsettled."

Capes and Tights: "...a hauntingly immersive and atmospheric story" that "blends psychological tension with horror, giving off an unsettling feeling throughout."

WHEW.

You can get a copy at your local independent bookstore or your local library, or you can order online at Bookshop.org to support independent booksellers. See you on the road!

-gailey

#sarah gailey #make me better #horror #grief #high control groups #multilevel marketing #new book day #thriller #cults #wellness

curiouswisp

Kids Design Glass

I went to a glass museum recently and they had a program where they let kids design glass artwork and it brightened my day so much that I had to share some of my favorites:

Kids have such neat ideas and I love that a group of artists were willing to bring them to life.

theweirdwideweb

rimonoroni2

unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going

ktempestbradford

I did not come into Tumblr dot com to be called out in this way.

bob-artist

Crimetober 1-9

Because birds are criminals.

bob-artist

Crimetober 10-21

When will they be held accountable

bob-artist

Crimetober 22-31

Justice will never be served.

bob-artist

My Birds are Criminals zine is debuting at TCAF this weekend!

Find it at the Screen Tones Podcast table 244, June 6-7! I won't be there, but a bunch of the gang will be, so say hi and check out their work too.

There are only 20 copies!

fictionalgod

iwilleatyourenglish

he had a dream that five strangers silently entered his home and gently helped him pull on a pair of high waisted jeans, which caused him to wake up with a feeling of “indescribable dread”

hatersmad

thinking about that one wordless calvin and hobbes sunday strip thats just calvins dad ditching his work to go play in the snow... its going to make me cry

hatersmad

ohhhh my god

faithful-grigori

”#I LOVE that the comic keeps the lens on Calvin’s dad to the degree of not even showing Calvin’s excited face when his dad surprises him, #You can see the joy and excitement of the moment in his pose and reflected in his dad’s expression, #it’s a great little artistic decision, #I realized what gets me about it it’s the hat covering his dad’s head and hair so the dad just looks like Calvin. #you don’t HAVE to show Calvin! You already see him in the dad becoming a kid for a moment you only have to draw that once”

avagarde

It’s so unfair i don’t get to see where evolution will go in 50 million years

geekysteven

crab

existennialmemes

Crustaceans: Crab

Mammals: Weasel

Plants: Tree

Amphibians & Reptiles: Unchanged because they are perfect

Birds: 360° around back to dinosaurs

Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods

hellenhighwater

Well those are allllmost done

codebreakerblue

question. why do you have 7 featureless grey monoliths in your driveway

hellenhighwater

There's eight actually but the last one is still in the garage

jackfromthefairytale

question. why do you have eight featureless grey monoliths

hellenhighwater

They're actually a really dark purple

fishofthewoods

question. why do you have seven featureless really dark purple monoliths in your driveway and an eighth in the garage

hellenhighwater

Some of them do have features though. There's holes and hinges and stuff, so I can put secrets in em

nobodywasneverhere

question. why do you have 8 really dark purple occasionally featureful monoliths

hellenhighwater

The heart wants what the heart wants

fred-the-dinosaur

this reads like a muppet sketch

fred-the-dinosaur

see? See!??!

hellenhighwater

You're not wrong

hellenhighwater

This post is less than six months old.

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

mockva

Man notices an Eagle eyeing the fish he just caught

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the-davest-of-uncles

*gets back to the nest* baby you are NEVER gonna believe how i got this fish

wifegideonnav

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

fagcrisis

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

maryoliveoil

rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich

closet-keys

when thinking about how oppression works, on a structural level, my guiding principle is that I must spend at least as much time looking down as I do looking up.

what do I mean by this? here's an example. when my surgery is delayed multiple times, I spend a little time looking up (there is only one surgeon in the entire area who will perform this surgery on trans people, so every trans person's surgical timeline is bottle-necked and delayed by months every time he goes to a conference or takes a vacation or experiences an injury. in other words, if I was cis, I would not encounter this difficulty in accessing surgery). and then I spend time looking down (due to nonstop harassment and legal threats, this practice now only treats adults and will no longer perform surgeries on minors. in other words, my access to surgery is predicated on adult privilege I have at the direct expense of trans youth's lack of access).

if you do not build a habit around thinking in this way, you will become the person Audre Lorde describes as "so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face." If we are seeking to dismantle structures of oppression, rather than to simply use and climb them, then we absolutely must make a practice of looking in both directions, especially when we feel like we're on the bottom.