Lacey N. Dunham (she/her)
@bookbent
🖤 Author 🖤 THE BELLES (S&S / Atria, 2025) southern gothic x dark academia 🖤 FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GRAYSTONE (S&S / Atria, coming 2027) Sapphic Tim Burton meets Grey Gardens 🖤 ME:
THE BELLES is out in paperback today!! 🥳 I repeat, my debut gothic suspense novel is officially out in paperback now!! 🥳🥳🥳 Imagine holding one of these paperbacks in your hands!
Freedom to Read advocacy day on Capitol Hill!!🌟 I put on real grown up clothes to talk to Congressional reps about the harm of book bans and censorship. Thanks @authorsabb.bsky.social and other coalition partners for making it happen.
Photos of the wildfire smoke where my family lives in mid-Michigan, near the Saginaw Bay. Visibility for the photo on the left is less than half a mile.
More summer reading recs from me because I’ve read 32 books so far this year and can’t stop myself. I recommend an antidote to the America 250 happenings, a Summerween classic, and a heartfelt book set during the Satanic panic. open.substack.com/pub/laceyndu...
Me and other AMAZING authors are doing a Summerween giveaway over on Insta. This is a great chance to get 6 spooky books to quench your gothic and horror itch until fall. ➡️🍁🎃
Last weekend I went to Stoker Con. And while I don’t consider myself a horror writer per se, I consider my books to be gothic, which is mother to the horror genre. I had a blast.
Stoker! If you love southern gothic horror about girls and ghosts, I’d love to meet you and sign a book. See you at 5pm!
Here at Stoker Con for the first time! I’m at tomorrow’s mass author signing! Copies of my book are at White Whale Books in the dealer’s room.
Stoker Con! You can find me at Friday’s mass author signing at table 37-B. This is my first Stoker Con, so don’t let me be lonely— I’d love to meet you.
With respect to the Washington Post, I can’t think about 2028 when I’m just trying to survive 2026.
I’m chatting dark thrillers with Anna Bruno and Canwen Xu at the Pittsburgh Book Festival this Saturday. Details and free tix: events.humanitix.com/burning-the-...
I’m having an info session next week on my novel revision class. Curious if this is right for you? writer.org/event/virtua...
MY LOCAL LIBRARY HAS ADDED MY AUDIOBOOK TO THEIR COLLECTION!!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Happy pub day @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social!!! Waiting for my copy of THE GREAT HOUSE OF PILL HILL to arrive. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
May 1 is the time when we remember how Justin Timberlake and the boys of N’Sync stood up against the fascist forces of ICE.
If you’re a mystery reader or trying to write a suspense/mystery novel, there will be three authors at Old Town Books in ALX tonight (4/30) at 7pm for an event. Come pick our brains about this beautiful genre!
We are *checks calendar* 118 days into 2026, and we're already getting Best Books of the Year lists.
Acknowledging the Easter holiday in Northern Virginia 😂 (I drove by this randomly.)
See you at AWP in Baltimore! Catch me at a Friday offsite reading or at my panel on debuting from different paths.
I hope to see your beautiful face at one of my spring events!
Celebrating 3 months of THE BELLES officially being in the world!! 🎉🎉
I’m thrilled my southern gothic murder mystery THE BELLES is a Best Books of 2025 at Library Journal!! 🥳📚💖 @libraryjournal.bsky.social
Tell me your debut novel came out this year without telling me your debut novel came out this year.
When a reader and fellow author loves your book enough to name it in their top 3 reads of 2025 😍😍😍 Thanks @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social!
I finally bought a home printer and used it for my first print job: a rough draft of my next book.