Josh Winning 🌈
@joshwinning
Author of BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART 🌈, HEADS WILL ROLL 🪓, BURN THE NEGATIVE 🔥 and THE SHADOW GLASS 🦊.
My new book is out in the US today! 🩷🌈🍦 It’s a campy, spicy mm murder mystery about a reformed vampire and his talking cat. It is deeply queer. It is about finding joy in your existence and celebrating your people (cats included).
US friends! It’s one month until you get to hang with the flirtiest vampire and the snarkiest cat EVER! 🌈🌈🌈 BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART is: 🌈 queer joy ☀️ grumpy x sunshine 🐈⬛ talking cat 🩸 cozy mystery 💿 80s soundtrack #mlm #mmromance #queerbooks #lgbtbooks #lgbtauthors
That feeling when you’ve sent a draft of something new to your agent & yes it is gappy & needs some lovin BUT it is A FULL DRAFT of a story that didn’t exist before this moment. Not something chucked out by a computer but something hard won through your own time, energy, anxiety, hope & dedication.
Early reader reviews for BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART are giving me life. 🩷🌈🫶
HUGE thank you @sgj.bsky.social for featuring BTN in your scalpel-sharp slasher books list for NY Times. I’m more choked up than that time Gale Weathers ate a lemon square. 🥲🔥
I loved this cover art by @andreuzaragoza.bsky.social I had to get it framed. 🌈🩷
🌈🩷 Cover reveal! I’m so excited to share the cover for my queer romantic murder mystery, BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART. Published by Penguin RH August 2026 in the US/UK/Canada/Australia. Next summer, LOVE SUCKS! #coverreveal #lgbtauthor #lgbtbooks
Knife to see you! Had a great time chatting horror & fantasy at Bedford Library today. 🔪
My favourite Diane Keaton film is going on tonight. An underrated gem.
Time for one final proof read of this before it heads off to the printers. 🐈⬛ 🩸 🌈
Fizzgig was getting lonely on my laptop so I’ve given him some friends.
Wow, I slept on Heretic too long. Loved its relentless tension and verbal sparring. Had me gripped to the bitter, bloody end.
Yippee! HEADS WILL ROLL is out in paperback in the UK today! Run screaming to your nearest bookstore. 🪓🪓🪓 www.waterstones.com/book/9781405...
I liked the new I Know What You Did Last Summer. 100% for the legacy fans. This is my review for Radio Times. (Make sure you stay for the credits.)
Rewatching one of my fav slasher sequels – I Still Know What You Did Last Summer – ahead of chatting about it on Instagram tonight. Time to give the Hysteria Continues commentary a listen. 🎧
I’ve been sitting on this one for so long. SO. SO. LONG. But yaaay it’s official! I am so, so excited about my next book with Putnam, which is the gayest, cattiest, sunniest, weirdest thing I’ve written so far, and has been an absolute joy to write. 🌈🌈🌈 Out summer 2026. Cannot wait! 🩸 ☀️
Book news! 📖 Thrilled that the Brazilian Portuguese rights to my new small-town mystery THE CRATER CLUB have sold to Faro Editorial! I haven’t talked much about this book yet as behind-the-scenes stuff is still ongoing, but I’ll share more when I can. So excited for you to meet these characters! 🥰☄️
Stuck my head out of the edit pit last night to hang with some brill horror and crime writers. Thanks for having me @michaeljbooks.bsky.social! 🩷
A friend has loaned me their copy of House of Leaves and it feels totally appropriate that it is full of scribbles, underlines and stickies.