Hello everyone! We are so excited to announce the tour schedule for These Bodies Ain’t Broken Edited by Madeline Dyer.
October 6th
DB’s Guide to the Galaxy – Review
October 7th
Betwixt the Sheets – Promotional Post
The Clever Reader – Promotional Post
October 8th
Paiges & Lalypops – Review
October 9th
Bookcrushin – Book Look
October 10th
Kim’s Book Reviews and Writing Aha’s – Review, Tik Tok
October 11th
The violet west – Top 5 Reasons to Read These Bodies Ain’t Broken
October 12th
Twirling Book Princess – Promotional Post
October 6th
dbs_guide_to_the_galaxy – Review
beautys.library – Review
ashton_reads – Review, Playlist
October 7th
theink.slinger – Promotional Post
thecleverreader – Promotional Post
meghenslittlelibrary – Promotional Post
quiettime.reading – 15 Reactions While Reading These Bodies Ain’t Broken
October 8th
paigesandlalypops – Review
tarasbookaddiction – Promotional Post
marmalade.reads – Review, Favorite Quotes
October 9th
diamondxgirl – Book Look
shereadytoread – Top 5 Reasons to Read These Bodies Ain’t Broken
mama_coffee_books_cardigans – Promotional Post
October 10th
kimbartosch – Review, Tik Tok
being.monika – Review, Favorite Quotes
callistoscalling – Review
October 11th
therearenobadbooks – Top 5 Reasons to Read These Bodies Ain’t Broken
jaimes_mystical_library – Promotional Post
bibliovino – Review
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post
October 12th
deasbookshelf – Top 5 Reasons to Read These Bodies Ain’t Broken
rickys_radical_reads – Promotional Post
markita_reads – Review
Genre: YA Horror, Anthology
Publishing date: October 7, 2025
Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound
Rep: mental illness, chronic illness, disability
Synopsis:
Madeline Dyer, editor of Being Ace, developed this anthology to challenge expectations about who can be a hero. Centering disabled and chronically ill teenagers protecting others from ancient evils, vanquishing ghosts, and defying death, these stories explore horror sub-genres including paranormal, gothic, psychological, and body horror. With a diverse array of own-voices representation for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Crohns Disease, Diabetes, PTSD, and more each entry complicates traditional horror with new perspectives.
Contributors include bestselling and award-winning as well as emerging authors: Dana Mele, Lillie Lainoff, Soumi Roy, Fin Lavoie, S.E. Anderson, K. Ancrum, Pintip Dunn, Lily Meade, Mo Netz, P.H. Low, and Carly Nugent.
Content Warning: body horror
Madeline Dyer (she/her) is a novelist, anthologist, poet, and literary academic, drawn to dark and monstrous stories. Her debut anthology Being Ace (Page Street YA, 2023) received a starred review from School Library Journal and was named a 2024 Lammy Award Finalist at the Lambda Literary Awards, commemorating “outstanding LGBTQ+ literature from 2023.” Her debut novel Untamed (Prizm Books, 2015) also won the 2015 SIBA award for Best Dystopian Novel.
Madeline also writes romance and light-hearted contemporary fiction as Elin Annalise.
She is represented by Amy Collins at Talcott Notch Literary.
Madeline teaches writing and has a 2:1 BA (hons) degree in English from the University of Exeter and an MFA (distinction) in Creative Writing from Kingston University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol, where she is researching and writing about traumatized girls and monstrous women in the Gothic, and exploring the intersections between Prehistory and the Gothic.
In 2020, Madeline founded YA Thriller Con, an online celebration of everything thriller, crime, and mystery that ran for three years. YA Thriller Con is currently on hiatus while Madeline focuses on her writing.
She has a herd of Shetland ponies, loves anything ghostly, and can frequently be found exploring wild places. At least one notebook is known to follow her everywhere she goes.
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