Author, artist, gardener. Former Professor of English Language and Literature. Texas Institute of Letters. ‘Filth Eaters’ to be released May ‘26. Deep Vellum Publishing.
Ito Romo
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Finding a double-flowered fig in my tree this afternoon can only mean good fortune. And the tree is loaded with figs (as you can see). Tree from a cutting of a cutting from an old tree in our home downtown Laredo. ❤️ Hold your people close.
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Always grateful for these moments. Really grateful. Gracias, Boldface Conference. University of Houston. ❤️👊🏼❤️ #FILTHEATERS @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social
Really great time at Boldface Conference, University of Houston. Thanks for the invite. ❤️👊🏼❤️ Borrowing Glass Mountain Magazine’s photos/post. @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social
FILTH EATERS launch & 1st ever Book Public Live with Yvette Benavides. Big thanks to the beautiful people @texaspublicradio.bsky.social & to all who came out. Honored. Nerd alert: check out my socks! Full photo album @ TPR. 📸: Alejandra Sol Casas/TPR. @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social
Beautiful poster for the inaugural Deep Vellum Music and Literature Festival, Dallas, Deep Ellum, July 10-12. ❤️👊🏼❤️ More info soon. #FILTHEATERS @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social
THE FILTH EATERS ARE HERE.
@itoromo.bsky.social’s Chicano Gothic vampire epic—spanning 1000+ years of history, brutality, and longing in less than 150 brilliant pages—is available today.
TOMORROW: Boldface Conference, University of Houston! ❤️👊🏼❤️ @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social
Gracias, @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @bloody-disgusting.com! ❤️👊🏼❤️
Just so we know where I stand:
Let his name be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument. Let his name be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.
What if vampires were the world's original stateless people? Laredo author Ito Romo's debut novella Filth Eaters spans 1,000 years of conquest, migration & survival, with fangs.
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Spanning a thousand years and multiple continents, the new novel Filth Eaters casts vampires as the world's ultimate stateless people.
Today at @bloody-disgusting.com, I reviewed @itoromo.bsky.social's stunning new vampire novella FILTH EATERS, out now from @deepvellum.bsky.social.
I’ve often said that the horror novella is the 85-minute movie of the horror lit world. The format, typically resulting in a story between 100 and 200 pages, is the perfect vehicle for compact, tense,...
