'A glittery, campy meta-slasher, Pell delivers gnarly kills, terrible puns, a reluctant final girl and a theatrically menacing masked killer' - @georgesreads



A serial killer? She's SO over it.





Fading horror movie star Barbra Jacobs is exhausted after twenty years playing the 'final girl'. She's sick of creepy guys at backwater conventions like this asking her to sign photos of her twenty-year-old self in underwear.





She thinks her day can't get any worse when she finds a woman murdered in the bathroom. Her throat's been slit.





And now the killer is stalking Barb and picking off her former castmates one by one...



She's done playing the victim. If she's going to live, Barb must give the final-girl performance of her life.

Because this time, there's no one coming to save her.



Nightmare on Elm Street meets Barbie in this iconic serial killer thriller - perfect for horror fans and scream queens alike.



Tanya's traditional debut Her Wicked Roots captured the attention of some of horror's biggest names, as well as the trades. An active member of the Horror Writers Association, Pell has been published in anthologies alongside bestselling authors like Adam Cesare, Christopher Golden, CJ Leede, Clay McLeod Chapman, Gabino Iglesias, Hailey Piper, and many more, including Fever Dreams, Obsolescence and Mother Knows Best. Her first novel, Cicada (Shortwave Publishing, 09/2024), was named #2 on Vulture's "The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)" list. She regularly moderates panels at cons, with her bestselling contemporaries. Barbie Just Won't Die! will showcase her dynamic storytelling skills across subgenres. Pell is a narcoleptic horror author who drinks bougie coffee and lives in the American South.