If It’s The Birds, We’re In Trouble

Something’s wrong in Rothwood.

Morgues are overflowing. Social media is rife with conspiracy theories. Neighbors can’t be trusted. And the animals aren’t acting the way they should…

Part epistolary saga, part apocalyptic nightmare, IF IT’S THE BIRDS, WE’RE IN TROUBLE offers readers a case file of disturbing clues that lead to a horrific discovery, inviting the best and bravest to turn its pages and accept its challenge.

What People are Saying About If It’s The Birds…

“If you like a slow burn, a peeling away of layers that have their own secret code, this is the book for you.”
K. Ceres Wright, author of Cog

If It’s The Birds, We’re in Trouble is a terrifying look at the collapse of society. It’s like watching a train wreck, but being unable to look away because the prose is so beautiful, the suspense keeps you strapped into position, frozen by the absolute horror of it all. You don’t want to look away and when it’s over, you’ll want to read it again.
Nicole Givens Kurtz, author of The Spirit Room: A Southern Gothic

L. Marie Wood breaks with tradition and cracks open wonderful weirdness with IF IT’S THE BIRDS, WE’RE IN TROUBLE! Innovative and mind-bendy, Wood defies conformity with a wonderfully creepy novella!
Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Red Empire and Bewilderness

With astounding craft, Wood assembles shards of personal horrors large and small into a nightmare mosaic. One of the best and most creative–and creatively constructed–books I’ve read in many years. A must-read!
Michael G. Williams, author of Children of Solitude

L. Marie Wood has crafted an apocalyptic epistolary novella that feels like X-Files meets Donnie Darko, but with the puzzle-solving thrills of an escape room! We know something terrible happened in Rothwood, but the what and the how are murky at best.

If it’s the Birds… We’re in Trouble is a fully immersive reading experience, delivered in the myriad forms of emails, poems, blog posts and journal entries. Interspersed among these are images of handwritten letters and notes, each complete with masking tape, smudges and stains to heighten the immersion. As readers pour over each entry, they will be met with hits of dopamine as they identify clues that make the bigger picture come just a little more into focus.

What really happened in Rothwood? And what was the cause? Aliens? Zombies? Tainted meat? Some transmittable pathogen? One thing is for sure… if it’s the birds… we’re in trouble!
Steve Van Samson, author of The Unpleasant Mister Snif

L. Marie Wood knows how to make a story get under your skin and stay with you long after you’ve closed the cover. If It’s The Birds is a book that’s shrouded in mystery and ominous from the very start. Through a series of letters, dark poetry, online messages, incident reports and public records, she weaves a unique and stylistic horror story that gradually takes hold of your curiosity and never lets go. It reads like it’s alive, taking a calming breath at certain points before exhaling unnerving reveals. This is one that you’ll return to several times in order to convince yourself you’re not going mad.
Marc L Abbott, Award Winning Horror Author & HWA Vice-President

L. Marie Wood has crafted a uniquely chilling found footage read! This is an absolute masterclass in suspense and horror writing!
Dennis K. Crosby, award-winning author of Death’s Legacy