Nominate CV2, we are awesome

Bold to consider the problem with everything in my life may be "Me"

I feel like I should celebrate new years this year if only to celebrate 2025 getting the fuck outta my life.

Oftentimes the biggest hurdle about making coffee is that I have not yet had coffee (successfully poured coffee grounds directly into the water of my percolator instead of the basket this morning).

absolutely bonkers to claim that kidnapping people -- a crime -- somehow prevents crime. The way so many Americans seem to actively hate anyone who's ever had a run-in with the law is truly disturbing

This is not a drill: my next novel GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE will be out next fall.

Ahhhhhhh!

Snow

Underrated shirt design from when I designed shirt ("Worm Geometry")

If my name was HG Wells I'd probably go by Mercury Wells.

This is not a drill: my next novel GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE will be out next fall.

I wrote about Public Access from the perspective of a repeat player: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/10...

Currently in the "Crying while watching One Piece" stage of grief.

My publisher put up a preview of BAD HOUSES for free online, so if you want to read an excerpt (the first story in the book!) you can check that out here: arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-...

Great news! Love Jonathan and his work. Keep your eyes peeled for this one next year!

The reckless hope of putting new tires on a car with 230k miles 🐺

It's kind of depressing how much I'm getting specific and glowing emails that are just trying to get me to pay them to get my books into bookclubs. I'd be less bummed about it if they didn't feel so familiar with the work, but it's almost certainly just a good use of AI mining reviews.

check out this new letter, including it's special sneak-peek exclusive preview of something I'm cookin up 👀. SUBSCRIBE to stay in the loop! open.substack.com/pub/jestintz...

If life is a rollercoaster, I am definitely never going to ride a freaking rollercoaster.

Very affirming to be talking to my therapist about young JES's romantic misadventures and be told that it all sounded "very lesbian"

I just want to read things I've never read before that make me recognize and give shape to things I've felt all along

Well, at least they are redirecting literary grant money to "foster AI competency" (clearly lacking in this AI generated 2nd paragraph), support for the military (as all true literature should do), and disaster recovery (books as sandbags?)

Being an adult is spending $30 dollars to buy a big rock on the internet.

Shuttlecock 3

At least there was light.

Big yawn

I picked up @jestintzi.bsky.social's "Junebat" years ago, and I'm kind of glad I waited to read it until now, when it feels like I *need* these poems. They are aching and tender and gorgeous, and my god, the last lines!! A gift, this whole collection.

A very “night walk in kansas city” kind of selfie

Traveling for (book) work is cool and all but I think I might need to make the demand that whenever I am invited to a festival/book thing, that Grendel is also invited.

Started this book on the plane...pretty good so far...anyone else read this??

When in Rome* *Canada (I must get my fill of poutine)

It is slightly amazing how much less bleak my life feels now that I am using some paid time off and also going somewhere else (Saskatchewan!) for a few days. In other news if you're in Saskatchewan, come see me in Moose Jaw for the Festival of Words! I'll be there for the whole fest!

Reposting for the morning crowd, since this went up just before midnight lady night.

Also out of nowhere I am #95 on this list on Substack, so you should follow me there and see what all the hubub is about

New mewsletter, and new more regular and miscellany letter (THE VOID WRANGLER) to start coming out soon! CHECK IT OUT & SUBSCRIBE! open.substack.com/pub/jestintz...

you should write not for money or fame but so detectives can start asking for your help in solving murders

i've gotta stop posting and sending messages while suffering heat exhaustion

Old couple wished me a "happy fourth of July" today, noting that I was "wearing the outfit" which to their ignorance is a tank top with stars on it representing the victims of the Pulse shooting...

A reminder to get BAD HOUSES and also DISOBEDIENCE (which I edited!)

Jesse Singal should never get another night's sleep

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

Daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: A Body More Tolerable, poems by @jayesimpson.bsky.social arsenalpulp.com/Books/A/a-bo... & Bad Houses, stories by @jestintzi.bsky.social arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-... (both @arsenalpulp.bsky.social) Alt-text=details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

I am going hard into my Steinbeck reading era this last year, and have realized that his middle name is Ernst, so we are both, in fact, JES.

Me watching, waiting for you to buy my books.

If you comment on any of my posts that Red states deserved to be destroyed by disasters I will block you so fucking fast. You don’t get to lose your humanity just because a bunch of fascists have. Just pretend you’re smart enough to understand the complexities of politics, dweebs.

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DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

hoo BOY the book world could stand to internalize this one