Catching up on some WBB scores from this morning &, uhh...Middle Tennessee only beating Tennessee State 59-53 seems concerning!

Huge win here for Baylor to open the season. Taliah Scott addition might be even better than I expected.

If you’re one of the, like, three people who read my newsletter, it’s coming tomorrow because I had too much work to do today.

I picked a winner for every women's college basketball conference. fansided.com/ncaab/perfec...

I have now finished the second draft & am still wondering "now what?"

My almost-two-year-old weaned himself off his binky today with these two easy steps. 1) He threw the only binky he likes into the parking lot of a Salvation Army without us realizing it 2) He refuses to put the replacement in his mouth because it has that new plastic taste.

Previewed the Big 12 over at @herhoopstats.com. herhoopstats.substack.com/p/2025-26-bi...

Wrote about the three books I read in September. somewordssomebooks.substack.com/p/some-words...

Whoa, one of my short stories is on this list!!!!!

Whoa, one of my short stories is on this list!!!!!

Wrote a story about a giant bird whose body is made of fire. It takes place at a biker bar. apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/09/19/i...

Wrote a story about a giant bird whose body is made of fire. It takes place at a biker bar. apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/09/19/i...

I finished the first draft of my novel. Now what?

New poem out today. It's called "POEM SHOUTED OVER THE SOUND OF A 1968 MUSTANG ENGINE." Thanks @burialmagazine.bsky.social for giving it a home. burialmagazine.neocities.org/poemshoutedo...

got it in my head that labor day = americana, idk why. but it made me want to drop @juscarts.com’s ‘POEM SHOUTED OVER THE SOUND OF A 1968 MUSTANG ENGINE’ today. hope you all have a nice time but if you want to make it even nicer you should read this poem burialmagazine.neocities.org/poemshoutedo...

New poem out today. It's called "POEM SHOUTED OVER THE SOUND OF A 1968 MUSTANG ENGINE." Thanks @burialmagazine.bsky.social for giving it a home. burialmagazine.neocities.org/poemshoutedo...

This is like...Iowa's third state house/senate flip this year. I'm starting to think something might be shifting here.

The Wings' season has not gone to plan, to put it mildly. What is left for the organization to focus on before turning the page to what could become the most chaotic offseason in WNBA history? @juscarts.com dives in: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...

Daily word count on my novel over the past two weeks: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2000 0 0 0 0 0 6000

talked to Hayes Carll (!) for Don't Rock The Inbox (!); he's a mensch, as one would hope. read all about it here: www.dontrocktheinbox.com/issue-112-ha...

Got asked to write my first blurb, which is maybe actually cooler than publishing a book was? Also, my book is on sale. Whole Belle Point Press catalog is 45% off. Grab a copy, yeah? bellepointpress.com/products/bra...

I have a poem about Bright Eyes & monster trucks in this.

Things I've written about in this current chapter of the novel: guys who sing "Wagon Wheel" at parties, Fireball, Omegle, car crashes & Freemasons.

Rare poetry window. We will publish four of these poetry EPs/zines/microchaps next year. More if we can swing it but we have the means, for now, to say four. Knock us out! oleada.io/publication/...

I have a poem about my son's birth & the Pop-Tarts Bowl in the new @afternoonvisitor.bsky.social. www.afternoonvisitor.com/justin-carter

Jumping on this: here's six novels from 2024/2025 that I loved. - August Thompson - Anyone's Ghost - Ashley Whittaker - Bitter Texas Honey - Jeremy Gordon - See Friendship - Kimberly King Parsons - We Were The Universe - Michael Deagler - Early Sobrieties - Alexandra Tanner - Worry

I have a poem about my son's birth & the Pop-Tarts Bowl in the new @afternoonvisitor.bsky.social. www.afternoonvisitor.com/justin-carter

Wrote about some books. somewordssomebooks.substack.com/p/some-words...

Woke up early & sent out two different manuscripts to two different presses because, like, why do I have two finished manuscripts that are just sitting in my Google Drive instead of actively being out in the world?????

Looking for a #SealeyChallenge book to read? How about this one. It’s pretty good according to me, the person who wrote it, but also most people on Goodreads gave it a five, so it’s good according to them too. bellepointpress.com/products/bra...

Got a flash fiction piece, “We Got Dressed Up In Suits For A Midnight Screening Of Boondock Saints," in Citywide Lunch today. citywidelunch.wordpress.com/we-got-dress...

Got a flash fiction piece, “We Got Dressed Up In Suits For A Midnight Screening Of Boondock Saints," in Citywide Lunch today. citywidelunch.wordpress.com/we-got-dress...

🔥🔥🔥 thanks for reading!!!!!!

Got our first "no kids allowed" wedding invite since having a kid.

Chris wrote about my book & also about other books.

my sports poem manuscript is currently submitted to only one place, so I should probably send it more places — any suggestions for presses that are open right now?

My poem writing process these days is I have some long, rambling thought & instead of posting it online, I make it the title of a poem.

Finished editing (& then sent off to an anthology call) a story today that includes things like a drug dealer whose arm is a machine gun & a drug dealer's girlfriend whose fingertips are made of diamonds. Trying to write genre stuff is weird, but fun!

Happy one-year anniversary to my author copies of Brazos arriving & to my son trying to then eat one of the author copies.

New poem up today at cataloguing poetry magazine. It's called "Let's Remember Some Guys," & is about remembering a lot of dead people — athletes, friends, teachers. open.substack.com/pub/catalogu...

New poem up today at cataloguing poetry magazine. It's called "Let's Remember Some Guys," & is about remembering a lot of dead people — athletes, friends, teachers. open.substack.com/pub/catalogu...

just thought the phrase "hot dog contest murder mystery novel"

Listening to Martina McBride's "Independence Day," the only song that truly understands the real meaning of July 4th.

Wrote about books by Thomas Grattan, Kate Folk, Vicki Hendricks, Amy Lee Lillard, & @onionflower.bsky.social. somewordssomebooks.substack.com/p/some-words...

trying to put together my Sealey Challenge reading list for next month — probably have the budget to buy a couple more books for it, so let me know if you have a new poetry book (or even not a new one)

oh these books all sound incredibly good & I can't wait to read them

trying to put together my Sealey Challenge reading list for next month — probably have the budget to buy a couple more books for it, so let me know if you have a new poetry book (or even not a new one)

excited to announce that the two best poems from my sports poem manuscript will be published this month

Wrote about books by Thomas Grattan, Kate Folk, Vicki Hendricks, Amy Lee Lillard, & @onionflower.bsky.social. somewordssomebooks.substack.com/p/some-words...

Wrote about the Wings for @dmagazine.bsky.social. It's been bad. Really, really bad. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...