@aptshadow.bsky.social This Polygon article mentions your having written Exodus short stories. Are those available yet? www.polygon.com/exodus-game-...

WSJ reports on decades-long Pentagon disinformation campaign to propagate UFO myths "based on interviews with two dozen current and former U.S. officials, scientists and military contractors involved in the inquiry, as well as thousands of pages of documents, recordings, emails and text messages."

New interview! I talked with Jamarcus Turner, writer & story editor for BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA. Full episode is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

Check out the audio for my short story HATE TO MEET YOU, originally published by @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social, on Ledger! pod.link/1591929789

I also interviewed lit agent @jessicaberg.bsky.social with @roseclifflit.bsky.social A fantastic look at agents' work and life, a great resource for writers currently looking, or agented writers to get a better understanding of how their agent works for them. open.spotify.com/episode/2NGW...

And the next Ledger interview? A National Book Award finalist who has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Also, one of my favorite writers!

I have a new episode in the edit stage, an interview with writer/story editor from BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA, the Chuck Lorre sit-com. It'll be up this week!

My newest interview for Ledger was with the insanely talented comedy writer Brent Forrester. He's written for The Office, The Simpsons, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, The Larry Sanders Show, and more! open.spotify.com/episode/6yXR...

Great episode as always. And I know I speak for dozens of Indiana podcasters when I say hell yeah, @josholson.bsky.social sees us!

I don’t want to “streamline” my writing. I don’t want to “increase my output.” I don’t want to “write a novel with one click.” I want to write stuff only I can write. I want to read and write novels with soul and heart and a unique voice. Fuck AI. Long live real writers.

New cover design is up for Dynasty of Blood, volume 01. All volumes will eventually use this styling! Available at austinrwilson.itch.io and www.drivethrufiction.com/browse/pub/2... #OSR #shortfiction

Darlings, write that book. Ignore the 'not selling' rhetoric. Write the book. Write your fix-up novels or your trashy book or your serious historical epic or your barely-disguised autobiography or your pew-pew SF. The people who love books depend on you. Do not fail them.

New Ledger episode is live! I chat with Vaughn A. Jackson @blaximillion.bsky.social and Stephanie Pearre @stephaniepearre.bsky.social about their forthcoming anthology BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF INFINITY out July 10 from @rdspress.bsky.social

It's rare to see a company piss off and destroy their fan base in real time, but damn, Wizards of the Coast is giving a CLINIC on how to do so.

Volume 2 of Dynasty of Blood is available on Itch! It's the continuing story of an alternate 1980s where Dynasty of Blood was a successful TTRPG, this volume featuring brand-new art from Luca Vassallo! austinrwilson.itch.io/dynasty-of-b...

Are you a person talking about "leveraging content"?

:o Holy shiiiiiiii - pledging now.

this interview is so, so good!!

I don't actually just sit and talk about *writing* a lot? The process of course, but the realities of living with it as your drive and your occupation. Anyway, this was a good time. I hope you like it too.

I've been spending a LOT of time away from social media. And let me tell you, it makes a big difference in how I perceive myself, how I perceive my work, and the energy I have to focus on those things. A *positive* difference.

Also, my newest Ledger episode is waiting for you, a chat with @kenlowery.bsky.social about tabletop games writing, comics, marketing copywriting, and so much more. Check out his game VOID 1680 AM and also his upcoming game No-Tell Motel pod.link/1591929789/e...

My new story is up over at @itchio.bsky.social and available at pay-what-you-want. It's an alternate 1980s story about the fictional tabletop game Dynasty of Blood. Plenty of Satanic Panic, with some actual play coming up in volume 2 (along with NEW art) austinrwilson.itch.io/dynasty-of-b...

@kenlowery.bsky.social Hi Ken! I'm a big fan of your stuff at Bannerless and would love to chat with you about TTRPG writing on my podcast. It's called Ledger, you can easily find it here: pod.link/1591929789

Taking a break from writing to be like "Oh gosh, I haven't written/done enough," like one does.

Happy Halloween! Here's a one-page horror comic I made in curséd 2020 with @austinrwilson.bsky.social (writer) and @dchopkins.bsky.social (letterer). Panel-by-panel for easier reading: sethhahne.com/comics/giveh...

continue to yell. apparently some people/corporations need constant reminders: DON'T BE COMEMIERDAS

I was always kind of skeptical of the Pomodoro Method - work for 25 minutes, take 5 off; repeat three times, then on the fourth time you take 30 minutes off - but holyyyyy smokes. I’ve almost finished a first draft of a short film script in two days, and that is FAST for me.

Update, no one answered! Well, November is the goal now.

@benblacker.bsky.social Your convo with Tom Vaughan has been massively helpful today. I'm breaking a story for a short film and made good progress thanks to that episode. Thank you!

Seriously everyone, just let John Carpenter stay home and play videogames.

I've been reading and writing about aliens and UFOs since I was 10. And I promise you, if Jeremy Corbell or George Knapp are involved in a UFO/"weird" story, that means, almost always, it is total bullshit.

Learning how to run CY_BORG, a @morkborg.bsky.social variation and this page clinches it. I love everything this game is about.

Just submitted a short story! I love that feeling so much. Glad to get back to it. I moved houses in June/July and it feels, finally, like I'm getting back to my routines.

Ordering opens up on September 25th. This is a reminder for me (and you) to check back on that day! Stay healthy and safe, friends. Let's protect each other!

I've been reading Summer of Night by Dan Simmons all summer. I should have finished it at least in July, maybe early August. But it legit broke my heart (in a good way) and I am still recovering.

Next week the season starts.

Every time the chair umpire says "Deuce!" at this Djokovic/Medvedev final, it sounds like he's scolding the crowd with a sassy "Dudes!"

COCO!

Coco Gauff is going to the U.S. Open final! May even be playing Maddy Keys! Holy smoooookes!!!

The new Turtles movie is so. freaking. good. I've rewatched it once already. Also, makes me happy a new generation may fall in love with De La Soul and Tribe.

As soon as @rdspress.bsky.social announces a new Writing In the Dark book I am excited to read said book.

This book has one of my all-time favorite dedications. "To William Dana Orcutt: A lover of lawn tennis, loyal friend, artist-printer and author who through the medium of the book has taught me emancipation from the tyranny of things."

"If there’s one thing authors love more than procrastinating, it’s praising one another." A fantastic opening to this article about blurbs hahaha. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

@realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein Hall at Bleak House

Currently working on scheduling around three interviews for Ledger. Waiting on answers! Hoping to get even more scheduled.