Middle-grade novels are FINALLY published!

Check out my chat with award-winning author Valerie Biel. It was a truly fun interview! substack.com/@valeriebiel...

Issue #5 of Litbop, the annual art and literature journal I edit, is out and hit #1 in Poetry Anthology new releases.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

A little reminder from Norman Rockwell to start 2026. Happy New Year!

‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."

A while back, Ellen and I decided to make a short video celebrating that spooktacular holiday, Halloween. It soon became an annual tradition and in total we made eleven videos. This is the first in the series from fourteen years ago. www.thrillingtales.com/halloween-vi...

Litbop submissions are open. For details go to duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

🚨 ✨Today we're spotlighting Tim Chapman's work in Studies in the Fantastic Issue 18! You’ll want to keep an eye out for this one, Chapman brings something unforgettable to this issue. #SpeculativeFiction #StudiesInTheFantastic #WeirdLit #LitMagSpotlight #BlueskyBooks

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I'll be there hawking my wares on Saturday and moderating a panel on Sunday. Join us!

UTampa Press, [@utampapress]. (2025, March 25). Issue 18 of Studies in the Fantastic is here [Photograph]. Instagram. www.instagram.com/utampapress/ #SurrealFiction #ShortStories #ApocalypticFiction

My column in the Sun-Times today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/08/at-a...

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Over the coming weeks, we’ll be spotlighting each piece—sharing the unique perspectives and stories that make this issue special. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #HorrorLit #SpecFic #ScienceFiction

This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰 And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….

It's here! Studies in the Fantastic Issue 18, “Tales in the Fantastic” is now available! Featuring fiction, award-winning writing, translations, and interviews, this issue is a must-read for lovers of the speculative. Grab your copy at utampapress.org/product/stud... or muse.jhu.edu/issue/54348

I was asked to contribute a piece to a local art exhibit. Instead of a painting, I decided to do comic strip. Here tis.

🎉Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ SinC is dedicated to creating safe spaces for writers worldwide because creativity thrives in diversity! We celebrate our LGBTQIA+ writer siblings this month and every month! ❤️💛🧡💚💙💜🖤🤎 #Pride2025 #SinC #queerwriters #WritingCommunity #SkyWriters #crimewriters

What if it were possible for a state to ban ALL book bans? Rhode Island did just that. Read more: authorsguild.org/news/authors...

If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

I am EXTREMELY excited to announce the launch of my all-new podcast! “Sane(ish)”. Because “sanity” is in scarce supply these days. Look for Sane(ish) on Tuesdays & Thursdays, wherever you get your pods! The one and only Harry Dunn joins me for the first episode!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Now that the 4th issue of Litbop is published, I'm getting back to the grueling task of changing my 65,000 WIP from first person to third person. Arrggh.

Author friend Alaina Hammond has a new story in bottlecap.press/products/jil...

@maryinannarbor.bsky.social sings "Put Your Pants On Please" (parody of "Take A Chance On Me" by ABBA) www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Vi...

I often see people defend their Conferate flag by claiming it's simply part of their heritage. This is a Union flag from 1864. Part of our heritage is kicking racist ass.

BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Remember when the economy was booming, stocks were soaring, we weren’t in a trade war with China, we didn’t have a day drunk for a Sec Def, a couch fucking Cabbage Patch doll for a VP or an evil, incurious idiot for a president & we still funded cancer research? Yeah, that was like three months ago.

One of our talented Litbop contributors has a new book out. "Society: Portraits by Sean Bw Parker is available for pre-order at www.amazon.com/SOCIETY-Port...? and www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2XS5WQ...

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Pope Francis died on Monday at 88. His papacy promoted inclusivity, embracing survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members; LGBTQ Catholics; Muslim and Orthodox clerics; and leaders of developing nations, where he believed the church’s future was rooted. See Francis' life in photos: nyti.ms/4lEHXNZ

Pope Francis dies after meeting with JD Vance. Um...

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Our Litbop launch party at The Book Cellar was super. Thanks to everyone who joined us. To my right, are readers: Dom Blanco, Luis Bermudez, Lani Montreal, Rachel Robbins, Alaina Hammond, Danielle Coffyn, Sharon Michelove. Out of frame are Randall Jon Van Vynkt, Carma Lynn Park, and Steve Kaiser.

New Stack for Blackbird Writers. open.substack.com/pub/blackbir...

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.