Oh, Beloved Folx! If you are looking for some damn fine audio-drama entertainment, Episode 7 of Alicia E. Goranson's ( and The Not Ready For Opsec Players) latest production is live! Go give a listen! www.blooddollpod.com/podcast/vtm-...

The first five episodes of Alicia E. Goranson's riveting audiodrama are live! If you are looking for a great commute listen, or just want some fine entertainment that actually represents many of our communities, you want to give these a listen! www.blooddollpod.com/podcast/vtm-...

Need a quick writing boost? Thursday, Oct. 30th, I'll be offering another Body Doubling Writing Workshop from 8-9pm, ET. Two 25-minute writing sessions, with a ten minute break between sessions. No commitment past each individual evening. $25 Email [email protected]

Starting Monday, July 21st, I'll be offering a monthly Body Doubling Writing Workshop from 8-9pm, ET. Two 25-minute writing sessions, with a ten minute break between sessions. No commitment past each individual evening. $25 Email [email protected]

Today I worked with a client on their application to a $5,000 award program, planned marketing and promotion for a self-published trilogy, and did an hour coaching call for a novel in progress. I'd be honored to include you and your writing in my working day. www.writeherewritenow.institute

June 2nd-July 7th, from 7-9pm EDT, I'm offering a 6-week fiction critique workshop for a cohort of 5 writers. We'll study the major aspects of craft and how to give and receive feedback on up to 15 pages of manuscript. $400 for the workshop, or $500 to include a private meeting.

I just had the honor of being interviewed by Helen Boyd Kramer. www.patreon.com/posts/write-...

Whew! NINE agent query packets prepped for a client's fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy!

RED ALERT! Please DO NOT use my website's support/donate button! It is sending folx to a venmo account that is not mine. I am so sorry for this!

This week, my Substack post invites you to pay attention to your body, and how embodiment affects your writing. I hope that it serves you well. tonyamato.substack.com/p/bodiesembo...

Beloved Folx, this week's Substack post is the first in a series about getting to know yourself as a writer. Come on over and have a read. open.substack.com/pub/tonyamat...

I’ve got a few openings in my schedule and would love to work with you on your project. If you, or someone you know could use an attentive and dedicated bookhusband, please visit www.writeherewritenow.institute. As always, I'd be deeply grateful for any signal boosting you are willing to do!

“I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.” ― Tennessee Williams

“If we want to learn about our future, we should look at what we’re doing now.” ― Pema Chödrön

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.” ― Noam Chomsky

Bread for today, Beloveds: In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper in the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. — Howard Thurman

Bread for today, Beloveds: "Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in." ~ Cesar Chavez

“What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.” ― Molly Ivins

Bread for today, Beloveds: You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. -Mahatma Gandhi

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans. ― Rebecca Solnit

Bread for today, Beloveds: Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist. — bell hooks

Bread for today, Beloveds: The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. — Howard Zinn

Bread for today, Beloveds: Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. -Joanna Macy

Bread for today Beloveds: No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts. ― Kate Bornstein

Bread for today, Beloveds: I think gestures are important on any level. People do what they can and sometimes can be aware of much more that they can do somewhere down the line. —David Wojnarowicz

Bread for today, Beloveds: No matter how strong the wind of evil may blow, the flame of truth cannot be extinguished. -Dalai Lama XIV

Beloved Folx, here are the revisions and edits I had promised for a Substack post I made in January. Come on over and let me know how YOU would have edited it! Turnabout is fair play, after all! open.substack.com/pub/tonyamat...

Bread for today, Beloveds: Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind. — Albert Einstein

Bread for today, Beloveds: We live in a beautiful country. But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to take it back. — Howard Zinn

Bread for today, Beloveds: True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. — bell hooks

Bread for today, Beloveds: Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy. — Audre Lorde

Bread for today, Beloveds: You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. — Cesar Chavez

Bread for today, Beloveds: Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them. -Rebecca Solnit

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference. — Madeleine L’Engle

Bread for today, Beloveds: Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. ― Noam Chomsky

Bread for today, Beloveds: And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear. -Paulo Coelho

Bread for today, Beloveds: Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst. ― Joyce Carol Oates

Beloved Folx! This week's Substack is live, another novel excerpt, and I'd love to hear what you think of it. open.substack.com/pub/tonyamat...

One of the lessons I have learned in trying to live with history is that for every repression, we have found a suitable form of resistance. Our history is the chronicle of our vitality, our passion, our cunning, and at many times, our integrity. -Joan Nestle

Bread for today, Beloveds: So we must work to overturn the false narratives of tyrants, populists, and fools by telling better stories than they do, stories within which people want to live. -Salman Rushdie

Bread for today, Beloveds: "The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing." — Dorothy Allison

Bread for today, Beloveds: “You are not an observer, you are a participant.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

Bread for today, Beloveds: “The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That’s what we’re going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.” ― Pema Chödrön

Bread for today, Beloveds: And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear. Paulo Coelho

We are showered every day with gifts not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Beloved Folx, my newest Substack post is up. A brief meditation on using your passions and hobbies to unlock your writing.

Bread for today, Beloveds: “We need to learn how to practice love such that care—for ourselves and others—is understood as political resistance and cultivating resilience.” ― Adrienne Maree Brown

Bread for today, Beloveds: The future is an infinite succession of presents and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." -- Howard Zinn

Bread for today, Beloveds: “What we must do, I suppose, is to hope the world keeps its balance; what we are to do, however, with our hearts waiting and watching—truly I do not know.” — Mary Oliver

“Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together. i suspect that is what many of you are up to, practicing futures together, practicing justice together, living into new stories. It is our right and responsibility to create a new world.” ― Adrienne Maree Brown