Rapture and chill.

I haven't read this book yet, but I would like to nominate it for best title ever. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Moby-D...

My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate. There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad. It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.

Kind of feels like the Charlie Sheen memoir is unintentionally in conversation with the new Liz Gilbert memoir.

The Book of Sheen's dedication page: "For Mom and Dad, and for every gangster poet out there, still chasing the dawn." God help me, I'm in.

“A thrilling eco-mystery Jeff VanderMeer might have imagined, Great Black Swamp is also an aching, charming, genuinely funny memoir about failure and self-acceptance.” —James Tate Hill, author of Blind Man’s Bluff Pre-order today! beltpublishing.com/products/the...

Elvis Costello's all, every day I write the book, and I'm like, a couple days a week I write the book.

Sign in a local bar's window is advertising "bespoke cocktails" and boy, they sure know how to make me hate the sound of cocktails.

Still stand behind all these recs!

You can let ABC know your feelings on capitulating to fascism by submitting a comment here: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

New novel. Who this? Seriously. What is my main character's name? I already forgot.

Learned the family of one of wife's students owns everybody's favorite local Vietnamese restaurant & it feels like we're connected to a royal.

In the future I would like for every color of wolf to have a prestigious press named for them.

Just shuddered at a flashback to when an attorney who was married to an attorney tried to talk me, a then-adjunct, into discounting my rate on a manuscript consult by 50%. Never more glad to pass on a job.

Feeling the light despair that comes with finishing something & reminding myself, as I always need to do, that the only cure is writing something else. Also, more cowbell. But mostly writing something else.

Blurb described a novel as unrelenting & I'm sorry but I need novels to relent a little bit.

Calling all HBCU faculty and students involved in creative writing! Apply now to the #AWP26 HBCU Fellowship Program for the chance to work with MK Asante in Baltimore during the conference. Applications close September 30. Learn more today!

Just so thrilled beyond measure to see longtime client and friend @kaylaancrum.bsky.social is longlisted for the National Book Award. So deserved. www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

The writing wasn't better when I used to write every day, but there was more of it.

Which novel will I work on in these 21 wild and precious minutes before work?

OK, so both my books are in the LibGen database. Do we know anything definitive with regard to numbers and timeline? Why do I find it extremely hard to believe $6K is coming my way? Any actual info, if anyone knows anything at this point, would be greatly appreciated.

The storytelling confidence of Tom Petty in Free Fallin not to tell us there are vampires until the second verse.

Nobody slut shamed in the 80s like Jermaine "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes off" Stewart.

Happy 10th bday to my debut novel! Coincidentally Black Lawrence Press is having a Back-to-School sale, perfect for an academic satire that's also a murder mystery & disability narrative. Get 40% off w/ code BACKTOSCHOOL40 until 9/15! blacklawrencepress.com/books/academ...

Return of the Mack The Empire Strikes Mack Star Wars: A New Mack

Fantasy football teams are a lot like dreams in that I really, really don't want to hear about yours.

My colleagues provide alt text for their good morning gifs in the Teams chat if you want to know what kind of lovely people I work with.

These days I thank people for their patience in most of my replies because waiting is hard and all our inboxes runneth over.

Since my summer query one went so well, I’m doing another workshop in the winter. Come hang! The goal is to help get a nonfiction book proposal wrangled up and polished. These workshops will help fund my free events in the New Year. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/9/...

He's Trump, he's Trump, he's Trump, he might be dead.

When is your next book coming out? feels like such a sick burn no matter how well-intentioned the query.

Haven't encountered a title this good in years. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The only resolution in any of this hellscape that would make sense is RFK Jr. collapsing in front of Congress and the brain worm crawling out of his ear to shout "The Aristocrats!"

It's funny when Michael Bolton starts singing about Captain Jack Sparrow after watching The Pirates of the Caribbean movies, but it's even funnier that Neil Diamond totally did the same thing with E.T. His song, Heartlight, went to no. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Pretty sure you've already read that the jerks who illegally used our books to train AI lost big in court, but just in case, here's the form from the winning attorneys to confidentially provide your book info and contact info and join in the eventual settlement. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

It's wild how every summer Obama only reads brand-new books.

Line Breakin' 2: Enjambment Boogaloo

Scholarship applications for #AWP26 in Baltimore, Maryland, are now open! Apply on our website by November 25.

Do I miss teaching? Not really. But I kind of miss attributing my own bits of writing wisdom to dead canonical authors.

Narrative Arc Every Time I try a Limited Edition Lay's Flavor Day 1: This is amazing! Hours later: I hope to God they make this a permanent flavor. Day 2: Hmmm. More weird than good. Hours later: I wish I hadn't bought these.

Just bought a gallon of milk 17 days from its expiration date & I've never felt more immortal.

"The Big Conversation," with panelists including Julia Fierro | in AWP's 'The Writer's Chronicle' this month writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/TWC/2025...

Psyched to see an excerpt from Sienna Liu's SPECIMEN in the August 2025 issue of The Writer's Chronicle (it's paywalled here, but if you've got your @awpwriter.bsky.social subscription, you can login and read the whole thing!) writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-aug...

I'm happy to be back in Monkeybicycle with a new story. Please read (and remember to be careful when you walk around in your neighborhood). Many thanks to @jamestatehill.bsky.social and staff. monkeybicycle.net/little-devil/

ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... Selected by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social for the @awpwriter.bsky.social Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

For my money, there's never been a better song about a grandma setting another grandma's flag on fire than Iko Iko.

So lovely but also so incredibly valuable. Well worth your time, friends.

So incredibly relieved the root canal fixed my tooth issue so I can get back to writing-related dread.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Asked our retired downstairs neighbors whom we adore if they were going to the HOA meeting this evening & they said no & we asked why & they said because we don't hate ourselves.