Hey! The Goodreads page for WAVES OF BURDEN is up. Would mean a lot if everyone would mark “Want to Read.” www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

Look at it! Gorgeous, you guys.

Today is my book release day! One of my favorite collections is King’s Skeleton Crew and I’ve always wanted to release a short story collection. Today’s that day! Time of Death: A Collection of Medical Horror is here! Ghosts, werewolves, zombies, scary nuns, you name it, we got it!

"I'm in love with Veronica. I don’t mean the child in front of me you pervert. I’m in love with the idea of her, of a holy connectedness that could exist between people & the divine source of it, of all the human experience in microcosm." @charliekondek.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN: In this gritty collection of crime stories, Derringer Award-winning author @cwblackwell.bsky.social mourns an America lost to the shadows, exploring a broken economic system that has given rise to rampant inequality, violence, and darkness. Available now: bit.ly/4runwWU

Could not be more proud and grateful to have a piece at Literary Garage, a publication I have much admired. Hope you'll give this one a read and tell me what you think!

Thrilled and grateful to have a piece in the November issue of @afterdinnerconversation.com. Available at Amazon in print or Kindle, or free on Libby. I'd love it if you checked out this and the rest of this wonderful magazine! a.co/d/bbf60Ra

"There's two ways to do things, God's way and your way." "Well between the two I'll take my way. It pays better." I'm thrilled to have a 5K word piece at A Thin Slice of Anxiety and I'd be grateful if it made its way into your TBR pile. www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/07/fict...

Hey, @barronauthor.bsky.social your recent piece at @afterdinnerconversation.com was deeply moving, man. Praised it at the Other Place but had to come over here to do the same! hang on, lemme find the link....

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I loved this story! Wow.

Detroit vs. Everybody

"If anyone ever wrote a novel about advertising she could think of no better title than The Deck." At 5,000ish words it's a little on the longer side, but I'd be grateful if you put it in your queue. www.thebloominonion.com/longform-story

Beyond excited to be in this anthology! Judy and Superior Shores keep putting out great work and I'm so glad to be a part of it.

Yesss. Looking forward to this, Mike! Trash Cat is a treasure.

Absolutely over the moon to have this short (my first!) published, and by the exceptional Trash Cat Lit. Features characters from my WIP novel, so I'm very attached to it! Love, lust, betrayal, regret, what's not to like (don't answer that, I'm too fragile) trashcatlit.com/in-the-fulln...

SLM is PROUD to be a paying market ✨ So the biggest THANK YOU to those who tip during our TIP JAR Months...like April! Donations help us pay our contributors, Submittable fees, and printing costs 💕

Please, please, please, I need your help! (it's for next year's rankings...) Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024? If not, could you please retweet? Thank you so much! 🙏

Does anyone want to not do their day job and instead talk about books, stories, movies and writing? hahaha

Bicyclist and roller skater on the Dequindre Cut, a rails to trails bike and walking path just east of downtown Detroit. #Photography #StreetPhotography #nightphotography #Detroit #DequindreCut #GoldenHour

I'm working with Leah now and she's terrific. Give her a follow!

Want to fill your ears with a wide-ranging discussion of crime fiction, the writing life, and more? I'm on WRBH New Orleans talking everything from writing noir to the inspiration of books like 'Love & Bullets'! ( @shotgunhoney.com ) #amwriting soundcloud.com/wrbhreadingr...

In my latest Substack, I’m talking about how taking a technique from the movie “Seven” (the writing of it! not killing people in odd ways!) can help you give your characters an interesting tension and inner life. #amwriting substack.com/home/post/p-...

Ooh, wee, if you missed this elegiac noir at @reckonreview.bsky.social by @garivers.bsky.social , treat yourself to it! reckonreview.com/song-of-the-...

I'm reading it now. It's great.

I've killed a creative director. Sorry, a creative director is killed in this 2,000 word short story that I am honored to see published at a much admired crime journal. I hope you'll give it a read - and that's no April Fool's joke. all-due-respect.blogspot.com/2025/04/issu...

Writing about the worst people in the world means you have to have a puppy sitting on your shoulder at all times so you don’t go insane

Submissions are OPEN! 📥 If you’re spending your night editing that poem or short story, why not send it our way? We’d love to give your work a home. 🖌️

What has two thumbs and just saw The Conversation (1974) for the first time? How could I have gone so long without seeing this??

www.mysteriononline.com/2025/03/the-... In “The Gift”, a Christian police officer is tempted to collaborate with a medium on his latest case, where the clock is ticking and a child’s life is in danger. New from @charliekondek.bsky.social!

Hm! For later reading... does bsky not have a bookmark function?

It's an honor to have a piece at Mysterion, a long-admired publication of speculative fiction that engages with the Christian faith. I hope you'll read this 3,500 word story about a Detroit cop with the gift of prophecy, and the lines he may or may not cross. www.mysteriononline.com/2025/03/the-...

Gorgeous poetry by @reyzlgrace.bsky.social : greatlakesreview.org/drought/

Excited to share a personal project I've been working on. I've heard the best thing you can do for your country in tough times is use the skills you have. So I hope you'll subscribe, share and listen to Elbows Up, a podcast about how, exactly, Canada can be strong and free. Forever. lnk.to/AhF2DG

Friends, I am honored and thrilled to have a story in Mysterion. Keep your eyes open for this one in the coming months: www.mysteriononline.com/2025/03/marc...

Buy a tote bag. There’s only nine left. Even I’m not keeping one because there’s only nine left. malarkeybooks.com/store/bag

If you're not reading Trash Cat, you should be! Great to work with, great contributors. Keep an eye on upcoming submission opportunities, including their first print anthology!

This was excellent. I just got hip to Merganser and will be reading more.

WE'RE FINALLY HERE! We can't wait to engage with #writers here. Please follow, we'll follow back. Browse our website to see what we do: crankedanvil.co.uk #writer #amwriting #WritingCommunity #wip #flashfiction #shortstory #microfiction #feedback #indiepress #writersofbluesky #author

One, read this. Two, start following this excellent publisher of faith-engaging speculative fiction!

We have three confirmed dates for March for writealongs. Join Trash Cat for a generative writing session using prompts. All the details and sign up form are on this page: trashcatlit.com/write-along-... We hope to see you there! 🦝

Rowlf a first round draft pick for knowing the deal.

If you’re a writer and want some fellowship and inspiration, follow @tobiecarter.bsky.social and @kellymalacko.bsky.social and join in the no-pressure, all fun chat here Thursday evening. #ThrillsAndChills

More quirky crime by the talented @cstegman.bsky.social.

Wonderful. A dialogue that could be happening among writers right now is, how much do we want to depict the present, and how much deviate from it? I myself want to see current affairs through the glass of our stories.

"aCtUaLlY this so-called priest is wrong and here's why." -theobros on social media. Ugh!!

We're about to have a busy week, here: Make sure you're all caught up with RHP and the best damn crime fiction in the world. First, check out the Stone's Throw Annual. A years worth of stories for dirt cheap! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTXKSJ78/

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"At the time of the shortest, sleepy winter days, edged on both sides with the furry dusk of mornings and evenings, when the city reached out deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of winter nights, and was shaken reluctantly into consciousness by the short dawn...