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Although it was great attending the Texas Book Fest and being toasted for a book award I won a few months ago, the best feeling to me as a writer is getting back to my fiction work. I've been thinking about my current manuscript and I'm itching to immerse myself back in my story! #writerscommunity

What a great few days celebrating books and literary culture at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas! I enjoyed meeting the other book award winners and finalists at the Writers' League of Texas booth, where we toasted each other with some bubbly while discussing our books. 1/2

I've been writing fiction & publishing books in Austin for 30 years, but it's a real trip seeing my face & reading about my creative work in the Austin Chronicle for the very first time! Thank you @austinchronicle.bsky.social for featuring my audiobook STARMAN AFTER MIDNIGHT in this week's issue!

Starman After Midnight is now available in audiobook! Narrated by the incomparable Brian P. Craig, the story is both mysterious and hilarious. Publishers Weekly calls it "Darkly funny." Available now on Libro.FM, Apple Books. Coming soon to Audible. Listen now! scottsemegran.com/audiobooks/s...

I'm so grateful for this excellent review of the new audiobook edition of my novel-in-stories Starman After Midnight in this week's edition of the Austin Chronicle! Thank you @austinchronicle.bsky.social #writerscommunity

The @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social will be toasting my book's win of the Discovery Prize for Fiction at the @texasbookfest.bsky.social this Saturday at 4pm. Come by the WLT tent and join us if you're at the Texas Book Festival on Saturday. 🏆 📚

I'm discovering more & more that even when I'm not in the mood to write, that I can still do it if I just start my routine of making myself tea or coffee, putting on my favorite writing music, eating a cookie, and reading the last few sentences from my previous writing session. It works every time!

I've been checking out all the new celebrity book clubs with Jimmy Fallon and Dua Lipa and I gotta admit, the more book clubs, the better! If you're a celebrity thinking of starting a book club, then do it! 🤓 📚 #bookclubs

Please get out and vote today, if you haven't already! 🗳️

Saw the movie Good Fortune yesterday. A subplot is about service workers being replaced by robots & it was the 1st day at Alamo Drafthouse where I had to order thru an app instead of with a human server. Instead of enjoying the previews, I futzed in the dark with an app I'd never used before. Lame!

Saw the movie Good Fortune today and loved it! Glad to see Aziz back on the screen. Such a great flick! Catch it in theaters if you can.

Happy Halloween y'all! 🎃

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Going to early vote this morning 🗳️

I hope everyone is safe at the Austin Public Library downtown. 🙏

Getting ready to take my daughter who's a Beatles fan to see Paul McCartney in San Antonio for her first concert experience!

Hey #writerscommunity I spent the week down in the dumps because I read a shitty section in my WIP and my brain went into "you suck as a writer so why do you even try" mode. Thought of a good way to rewrite the shitty section this morning, so now my stupid brain is fine. The writer life is wild 🤪

I received a claim number for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement. We'll see how this goes. 🤪📚 #writerscommunity

Next novel on deck. Been wanting to read this one for a bit. Diving in! 🤓 📖

RIP Diane Keaton

Went to the @austinbeerworks.bsky.social Book Fair today and bought Fernando A. Flores' new book along with his limited edition cassette from @hostpublications.bsky.social. Really enjoyed chatting with Anna and Claire who run Host! Support independent publishers y'all! Also, read more books!

It's always a trip to read something I wrote months ago for the first time. It's like revisiting a dream. Often I don't remember what I wrote although I remember some of it, the beats of the story, but not the words exactly. It's strange & surprising when I realize it's good! #writerscommunity 🤓 ✍️ 📖

Hey #writerscommunity Beginning revisions on a first draft of a new novel I finished a couple of weeks ago. Wish me luck!

I had a wonderful time at the Boerne Book Festival yesterday with my wife and the amazing writers featured at this fantastic literary fest. Such a great time with memories that'll last forever. Thank you to Caren Creech and the staff at the Patrick Heath Public Library for being gracious hosts.

Getting ready for the Boerne Book Festival and putting on my power socks. Read banned books! See y'all at the Boerne Book Festival today in beautiful Boerne, Texas! At the Patrick Heath Public Library.

The Boerne Book Festival is tomorrow Saturday October 4 from 10am to 5pm at the Patrick Heath Public Library in downtown Boerne, TX. I'll be on the Writing to Heal panel at 3:30pm with James R. Dennis, Cyra Dumitru, Lucy Griffith, and Bianca Alyssa Pérez! Don't miss it!

Hey #writerscommunity If you think your books were stolen by AI company Anthropic, then it's time to check the official class action lawsuit database. If your books appear in the results, then file your claim ASAP. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Happy dating anniversary to my sweetheart and best friend, the love of my life: Lori! This was the day my life changed forever. So grateful! ❤️❤️❤️

Boerne Book Festival is this Saturday! I'll be on the Writing to Heal panel along with James R. Dennis, Cyra Dumitru, Lucy Griffith, and Bianca Alyssa Powell-Pérez! Come out and see us! www.boernebookfest.com

The eBook of Starman After Midnight is FREE for a limited time! Get it now! Three of my other eBooks are only 99 cents. If you want a head full of my fiction, then nothing like the present. Get ya some! www.bookbub.com/books/starma...

I survived the #rapture and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

One thing that's been a gift to me as a writer is getting to know other writers. No matter their publishing path or genre, they all want the same thing mostly. Achieving success in publishing is such a mystery and luck plays a BIG part in it. Knowing that writers ... 1/2 #writerscommunity

I'm officially me! Thank you @bsky.app for verifying my account. The blue checkmark looks fantastic!

“It is worth while to be kind and generous. Not only do such actions pile up a house of joy in Heaven; but there is, too, a quick reward here on earth. One feels a golden warmth glowing like a hot enchilada in one’s stomach.” – John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

The September edition of my newsletter is out now! Read it here 👇

I just finished the first draft of a new short novel I started writing on July 15th. Feeling good about it! I had a lot of fun writing this one! Looking forward to revising it next week. #writerscommunity

Comic book mail: The Amazing Spider-Man #227. April 1982. Writer: Roger Stern. Penciler: John Romita Jr. "Goin' straight!" Black Cat wants to do one last job and secure her and Spider-Man a nest egg, but it is not to be. Spider-man and the Cat fight, and Spidey leaves. Drama!

"I think I’m drawn to naturalism as a reader and so, it can’t help but come out in my writing. I also think it offers—craft wise—writers a chance to develop their own prose style to show folks how they see the world." Read more about James Wade's writing approach and his new novel Narrow the Road.

RIP Robert Redford

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This is evergreen

Hey #writerscommunity. I wrote 1,398 words today. Good writing day! Now, I can take a break this weekend and mull over how I'm going to end this new novel manuscript.

Have a great weekend, if you can. Spend time with your friends and family. Pet your cat or dog. Enjoy some peace. 😻❤️

#writerscommunity: Is there a sequel to a classic novel that's as good its predecessor? I'm currently reading Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck and it's nowhere as good as Cannery Row. And Lonesome Dove's sequel Streets of Laredo is also a dud. Any sequels of classic novels worth reading?

Congratulations to @bpcvo.bsky.social for being named a 2025 Narrator of Distinction Finalist from the Professional Audiobook Narrators Association! His narration for my novel The Codger and the Sparrow is definitely award worthy! Congrats Brian! 🏆 🎧 👏

Golden Girls is funny TV. The episode "Rose the Prude" is played up for laughs, but this scene of Rose confessing to her boyfriend that her husband died while making love to her & she's held that grief & guilt for 15 years just kills me. Just devastating 💔

They're supposedly paying each author $3,000 per book. They ingested five of my books without my permission. Pay up, bitches!

The day the new season of The Great British Baking Show drops is the actual beginning of fall, not the autumnal equinox. 🥧 🍰 🍞 🍂 🍁