And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed

IOWA CITY - The what now? Win a THOUSAND DOLLAR shopping spree? All you have to do to enter: Buy something in a Downtown or Northside Iowa City store on Saturday, December 6. (Buy things from more stores, get more chances to win.) Guess who has over 3,000 gift items at pre-tariff prices? WE DO!

Love me some Bob Bloch

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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

Alls I know is that I now have green light to arm myself with club sammiches, heh, heh, heh. Maddy out!

SALEM'S LOT turns 50 as of today. Didn't know until my pal (and co-writer) Rich Chizmar told me.

If everyone just went to the library more, the world would be okay

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

If only the president COULD read

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Remember kids, it's only "free speech" when bigots do it

What do you mean, ‘if’?

No story is "out of your league." There is only YOUR version of that story. With enough time, dedication, and polishing, anyone can write A GOOD STORY, and with the right idea and the right amount of time and effort, it could even be A GREAT STORY. An idea being out of your league is in your head.

Saw the new #toxicavenger tonight. Really fun movie. Highly recommend

Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

RFK Jr looks like the painting in Dorian Gray’s attic.

Goodness, wouldn’t that be terrible

Publishers are noting a shift in industry mindset around short stories as readers embrace shorter works, with a number feeling like “something is slowly shifting” and that “there’s a real excitement around stories again” 👇 #BookSky

Happy 135th birthday, HPL

Reached 100,000 words on second draft

Sexy Darwin

Chuck Grassley Complicit in Sending Dozens of Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/17/c...

@gabino.bsky.social has posted one of the truest things ever written on his Substack today, and, if you haven't subscribed to his newsletter yet, you damn well should. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/10-things-...

10 writers by whom i've read more than 5 books 1. Premee Mohamed 2. Martha Wells 3. Octavia Butler 4. Ian McDonald 5. Iain M Banks/Ian Banks 6. Rebecca Cunden 7. Julie Czerneda 8. CJ Cherryh 9. Sheri S Tepper 10. Elizabeth Bonesteel Bonus: Robert A. Heinlein (cos it feels dishonest not to mention)

#HappyPride for the next 335 days, too.

Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.

Happy Father's Day

I heartily disagree

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

This is an important point: maybe you don’t like romance, pulp horror, thrillers, self-help, formulaic stories about fairies for 8 year-olds or whatever, BUT Do not write these things off as rubbish that doesn’t matter If a human made it, and other humans like it, that’s art worth saving

Senator Joni Ernst

Five favorite black & white movies: The Cat and the Canary (1927) Nosferatu (1922) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Godzilla (1954) Night of the Living Dead (1968)

If you want to write a book, make a film, paint, make music, or make any kind of art, just do it. Don’t worry about the what ifs or the doubts or the obstacles or the fears. Just write the book. Write the song. Make the movie. Make art. Have fun.

The prudification of culture is exhausting generation raised on trying not to demonetize videos on YT or be reported on social media for swears are using euphemisms for words that are perfectly usable and expressive There’s such a gut reaction about swearing or adult content, and it’s getting old

JAWS (the movie) turns 50 this year. To celebrate, I'm reading the book for the first time 📚 🩸 #booksky

Shakespeare's plays are just soap operas with dick jokes #hottakes

At this point I really need every single American to be at this level of rage. I don’t recognize this country anymore. And he hadn’t even seen the news yet of the mayor being taken and congress members being assaulted by ICE. This is appropriate levels of rage.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

I miss the days when politicians pretended to care about the Constitution

Republicans are the main problem, but that doesn't mean the 35 Democrats who joined their GOP colleagues in voting against a major climate change bill shouldn't go fuck themselves.

We thought we were online far, far too much but apparently not as somehow it’s taken until 2025 to learn that the Danish version of Dune was in fact called…

This is what sunset looks like from space. Credit: ESA/NASA

Remove a letter, ruin a movie The Brie of Frankenstein