Arrived. Hemlock by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social

I have a flash-fiction contest submission in my Submittable submissions heap from August 2021. Status icon should switch to "In-Progress" any day now.

Essay collection Tomboyland by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social now on my desk.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Pretty stoked about this sticker I got for my little book, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE. Stories about small-town weirdos. Thanks, @artlitlab.bsky.social and Cornerstone Press.

Oh, and while you're at it, remember to re-check your Submittable submissions page. #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #FariyTales #SpeculativeLit

Adding quotation marks to dialogue. Painful. ~Before~ This Sunday? the woman says, looking at the tree and not Fr. Bob. Why, that’s coming right up. ~After~ “This Sunday?” the woman says, looking at the tree and not Fr. Bob. “Why, that’s coming right up.”

. @ziibiing.com created the Stand With Minnesota page that literally kept thousands of people in their homes during Occupation Metro Surge in Minnesota. It’s the kind of thing that should be rewarded, so help spread the word.

Chilling stories by writers from a chilly place: #wisconsin. Available now in paperback from WWA Press wherever you buy books.

One of my stories made it into this cool anthology. Now available for early ordering. #WritingCommunity bookshop.org/p/books/a-wi...

people out here just advertising they lack the most basic possible cooking skills

Movie in current release at Falls Theater located in River Falls, Wisconsin, a short drive from ground zero of the mpls ICE agent action. They’ve been active here, too.

In the end, we did the Minneapolis reading. Despite the intensity of the situation just days following the in-broad-daylight murder of Alex Pretti.

Currently recalling a time when they called a presidential candidate ‘Hitlery.’

I think bots are basically fictional characters. But, as mythology and fandom tend to prove, fictional characters can become very real for people. If we let them wander around the internet writing stuff like this ... ten-year-olds and the NYT are definitely going to think they're real.

Some scams are more obvious than others.

-30 F at my house 25 miles from downtown mpls. They’ve invaded a winter people during winter. People who get excited when they can finally break out the ‘actual cold’ garb.

Having a hard time posting about books, coffee, and doggies when we got shit like this in our face.

Here I thought we'd hit rock-bottom when we sent our children off to school with Kevlar school bags and said, "Have a great day, honey. Don't get shot." So naive. Every rock-bottom's got a trap door down to yet another lower low.

Some good news to share, amid all the bad: These Are My People gets a nice write-up from Windy City Reviews. Thanks to @chicagowrites.bsky.social for making it happen. "...not only impeccably written but surprising." www.windycityreviews.org/book-reviews... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Midwest

It’s fun commenting on deleted posts.

My second collection of short stories is out! These Are My People. More here - click cover to order from @bookshop.org stevefoxwrites.com

So, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a small-to-medium-sized city located in the Midwest, is more populous than all of Greenland.

Drop your dialogue tags and read it aloud. Really? Yep. You’re serious? Totally. You should check it out. Huh. Maybe I will.

Killing a character gives you license to write about her more. #WritingCommunity

Very important not* to forget the tilde (~) on the n when wishing folks a happy new year in Spanish. Feliz año vs feliz ano.

First read of 2026 - The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf.

12:03,-21 C. Happy New Year and goodnight.

Wow. Random notes like this mean so much: Dear Steve — [These Are My People] is the exact book I was hoping for. It filled my soul and broke my heart all at once.

Only thing cooler than my hair is my books. Had a great time at last night’s launch of These Are My People, hosted by Chapter2Books. Thanks to all who came from far and wide to attend and hear me ramble.

🖼️ Edward Gorey

Good morning, Wednesday.

If you've configured your customer support to route callers through a layered and complicated queuing / menu system, you can configure it to inform callers when your offices are closed, and when your hours of operation will resume. feh.

You need another book. Get this one now. “Crisp, unsentimental prose … stunningly honey and surprisingly tender.” — Kimberly King Parsons Early-bird discount here: tinyurl.com/these-are-my...

So I am a lot nicer to Claude than I am to Gemini.

Rabbit-hole rabbit-hole rabbit-hole rabbit-hole rabbit-hole. I’ve heard this said 100 times this week. NEW RULE. You don’t get to use this metaphor unless a. You’re actually physically stuck in a rabbit-hole (then it’s not really not a metaphor, but still), or b. you know Alice.

What’s a great book on craft you’ve never read? One of mine is How Fiction Work, James Wood. #WritingCommunity #flashfiction #solarpunk #speculativefiction

Had a great time last week at the Cornerstone book launch party. Honored to be on stage with Calvin Mills (The Caged Man) and Barry Pearce (The Plan of Chicago), two great fiction writers.

Meanwhile, in #wisconsin

All I’m trying to do is turn my lights on.

Just grabbed a copy of @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social ‘s cool new book, Graphic Rage, from @splitlippress.com while wandering the Twin Cities Book Festival. Wonderful surprise to see them here. #writing #writingcommunity

Good morning! Daylight Saving Time. For the same reason we say Dog walking time. Story telling time. Beer drinking time. Bonus if you hyphenate because it’s a compound adjective.

My latest interview for Volume One Brooklyn is with the inimitable graphic artist and award-winning writer @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social - whose new book "Graphic Rage" is available now from @splitlippress.com Here's the interivew link, friendos: www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/27/g...

anyone read any good solar punk lately? #writingcommunity #literature #fiction #solarpunk #dystopia

Huh. The AI customer support agent that has been assigned to my ticket is out of the office until next Wednesday.

Yep. I’ll draft my own email replies, thanks. And please stop enabling Beta software by default

That Uecker Magic can kick in again any time now.

This has been in my head for like 2 years so I finally made it.

If information is free, why do the articles I need to read cost $34.99 to rent for two weeks?