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?

a haunted house but each door and corridor requires MFA and FaceID

Expired, but not puffy. Likely fine.

Weekend read with @ambersparks.bsky.social , Happy People Don’t Live Here, Her debut novel. Open up and get lost.

Hey @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social You got this. You do. But quickly, here are four reasons to win tomorrow, 11 Oct 2025: - Beat the Cubs - Advance to NLCS - Notch season’s 100th win - Beat the Cubs Thanks.

More Leonora Carrington in the house. Down Below, with introduction by Marina Warner.

@danchaon.bsky.social this just in! Thanks for putting it out there. One of Us. Worth noting: I did not walk into traffic while reading it on the way outta the bookstore.

@pickyourpotions.bsky.social you see this?

Book mail! Vampires at Sea, by Lindsay Merbaum a.k.a., @pickyourpotions.bsky.social

Wisconsin boy looking for some writing about jazz bars in new orleans. the vibe, the experience. any recommendations? #writingcommunity #writing #nola #wisconsin

Check this out!

Do you believe in writer’s block?

Excellent. Congrats!

Book mail! The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington, by @dorothyproject.bsky.social #writingcommunity

I love that Meta just did their own version of the Cybertruck with the AI glasses.

I like how Lyft sends along about-to-expire offers like I could miss out on a great deal to get the hell outta Dodge.

@datlow.bsky.social arrived today

@electricliterature.com's post of Wastelands-based literature is worth a read.

Hi. It's Wednesday, which means it's an excellent day of the week to order my next story collection, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE from Cornerstone Press. "Crisp, unsentimental prose...stunningly honest and surprisingly tender." -- Kim Parsons Order direct event and save 20%! tinyurl.com/these-are-my...