Bryon Quertermous
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NYT Bestselling Author. Detroit(ish). He/Him. ADHD Survivor.
http://bryonquertermous.com/links
The sad thing is Barnes & Noble is on the same path and people donāt seem to talk about it as much.
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I Have Something to Communicate
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First BQ&A Interview of 2026 is live w one of my favorite people in the world:
@loriraderday.bsky.social
We talk about art, inspiration, legacy and audience. Lori is such a smart and insightful writer and teacher. Enjoy!
bryonquertermous.substack.com/p/bq-and-a-i...
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BQ&A Interview w/ Lori Rader-Day
I donāt remember a time I didnāt know Lori Rader-Day.
https://bryonquertermous.substack.com/p/bq-and-a-interview-w-lori-rader-day
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For a decade weāve known the biggest threat to our national security is right wing extremism. But rather than rooting it out and stopping it we gave them full control of our governmen.
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It boggles my mind that I am still seeing brand new books coming out with blurbs from AJ Finn. Even if he wasnāt radioactive, the fact that heās blurbed SO many books would make me want to avoid him.
3 days ago
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THE PLOT was one of my favorite novels the year it came out, but
@jeanhanff.bsky.social
has outdone her own brilliance with this one. The Tom Ripley in Publishing vibe is still great here layered with themes of grief and ambition and who can really tell our own stories. I loved it so much.
4 days ago
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I am a relentless cutter, but tamer than I used to be for this reason. After a certain point, I found the more cutting I did sucked everything out of the book that made it special and made it mine.
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8 days ago
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As someone who has judged multiple Edgar Award categories + other awards Iāve seen two scenarios play out 99% of the time. Most common is a small cluster of entries that are great and nearly indistinguishable between each other and it takes a lot of discussion and difficulty picking the winner. 1/2
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8 days ago
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Pieces like this should be heartening to all writers. Absolutely no one knows what will be a hit in publishing so all we can do as writers is write the book we want to write and make it as good as possible and then keep doing that until luck, timing, and readers are ready for what your stuff.
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8 days ago
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This is why a certain āprogressiveā social media provocateur - one of my earliest blocks on Twitter - found that his shit take hate bait content tanked on Bluesky even though it was very popular everywhere else. People here are sick of the negativity and just want a safe space to enjoy the Internet.
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9 days ago
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With all the shit going on in the US, stuff like the Razzies need to go away. Hate watching is a product of a time when people had to look for reasons to be unhappy. That is no longer the case. These days Iām all about support, kindness, and gratitude.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/razzie...
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Razzie Awards Nominations: āSnow White,ā Ice Cube-Starring āWar of the Worldsā Lead With Six Nods Each
Other top contenders on the list of the worst projects of the year include five-time nominees 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' and 'Star Trek: Section 31.'
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/razzie-awards-nominations-2026-full-list/
9 days ago
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Just finished by fourth book of the year and it was a good one.
10 days ago
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Hard Same vvvvvvv
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10 days ago
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Great grandparents were Canadian and we live 30 minutes from the border. Good to know. Good to know.
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12 days ago
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Sunday reading.
12 days ago
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I love the idea of optional captions for plot recaps, but integrated into the story is a hard no for me.
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12 days ago
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Iām always boggled by attempts to create art for right wing audiences because the vast majority of right wing audiences do not like art or consume art. Especially theater. Itās antithetical to everything they believe.
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13 days ago
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Kameron Hurley
16 days ago
Your brain is a hallucination engine. Feed it a steady diet of shit, and it will build you a shit world. So what happens when you change what you feed it?
www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-...
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"Weāre Fucked" Feels Like a Profound Insight. Itās Actually a Trap. - Kameron Hurley
I recently watched a documentary about that reaffirmed many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books the last few years). Brains are hallucination engines. If th...
https://www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-feels-like-a-profound-insight-its-actually-a-trap/
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Navigating life with ADHD requires an ever-changing mix of high tech and low tech processes and tools. One of the things Iāve been realizing is that I need to have a notebook on me at all times because handwriting important notes imprints them on my brain better than typing them into an Apple note.
17 days ago
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C. Robert Cargill
17 days ago
Some of you have fallen off the routine of getting your pages in on your 2026 project. Some of you are feeling like you've failed because of that. You have not. Targets are there to get you writing, so all you have to do is start writing again. You've got this. You can finish! Just. Keep. Writing.
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22 days ago
We like to endlessly dunk on bad takes and narratives. But all that does is promote more of the bad take. Make your own good take. Promote that. It's the difference between driving a conversation and reacting to one.
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Mastering simple and obvious narratives rather than worrying about subtext or being too hamfisted are lessons all of us need to learn if we truly want to fight facism. āWokeā and āeliteā are just different ways of telling dems and libs to stop trying to be subtle and proper. Be obvious and raw.
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22 days ago
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Ken Jennings
23 days ago
The āprosecute the former regime at every levelā candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Adam Sternbergh
26 days ago
Beyond the (fun!) magazine-trend-piece headline, this is a wise and thoughtful and timely consideration of parenting and living and being human in a world increasingly designed to obliterate boredom and frustration and friction and risk
www.thecut.com/article/broo...
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In 2026, We Are Friction-Maxxing
In the face of technologies that sell us escapism at every turn, we need to build up tolerance for āinconvenience.ā
https://www.thecut.com/article/brooding-friction-maxxing-new-years-2026-resolution.html?_gl=1*v5dinu*_gcl_au*MTIxNTMxNjI1MC4xNzY0MDgwMzcx*FPAU*MTIxNTMxNjI1MC4xNzY0MDgwMzcx*_ga*MTE4MDY2NzkxMy4xNzYzMzc5Mzc0*_ga_DNE38RK1HX*czE3Njc2MTM3NjgkbzE1JGcwJHQxNzY3NjEzNzg5JGozOSRsMCRoNDk3OTM5MDk2*_fplc*cHhZNW1LY1hWWWZWbkxtTHFrS3JJQ3dJS3pYZVFrN0lwbmUzU2VFRGtROUlSZWslMkJTekNSc0JmWHQwcXlNUVowaFgwcUQ0N0M3dEtpbWp4SEMxV0ZaSzhCRCUyRkRodXE2ZHBKOUJhSGtTanNEMzZyTXpwNlIxR3JIbVB6cEUlMkZ3JTNEJTNE
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Kameron Hurley
26 days ago
If you're looking to follow the short essays here about writing, power, failure, survival, and why stories are worth telling at all, I've rounded them up at ye olde blogge
www.kameronhurley.com/blog/
(HOW RETRO IS THAT???)
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Seems like today was a good day to stay offline and play Dungeons and Dragons all dayā¦
27 days ago
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Kameron Hurley
28 days ago
With that kind of ambition, your chances of perfection are basically nil. But oh, the reach! How many people never even try because they know they don't quite have the talent to pull it off? The older I get, the more impressed I am at people doing imperfect work but doing it w/everything they've got
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Inspired by
@jordanharper.bsky.social
I want to get back to reading plays this year and was just wondering what my first should be. Iām woefully under read in Christopher Durant and The Marriage of Bette and Boo seems like a great place to start.
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28 days ago
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I just had a natural peanut butter sandwich with natural strawberry preserves on whole grain bread and that might be the most satisfying sandwich Iāve ever had.
29 days ago
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When in doubt, do as
@meganabbott.bsky.social
says and always make the weird choice, and like
@jordanharper.bsky.social
says, in a world of AI be stranger, weirder, and hornier.
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29 days ago
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Winding down a shitty year in my favorite place in the world: a movie theater. And every theater is *packed* for STRANGER THINGS, which is so cool to see.
30 days ago
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Itās cold and snowy and miserable here to end the year, but Iām seeing Stranger Things in a theater tonight and until then I have this very delightful book from Deborah Levinson thatās giving off major Janet Evanovich and Finley Donovan energy.
about 1 month ago
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Amen. Hallelujah. Etc. Publishers need to stop looking for shortcuts and get back to building audiences and careers the sustainable way, through time, experimentation, and trust. Stop being an industry that lives and dies by homeruns, be an industry that thrives on strings of singles and doubles.
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Watched WAKE UP DEAD MAN again last night and enjoyed it even more than the first time. I think itās the most rewatchable of the trilogy so far. I love how angry the movie is at bullshit anger and manipulation. It doesnāt rage against religion as much as people who use religion for power and money.
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Thinking about films in 2025 and I still can't reconcile the facts that 1) there was an adaptation of Donald Westlake's Parker series written and directed by Shane Black and 2) it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
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I always love how
@jimchines.com
does an annual post about his writing income. Following the posts through the years give a pretty realistic and interesting perspective on the industry. Here is his latest post with links to all of the previous posts as well.
www.patreon.com/posts/2024-w...
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about 1 month ago
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My last newsletter of the year is bursting with fun stuff including my favorite reads of the year from
@maris.bsky.social
@jordanharper.bsky.social
@loriraderday.bsky.social
@greenwell.bsky.social
and others!
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My Favorite (Not Best) Books of 2025, a Bluesky thread, and a 2026 Tarot Spread
2025 joins an uncomfortably large group of years recently that I am happy to punt into the sun, but it wasnāt all misery and depression.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bryonquertermous/p/my-favorite-not-best-books-of-2025?r=4i0a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 1 month ago
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Laura Lippman
about 1 month ago
Good morning, Baltimore. Over at Oldster, Iām back on my other bullshit, working through the endless list of things I donāt know. This time, Iām trying to figure out why Iām happier than Iāve ever been despite the state of the world, etc.
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One of the things Iāve been working with my therapist on is letting myself enjoy achieving the majority of a goal. Writing every day and hard deadlines are great in theory, but useless when life intervenes and I lose all motivation.
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John Rogers
about 1 month ago
The immediate threat has always been not that it would take jobs, but that some dipshit exec would spend a billion dollars integrating it into the business, drive everything off the cliff, and 5-8 years later the rest of us are left picking up the pieces.
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Second annual solo Christmas movie outing for MARTY SUPREME after a nice meal of Chinese food. Time with family at the holidays is nice, but donāt underestimate the joy of holiday time by yourself.
about 1 month ago
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Taking a break from Agatha Christie movies for my favorite Christmas movie of all time.
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Sarah Weinman
about 1 month ago
For
@rollingstone.com
, I wrote about the making of the myth of sheriff Buford Pusser, and how recent revelations that he was likely responsible for the 1967 murder of his wife, Pauline, undercuts that myth -- and begs for a new narrative about intimate partner violence and family trauma.
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He Was a Legendary Sheriff Who Inspired a Movie. Did He Also Murder His Wife?
When Buford Pusserās wife was killed, his grief turned into the movie āWalking Tall.ā But a new report from investigators suggests it was all a lie.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/walking-tall-burford-pusser-true-story-1235488052/
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Christmas always feels like Agatha Christie season to me, and Iām starting this week with one Iām shocked Iāve missed for this long: Evil Under the Sun. Star-studded cast and screenplay by Anthony Shaffer. Whatās not to love? Will probably follow up with the companion Death on the Nile.
about 1 month ago
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Something something own your own domain and website also something something blog revival.
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about 1 month ago
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Kameron Hurley
about 2 months ago
The entire Internet economy is fake and propped up by the same six rich people handing each other the same bag of money.
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Stop sharing the fucking post. Jesus Christ. Let it die in silence and darkness like it deserves.
about 2 months ago
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For sheer fun AVENGERS: END GAME opening night with a full crowd. Quieter memories are APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX at the Loweās Astor Place the night before I left NYC and moved back home, then walking through a blizzard downtown Ann Arbor and taking refuge in the State Theater to see SIDEWAYS.
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about 2 months ago
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Best Christmas gift since the Tom Cruise cake.
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about 2 months ago
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YES. Then cast Gosling and Emma Stone as Nick and Nora.
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