tfw you're in a camera-off meeting and aren't contributing anything

at the point in drafting this story where I'm mostly just making notes to myself for the next rewrite

when i look up a recipe online

Update: This might be the strangest thing I've ever written but I am quite enjoying writing it.

I have not written much of anything for ~a year but have been trying to get back in the game. Realized this morning that the story I'd been working on was written from the wrong character's POV and when I switched it, the whole thing came to life. Haven't felt that in a long time. Not a bad feeling.

pretty great review of Gloria Patri here 🙏

also: I agree! I love both @austinross.bsky.social stories I've been lucky enough to publish on Short Story, Long... but something about this one that I published on Hobart 7+ years ago still kinda especially lingers for me! it's such a fun, unique, killer banger www.havehashad.com/web_features...

surely others have and just didn't mention it, but kinda been dying to hear that a submitter found and loved a story in the archives via the "random" link!

got up and wrote 1100 words of a new short story this morning

found this absolute steal online. anybody want to go in on this with me

me logging on here, not having written a word in months

says the guy who *checks notes* cast himself in several of his own movies

people in holland are buying this. what's your excuse @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

how is it that not a single one of you told me about this book that came out last month. unacceptable

I had the privilege of seeing this short film based on my story in a packed theater last night. Hopefully it won't be the last time I experience something like this but I'll be riding that high for at least a few days. The jokes were landing, people seemed really into it. I was blown away. So cool.

I had the privilege of seeing this short film based on my story in a packed theater last night. Hopefully it won't be the last time I experience something like this but I'll be riding that high for at least a few days. The jokes were landing, people seemed really into it. I was blown away. So cool.

8yo told me on the walk back from school that The Incredible Hulk only speaks in haikus and now I can't stop thinking about it

lifted some weights for the first time in far too long today

incredible HAD energy on The Chair Company

when the writing is not going well

when a story is so bad you aren't sure what to say in workshop

attn @aaronburch.bsky.social (as seen in Dan Chaon's One of Us 👀)

pretty solid haul from the little free library. if only i knew how to read 😢

been really digging this lately

some of y'all are pretty okay i guess 🥹

"I wanted to explore HOW we got to this particular historical moment, rather than just make it into some sort of potboiler." Contributor @housleydave.bsky.social interviewed @austinross.bsky.social for @barrelhouse.bsky.social! Read it all right here: buff.ly/AnnRNbb

just put one of these outside my house so the neighbors know who they're dealing with

me pretending I'm still eligible for the 5 Under 35 thing

some of y'all be like

reread this recently and it always strikes me how a different story always stands out as my favorite with each read. this time? "Dirty Wedding"

Someone on Substack posted that they've been feeling out of touch with contemporary fiction and asked about fave recent novels? These 6 that I've all read pretty recently jumped to mind.

Over at @barrelhouse.bsky.social I interviewed @austinross.bsky.social about his truly awesome paranoid thriller of a novel, GLORIA PATRI, the process of writing the book over many years, how much querying agents sucks, January 6, and Patrick Swayze movies. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/an-inte...

Kind of hate to sneak into someone else’s book conversation, but at the same time we have a duty to hype @austinross.bsky.social’s magnificent novel, Gloria Patri.

I've read these 4 novels published by @malarkeybooks.bsky.social over the past year. Hugely impressed with the range and depth of Malarkey. All bangers. Read em. STILL ALIVE by @ljabouttown.bsky.social FAITH by Itoro Bassey GLORIA PATRI by @austinross.bsky.social FEARLESS by Benjamin Warner

Professional update: I am now acquiring fiction as well! 👀 🎉 Really excited about this next chapter. What I'm looking for ranges from commercial to upmarket to literary fiction, but if you know me you know a good literary thriller always hits. Send me that good stuff!

doing some reading and you all came up

Was delighted to see this very thoughtful review of Gloria Patri over at Goodreads. If you haven't picked up a copy, now is as good a time as any. "Every now and then a novel comes along that expertly captures the zeitgeist."

Christopher is wildly supportive of writers, including the local DMV writers. I'm hugely grateful to share an episode with two of the finest, plus be featured on the DC Library podcast. Don't remember what I said, probably won't listen to my section out of embarrassment, but you should check it out.

This time I talked to @austinross.bsky.social , @joeyhedger.bsky.social, and @alanallanallen.bsky.social of @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Alan's advice? Don't let the bastards get you down! dcplpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/get...

My first story was published in the Masters Review so it feels very full circle that this interview is out on my book’s release day. Huge thank you to @austinross.bsky.social for asking my dumb ass some extremely thoughtful questions. mastersreview.com/interview-wi...

“Only in Dan Chaon's hands does a rollicking tale of a traveling sideshow carnival, serial killer, and psychic orphaned twins become a complex, soaring elegy for an America that never was and never will be. ONE OF US is a brilliant novel and a beating heart in the darkness.” ―Paul Tremblay

I'm also gonna be on the editors panel for this, so you all should come out to hear me, the star of the show

Just confirmed I'll be on the faculty for the Chesapeake Writing Workshop this March in DC. If any of y'all will be there, hit me up! chesapeakewritingworkshops.com

Have had a horrendous headache all day and have finally blasted it out of my skull with caffeine but at what cost

me every night trying to escape from my children's bedrooms

Just discovered a wonderful short story title while writing this novel but now I have to write it? Annoying

Olfactory ethics? More like ol' factory ethics. Welcome to the world of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. In this essay I will

You are sheltering unnecessary similes in your manuscript, are you not

when they say to murder your darlings but you're the one who has to do the murdering