Mark Allan Gunnells
@markallangunnells.bsky.social
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Many many years ago I read some Brian Keene books and liked them well enough that I joined his message board. It was a wild and raunchy place with a lot of sexual humor, including an entire thread dedicated to speculation on the size of his dick. Wanting to fit in I tried to join in the debauchery.
3 months ago
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Notice how they always get even more racist during Black History Month.
20 days ago
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Donald Trump is a racist, always has been. Anyone still supporting him is a racist too.
21 days ago
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As a reader and thus a writer I hate when everything that happens in a book only feeds the plot. It feels too artificial and thus unbelievable. I need to feel like the characters have lives going on beyond the plot, that is what gives the story vibrancy. That's just my approach to it.
26 days ago
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I've worked with Slashic and definitely recommend them. Queer owned and operated, which means they understand the need for loud queer voices being raised in the genre.
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27 days ago
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Don't be fooled, the complaint "I don't want politics in my books" is code for "I don't want to read books by queer people, poc, or women." A book about a secret agent fighting foreign powers isn't political to them but a queer book with a scene where someone encounters homophobia is too political.
27 days ago
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Write what you love, write what brings you joy, write what thrills you. That way no matter what outside success you attain or don't attain, you are still successful because you have love, joy, and thrills.
27 days ago
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I love a good title for my stories, and probably my favorite title I ever came up with is "I Will Not Be Your Sacrificial Faggot!" Sums up the queer rage we all need to tap into these days!
archiveofourown.org/works/70760816
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I Will Not Be Your Sacrificial F*ggot - MGAllan - The Stand - Stephen King [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70760816
29 days ago
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My novel Imposter Syndrome is a haunted house novel, but it is also a novel of the COVID lockdown, artistic insecurity, familial trauma, the queer experience. A book never has to be just one thing.
www.amazon.com/Imposter-Syn...
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Imposter Syndrome
Amazon.com: Imposter Syndrome eBook : Gunnells, Mark Allan: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.com/Imposter-Syndrome-Mark-Allan-Gunnells-ebook/dp/B0F9VVQLFJ/ref=books_amazonstores_desktop_mfs_aufs_ap_sc_dsk_0?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=bATaX&content-id=amzn1.sym.6d92b4c0-97d6-4063-b66e-20890dfbd616&pf_rd_p=6d92b4c0-97d6-4063-b66e-20890dfbd616&pf_rd_r=139-9409183-4037847&pd_rd_wg=hvv1e&pd_rd_r=3aceaa8d-baa6-4ab8-968f-609b4e29b0b7
30 days ago
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I wrote a bit of fanfiction set in the world of Stephen King's The Stand in order to express some of the queer outrage I feel at this moment in time. It has one of my favorite titles ever: "I Will Not Be Your Sacrificial Faggot!"
archiveofourown.org/works/70760816
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I Will Not Be Your Sacrificial F*ggot - MGAllan - The Stand - Stephen King [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70760816
30 days ago
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Queer literature is so rich, reaches across every genre and orientation and gender identity, offering diversity and depth. No matter what you like to read, there is queer lit to fit that bill. That's why I'm a bit leery of readers who post about all the books they read and nothing queer shows up.
about 1 month ago
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These times we live in just prove what I've always believed... Christianity is built upon bigotry and bigotry alone.
about 1 month ago
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Just a reminder that all the liberals who didn't vote because they didn't think we had the "perfect candidate" are responsible for this too. Blood is on your hands too, and I'm not letting you off the hook for this shit.
about 1 month ago
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I left the horror community because it felt too much like Trumpism. People elevating toxic bullies that use lies and misinformation to try to destroy anyone that questions their "authority". The community claims to be mostly liberal but they loooove cruel straight white men.
about 1 month ago
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Let me just say as a U.S. citizen, the current government of my country is indeed a terrorist organization.
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Mark Allan Gunnells
Gabino Iglesias
about 1 month ago
It’s
#FridayReads
time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Sharing this monster full of violence, friendship, magic, monsters, ghosts, and revenge again because it’s on sale and…storms!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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I've always said queers of a certain age will never forget when we are dying in droves and no one cared.
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about 1 month ago
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For my WIP I just spent some time researching what aired on the networks on October 12, 1991. I love putting those kinds of details in stuff set in the past.
about 1 month ago
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Just a reminder that Rowling is bigoted trash.
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about 1 month ago
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As a queer man, I write for the joy, the release, but also out of spite. The more they want to suppress queer stories, the queerer my stories get.
about 1 month ago
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A young guy (who identified as bi) once told me I needed to put more positive straight male characters in my books so straight male readers would have someone they could relate to. That's some Uncle Tom bullshit and no thank you.
about 1 month ago
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Also from my WIP: "The world is an ocean of shit we're all drowning in, but that doesn't mean we can't come up for air from time to time."
about 1 month ago
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From my WIP: Daniel looked stunned, as if he'd just witnessed a miracle of Biblical proportions. Walking on water, water into wine, raising the dead, an AM radio station that didn't suck.
about 1 month ago
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I put my out of print queer time travel romance The Exchange Student up on A03. Now I'm putting up the sequel, The Time Guaridan, a chapter at a time.
archiveofourown.org/works/766475...
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The Time Guardian: An Exchange Student Sequel - Chapter 1 - MGAllan - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76647521/chapters/200607256
about 2 months ago
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Hot take: a storyteller can never ruin their own story. You might not like the direction they take the story in, but it's not your story. It's theirs. So as long as it is the direction that satisfies them, the story is not ruined.
about 2 months ago
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There is no such thing as a Trump supporter that isn't a bigot. Sorry, no such animal.
about 2 months ago
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Just over 41,000 words into my WIP, a novel called Do Over. I'm having a blast.
about 2 months ago
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There are definitely domestic terrorists in this country, and they are all in the current administration.
about 2 months ago
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If you call today "Patriot Day" then you are trash and I don't wanna know you.
about 2 months ago
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From my WIP: Daniel's suspicion seemed to melt away to something a little more akin to sympathy. Or maybe pity, sympathy's uglier cousin.
about 2 months ago
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Lights Out was my first experiment with self-publishing. You can tell that cover ain't AI. Ha It's 12 stories, one for each month of the year, based on a horror calendar I had at the time, with a wraparound to tie it all together.
about 2 months ago
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I've placed my queer time travel romance The Exchange Student up for free on A03, and I've started putting up the sequel I wrote earlier this year as well.
about 2 months ago
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It's hard to explain but I'm in a place where I feel like I may never be published again, but my writing has never been more joyous. The weirdest part, I think the two things are connected.
about 2 months ago
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Am I the only author that sometimes walks away from a bad review more proud of the work than ever?
about 2 months ago
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I am nearing 30,000 words on my WIP Do Over. I am having so much fun with this one. It has time travel, set mostly in the early 90s, and I'm going wild with the pop culture references of my youth.
2 months ago
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3 months ago
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I love to write vignettes, non-narrarive tales that are just moments in time or character sketches. Too many people think these are unfinished stories but no, they are complete unto themselves.
3 months ago
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My metaphorical take on the end of episode 4 of the new season of Stranger Things: when queer people truly accept who we are and love ourselves, we tap into our true power.
#strangerthings
#queerpower
#loveyourself
#queeracceptance
3 months ago
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From my WIP: Tough love sometimes focused too much on the tough part and not enough on the love.
3 months ago
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I just finished chapter three of my WIP, titled Do Over. I am thinking of it as a queer gender-swapped version of the 80s film Peggy Sue Got Married. My book takes place mostly in 1991 and I'm really digging putting in all those pop culture references from my youth.
3 months ago
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reposted by
Mark Allan Gunnells
Gabino Iglesias
3 months ago
It’s
#FridayReads
time! Books are great gifts. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a happy tale full of old gods, magic, grief, violence, ghosts, a hurricane, friendship, and things from beyond the reef...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen -- Nine Inch Nails Amy Grant Melissa Etheridge Foo Fighters Red Hot Chilli Peppers
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3 months ago
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Remember when the Right pretended they cared about Charlie Kirk for a minute? They are so performative.
3 months ago
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Librarian by day, just like Batgirl!
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3 months ago
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Finished this charming novella from
@stevenrowley.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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My collections Tales from the Typewriter and Portable Magic are full of meta-fiction, stories about stories and storytelling. Each with a wraparound to tie it all together.
3 months ago
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Just rewatched August: Osage County for the ... I don't know how many times we've watched it, but it never fails to enthrall. Dark and emotionally wrenching ... and hilarious at the same time. I wish studios still put money behind films like this.
3 months ago
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Also just finished a reread of Merrick by Anne Rice. This one is underappreciated.
3 months ago
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This collection by Douglas Clegg is massive but astounding. I highly recommend it.
3 months ago
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I found out I was intersex about ten years ago. When I went to the doctor about a kidney stone, they discovered "the atrophied remnants of ovaries and a uterus." I have started talking about it because to me it shows how complex and nuanced gender can be, not an either/or dichotomy.
#intersex
#queer
3 months ago
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