Let’s call this an experiment of sorts. I’ve long wanted to launch a Proper Newsletter™—and rather than coming out the gate hot, I’m giving myself the space to grow into it.
I have two recommendations for you this month. But first, some updates.
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Long Covid friends—
A bill in the Maryland legislature would create an R&D fund for LC—a big deal when new federal funding is stalled.
The advocate behind the bill is asking for people anywhere to submit written testimony on Fri 2/6 on your experience w/LC, to say why this is needed!
More info:
YOOOOO HOLY SHIT 🔥🔥🔥
Very cool to see REDUNDANCIES AND POTENTIALS by @domsdickey.bsky.social on this list of 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!
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the easiest way to write a book is to be a little bit of a freak about it
TODAY (PROBABLY)
Reminder: Write that thing. Pluck it outta your soul with rusty pliers. Hit the keyboard like it owes you money. Write whenever, wherever you can. Tell your story. Make the words dance. Whatever you want—a novel, a short story, an agent, a movie—it all starts with the writing.
I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Joanne Anderton, Jason Baltazar, Seán Padraic Birnie, Chris Campbell, F.E. Choe, Kay Chronister, Dominique Dickey, Diana Dima, Hiron Ennes, Richard Gavin, Elliott Gish, Thomas Ha, Rachael K. Jones, Joe Koch, Uchechukwu Nwaka, Kelly Robson, Nicholas Royle, Kristina Ten, Natalia Theodoridou, Charlotte Tierney, Shaoni C. White, Kaaron Warren, Zachariah Claypole White, Greg van Eekhout, Mia Xuan.
I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
Expanding brain meme: -I can homebrew and re-skin Dungeons & Dragons 5e, repurposing its core rule set for whatever kind of game I want to run -Actual universal systems, like GURPS, Fate, Cortex, Savage Worlds, Cypher System, etc. do not require homebrew, as their core books include character options and modular rules for any setting, genre, or time period, making them better system choices for players who want to use a single system for every game that they run -"Universal" systems where combat is a heavy design focus and/or an integral element of the gameplay loop often compromise on mechanical support of social encounters, making them poorly suited to run drama, diplomacy, "cozy", and other game modes with little to no combat, therefore they are not truly universal -Setting/genre-specific systems are in many cases better at facilitating the story that a GM wants to tell than universal systems, because they often employ mechanisms and design choices that encourage the players to engage in a style of play that is in line with the setting or genre, creating cohesion between the narrative being created by the players at the table, and the tools that the system gives the players to create that narrative -Reverse-engineering the process of conceptualizing your game's setting/story before finding a system to run it with, instead opting to read a system's rules with the primary goal in mind of understanding how the designers intended the system to be played and what types of stories they sought to tell with it, both maximizes your ability to pull from the toolkit of mechanisms in the game's design, and expands your storytelling ability beyond your personal inventory of tropes and touchstones you might otherwise default to, sometimes even giving you altogether new ideas for the types of stories you can/want to tell with a TTRPG -I can homebrew and re-skin Pasión de las Pasiones, repurposing its core rule set for whatever kind of game I want to run
The TTRPG path to enlightenment
My short story "Forever Won't End Like This," along with the entire TOC of the Amplitudes anthology!
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I've got a whole lot of updates to share—including the release of the Amplitudes anthology, and a whole gang of June events!
As always, my newsletter is the best way to keep up with my work. I'll only hit your inbox when I've got something cool going on, promise.
I've got a whole lot of updates to share—including the release of the Amplitudes anthology, and a whole gang of June events!
As always, my newsletter is the best way to keep up with my work. I'll only hit your inbox when I've got something cool going on, promise.
Hey hi hello! I am very uh, how you say, Not Online™ lately. I have gone to touch grass. Do not mourn me: I am free.
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Ok I let this moment radicalize me but then there were like 10000 more moments what now
Decide what matters and live now.
To be clear: I 100% believe we must fight for the future (that's what makes any of this worthwhile IMO), and also, I am not living as though I am def going to get to do the things I want to do later, or as though the people and places I want to spend time with will necessarily be around later.
Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out
Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
Fuck resolutions we bitches need revolutions
ngl I am not exactly running into a new year 😒
happy new year
SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE, a lot of the resilience you’ll be rewarded for is actually the practice of you learning to betray yourself, deny your own desires, fear complexity, and slowly but surely learn to resent anyone who doesn’t actively work against themselves the way you do.
Happy New Year to all. Wishing you better than you expect.
the reason an MFA doesnt improve your writing is because it cant instill in you the single most important quality for a good writer to have: being an absolute weirdo who really wants to make people understand the perverse undulations of their gremlin brain
there’s a real temptation to say “it will all turn out okay” sometimes
and, no, it probably won’t
but maybe some of it will be funny
Fellas is it gay to suffer the revenge of Montressor? I mean ur literally getting bricked up by a man. 👀
all my plans for the rest of the year
A Nemo plushie in a heap of garbage bags on a sidewalk
bad news: we found him
oh wow, thank you!! this list is AMAZING and I’m honored to be on it!!
“An Isle in a Sea of Ghosts” by @LivingAuthors (@japrenticewrites.bsky.social) from @BCSmagazine (@bcsmagazine.bsky.social), “Look at the Moon” by @DomSDickey (@domsdickey.bsky.social) from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more recs from @ClowderofTwo here - locusmag.com/2024/11...
