Benjamin Adams (He/Him)

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Gloucester: What, is he dead?
Edgar: Sit you down, father; rest you.

Icing Up From 100 VICIOUS LITTLE VAMPIRE STORIES

Now on Substack, my first fiction for paid subscribers is up.

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Getting my Substack going... rbadams.substack.com?r=4gq2ui&utm...

My heroic fantasy novelette “The Red Priests of Zaggua” (started in the 1990s, finished this year) just sold to DIRTY MAGICK magazine. Great way to kick off a Monday morning!

Watched STARVE ACRE tonight, which I found wonderfully atmospheric and traumatic. It also helped me understand an issue I’ve been having wrestling with the third act of a story I’m writing about a couple who’ve moved to a strange house on Saddleworth Moor, so hurrah for that.

BENJAMIN ADAMS: THE SMOL BEAR INTERVIEW YouTube video by The Smol Bear Show with Alex S. Johnson

I was recently interviewed on the Smol Bear Show by one of my editors. The interview also serves as promo for his small press. Check it out if you wanna see nearly three hours of two neurodivergents nattering at each other! youtu.be/K76XP89WYfc?...

This… this couldn’t be satire, could it?

Blasted extraneous comma, thanks fat fingers.

Yes, of course - it may only have been due to wide belief. I’ve certainly never been dinged over using the word “killed” - but possibly it may come down to context, like “I wanna unalive that guy.” Time for someone (not me) to write a paper on it…,

Fantastic! Bring back your fiction line - have you seen what some of those are going for on the resale market? @chaosium.bsky.social

Seconded. (I was coming here to point out that it came into wide use as a “cute” means of getting around social media algorithms, but you beat me to it.)

Sorry for the late reply. You unfortunately received my growly take on MS formats after I reached a snapping point - you of course are in no way responsible for the frankly bizarre formats requested by other publishers simply to ease formatting at their end. I’m from the 20th Century, I guess. Pax!

Which is nice of you to say, but at our end it’s obnoxious how many different submission formats have come into existence. We literally can’t keep track. Shinn is based on the accepted physical MS format that existed for decades and it’s *right there*.

A Collective Paw: An Animal Rights Anthology Volume 1 Amazon.com: A Collective Paw: An Animal Rights Anthology Volume 1: 9798293608621: Johnson, Alex S., Sixx, Nicole H, Williams, Alea Celeste, Maybe, Ellyn, Steckel, Jan, Brite, Poppy Z, Kiernan, Caitlin R, Bark, Jasper, Fairchild, Michelle, Taborska, Anna: Books

Hey everyone, here's A COLLECTIVE PAW, a new anthology from Alex S Johnson, featuring my gentle "cat lady" fantasy, "Bagheera & Bathsheba & Bonnie." Available now in paperback via Amazon! All proceeds go to vetted animal rights charities. Kindle and hardcover soon. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJM427GQ/

Hm. Sure would be nice to hear back from some editors with either acceptances, rewrite requests, or rejections. Anything’s better than an empty inbox, and at least with a rejection I can retool the piece for another market. A check or two would also be good! #writerlife

On the road from Harlech to Llyn Cwm Bychan

I’ve signed a contract for my story, “The Lady of Silken Decay,” for the anthology SPELLS AND FANGS, coming September 30 2025 from Dragon Soul Press, in both physical and ebook editions.

The fact they brought a film crew down here blew our minds, because it’s in the absolute middle of nowhere and not easy to find or traverse. And of course the weather for filming was grey and horrid, so you don’t even get a sense of the true natural beauty.

Author Benjamin Adams standing in front of a large black rock in rural Wales, with sheep and trees.

In the Gallifreyan Death Zone! This is the exact spot where the Master accosts the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane in THE FIVE DOCTORS. It’s literally a good 30 minutes down a one-lane sheep farming road in Wales.

@downhillgame.bsky.social Will there be an ace relationship option for Fade?

Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.

Receiving an acknowledgment of submission is always appreciated. Too many small markets these days claim “lack of time,” really? Why’re you editing something in the first place then? And avoiding conflict by simply not bothering with rejection emails at all? Grow a skin like writers are supposed to.

Policy of Truth

Policy of Truth

Receiving an acknowledgment of submission is always appreciated. 👍

Well, if you think they are and they actually aren’t, you then become an unwitting asshole. Fucking minefield!

People gonna people, I guess.

Away from pro writing for over a decade, six months back in and four antho sales under my belt, and once again finding the same swirling miasma of personal politics in the field that helped drive me away from the HWA and then writing altogether. Ah well. All part of the gig. Onwards.

Cheers man, I’ll zap a piece your way. Literally just bashed out something yesterday featuring the scariest cryptid I’ve ever read about.