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SF/F writer. Words in Nature Future, Clarkesworld, Uncharted Magazine, & other nice places. Editor at 100-Foot Crow. victoriabrun.com

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Thank you! ♥️

03.11.2025 19:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! 🥰

07.10.2025 22:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The world feels quieter than usual this #5amwritersclub. Nothing but the clack of my keyboard.

08.09.2025 09:16 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, and stop reading these magazines. I canceled my FSF subscription when they started taking over a year to send authors their contracts. I don't want to support any contract nonsense from a supposedly professional venue.

06.09.2025 11:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just finished The Devils by @joeabercrombie.com and wow. I've never read a book that jumped between hilarious, harrowing, and heart-melting so seamlessly.

04.09.2025 00:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Probably!

01.09.2025 10:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Big casts are so much harder to manage!

31.08.2025 20:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, definitely cycles, but I don't see sci-fi toppling fantasy anytime soon.

31.08.2025 20:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Working on a scene with too many characters. #5amwritersclub

31.08.2025 09:58 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

What's the difference between fantasy and sci-fi?

Fantasy sells MUCH better.

30.08.2025 19:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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This sums up short story life.

26.08.2025 19:38 👍 47 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
AI Data Mines in Wisconsin – Manitowoc Minute Special Report
AI Data Mines in Wisconsin – Manitowoc Minute Special Report YouTube video by Charlie Berens

This is the best skit on our AI future I've seen: www.youtube.com/shorts/ez7YV...

24.08.2025 21:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you! I don't think I've ever heard of this before.

24.08.2025 15:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm intrigued by the foreground. Are those pieces of bread covered in sprinkles?

24.08.2025 13:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The advice "write the story you'd like to read" works a lot better for people who like to read popular things that sell.

21.08.2025 01:32 👍 477 🔁 83 💬 11 📌 9

Summer!

21.08.2025 12:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I finally finished revamping my website and monthly newsletter!

I'd love it if you'd sign up since I'm not on social media much anymore. I'll be talking about writing, sharing thoughts from reading slush and running a magazine, and more: victoriabrun.com/subscribe/
#5amwritersclub

21.08.2025 09:54 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm so excited to be part of this incredible lineup!

25.07.2025 13:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death

PRESS RELEASE

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!

curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."

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psychopomp.com/announcing-t...

22.07.2025 16:29 👍 46 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 21

Last day!

21.07.2025 23:24 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of the e-book "The Last Soul Among Wolves" on top of the physical book "The Last Hour Between Worlds" both by Melissa Caruso.

Photo of the e-book "The Last Soul Among Wolves" on top of the physical book "The Last Hour Between Worlds" both by Melissa Caruso.

I got my first ever ARC! "The Last Soul Among Wolves" is a solid follow-up to the amazing "The Last Hour Between Worlds."

16.07.2025 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kudos to the Submission Grinder for doing this.

11.07.2025 00:40 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Welcome to episode 701. A boy learns the importance of respecting old traditions, we sample an exclusive menu brimming with exotic flavours, and a woman chosen for ritual sacrifice holds her people’s future in her hands.

talestoterrify.com/episodes/701-derek-alan-jones-nick-badot-victoria-brun

04.07.2025 15:17 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

04.07.2025 18:15 👍 576 🔁 81 💬 34 📌 9

That excerpt is so sad. Teaching kids not to be bullies... by violently bullying them.

04.07.2025 13:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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701 | Derek Alan Jones, Nick Badot & Victoria Brun – Tales to Terrify Welcome to episode 701. We have three tales for you this week. First, a boy learns the importance of respecting […]

My story "God of Fire, Demon of Shadow" is now available at @talestoterrify.bsky.social! Ahhhhh!

Get it in your ears here: talestoterrify.com/episodes/701...

04.07.2025 13:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd prefer a website over an ebook--as long as it's a well designed website and not something with a popup every five minutes.

30.06.2025 12:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
20.06.2025 22:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ugh. That's gross.

19.06.2025 15:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No work today, so #5amwritersclub is commencing at 6am for me.

19.06.2025 10:04 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0