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If I don't sell enough copies of FIVE FUNERALS, Homer gets no kibble. Do not let Homer starve. He is very concerned.
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There ought to be an app that lets people buy me drinks at local bars. Get on that, someone.
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“You took three fucking bags from me and you can’t hire a boat with lifeboats?”
Meyer looked scandalized. “I’m supposed to take out pirate insurance?”
“Shut up,” Moira snapped. “How long until we sink?”
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If you’re reading eligible short stories, check out “Look for the Helpers” by Dave Walsh, a fan favorite and a story with heart that's free to read at Phano.
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Some terrific stories in here!
Just like how hearing yourself on a recording makes you cringe, I imagine being able to go back in time and observe yourself would lead to immediate suicide by embarrassment. All my past selves were idiots.
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Or so say all the imaginary people who live in my inner universe, which is plagued by smog and werewolves.
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Dangit, my plan is ruined.
I'm so glad to hear that!
Thank you! Didn't have a precise location in mind, but definitely south-west Jersey, I think, just due to familiarity.
Looking forward to "The Real Claudius Maxwell"!
Y'all need to up your author bribery game ...
Me and the lovely @danettesomers hamming it up at @littlecitybooks for an enthusiastic crowd. You shoulda been there!
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I am ready for the challenge of finding millions of dollars of lost drug money in the desert.
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Happy to announce my short story "The Real Claudius Maxwell" has been published by Phano @ammansabet.bsky.social
Give it a read and I hope you like it!
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Phano 15 is live, and contains my story "Send Down a Hogshead of Whiskey"! Go read it all. Now. I'll wait.
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“Get behind me,” I said. “They’re gonna send up the ones they can waste, first. Can’t shoot them all.” I stared at the rafts streaming at us. “Shoot the ones that get past me.”
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An appropriately gloomy day to sneak into @wordbookstores.bsky.social in #JerseyCity to sign some copies of FIVE FUNERALS.
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Hey #Hoboken! Come on out to @littlecitybooks tonight and tell me how cool FIVE FUNERALS is.
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ICYMI: The No Pants Cocktail Hour Episode 91:
Author Jeff Somers drinks some Penelope Wheated Whiskey and reads his short story "The Robotic Prostitute Demographic" ... twice.
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I want to go back to the days when I sincerely believed I was smart.
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It’s got a nifty idea at the core, but what really makes it interesting is that the story only works as well as it does because of its structure: Re-arrange the parts, and the whole thing would fall apart.
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Photograph of a weathered brick wall with white, purple, and pink morning glories and green vines sprawling across it. The bottom of the photograph features an inset author photo of S.L. Dove Cooper, and text reading "Yes, You Get to Do That" and "Thoughts from the Writer's Desk" alongside the Ruadán Books logo. Read the essay at https://links.ruadanbooks.com/cooper.
In "Yes, You Get to Do That," @dovelynnwriter.bsky.social explores how vulnerable the process can be engaging a writer's non-English language and culture in contemporary SFF.
For those who've struggled to find their voice:
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Mostly white graphic with black text reading: “Whatever: The Big Idea: Jeff Somers” at the top, then featuring the beginning of Jeff Somers’ essay on John Scalzi’s blog Whatever in a black-bordered white box next to the front cover image of Jeff’s book Five Funerals: Choose Your Own Perilous Path. The text reads, “Five funerals may seem like a lot, but this number is actually cut down considerably from author Jeff Somers’ original idea of 26 deaths. Put on your best black tie and follow along the Big Idea for his newest choose-your-own-adventure, Five Funerals. JEFF SOMERS: WHEN I was 14 years old—chubby, prone to wearing tie-dye t-shirts for no known reason, and gifted with inexplicable levels of confidence—I wrote a novel in just under three months. Nothing’s impossible when you have no job and live on a diet of Cookie Crisp cereal and RC Cola, and the whole writing thing is so fresh and new, you haven’t yet developed a nose for your own bad writing. Writing novels sure is easy, I thought, and for a long time I actually believed that. 35 years later, I was staring up at a poster of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies…” The Ruadán Books logo appears centered at the bottom.
"Writing novels sure is easy, I thought, and for a long time I actually believed that."
Discover the Big Idea behind Jeff Somers' FIVE FUNERALS on John Scalzi's blog, Whatever:
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(Many thanks to @scalzi.com & Athena Scalzi for the feature!)
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I'm so proud of the essays we've published at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk. Brilliant words by brilliant people, like this essay by @dovelynnwriter.bsky.social.
10 Books for Fans of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’
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ICYMI, my novel FIVE FUNERALS was featured over at John Scalzi's Big Idea last week, because I am that important.
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Come out to Hoboken tomorrow and get a signed copy of FIVE FUNERALS and the chance to see if I’m wearing a wig or not like some looksmaxxer.
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