Marked as to-read: Winterhouse by Ben Guterson goodreads.com/review/show/52…

The challenge I’m doing this month is called October and it’s where I just try to get through every day of October

No one just decides to become a writer.

You have one English teacher tell you a short story is bad, and then you spend decades proving them wrong.

I wrote a thing and Shawn Berman and The Daily Drunk Mag were cool enough to share it...

We visited Maggie Freitag yesterday, we left with a few new additions to our home’s ever growing “to be read” pile(s). @ Nashville, Tennessee instagram.com/p/CKPaC_gB48x/…

‼️50 States, 50 Scares ‼️

The NYTimes names John Hornor Jacobs's SOUTHERN GODS -- in which a phantom radio station broadcasts blues tunes that drive people to do terrible things -- the scariest book set in Arkansas.

nytimes.com/2020/10/21/at-…

Hopeful articles about Tr*mp’s shrinking chances/campaign budget are the opiate of the masses. Don’t get complacent! Vote!

Yes, these words from Barack Obama, '...w/ Joe and Kamala at the helm, you're not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day. And that's worth a lot. You're not going to have to argue about them every day. It just won't be so exhausting.' #LetsVote

After growing up in the 80s let me say now would be a perfect time for a group of plucky kids to band together to overthrow the sinister evil-doers plaguing the country.

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TMW you read the synopsis of a new novel and realize it has a major plot point that is a major plot point in the novel you’ve been working on longer than you care to admit and your choices are &$@‽ or finish that thing, query it, and move on... that moment was 3 minutes ago.

The real pressing question of the day - one in which I'm simply trying to avoid the real world - is what's Matt Bell's take on this?

cnet.com/news/baldurs-g…

I wrote a thing, No Contact was cool enough to publish it.

Anyone else binging Utopia on Amazon in between Lovecraft Country eps? It’s the most 2020 show based on a 7yo British show based on a decade old graphic novel. Each ep starts with a disclaimer that it’s not based on any real pandemic... ah, the tire fire of a world we live in.

Did everyone know a girl in grade school who straight up believed she was a horse? Is that just a thing we don’t talk about anymore?

the 5-year-old: knock knock

me: who’s there

5yo: THE DARKNESS

me: I—wha—

5yo: *hisses*

Thank you, sincerely, Raina Telgemeier for creating what you do and instilling such a sense of wonder and excitement about creating her own graphic novels in my 8 yo daughter...

Anyone else watching Utopia on Amazon? Anyone else loving it? Or just me?

New issue of No Contact is live, it is good (even though it includes something from me). Read, share, discuss.

I wrote a thing, one of my first short stories in a VERY long time, and it found a home in Issue Ten of No Contact - check it out later today, along with all the other great words I’m sure fill the issue.