jduckwriter.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Pics from my morning jog

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Popular/iconic authors you really don’t have time for? For me it’s James Joyce.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Check out this cool analysis of INVAGINIES from Dave Fitzgerald. Gnarly! heavyfeatherreview.org/2024/06/21/i...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Unwrapping my first published short story 😀 Buy @fraidycatpress.bsky.social shorturl.at/nndPp I tried to tag everyone @marigoldrowell.com @jduckwriter.bsky.social @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social @ps-nissim.bsky.social @jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social @kathybruce.bsky.social @czwrites.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Got my contributor copy of this awesome themed issue of Fraidy Cat Quarterly!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Sneak preview, part two! @jduckwriter.bsky.social explores family commitments, loneliness, and self-deception at a shady government facility in the cosmic-tinged “Threshold” in FCQ5. #indie #horrorlit #smallpress #cosmic #paranoia

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have enough tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches. If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.

submitted 31 days ago • 32 comments

Every time I sit down at my reading chair this happens

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Never had a cat who loves tummy rubs like this guy

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

This price is still good as of today! Great value for how much kickass horror you get, if I do say so myself. If you like A24 horror movies, you'll probably like this collection!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

FCQ Vol 5 is coming soon! Featuring tales of #paranoia and self-doubt by @hktenebrae.bsky.social @jduckwriter.bsky.social @mrjumpcut.bsky.social @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social P.S. Nissim @jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social Frances Castaneda & @czwrites.bsky.social #indie #horrorlit #coverreveal #cosmic

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Increasingly I wonder why fantasy writers still write certain "races" to be invariably evil/savage. It's rarely done well (like Buehlman's goblins, whose culture/psychology are incompatible with humanity down to their obsession with asymmetry). Usually it feels like unexamined reactionary thinking.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Tugboat returns!

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Contract signed! My novelette, "Bloody Muddy Water," a sequel to my short story "Bruised Eye Dusk," starring Rugg the spellbreaker and his faithful gator mount, Tugboat, will appear in a future issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies!

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Every time someone posts to cite a law that the current US administration is breaking, it feels exactly like this:

submitted 59 days ago • 13 comments

I feel like the worse thing someone can say about your work is that it’s average. If they hate it/think it’s terrible at least you still know it affected them. But “average” stings like a welt.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI I had a new sci-fi horror story published recently in the new issue of Book XI. This story is written in the form of an owner’s manual for a line of synthetic mothers www.bookxi.org/issue-xvii#/...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

My wife got me a new bumper magnet

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Speak now or forever Rest In Peace! Please welcome for the first time... The Honored Guests of THE JOINING - SCENES OF WEDDING TERROR! @crystallake.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to have an AI generated surrogate mother in your house--good news, there's a manual you can read! My newest short story, a dark scifi formal experiment, has just dropped with Book XI's new issue. www.bookxi.org/issue-xvii#/...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Started the new novel on the 10th of January, finished the first draft tonight! SKIN ATLAS is a dark fantasy thriller that I plan on pitching as NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN x SCP FOUNDATION.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

British authors are a bit predictable with how they employ American characters. They’re always either boorish villains or friendly but clueless comic relief. I find this representation limited: sometimes we’re also perverts.

submitted 83 days ago • 6 comments

ICYMI, my newest published short is a fantasy about a fishwoman sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her people's trading partners on dry land.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out 615 lbs is a lot of weight to push and pull. Who knew? Picture doesn’t do Justice to how flushed I actually was after 3 round trips on the astroturf track

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

From the Archives: "Under the Reaching Tree" @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #409: "As long as she is here, in the Tween, in the shade of the Reaching Tree beside Birdy, she’s still a free girl. But when she goes back to the Stead, she’ll be a woman." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/unde...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Forgot to promote this yesterday! My newest story, what I'd describe as a sort of reversed (in basically every sense) Shadow Over Innsmouth, is out with the newest issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

New Issue: BCS #426 is out today, featuring stories of discovering villages and what it means that they contain by Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social and Blue Guldal @fugazulero.bsky.social, behind cover art by Erin Costello: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Proud to have a story in this anthology, the final anthology to be published by Midnight Street Press

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Hey guess whose debut collection is on sale? Just $10 right now for the paperback of my collection of cosmic horror short stories. www.amazon.com/Have-You-See...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

BCS #426 ebook is out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by @jduckwriter.bsky.social and Blue Guldal, behind cover art by Erin Costello: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @jduckwriter.bsky.social and Blue Guldal and cover art by Erin Costello: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

My newest story, “For Those Who Sink and Those Who Float,” which I would describe as a reverse Shadow over Innsmouth, is out today in the newest issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! Check it out!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder to some of my writer friends who do the same shtick every year: no one cares that you don’t care about sports

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Querying is a bit like launching little paper boats toward a waterfall whose bottom you've never seen

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments