Mac Crane (they/them)
mcrane12.bsky.social
Mac Crane (they/them)
@mcrane12.bsky.social
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parent. jock to writer pipeline. author of I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF, A SHARP ENDLESS NEED (May, 2025), PERVERTS (2026)
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if my Spotify daylist (correctly) calls me fragile ONE MORE TIME 👊🏼
I’ve been unemployed for 7 months & am unable to find work—please hire me to edit your work, provide a MS consult, be your book coach/dom 🙏🏼

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Manuscript Consultations — Mac (Marisa) Crane
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Powerful essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social in this collection. Provided me with a perspective that I’ll not ever fully understand. Thank you for sharing your words & experience with us, Mac.
And I was incredibly lucky to get to work with @tlpavlich.gay AGAIN, editor extraordinaire & women’s sports enthusiast who happened to be craving an essay about ACL tears :)
I have a new essay out in The Offing today! It’s about playing college basketball on a torn ACL, the fucked coach-player power dynamics, inherent worth & value, our cultural attitudes towards sacrifice in order to WIN THE BIG GAME, & more. give it a read ❤️🏀

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Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain - The Offing
Essay - The Offing Magazine
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I got to edit another essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social and now you all get to read it in @theoffingmag.bsky.social. If you've followed the impact of ACLs on WoSo in recent years, it's a must read.
Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain - The Offing
Essay - The Offing Magazine
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Love this, I know people do it on their own but I want to see the shift happen in the industry and culturally like normalize them as a way to consume books. Like I’d love to start a print journal that serializes novels and people receive in the mail cuz mail is fun and so is holding books
I mean I know. But I want to do it with novels in a print format even or in a lit journal. I’m not discounting those other things
bring back the serialized novel, we could spend all week discussing each chapter online like we do tv shows
reframing all the pics of boys on my wall growing up as my very first Pinterest board of gender inspo
what it gonna take for my novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself—a very clear abolitionist text—to show up when I google literary fiction or speculative fiction about incarceration, prisons, critiquing the prison industrial complex, etc
my kid woke me up at 3:30 am to tell me he had a bad dream (he was on a mountaintop with his books & one fell down & he screamed)
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surprise! I am teaching a 4-week, online, asynchronous class on writing sex scenes, including expanding what a sex scene can be, complicating character psychology and emotional and relational history, and beyond. it runs from Oct 4 - Nov 3. sign up below!

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What a Sex Scene Can Do Are sex scenes really so hard to write, or are we thinking about them the wrong way? What can a sex scene do? How can it achieve psychological complexity on the page? How can ...
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hi! I have been unemployed since March despite my best efforts to find a job. so I am freelancing in the meantime & am open for novel manuscript consults & book coaching. email me marisacrane12(at)gmail(dot)com

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Manuscript Consultations — Mac (Marisa) Crane
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I would pay YOU to let me read some of your gay sex scenes