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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1h

Another puzzling phrase from my running text file scratch pad on my phone:

The snails say they believe my conspiracy theories

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 3h

enjoy building your library back up!

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 4h

I had been aware of most of the mag/journal closings.

But It was rather stark seeing all of them in my favorites list with the tag next to them indicating their demise.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 4h

This reminds of when I logged in to the submissions grinder after taking a year off to write a novel & discovered that half of my favorites markets had closed down & all but two of the rest were closed for submission (and not likely to open soon)

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 7h

I was looking at the thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com (great resource btw!) and I had an average 2.5k story I was thinking of sending on rounds and there were like… 3 open places (with the criteria I listed, I.e. pays semi-pro and accepts horror) and I don’t think any of them were a good “fit” …😓

The Submission Grinder

thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 5h

Thanks, David! It means a lot.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 6h

(and as always: DM me or contact me at the email the website linked above if you're interested in a free ebook version--it's not that I don't want to sell any books [all revenue sales go to fund future books + music gear], but that I understand lack of funds/wanting to support other authors)

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 6h

apparently we're getting a Jabba the Buff with the next SW film, so I sense a buddy cop film in the making

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 6h

If you are at all interested in the results—fiction that is both normal sf&f and not: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...

Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM

Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction

wmhenrymorris.com

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 6h

I’ve tried to just not.

Just like I’ve tried not writing criticism.

And my mind just rebels against not indulging these paths.

I wonder if the, in the end, we writers aren’t just the product of our reading.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 6h

My efforts to break into the SF&F short fiction market were desultory at best, so this is not a reflection on them.

And there are still two/three I might submit to.

But I’m going to work this vein between the SF&F and lit mags until I keel over.

Not a smart move, but nothing else interests me.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 7h

Legit thought this was gonna start with SASEs 😅

A good thread, seriously. It’s not just you— things are ROUGH out there in short fic land…

Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 7h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 6h

I’m at the point where I write what I want.

Submit to a market if I think there’s a decent fit and then move on.

It’s also why I self-published a story collection. I may not be the best judge of my own work, but I do judge it (both when editing & when deciding what goes out to the public).

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 8h

It really is! We do it somewhat by genre for the larger bookshelves we share as a family, but I also have a smaller shelf where it’s vaguely in order of what I want to read followed by authors important to me followed by chaos.

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 8h

it’s a lovely set of shelves

to me, the work of actual shelving would be much less daunting than what criteria I’m going to use to shelve the books by—could spend days going back and forth on that

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 12h

Especially given that so
much of what we encounter these days are dysfunctional substitutes (with AI being shoehorned everywhere being the most obvious but not only one) at work, school, or while trying to get the business of life done.

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 12h

I am not a coffee drinker, but the phrase “functional substitute” is such a telling thing as if normal people should be denied aesthetic/sensory pleasure so long as they get the stimulants they need to function in (an increasingly hostile to the not-wealthy) society.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

this is the best one

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 1d

short stories

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

new writing goal unlocked: obscurantist drivel*

*(may have already been achieved)

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Disco Misfit bangs

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

💯

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

the day after you finish reading a long book when the cadences of the prose and the daze of being in that world still linger is a lovely day for a long walk or bike ride or hike or drive or traveling somewhere by train or bus

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

nice!

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

For easier access! lithub.com/why-toni-mor...

Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

Commercial book publishing was (and is) unbearably white. In 1971, when Toni Morrison became a trade editor, about 95 percent of the fiction published by the big commercial houses was by white auth…

lithub.com

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

one of the crimes of everyone becoming foodies is that somehow white chocolate became uncool—but it’s a completely different experience from dark chocolate and that’s awesome (I like both!)

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