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Black, navy, and yellow signage with little skulls and magazine racks holding my book. Me in a cream colored oversized hoodie. Friendly Fire, HarperCollins 2024

Getting ready for the Rewind Book Fair on a lovely overcast Saturday

Black and white photo of my handsome mug. Nonfiction - meets the book life judge. AKA me

I was honored to judge a memoir contest for Publishers Weekly! Here’s a quick Q&A about my own book—urgency, the subconscious, a tight scope, and what I’m working on now

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I was hitting up my buddy who was on prescription pain meds after suffering an injury during a laser tag pro-am tourney & he was kinda out of it, slurring, & he said, “dude I’m so high right now, I feel like a minnow at the bottom of the ocean” & I was like “very funny bro, you’re such an Oxy-Moron”

I know this is normal and even common but one of my fav stories no longer exists on the World Wide Web and I’m devastated!

Any lit mags taking flash reprints these days?

Messing around with an 8-bit style delay and some synths. Stick around for the major cat cameo

Me in front of some neurology posters that used my book as source material

Four brain stickers in fun garish color schemes. One reads “brainbow”

Me and the students and the great Dr. Roxanne Prichard who has championed my book relentlessly.

What’s always a loaded time for me, leading up to the 9 year anniversary of the shooting—it’s brain injury awareness week.

I was invited back to my Alma Mater to see the academic work of neurology students who were assigned my book for a project. 1/3

People examining posters about brain injury in a library. Flyers from the breed injury alliance of Minnesota are present in the foreground as are yellow and purple flowers.

A female professor stands in front of a poster about the exhibit. The poster includes statistics about the frequency of brain, injuries, and QR codes to additional resource resources.

In honor of #BrainAwarenessWeek, students @uofstthomasmn.bsky.social
created a Brain Injury & Recovery exhibit inspired by alum Paul Rousseau’s memoir of surviving a gunshot wound to the head: Friendly Fire. @paulwrites7.bsky.social
@danafoundation.bsky.social

Friendly Fire by Paul Rousseau | Comma, a bookshop “A powerful, gut-wrenching tale of pain, suffering, and recovery.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS“Unique and haunting…. A mesmerizing and unforgettable meditation on a stranger-than-fiction tragedy.

4/4 Here is a great indie bookshop, or order from your store du jour! www.commabookshop.com/item/07BW63i...

So grateful to be in the position I’m in now. Tons of thanks to my professors for asking me back again and again—Dr Prichard and Salvatore Pane have done so much for my book it’s ludicrous. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, now would be awesome! 3/4

It was fascinating to see the intersection of story and science, what implicitly was in my book from a survivor’s perspective brought to the fore with graphs and words I had to ask to get explained to me, slowly. 2/3

Me in front of some neurology posters that used my book as source material

Four brain stickers in fun garish color schemes. One reads “brainbow”

Me and the students and the great Dr. Roxanne Prichard who has championed my book relentlessly.

What’s always a loaded time for me, leading up to the 9 year anniversary of the shooting—it’s brain injury awareness week.

I was invited back to my Alma Mater to see the academic work of neurology students who were assigned my book for a project. 1/3

MALARKEY RULES FOREVER BUY THEIR BOOKS

Really juiced for this. Always wanted to join forces with Malarky and my fav dude @danielmiller.bsky.social is providing all the art. Too cool.

NEVER NOTHING ships in October. Buy all the books!

I know you’ll crush it!!

Really juiced for this. Always wanted to join forces with Malarky and my fav dude @danielmiller.bsky.social is providing all the art. Too cool.

NEVER NOTHING ships in October. Buy all the books!

Very happy to say that this year we’ll publishing poetry EPs (micro-collections, if you will) by Rachel King, Lotte Mitchell Reford, and Stephan Antoine Viau, @paulwrites7.bsky.social and @lyfaulk.bsky.social.

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We Lived on the Horizon The acclaimed author of the “dazzling” (Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Book of Speculation returns with an engrossing new no...

🧵So 2025 was a lot, but not without good things.
On 1/14, I launched WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON. It's a book that helped me work out the kind of person I want to be during interesting times.
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I like guitar!!!

Thank you so much! Had quite a few fairs this year so I thought I’d spruce it up

All set for tomorrow 🫡

A magazine rack of friendly fire with a crosslegged skeleton reading a book

My booth at the twin cities book fest with many skulls and yellow font and stuff about surviving a gun shot to the head

People always ask to buy my little skeletons but they work very hard and are not for sale

A chapter of my memoir actually takes place at this book fair venue which is a fun little synchronicity!

Booth map of twin cities book fest

Rousseau, Paul table 317 at twin cities book fest

This weekend—the twin cities book event of the year.

Come to union depot in St. Paul. I’ll be at table 317 offering you know what.

Make it happen!

Thinly veiled book 2 research hehe

Hunting ghosts this weekend with a team of paranormal investigators and let me tell you dreams really do come true

Paul - Podcast Episode · Lived to Tell · 10/22/2025 · 50m

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gray background black outline of a brain from sideview. PAUL is white front, bold. A quote "The bullet bounced off my head" Episode 30 October 22. @Livedtotellpod Wherever you get your podcasts.

My appearance kicks off Season 3 of the Lived to Tell Podcast, where Caitlin and I discuss the events and fallout of my memoir, FRIENDLY FIRE.

“Paul was unintentionally shot in the head by his best friend. What happened after would change Paul’s life forever.”

The facade of auntie’s books in Spokane Washington downtown

The new hardback arrivals section at Auntie’s bookstore in Spokane Washington featuring amber sparks’ book happy people don’t live here

Happy people don’t live here by amber sparks Red cover with ghostly black font. An old candle and a key ring with pine lake sanitarium printed on

Am in Spokane for a concert and found this amazing indie where I of course picked up a copy of @ambersparks.bsky.social’ new book!!

Four zombie figures by vats of toxic waste. One is crawling from the barrel with a gas mask on. They wear white hazmat garb that is caked with blood.

A rabbit/humanoid figure with bloody ears holding a hammer in each hand. Wearing white coveralls spattered with blood.

Two clown figures—one in a pink dress and one in blue. Perhaps bridesmaids? Faces are discolored, rotten, insidious contortion of smiles.

Little girl zombie with weirdly adult demonic face. White coat and hat. Walking her zombie coyote like a dog by a blood spattered and timeworn fence.

Neighbor’s haunted trail is pretty good