Thank you! ♥️

Thank you! 🥰

The world feels quieter than usual this #5amwritersclub. Nothing but the clack of my keyboard.

Yeah, and stop reading these magazines. I canceled my FSF subscription when they started taking over a year to send authors their contracts. I don't want to support any contract nonsense from a supposedly professional venue.

I just finished The Devils by @joeabercrombie.com and wow. I've never read a book that jumped between hilarious, harrowing, and heart-melting so seamlessly.

Probably!

Big casts are so much harder to manage!

Yeah, definitely cycles, but I don't see sci-fi toppling fantasy anytime soon.

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Working on a scene with too many characters. #5amwritersclub

What's the difference between fantasy and sci-fi?

Fantasy sells MUCH better.

This sums up short story life.

AI Data Mines in Wisconsin – Manitowoc Minute Special Report YouTube video by Charlie Berens

This is the best skit on our AI future I've seen: www.youtube.com/shorts/ez7YV...

Thank you! I don't think I've ever heard of this before.

I'm intrigued by the foreground. Are those pieces of bread covered in sprinkles?

The advice "write the story you'd like to read" works a lot better for people who like to read popular things that sell.

Summer!

I finally finished revamping my website and monthly newsletter!

I'd love it if you'd sign up since I'm not on social media much anymore. I'll be talking about writing, sharing thoughts from reading slush and running a magazine, and more: victoriabrun.com/subscribe/
#5amwritersclub

I'm so excited to be part of this incredible lineup!

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death

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"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."

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Last day!

Photo of the e-book "The Last Soul Among Wolves" on top of the physical book "The Last Hour Between Worlds" both by Melissa Caruso.

I got my first ever ARC! "The Last Soul Among Wolves" is a solid follow-up to the amazing "The Last Hour Between Worlds."

Kudos to the Submission Grinder for doing this.

Welcome to episode 701. A boy learns the importance of respecting old traditions, we sample an exclusive menu brimming with exotic flavours, and a woman chosen for ritual sacrifice holds her people’s future in her hands.

talestoterrify.com/episodes/701-derek-alan-jones-nick-badot-victoria-brun

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

That excerpt is so sad. Teaching kids not to be bullies... by violently bullying them.

701 | Derek Alan Jones, Nick Badot & Victoria Brun – Tales to Terrify Welcome to episode 701. We have three tales for you this week. First, a boy learns the importance of respecting […]

My story "God of Fire, Demon of Shadow" is now available at @talestoterrify.bsky.social! Ahhhhh!

Get it in your ears here: talestoterrify.com/episodes/701...

I'd prefer a website over an ebook--as long as it's a well designed website and not something with a popup every five minutes.

Ugh. That's gross.

No work today, so #5amwritersclub is commencing at 6am for me.