Tommy Dean is open to queries

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Love #FlashFiction? Love #SpeculativeFiction? Join me for this @smokelong.bsky.social #WritingWorkshop and I'll give you the tools to write speculative fiction as metaphor, one of my FAVOURITE THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE:

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Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling | Tommy Dean | Substack Welcome to Good Trouble, where I love to break down writing craft and highlight great writing and entertaining stories. Click to read Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling, by Tommy Dean, a Substack p...

I've just reached 1,800 free subscribers on my Substack! I know that we are all bombarded with great and not-so-great content every day, so thank you for finding value in my writing craft analysis and writing tips!

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Thank you, Dan!

Very cool! 🎉🎉🎉

Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling | Tommy Dean | Substack Welcome to Good Trouble, where I love to break down writing craft and highlight great writing and entertaining stories. Click to read Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling, by Tommy Dean, a Substack p...

I've just reached 1,800 free subscribers on my Substack! I know that we are all bombarded with great and not-so-great content every day, so thank you for finding value in my writing craft analysis and writing tips!

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I’m looking for some great mysteries in my agent inbox!

Thank you so much, Bill!

"...many of us are moved to surround him, our hands finding his shoulder, the back of his neck, his forehead and elbow, and when we look back Hal is alone, quiet, eyes shut to a pain we won’t let him utter."

So cool!

Zap me, baby! Jennifer shares what lights her up in flash fiction

In our next post about what we look for in submissions to @frazzledlit.bsky.social, I consider the elements of good flash fiction, with reference to the wise words of @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social!

www.frazzledlit.com/p/zap-me-baby

Thank you so much, Timothy!

"...we should allow our final nightmares to sluice through the holes of our fragile nets and dissipate like a rising, rising fog..."
Love the lovely rush & tumble of @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

Thank you so much, Myna!

"and your chest threatens to break the drumbeat, to lose all rhythm, and we, through all the nights and days and seconds and hours, so many hours..."

💔 @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute!

So cool! Thank you, Andrea!

Truly enjoyed creating art for the 9th Anniversary issue for the Ghost Parachute magazine. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social who’s fantastic story you can read here. Also, huge thanks to my daughter Lara and her collaboration on this mixed media artwork. Love you!

Thank you for reading and sharing, Patricia!

"...bodies, even as old as ours could still tremble at the right touch in the right place, how we were all just a memory away from pleasure or pain or that murky water of the ponds in-between." A banger by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute!

Thank you so much, Kathy!

Thank you so much for your edit suggestions!

In the Back Row of the Nostalgia Group, We Talked about Death — Ghost Parachute How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires, though we were sure that some of us, Gregory and Mars...

New flash in Ghost Parachute!

Big thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social for the beta read!

"How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires..."

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Thank you so much, Gina!

Thank you so much, Anna!

Oh yes! Always!

Thank you, Angie! Though not nearly as much as I want/should be writing!

In the Back Row of the Nostalgia Group, We Talked about Death — Ghost Parachute How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires, though we were sure that some of us, Gregory and Mars...

New flash in Ghost Parachute!

Big thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social for the beta read!

"How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires..."

ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

Thank you so much for including me in this stacked issue!

In the Back Row of the Nostalgia Group, We Talked about Death — Ghost Parachute How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires, though we were sure that some of us, Gregory and Mars...

Read "In the Back Row of the Nostalgia Group, We Talked about Death" written by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social.

"So we agreed on lying in our beds, the sun just razoring through the blinds, soft shadows that often welcomed us..."

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New mini-essay on why querying authors should read debut novels!

"Pre-published authors can learn so much about positioning their future book in the marketplace, how they might angle it in a query, how they might learn craft tips for pacing and readability..."

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Oct / Nov 25: Upcoming courses, workshops & events Here’s what’s coming up from your your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags and awesome independents over the next couple of months.

This month's round-up of courses, workshops and events from your friendly neighbourhood freelancers:

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Includes stuff from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @retreatwest.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social