Jedediah Berry

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

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I love imagining the writer(s?)—who clearly knew and loved the show—coming up with these lyrics.

Not exactly a jingle but our local station did this Star Trek: TNG / We Didn’t Start the Fire mashup that has uhhhhh really stuck with me youtu.be/bDk3eaeao8E?...

Ah, I thought it might be you, but I didn’t want to presume! Thanks for the reminder on that book :)

Probably Barton Fink.

The Swanwick? I do want to read that as well! Is it something we’ve discussed? I know I had it recommended to me some months back.

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My favorite thing is that our titles can be read as a complete paragraph.

The dragon has some complaints. "Kill all wizards!"

Kill All Wizards NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

Here be direct links:

Kill All Wizards: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

The Dragon Has Some Complaints: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Covers of The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell and Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry. The Dragon Has Some Complaints: "In this humorous fantasy from the author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In, a dragon whose three heads bear rather different... personalities finds family in the most unexpected of places." Kill All Wizards: "The barbarian traveled far to consult the empire's wizards. Instead of helping, they ensorcelled him. Now the barbarian plans to blend in with their vile society and kill every wizard who wronged him."

Happy to see KILL ALL WIZARDS in this month's ABA/ Netgalley digital box, right next to @wiswell.bsky.social's THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS.

Bookstore and library folks—if I may be so bold—why not check out . . . both? (I certainly know what I'm reading next.)

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

A very happy welcome back to bookstores to maybe the best grimdark medieval horror ever

a lil prize thread, now with nomination form link!!!!

Best stuff at the art institute this week: Haunted House by Morris Kantor, this guy, drawing by Bruce Goff, shield/gun

Master Class: Fairytales as Inspiration with Edward Carey — The Shipman Agency 1 Session: Sunday, March 8 11:00am-2:00pm ET Edward Carey How to reignite your imagination, sharpen your fiction, and give yourself permission to be braver and stranger in your writing through the ...

The wonderful Edward Carey is teaching a class on fairy tales as inspiration. Inspired by the one he used to teach at UT Austin's MFA. Perfect if you're not going to AWP or if you'll be home in time that Sunday March 8th. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

Pretty sure what she'd heard was the knocking of the washing machine down there. And yet.

Gene Wolfe translated them out of a future language

Alone at home with the two-year-old. She just pointed to the basement door and said, voice all raspy from a cold, "There's someone at the door." Reader, my heart did lurch.

Cairn: Barebones Edition is available in Hardback, Perfect Bound, Stapled, and Coilbound from Lulu!

And they all look great!

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3.5% — A Small Number With Huge Implications Just 3.5% of a population engaged in nonviolent resistance can change everything. 150 yrs worth of data show it would take, say, 12 million Americans committed to civil resistance to create real an…

It's easy to believe the world is full of hate, to feel overwhelmed and that change is impossible. But 150 yrs worth of data show it takes just 3.5% of a population—say 12 million Americans—engaged in nonviolent civil resistance to create real change—even the fall of administrations. This is doable.

Pro move

Don’t sleep on them, true, but do sleep with at least one of them under your pillow.

a screenshot of zoom with an arrow pointing to "settings"

a screenshot of zoom settings with "my account" highlighted and a circle around "view advanced features"

zoom on a web browser, with an arrow pointing to "AI Companion" and the first 3 of many AI features listed

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️

to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features"

it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

Writing is thinking.

It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

A quote: “A vivid, poignant, and compassionate story about our desperate search for meaning...whether on Earth or far beyond it.” —Veronica Roth A book cover: THE RAINSEEKERS by Matthew Kressel. A figure in silhouette on a purple Martian terrian. There are star trails in an iridescent sky. One of the stars, possibly Earth, is brighter than all the others. The overall color tone is purple and green.

My novella THE RAINSEEKERS is out today from Tordotcom! A group of adventurers hope to be the first to feel the rain on Mars.

“A vivid, poignant, and compassionate story about our desperate search for meaning...whether on Earth or far beyond it.” —Veronica Roth

Oh that’s very clever.

Oh it absolutely does.

Huzzah, congrats!

No ICE Minnesota Bundle: TTRPG Sorting

Also, @melshardae.bsky.social has put together this amazing spreadsheet of all the good stuff in there, categorized and tagged. It's over 1,400 games etc! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The No ICE in Minnesota itch bundle has raised $375k and counting. Let's keep this going. itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Bard alum and former faculty member here. Leon Botstein must resign.