Ryan T. Pozzi

I mean, she does have her own chapter in my forthcoming debut, so...

The opposite, actually

Hadn't thought of that, but it's possible since Elizabeth grew up in Nebraska and I grew up in Texas.

Friends of Bluesky: Is it?
You get what you get and you don't get upset
like I always thought it was
OR
You get what you get and you don't throw a fit
like my wife always thought it was

Pay no attention to the fact(s) that she is much more talented and attractive than me. I could still be right.

FROM THE ARCHIVE
Sometimes writing confessional CNF makes me look like the villain. Sometimes that's because I was the villain. This is a fictionalized version of one of my worst professional moments pre-author life. (Plenty of time for new mistakes in author life!)

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Tony Bennett in 1995

On This Day in History: August 3, 1926
Happy birthday to the recently departed Tony Bennett. “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” was just the beginning. His career lasted longer than most listeners have been alive. #OnThisDay #TonyBennett #AmericanSongbook

Portrait of a Lady (Alma Thomas), 1947, 30 x 25 1⁄8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum

Messy Genius Spotlight: Alma Thomas
African-American artist and art teacher (1891-1978)

Alma Thomas spent decades as a teacher, painting in private, long before anyone paid attention. She didn’t have her first solo show until her late 70s. Keep making the work. Let the reception sort itself out.

Squinting orange cat face

When you hear the alarm but you’re still deciding whether to participate in the day. #Caturday #CatAttitude #NotAMorningCat

James Baldwin in 1969

On This Day in History: August 2, 1924
James Baldwin was born in Harlem. His writing attacks the myths America tells itself about race, power, and belonging. Baldwin forces us to see what we refuse to face. I think he's one of the most important American authors of the 20th century. #CivilRights

I can't tell from your comment if you're for or against fabricating data for political gain. I'm going to assume that if you were for it, you wouldn't necessarily be following me.

Basically, it all matters, or none of it does.

That's not a case for keeping these clowns in power. It's a case for the radical reform of accountability in the political class.

Zadie Smith quote on a background titled Mic Drop. Illustration of a microphone at the bottom of the image. Quote reads: “The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”

What I fear most is that when we return to power, Dems may find it easier to keep some of the damage. Due process with exceptions, numbers can be flexibile, critics get shut out. Now that both "teams" know consequences are optional, what keeps us from turning cruel fascism into friendly fascism?

YouTube video by TomPettyVEVO Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - The Waiting (Official Music Video)

So far, on balance, I love being an author. That said, Tom Petty was right.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyC...

Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of being a political appointee who was manipulating jobs data.

“Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future.” -Václav Havel

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/t...

It occurred to me today that, despite the absurd amount of fictional murder stories I consume in all their forms, if I ever actually needed to hide a body, I’d have no plan. Have I even been paying attention? smh

#CrimeFan #FictionVsReality #PlotTwist

The first images shown on MTV were a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

On This Day in History: August 1, 1981
Forty-four years ago, MTV launched and changed the way we experienced music and pop culture. For a while, we all wanted our MTV. Now that it’s just wall-to-wall reality TV, are you still watching? I’m not. #OnThisDay #MTV #MusicHistory #PopCulture

Good advice. It's completely contrary to nearly every aspect of my personality, but it's good advice.

also *thought
(I hate social media typos, but you'd never know that based on how many get past me every day. I suppose that's why I HAVE an editor instead of BEING an editor.)

But I know it's 50/50.

This week I got a double acceptance from a journal I'd sent two pieces to consider. They accepted both.

I prefer to think I'm getting better at judging editorial preference from reading past issues and not that they got to the slush pile and though, "Crap! We don't have enough for a full issue!"

I'll let you know if we end up needing to throw hands. We're probably safe, though. You know the internet. Somebody is always mad about something. (Half the time it's me.)

Okay, I'm gonna go take a nap. You kids all be friendlier when I get back. Hear me?

But again, my advice if you think I'm misinformed or stupid (two things I've been called already this week) is not to waste your time or raise your blood pressure by hanging out with me.

We can have good, separate lives. I have faith in us.

Having said all that, unless I trip up with some kind of factual error, which is possible since I make plenty of mistakes in life, everything I do say is either something I lived through or some multi-sourced fact.

Come at me and I will:
1. Double check the facts
2. Explain which one of us is wrong

If that kind of insight isn't valuable to you because you had a different experience than I had and hearing about my different experience upsets you in some way, my advice is to unfollow this page immediately.

I want you to be here, but not if being here upsets you. This isn't that kind of page.

It's my own frank assessment of the experience I'm having. Your mileage may vary.

I'm thrilled if you want to jump in and share your own experience or add a different perspective, but arguing that I'm wrong about my own experience is just silly.

I was there, hence the telling you about it.

I getting a little flack so I must not being saying it right. Let me clarify so (hopefully) fewer people will @ me. 🧵

I'm not a publishing expert. I'm just some dude most of the way through the process of traditionally publishing his debut. What I write about that isn't advice or objective truth.