@daniel-fox.bsky.social
Writer of Horror, Thrillers, Fantasy, and children's books. I also created a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style horror game. Wow, I should really focus. My Books: https://shorturl.at/lzUBW
Judy Blume was born on this day in 1938.
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Oops, I missed one yesterday. Jules Verne was born on Feb 8, 1828. TIL he is the world's second-most translated author, the first being Agatha Christie.
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3 big book-related birthdays today! Sinclair Lewis was born on this day in 1885, Laura Ingalls Wilder in 1867, and that Charles Dickens guy in 1812.
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James Joyce was born on this day in 1882.
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"Around The World In 80 Days" by Jules Verne was first published on this day in France in 1873.
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The Evening Mirror published "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe on this day in 1845.
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*has sex with you in a way that both advances the plot and reinforces the themes of your narrative arc*
21.01.2026 00:03 โ ๐ 8477 ๐ 3142 ๐ฌ 38 ๐ 195Edgar Allen Poe was born on this day in 1809.
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Peter Benchley's "Jaws" was published on this day in 1974. ๐ฆ
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J.R.R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel) was born on this day in 1892.
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"Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley was published anonymously on this day in 1818. Mary's name as the author wouldn't appear until the book was republished in 1823.
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Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm published the first version of their collection of fairy tales on this day in 1812.
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It's Arthur C Clarke's birthday! Born in 1917, Clarke gave us a whole whack of science fiction including, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rendezvous With Rama, and Childhood's End.
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Shirley Jackson, creator of one of the all-time great short stories "The Lottery," (as well as over 200 other short stories and 6 novels) was born on this day in 1916.
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Marty McFries?
Tater Todd?
Russet Crowe?
Marilyn Mashroe?
Tater Swift?
"I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov was published on this day in 1950. ๐ค
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3 big author birthdays today! Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), was born in 1874. Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain 9The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) was born in 1835. And Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels) was born in 1667.
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"As You Pike It"?
"The Taming of the Shrimp"
"Romeo and Fillet"
Ummm...
"Trout Night"?
Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was first published on this day in 1865. It would gain enough notice and praise to kick off his fiction-writing career.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky ("Crime and Punishment," "The House of the Dead") was sentenced to death on this day in 1849 for belonging to a radical, anti-government, intellectual group.
They put him in front of a firing squad before his sentence was commuted to 4 years hard labour in a prison camp.
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"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson was published in novel form on this day in 1883. Apparently it was responsible for shaping a number of pirate archetypes like one-legged peg-leg pirates, parrots on shoulders, X marking a spot on a map, etc.
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"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad was published in its novella form on this day in 1902 (it was previously published in serialized form). ๐ฅ๏ธ
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, author of "Crime and Punishment," "The Brother Karamazov," "Notes From the Underground," and more was born on this day in 1821.
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Benjamin Franklin founded the first public library in the U.S., The Library Company of Philadelphia, on this day in 1731. You had to pay a deposit, but you got the money back when you returned the book.
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Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" was published this day in 1899, and ever since then every dream you have means you want to have sex with your mom.
04.11.2025 18:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The very first "Godzilla" movie premiered in Japan on this day in 1954!
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"Whatever you do, don't believe the legs."
28.10.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0John Carpenter's "Halloween" was released on this day in 1978! ๐๐ช
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You know what's super fun around this time of year? If you said, "Reading Halloween-themed horror anthologies," then HECK YA! You were right. A bunch of us inkspillers contributed to this bad boy of a book which is available now!
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"The Return of the King" was published on this day in 1955.
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