Marshall J. Moore

Great meeting you Garrett!

The publishing world is crazy small sometimes. Nothing like stepping into a random coffee shop while on vacation and immediately running into one of your @btaylorbooks.bsky.social agent siblings!

This was SUCH an awesome panel to moderate!!

Wait, this is just Fight Club

“Your outie does combat sports after clocking out at Lumon, which is why you have new bruises every day.”

#severance

In light of *gestures around at, y’know, everything* I hope Tom from MySpace is doing well.

Personally offended that my computer’s spellcheck doesn’t recognize Nyarlathotep as a word.

Do you want to know the limits of cozy fantasy? The #TBRCon2025 panel all about that starts in 1 hour! With @marshalljmoore.bsky.social @travisbaldree.bsky.social @stephanieburgis.bsky.social @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social @momteacherwriter.bsky.social & Mariana Costa

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TBRCon 2025 | What Are the Limits of Cozy Fantasy? YouTube video by FanFiAddict

Hey, just over 6 hours until tonight's @tbrcon.bsky.social panel on cozy fantasy with @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social, @momteacherwriter.bsky.social , @travisbaldree.bsky.social, Mariana Costa and @marshalljmoore.bsky.social! You can open up the tab right now: www.youtube.com/live/an6_1XX...

I’m so excited for this!! Come watch if you can 😁

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Living with social anxiety means this gif is basically my whole internal monologue 24/7

Do cozy fantasy stories present any limits? #TBRCon2025 poses that question for @marshalljmoore.bsky.social (mod) , @travisbaldree.bsky.social , @stephanieburgis.bsky.social , @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social , @momteacherwriter.bsky.social & Mariana Costa, to discuss !

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Be a rebel punk. Believe in a better future.

The status quo HATES that

“Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler. He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait-waistcoat.”

I’m rereading A Christmas Carol and we don’t talk enough about the fact that Bob Cratchit’s first instinct on Scrooge raising his salary is to beat the old man into submission and then have him committed to an insane asylum.

#achristmascarol

This is SUCH a good character building exercise!

Writers, let’s all share a piece of writing advice that we’ve found helpful. I’ll start:

The larger the cast of characters, the more you run the risk of losing reader attention. If multiple characters are serving the same story role, try condensing them into a single character.

#writingcommunity

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Last night I had a new student taking a trial class, and afterwards she complimented me on “how you made those guys talk about their feelings.”

I’m a Muay Thai coach. At the end of each class while we’re stretching I have everyone give feedback to the person next to them, specifically one thing they think that person did well this class and one thing they can work on for next time.

The beginning of PSYCHO (1960): a black and white panoramic view of Phoenix, Arizona, with FRIDAY, DECEMBER THE ELEVENTH written across it in white letters. (Is Psycho a Christmas Movie? There is a fleeting glimpse of Christmas decorations in one shot.)

Happy Psycho Day to all who celebrate!

If you see this, post a vampire and pass it on 🧛‍♂️

I’m thrilled to announce that today is the release day for Enemy of the Empire, the third book in my Son of a Sailor series!! Captain Redbeard’s adventures continue as he searches for the legendary Valley of Gold alongside a band of unlikely allies. 🏴‍☠️

8. I have exactly one tattoo. It’s of the Southern Cross constellation, which was the name of my dad’s beloved fishing boat, named for the Crosby, Stills, & Nash song (by way of Jimmy Buffett). Growing up near the equator, I saw those stars every single night.

7. There’s no photographic evidence of this, but Kevin Hart once told me to my face that I wasn’t white.

(DNA testing later disproved this theory)

6. I reread the entirety of the Middle-Earth novels every year, doing one chapter a day starting in July with the Silmarillion then continuing into The Children of Hurin, The Hobbit, and LotR (beginning A Long-Expected Party on Sep. 22). I’ve done this for twelve years now.

5. In high school I signed my name like this:

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A picture of Marshall with several stitches along his left eyebrow.

4. Related to 3, I’ve had stitches in my face twice. Image flagged accordingly if you’d rather not see it.

3. I’m a professional Muay Thai & kickboxing instructor.

2. I once sold $1,000 of teapots to Jackie Chan.

1. I was born and (mostly) raised on Kwajalein, a 2-mile island in the Marshall Islands (thus my name).