John Glover

The Truth About Amelia Earhart Conspiracy theories about her disappearance do a disservice to the pilot’s remarkable, flawed legacy.

My very first piece for @theatlantic.com

My first piece for @theatlantic.com

“…Earhart’s 1937 disappearance has been fertile ground for speculation: pulp stories, Hollywood films, and best-selling books that turned a tragic...”

#theaviatorandtheahowman #ameliaearhart @vikingbooks.bsky.social

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

Image with text: "'Almost as old as the novel is the dream to publish one,' somebody once said. It was me, just now, starting this sappy post. It was my inscrutable dream for so long, something kept in a box, something not real. When I was very young, there was this image in my head, equally inscrutable, guarded and vulnerable, of going into a Barnes & Noble on shaky legs and seeing my novel on a table or shelf. As obsessed as I am with the world of short fiction, there's something inescapably grand about a novel. "This past week the dream became real, and the fact that I had known it would be real since March of 2023 (!) didn’t prepare me for the real realness of it. I went into a Barnes & Noble and saw my book on a table. Even now, the words “my novel” have a sort of talismanic power. Indie bookstores are the real treasures in our communities, but this was for that very young Michael, the one with the inscrutably powerful dream. "Thank you to every single person who read this book already, is reading it now, is thinking of reading it in the coming weeks or months. Thank you for your kind words and reviews and all those to come, because word of mouth is crucial — especially for a debut novelist. The love has been invigorating, and I will dine on it for years like the Pine Arch Creature dines on [redacted]."

Barnes & Noble display table containing various horror books, including Michael Wehunt's The October Film Haunt

Photo from Michael Wehunt's launch event for his novel, The October Film Haunt; Kristi DeMeester sits beside him as a conversation partner, and boht hold microphones. Michael is speaking.

A stack of copies of The October Film Haunt and one copy standing upright and facing out

Earnestness sometimes feels embarrassing as a professional author, but I have decided to lean into it. It's me. Thank you, everyone, for a great launch week for THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT.

Looking forward to this weekend's James River Writers Conference! Hope to see you there. I'm moderating a Saturday panel on research and speaking on a Sunday panel about short stories. Also a first for me: I'm staffing the Lucy Booth on Sunday, 3:00-3:30 in "Ask A Librarian" mode. 📚

We the Destroyers by Laura Passin - Riot in Your Throat Press We the Destroyers is a collection of poetry about the end of days. It’s a collection about the pandemic, about grief and chaos and loss. But it’s also a collection about survival and redemption and ho...

My new book comes out in TWO DAYS! Poetry for the times that feel like the end of times:

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Dan Quayle told a 12 yo at a spelling bee that he had misspelled the word potato and that the correct spelling was potatoe.

P-o-t-a-t-o-e

His political career never recovered.

I miss those days when stupidity was a black mark and not a badge of honor.

I just want to take this moment to tip my hat to all the moral motherfuckers out there who got an invite to the Riyadh Comedy Festival and took the L to the bank account in favor of keeping their soul. I've been offered money like that before. It's not easy to say no but it feels GREAT in hindsight.

At a bookstore in France that is featuring my books
If you're seeing this post and you are an aspiring artist know this..I grew up in a trailer in rural Virginia. My mom was disabled. We had very little money
But today my books are all around the world, nothing is impossible if u really want it💙

Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)

Very nice—had never seen this cover…

Signed (and personalized, if you want) copies of my novel THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT shipped anywhere! Select “Signed Hardcover” and order before the 9/30 release date, exclusively at Little Shop of Stories’ website: littleshopofstories.com/book/9781250... - make me write a poem or an occult warning!

The Book Club Industrial Complex, Speculative Detectives, Remembering Maxine Clair, and Other Sunday Sundries A Sunday roundup of writing-related things from the past week.

I wrote about the Book Club Industrial Complex shaping publishing (and some other things) countercraft.substack.com/p/the-book-c...

That said, on one professionally distressing/revelatory occasion, it did take me 17 fucking clicks to get to full text the “correct” way, demonstrating just why people with uni credentials might still use pirate sites to get article PDFs. 🙄

This is a very good point that I haven’t heard before. I spend my days teaching people how to use the 7-click websites, which I’m largely unable to change, and focus more on the problems of LLMs…

We're down to the last few copies of this and would love to sell through them this weekend!

Stories by me, art by @patricbates.bsky.social!

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"...at times evocative of Pinter and Beckett"?

I'll take it, ma'am.

Bluesky give us an edti button!!

Cover of Alma Katsu's novel FIEND, featuring a dark house in a city, cloud overhead, with an overall red-to-blue gradient

This has not specifically been an ad for @almakatsu.bsky.social's new book, FIEND (almakatsubooks.com/fiend/), but if you need any inducement, look at thats cover:

Retail Sales: Book Stores Retail Sales: Book Stores

going to become a AAA gaming studio or start writing romantasy. The fantasy/romantasy boom has boosted publishing, but minus that, the picture is what it is. Book sales data is notoriously hard to see in aggregate, as noted in the article, but, you know...

fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MRTSS...

100%. Book sales being down or sluggish is so constant a backbeat, people often don't discuss it. I don't tend to look at the overall sales data in PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY anymore because it's usually trending down! That's not fun to read or actionable for me in any meaningful sense. I'm not suddenly--

Trends in types of books or cover art are hardly new, but when I’m wandering down the shelves—real or virtual—and hit a LOT of books that feel the same, it definitely leaves me cold.

This is less obvious at a good indie or used bookstore, either of which tend to pull from diverse wells to stock their shelves. At big U.S. stores or via Libby, though, the risk aversion feels more pronounced.

I’ll omit the depressing-for-a-writer comments that others have made on this excellent article. Instead, I’ll say that it’s disastrous for readers.

my friend just told me to take what I read online with "an ounce of sand" and now i am very intrigued to try this new drug "sand"

A bunny flees from a biplane, recalling a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "North By Northwest". The bunny is wearing a suit, and is in the middle of a barren field in the midwest.

Daily bunny no.3090 is on the run

The Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature

Two new stories by yours truly, plus a special Halloween framing story. Watercolor art by @patricbates.bsky.social. Numbered first print run of 50 copies, so they will go fast!

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# f i l m h a u n t e d

Today is the last day of the Cypher campaign - we've unlocked a ton of new products, and grown the contents of each across several goals. If you're a gamer and haven't tried Cypher (or the Cypher System) yet, now is a great time to jump in and see for yourself.

Check it out here!: mymcg.info/cypher

Book next to candle and raven

THE BEWITCHING wants to lure you into a tale of supernatural suspense this fall. Come closer. 👻
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𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑

After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.