Joshua David Bellin

Another reason to hate AI: multiple daily emails purporting to be from book marketers who sound as if they know my work well. But of course, it's all an AI-generated scam.

I don't respond to marketers anyway, but AI has made this scheme all too easy, and I'm sure some authors fall victim to it.

Anyone ever read this Victorian novel? I first read it in grad school, didn't like it, but decided to give it another go.

My conclusion: it has its moments, but on the whole, it's a bit of a stinker. And half the dialogue is in French, which didn't help.

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

I'll be there. Who's with me?

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I had a chance to attend a talk she gave a few years back, but for whatever reason (time? expense? I can't remember), I didn't go. Wish I had.

Jane Goodall, primatologist and chimpanzee champion, dies at 91 Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and intelligent.

Such a loss. I wish she could have lived forever.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 9/29

Proving time travel is impossible by going back in time? You heard that right!

Find out how it works in "The Last Man in Time" by Donald A. Sansom, the final story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 9/27

Ready to have your mind blown? Then read "A String of Pearls" by Gregory B. Taylor, the next-to-last story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3!

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Writing itself could belong entirely to AIs in 50 years, so I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts!

#TimeTravelAuthors 9/25

The main character in "First, Do No Harm" by @kbenfante.bsky.social wrestles with questions of ethics. Who says time-travel scientists have no souls?

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#TimeTravelAuthors 9/23

How about this for time travel? It was 11 years ago today that I published my first novel. And now here's "Ghost Life," the prequel short story to my most recent novel, MYRIAD!

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#TimeTravelAuthors 9/21

You know how they say time has no meaning when you're in love? Well, @fenleygrant.bsky.social's romantic sizzler "The Fountain of Youth" puts a new spin on the expression!

Read it in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, vol. 3: www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...

That's what happens when one publishes a guy who will have written various stories in the future.

#TimeTravelAuthors 9/19

Fans of dystopian time travel are in for a treat with @writernatswift.bsky.social's "From Now On," the action-packed companion to his "Blue Skies" (featured in ATTCv1). Hold on to your hats (and your parachutes) when you read this one!

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#TimeTravelAuthors 9/17

"A Sweet Deal" by @maykenalanna.bsky.social is a sweet story that asks how far one person would go to save a beloved pet. Read it here along with 12 others!

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For all you #Pittsburgh area readers.

In time travel, there are no coincidences!😆

#TimeTravelAuthors 9/15

A second chance at life? Thanks to the miracle of time travel? Discover how it all works out in the wondrous "A Matter of Time" by the equally wondrous Lucia Green!

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#TimeTravelAuthors 9/13

In "Reels Through Time," time-traveling art thieves face the music when a new technology threatens to expose them. Kiersten Marcil's sequel to "Muse" (featured in ATTCv2) is every bit as alluring as its predecessor.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 9/11/25

If you could receive letters from your future self, what would you learn? What would you not want to know?

Find out in "Box 13" by K. L. Small, one of 13 time-travel stories in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, vol. 3!

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#TimeTravelAuthors 9/9

Working for a time-travel company is tough, as you'll discover in Dalton Croyle's twisty tale. To read it (and 12 other stories) in their entirety, follow this link: www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...

#TimeTravelAuthors 9/7

Next up in ATTCv3: "Borrowed Tomorrows" by the ever-original @brightlamp.bsky.social, wherein a lonely man connects with an online fortunetelling service called KrystalGaze, with unexpected results.

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As you should be. It's an inspired piece of work.

#TimeTravelAuthors 9/5

The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, vol. 3 starts off with a bang: @ingrediments.bsky.social's "Kali Anywhen," consisting of letters to a time-travel advice columnist and their responses. Read the first page, and buy the book here: www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...

notes regarding a roundtable discussion — Blood+Honey by Joshua David Bellin “If our practices are guided by rationality and theirs (seemingly) by magic, who can say at what point the former might not have evolved from the latter? Who, indeed, can clai...

I was updating my curriculum vitae for work, and I discovered that I've published 43 short stories and pieces of creative nonfiction throughout my lifetime. That's not too shabby!

Here's my most recent publication: www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/note...

Or by a possible future/past you?

#TimeTravelAuthors 9/3: So, instead of following the prompts this month, I'm going to be promoting the latest volume in the Accidental Time Travelers Collective series. 13 short stories by 13 #TimeTravelAuthors. Stay tuned!

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Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, PA. Memorial Plaza and Tower of Voices.

My daughter has moved to California, my son left today for his last year of college, and so my wife and I find ourselves empty nesters. Is there an emoji that represents equal parts happy and sad?

The point being you can only control your own output, not readers or the market or anything else.

#TimeTravelAuthors 8/25

The best writing advice I've received is this: focus on the aspects of writing you can control, not on the aspects you can't.

What you can control: writing.

What you can't control: everything else.