Danielle Barr

Thank you so much for reading!

Oh my goodness, thank you so much! I’m so thrilled you enjoyed it! Good luck with your submission. They’re really wonderful folks over there!

PS- She did 😭🥹

Ah, I’m so happy you enjoyed it! Thank you for reading!

Thank you so much! It is one of my favorite things I’ve written- and Steve at Okay Donkey really helped make it shine!

So proud of this zombie story about mother trauma over at Okay Donkey this week! Grateful for the chance to share it!

Finished novel number three today. Sent it off to my agent. Now turning off my brain for a long as possible 😮‍💨

😂

Happy pride month. Don’t be a Karen.

Ah, thank you so much! It was so much fun to write

If you’re interested in reading the first chapter of my latest novel, check it out at L’Esprit!

If you’re an editor and wanna see the whole thing, I hear @irisblasi.bsky.social can hook you up!

Oh no, not 50%! 🙄

The struggle

Do I..do I write absurdist literary fiction?

This is an excellent discovery.

The part about moving toward an almost heard conversation- yes! I can’t get over how perfectly that describes it!

Thank you- and to you as well!

A year ago today I finished my first novel.
Today, I signed a contract with my dream literary agent. I am so excited to share that my work is now represented by @irisblasi.bsky.social of Arc Literary Management.
I can’t wait for all that is to come with her in my corner!

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

A message from NaNoWriMo, shutting down

Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :

Love the imagery in this one 😮‍💨

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat?

ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details)
smh - Secret Message Hahahaha
tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis
idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat)
gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

You gotta share which book with an endorsement like that!👀

You spend months and months wondering when it will be your turn and then suddenly it just…is?

At the Sex Shop Off the Highway, on Valentine’s Day by Danielle Barr “It’s called the Butt Plug Challenge,” says the cashier. Purple silicone, eighteen inches tall, at least, as big around at its widest as my thigh. “Surely not,” I say back. “People don’t actually…

yesterday got away from me and I didn't post Danielle Barr's story. a shame! it's great, super fun.

"None of the brown paper bags are big enough, so I bear hug it while I shimmy sideways out the front door."
https://www.havehashad.com/qoo7g

At the Sex Shop Off the Highway, on Valentine’s Day by Danielle Barr “It’s called the Butt Plug Challenge,” says the cashier. Purple silicone, eighteen inches tall, at least, as big around at its widest as my thigh. “Surely not,” I say back. “People don’t actually d...

I forgot to post here but..

Yesterday my little weird about a sex shop me and my best friend used to hang out in in Huntsville, Alabama went live on @havehashad.com

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/at-...

My query is already in, but in retrospect, should queries have been addressed to one of the two of you specifically, or will they be considered by both of you automatically?

Not me flying to QT 😅 been looking forward to this for an embarrassingly long time!

NOTHINGBERGERS has..

🍔Voice-y, distinct POVs
🍔Literary prose
🍔Rural Appalachian setting
🍔Offbeat characters with quirky names
🍔The unintended victims of powerful mens’ missteps
🍔The corrupting power of fame
🍔A shocking twist ending

#questpit #a #q

Why did Cletus Berger’s mama throw herself off the water tower, + why’s the whole town so tight-lipped about it? + could country icon Law Leylow’s illicit affair w/a teen really be THAT bad (it can)? Small towns’ long memories+ loose lips can only hold these secrets so long.

#questpit #q #litfic