Jon Chaiim McConnell

This guy is in imminent danger

Lancaster

Novel in a Year: First Draft with Juan Martinez - StoryStudio Chicago This is the year to write your novel Novel in a Year: First Draft is a unique opportunity to join a writing cohort, study novel craft, workshop key scenes, measure your progress, meet deadlines, and g...

Hi, everyone! I‘ll be teaching Novel-in-a-Year with @storystudiochicago.bsky.social in 2026. This will be my third iteration of the class, with first drafts as the focus this time around. Registration is now open and will close November 7:

www.storystudiochicago.org/advanced-wri...

UPenn has a good bookstore

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

A big one for me is design sense and "taste," even just from looking at their website. An aesthetic eye for detail - because I know it would carry over to the experience making the book.

Haunted swimming pool

ANMLY is looking to add some new members to our all-volunteer team! Come make cool stuff with us! All roles are 1-3 hours/week.

- Comics Editor
- 2 Fiction Readers
- 2 CNF Readers
- Features & Reviews Co-Editor

Email editor@anomalouspress.org w/ a brief statement of interest & a CV/resume to apply

What I love most is when they run out of ideas and loosely rip designs from other IP, such as this card based on a spinning toddler toy from the 90s

My current story idea came from watching my daughter playing with a rubber band shooter thing and the last idea came from passing a rest stop on 95 and it's so basically absurd to me that people would want to force their way to wonder.

Like harboring an impulse to carpet bomb a fairy door.

I need to get some podcast guests scheduled. (I have a backlog in case of life problems but did have some problems and am as such already nibbling the backlog.) I am open to writers but not focused on them; main requirements are you need to like reading, be a decent talker, and have a passable mic.

Watching preseason basketball like a sicko

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Finally, some yugioh on this app

Most American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

YouTube video by Water From Your Eyes Water From Your Eyes - "Life Signs" (Official Music Video)

I saw the band Water From Your Eyes this week in St Paul and the kids are alright / listening to plenty of Sonic Youth:

youtu.be/1reSpJWbuYE?...

I'm so bad at it and always wipe at the first tough map (the desert one with the rubbly tower), alas I only have the brainpower for Front Mission

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Alternating dips of my quill and turkey club into an inkwell of Kranch

It's the first of the month, which means OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap!

Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

As it's tough to watch movies with a young kid, I finally got to Judas and the Black Messiah today - wildly well done and affecting

He wanted to make sure nobody forgot about the annexation threats I guess

Don't leave us in suspense!

Runes or Orbit

Our one cat had to go in for surgery today, so the other cat came up (as he never does) and is sadly purring on my feet

Not just any baby, a baby with Stuff™

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

Now available for pre-order: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, coming with Split/Lip Press on March 31. Image shows a yellow book cover with a dubbed cassette tape, upon which the title of the book has been written.

Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!

Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology

I love the comments under a restaurant closure announcement that are all "how dare they close this pillar of our community, last time I was there for a birthday in 2006 was a great experience"

Aha, just discovered Reedsy