Jonathan Louis Duckworth

He sure does love being tucked in for his iconic 7:30 nap

This looks awesome! Btw, is that the same cover artist as who did the covers for Buehlmann's fantasy novels? Looks like a similar style.

I continue to be frustrated and disappointed with Bluesky's algorithm.

Not only do I get zero engagement, but I also barely ever see posts from a lot of the people I care about while my feed is clogged with strangers

Just received my contributor copy of The Joining: Scenes of Wedding Terror edited by @jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social ! This is a wonderful, star-studded anthology featuring lots of great writers whose work I admire. Get it from @crystallake.bsky.social

I started this newest novel on January 2nd, and finished it just now on February 1st. 63k words long. Dieselpunk dark fantasy/horror with trains, planes, and abominables, vaguely in the mold of In the Mountains of Madness.

Would becoming a first-time chicken owner and helping my wife raise our new egg-laying winged cats from chicks count?

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Vanya and the Dog Witch by Walter J. Wiese “My father forbid me to come to you, either with mushrooms or with the dog's collar,” Vanya told the dog witch. It had been early in spring when his father killed Mishka the three-legged dog. For sava...

BCS 2025! "Vanya and the Dog Witch" @walterwriter.bsky.social BCS #447 "early in spring when his father killed Mishka the three-legged dog. For savaging one of their few hens he said. Yet Vanya had seen toothmarks on neither flesh nor bone." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/vany... #BCSof2025

With an introduction by Dr Graham Robert Scott. And I’ve just re-located @jduckwriter.bsky.social and @melisfluous.bsky.social here 👏

Available from publishers @stanchion.bsky.social

#AHAAP @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bloody Muddy Water by Jonathan Louis Duckworth Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft, and the fiber looked to be made fro...

BCS of 2025! "Bloody Muddy Water" by @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #439 "Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect against conja." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo... #BCSof2025

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - For Those Who Sink and Those Who Float by Jonathan Louis Duckworth Lim hesitates in the shallows, her courage all evaporated in sight of the wobbling gray ribbon of the shoreline and the pale sky above it. She has never been to the dry world of the shore, where the b...

#BCSof2025! "For Those Who Sink and Those Who Float" @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #426 "Lim hesitates in the shallows, her courage evaporated in sight of the gray ribbon of the shoreline and the pale sky above. She has never been to the dry world" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/for-...

Massive news, everyone! I've just signed an agreement of representation with Harry Sherer at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social! What a great feeling to have such a massive and storied agency at my back. Here's to a big and eventful 2026!

Having begun it July 31st, I've finally finished the first draft of this novel which turned out to be two novels. 242k words--I think I'm going to lie down now.

This is a really awesome book—it was wonderful collaborating with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social on our oneirophage story!

How the Bubbles Stole Thanksgiving

You guys! Jonathan has written some of my favorite short stories!
(This is at the top of my list.)
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Not just the two of them--that's where the plot gets even stupider--they meant to recruit an army of homeless people from Washington D.C. to serve as mercenaries.

Hey look at that! My story “Bloody Muddy Water” is featured by Locus Magazine!

Small Wonders, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Lightspeed: Review by Charles Payseur Small Wonders 7/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 8/7/25, 8/21/25 Lightspeed 8/25 The July Small Wonders features some great poetry, including Courtney Floyd’s “Renfield at His Windowsill”, which captures…

“Bloody Muddy Water” by @jduckwriter.bsky.social from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, “To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter” by @spacevalkyries.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social

It's a show for guys at their limit

Thanks!

Cover reveal! Here’s the early mock-up of the cover for my second collection of horror stories, Noctivagants, coming early 2027 with @lethepress.bsky.social !

The cover of the book is a vintage, slightly foxy red, with white font beside a large black and white ampersand.

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.

"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

Meet my new office assistant

The first page of Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory is a literary slammajamma of an opening

Big news! My second collection of horror stories, NOCTIVAGANTS, is coming out in 2027 with Lethe Press!

Cover reveal coming soon!

"I spent a while trying to figure out how to classify An Honour & a Privilege. Viewed through one lens it might not seem an important question: classification is mostly helpful for shelving decisions. But genre also dictates how one reads a thing. Whether you think of this book as an anthology (many authors), a collection (one common author), or a craft book (the reflective duets) may affect your perception of the whole. I struggle to compare this work to any of those three genres. The project in front of you reveals more about its craft than other anthologies. It's more authentically connected to strong exemplar material than other craft books. It's more heteroglossic than any collection I recall. The best way to think of An Honour & a Privilege may be to regard it as a genre all its own, one which depends significantly on its many interconnections, one which marks both an occasion and an invitation, one which offers us both a testimony as to what can be done together and a guide on how to do it." From the Foreword by Dr. Graham Robert Scott. The cover of the book is a vintage, slightly foxy red, with white font beside a large black and white ampersand.

If you have a writer in your life and you'd like them to know that you care about their ambitions, may I suggest ordering a copy of my collaborative craft anthology, An Honour And A Privilege, as a Christmas present? (trust me, you'll get the MOST brownie points)

This one is pretty wild. If you’re a fan of gothic fiction, fin de siècle aesthetics, and materialist critiques disguised as horror, this one’s for you

Heigh ho! The 4th story in THE JOINING is told from a marrow-sucking marital bed. What's sweetest in life lies nearest the bone, after all...

Thanks to @jduckwriter.bsky.social for submitting this excellent (and oddly romantic!) story! THE JOINING comes out 12.12.25 from @crystallake.bsky.social!

I get the point but unlike dragons swords actually existed and it’s really easy to research them

I am begging fantasy authors to actually look up how much swords weigh. I get the impression most of them believe a great sword weighs 50 lbs, when the average weighed more like 8