Jonathan Louis Duckworth

New reading desk. Soft but a little on the small side, can’t fit much more than a single book

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Excited for folks to read this story Lindz and I cobbled together!

Let me put my money where my mouth is; for the next 11 days, I'll drop the first line of a story featured in An Honour and a Privilege, my collaborative antho coming in December.

"Carefully, as if she were unspooling delicate silk, Cordelia drew the duchess's nightmare out from her mouth."

This is from 'By Which Flesh is Crost', the story that @jduckwriter.bsky.social and I collaborated on. It's gothic, it's simmering class anxiety, it's eating other people's nightmares and getting paid for it.

People didn’t “used to be fine” without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*.

According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960.

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Got a novella under 30,000 words? I'll offer detailed developmental edits on it for a flat $300 if you book with me today.

“My room looks like this” meaning a perfectly normal room you’ve just photographed in grayscale. I don’t see even a little blood on those walls, bro

Dirty rice for dinner

Enjoying my new house (first time homeowners, woo!) with tea and cucumber sandwiches (with home baked bread)

HERE WE GOOOOO!

I'm unbelievably excited to bring you such a wildly ambitious craft book; each month for the last *year* I wrote a story collaboratively with an amazing writer, accompanied by a non-fiction piece about how and why we wrote what we did. It's both a tremendous collection of fiction &

This is one of the coolest projects I’ve ever been part of!

Should also add, most "riots" are historically peaceful protests until the authorities show up and bring the proverbial ruckus

Anyone who is more afraid of riots than the crushing, militarized response those riots will meet should not be trusted, neither their minds nor their hearts are in the right place.

You’ll be happy to know there’s a sequel coming down the pipes with BCS

Thank you! This seems to be my most popular story for whatever reason

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bruised-Eye Dusk by Jonathan Louis Duckworth Rugg was ready to turn back and try to make Ganvill when a bright dot of light appeared through the churning murk of the storm: a campfire. Never trust a light too bright in a dark hole, the speaking ...

And I loved Bruised-Eye Dusk by @jduckwriter.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social 🐊 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/brui...

New bookshelf setup in my new office in my new house!

I am SO excited for this project to emerge from its coccoon!
Over the last year I collaboratively wrote (and am writing) 11 stories with 11 authors as well as a non-fiction essay/interview about how we did it & the craft techniques we used. I hope this craft book will be both educational *and* fun!

Getting ideas is the easiest part of writing anyway. If they can’t do that, they should consider another hobby

Pics from my morning jog

Popular/iconic authors you really don’t have time for? For me it’s James Joyce.

If lack of self awareness were an energy source we could use this guy to replace a few of his beloved coal-fired power plants

Congratulations on the milestone! Happy to share an issue with you

Unwrapping my first published short story 😀
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I tried to tag everyone

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@jduckwriter.bsky.social
@mcardlejeanne.bsky.social
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Got my contributor copy of this awesome themed issue of Fraidy Cat Quarterly!

Sneak preview, part two! @jduckwriter.bsky.social explores family commitments, loneliness, and self-deception at a shady government facility in the cosmic-tinged “Threshold” in FCQ5.

#indie #horrorlit #smallpress #cosmic #paranoia

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I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches.

If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.