Richard Van Camp, Author

Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨

art by Federico Delicado

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Come take a fiction workshop with me. We are going to have so much fun!

:)

Crescent moon at sunset. Pale blue and yellow. Mountain silhouettes

M00N

Happy Compromise Farm + Sanctuary

Drop a bad guy you actually love

A review for a Little Caesar’s somewhere by Kevin S: Stopped into this Little Caesars just trying to get a $6 pizza and ended up in a full on action movie. Just as I grabbed my order, this furious dude barges in yelling about how I cut him off in traffic earlier. Before I can even respond, he throws a punch but then out of nowhere the guy behind the counter jumps over it like he's been waiting for this moment his whole life and just beats the living hell out of the guy. The guy ran off and the cashier just dusted himself off. I said "are you ok man" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "B*tch, this is Little Caesars. We always hot and ready." Five stars. Will absolutely return.

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣

Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Submission tip:

Your first sentence is a promise.

It promises voice. Potential. Setting. Relationship. Immersion. Any of these, plenty of others.

A great first line builds trust with your reader—whether they’re reading to acquire or for pleasure.

Before you submit, ask what you’re promising 💜

Very excited by today's book post - a collection of comedic but heart-wrenching short stories that sound superb! #booksky

Page 47 from Moonscape is a cheeky exploration of July's buck moon.

Page 47 of Moonscape is one of 11 haiku pairings Tre and I wrote for the Buck Moon.

Blindfold

her ahead of me
on the trail. Snap! A blindfold
of pussy willow
TLV

Hardcore

Cockleburs hitchhike
Along my striped B'gosh. Thwack!
Meadow velcro studs
Tre

#haiku #poetry #illustration #buckmoon #moon

Yes! And also buy their book haha

Libraries are awesome!

Find @katsimmers.bsky.social beautiful and moving graphic novels at yours now.

Your next favourite read?

A copy of the book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt by Kristie De Garis, propped upright on a drystone wall surrounded by bright yellow and green garden plants. The cover features five colourful stone shapes with the title text layered across them.

Today I held the finished copy of my book for the first time. Three years (or a lifetime?) in the making, and in just a month, it’ll be in readers’ hands.

'Drystone – A Life Rebuilt' is out 7 August.

#Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Scotland

Wa hoo! Mahsi cho for publishing our book with master artist Christopher Shy. You are a brilliant editor, Alexander, and you a fearless publisher. Bless you!!

The cover for Wheetago War Roth, featuring the monstrous Roth towering over the young boy. Ethereal green mist swirls around them.

The Alberta Book Publishing Awards shortlist has been announced! We’re excited to see our books receive multiple nominations.

Wheetago War Roth by @richardvancamp.bsky.social & @christophershy.bsky.social is up for Graphic Novel of the Year & the Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction.

The cover for Quid Pro Crow and the logo for the BPAA on a mustard coloured background.

The Alberta Book Publishing Awards shortlist includes Quid Pro Crow by Bill Slavin, up for Graphic Novel of the Year & Mystery & Thriller Book of the Year.

The first book in the Mordecai Crow trilogy won three awards last year. Fingers crossed for 2025!

#Booksky💙📚 #awards

It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.

XRAY Submissions XRAY Literary Magazine submissions are open for fiction and creative nonfiction up to 7500 words. Pitch interviews & essays.

shorts & creative nonfiction are now open for submissions, until we reach our monthy cap

flash & micros are open 24/7 for now

thank u for sending yr wonderful work ! we love reading it

xraylitmag.com/submissions/

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

Lunchtime listening. Múm. Icelandic folktronica band (it says here.) Finally We Are No One. 2002 Fat Cat release. Nice music to hide inside to.

A great conversation about creating comics, working your themes into a narrative
#booksky💙📚

Awe!! Thank you so much!! :) Enjoy! 7 years of crafting after a lifetime of reading and listening and research.

Awe! Thank you!!!

books on table: 'Reconciling History: A Story of Canada' by Jody Wilson-Raybould & Roshan Danesh & 'Beast' by Richard Van Camp. Canadian Maple Leaf symbol. Tidewater books bookmark.

This evening's Featured #CanLit in-store are 'Reconciling History: A Story of Canada' by Jody Wilson-Raybould & Roshan Danesh & 'Beast' by @richardvancamp.bsky.social 💕🇨🇦📚

tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚
#IndieBookstoreCA #ThankYouForShopingLocal #SmallBusinessEveryDay @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social

Alright! Here’s the lineup for Never Whistle at Night Part II: Back for Blood. Foreword by @richardvancamp.bsky.social!

All horror, all the time.

@shanehawk.com and I are so excited to get this into the world. Edits and whatnot, here we go!

Exclusive Preview: BLOOD AND FIRE concludes the Mordecai Crow trilogy Bill Slavin's Mordecai Crow Trilogy concludes with Blood and Fire, his latest graphic novel from Renegade Arts Entertainment.

Over at @comicsbeat.bsky.social now, you can read an exclusive preview of BLOOD AND FIRE by Bill Slavin, the thrilling conclusion to the Mordecai Crow graphic novel trilogy

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What did happen to Mordecai's mother & father? Will the Luddite's capture Crow?

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.

She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.

But the FDA recently denied its approval.

Now, her health hangs in the balance.

Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

Bluesky you deserve some fireflies in a cornfield. Not pictured-the young hawk chased away by robins, the enormous kale after the rain, the smell of the tomato plant leaves.