MB Valente

MB Valente

@mbvalente.bsky.social

writer of weirdness, translator of comics and graphic novels mbvalente.com

85 Followers 82 Following 32 Posts Joined May 2024
5 days ago

Something I would do!

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6 days ago
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My Writer's Hotel student, MB Valente has a new novelette in the current issue of Analog -- "False Light." check it out.

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5 days ago

Anyone who has the chance to do a workshop with Jeffrey Ford absolutely should -- one of the funniest and coolest dudes in the industry. Thanks, Jeff!!

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6 days ago

Thank you! Hope you enjoy the read

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6 days ago
Cover of the March/April 2026 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact: an illusion of a girl holding a floating fruit to her lips, surrounded by planets with a light shining from her forehead

My novelette "False Light" is in the March/April issue of @analogsf.bsky.social !

If you like post-Earth stories or toxic relationship stories or mad-world-drives-girl-mad stories, then you might like this! And an excerpt is free to read online at analogsf.com/current-issue/story-excerpt1/ 📚🪐💙

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1 week ago

A strange thing about being an author who straddles SFF and literary fiction is encountering people describe the "other side" with the strangest stereotypes. It's like when you read ancient history and locals have rumors the realm across the sea is populated by people with two heads and eight feet.

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1 month ago

It's a tough time out there to be a lit mag, even if you're as kickass as JAKE. Treat yourself to some of the awesomeness before they go ungentle into that good night! They made a home for a story about a sad anarchist meeting Alien Jesus. They are beauty. Au revoir, l'ami.

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1 month ago
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Ashley Hutson: Our Whole History Ashley Hutson is the author of One's Company (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022). Her short-form work has appeared in several places, including Granta, Wigleaf, Electric Literature, Catapult,…

Brief, elliptical, enigmatic, inevitable: love love love "Our Whole History" by Ashley Hutson in @baltimorereview.bsky.social

baltimorereview.org/winter_2026/...

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3 months ago

Yesssss, it looks awesome! I love how well Derek's art matches the atmosphere of your stories

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5 months ago
Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

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5 months ago

A masterpiece! Truly boundary pushing in a way few things I've read recently can touch

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6 months ago

Mmmmm the cheerful fatalism and funweird of this! "Anti-Capitalism vs the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia @naokan.bsky.social www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/anti...

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6 months ago

Haruspice! You have such a stock of amazing words

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6 months ago
Screenshot of webpage of Flash Fiction Magazine showing the title and start of the story "A Farewell Letter, Translated from the Felinese" by MB Valente

Delighted to have a short piece in Flash Fiction Magazine, online today: a woman's cat loses patience with her depressive behavior and tells her all the reasons she's pathetic... but in a, you know, violent way. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...

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7 months ago
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Asking only the toughest questions here

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7 months ago

Damn guy you're getting good at this

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7 months ago

Ugh I love her so much

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7 months ago
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Brett Pribble — Does It Have Pockets The Anglerfish Hears Dolly Parton

"Lyrics of love lost drift into the sac-like chambers of its long, muscular heart."

A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙

www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...

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7 months ago

Love this recent piece in Flash Fiction Mag: "You are almost five years old, and you have never been smaller—a mouse, a fly, a flea."

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8 months ago
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Choose your fighter.

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9 months ago
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The print edition of Quentin Zuttion's All Princesses Die Before Dawn, a graphic novel about a day in the life of a family struggling to care for each other, is also up for an Eisner 💙 (and in incredible company)

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9 months ago
List of Eisner Award nominees for Best Digital Comic, which includes The Beauty Salon by Quentin Zuttion and The Spider and the Ivy by Grégoire Carlé Cover of The Beauty Salon by Quentin Zuttion Cover of The Spider and the Ivy by Grégoire Carlé

Thrilled to see these incredible authors getting international recognition and proud to be a part of it! Both these books are stunners btw and available from various ebook platforms 🐠💣

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9 months ago

I'm sure you were!

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10 months ago

Yesss one of my favorites, too

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10 months ago

Sounds badass

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11 months ago

eat a book to gain its vocabulary

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11 months ago

Thank you! 🩵

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1 year ago

My favorite illustrator-photographer-human being is now here in the 'Sky 💙

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