Ed Teja

Mix music and crime? Why not?
My story "Finding the Groove" is in the new Crimeucopia anthology. Now on preorder.
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A new anthology of crime fiction, now on preorder...

Many schools didn't teach writing in any decent way, but somehow expected kids to do it well.

Not always for the better, Chuck.

My concern is the knee jerk reaction to solve problems created by technology with more technology. And many studies show that writing longhand is good for critical thinking.

What about those with difficulty typing? You can't come up with a solution that works for everyone. And why not prepare and train the students to write essays? It worked for a long time.

Making the students write longhand has many benefits beside precluding using AI. This solution costs almost nothing to implement and doesn't require special software.

No one should sing karaoke... not in fiction or real life.

Black Cat Weekly #208 This is one of our darkest issues, with the world’s first eco-disaster novel (Nordenholt’s Million, by J.J. Connington, from 1923) depicting a world ravaged by a bacterial plague that destroys food su...

My story about a colony ship (Bus Drivers and Nurses) is out in Black Cat Weekly #208.
Cover art by Ron Miller

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Tina Clarke wants to know who betrayed her unit and why. And why was she kicked out of the army? She wants answers, her team deserves them, and the skill set they gave her is assassination.
No wonder they are afraid.

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Great Writing Quotes by Author Dylan Thomas A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge...

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Graphic of a skull with flowers, a fist in the air, wings and lightning bolts. A woman with big hair in the background. Text reads: STILL ALIVE EIGHTY FIVE

Ah, bonjour!

Guess what time it is? It's time for a star-studded issue of all the good words.

Still Alive 85 is live. Tell your nearest living being.

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I'm working with my good friend J. Lee Porter on a brand new series of action/adventure stories that take place in SE Asia in the period of WWII. Not war stories, but Noir stories in that era. We are mapping them out now.

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Four or so. Paperbacks.

Another flash fiction for your macabre pleasure. This time in Yellow Mama! Thanks to Beatrice Bernice Holtzman for the art.
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Contentment — a Bloody Valentine Story by Ed Teja Contentment by Ed Teja Standing on the corner, catching my breath in the cold morning fog that shadows the streets, the tidal wail of sirens, rising and falling like movements in a symphony,&n…

My latest flash fiction CONTENTMENT is up at Punk Noir.
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Working on edits for book 2 in my storefront assassin series. On preorder now, goes live Feb 22!!
She's on the road, looking to put her feet on the ground so she can get to work. So what takes her to beautiful metropolitan Gallup, New Mexico????
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Five Favorite Markets A criminally compelling web site featuring professional crime writers and crime fighters.

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A thin, scratchy yowl greeted him as he walked into the kitchen. He froze. It sounded like Kafka, his beloved seal-point Siamese. He had to be hearing things. Kafka was dead.

It's time for the last bite of the day and we're serving up some surreal flash fiction. Grab a blanket or turn up the heat. This one might give you a little shiver. It's "The Past Moves With You" by @edteja.bsky.social and it's waiting for you in issue 81!

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You can turn copilot off in Word. Go to File>options and flip the copilot switch.

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Amelia Franz, Crystal Taylor, Andrew Buckner, Robin Herzog.

We couldn't have done it without you, and we ❤️you!

Bright morning light streamed through the bedroom window, waking Ben from his dream.

Wednesday already? Sureal isn’t it? Well enjoy a little more of the off kilter with “The Past Moves With You” by Ed Teja @edteja.bsky.social , time is a construct we know, but it’s almost time to read more of this the 81st edition out Sunday 1/26.

Except they won't read it for, say, a month anyway. When you send a query probably has no real-world effect, except over major holidays when the inboxes overfill with electrons.

You mean software??? How about a notebook? I'm not quite sure why you would want your ideas straight. Straight ideas are boring. They should be twisted and twirly. That's why we talk about plot twists...