John Eric Vona

68 must be having real middle-child syndrome

Stranded on a moon where electrical power is impossible, pursued by giants, and threatened by human colonists stranded a century ago, Sanika allies herself with aliens that live in near silence. Impeded by selective mutism, she must find a way home, or make this world into one.
#posterpit #ya #sf

Write All Along Picks Some Hugos Literature is not a competition... but sometimes it's fun to take sides.

My picks for Best Novel and Best Short Story from the #hugoawards tonight

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Proportional representation would end gerrymandering altogether and break the two party system.

I’ve read 4/6 of both the novel and short story Hugo nominees. I’ve got 3 weeks till the awards, but preplanning begins Friday 😬

Go home, wordle. You’re drunk

Why’s that guy ravaging the paint swatches?
Don’t mind him, he’s just a teacher.

I just got a rejection letter, while I was dealing with a rejection letter. 😩

I am very thankful to have read it!

“Out of Draconia” by @almaalexander.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is a masterful work of efficient world building and a mesmerizing fantasy story told at a human scale. Already recommended it to several friends and I think I’ll listen to it again with my kids next time we’re in the car

Very helpful!

I’m one book away from finishing all the Hugo nominated novels

Darmok and Jallad at Duneagra

My friend Thomas absolutely crushed it with this short story. Beware of clowns near cliffs, everyone.

A Prayer for Owen Meany. The ‘80s reflecting on the ‘60s and still so true today.

You’re on a roll!

The majority of my typos just sound like I have an Irish accent

I’m hoping to find a way to teach this story. What a brilliant idea and a well-deserved award

And now for a game of which door/corner did I abandon my shoes by/in

Just dropped a new blog. Short story summer is underway!

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Just found out a literacy study conducted through my classes will be featured in an academic journal. Love collaborating on stuff like this

In the moments leading up to creative writing semester exam: an impromptu dance party, a ceremonial rock-paper-scissor match, and some sort of chain high-five thing. What a good bunch of kids. 😊

An absolutely unhinged cover of my favorite novel 😳🙈

10 minutes into a family DnD game and the 12 y/o has done 4 lines of coke and started a bar fight

We have taken to calling, the sandhill cranes our “neighbors” as in “oh look, our neighbors are in our garden” or “I can’t hear you because the neighbors are screaming to each other”

The route I take to bring my youngest to school involves a street called Tobacco Rd. Whenever we turn onto it, she makes sure the windows are rolled up and then tries to hold her breath.

Sometime in the last day or so, my WIP - a totally ludicrous idea for a novel that somehow I keep working on - crested the 100k mark.

I just texted my daughter to take her medicine while she’s at her mom‘s house. She replied “I’m folding dishes”

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article) Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

Don't get excited. But maybe you can get a little excited about the possibility of getting excited.

(Also, this is exactly the sort of stuff the current administration is planning to defund. Fuck those dudes.)

Gift article.

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In writing a very intense, climatic scene of my WIP, an unexpected bit of writing advice leapt to mind:
Women never really faint
And villains always blink their eyes