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Mysteries/Sherlock Holmes/MG fantasy/Finding writers on their birthdays (#AuthorBday), & sharing their advice, prose (#CoolLine43), and openings (#CoolIntro43).

[Short Mystery Fiction Society @SMFSocy]

#Booktwitter #ICYMI #Interview #Writing #ShortStories

The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: SMFS Spotlight: Josh Pachter https://t.co/uJxMBaYpKi

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Need an inexpensive gift? For $5, buy the “Witcraft 24” anthology, with 48 comedic pieces, including “The Optimal Solution” by yours truly! Available at Amazon https://t.co/Li5f5FwLIP and elsewhere.

#WritingCommunity #Writers #InexpensiveGift #CheapGift

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Hello @stygianspace Would you mind a DM from a fellow Dragon Gems author?

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Hello @NemmaW Would you mind a DM from a fellow Dragon Gems author?

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Hello @realflooddamage Would you mind a DM from a fellow Dragon Gems author?

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Know someone who needs to laugh? Want to get them a present for the holidays? Buy them the “Witcraft 24” anthology, with 48 comedic pieces, including “The Optimal Solution” by yours truly! Available at Amazon https://t.co/4sDjpY62ha and elsewhere.

#WritingCommunity #Writers

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Have kids? Grandkids? And they like historical fiction? Have them check out my story, "Saving Rome the Republic," with Cincinnatus and his 11-year-old Lucius.

It’s FREE in Promised Protagonists, Issue 02, at: https://t.co/bR8Ha2UTdn

#WritingCommmunity #writers

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@MysteryWeekly Very sorry to learn @MysteryWeekly is stopping, esp. due to Kindle. Any chance you could get by selling issues as Ebooks and/or selling copies on a print-on-demand basis? (Not my idea; credit to a fellow member of the @SMFSocy)

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The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: SMFS Member Award Winners at 2024 Killer Nashville https://t.co/fcI7Tk6Ul4

Enjoy writing mystery short stories? Consider joining the SMFS. It’s free, and you will learn a great deal from folks who win awards! #writers #WritingCommmunity

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My story—The General, the Mole, and the Perfectly Tailored Monster—comes out in Black Sheep #15 on September 1! Available at Amazon, B&N, etc.

If you like thrillers and/or hate Nazis, give it a read!

#WritingCommunity #Writers #WritersLift

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@RyanWBenson @EmberJournal Congratulations, Ryan! If I may ask, how long was it from submission to acceptance?

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My story—The Night Is More Richly Colored Than The Day—is in Pulp Adventures issue 45! (Link: https://t.co/QjTBEk02D8).

The gunshot destroyed Taylor’s color vision. Can he solve his near murder with a damaged memory and only able to see black, white, and gray, gray, gray?

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If you need a few free laughs, check out my story on the Saturday Evening Post, the “Ol’ Switcheroo” at https://t.co/uZ0TRav7oO

I’d pay real money to know what @JefferyDeaver thinks of it.

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If you enjoy reading horror, and like stories that are FREE and SHORT, check out my four-drabble sequence on Metastellar:

https://t.co/vsalHBLwCK

#WritingCommunity #Writers #HorrorCommunity #Horror

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Have middlegrade kids? Tell them to read my spooky story “The Mirror People” in Haunted Words Press, Issue 7. It’s FREE! The story is fantasy with a dash horror and a pinch Chinese folklore.
Issue 7 should be available midday, March 23rd, on HWP's website: https://t.co/lhSiQ7O3JQ

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“A poet with a poem in mind is like a robin with a worm. Let go the worm (or the idea) for an instant, and both have slithered inevitably away.”
—Phyllis McGinley

#WritingCommunity #AuthorBday #Writers

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I haven’t been on Twitter for a while.

Hey, what’s this X thing?

#WritingCommunity #Writers

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@Bylrweltmann Just like the work you’re querying. You feel fairly good about it, then send it out. If you get no nibbles, you reconsider and potentially do some rewriting.

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I’m in Bards and Sages. First time my name’s ON A COVER. Unreal!

A link for those who enjoy fantasy: https://t.co/0iuNdm4cD3 Currently available as e-books, print is coming soon.

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Fantasy #ShamelessSelfpromoWednesday

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Check out https://t.co/HbGWgUuir1 from @doug_jacqu7340, launched 27 August, with stories from Australia, US, UK, Mexico, Spain, Germany, & India. Join thousands who enjoy a daily dose of wit, word play, absurdity & inspired nonsense. And it’s FREE!!#WritingCommunity #Writers