Jack Skillingstead

Writer

[Jack Skillingstead @JSkillingstead]

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here."

Weird how Dante anticipated Twitter. Even weirder how we all keep entering anyway.

[Jack Skillingstead @JSkillingstead]

Hardest working dog in West Seattle.

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Received copies of the reprint of Are You There, my first collection, which originally appeared from Golden Gryphon Press in 2009. Book has been redesigned, with some new material. It's a chunky 394 pgs.

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The AYT reprint has one new thing in it, a fifteen hundred word intro to "The Avenger of Love," a story I wrote after spending two years on a collaborative effort with Harlan Ellison. If you are an Ellison fan, or if you hate him or whatever, it might be of interest.

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Patrick Swenson at Fairwood Press is reissuing Are You There, my first collection, in a design that matches the new collection. Each has a cover by a World Fantasy Award winning artist. John Picacio for Are You There and Vincent Chong for The Whole Mess. Now all I have to do

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Summer returns.

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Noticed that King's On Writing has been reissued. Back in another dimension of reality (2001) I was one of the winners of the writing-from-a-situation contest. It was a needed boost. Since then I've sold a lot of short stories and a few novels. Thanks @StephenKing !

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Contract signed for a new story that will appear in Asimov's. My last story was "Dream Interpretation" back in 2021. The new one,"The Ledgers," is horror. Short stories require a whole different set of muscles from novels. It's good to exercise those muscles again. Feel the burn!

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Her work has won six Nebulas, two Hugos, and has been translated into Klingon! We are beyond excited to welcome @nancykress to #DragonCon2024 as our Literary Guest of Honor!

[Third Place Books @ThirdPlaceBooks]

On Wed, 3/20 at 7pm @darylwriterguy will join us at our Ravenna location to discuss his book REVELATOR with @JSkillingstead
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Let the games begin!

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@winnig @SubPress I'm in!

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Bought in the 80s. Kept bouncing off the title story. Remained on various shelves in various rooms for decades. Once in a while I'd look at it. Decades. Tonight I finally read the story. It was good. The paper had turned yellow. The cover came off. When does my cover come off?

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For Christmas I'd like this entire review printed on a t-shirt.
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I should have mentioned this sooner, but what can you do? Daryl Gregory Nancy Kress and I are doing a bookstore event today at 6:00 at the University Bookstore. Here's a link. If you're local and can make it please join us!

https://t.co/TqYCguVOIt

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R.I.P. Michael Bishop. Wonderful writer and one of the kindest people I've ever known. Not that I knew him well, but with Michael even a handfull of encounters tells what kind of person he was. Besides talking at a conventions over the years we carried on a brief correspondence.

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Today is the official pub date for my new collection. Here's a link to a thing I did for Mary Robinette Kowal's Favorite Bit series.

https://t.co/YhyzzOdSe4

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From Jack.

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Trying to figure a way that it all adds up to something, but I'm afraid it just doesn't.

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Back from the first walk of the day. We ate treats at the coffee shop and discussed what might be either a line of dialog or a title for a new story. "The Previous Dog."

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Final cover layout for The Whole Mess. Grateful as always for everyone who offered to blurb the collection.