Sam J. Miller

Award-winning, best-selling writer. Subscribe to JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING, a story of bloody revenge & fighting xenophobic fascists; link below. He/him.

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ABSOLUTELY GOBSMACKED that the National Endowment for the Arts chose BLACKFISH CITY for their iconic Big Read program! Alongside some of my favorite books, like THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD and THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET! Link in bio, omg, brb, hyperventilating.
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If you want to go MAD WITH POWER and help shape the arc of Deimos’s bloody revenge, consider upgrading to a paid subscription?

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You have spoken! Voting is finished on the first paid-subscriber poll of what happens next: whether Deimos goes to his arch-nemesis’s birthday party (stepping up the action & confronting our principal foe) or to his old neighborhood (letting bro breathe a little bit).

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@Daniel_Sheen lol well now I REALLY wanna know, DM me?

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Writers, what's the coolest weirdest thing you've learned about lately in research for a project?

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In honor of the Artemis II mission that's launching to the moon today, here's "Mexicans on the Moon," the titular poem from my SF poetry collection. Much love.

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FRIENDS I AM NERVOUS!! This is the first time that paid subscribers to my serialized novel JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING get to vote on what happens next!

It's not that I think they'll make the wrong decision. But giving up narrative control feels strange! Not entirely unpleasant?

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I’ve rarely seen that captured in fiction before, and that’s part of my mission in JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING: to help folks see that organizing for social change is real, and possible, and fun. And miserable lol

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No one ever tells you this, about activist meetings.

They’re wonderful and they’re terrible. They’re infuriating and they’re exhilarating and funny and melodramatic and full of interesting people.

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Support a human creator today. Buy a zine, go to a library, read a story written with actual blood and sweat. (I’ve got some of that at JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING, but there's billions of awesome alternatives 😅).

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AI isn’t “democratizing” art. It’s strip-mining the sum total of human creativity, to sell us back a rotted zombie re-animation of our own words & dreams & feelings....

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If you want the spicy stuff, the deleted scenes, the worldbuilding deep dives (and the power to vote on what happens next)… that's what paid subscriptions are for.

Come ruin things with me?

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I spent 15 years as a community organizer. I know how movements die: not from external threats (though those are real), but from exhaustion. From the grant that's not renewed. The grandma carrying more than her share of the work having to take a step back because of her health...

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It’s ridiculous (what with the wormholes & artificial gravity & such). And it’s real (rooted in my heard-earned lessons on what social change actually looks like)

The core story is free. And will stay that way. Because the people who need it most shouldn't have to pay for it...

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The next chapter of JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING drops in less than an hour - in which we get our first flashback to the roots of the trauma that triggered Deimos’s massive bloody revenge plot.

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@claymcleod @RapturePub ahhhh amazing!!

[Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod]

Just got something special in the mail: a limited edition ARC for my upcoming chapbook “soft flotsam, tender jetsam,” with Rapture Publishing. Only 15 copies in existence! On shelves May 26th. Thank you @RapturePub

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New chapter drops Sunday - in which Deimos makes the first move against his nemesis (and kinda sorta ruins someone's life in the process).

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I'm giving away my new novel for free: a story of resistance against tyranny, queer love, and bloody revenge. In space. Chapter 4 just dropped!!

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@Gabino_Iglesias It will happen!!