Matthew J. Hefti

Attorney | Author @SimonSchuster @Pegasus_Books | Rep'd by @MWLiterary | Co-Founder & Editor @WrathBT | Byline @LitHub @ElectricLit

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@monibethh See, this is exactly the kind of behavior inauthentic behavior that has ya blocked. Don’t try to manipulate us! If you don’t post, then explain this!

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@SteveCicirelli @FiiJ20 Submissions are free where I edit at @WrathBT. Submit!

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@SteveCicirelli @bethmarcel @ShandersWrites Agree. It’s sincere. They truly want to read more from you. Editing is hard. Constant FOMO. Writing is hard and getting rejected is hard. But that letter sincerely conveys that the answer is not, “No;” it’s, “Not right now, but we hope really soon. Please do keep submitting.”

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@PeterLucier Congratulations! See you in the bar, my friend!

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

You can take this one to the bank. Let me know when it’s time to draft up the contracts, @thebenleroy!

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@PhilKlay Another feather in the cap, @PhilKlay! More proof your art is real and significant. Keep comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable. You’re darn good at it and the world needs more of it.

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@FluentMundo Also, “Six Recognitions of the Lord.”

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@FluentMundo Mary Oliver: “Praying,” “Prayer,” “I Wake Close to Morning,” “At the River Clarion,” “The Poet Thinks About the Donkey,” and so many more. Her collection, DEVOTIONS, is a marvel.

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[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@htownjenny As a former bomb tech, I approve. “The successful defusing of a bomb ended novels.” And the book is so great.

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@thebenleroy I guess today we better get to work on making today count, and the same for the today after this one, and so on and so forth.

[Dewaine Farria @dewaine_farria]

A big thanks to @AdrianBonenber1 and the good folks at @WrathBT.

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@JABell27 I love this. I think it also applies more broadly. People want to be heard. Writers are merely blessed with the means to be able to pursue that desire in a way many are not.

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@JThom7248 @PhilKlay One of my all-time faves. The good die young, and I sometimes mourn all that we don’t have from her because of how good all that we do have is.

[Deborah Archer (threads: DeborahNArcher) @DeborahNArcher]

It is exhausting to see people decrying Biden picking “a less qualified” or “unqualified” Black woman for SCOTUS, without even seeing who the nominee is. You are essentially saying that you think there is literally no Black woman in this country qualified to sit on the Court.

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@RobBokkon @drownedworld @BoomerNiner @QweerGeek This thread made my night last night!

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@amalieflynn Hahaha, no doubt! It would have been fun and rewarding to have this conversation, but this has been fun and rewarding too!

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@amalieflynn I like this. Like “I am fully woke” for my current capacity for wokeness, a capacity capable of growing. “I am full of virtue” for my current capacity for virtue, a capacity capable of growing. And I am full of vice, but constantly trying to replace that capacity to make room!

[Matthew J. Hefti @TheRealHefti]

@amalieflynn For sure. It has caused me to contemplate the same in a good way.