Justin Bryant
@jthouse37
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Writer of novels. ‘Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky’ @malarkeybooks . $1 PDF download of 'Basket of Years' at my website!
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I don't have an agent, but there is a small fox that lives in the woods next to my house who would, I think, given the opportunity, champion my work.
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Can’t get rejected if you don’t submit, right? I thought so too.
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This is a new one. Wow. Don’t want to name the journal, but…wow.
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Every short story is like “The day after our first son’s birthday, my wife told me she was in love with the 59th Street Bridge.”
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A story of mine that got rejected over 40 times just got rejected again. Never give up on your dreams.
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@mm_kaufman
Yeah. Dads. Mine didn’t finish college either. I have a Masters, three published books, was a professional soccer player, and he called me an underachiever because I don’t have a lot of money. You are killing it.
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After a LOT of thought, I've decided to start my own journal and press! I know it will be a ton of hard work and take money from my pocket. I've already lost $300 just since starting this tweet. Wow, this is tough! We had a good run, but I'm sad to announce I'm closing down for g
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@vanjchan
Yikes.
I used to grade essays for the GRE and occasionally someone would use the analytical writing portion of the test for an insane anti-political correctness rant like this. Amazing.
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People ask me, “Justin, how did you manage to write three slim books in only 33 years as a writer?” And the answer is simple: Write. Every. Year. It doesn’t matter how much; it might be just a few sentences. But I NEVER let an entire year go by without writing once or twice.
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Them: So you submit stories to journals, with an overwhelming rejection rate? Why?
Me: If one gets accepted, you can announce it on Twitter and get lots of attention.
Them: And then when the story comes out, all those people read it?
Me: Oh heavens no.
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@adamm0rgan
Also getting caught in the rain = death within 48 hours. Learned that one from Hardy.
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@Ryan_Ken_Acts
I used to go to the Ray's on my corner in the East Village 2-3 times a week and once a counter guy said 'this isn't good for you, you know' and I've never been so mortified.
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I know I said I'm done querying, but crafting the perfect query letter is still a fun hobby. Nailed it.
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Will never understand the fascination with grapefruit. Four of the top ten books on the NYT Best Seller list are about grapefruit! I'm being told that's wrong. It's actually zero books. That still seems like a lot.
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This is…not real. What IS real is my novel.
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Are you like me? The only person on your timeline not on the Wigleaf longlist?
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Beyond thrilled to announce my novel 'Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky' will be published by the great folks at
@MalarkeyBooks
sometime late in 2022. This is a novel I believe in and have worked on for a solid decade! Can't believe it's going to see the light of day.🙂
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Tiered rejection from Apple Cider Review!
'Dear Justin, please stop sending us short stories. We are not a literary journal. We review apple ciders. You are welcome to submit reviews of any ciders you sample. Send us apple cider reviews that reimagine what it means to be human.'
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If you love Gabriel Garcia Marquez, just wait until you read my novel. You won't like it as much. I'm not as good as he is.
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20 years ago I couldn’t have imagined the likes of Malarkey Books or Split Lip Press, Taco Bell Quarterly, Stanchion, X-RAY, and so many others. I’m glad Big 5 and legacy small presses still works for some, but I’m even more glad that’s no longer the only route.
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Looked back at my books-read list of 2021 and it's shockingly short. Then I realized I've been reading all the short fiction I see linked here, by people I know and people I don't know. I've read a ton of flash and micro and short stories. It's been a great reading year.
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If I only sold one copy of my next book, but that one reader had a deep, profound, and abiding experience with the book, fundamentally changing they way they see the world, that would suck.
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@rgay
That's the confident, smug smile of a man who's never been smacked in the face for mouthing off. And I don't condone violence...but he's begging for it.
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@shereeny
Guy who threatened to call animal control on my dog after my dog...barked at him...when he walked into my backyard.
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@KimDozier
@AP
@thecipherbrief
Fair enough.
But I still think the Oxford comma is essential, and so do my parents, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
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I follow primarily two different kinds of writer here: 'Hey guys my new novel is out with Leaning Pine Press. It would be incredible to sell 300 copies' and 'It's a little cloudy here in Tuscany where I've rented a 6000-yr old villa for the summer to revise my new novel'
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Please stop engaging with this dumb joke and instead buy my novel.
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@venkatesh_koka
@kylegriffin1
He is very obviously guilty, that's why his legal team went all in on immunity. Try to follow along on this: if someone says 'You did this' and you didn't, you wouldn't instead argue 'well I can't be prosecuted.'
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Just want to say, once again, how much I love my novel's cover (you have to click on it to see the whole thing)
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Absolutely thrilled to be profiled in Poets & Writers. A milestone I never thought I would reach, if I’m being honest.
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Remembering when Hernan Diaz won the Pulitzer and then left this on my windshield. Seemed unnecessary and a definite case of punching down.
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Not to flex too hard here, but I got a $30 royalty payment today for a small press book published in England in 2013. It has never stopped selling, even if in quite small numbers some quarters.
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The only thing I regret about my MFA program is that my professor did not email all the students and me to tell us that his wife was leaving him for Ted Turner.
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@aelleaelle
@sannewman
I work with Division One college female soccer players. We sometimes bring in (below average) male players to use as practice players. They are usually respectful, but there's always one who starts 'explaining soccer' to a women who just played a game on ESPN
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Hi friends. Yesterday Bryce let us know it was time. He went peacefully while Sarah and I held him, before his horrible cancer could cause him any pain. We are hurting and in shock at how fast this has happened, but we will remember him forever. 💔
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Last week a mutual on here said ‘I’m unfollowing everyone who doesn’t support my writing’ and I was culled, despite lots of congrats/retweets of good news, etc. I can’t afford to buy everyone’s books. If that’s the standard, then I can ‘support’ one or two of you per month. ☹️
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2020 was the year an agent followed me on here, I queried that agent, and he unfollowed me without responding to the query.
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Nice try everyone else, but Roger Ebert wrote the greatest sentence of all time.
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@timgill924
"As a sociologist" followed by a point totally unrelated to your profession or expertise, just a general observation & a bizarre one at that. Great tweet.
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My novel is pretty good. It’ll take you places you may not have been. But even if you hate it - just look at it! You want that cover in your collection
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Representatives from The Paris Review came to my house today to preemptively reject anything I might have been thinking of submitting to them. We just want to save you the trouble, they said. How much did it cost for you to get here, I asked. Many thousands of dollars, they said.
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@SerenaEGolden
As a dog owner, I can't tell you how beautiful moments like this are. I don't know why we love our house-wolves so much. But we do, and when other people see the good in them, it comforts the soul at the deepest levels.
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When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then I abandoned you. Your instincts were totally right on this one.
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You guys I've started my pandemic-era novel and it is soooo good
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Feeling attacked that journals which haven't published me also haven't nominated me for Best of the Net
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I decided I’m going to write an entire novel from the pov of a peripheral character. Nobody has ever done this before. I’ve just been informed that this has been done thousands of times. Not doing it now. This was a great experience though.
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After you die, they should tell you all the times a shark was close to you without you knowing it.
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Found my thesis at NYU, signed by EL Doctorow. He was so kind and helpful.
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Working on a novel I call 'The Corrections' which is sort of an homage to/interpretation of the Franzen novel of the same name. Also it's all the same words on the inside.
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@mwspence
This is unbelievably awful. I wonder if the people he’s name dropping in these emails know he’s like this??
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@KarenKilgariff
By the same token, sometimes I'll see a retweet and think 'Who's this dickface?' and then I see he follows me and I immediately pivot to 'Obviously a smart fellow, well bred and of sound character.'
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Why does such a thing - luxury pickup truck - exist?
The 2019 GMC Sierra Denali is the king of the luxury pickup truck.
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I have a novel coming out in January, so I'm not leaving twitter. I need you people to buy it, talk about it, convince other people to buy it. This is not a good time for this.
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If you read and liked a small press/indie book, please don’t be shy about telling the writer. Especially those of us who don’t get big book reviews, interviews and profiles etc. This is literally the only way we know if anyone is reading it. It always makes my day 🙏🏼
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Welcome to my haunted house. In the grand ballroom you'll find re-enactments of the worst things you ever said to people you love. In the outer chambers you'll see the people you most bitterly disappointed at the moment they realized who you really are. Happy Halloween 🕷️🕸️🦇
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Merry Christmas everybody! One year ago today I was a struggling writer nobody knew, with a modest little novel about to be published. Now it’s a year later. 🎄
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This was 9 years ago today. I'd had Bryce for about 4 weeks. I'm only just noticing in this pic he has his paw on my shoulder ♥️
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36 hours and counting on my 3PR submission. A personal best and will be added to my bio.
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It's pub day for me. I'm really grateful to those of you who have already bought a copy, and hope the novel doesn't disappoint. Thank you to Alan and the incredibly supportive crew of Malarkey writers!
We kick off 2023 with what was intended to be our last title of 2022. Congrats to
@jthouse37
on the release of Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky, a novel 18 years in the making. For us it’s such an honor to be part of it!
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Tired of the gatekeeping in the lit world about what constitutes being a 'real writer.' A real writer is someone who writes, doesn't matter if it's a page a year or three books a year, and who has generally poor posture and knarled, craggy fingers and who hisses when hit by light
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I can’t get over the John Kucera guy. What’s his end game? Getting plagiarized stuff published can’t possibly be fulfilling in any way, AND it’ll eventually come back on you. It’s not like there’s any money in it🤷🏽♂️
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One month ago, we said goodbye to Bryce. There have been a lot of tears, but the happy memories are starting to ease the pain. Rest easy, good boy.
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Speaking of book covers - not only do I love this, but I think it is truly evocative of the novel itself. This is literally how I see the world of Thunder in my mind: dreamy, surreal, beautiful, maybe a little dark.
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I’ve never had my author photo in a collage with other real writers before. Have to admit, it’s a nice feeling. I’m also a little hungry, but that’s unrelated to this.
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I do not trust anyone who breezily dismisses nostalgia. I don’t mean like cartoons from the 90s; I mean the mourning of times and places that are lost to you forever.
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In the 90s we thought it was a good idea to suddenly start listening to Gregorian chants, so maybe don't take every Gen X opinion about art so seriously.
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@pgirguis
My concern isn't the tool or the hardware; it's the CEO guy and his general manner. I grew up around the space program. Nobody ever said 'It shouldn't take a lot of skill' about that work. Maybe that's not a fair comparison?
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Maybe I'm a simpleton but I think about this poem almost daily.
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@PickleMrs
@Ryan_Ken_Acts
I mean yeah that's why it was embarrassing, they were more worried about me than their bottom line. In fairness it's a Ray's in the East Village, they sell an insane amount of pizza every day.
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I’m 55 today. The next big milestones are 66, death, and 77 (haunting you guys).
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@jerichobrown
They are trying to undo every advance ever made and they won’t stop until they’ve replicated the 1950s.
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@IamRageSparkle
Oh man…I’m the opposite. Here I am sitting in my car 20 minutes early to my tennis match. I can’t stand the feeling of being late.!it triggers anxiety attacks for real.
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This isn't real, for those not aware. What IS real is my novel. Buy it.
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The ten year challenge thing is a real 'yikes' moment for me. I try not to be superficial but this difference is shocking.
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Remake Castaway. This time his plane doesn’t crash but is delayed four hours and his wife remarries anyway.
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