Writer, jazz enthusiast, bibliophile, plant dad, and cartoon aficionado. Website: williammusgrove.com
@willmusgrove.bsky.socialMabel saw a stream today 💙🐕
Will Musgrove
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
@willmusgrove.bsky.social@willmusgrove.bsky.socialWhenever I'm walking my dog, and she stops to sniff a spot for a long time, I imagine her reconstructing the scene like Willem Dafoe in The Boondock Saints.
@willmusgrove.bsky.socialI'm someplace different 💙🍻
@variantlit.bsky.socialReposted by @willmusgrove.bsky.socialAnd we're open! ✨️
@malarkeybooks.bsky.socialReposted by @willmusgrove.bsky.socialIt is hard but we pay human artists real money for covers. Our jacket copy tends to be a joint venture between our writers and our editors. We don’t use AI for anything. We wish absolute destruction on any publisher that is using AI or LLMs for covers, copy, or anything else. ☠️☠️☠️
@willmusgrove.bsky.socialBut I would buy five hundred books, and I would buy five hundred more, just to be the man who bought a thousand books to read down by your door, da-da da da, da-da da da.
@thorntonforreal.bsky.socialReposted by @willmusgrove.bsky.socialThanks to Flash the Court for giving this story a place to land and the perfect artwork.
“A Boy Wants His Mother” ⬇️
@gabino.bsky.socialReposted by @willmusgrove.bsky.socialWrote a thing for my bros.
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@ljabouttown.bsky.socialReposted by @willmusgrove.bsky.socialIT’S HERE!! A glorious episode of Malarkey Public Radio with @suzyeynon.bsky.social.
If you ever felt like the weird one, this episode is for you. xo
@malarkeybooks.bsky.socialReposted by @willmusgrove.bsky.socialGive this a listen!
@willmusgrove.bsky.socialThere's Chicken Soup for the Soul and then there's Cream of Mushroom for the Existential Dread.
@benloory.bsky.socialReposted by @willmusgrove.bsky.socialMy story “The Book” was recently included in the new Library of America volume American Flash Fiction, and there will be an online event celebrating its release this Wednesday, October 7, from 3:00 – 4:00pm Pacific Time. We’ll be reading stories & talking talking:
@willmusgrove.bsky.socialMabel hopes you have a good Sunday 💙🐕
@willmusgrove.bsky.socialSitting on my deck, drinking a beer, and submitting literary fiction.
@sudhab.bsky.socialReposted by @willmusgrove.bsky.socialTruly honored to share that our Guest Selecting Editor for the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50, 2027 will be the talented @jaichakrabarti.bsky.social whose stories have won two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories.
More at jaichakrabarti.com
@willmusgrove.bsky.socialOpening my Submittable as a haunted house this spooky season because technically literary rejections are just the ghosts of submissions 👻
@willmusgrove.bsky.socialA little tipsy, wearing a denim jacket, and I love you 💙😊
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