Bryan Camp
@bryancamp.bsky.social
(he/him) Author of THE CITY OF LOST FORTUNES. Teacher, spouse, New Orleanian, Critter, and Probably Running Late For Something. Clarion West '12.
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Bryan Camp
@bryancamp.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Hi folks! I'm the author of the Crescent City novels (no, the other ones) and some other stuff I'm cooking up now. I'm a teacher in New Orleans, D&D nerd, spouse to a math unicorn, and haven for wayward cats. Tyrants large and small can fuck off into the sun.
Herodotus said Xerxes got so pissed at a river for destroying a bridge that he had his soldiers whip it and stab it with hot irons.
And sure, that's nuts. Pathological levels of power and privilege.
But lately all I can think about are the ones who picked up a chain and flailed at the river.
And sure, that's nuts. Pathological levels of power and privilege.
But lately all I can think about are the ones who picked up a chain and flailed at the river.
February 4, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Herodotus said Xerxes got so pissed at a river for destroying a bridge that he had his soldiers whip it and stab it with hot irons.
And sure, that's nuts. Pathological levels of power and privilege.
But lately all I can think about are the ones who picked up a chain and flailed at the river.
And sure, that's nuts. Pathological levels of power and privilege.
But lately all I can think about are the ones who picked up a chain and flailed at the river.
This is the beginning of a novel whose comps are "Dark Academia + Du Maurier's REBECCA + Caroline Kepnes' YOU"
I was looking at an academic book by some random dude. It seemed interesting, until I got to the dedication, and... oh no.
February 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
This is the beginning of a novel whose comps are "Dark Academia + Du Maurier's REBECCA + Caroline Kepnes' YOU"
So uhhh, say one checks boxes 1 and 5. Hypothetically speaking, if one were to like, uhh, accept this job, and then take the money to do the job deliberately badly...hypothetically speaking, of course, how long could uh, my friend play this out and get paid to make the AI exponentially worse?
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 8:34 PM
So uhhh, say one checks boxes 1 and 5. Hypothetically speaking, if one were to like, uhh, accept this job, and then take the money to do the job deliberately badly...hypothetically speaking, of course, how long could uh, my friend play this out and get paid to make the AI exponentially worse?
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me dancing with the Devil in the pale moonlight.
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me in Trafalgar Square during the Twilight Barking.
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me by climbing a promontory in the front range, and making the call of the Loon at twilight.
January 27, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me dancing with the Devil in the pale moonlight.
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O Brother Where Art Thou prequel where the fellas have just escaped from the chain gang and are hiding in the club where/while Sinners happens
January 20, 2026 at 6:24 PM
O Brother Where Art Thou prequel where the fellas have just escaped from the chain gang and are hiding in the club where/while Sinners happens
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My story centers on the complicated relationship queer people sometimes have with their hometowns. Then I throw it in the blender with vengeful demonic queens, mercenary husbands, enchanted tongue piercings and a militia inspired by the Sacred Band of Thebes.
Check it out!!
Check it out!!
💓 BEATING HEARTS & BATTLE-AXES🪓
is now on Amazon in digital, softcover, and hardcover.
www.amazon.com/Beating-Hear...
Edited by @jayxwolf.bsky.social, it holds approx. 72,000 words of fiction, spread across six spicy Sword & Sorcery tales with a romantic relationship at their heart!
is now on Amazon in digital, softcover, and hardcover.
www.amazon.com/Beating-Hear...
Edited by @jayxwolf.bsky.social, it holds approx. 72,000 words of fiction, spread across six spicy Sword & Sorcery tales with a romantic relationship at their heart!
January 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
My story centers on the complicated relationship queer people sometimes have with their hometowns. Then I throw it in the blender with vengeful demonic queens, mercenary husbands, enchanted tongue piercings and a militia inspired by the Sacred Band of Thebes.
Check it out!!
Check it out!!
Gen-AI LLMs being crammed into everything and used to justify dehumanization of all sorts of occupations in order to enrich billionaires: Gross.
Function-specific neural networks that enable breakthroughs that might provide real, tangible benefits for everyone: Hot.
Function-specific neural networks that enable breakthroughs that might provide real, tangible benefits for everyone: Hot.
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to create an enzyme that can eat one of the toughest plastics on Earth. The enzyme breaks polyurethane down into reusable chemicals in just 12 hours at 50°C, turning it back into raw materials. Truly circular recycling. buff.ly/oUxRjjl #ShareGoodNewsToo
Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
Given a dozen hours, the enzyme can turn a foam pad into reusable chemicals.
buff.ly
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Gen-AI LLMs being crammed into everything and used to justify dehumanization of all sorts of occupations in order to enrich billionaires: Gross.
Function-specific neural networks that enable breakthroughs that might provide real, tangible benefits for everyone: Hot.
Function-specific neural networks that enable breakthroughs that might provide real, tangible benefits for everyone: Hot.
I don't know what to say other than: "Yes, ma'am."
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
January 13, 2026 at 1:53 PM
I don't know what to say other than: "Yes, ma'am."
I think from here on out, whenever my internal editor or an actual person says "Murder your darlings," my response will be "Fuck it, I don't need growth."
After 15 years of publishing novels, I find myself continuing to return to same salty Conan female heroine types. This time around, instead of saying, "Can't you come up with something ELSE Kameron?" I went, "Fuck it. This is just what it is and what I want to write about. I don't need growth." 😆
January 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I think from here on out, whenever my internal editor or an actual person says "Murder your darlings," my response will be "Fuck it, I don't need growth."
"What, if anything, excites you most about AI?"
My answer: The hope that the investment bubble will pop soon and companies will stop trying to force unethical, biased, obstructive, and unwanted LLMs into products which function better without them.
My answer: The hope that the investment bubble will pop soon and companies will stop trying to force unethical, biased, obstructive, and unwanted LLMs into products which function better without them.
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January 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
"What, if anything, excites you most about AI?"
My answer: The hope that the investment bubble will pop soon and companies will stop trying to force unethical, biased, obstructive, and unwanted LLMs into products which function better without them.
My answer: The hope that the investment bubble will pop soon and companies will stop trying to force unethical, biased, obstructive, and unwanted LLMs into products which function better without them.
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This is not a Venezuela post.
I have strong feelings but no special knowledge there.
But I've spent 30 years adoring artists who've responded to U.S.-backed atrocity.
And this week, I talk about the lessons we can learn from them.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-what...
I have strong feelings but no special knowledge there.
But I've spent 30 years adoring artists who've responded to U.S.-backed atrocity.
And this week, I talk about the lessons we can learn from them.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-what...
This is what a collapsing empire does.
El Salvador, 1979.
A country in collapse. A coup - mass protests against the coup - massacres of protesters. A long-simmering civil war exploding into the open.
Fellow undercover operatives, I am cu...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
January 7, 2026 at 4:07 PM
This is not a Venezuela post.
I have strong feelings but no special knowledge there.
But I've spent 30 years adoring artists who've responded to U.S.-backed atrocity.
And this week, I talk about the lessons we can learn from them.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-what...
I have strong feelings but no special knowledge there.
But I've spent 30 years adoring artists who've responded to U.S.-backed atrocity.
And this week, I talk about the lessons we can learn from them.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-what...
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hey do you want to know about my secret wip book ok good
Exclusive: C.L. Polk Announces New Dreamy Fantasy Book ‘The Feywild Job’ and It's Cover Reveal is Stunning
No better way to get cozy than this swoony romantasy.
www.cosmopolitan.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Writing that satisfies like taking your shoes off after a day on your feet and bending your toes against the carpet until things pop.
Back to this one—the prose has been so engaging and lush!
January 6, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Writing that satisfies like taking your shoes off after a day on your feet and bending your toes against the carpet until things pop.
This is a great thread up and down, but E) is a mantra I shall strive carry with me into 2026 and then thereafter until the end of my days.
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is a great thread up and down, but E) is a mantra I shall strive carry with me into 2026 and then thereafter until the end of my days.
I'm a Witness for the Dead.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I'm a Witness for the Dead.
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"Next up, we have a 3 hour interview with an 80 year old Italian tailor who is no longer taking orders and isn't interested in helping you."
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I spent the entirety of 2025 waiting on a train that, when it finally arrived, roared through the station without stopping.
I'd already made up my mind to do what's being advised here, but these words might also be of comfort for y'all.
I'd already made up my mind to do what's being advised here, but these words might also be of comfort for y'all.
C'mere, pookie. We need to talk about how now is a difficult time for lots of people in publishing. Not just bc--*waves arms*--but bc we're seeing Best of the Year lists and Award Eligibility posts, and bc the last book deals of the year are being announced while sub times are longer than ever. 1/
December 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I spent the entirety of 2025 waiting on a train that, when it finally arrived, roared through the station without stopping.
I'd already made up my mind to do what's being advised here, but these words might also be of comfort for y'all.
I'd already made up my mind to do what's being advised here, but these words might also be of comfort for y'all.
I had a joke about The King in Yellow but if I tell you more than the first third you won't want to hear or tell another joke for the rest of your life.
I had a joke about cthulhu but it was incomprehensible to human understanding
I had a joke about Sisyphus that made me pretty happy. Rbuthl (roll boulder up the hill laughing.)
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I had a joke about The King in Yellow but if I tell you more than the first third you won't want to hear or tell another joke for the rest of your life.
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No spider but "middle-aged woman assumes powers are side effect of perimenopause" is the plot of THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU by Mindy Hung, just fyi
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
No spider but "middle-aged woman assumes powers are side effect of perimenopause" is the plot of THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU by Mindy Hung, just fyi
My first thought was, 'he lied with every word,'
that hoary cripple, with malicious eye
askance to watch the workings of his lie
that hoary cripple, with malicious eye
askance to watch the workings of his lie
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My first thought was, 'he lied with every word,'
that hoary cripple, with malicious eye
askance to watch the workings of his lie
that hoary cripple, with malicious eye
askance to watch the workings of his lie
I strive to be the Great Room.
But really I'm doing both the jobs of 4th Bedroom and Full Bath while only getting the paycheck of a closet with a sink.
But really I'm doing both the jobs of 4th Bedroom and Full Bath while only getting the paycheck of a closet with a sink.
Tag yourself, I’m the two bathtubs in the laundry room
Oh shit waddup
December 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I strive to be the Great Room.
But really I'm doing both the jobs of 4th Bedroom and Full Bath while only getting the paycheck of a closet with a sink.
But really I'm doing both the jobs of 4th Bedroom and Full Bath while only getting the paycheck of a closet with a sink.
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For what remains of Puerto Rican Heritage Month, I wanted to share work by other Puerto Rican authors
Today, I wanted to shout out @boriscrito.bsky.social whose novella, Sordidez holds up Taínofuturism as a corrective against imperialism
www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
Today, I wanted to shout out @boriscrito.bsky.social whose novella, Sordidez holds up Taínofuturism as a corrective against imperialism
www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
Sordidez by E.G. Condé ⋆ Stelliform Press
Learn about SORDIDEZ by E.G. Condé, an indigenous futurist science fiction novella set in Puerto Rico and the Yucatan named a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book.
www.stelliform.press
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
For what remains of Puerto Rican Heritage Month, I wanted to share work by other Puerto Rican authors
Today, I wanted to shout out @boriscrito.bsky.social whose novella, Sordidez holds up Taínofuturism as a corrective against imperialism
www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
Today, I wanted to shout out @boriscrito.bsky.social whose novella, Sordidez holds up Taínofuturism as a corrective against imperialism
www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
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This friday at 2!!
Y’all come through next month at the NOLA Words and Music Festival, and watch me, Bryan Camp, Desiree S. Evans, and Marguerite Sheffer discuss magical realism and speculative fiction!
The panel will take place on 11/21/25 @ 2 PM!
We hope to see you there :)
The panel will take place on 11/21/25 @ 2 PM!
We hope to see you there :)
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This friday at 2!!
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Them: ChatGPT is a genius! Off-the-charts intelligence! Ask it to write something and see how brilliant it is!
Me, reading the piss-poor, C minus writing an LLM sharts out: Who could possibly think this is good?
Me, reading these released email chains: Ohhhhhhh.
Me, reading the piss-poor, C minus writing an LLM sharts out: Who could possibly think this is good?
Me, reading these released email chains: Ohhhhhhh.
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Them: ChatGPT is a genius! Off-the-charts intelligence! Ask it to write something and see how brilliant it is!
Me, reading the piss-poor, C minus writing an LLM sharts out: Who could possibly think this is good?
Me, reading these released email chains: Ohhhhhhh.
Me, reading the piss-poor, C minus writing an LLM sharts out: Who could possibly think this is good?
Me, reading these released email chains: Ohhhhhhh.