Heather Bell Adams
@heatherbelladams.bsky.social
Author MARANATHA ROAD (WVU); THE GOOD LUCK STONE (Haywire); STARRING MARILYN MONROE AS HERSELF (forthcoming Regal House); fiction in North Carolina Literary Review, Reckon Review, Thomas Wolfe Review, Still, Stanchion, etc Rep’d by Carly Watters
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Where to start Chapter 1 in a novel: buff.ly/NAw9XJh by Nathan Bransford #wkb8
Where to start Chapter 1 in a novel
One of the trickiest parts of writing a novel is the whole “Chapter 1” thing. Or should this novel start with a prologue?! Gah! I’m already stuck! You know you need to grab the reader in the opening…
buff.ly
August 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Where to start Chapter 1 in a novel: buff.ly/NAw9XJh by Nathan Bransford #wkb8
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Finally remembering to post a couple signed copies of Larks—holler if you’d like one. $18, with shipping. 💙📚
August 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Finally remembering to post a couple signed copies of Larks—holler if you’d like one. $18, with shipping. 💙📚
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This seems like a good to remind folks: if you have a literary project you want to start but need a little help and a little support, our incubator might be what you're looking for! bullcitypress.com/projects/inc...
Incubator
We started in a basement with a budget of $300. We love helping others who have shoestring budgets make the books, journals, podcasts, and literary ephemera that they’ve been dreaming of. Bul…
bullcitypress.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This seems like a good to remind folks: if you have a literary project you want to start but need a little help and a little support, our incubator might be what you're looking for! bullcitypress.com/projects/inc...
"She’s very proud of the quality of the specimens she’s managed to acquire."
New story alert!
I’m absolutely thrilled to join the roster of Gargoyle Magazine with my story “Waiting to Take Possession.”
gargoylemagazine.com/elizabeth-ro...
I’m absolutely thrilled to join the roster of Gargoyle Magazine with my story “Waiting to Take Possession.”
gargoylemagazine.com/elizabeth-ro...
Elizabeth Rosen
Elizabeth Rosen Back to Gargoyle Online Waiting to Take Possession Donna wants to show us her collection. She’s extremely proud of it. She has thrown herself into this new hobby wholeheartedly, spe…
gargoylemagazine.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"She’s very proud of the quality of the specimens she’s managed to acquire."
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Ok, all, we're 8 copies away from an unprecedented 3rd printing of @writesloud.bsky.social's First Kicking, Then Not, a full 14 days before pub day!! Who wants to be the reason an author gets another $300 + 15 more author copies? Have it solo or with a pennant. Let's goooo!
stanchionzine.com/shop
stanchionzine.com/shop
July 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ok, all, we're 8 copies away from an unprecedented 3rd printing of @writesloud.bsky.social's First Kicking, Then Not, a full 14 days before pub day!! Who wants to be the reason an author gets another $300 + 15 more author copies? Have it solo or with a pennant. Let's goooo!
stanchionzine.com/shop
stanchionzine.com/shop
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OMG THE PENNANTS ARE HERE YOU GUYS.
Feel something this summer.
Buy a pennant for a fiver or the Breakdown Bundle with a physical copy of @writesloud.bsky.social's First Kicking, Then Not, a PDF download of the book & an I WANT TO FEEL SOMETHING pennant for $17.
StanchionZine.com/shop
Feel something this summer.
Buy a pennant for a fiver or the Breakdown Bundle with a physical copy of @writesloud.bsky.social's First Kicking, Then Not, a PDF download of the book & an I WANT TO FEEL SOMETHING pennant for $17.
StanchionZine.com/shop
July 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
OMG THE PENNANTS ARE HERE YOU GUYS.
Feel something this summer.
Buy a pennant for a fiver or the Breakdown Bundle with a physical copy of @writesloud.bsky.social's First Kicking, Then Not, a PDF download of the book & an I WANT TO FEEL SOMETHING pennant for $17.
StanchionZine.com/shop
Feel something this summer.
Buy a pennant for a fiver or the Breakdown Bundle with a physical copy of @writesloud.bsky.social's First Kicking, Then Not, a PDF download of the book & an I WANT TO FEEL SOMETHING pennant for $17.
StanchionZine.com/shop
The Devil's Done Come Back: New Ghost Tales from North Carolina, The forthcoming @blairpub.bsky.social anthology edited by @edsouthern.bsky.social (in which I have a short story), is longlisted for North Carolina Reads! You can vote here; voting ends 7/31:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
July 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The Devil's Done Come Back: New Ghost Tales from North Carolina, The forthcoming @blairpub.bsky.social anthology edited by @edsouthern.bsky.social (in which I have a short story), is longlisted for North Carolina Reads! You can vote here; voting ends 7/31:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
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A little reminder that I'd love to be on your podcast, be interviewed, be reviewed, and all that good stuff for this new book! 🥹
July 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A little reminder that I'd love to be on your podcast, be interviewed, be reviewed, and all that good stuff for this new book! 🥹
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Like a podcast? Share their episodes. Enjoyed a book? Pass it along to a friend. Love a YouTuber? Drop a link in group chat. Admire an author? Let them know with a message.
Creating can be isolating, but sharing helps these works grow and stay alive well past when they’re knocked from the nest.
Creating can be isolating, but sharing helps these works grow and stay alive well past when they’re knocked from the nest.
June 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Like a podcast? Share their episodes. Enjoyed a book? Pass it along to a friend. Love a YouTuber? Drop a link in group chat. Admire an author? Let them know with a message.
Creating can be isolating, but sharing helps these works grow and stay alive well past when they’re knocked from the nest.
Creating can be isolating, but sharing helps these works grow and stay alive well past when they’re knocked from the nest.
Grateful to have a new story in Orange Blossom Review: orangeblossomreview.org/journal/all-...
All the Lies I Told Today – Orange Blossom Review
All the Lies I Told Today
orangeblossomreview.org
June 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Grateful to have a new story in Orange Blossom Review: orangeblossomreview.org/journal/all-...
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Stanchion opens in 4 hours. Closes in 28. Let's make Issue 19.
June 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Stanchion opens in 4 hours. Closes in 28. Let's make Issue 19.
Delighted to have a short story in this @blairpub.bsky.social anthology, edited by @edsouthern.bsky.social, which is available for preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...
The Devil's Done Come Back: New Ghost Tales from North Carolina
New Ghost Tales from North Carolina
bookshop.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Delighted to have a short story in this @blairpub.bsky.social anthology, edited by @edsouthern.bsky.social, which is available for preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...
One of us is freaked out about asking for blurbs for their alternative history novella, Starring Marilyn Monroe as Herself (forthcoming Regal House fall 2026) 😆 #authorlife #histfic
June 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
One of us is freaked out about asking for blurbs for their alternative history novella, Starring Marilyn Monroe as Herself (forthcoming Regal House fall 2026) 😆 #authorlife #histfic
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You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
—Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
—Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"
May 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
—Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
—Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"
Catching up on recent issues of The Greensboro Review
May 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Catching up on recent issues of The Greensboro Review
The Fugere Novella Prize closes 5/15. Winning manuscript to be published by @regalhouse.bsky.social
17k-40k words
(My novella, Starring Marilyn Monroe as Herself, was a finalist for this contest last year & will be published in fall 2026)
17k-40k words
(My novella, Starring Marilyn Monroe as Herself, was a finalist for this contest last year & will be published in fall 2026)
The Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas
Now accepting submissions for our 2025 Fugere Book Prize. Submit via Submittable. Past winners: 2024 Fugere Book Prize Winner: David W. Berner for American Moon 2023 Fugere Book Prize Winner: Chris…
regalhousepublishing.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Fugere Novella Prize closes 5/15. Winning manuscript to be published by @regalhouse.bsky.social
17k-40k words
(My novella, Starring Marilyn Monroe as Herself, was a finalist for this contest last year & will be published in fall 2026)
17k-40k words
(My novella, Starring Marilyn Monroe as Herself, was a finalist for this contest last year & will be published in fall 2026)
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Join Page 158 Books for a movie night party for Sunrise on the Reaping!
Celebrate the release of Sunrise on the Reaping by going back to where it all started: The Hunger Games.
For details visit: https://www.page158books.com/event/sunrise-reaping-release-party
Celebrate the release of Sunrise on the Reaping by going back to where it all started: The Hunger Games.
For details visit: https://www.page158books.com/event/sunrise-reaping-release-party
March 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Join Page 158 Books for a movie night party for Sunrise on the Reaping!
Celebrate the release of Sunrise on the Reaping by going back to where it all started: The Hunger Games.
For details visit: https://www.page158books.com/event/sunrise-reaping-release-party
Celebrate the release of Sunrise on the Reaping by going back to where it all started: The Hunger Games.
For details visit: https://www.page158books.com/event/sunrise-reaping-release-party
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oh sorry I can’t make it my story is marked “in progress” now so I have to get my hopes up for the next ten months
March 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
oh sorry I can’t make it my story is marked “in progress” now so I have to get my hopes up for the next ten months
Spring conference for @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social May 2-4 in Asheville: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...
March 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Spring conference for @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social May 2-4 in Asheville: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...
Loved our time together!
After a day of chasing words yesterday, I got to have dinner with one of my very favorites (writers and people) @heatherbelladams.bsky.social This lady does my heart good.
March 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Loved our time together!
Happy 15th anniversary @raleighreview.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Happy 15th anniversary @raleighreview.bsky.social
This new short story contest is free and open to NC writers:
February 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This new short story contest is free and open to NC writers:
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Write *away from* certainty, not toward it.
February 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Write *away from* certainty, not toward it.