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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman
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Author. Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. YA & horror. Weirdo. Mayo Man.✨
PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES, #troubledteenindustry, #YA, link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV9BL2VS ✨ “SUCH A CATCH” in DREAD MONDAYS, 10/25/25 ✨ "MAYO MONDAY" in CHM ✨

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 6d
🚨PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES has been LONGLISTED for the 2025 DANTE ROSSETTI AWARD for Young Adult fiction!🚨

This award is part of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) for independent book publishers.

www.chantireviews.com/2025/11/03/t...
The 2025 Dante Rossetti Long List for Young Adult Fiction | Chanticleer
The Dante Rossetti Long List for Young Adult Fiction is here! Congratulations to all authors who made it, and good luck on the next round of judging!
www.chantireviews.com
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Turned out to be more of a networking day than a selling books day
rshifman.bsky.social Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 3d
Welp here I am at the book fair lol
It’s me at a book fair with books on my table
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Welp here I am at the book fair lol
It’s me at a book fair with books on my table
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I’ll be one of 94 (94!!) authors selling at the Doylestown - Bucks County Free Library’s Book Fair tomorrow, 11/8. Check it out! I’ll be selling:

PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES:
✨Longlisted for the 2025 Dante Rossetti YA Fiction Award (CIBAs)
✨”A wholly absorbing…coming-of-age tale.” - Kirkus Reviews
Doylestown library on Saturday 11/8 from 10:30AM to 1PM. Book fair
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I can’t gush enough about SARAH LANGAN. If you like horror, read this novella! It’s everything. Apologies to all the other brilliant writers, but PAM KOWOLSKI IS A MONSTER is absolutely the best thing I have read all year. MY 5-⭐️ REVIEW:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
R.B. Shifman's review of Pam Kowolski Is a Monster!
5/5: So many monsters, so little time until it all falls apart. Rosemary’s BFF meets Carrie’s baby in this brilliantly written story that gets realer by the minute and is absolutely the BEST thing ...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
rshifman.bsky.social
🚨PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES has been LONGLISTED for the 2025 DANTE ROSSETTI AWARD for Young Adult fiction!🚨

This award is part of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) for independent book publishers.

www.chantireviews.com/2025/11/03/t...
The 2025 Dante Rossetti Long List for Young Adult Fiction | Chanticleer
The Dante Rossetti Long List for Young Adult Fiction is here! Congratulations to all authors who made it, and good luck on the next round of judging!
www.chantireviews.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
rshifman.bsky.social
My 5-Star review of STRAW WORLD AND OTHER ECHOES FROM THE VOID! A brilliant collection of existential horror by the inimitable @erikmchatton.bsky.social -submitted for Shirley Jackson Award consideration

This is how it's done. Fantastic in every sense of the word!
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
R.B. Shifman's review of Straw World and Other Echoes from the Void
5/5: It's clear from start to finish why this collection has been submitted to be considered for a Shirley Jackson Award. I greedily devoured every bite in this meaty set of stories, which are brillia...
www.goodreads.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
rshifman.bsky.social
THE THANK YOU NOTES CAME TODAY! I gave a guest lecture to the Creative Writing class at CB West High, and their thank you notes arrived. They had lovely things to say about my talk, my personal story, and my writing. I wholeheartedly enjoyed speaking with them, and I’m grateful for their kindness. 💛
Personal, hand-written and hand-drawn thank you notes from the students
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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avilak90.bsky.social
Videl thinks she has a handle on her demonic life:

🔥Torture guilty souls
⚖️Tempt humans to sin
💔Resist falling in love with her mentor

She *didn't* think she'd have to worry about her abuela, the wicked witch who made her a demon in the first place.
#A #F #PN #Q #GhostPit
Moodboard for Secondhand Soul, a novel. Images include: A shadowy wraith with red eyes, a woman in a low cut dress holding a dagger against her skin, a book of spells held open by a pair of hands, two hands touching, one stained black and the other beginning to stain, a hand holding a black snake, a statue covered in ivy, a man's face half in shadow, a book burning. The quote "How do you destroy a monster without becoming one?" sits in the middle.
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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My 5-⭐️ review of FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO ME, a great horror novel by William J. Donahue.

I read it in one day. Strongly recommend

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
R.B. Shifman's review of Find Your Way Back To Me
5/5: A riveting blend of mundane and cosmic horror — I read this book in one day. I can’t recall the last time I read a book of nearly 300 pages in one sitting. It had me hooked from the start, perhap...
www.goodreads.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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🎉I’M PUBLISHED AGAIN!!🎉

My corporate horror story, “SUCH A CATCH,” is available in DREAD MONDAYS: A WHISPER HOUSE PRESS HORROR ANTHOLOGY!

“A gripping compendium to curl up with on a spooky night or a haunted holiday.” - Kirkus Reviews

@whisperhousepress.bsky.social

#horror

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Amazon.com: Dread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Horror Anthology eBook : Capone Jr., Steve: Books
Amazon.com: Dread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Horror Anthology eBook : Capone Jr., Steve: Books
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October 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
rshifman.bsky.social
DREAD MONDAYS is launching tomorrow! It’s well reviewed, and I’ve got a cute little corporate horror story in it called, “Such a Catch,” so check it out!

I’d hit the launch party if it wasn’t a couple of thousand miles away from me.

@whisperhousepress.bsky.social
Dread Mondays is a workplace horror anthology. Buy it anywhere starting 10/25/2025 Utah Horror Day is where all the cool kids are at. I’d be there if I had a private jet.
October 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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My story "Closed for Maintenance" is in the Dread Mondays anthology launching THIS Saturday!!

My short is gross, brutal, and pro-Union 🖤 Please check it out! And thank you @whisperhousepress.bsky.social

#whisperhousepress #horror #costsofliving #DreadMondays #booklaunch #booksky #horrorsky
A promotional imagine for a horror anthology Dread Mondays with Whisper House Press. The promo states the book is available Oct 25th wherever books are sold.
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
rshifman.bsky.social
✨ I sold 40% of my books at doylestownbookshop.bsky.social this past Saturday, 10/18! ✨

It was a great day talking to readers about PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES!

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Me selling my books at at The Doylestown Bookshop! Yay!
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
rshifman.bsky.social
I’ll be at the Local Author Expo at The Doylestown Bookshop tomorrow, Saturday, 10/18, signing my well-reviewed, gritty, coming-of-age book, PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES, from 1-3PM.

If you’re an author or reader and you’re local, please stop by! 👋

#troubledteenindustry #ya #1980s #southflorida
October 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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My 5-⭐️ review of THE SILENCED by @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social

I very much enjoyed this YA horror read:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
R.B. Shifman's review of The Silenced
5/5: A tightly paced, gripping horror novel that teens and adults should love. I read the first few chapters on a work trip where I had only a few minutes each night before I nodded off. But once home...
www.goodreads.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
rshifman.bsky.social
For the last year or so I wondered if it was me or my intense job keeping me from the discipline of writing every day. I went on vacation and after three days I was right back to 1,500 words per day on a sharp new WIP…It wasn’t me, it was (is) the intense job keeping me from writing consistently.
September 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
rshifman.bsky.social
Do you like reading excellent horror stories about the workplace? You should pre-order DREAD MONDAYS: A WHISPER HOUSE PRESS HORROR ANTHOLOGY!
This anthology of workplace horror stories by 35 authors includes "Such a Catch," by me!

10/25/2025

#booksky #horrorsky @whisperhousepress.bsky.social
It’s DREAD MONDAYS, a horror anthology of horror stories about the horrific workplace. Prepare to be horrified! By the horror! Kirkus called it terrific. So do I. Go to an online bookseller and pre-order it now! 10/25/2025
September 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Seems corrupt all around
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Sep 20
🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ shut down an FBI probe after agents caught Border Czar Tom Homan on tape taking $50,000 in cash from undercover operatives posing as contractors in exchange for promised gov’t contracts. MSNBC’s Carol Leonnig & Ken Dilanian with a massive scoop. Link in reply.
September 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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His words today, anybody else’s words tomorrow
wgawest.bsky.social Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · Sep 18
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
September 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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A terrific KIRKUS review for DREAD MONDAYS: A WHISPER HOUSE PRESS HORROR ANTHOLOGY, which includes my corporate horror short story, “SUCH A CATCH”

Congratulations, @whisperhousepress.bsky.social and all the contributing authors! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
DREAD MONDAYS | Kirkus Reviews
This jam-packed horror anthology features cryogenics, an alien invasion, a cartoon bunny, and more.
www.kirkusreviews.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
rshifman.bsky.social
I’m in this anthology, and I’m excited to hear about this review!
whisperhousepress.bsky.social Whisper House Press (Steve Capone, Jr.) @whisperhousepress.bsky.social · Sep 17
Got our Kirkus review for DREAD MONDAYS, and can’t wait to share it with y’all!
September 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
rshifman.bsky.social
I don’t mean to prejudge but if you have a 100:1 follow to follower count and everything on your feed is no-quote reposts, I’m not going to follow you, and I’m probably blocking ‘you’… whatever you are
September 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Horror? ✅ Troubled teen industry? ✅ Buying this book soon? ✅ !!!
dianawallachauthor.bsky.social Diana Rodriguez Wallach, YA Horror Author @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social · Sep 16
I did it. Happy Book Birthday to my 9th novel THE SILENCED.

THE SILENCED imagines what would happen if a girl explores an abandoned reform school & comes home haunted by the ghost of a teen who didn’t survive her stay at The Farm.

It’s a horror novel tackling real world issues-Welcome to The Farm!
September 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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lol these jokers have a law school right?
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Sep 15
"We stand firmly on the principles of the U.S. Constitution, including the protection of free speech. HOWEVER, that right does not extend to speech that incites harm OR UNDERMINES THE DIGNITY OF OTHERS."

Emphasis added because holy fuck
@ClemsonUniv on X: A statement from Clemson University: [image of statement]
September 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM