Jen Brown 👻🕸️✨
@jenbrownwrites.bsky.social
Bi, black librarian (she/her); Ignyte Award nom'd SFF author; community admin for wehere.space. Stories in FIYAH, Anathema, Baffling, & more. Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop ‘25.
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On Novel-ing: Clarion West’s Novel Writing Workshop (2025)
Seven months ago, I was accepted into the first cohort of Clarion West’s Novel Writing Workshop. (Or NWW, as we’ve lovingly acronymn-ized it.) Seven life-changing months filled with lec…
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Ahem...might I offer you some joy, in these trying times? Applications for @clarionwest.bsky.social's 2026 Novel Writing Workshop open soon. So, I wrote about my application experience & programmatic takeaways, thus far.
If you're thinking about applying? Do it. ✊🏾
jencbrown.com/2025/09/27/o...
If you're thinking about applying? Do it. ✊🏾
jencbrown.com/2025/09/27/o...
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Folks seem to be forgetting this so I’m here to remind you:
‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘
‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘
10 Undeniable Facts About the Michael Jackson Sexual-Abuse Allegations
The author, who spent more than a decade covering the scandal for V.F., shares the key revelations and insights that viewers of the new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland need to know.
www.vanityfair.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Folks seem to be forgetting this so I’m here to remind you:
‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘
‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘
I know that’s right. 👏🏾 Put some respect on Mookie’s name.
Mookie Betts is a first ballot hall of famer and a generational player with four World Series rings, an MVP, and gold glove caliber defense in the infield and outfield.
Be so serious right now.
America doesn’t know who Mike Trout is.
Be so serious right now.
America doesn’t know who Mike Trout is.
let's take it Easy!
Mookie is an awesome player yes.
Generational? no.
He was a non factor in this series.
And if you list the top 5 players of the last 10 yrs, he's not on the list
(Judge, Ohtani, Trout, Soto, Acuna Jr)
He's borderline top 10.
but generational? Nope
Mookie is an awesome player yes.
Generational? no.
He was a non factor in this series.
And if you list the top 5 players of the last 10 yrs, he's not on the list
(Judge, Ohtani, Trout, Soto, Acuna Jr)
He's borderline top 10.
but generational? Nope
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I know that’s right. 👏🏾 Put some respect on Mookie’s name.
Gnawing on the bars of my damn enclosure, RELEASE ME FROM THIS GAME, SOMEBODY PLEASE
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Gnawing on the bars of my damn enclosure, RELEASE ME FROM THIS GAME, SOMEBODY PLEASE
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Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
Baseball is going to END ME. 🫠
November 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Baseball is going to END ME. 🫠
Lolol. I want “It’s fun to feel bad” on a horror mug.
I see people promoting their Halloween reads.
Haha everything I write is Gothic. Take your pick. It's fun to feel bad.
Haha everything I write is Gothic. Take your pick. It's fun to feel bad.
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Lolol. I want “It’s fun to feel bad” on a horror mug.
🤣 truly what this game feels like. 🫠
It’s 2028. Snow is falling in Dodger Stadium. No one remembers what a glove is. Freddie Freeman starts tearing a baseball apart with his teeth.
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
🤣 truly what this game feels like. 🫠
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Preorder links for THE KING MUST DIE, my science fantasy novel about found family, revolution, and second chances are live! Submit receipts via this form to receive a digital poster, drawn by the incredible Eepz.
www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...
www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...
August 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Preorder links for THE KING MUST DIE, my science fantasy novel about found family, revolution, and second chances are live! Submit receipts via this form to receive a digital poster, drawn by the incredible Eepz.
www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...
www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...
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So allegedly 🧊 rebranded. Now their vests say Police HSI. Just something to look out for
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
So allegedly 🧊 rebranded. Now their vests say Police HSI. Just something to look out for
A real one. 🫡
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A real one. 🫡
😍😍😍 cannot wait to read this!
PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
October 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
😍😍😍 cannot wait to read this!
Me, thinking I wouldn’t be plagued by one of these (as somebody without a novel out yet).
Scammers: HELLO, wrong Jennifer Brown!!!!!
Scammers: HELLO, wrong Jennifer Brown!!!!!
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Me, thinking I wouldn’t be plagued by one of these (as somebody without a novel out yet).
Scammers: HELLO, wrong Jennifer Brown!!!!!
Scammers: HELLO, wrong Jennifer Brown!!!!!
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Applications are now open for the 2026 Novel Writing Workshop with @drkarenlord.bsky.social!
Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio.
#novelwritingworkshop #clarionwest
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio.
#novelwritingworkshop #clarionwest
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
October 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Applications are now open for the 2026 Novel Writing Workshop with @drkarenlord.bsky.social!
Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio.
#novelwritingworkshop #clarionwest
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio.
#novelwritingworkshop #clarionwest
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
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whoa october is around the corner!
reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.
more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.
more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
whoa october is around the corner!
reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.
more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.
more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
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"motherfucker" is a gender neutral term
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
"motherfucker" is a gender neutral term
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Me, after being wrecked by yet another Silvia Moreno-Garcia book.
(Just finished THE BEWITCHING. In my entire feelings about the way Silvia weaves generational narratives around surviving the horrors that haunt us. How does she DO THIS?! 😭)
(Just finished THE BEWITCHING. In my entire feelings about the way Silvia weaves generational narratives around surviving the horrors that haunt us. How does she DO THIS?! 😭)
a man with a beard is crying and saying `` he can 't keep getting away with it ! ''
Alt: Iconic gif of Jessie from Breaking Bad crying and screaming: “he [Walter White, the show’s main character] can’t keep getting away with it!”
media.tenor.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Me, after being wrecked by yet another Silvia Moreno-Garcia book.
(Just finished THE BEWITCHING. In my entire feelings about the way Silvia weaves generational narratives around surviving the horrors that haunt us. How does she DO THIS?! 😭)
(Just finished THE BEWITCHING. In my entire feelings about the way Silvia weaves generational narratives around surviving the horrors that haunt us. How does she DO THIS?! 😭)
Once-opulence? Space novellas with interesting relationships?? An extremely adept author whose prose swept me away, the first time I read them???
Yeah. My bookshelves are ready.
Yeah. My bookshelves are ready.
October 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Once-opulence? Space novellas with interesting relationships?? An extremely adept author whose prose swept me away, the first time I read them???
Yeah. My bookshelves are ready.
Yeah. My bookshelves are ready.
I’ve read these opening pages yall. They were spectacular. 👀🔥
WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE 85,000 Word #Spaceopera
🛸 Nesamma Abbas, a washed-up alien musician,
🎸 joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire
✨with a martial art of sound ⚡🎶
.😢She must confront her pain,
🧘♀️ Master her powers
⚔️ & choose: revolution
❤️ or redemption
#WOC #Asian #SFF #DVpit
🛸 Nesamma Abbas, a washed-up alien musician,
🎸 joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire
✨with a martial art of sound ⚡🎶
.😢She must confront her pain,
🧘♀️ Master her powers
⚔️ & choose: revolution
❤️ or redemption
#WOC #Asian #SFF #DVpit
October 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I’ve read these opening pages yall. They were spectacular. 👀🔥
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Twinkle, 10 x 16 inches, acrylics on board and paper.
The lady and a few of the stars pop out in 3d :)
The lady and a few of the stars pop out in 3d :)
October 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Twinkle, 10 x 16 inches, acrylics on board and paper.
The lady and a few of the stars pop out in 3d :)
The lady and a few of the stars pop out in 3d :)
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It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
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Today is my favorite person @brentclambert.bsky.social 's birthday! The SFF field is better for his part in it as a writer, a reader, a friend and cheerleader and my life is brighter for sharing his light. If you have not let it bless you just yet, pick up and devour his A Necessary Chaos today.
A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert — neon hemlock
This title was published October 3rd, 2023. An 8” x 5” novella. 145 pages. In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos follows two mages, Althus a...
www.neonhemlock.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Today is my favorite person @brentclambert.bsky.social 's birthday! The SFF field is better for his part in it as a writer, a reader, a friend and cheerleader and my life is brighter for sharing his light. If you have not let it bless you just yet, pick up and devour his A Necessary Chaos today.
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It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.
October 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.
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ah look its all our fears
EA's new owners are planning an AI pivot to significantly cut operating costs
(via Financial Times)
(via Financial Times)
September 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
ah look its all our fears
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September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM