J. M. Williams ✏️ is querying his debut novel
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Visit https://jmwilliamswrites.com/ for information about my writing.
Latest short story available here: https://macabremagazine.com/water-and-brimstone/
Latest short story available here: https://macabremagazine.com/water-and-brimstone/
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Water and Brimstone
It is a lonely thing, to die in a world that is not your own. That is the fate that my brother and I now face. It is even more cruel that the world we find ourselves in is so like our own in so many w...
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Thrilled that my ninth short story, "Water and Brimstone," has been published by the incredible @hello.darkharbormagazine.com.ap.brid.gy, now Macabre Magazine! Happy Anniversary, MM! Enjoy a little dark fantasy in time for spooky season. #WritingJourney
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The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
So who gets @rianjohnson.bsky.social's copy of Ravenous? Is the next visitor to the closet going to claim it? Or did @criterion.bsky.social already remove it? Whoever gets it gets the First Gift of Christmas.
December 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So who gets @rianjohnson.bsky.social's copy of Ravenous? Is the next visitor to the closet going to claim it? Or did @criterion.bsky.social already remove it? Whoever gets it gets the First Gift of Christmas.
Next time y'all feel enticed to vote in the outsiders, just make sure they're also EXPERTS. They can be Washington outsiders without ALSO being outsiders to the field we're placing them in charge of.
December 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Next time y'all feel enticed to vote in the outsiders, just make sure they're also EXPERTS. They can be Washington outsiders without ALSO being outsiders to the field we're placing them in charge of.
I know I'm late to the party, but "Paul Dano was the worst part of There Will Be Blood" is an absolute dogshit take.
December 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I know I'm late to the party, but "Paul Dano was the worst part of There Will Be Blood" is an absolute dogshit take.
If life felt better in the 1990s, it might be because we just received photographic evidence that there was a kid in the Omelas hole.
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If life felt better in the 1990s, it might be because we just received photographic evidence that there was a kid in the Omelas hole.
This isn't an affordability crisis, it's a wage theft crisis.
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This isn't an affordability crisis, it's a wage theft crisis.
Short Story Acceptance #10!! And this one is a special one! I can't wait to share this one! What a wonderful email to wake up to the day before Thanksgiving. #WritingJourney
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Short Story Acceptance #10!! And this one is a special one! I can't wait to share this one! What a wonderful email to wake up to the day before Thanksgiving. #WritingJourney
Fellow writers, it's so unbelievably frustrating sitting down to write the same scene for what must be the fifth or sixth time. But it's so, so gratifying knowing without a doubt that it's also the last time the scene needs to be written. Final draft time, baby! #WritingProblems
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Fellow writers, it's so unbelievably frustrating sitting down to write the same scene for what must be the fifth or sixth time. But it's so, so gratifying knowing without a doubt that it's also the last time the scene needs to be written. Final draft time, baby! #WritingProblems
SO SO thrilled that the story continues. After finishing "Bruised-Eye Dusk" from 2024's Best of SF&F, I was dying to follow Rugg on another adventure.
ICYMI, my newest short story came out earlier this week with Beneath Ceaseless Skies! "Bloody Muddy Water" is a fantasy detective story where spellbreaker Rugg and his alligator mount, Tugboat, must solve the mystery of the Headsick plague spreading through the swampy canals of Blackvill.
Live in BCS #439: "Bloody Muddy Water" @jduckwriter.bsky.social "Rugg read her. The knit of the veil was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo...
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
SO SO thrilled that the story continues. After finishing "Bruised-Eye Dusk" from 2024's Best of SF&F, I was dying to follow Rugg on another adventure.
Thrilled that my ninth short story, "Water and Brimstone," has been published by the incredible @hello.darkharbormagazine.com.ap.brid.gy, now Macabre Magazine! Happy Anniversary, MM! Enjoy a little dark fantasy in time for spooky season. #WritingJourney
macabremagazine.com/water-and-br...
macabremagazine.com/water-and-br...
Water and Brimstone
It is a lonely thing, to die in a world that is not your own. That is the fate that my brother and I now face. It is even more cruel that the world we find ourselves in is so like our own in so many w...
macabremagazine.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Thrilled that my ninth short story, "Water and Brimstone," has been published by the incredible @hello.darkharbormagazine.com.ap.brid.gy, now Macabre Magazine! Happy Anniversary, MM! Enjoy a little dark fantasy in time for spooky season. #WritingJourney
macabremagazine.com/water-and-br...
macabremagazine.com/water-and-br...
Would love to ban elimination rounds from reality competition shows involving children.
October 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Would love to ban elimination rounds from reality competition shows involving children.
Well worth a listen. Such a well-realized world, it almost comes across more as reporting on fact than sharing fiction.
open.spotify.com/episode/4q89...
open.spotify.com/episode/4q89...
October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Well worth a listen. Such a well-realized world, it almost comes across more as reporting on fact than sharing fiction.
open.spotify.com/episode/4q89...
open.spotify.com/episode/4q89...
Acceptance #9! So excited to share this story with you. I've submitted it 12 places over the last year and five months. Friendly reminder to never stop. More soon! #WritingJourney
October 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Acceptance #9! So excited to share this story with you. I've submitted it 12 places over the last year and five months. Friendly reminder to never stop. More soon! #WritingJourney
Using the Focus Friend app I can focus on writing instead of going down a rabbit hole of Hank Green videos on my phone
September 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Using the Focus Friend app I can focus on writing instead of going down a rabbit hole of Hank Green videos on my phone
Holy crap. #FocusFriend really works. Not just for work, but for writing. I mean Labor Day Weekend also works for that. But the app has REALLY helped me make writing progress. I think it's the increments, in addition to all the other brain hacking going on. I swear up and down by my incrementalism.
September 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Holy crap. #FocusFriend really works. Not just for work, but for writing. I mean Labor Day Weekend also works for that. But the app has REALLY helped me make writing progress. I think it's the increments, in addition to all the other brain hacking going on. I swear up and down by my incrementalism.
Even at (ESPECIALLY at) innocuous levels, AI erodes our most fundamental hallmark of human autonomy, erasing the moment-to-moment inconvenience that stretches the muscles of our freedom: the ability to decide. Our most mundane and essential mental burden.
August 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Even at (ESPECIALLY at) innocuous levels, AI erodes our most fundamental hallmark of human autonomy, erasing the moment-to-moment inconvenience that stretches the muscles of our freedom: the ability to decide. Our most mundane and essential mental burden.
Tom Sturridge deserves all the praise he can get. This show carved out a massive challenge for itself, trying to stand in the wake of disgusting controversy. That doesn't change the fact that Tom Sturridge is doing things as Dream that no one else on TV right now can equal.
July 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Tom Sturridge deserves all the praise he can get. This show carved out a massive challenge for itself, trying to stand in the wake of disgusting controversy. That doesn't change the fact that Tom Sturridge is doing things as Dream that no one else on TV right now can equal.
2k words done today. Can't remember the last time that happened, let alone with my novel, let alone before 10:30 am. Hopefully a good omen now that we're finished moving into the new place. #WritingProgress
July 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
2k words done today. Can't remember the last time that happened, let alone with my novel, let alone before 10:30 am. Hopefully a good omen now that we're finished moving into the new place. #WritingProgress
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Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 53% funded. When we reach $30K, we will give EVERY BACKER the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Highlights eBooks! KEEP IT ROLLING, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/FTfV1GZ
July 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 53% funded. When we reach $30K, we will give EVERY BACKER the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Highlights eBooks! KEEP IT ROLLING, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/FTfV1GZ
CGI isn't getting worse. Resolution is getting better.
May 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
CGI isn't getting worse. Resolution is getting better.
My new flash fiction, "Owning a Cat Is Like Having a Ghost," is now out in Issue 12 of the beautiful @livinapress.bsky.social ! You can find it on Amazon in multiple formats. Huge thank you to Laci F. Hector!
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Livina Press: Issue 12 - Kindle edition by Press, Livina, Felker, Laci. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My new flash fiction, "Owning a Cat Is Like Having a Ghost," is now out in Issue 12 of the beautiful @livinapress.bsky.social ! You can find it on Amazon in multiple formats. Huge thank you to Laci F. Hector!
a.co/d/cAiYttU
a.co/d/cAiYttU
Acceptance #8! This journey has required patience, but this is my second flash fiction acceptance in just over a month. More details to come. For now, I'm just grateful to have more chances to share these personal stories. This one's about cats 😸 #WritingJourney
May 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Acceptance #8! This journey has required patience, but this is my second flash fiction acceptance in just over a month. More details to come. For now, I'm just grateful to have more chances to share these personal stories. This one's about cats 😸 #WritingJourney
That's how you write a sketch that plays to the host's strengths #snl #waltongoggins
May 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
That's how you write a sketch that plays to the host's strengths #snl #waltongoggins