Jon Steinhagen
@jonsteinhagen.bsky.social
author, screenwriter, playwright, actor, musician, songwriter (not always at the same time) - The Hanging Artist; Blizzard ‘67; The Big Book of Sounds; Party Favors; The Teapot Scandals; Successors et al
PARTY FAVORS, a 2021 comedy for which I wrote the screenplay, directed by the essential Matt Canon for Trip Aces Media and featuring an extraordinary cast of hilarious performers, is now available on a few streaming services! Enjoy!
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
PARTY FAVORS, a 2021 comedy for which I wrote the screenplay, directed by the essential Matt Canon for Trip Aces Media and featuring an extraordinary cast of hilarious performers, is now available on a few streaming services! Enjoy!
The essential @xraylitmag.bsky.social has published one of my new stories today - enjoy!
“Everything you’re doing is perfect, Sam,” the voice says, aggressive and bright. “Now just go ahead and click on the link I just sent you.”
“Everything you’re doing is perfect, Sam,” the voice says, aggressive and bright. “Now just go ahead and click on the link I just sent you.”
October 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The essential @xraylitmag.bsky.social has published one of my new stories today - enjoy!
“Everything you’re doing is perfect, Sam,” the voice says, aggressive and bright. “Now just go ahead and click on the link I just sent you.”
“Everything you’re doing is perfect, Sam,” the voice says, aggressive and bright. “Now just go ahead and click on the link I just sent you.”
I’ll have a new story (“Only the Scammers Love Sam”) in the incomparable @xraylitmag.bsky.social
tomorrow; meanwhile, I continue to work on new stories to see where they’ll lead me (and, ultimately lead YOU). Cocktail added for verisimilitude 😁
tomorrow; meanwhile, I continue to work on new stories to see where they’ll lead me (and, ultimately lead YOU). Cocktail added for verisimilitude 😁
October 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ll have a new story (“Only the Scammers Love Sam”) in the incomparable @xraylitmag.bsky.social
tomorrow; meanwhile, I continue to work on new stories to see where they’ll lead me (and, ultimately lead YOU). Cocktail added for verisimilitude 😁
tomorrow; meanwhile, I continue to work on new stories to see where they’ll lead me (and, ultimately lead YOU). Cocktail added for verisimilitude 😁
About to embark upon an adventure- - in IMAX.
September 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
About to embark upon an adventure- - in IMAX.
How I spent my royalty check (fancy bread did NOT come with the movies).
September 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
How I spent my royalty check (fancy bread did NOT come with the movies).
Reposted by Jon Steinhagen
this story by Saoirse Bertram is so interesting !
i love how each paragraph sinks u deeper into a more unreconizable world, i love the title, i love stories where the world falls apart. don't miss 'Avalon'
xraylitmag.com/avalon-by-sa...
i love how each paragraph sinks u deeper into a more unreconizable world, i love the title, i love stories where the world falls apart. don't miss 'Avalon'
xraylitmag.com/avalon-by-sa...
AVALON by Saoirse Bertram
On the Fourth of July the grandmother took Vase to the top of the warehouse where a rickety carriage of iron stairs led to the roof. The sky was as orange as a snake’s belly and smelled of powder and ...
xraylitmag.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
this story by Saoirse Bertram is so interesting !
i love how each paragraph sinks u deeper into a more unreconizable world, i love the title, i love stories where the world falls apart. don't miss 'Avalon'
xraylitmag.com/avalon-by-sa...
i love how each paragraph sinks u deeper into a more unreconizable world, i love the title, i love stories where the world falls apart. don't miss 'Avalon'
xraylitmag.com/avalon-by-sa...
Today's #TIFF50 screening schedule: DUSE (Marcello; Italy); BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER (Berger; UK); THE FOX KING (Jin; Malaysia); DUST BUNNY (Fuller; USA)
September 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today's #TIFF50 screening schedule: DUSE (Marcello; Italy); BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER (Berger; UK); THE FOX KING (Jin; Malaysia); DUST BUNNY (Fuller; USA)
10 movies from 1995 that could have been produced/distributed by A24 if it existed 30 years ago:
The Crossing Guard
Dead Presidents
Don Juan DeMarco
Leaving Las Vegas
Moonlight and Valentino
Party Girl
Powder
Se7en
To Die For
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
The Crossing Guard
Dead Presidents
Don Juan DeMarco
Leaving Las Vegas
Moonlight and Valentino
Party Girl
Powder
Se7en
To Die For
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
September 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
10 movies from 1995 that could have been produced/distributed by A24 if it existed 30 years ago:
The Crossing Guard
Dead Presidents
Don Juan DeMarco
Leaving Las Vegas
Moonlight and Valentino
Party Girl
Powder
Se7en
To Die For
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
The Crossing Guard
Dead Presidents
Don Juan DeMarco
Leaving Las Vegas
Moonlight and Valentino
Party Girl
Powder
Se7en
To Die For
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
Reposted by Jon Steinhagen
Day 1 of writing new novella: my various bits of ideas since improvising on the inspiration (begun 7 days ago), ready to burn through a draft by end of month or sooner. Is there a genre called absurdist horror?
September 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Day 1 of writing new novella: my various bits of ideas since improvising on the inspiration (begun 7 days ago), ready to burn through a draft by end of month or sooner. Is there a genre called absurdist horror?
Reposted by Jon Steinhagen
Drug abuse was a topic of great concern during the silent era and films about addiction-- drug and alcohol-- were popular and frequently graphic. This Essanay film was released in 1909.
September 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Drug abuse was a topic of great concern during the silent era and films about addiction-- drug and alcohol-- were popular and frequently graphic. This Essanay film was released in 1909.
Today's writin' music begins with a dozen bossa nova tracks with this TERRIFIC 1965 album on the turntable - if you can find it, I totally recommend the "Whisper a Word of Love" track or the insane trumpet solo on "Full Moon and Empty Arms."
August 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Today's writin' music begins with a dozen bossa nova tracks with this TERRIFIC 1965 album on the turntable - if you can find it, I totally recommend the "Whisper a Word of Love" track or the insane trumpet solo on "Full Moon and Empty Arms."
The Stand by @stephenking.bsky.social
stood so The End of the World As We Know It could stand up - this absolute banger of anthology has been entertaining the hell out of me all week. TERRIFIC stories!
stood so The End of the World As We Know It could stand up - this absolute banger of anthology has been entertaining the hell out of me all week. TERRIFIC stories!
August 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Stand by @stephenking.bsky.social
stood so The End of the World As We Know It could stand up - this absolute banger of anthology has been entertaining the hell out of me all week. TERRIFIC stories!
stood so The End of the World As We Know It could stand up - this absolute banger of anthology has been entertaining the hell out of me all week. TERRIFIC stories!
Published in 1927; I was very entertained by it, especially the attempted murder with a green hedgehog. Yes, you read that correctly. An early Dr Priestley detective novel.
August 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Published in 1927; I was very entertained by it, especially the attempted murder with a green hedgehog. Yes, you read that correctly. An early Dr Priestley detective novel.
Nothing like plotting the latest murder mystery to within an inch of its life and discovering an entirely different solution that is much better (and craftier) than the one with which I began.
August 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Nothing like plotting the latest murder mystery to within an inch of its life and discovering an entirely different solution that is much better (and craftier) than the one with which I began.
Terrific mystery (1927): slyly plotted, intriguing, and so tonally different (downright disturbing at the conclusion) from 1920s detective novels. I’ve found this to be true of other Connington of 1920s.
August 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Terrific mystery (1927): slyly plotted, intriguing, and so tonally different (downright disturbing at the conclusion) from 1920s detective novels. I’ve found this to be true of other Connington of 1920s.
FANTASTIC movie. Starring the always incredible Ben Foster.
August 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
FANTASTIC movie. Starring the always incredible Ben Foster.
Reposted by Jon Steinhagen
It's Novel/Novella Submissions Halfway Day!
We're HALFWAY through our subs period: our N/N reading team is high-fiving as 1/2 switch out of the reading queue and 1/2 switch in.
They're hungry to read, so SEND US YOUR NOVEL OR NOVELLA before September 1!
splitlippress.submittable.com
We're HALFWAY through our subs period: our N/N reading team is high-fiving as 1/2 switch out of the reading queue and 1/2 switch in.
They're hungry to read, so SEND US YOUR NOVEL OR NOVELLA before September 1!
splitlippress.submittable.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It's Novel/Novella Submissions Halfway Day!
We're HALFWAY through our subs period: our N/N reading team is high-fiving as 1/2 switch out of the reading queue and 1/2 switch in.
They're hungry to read, so SEND US YOUR NOVEL OR NOVELLA before September 1!
splitlippress.submittable.com
We're HALFWAY through our subs period: our N/N reading team is high-fiving as 1/2 switch out of the reading queue and 1/2 switch in.
They're hungry to read, so SEND US YOUR NOVEL OR NOVELLA before September 1!
splitlippress.submittable.com
Submitted new stories today: “Days of Deafening Fish Sex,” “The Headless Fiancée,” “The Most Important Fire on Earth,” and “Revised Instructions for the Amnesia Bomb.” July was a productive month. Onwards.
August 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Submitted new stories today: “Days of Deafening Fish Sex,” “The Headless Fiancée,” “The Most Important Fire on Earth,” and “Revised Instructions for the Amnesia Bomb.” July was a productive month. Onwards.
The five novels I read last month during my summer reading adventure, all fantastic (Brazilian, American, Swedish, Irish, and British authors):
SAŌ BERNARDO (1934)
MORTE D’URBAN (1962)
SUN CITY (1974)
THE PORNOGRAPHER (1979)
WISH HER SAFE AT HOME (1982)
SAŌ BERNARDO (1934)
MORTE D’URBAN (1962)
SUN CITY (1974)
THE PORNOGRAPHER (1979)
WISH HER SAFE AT HOME (1982)
August 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The five novels I read last month during my summer reading adventure, all fantastic (Brazilian, American, Swedish, Irish, and British authors):
SAŌ BERNARDO (1934)
MORTE D’URBAN (1962)
SUN CITY (1974)
THE PORNOGRAPHER (1979)
WISH HER SAFE AT HOME (1982)
SAŌ BERNARDO (1934)
MORTE D’URBAN (1962)
SUN CITY (1974)
THE PORNOGRAPHER (1979)
WISH HER SAFE AT HOME (1982)
Double feature tonight at my joint: two outstanding 2024 movies released this year by Vertical. I’m cooking deviled chicken and my guests are bringing the wine. Good times. #Filmsky
July 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Double feature tonight at my joint: two outstanding 2024 movies released this year by Vertical. I’m cooking deviled chicken and my guests are bringing the wine. Good times. #Filmsky
Story acceptance today (a lit mag I love), especially fun because I wrote "Only the Scammers Love Sam" with them in mind. Will share when it drops. This year has validated my decision to return to writing fiction after the screenwriting gigs (not dissing screenwriting).
July 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Story acceptance today (a lit mag I love), especially fun because I wrote "Only the Scammers Love Sam" with them in mind. Will share when it drops. This year has validated my decision to return to writing fiction after the screenwriting gigs (not dissing screenwriting).
Summer Reading Adventure Book # 4 : Published 1934. A Brazilian novel of trenchant irony; its final chapter is one of the most gutting things I have ever read.
July 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Summer Reading Adventure Book # 4 : Published 1934. A Brazilian novel of trenchant irony; its final chapter is one of the most gutting things I have ever read.