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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman
@rshifman.bsky.social
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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 ✨

link: rbshifmanauthor.com
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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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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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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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✨ 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!

doylestownbookshop.com/search
Me selling my books at at The Doylestown Bookshop! Yay!
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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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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🚨EVENT ALERT!🚨 I’m on the road next month (10/18/2025)! Okay, The Doylestown Bookshop is only 10+ minutes from my house, but it’s still on the road. It’s on a road. Main Street. In Doylestown. See you there! You can buy a signed copy of the book on everyone’s minds, PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES! 💛
Flyer for RB Shifman’s upcoming appearance at the Local Author Expo at The Doylestown Bookshop on 10/18/2025 from 1-3PM. So you can buy a signed copy of PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES!
September 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Gonna climb this TBR stack to meet the giant librarian in her castle lair in the sky
It’s my physical TBR and there are many books
August 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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What an awesome cover! Ottone’s novels always rock!

The third and final part of Robert P. Ottone’s Bram Stoker Award-winning YA trilogy, THE NAVIGATOR. Coming September 19th from Undertaker Books!
Cover for The Navigator by Robert P. Ottone
August 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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✨This gives me high hopes! One of the booksellers at the DOYLESTOWN BARNES & NOBLE, Jill-Arcangela Mancuso, posted this FANTASTIC 5-⭐️ review of PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES on Goodreads!✨

Jill-A. reads a LOT of books & she didn’t know me when she read the book.

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
A glowing review of my novel by a Barnes & Noble staff member in my hometown
June 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Harried Man holds Harried Man

(Also, it’s warm from sitting in the mailbox like it’s fresh out of the oven. I feel like I should read it before it cools off.)
I am a portrait of decay holding this cool book
June 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I started THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS yesterday, and it looks like a guy named Shifman (okay, 2 f’s) takes it on the chin lol. I’m anxious about what’s gonna happen to this poor kid, he could be a relative of mine. Should I be worried for Matty, @chuckwendig.bsky.social?
It’s Chuck Wendig’s latest, The Staircase In the Woods. Matty Shiffman, maybe my long-lost cousin, disappears
June 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Dammit Jim you’re killing all the redshirts in this joke. A billboard for a health insurer that says give them the red shirt treatment which in Star Trek means you’re going to kill them haha
June 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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If I could hold my childhood in my hand
Photo of the book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
May 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Oh my

When a fellow author compares you to ‘Camus or Vonnegut’

PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES

#books #ya #novel #1980s #troubledteenindustry #southflorida #ghost #historicalfiction #comingofage
A very nice review of my novel
May 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Sometimes readers 📕 can be so kind 👇
Text chain of a reader saying encouraging words to me about my latest novel, Paper Airplane, Broken Bones.
May 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Livia Soprano, “Why don’t you just throw me out the window?”
May 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I'm going to be selling my latest book, PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES, at the BUCKS COUNTY BOOK FEST at Broad Commons Park in DOYLESTOWN on MAY 3rd from 10 AM to 4 PM. You can see me, 30 other local authors, cool author panels, a kids' book fair, food trucks, and more! Come on out to the FESTIVAL!
a flyer for the book fest Indie pop-up bookstore with 31 local authors listed, including yours truly, RB Shifman
April 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Readers agree 👇

Pick up a copy of 'Paper Airplane, Broken Bones' today:

doylestownbookshop.com/book/9781965...

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV9BL2VS
This is a promo flyer for the YA/crossover novel, 'Paper Airplane, Broken Bones,' describing the book as hauntingly poetic, hard to put down, evocatively nostalgic with razor-sharp dialogue, compelling, beautifully written, immersive, and thought provoking
April 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Welp, my book is sitting at #11 in its Amazon category after three days on the market! Pretty cool. I’ve got a ways to go in getting reviews, though, lol

#troubledteenindustry
#ya
#novel
#1980s
#FortLauderdale
#ghost
#weed
The author’s novel is sitting at #11 in its category, bracketed by novels with thousands of reviews
March 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Please try to enjoy each chapter equally

PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV9BL2VS

(pic credit: @prozak_ on TikTok)
Yes, it’s Ricken from Severance, annoyingly asking you if you’ve read his, er, my book. With the soft yellow and orange light behind him, this dude looks a little like if you crossed Alan from The Hangover with YT Jesus sporting a goatee and chunky turtleneck. Don’t trust this guy…but do read my book.
March 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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this is how your email finds me
Chappell Roan in her Governor’s Ball Statue of Liberty outfit, crouching with a plastic torch in one hand and a smoking fatty in the other hand
February 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Another DA from the SDNY says, ‘not me, bruh’… the end of this letter gives big Ludacris “Get Back” vibes
Another resignation letter after yet another DA is unlawfully asked to dismiss Eric Adams case without prejudice in alleged return for favors and/or threat of reprisal
February 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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New pc desktop
#FlyEaglesFly
#SuperBowlLIX
A 3x3 Brady Bunch grid with photos of all your favorite Philadelphia Eagles around the outside and a crying Patrick Mahomes in the center
February 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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✨My first ARC review on Goodreads is in for PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES, and…wow!✨

#YA #novel #historicalfiction #troubledteenindustry #southflorida #fortlauderdale #haunted #ghost #revenge #tragedy
A five-star review for the novel, calling it a hauntingly poetic exploration of adolescence, grief, and moral reckoning. At once immersive and nostalgic for the 1980s, with razor-sharp dialogue. It’s got a ghost…maybe
February 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM