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John Wiswell
@Wiswell
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Debut novel SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (DAW and Quercus Books). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. Rep: @hannahnpbowman
Dec 1, 2022 • 37 tweets • 26 min read
Time to share my 2022 Short Story Recommended Reading List! The short story is one of my favorite forms for SFF storytelling, and y’all have done sterling work with it this year. I’ll tag as many authors and zines as I can. Brace yourselves for a big thread. 1. This list is loosely alphabetical. Ranking all these stories would do a disservice to the different great effects they had on me.

2. I'll probably add more stories to this thread as the month goes on. I still have many more stories to catch up on...!
Dec 23, 2021 • 36 tweets • 22 min read
This year I won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story and was a finalist for many other short fiction awards.

Would you like to know what short stories by other authors I loved reading in 2021?

Good! Because this thread is my Short Story Recommended Reading List. We're going alphabetically! And thus we begin with...

“Across the River, My Heart, My Memory” by Ann LeBlanc ( @RobotLeBlanc ) at Fireside Magazine ( @FiresideFiction ) firesidefiction.com/across-the-riv…
Dec 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Let's say you liked my Hugo-nominated story "Open House on Haunted Hill," and you're not sure what of mine to read next.

Let me help you out! A thread. "Tank!" is told from an another unusual inanimate object’s POV: a tank! This tank is seemingly alive and going to their first con, hoping to make friends. @diabolicalplots diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-40a…
Nov 9, 2021 • 39 tweets • 10 min read
Several newer writers recently asked me how I submit my short stories. I figure a thread is the easiest way.

Want some tips from a Nebula winner? Here they come. Let’s pretend I just completed the final draft of a new short story. It’s 3,408 words. It’s called "Arm-wrestling for Fire Ants."

How do we figure out where to submit this thing?
Sep 20, 2020 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
This week my key chain broke. I had it for 29 years - longer than I have owned keys. It was one of my most prized possessions because I got it from pirates. A thread. My family didn’t vacation much. Once per year, in the summer, we'd road trip somewhere in northern New England. For a few years we got to stay in a beach house that was special because it was next door to where Neil Armstrong had once (allegedly) lived.
Dec 5, 2018 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Batman: You're just too sunny to take seriously.
Superman: I've been trying to emulate you, I swear!
Batman: Have you tried gritty--wait what is that?
*Batman points at a smiley face light projected into the sky*
Superman: The Virtue Signal! *flies off* I just love the idea of Superman having a Virtue Signal light that shines in the sky, and every time someone tries to explain why it's not cool, he's too busy saving a school bus full of kittens to hear them.