Jonathan Stamper
@jonathanstamper.bsky.social
Pen name. Querying a heisty dark fantasy, “Lament of the Black Sparrow — A Wayfinders Story” ALSO querying “Fangs and the Furious,” a FF parody about dragon riders, co-written with better writer @dandesaimartin.bsky.social Opinions mine. Rep me!
Spider-Man Noir is fine (almost finished). Cage is giving it the old Nicolas try. Jack Huston should have gotten the role though. Fine as Sandman. Would have crushed as The Spider.
It’s here! Just dropped from @gdpub.bsky.social @dandesaimartin.bsky.social looking good on the shelf with the greats. Now throwing my current book out the window (it’s a snooze) to swap in “In the Shadow of the Sanctum” dandesaimartin.com/in-the-shado...
Jonathan Stamper@jonathanstamper.bsky.social · 3mo agoHim: Sadistic leader in an oppressive theocracy Her: The strong young woman who breaks free You: The #Sff #book nerd who needs a fresh magic system and a strong female lead in their life DEBUT AUTHOR! Buy “In the Shadow of the Sanctum” here @dandesaimartin.bsky.social dandesaimartin.com/books/
Old school Texas Rs gathering to decide who to back after last night
Assuming they didn’t limit this to adult respondents, feels relevant to mention that Gen Z was, at most, 29 at the data cutoff for this survey. Or 11 at the other end. 11, gang. 11. ELEVEN. “Home-cooked meals” yall, in the words of Gen X, leave them kids alone.
Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 3mo agoomg be fucking FOR REAL
Imagine this is how I look to my wife when I change out of my suit after work
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 3mo agoGrogu without skin (via tested)
Decision point on Sparrow edits. I don’t care if it looks like AI, I’m keeping my em-dashes #skywriters #amwriting
Him: Sadistic leader in an oppressive theocracy Her: The strong young woman who breaks free You: The #Sff #book nerd who needs a fresh magic system and a strong female lead in their life DEBUT AUTHOR! Buy “In the Shadow of the Sanctum” here @dandesaimartin.bsky.social dandesaimartin.com/books/
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Utterly bleak to get reminded to check in for tomorrow’s flight when I’m still waiting in the airport for today’s flight.
Just used “maybe” at the front of three successive sentences. Feeling confident!
Beta readers are an indispensable part of the process, for sure… Let’s be honest tho: half of it is just being excited for a friend to read some dope shit you wrote, right? #skywriters #amwriting
Nice flip (if true) from a decade where the marquee dramas (GoT, Walking Dead) built up characters just to kill them off. All I want is more grounded tv about smart people trying their best (Pitt, Shrinking… hell even pluribus). Count me in. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Hopecore Is the Vibe Shift Hollywood Needs
'Project Hail Mary' is at the vanguard of a new trend after decades of gritty — and perhaps pessimistic — movies and TV shows.
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Work sucked up most of the writing time in April. Now I’m just waiting to pounce that keyboard first free minute I get #skywriters
1. Kings of the Wyld 2. Lies of Locke Lamora 3. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 4. God, No 5. Sometimes a Great Notion
Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 4mo agoFive books to get to know me by: 1. The Silmarillion 2. The Princess Bride 3. Belladonna 4. The Pillars of the Earth 5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
In fairness, if you drink hard enough below the Mason Dixon line, there’s a 1/100 chance you’ll wake up in a Waffle House with no memory how you got there.
Mike Walker@newnarrative.bsky.social · 4mo agoFEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
Finally getting better at this whole time management thing, and now I’m fighting off a case of gamer’s thumb
There has to be a word for obsessively polishing the WIP when you should just press send and respond to the request for a full. @dandesaimartin.bsky.social #skywriters #booksky #amwriting #sff
Family: “I don’t know why your doctor thinks you need ADHD meds.” Me, walking around the house singing my cat’s name over and over to the tune of the Mario Brothers’ underground world theme: “Huh? What’d you say?”
Since things seem to be going great I’m gonna go write about dragons I guess. (Deep sigh)
#Firefly animated series set between season 1 and the film in the works! They're campaigning for a home. #BringBackFirefly
One more #bringbackfirefly post. Shoutout to the most western-ass dialogue ever / my favorite #firefly moment “A man can get a job, he might not look too close at what that job is. But a man learns all the details of a situation like ours, well, then he has a choice. “I don’t believe he does.”
In case you missed it, my FIREFLY books got banned in Alberta for "explicit sexual images" that... they don't actually contain? gregpak.com/my-firefly-b...
Never seen an #AwesomeCon hall this full, certainly not for a podcast taping. Gonna be a very deflated group if they don’t make a #bringbackfirefly announcement tomorrow…
#SFFChat Q4: This is from a comedic fantasy I am co-writing with the brilliant @jonathanstamper.bsky.social.
SFFChat@sffchat.bsky.social · 5mo ago#SFFChat Q4: Share a snippet that features a bear or the word bear (OKAY, *or* something featuring a character who differs from you in background or view).
