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Bryan Camp

@bryancamp.bsky.social

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(he/him) Author of THE CITY OF LOST FORTUNES. Teacher, spouse, New Orleanian, Critter, and Probably Running Late For Something. Clarion West '12.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · Nov 7

Hi folks! I'm the author of the Crescent City novels (no, the other ones) and some other stuff I'm cooking up now. I'm a teacher in New Orleans, D&D nerd, spouse to a math unicorn, and haven for wayward cats. Tyrants large and small can fuck off into the sun.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 16h

My most fan-fiction blorbo song is Florence and the Machine's "Delilah," for Laudna on campaign 3 of Critical Role.

My personal blorbo song is Shaboozey's "Last of My Kind," for the main character of the novella I'm shopping around.

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 1d

Artistic Genius Who Was Once Before Her Time But Is Now Of Her Time, Isabel J. Kim

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 1d

Aren't we all just faking about being an author, my friend?

Aren't we all?

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, um. Yes. I...that is...*sweats* Adrian Tchaikovsky has space octopi in Children of Ruin so...*flees in a nebula of space squid ink*

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d

The "wrote note." Them pants ain't that fancy, it would appear.

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d

Ha!

"I wrote a space octopus story once and never did anything with it because I'm incapable of writing a short story that's not actually a novel in a coat that's way too tight." doesn't strike the wrote note of humblebrag though, does it?

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d

Me: What the hell was Salieri's whole deal?

Me, after reading The River Has Roots: Oh, yeah, I get it now.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

I felt the exact same way about this book. Put me into a brief existential crisis about being a book critic reactormag.com/book-review-...

When the Real Breaks Into the True: Amal El Mohtar's The River has Roots - Reactor

A poetic, lyrical novella that feels both real and legendary at the same time.

reactormag.com

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 2d

Ever read something and fall into dark despair because you will never ever ever be able to write something like that?

In related news I just finished up Amal El-Mohtar's THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, available from Barnes & Noble and other retailers:

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-river-...

The River Has Roots|Hardcover

AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARYREADS PICK!The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to th...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes. Precisely this. HOW? Just like, How. It's so brief. It's so simple. And yet, I got to the last scene and just wept.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this short story one week at Clarion West.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d

My guy in front of class all sheepishly like, "Now, I don't want to go so far as to call myself a Ruskin SCHOLAR..." and there's me way in the back inventing the Peele_Sweating_Profusely.gif meme about ten years early.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d

Grad school. Victorian Lit. Chose my term paper subject, John Ruskin, on a whim. Did no research, because who's heard of Ruskin? End of semester, prof tells us he'll miss a couple classes because he'll be in England. Viewing ORIGINAL RUSKIN MANUSCRIPTS.

2 days later I dropped an A- paper on him.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d

Editors hit novels when you've already made the shopping list, gone to the store, price checked, bought, bagged, and brought the groceries home, and are trying to get from car to kitchen in one trip.

Some just hold the door open.

Good editors grab a couple of bags and help rearrange the fridge.

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 3d

Do you like books? Do you like scrappy underdogs? Do you want to be part of a positive publishing story?

Well do I have some good news for you:

M. Huw Evans @ilorien.bsky.social · 4d

Homeward Books’ Kickstarter for J.M. Sidorova’s The Witch of Prague is live!
Please come check it out, contribute if you’re so inspired, and spread the word.
Thank you!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Homeward Books: The home for books without a home

Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

www.kickstarter.com

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 4d

If someone made an actual, physical robot that stole actual, physical art, they would be a supervillain and, frankly, a sympathetic one.

Maybe I'm just into analog stuff these days? But I'll take Dr. Guggenheist's mad science thievery over AI slop any day.

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, that's the ol' "DuBistGestorbenWerdeGut".

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 4d

Learning about polo: Oh wow horses that’s awesome.

Learning about water polo, fully expecting dolphins: oh

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 4d

I am of the opinion that every TTRPG table needs someone who is willing to push the button, whatever the button might be.

Often, that person pushes it while going "nyeh-heh-heh."

But I'm a big fan of the golden retriever's "well gosh, okay!" version.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 4d

Himbo +2 is *chef kiss*

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d

Looking for an excerpt from the thing currently trapped in publishing's Phantom Zone to read at an event next month, discover instead that the protagonist of my current can't-get-past-the-opening thing is just one of the PoV characters from the Phantom Zone novel with a new name.

Delightful.

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d

You'd think in these hear 2025s we'd have a way to click "fuck, damn, ugh" as a way of showing compassionate support when the words don't really cut it...but instead here's the same little heart I click when your cat's stoned.

A SCAM INDEED.

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d

Just at me next time, damn.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to be joining the Words and Music Festival this year:

"Suspend All Disbelief: Magical Realism and Speculative Fiction"

www.eventbrite.com/e/suspend-al...

With amazing authors @literarydesiree.bsky.social @bryancamp.bsky.social & @deecherrywriter.bsky.social

2 pm, Nov 21

Poster for the Words and Music Festival 2025 pane (see info in post) showing photos of the 4 authors: Marguerite Sheffer, Danny Cherry Jr, Bryan Camp, and Desiree S. Evans.

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 6d

Y’all come through next month at the NOLA Words and Music Festival, and watch me, Bryan Camp, Desiree S. Evans, and Marguerite Sheffer discuss magical realism and speculative fiction!

The panel will take place on 11/21/25 @ 2 PM!

We hope to see you there :)

WORDS & MUSIC
PRESENTS
Suspend All Disbelief:
Magical Realism and
Speculative Fiction
November 21
2:00pm
Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice

Pictures to the right of:

Bryan Camp
Danny Cherry Jr
Desiree S Evan
Marguerite Sheffer

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