Hamm!
@hammonddiehl.bsky.social
Fantasy writer hiding behind a pen name. Diabolical Plots. Strange Horizons. Kaleidotrope. Lightspeed. FlameTree Press. Codex. The crawl space under your spare bedroom.
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Hamm!
@hammonddiehl.bsky.social
· Apr 28
Thanks to Flame Tree Press for this very shiny author copy of its latest anthology! That’s Achilles on the front and me on page 137. If you’re as obsessed with Greek mythology as I am, treat yourself to this one
I am shopping for a rug in the year of our lord 2025 and are there any grays or browns anymore or is everything just grown and bray
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I am shopping for a rug in the year of our lord 2025 and are there any grays or browns anymore or is everything just grown and bray
Look around
Leaves are brown
There's a Brus-sels sprout on the ground
Leaves are brown
There's a Brus-sels sprout on the ground
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Look around
Leaves are brown
There's a Brus-sels sprout on the ground
Leaves are brown
There's a Brus-sels sprout on the ground
I come here for family content
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I come here for family content
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Absolutely egregious from the people who bought the three oldest magazines in SFF and are attempting to convert them into a giant funnel of monetizable IP
This postscript is so telling of what trying to negotiate with MRM is like. Massive respect for Scott in sticking to his principles and not allowing them to bully or gaslight him into signing. I'm disgusted that this is still happening to authors. No market is worth this.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Absolutely egregious from the people who bought the three oldest magazines in SFF and are attempting to convert them into a giant funnel of monetizable IP
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None of this is industry naivete
if Steven Salpeter wasn't himself a former literary agent you might be like, ah perhaps this is a mistake made by new owners unfamiliar with publishing contracts
Apparently the SFWA won't name names but I will: ANALOG. The new contract under Must Read Magazines includes a moral rights waiver. And they are rather insistent about it. I'm guessing this applies to all the digests under MRM now, though I haven't seen those contracts. DON'T JUST SIGN. NEGOTIATE.
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
None of this is industry naivete
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SFWA should revoke their qualifying status if they don’t go back to reasonable contracts…
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
SFWA should revoke their qualifying status if they don’t go back to reasonable contracts…
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Have you seen this, @joannechocolat.bsky.social
@societyofauthors.bsky.social? This is important information for authors who routinely sell short stories. I'm sure more than one person has signed one of these contracts without fully appreciating the significance of "alleged" vs. "sustained"
@societyofauthors.bsky.social? This is important information for authors who routinely sell short stories. I'm sure more than one person has signed one of these contracts without fully appreciating the significance of "alleged" vs. "sustained"
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Have you seen this, @joannechocolat.bsky.social
@societyofauthors.bsky.social? This is important information for authors who routinely sell short stories. I'm sure more than one person has signed one of these contracts without fully appreciating the significance of "alleged" vs. "sustained"
@societyofauthors.bsky.social? This is important information for authors who routinely sell short stories. I'm sure more than one person has signed one of these contracts without fully appreciating the significance of "alleged" vs. "sustained"
Bad. Ass.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Bad. Ass.
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sometimes an insult is simultaneously so targeted and so uncalled for that it just straight-up unmoors you from reality, like the brief liminal space you inhabit when you hit your head. I think this is that
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
sometimes an insult is simultaneously so targeted and so uncalled for that it just straight-up unmoors you from reality, like the brief liminal space you inhabit when you hit your head. I think this is that
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Goodnight from Joe Waterfield, dismissing his sighting of Corpse Friars’ lanterns as a sign he drank too much at The Windlass pub. Goodnight from William Heywall up at Palefire Farm, writing a petition to the Field Sprite to amend the terms of its blood tithe. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Goodnight from Joe Waterfield, dismissing his sighting of Corpse Friars’ lanterns as a sign he drank too much at The Windlass pub. Goodnight from William Heywall up at Palefire Farm, writing a petition to the Field Sprite to amend the terms of its blood tithe. Goodnight from Hookland.
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sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
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oh that's weird, Betraybo, my cursed blade that glows before witnessing a huge betrayal, is glowing
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
oh that's weird, Betraybo, my cursed blade that glows before witnessing a huge betrayal, is glowing
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the real question is what tony nominee will be found throwing a hoagie on elsbeth this january
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
the real question is what tony nominee will be found throwing a hoagie on elsbeth this january
QUATTRO formaggi? In THIS-a economi?
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
QUATTRO formaggi? In THIS-a economi?
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shasta blood apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1895
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
shasta blood apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1895
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gold dollar strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1914
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
gold dollar strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1914
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Very normal sketchbook day thanks
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Very normal sketchbook day thanks
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In awe at the size of this lad.
Yew tree at Marston House, Somerset estimated to be 3,000 years old.
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
In awe at the size of this lad.
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25.00 popcorn 9.00 soft drinks screaming kids and everyone on their phone during the movie. I can buy the movie for 20.00 and watch at home.
November 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
25.00 popcorn 9.00 soft drinks screaming kids and everyone on their phone during the movie. I can buy the movie for 20.00 and watch at home.
KELPIE KNOCK IT OFF
Kelpie is bound and determined to eat plastic tonight, and I just need her to STOP.
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
KELPIE KNOCK IT OFF
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October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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"Consider Jerry Orbach," oil on panel, 5" x 7" #Orbachtober
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Consider Jerry Orbach," oil on panel, 5" x 7" #Orbachtober