Ben Berman Ghan
@inkstainedwreck.ca
SSHRC funded PhD in at UCalgary.
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
EIC of Paper Bill Press
Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
EIC of Paper Bill Press
Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
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Ben Berman Ghan
@inkstainedwreck.ca
· Oct 1
Hey everyone!! I am starting a chapbook press!!!
rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!
We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!
We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
or, for the same affect, just give your loved ones a card that says "I don't know you or think about you or care to understand you" and then pour 12 gallons of water onto concrete
Don’t know what to buy your loved ones for Christmas? Just ask ChatGPT
Don’t know what to buy your loved ones for Christmas? Just ask ChatGPT
Santa has a new little helper. But can an AI-powered shopping assistant really master the subtle art of gift giving?
Some people love buying Christmas presents. Polly Arrowsmith starts making a note of what her friends and family like, then hunts for…
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
or, for the same affect, just give your loved ones a card that says "I don't know you or think about you or care to understand you" and then pour 12 gallons of water onto concrete
Accidentally saw an Instagram reel of a booktocker adding quotation marks to the dialogue in the Sally Rooney novel and all the comments were “how did this error get passed the editor!”
Sometimes it’s so hard not to say something mean
Sometimes it’s so hard not to say something mean
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Accidentally saw an Instagram reel of a booktocker adding quotation marks to the dialogue in the Sally Rooney novel and all the comments were “how did this error get passed the editor!”
Sometimes it’s so hard not to say something mean
Sometimes it’s so hard not to say something mean
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See a book recommended and are curious about it? Want to read it? You could go buy it! 🧵
Money tight at the moment or you're just frugal? See if it's available from the library & request it (if it's not, suggest that your library get it).
www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
Money tight at the moment or you're just frugal? See if it's available from the library & request it (if it's not, suggest that your library get it).
www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
Download the Libby App: ebooks & audiobooks FREE from your library
Bring the library to you! Free digital books, magazines and more! Available for iOS and Android devices.
www.overdrive.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
See a book recommended and are curious about it? Want to read it? You could go buy it! 🧵
Money tight at the moment or you're just frugal? See if it's available from the library & request it (if it's not, suggest that your library get it).
www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
Money tight at the moment or you're just frugal? See if it's available from the library & request it (if it's not, suggest that your library get it).
www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
oh good we are talking about book piracy again that's cool.
anyway, libraries are one of the most important institutions in the world. I wonder what's in them. search.worldcat.org/search?q=au=...
anyway, libraries are one of the most important institutions in the world. I wonder what's in them. search.worldcat.org/search?q=au=...
au="Ghan, Ben Berman" - Search Results
search.worldcat.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
oh good we are talking about book piracy again that's cool.
anyway, libraries are one of the most important institutions in the world. I wonder what's in them. search.worldcat.org/search?q=au=...
anyway, libraries are one of the most important institutions in the world. I wonder what's in them. search.worldcat.org/search?q=au=...
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"Tyranny requires constant effort."
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Tyranny requires constant effort."
Some very sad news. throw @psychopomp.com some support if you can
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Some very sad news. throw @psychopomp.com some support if you can
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
Valid by Chris Bergeron
Notes From a Regecide by Isaac Fellman
Notes From a Regecide by Isaac Fellman
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Valid by Chris Bergeron
Notes From a Regecide by Isaac Fellman
Notes From a Regecide by Isaac Fellman
AI email written AS me is a first
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
AI email written AS me is a first
*breaks hearing aid* eh it’s fine I can live without it for a bit I’m not THAT disabled
*puts newly fixed hearing aid back in ear* I am THAT disabled
*puts newly fixed hearing aid back in ear* I am THAT disabled
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
*breaks hearing aid* eh it’s fine I can live without it for a bit I’m not THAT disabled
*puts newly fixed hearing aid back in ear* I am THAT disabled
*puts newly fixed hearing aid back in ear* I am THAT disabled
I actually am enjoying Pluribus so far and I know that I need to ignore all discourse about it before it becomes the show that people praise in such a way that makes me stop enjoying it
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I actually am enjoying Pluribus so far and I know that I need to ignore all discourse about it before it becomes the show that people praise in such a way that makes me stop enjoying it
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I was traveling so I missed the"performative reading" discourse. Forgive my late take, but I think the instinct to call something intellectual like reading performative betrays a high level of shame in the accuser.
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I was traveling so I missed the"performative reading" discourse. Forgive my late take, but I think the instinct to call something intellectual like reading performative betrays a high level of shame in the accuser.
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People keep saying "post-literate society" as if that's something we're ok with. It's a phrase that should be slapped from the mouths of podcasters and pundits.
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
People keep saying "post-literate society" as if that's something we're ok with. It's a phrase that should be slapped from the mouths of podcasters and pundits.
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if you canceled disney ai slop plus, a small fraction of that sub can keep you in the know about some of the latest greatest sff short fic. you'll be talking about short stories at the water cooler instead of a marvel, and people will be like wow, this is one hip well-read person. what a cool cat.
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if you canceled disney ai slop plus, a small fraction of that sub can keep you in the know about some of the latest greatest sff short fic. you'll be talking about short stories at the water cooler instead of a marvel, and people will be like wow, this is one hip well-read person. what a cool cat.
This is such loser shit it’s fucking crazy
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is such loser shit it’s fucking crazy
Barbell bench press 8 reps:
205 for three rounds
225 for four rounds.
I’ve never managed that before!!
205 for three rounds
225 for four rounds.
I’ve never managed that before!!
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Barbell bench press 8 reps:
205 for three rounds
225 for four rounds.
I’ve never managed that before!!
205 for three rounds
225 for four rounds.
I’ve never managed that before!!
Reposted by Ben Berman Ghan
Ongoing notes: TIFA Small Press Market/Meet the Presses’ Indie Lit Market (part three, : Sadiqa de Meijer + Ben Berman Ghan, / @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social @knifeforkbook.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/ongo...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/ongo...
Ongoing notes: TIFA Small Press Market/Meet the Presses’ Indie Lit Market (part three, : Sadiqa de Meijer + Ben Berman Ghan,
[MLA Chernoff at the Meet the Presses Indie Lit Market, receiving copies of their brand-new above/ground press title ] Again, this blended s...
robmclennan.blogspot.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Ongoing notes: TIFA Small Press Market/Meet the Presses’ Indie Lit Market (part three, : Sadiqa de Meijer + Ben Berman Ghan, / @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social @knifeforkbook.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/ongo...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/ongo...
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Born too late for a bill clinton blowjob scandal, too early for a bill clinton blowjob scandal, but just in time for a bill clinton blowjob scandal
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Born too late for a bill clinton blowjob scandal, too early for a bill clinton blowjob scandal, but just in time for a bill clinton blowjob scandal
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Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
Just a reminder that Paper Bill Press firmly believes that $$ must ALWAYS flow to the writer, and not from the writer. We are proud that our kickstarter has made sure our authors will receive a small 20$ honorarium as well as their author copies
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Just a reminder that Paper Bill Press firmly believes that $$ must ALWAYS flow to the writer, and not from the writer. We are proud that our kickstarter has made sure our authors will receive a small 20$ honorarium as well as their author copies
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It's really hilarious that all these AI tech bros missed that the lesson of all these 'robots replace humanity' stories was never, 'cheap slave labor, whoopie!'
But, 'fuck, these things don't work AT ALL as intended', don't actually replace people or their skills & end up killing everyone anyway.
But, 'fuck, these things don't work AT ALL as intended', don't actually replace people or their skills & end up killing everyone anyway.
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It's really hilarious that all these AI tech bros missed that the lesson of all these 'robots replace humanity' stories was never, 'cheap slave labor, whoopie!'
But, 'fuck, these things don't work AT ALL as intended', don't actually replace people or their skills & end up killing everyone anyway.
But, 'fuck, these things don't work AT ALL as intended', don't actually replace people or their skills & end up killing everyone anyway.
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Bill Clinton should take one for the team and say it's real, especially if it isn't
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Bill Clinton should take one for the team and say it's real, especially if it isn't
two of my favorite authors in conversation!!! oh, Seattle, I'm so jealous.
If your not in Seattle let me be obnoxious and share the interviews I've gotten to do with *both* these authors
ex-puritan.ca/a-fire-that-...
www.tiahouse.ca/episode-50-b...
If your not in Seattle let me be obnoxious and share the interviews I've gotten to do with *both* these authors
ex-puritan.ca/a-fire-that-...
www.tiahouse.ca/episode-50-b...
Hey, Seattle, join me in convo with Kim Fu at Third Place Books, about my novel Absolution, cosponsored by the North Cascades Institute as part of their "Nature of Writing" series. Nov. 19, 7om, Lake Forest Park.
www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/jeff-v...
www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/jeff-v...
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
two of my favorite authors in conversation!!! oh, Seattle, I'm so jealous.
If your not in Seattle let me be obnoxious and share the interviews I've gotten to do with *both* these authors
ex-puritan.ca/a-fire-that-...
www.tiahouse.ca/episode-50-b...
If your not in Seattle let me be obnoxious and share the interviews I've gotten to do with *both* these authors
ex-puritan.ca/a-fire-that-...
www.tiahouse.ca/episode-50-b...
I have nothing I can put up for nominations this year, even though I’ve written about 120,000 words across two manuscripts.
I sort of accepted when I geared into the final stretch of my PhD that this would be the case and made peace with it at the time but still. It’s upsetting
I sort of accepted when I geared into the final stretch of my PhD that this would be the case and made peace with it at the time but still. It’s upsetting
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I have nothing I can put up for nominations this year, even though I’ve written about 120,000 words across two manuscripts.
I sort of accepted when I geared into the final stretch of my PhD that this would be the case and made peace with it at the time but still. It’s upsetting
I sort of accepted when I geared into the final stretch of my PhD that this would be the case and made peace with it at the time but still. It’s upsetting
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Hey, Seattle, join me in convo with Kim Fu at Third Place Books, about my novel Absolution, cosponsored by the North Cascades Institute as part of their "Nature of Writing" series. Nov. 19, 7om, Lake Forest Park.
www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/jeff-v...
www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/jeff-v...
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, Seattle, join me in convo with Kim Fu at Third Place Books, about my novel Absolution, cosponsored by the North Cascades Institute as part of their "Nature of Writing" series. Nov. 19, 7om, Lake Forest Park.
www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/jeff-v...
www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/jeff-v...