Joshua David Bellin
@joshuadbellin.bsky.social
Award-winning author. Father of real & pretend people. Repped by @irisblasi.bsky.social of ARC Literary. Find my latest, the time-travel thriller MYRIAD, at https://angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/myriad
I'm no longer shocked by stories like this, but I'm deeply angered. We say we care about protecting children, but at the highest levels of government and media, we don't actually give a rat's ass. time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'm no longer shocked by stories like this, but I'm deeply angered. We say we care about protecting children, but at the highest levels of government and media, we don't actually give a rat's ass. time.com/7336204/meta...
I'm retiring in May 2026, and it can't come soon enough. Today, I received a batch of AI-generated papers despite a policy that prohibits the use of generative AI.
I understand some people's enthusiasm for AI, but I'm a writing teacher. I can't keep working a job in which I've lost confidence.
I understand some people's enthusiasm for AI, but I'm a writing teacher. I can't keep working a job in which I've lost confidence.
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I'm retiring in May 2026, and it can't come soon enough. Today, I received a batch of AI-generated papers despite a policy that prohibits the use of generative AI.
I understand some people's enthusiasm for AI, but I'm a writing teacher. I can't keep working a job in which I've lost confidence.
I understand some people's enthusiasm for AI, but I'm a writing teacher. I can't keep working a job in which I've lost confidence.
I came across this website a few years ago and have been posting my annual "top 3 reads" there ever since.
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Want to know Joshua David Bellin's Top 3 Books of 2025?
Joshua's top 3 reads of 2025 include Prophet Song and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I came across this website a few years ago and have been posting my annual "top 3 reads" there ever since.
shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/...
shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/...
Calling all #Pittsburgh readers and writers to the Scribble House Lit Fest! Publishers will be there! Authors will be there! Readers will be there!
Oh, and I'll be there. With books to sell and sign.
www.scribblehousepgh.com/litfest/
Oh, and I'll be there. With books to sell and sign.
www.scribblehousepgh.com/litfest/
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Calling all #Pittsburgh readers and writers to the Scribble House Lit Fest! Publishers will be there! Authors will be there! Readers will be there!
Oh, and I'll be there. With books to sell and sign.
www.scribblehousepgh.com/litfest/
Oh, and I'll be there. With books to sell and sign.
www.scribblehousepgh.com/litfest/
NovNov (as I shall now dub it) is humming right along!
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
NovNov (as I shall now dub it) is humming right along!
In the interest of using language accurately, can we call this whole daylight savings/non-daylight savings scam "Adding or Subtracting an Hour from Two Days Per Year to Throw Everyone off Their Schedule in the Interest of Making the Morning or Evening Light Last Marginally Longer for a Month Day"?
November 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In the interest of using language accurately, can we call this whole daylight savings/non-daylight savings scam "Adding or Subtracting an Hour from Two Days Per Year to Throw Everyone off Their Schedule in the Interest of Making the Morning or Evening Light Last Marginally Longer for a Month Day"?
Though scandal-plagued NaNoWriMo is NoNoMo, it got me in the habit of using November to focus on writing.
In 2024, I began THE ADJUNCT (presently making the rounds of publishers). This year, I'm adding to a new WIP titled CHAINBEARER and hoping for 20-30K words.
Day 1 was a success!
In 2024, I began THE ADJUNCT (presently making the rounds of publishers). This year, I'm adding to a new WIP titled CHAINBEARER and hoping for 20-30K words.
Day 1 was a success!
November 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Though scandal-plagued NaNoWriMo is NoNoMo, it got me in the habit of using November to focus on writing.
In 2024, I began THE ADJUNCT (presently making the rounds of publishers). This year, I'm adding to a new WIP titled CHAINBEARER and hoping for 20-30K words.
Day 1 was a success!
In 2024, I began THE ADJUNCT (presently making the rounds of publishers). This year, I'm adding to a new WIP titled CHAINBEARER and hoping for 20-30K words.
Day 1 was a success!
Another Halloween creation!
October 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Another Halloween creation!
The pumpkin is carved. The Halloween season is now officially here.
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The pumpkin is carved. The Halloween season is now officially here.
Hey #TimeTravelAuthors: have any of you read LOST IN TIME? It was pretty good. (Warning: my review has a few mild spoilers.) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Joshua Bellin's review of Lost in Time
4/5: I had some misgivings about this book at the start; the characters felt one-dimensional to me, the writing flat. Eventually, though, it won me over. Yes, it's true, the time travel in this book ...
www.goodreads.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hey #TimeTravelAuthors: have any of you read LOST IN TIME? It was pretty good. (Warning: my review has a few mild spoilers.) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I'm no wildlife photographer, but this great blue heron seemed to be posing for me.
October 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm no wildlife photographer, but this great blue heron seemed to be posing for me.
Another reason to hate AI: multiple daily emails purporting to be from book marketers who sound as if they know my work well. But of course, it's all an AI-generated scam.
I don't respond to marketers anyway, but AI has made this scheme all too easy, and I'm sure some authors fall victim to it.
I don't respond to marketers anyway, but AI has made this scheme all too easy, and I'm sure some authors fall victim to it.
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Another reason to hate AI: multiple daily emails purporting to be from book marketers who sound as if they know my work well. But of course, it's all an AI-generated scam.
I don't respond to marketers anyway, but AI has made this scheme all too easy, and I'm sure some authors fall victim to it.
I don't respond to marketers anyway, but AI has made this scheme all too easy, and I'm sure some authors fall victim to it.
Anyone ever read this Victorian novel? I first read it in grad school, didn't like it, but decided to give it another go.
My conclusion: it has its moments, but on the whole, it's a bit of a stinker. And half the dialogue is in French, which didn't help.
My conclusion: it has its moments, but on the whole, it's a bit of a stinker. And half the dialogue is in French, which didn't help.
October 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Anyone ever read this Victorian novel? I first read it in grad school, didn't like it, but decided to give it another go.
My conclusion: it has its moments, but on the whole, it's a bit of a stinker. And half the dialogue is in French, which didn't help.
My conclusion: it has its moments, but on the whole, it's a bit of a stinker. And half the dialogue is in French, which didn't help.
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/29
Proving time travel is impossible by going back in time? You heard that right!
Find out how it works in "The Last Man in Time" by Donald A. Sansom, the final story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3.
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
Proving time travel is impossible by going back in time? You heard that right!
Find out how it works in "The Last Man in Time" by Donald A. Sansom, the final story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3.
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
September 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/29
Proving time travel is impossible by going back in time? You heard that right!
Find out how it works in "The Last Man in Time" by Donald A. Sansom, the final story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3.
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
Proving time travel is impossible by going back in time? You heard that right!
Find out how it works in "The Last Man in Time" by Donald A. Sansom, the final story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3.
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/27
Ready to have your mind blown? Then read "A String of Pearls" by Gregory B. Taylor, the next-to-last story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
Ready to have your mind blown? Then read "A String of Pearls" by Gregory B. Taylor, the next-to-last story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
September 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/27
Ready to have your mind blown? Then read "A String of Pearls" by Gregory B. Taylor, the next-to-last story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
Ready to have your mind blown? Then read "A String of Pearls" by Gregory B. Taylor, the next-to-last story in THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, vol. 3!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/25
The main character in "First, Do No Harm" by @kbenfante.bsky.social wrestles with questions of ethics. Who says time-travel scientists have no souls?
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
The main character in "First, Do No Harm" by @kbenfante.bsky.social wrestles with questions of ethics. Who says time-travel scientists have no souls?
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
September 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/25
The main character in "First, Do No Harm" by @kbenfante.bsky.social wrestles with questions of ethics. Who says time-travel scientists have no souls?
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
The main character in "First, Do No Harm" by @kbenfante.bsky.social wrestles with questions of ethics. Who says time-travel scientists have no souls?
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/23
How about this for time travel? It was 11 years ago today that I published my first novel. And now here's "Ghost Life," the prequel short story to my most recent novel, MYRIAD!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
How about this for time travel? It was 11 years ago today that I published my first novel. And now here's "Ghost Life," the prequel short story to my most recent novel, MYRIAD!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
September 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/23
How about this for time travel? It was 11 years ago today that I published my first novel. And now here's "Ghost Life," the prequel short story to my most recent novel, MYRIAD!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
How about this for time travel? It was 11 years ago today that I published my first novel. And now here's "Ghost Life," the prequel short story to my most recent novel, MYRIAD!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/21
You know how they say time has no meaning when you're in love? Well, @fenleygrant.bsky.social's romantic sizzler "The Fountain of Youth" puts a new spin on the expression!
Read it in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, vol. 3: www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
You know how they say time has no meaning when you're in love? Well, @fenleygrant.bsky.social's romantic sizzler "The Fountain of Youth" puts a new spin on the expression!
Read it in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, vol. 3: www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
September 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/21
You know how they say time has no meaning when you're in love? Well, @fenleygrant.bsky.social's romantic sizzler "The Fountain of Youth" puts a new spin on the expression!
Read it in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, vol. 3: www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
You know how they say time has no meaning when you're in love? Well, @fenleygrant.bsky.social's romantic sizzler "The Fountain of Youth" puts a new spin on the expression!
Read it in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, vol. 3: www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/19
Fans of dystopian time travel are in for a treat with @writernatswift.bsky.social's "From Now On," the action-packed companion to his "Blue Skies" (featured in ATTCv1). Hold on to your hats (and your parachutes) when you read this one!
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Fans of dystopian time travel are in for a treat with @writernatswift.bsky.social's "From Now On," the action-packed companion to his "Blue Skies" (featured in ATTCv1). Hold on to your hats (and your parachutes) when you read this one!
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
September 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/19
Fans of dystopian time travel are in for a treat with @writernatswift.bsky.social's "From Now On," the action-packed companion to his "Blue Skies" (featured in ATTCv1). Hold on to your hats (and your parachutes) when you read this one!
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Fans of dystopian time travel are in for a treat with @writernatswift.bsky.social's "From Now On," the action-packed companion to his "Blue Skies" (featured in ATTCv1). Hold on to your hats (and your parachutes) when you read this one!
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/17
"A Sweet Deal" by @maykenalanna.bsky.social is a sweet story that asks how far one person would go to save a beloved pet. Read it here along with 12 others!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
"A Sweet Deal" by @maykenalanna.bsky.social is a sweet story that asks how far one person would go to save a beloved pet. Read it here along with 12 others!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
September 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors 9/17
"A Sweet Deal" by @maykenalanna.bsky.social is a sweet story that asks how far one person would go to save a beloved pet. Read it here along with 12 others!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
"A Sweet Deal" by @maykenalanna.bsky.social is a sweet story that asks how far one person would go to save a beloved pet. Read it here along with 12 others!
www.amazon.com/Accidental-T...
For all you #Pittsburgh area readers.
September 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For all you #Pittsburgh area readers.