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Author. Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. YA & horror. Weirdo. Mayo Man.✨ PAPER AIRPLANE, BROKEN BONES, #troubledteenindustry, #YA, link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV9BL2VS ✨ “SUCH A CATCH” in DREAD MONDAYS, 10/31/25 ✨ "MAYO MONDAY" in CHM ✨ link: rbshifmanauthor.com

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Kirkus review of PAPER AIRPLANES, BROKEN BONES is in!

"A wholly absorbing but relentlessly grim coming-of-age tale." - Kirkus Reviews

Yes, it is dark. The narrative does include instances of lightness & hope, too—my opinion.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV9BL2VS

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Paper Airplane, Broken Bones

Amazon.com: Paper Airplane, Broken Bones eBook : Shifman, R.B.: Kindle Store

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 18h

My 5-⭐️ review of THE SILENCED by @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social

I very much enjoyed this YA horror read:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

R.B. Shifman's review of The Silenced

5/5: A tightly paced, gripping horror novel that teens and adults should love. I read the first few chapters on a work trip where I had only a few minutes each night before I nodded off. But once home...

www.goodreads.com

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 1d

Please support Latino businesses if you’re in Chicago. Our small businesses are so important to our communities, and given everything happening they can use your help to support their employees and our neighborhoods.

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 8d

Murakami, Coates (non-fiction), Kiste, Due, and Wendig, to name a few. I've picked up stuff from reading all of them, but especially Murakami when it comes to writing exposition and captivating your reader.

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 10d

This seems like a HIPPA violation somehow

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 10d

MAYO DOUBLEDAY BABY!

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 12d

Lol I started to say ‘anyhoo’ ironically because of that scene, and now I just say it… help me

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 12d

Phil? Phil Connors? Is that you?

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 15d

For the last year or so I wondered if it was me or my intense job keeping me from the discipline of writing every day. I went on vacation and after three days I was right back to 1,500 words per day on a sharp new WIP…It wasn’t me, it was (is) the intense job keeping me from writing consistently.

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 15d

Shirley Jackson Awards

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 15d

The Onion should have a column called ‘The Dumbion’ for stories that sound so stupid they seem like parody but they’re real

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 18d

Go full ! see what happens

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 21d

Do you like reading excellent horror stories about the workplace? You should pre-order DREAD MONDAYS: A WHISPER HOUSE PRESS HORROR ANTHOLOGY!
This anthology of workplace horror stories by 35 authors includes "Such a Catch," by me!

10/25/2025

#booksky #horrorsky @whisperhousepress.bsky.social

It’s DREAD MONDAYS, a horror anthology of horror stories about the horrific workplace. Prepare to be horrified! By the horror! Kirkus called it terrific. So do I. Go to an online bookseller and pre-order it now! 10/25/2025

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 22d

Seems corrupt all around

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22d

🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ shut down an FBI probe after agents caught Border Czar Tom Homan on tape taking $50,000 in cash from undercover operatives posing as contractors in exchange for promised gov’t contracts. MSNBC’s Carol Leonnig & Ken Dilanian with a massive scoop. Link in reply.

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 25d

His words today, anybody else’s words tomorrow

Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 25d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 25d

A terrific KIRKUS review for DREAD MONDAYS: A WHISPER HOUSE PRESS HORROR ANTHOLOGY, which includes my corporate horror short story, “SUCH A CATCH”

Congratulations, @whisperhousepress.bsky.social and all the contributing authors! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

DREAD MONDAYS | Kirkus Reviews

This jam-packed horror anthology features cryogenics, an alien invasion, a cartoon bunny, and more.

www.kirkusreviews.com

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 25d

We are at the ‘Candy Corn Oreos undermine my dignity and those hateful marketers should be thrown in prison’ stage of American history

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 25d

I’m in this anthology, and I’m excited to hear about this review!

Whisper House Press (Steve Capone, Jr.) @whisperhousepress.bsky.social · 25d

Got our Kirkus review for DREAD MONDAYS, and can’t wait to share it with y’all!

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 25d

I don’t mean to prejudge but if you have a 100:1 follow to follower count and everything on your feed is no-quote reposts, I’m not going to follow you, and I’m probably blocking ‘you’… whatever you are

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 25d

@whisperhousepress.bsky.social not me going to the Kirkus site to see if it’s up and what it says 😂 …

…okay maybe me…

…yes, me

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 25d

👀 👀 👀 !!!

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 25d

Horror? ✅ Troubled teen industry? ✅ Buying this book soon? ✅ !!!

Diana Rodriguez Wallach, YA Horror Author @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social · 26d

I did it. Happy Book Birthday to my 9th novel THE SILENCED.

THE SILENCED imagines what would happen if a girl explores an abandoned reform school & comes home haunted by the ghost of a teen who didn’t survive her stay at The Farm.

It’s a horror novel tackling real world issues-Welcome to The Farm!

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · 26d

lol these jokers have a law school right?

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 27d

"We stand firmly on the principles of the U.S. Constitution, including the protection of free speech. HOWEVER, that right does not extend to speech that incites harm OR UNDERMINES THE DIGNITY OF OTHERS."

Emphasis added because holy fuck

@ClemsonUniv on X: A statement from Clemson University: [image of statement]

Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · Sep 7

Reading THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE and looking forward to watching TASK later

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Whisper House Press (Steve Capone, Jr.) @whisperhousepress.bsky.social · Sep 4

COSTS OF LIVING, WHP's first anthology and first pub, launched on Monday, but our launch event is tomorrow (Friday, 5 Sept 2025) at The Printed Garden, an independent bookstore here in Utah. I am nervous. I'm actually more nervous than when I launched my own book 18+ months ago.

#whisperhousepress

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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman @rshifman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Financial violence is often shadowy but real