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Amy Stuber

@amystuber.com

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Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · May 9

Shocked & grateful (thank you Stillhouse Press for giving my book a chance ❤️)

PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · May 9

Congratulations, @amystuber.com!

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Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social · 13h

Free shipping today at @bookshop.org which means that yes now is a perfect time to pick up MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US!

bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

Magic Can't Save Us: Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure

Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 12h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 2d

Excited to be on this Ingram Spark "Short Story Standouts" list (via @bookshop.org), alongside the amazing @writesloud.bsky.social & Stillhouse press-mate @kristinaten.bsky.social

screenshot of Bookshop site with purple background, multiple bright-covered book covers listed here https://bookshop.org/lists/short-story-standouts?page=1

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 4d

100% agree. I keep seeing misleading blanket statements about what works and doesn’t.

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 5d

dragging people (some children) out of their homes in the middle of the night - ICE is uniformly despicable, but this feels like the next level of horror
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

thank you, Dana!!!

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

Thank you!

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

Jennifer, thank you! 💙

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

thank you, June!❤️

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

I love that - thank you so much, Paige!

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

Ani, thank you!!❤️

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

thank you so much, Ben!

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

Rich! ❤️ This is so nice. Thank you

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

Thank you, Amber! Can't wait to read your novel this month!!!

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 6d

My book came out October 8, 2024. (After 30+ years of writing, a book!)

I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙

Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Winne...

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 8d

this picture of my older child - long ago - popped up on my phone, and i love it so

Elementary-aged girl with light-colored hair in bun, striped black and white tip and striped colorful leggings, pink socks, sitting and reading. book in an orange chair next to a light wood table with a plant on it

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 11d

These have been claimed - sending today! Thanks for expressing interest in the book!

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 11d

Message me! This is the last one I have!

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 11d

Actually I can’t message you - so feel free to send your mailing address to me at amystuber at gmail dot com

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 11d

Messaging you!

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 11d

I’ll message you!

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 11d

No need to Venmo! I will DM you

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 11d

Coming up on the one-year anniversary of my book’s release. If you’d like a copy, I have three to send - comment and I’ll send to you!

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 12d

Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉

SLM IS
LOOKING FOR
FLASH AND
FICTION
READERS
Apply Sept 24- Oct 1
splitlip.submittable.com

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 13d

I printed up a big chunk of my in-progress novel, and it felt like something! So it seems like a good time to say that I'm so happy and grateful to be working with
@mlwyd.bsky.social on this and any other projects! (@tridentmediagroup.bsky.social)