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Bryan Camp
@bryancamp.bsky.social
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(he/him) Author of THE CITY OF LOST FORTUNES. Teacher, spouse, New Orleanian, Critter, and Probably Running Late For Something. Clarion West '12.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · Nov 7
Hi folks! I'm the author of the Crescent City novels (no, the other ones) and some other stuff I'm cooking up now. I'm a teacher in New Orleans, D&D nerd, spouse to a math unicorn, and haven for wayward cats. Tyrants large and small can fuck off into the sun.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 10h
My guy in front of class all sheepishly like, "Now, I don't want to go so far as to call myself a Ruskin SCHOLAR..." and there's me way in the back inventing the Peele_Sweating_Profusely.gif meme about ten years early.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 10h
Grad school. Victorian Lit. Chose my term paper subject, John Ruskin, on a whim. Did no research, because who's heard of Ruskin? End of semester, prof tells us he'll miss a couple classes because he'll be in England. Viewing ORIGINAL RUSKIN MANUSCRIPTS.

2 days later I dropped an A- paper on him.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 10h
Editors hit novels when you've already made the shopping list, gone to the store, price checked, bought, bagged, and brought the groceries home, and are trying to get from car to kitchen in one trip.

Some just hold the door open.

Good editors grab a couple of bags and help rearrange the fridge.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 23h
Do you like books? Do you like scrappy underdogs? Do you want to be part of a positive publishing story?

Well do I have some good news for you:
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M. Huw Evans @ilorien.bsky.social · 1d
Homeward Books’ Kickstarter for J.M. Sidorova’s The Witch of Prague is live!
Please come check it out, contribute if you’re so inspired, and spread the word.
Thank you!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
Homeward Books: The home for books without a home
Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 1d
If someone made an actual, physical robot that stole actual, physical art, they would be a supervillain and, frankly, a sympathetic one.

Maybe I'm just into analog stuff these days? But I'll take Dr. Guggenheist's mad science thievery over AI slop any day.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 1d
Ah, that's the ol' "DuBistGestorbenWerdeGut".
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 1d
Learning about polo: Oh wow horses that’s awesome.

Learning about water polo, fully expecting dolphins: oh
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 1d
I am of the opinion that every TTRPG table needs someone who is willing to push the button, whatever the button might be.

Often, that person pushes it while going "nyeh-heh-heh."

But I'm a big fan of the golden retriever's "well gosh, okay!" version.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 1d
Himbo +2 is *chef kiss*
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d
Looking for an excerpt from the thing currently trapped in publishing's Phantom Zone to read at an event next month, discover instead that the protagonist of my current can't-get-past-the-opening thing is just one of the PoV characters from the Phantom Zone novel with a new name.

Delightful.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 2d
You'd think in these hear 2025s we'd have a way to click "fuck, damn, ugh" as a way of showing compassionate support when the words don't really cut it...but instead here's the same little heart I click when your cat's stoned.

A SCAM INDEED.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 3d
Just at me next time, damn.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d
we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out
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Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social · 3d
Excited to be joining the Words and Music Festival this year:

"Suspend All Disbelief: Magical Realism and Speculative Fiction"

www.eventbrite.com/e/suspend-al...

With amazing authors @literarydesiree.bsky.social @bryancamp.bsky.social & @deecherrywriter.bsky.social

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Poster for the Words and Music Festival 2025 pane (see info in post) showing photos of the 4 authors: Marguerite Sheffer, Danny Cherry Jr, Bryan Camp, and Desiree S. Evans.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 3d
Y’all come through next month at the NOLA Words and Music Festival, and watch me, Bryan Camp, Desiree S. Evans, and Marguerite Sheffer discuss magical realism and speculative fiction!

The panel will take place on 11/21/25 @ 2 PM!

We hope to see you there :)
WORDS & MUSIC PRESENTS Suspend All Disbelief: Magical Realism and Speculative Fiction November 21 2:00pm Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice Pictures to the right of: Bryan Camp Danny Cherry Jr Desiree S Evan Marguerite Sheffer
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d
My current novel is somewhere between A House of Leaves (novel) and House (1985 film) and The Blue Prince (videogame).

So "Our House" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash would suit the film version juuuuuust right.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 5d
ALT VERSION:
Tweet from Lindsay King-Miller @AskAQueer If you made a horror movie, what extremely upbeat pop song would you want slowed down and creepified to play in the trailer?
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d
We're Dong Phuong hipsters. We were about that cream cheese frosting life before it was popular.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d
Ha! I teach teenagers.

I am perfectly happy not knowing anything about their slang.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d
Tabasco/Crystal is one of those local "we cool or do we beef" questions, like "best king cake" or "cajun or creole jambalaya"?

In our house we actually use both (Crystal's got a bit more vinegary of a flavor that suits some dishes) but my spouse is in most cases a tabasco stan, and I'm a wife-guy.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d
No. What. No. Absolutely not. This just gave me whatever the opposite of a foot fetish is.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d
Thinking fondly of my counter at home with the tabasco and Atchafalaya honey sitting side-by-side.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d
Yeah, like, the existential dread of one's 40s, the rise of fascism, clinging the perch limb of my publishing career, anthropogenic climate change.

None of this is going away if I give up coffee or any of the other "anxiety" triggers. I'll cut back on all that other stuff first, thanks.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 5d
I was like, "Fucking *chickpeas* cause anxiety now? I don't care, I'm not giving up hummus."
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 6d
She vowed to have and to hold, to love and to cherish.

...she ain't promised shit about sick burns.
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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 6d
As a follow-up to this, my dear spouse has never read my 2nd book. She refuses, due to a plot point she saw on my office whiteboard.

When I told her this pirated-one-but-not-two situation, she pursed her lips, made a thoughtful little, Hm, and said, "I think we both know why."

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 6d
That's the ultimate conclusion of all this, isn't it? Query letters with desperate, flop-sweat-scented ink. A thick odor of smug satisfaction from the bestseller endcaps, made all the piquant by that slender undertone of imposter syndrome. Royalty checks that stink of penury.