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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
Honestly I usually never respond to these emails I always just laugh and role my eyes and move on but I've had kind of a hell of a day so, like, what the fuck does this person think sending this to me is going to do? should I weep and drool and thank them?

fuck oooooffffffffff
January 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM
What happens in your head is the best goddamn thing ever if what’s happening in your head is Absolute Martian Manhunter 7 by
@denizcamp.bsky.social @javierrodriguez.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Cropped to avoid spoilers but oh my god the last page of Absolute Superman 14 by @jason-aaron.bsky.social and rafa sandoval and co was HEARTWRENCHING.

This is what comics are all about babyyy
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Had to shout out @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social for the notable Notable 2025 Books list on the Ancillary Review this year, because man, it’s just stuck with me

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My greatest burden is I only have 7 extremely sick and cool and funky tattoos.
December 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Knowing Hellfire Club as a Stranger Things thing: boring, slop factory, whatever

Knowing Hellfire Club as an Chris Claremont X-Men thing: kink to the max, bondage city, the very height of culture, timeless story
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Not everyone can easily physically get to a public library so often, but they have access to a computer the only way they could get something is online"

oh fuck that's true. I wonder if the public library has anything that could work for people who need to read books digitally for free
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Hmm, but not every book is in a library, you say? gosh I wonder if I type in a book that's not in my public library? what's that underneath "contact us"? that seems like a funny way to say "impossible, go pay to pirate this"
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
wow look, my novel isn't on the piracy site is available in 33 libraries!!
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Wow look! my book of essays is in 20 libraries but not on the piracy site behind a paywall! I wonder how much you have to pay to use the public library
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Oh look! my book that is on the piracy site behind a paywall is in a bunch of libraries! I wonder how much you have to pay to use the public library
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
AI email written AS me is a first
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
two more fucking SECONDS later!!!
September 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is like the 30th AI scam email I have gotten about one of my books in the last month or two, and it really nails home exactly how I always figure out when a student has used ai in an assignment.

the specific soullessness of endless summary
September 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Biiiiiiird
September 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Everyone look at my bird and tell me it’s a pretty bird!
September 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Honoured to be a semifinalist for the Small Spec Book Award in the SF category, and thrilled to see the work being done by small presses celebrated in this way
September 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Me arriving at the new Grad Orientation and needing to learn new names other than the one person I already know
August 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The most important thing you can learn about me is that I cannot be without an ongoing work. I finished writing a draft of my novel in May, and i've brushed it up, but mostly I've turned all my attention to a novella, which I'm properly into now
August 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
AI scammers spamming LinkedIn is so exasperating. Why do I even have an account there? like they don't even remove the grey around the lettering this is like a first year student trying to cheat on an essay
August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You can order my chapbook of poems BEHOLD THE DEAD from Anstruther Press today, with the link in bio!!! Many, many thanks to Jim Johnstone and Erica Smith for bringing this project to print.

Come and rot with me.

www.anstrutherpress.com#/behold-the-...
July 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
it is a process of ectacy and agony
June 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is like a boomer moment for me but I cannot help it
June 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM