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John Joseph Adams

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Series Editor of BASFF. Publisher of @lightspeedmagazine.com (+ Editor) and NIGHTMARE. Editor of 40+ anthologies. Co-editor (with Jordan Peele) of OUT THERE SCREAMING. Newsletter Signup: https://robotwizardzombiecrit.com

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · Jan 6

My ROBOT WIZARD ZOMBIE CRIT! newsletter has launched! Sign up for updates about @lightspeedmagazine.com & @nightmare-magazine.com, my anthologies, + my thoughts on books, short stories, TV/film, RPGs, & related subjects. Get a free ebook anthology for signing up. www.johnjosephadams.com/newsletter

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 11h

Though I suppose my advice is to not buy a D&D rug, unless you don't have dogs. If you have dogs, they will definitely immediately ruin your D&D rug.

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 11h

Sick! Dang, that looks way better than my D&D d20 rug. I want THAT as a rug. I'll pass on a puzzle, though; you're made of sterner stuff than I am.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 12h

FBI director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi stand in front of an American Flag. Kash has his arms folded across his chest and is making weird eyes at someone off camera; a thought balloon beside him says "Can't wait for Valhalla." Pam is looking longingly offscreen, with a thought balloon that says "Can't wait to end rule of law."

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 13h

Just always thinkin bout Valhalla

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 3d

I'll urge everyone to not judge the show by episode 3, "Night of the Dead Living" which is episode 3 officially (but apparently aired as episode 9?). It's ... not good.

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 3d

Apparently it's on Peacock now as well and/or you can buy all episodes for $69.99 www.amazon.com/Homicide-Lif...

Watch Homicide: Life On the Street | Prime Video

A unit of Baltimore homicide detectives struggle against an over-load of cases and the curves life throws them.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 3d

Great news everyone! You CAN watch HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET now, on Tubi! tubitv.com/series/30001...

Homicide: Life on the Street

Inspired by an acclaimed book, this gritty police drama portrays the brutal detective work of a fictionalized homicide department in Baltimore.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 3d

Someone just mentioned Tubi has it now, but for YEARS it wasn't available anywhere.

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 3d

Oh shit, nice! Thanks for the head's up. It hasn't been available FOREVER so that's great news. I have it on DVD too, but... no actual DVD player hooked up to anything. I think I have an old Playstation 3 that I used as my DVD player last time I used one.

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 3d

Speaking of HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET, my absolute favorite episode of television is S1, E5: "Three Men and Adena," which is almost entirely inside the interview room with the two lead detectives questioning the suspect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_M...

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 3d

Wow, this is a great cover and title!

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 3d

Absolutely nonsensical that this isn't available. I'd say the BIGGEST fumble is HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET not being available to stream, but still TALES FROM THE CRYPT is also a great call. Get the super underrated TftC movie DEMON KNIGHT out there too while we're at it.

Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 3d

TALES FROM THE CRYPT not being on hbo streaming is one of the biggest fumbles ever honestly cant believe they have let it just waste away in some tomb somewhere. the second it trots back into the light there is going to be a huge resurgence

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 3d

Demon Knight is SO underrated.

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 4d

I went way WAY too long without ever taking advantage of that. Libby in particular is great. Hoopla is meh, but your library probably uses both. You can also request books that your library doesn't have... and they'll probably order them! I think I have a 100% success rate requesting them from mine.

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 4d

Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)

A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly bless any educator doing battle with modern-day attention spans

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 6d

My contract says "the Anthology's earnings, if any, beyond the initial advance," and I would certainly consider those earnings. Any anthologist that doesn't share that with the authors would look pretty shady to me. Contractual language varies, but it's USUALLY the same idea.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 6d

Most of the time there's a provision for sharing any income generated by the anthology with the authors. Settlement money would certainly qualify. Typically antho funds are shared on a pro-rata (based on word count) basis.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 6d

Yeah, my understanding is that I as anthologist would claim my books in there—and I have—and then I would share the funds with the authors as specified in the anthology agreements. Although it is clearly a failure of the settlement to not even recognize stolen material that is not a whole book.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 6d

Oh hey, nice! Would love to hear what y'all think when/if you run them or play them.

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 6d

My article series about Downtime Activities in 5e/Tales of the Valiant concludes with Performing. My favorite part is the result you get if you roll a 1-10 on your Performance check (i.e., the worst you can roll).

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Whole Series: www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/dow...

Text Screenshot: Your performances are somewhere between middling and dreadful. There are either some hecklers or someone falls asleep during the show and begins snoring loudly—or both. You lose the money you spent on setting up and promoting your show. In addition, you lose a number of fans equal to 20 minus your check result (the minimum number of fans you can have is 0). Here’s the good news: No one who saw your act will ever come to another one of your shows, and anyone else almost certainly won’t have heard of you, so when you do your next show it’ll be like it’s your first, which is just as well, really.

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 7d

Hey! I've got two adventures in this book that just came out from @koboldpress.com. They're both co-written with dope author @bryancamp.bsky.social. Our adventures are “Clockwork Phylactery” and “The Dark God’s Ziggurat.”

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DUNGEONS DEEP: 16 Classic Ready-to-Play Drop-in Dungeons. A young female wizard with long black hair holds a lantern in one hand and a crystal in the other, side by side with a male warrior in splint armor holding a sword and shield. Both face a grick—a large serpent-like creature with a head opens like tentacles, with a large beak in the center.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 7d

This story with the absolutely amazing title will be online to read for free on Oct. 16, but if you can't wait you can buy the ebook and read it now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/ebooks/octob...

Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · 7d

new story, "The Porniest Porn in Porntown," out in the current @lightspeedmagazine.com

LIghtspeed Magazine: edited by John Joseph Adams

A Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · 7d

October 2025 Book Club Pick: Black Men Read Book Club will be reading Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com #booksky #bookclub #blackmenread

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7d

Heads Up: If you have Amazon Prime, my time-travel short story "3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years" is now available at no additional cost as part of Amazon's "First Reads" program, a sneak preview of the Time Traveler's Passport anthology, out in November:

www.amazon.com/Days-Months-...

3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)

3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport) - Kindle edition by Scalzi, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport).

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