Richard Z. Santos
@rzsantos.bsky.social
Debut novel TRUST ME from Arte Público Press; ed. A NIGHT OF SCREAMS LATINO HORROR STORIES; Freelance Editor (reach out!)
Lots of essays, reviews, etc in Texas Monthly and others. Recovering politico. Seeking representation,2nd novel done, 3rd in progress
Lots of essays, reviews, etc in Texas Monthly and others. Recovering politico. Seeking representation,2nd novel done, 3rd in progress
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Richard Z. Santos
@rzsantos.bsky.social
· Dec 18
My story Rush Hour from AUSTIN NOIR is on the Distinguished List for the 2024 Best American Mystery and Suspense! Thank you S.A. Cosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social and @stephcha.bsky.social.
I just found out and this is a great way to end the year!
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I just found out and this is a great way to end the year!
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And...done. Not a first draft, not a final draft. Still need to tuck some threads away and tug on a few more. But it's good, better than my other two I'm pretty sure.
Will anyone read it? That's a different question.
Will anyone read it? That's a different question.
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
And...done. Not a first draft, not a final draft. Still need to tuck some threads away and tug on a few more. But it's good, better than my other two I'm pretty sure.
Will anyone read it? That's a different question.
Will anyone read it? That's a different question.
At the risk of having the literary gods cast curses down on me...I'm within striking distance of finishing my 3rd novel.
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
At the risk of having the literary gods cast curses down on me...I'm within striking distance of finishing my 3rd novel.
"MFA in Using Visiting Writers of Color to Offset the Whiteness of the Program"
"MFA in Being Asked: 'What Do I Say When Students Tell Me the Program is Too White?'" (via @mcsweeneys.net)
What I Actually Got My MFA In
MFA in Being Told to Meditate and Seek Therapy When You Bring Up the Microaggressions You Have Faced to the Associate Director MFA in You Are Pakis...
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"MFA in Using Visiting Writers of Color to Offset the Whiteness of the Program"
Man, this story is going to keep taking darker and darker turns isn't it?
Am I talking about political journalism or my WIP? Who knows?!
Am I talking about political journalism or my WIP? Who knows?!
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Man, this story is going to keep taking darker and darker turns isn't it?
Am I talking about political journalism or my WIP? Who knows?!
Am I talking about political journalism or my WIP? Who knows?!
You get a pension after 5 years in office. She was elected in 2021.
Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
You get a pension after 5 years in office. She was elected in 2021.
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a post about Psychopomp in 2026
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thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
Gee I wonder
Over the past few years, the Roberts’ court has made excessive gerrymandering easier to get away with.
Will they uphold the gerrymandering rules they created? Or will they let Texas’ racial gerrymandering slide?
Will they uphold the gerrymandering rules they created? Or will they let Texas’ racial gerrymandering slide?
The Texas gerrymandering case is a test of the Supreme Court's integrity
Do the justices have any rules they won't let Republicans break?
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Gee I wonder
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Okay writers. I know some of you have taken these AI training jobs and I'd love to interview you without shaming you! DM please if you've taken the bait.
Job boards are full of "Creative Writer" positions that are actually AI trainers. These companies (the biggest seems to rhyme with Pout Liar) are recruiting fiction writers specifically and in multiple languages. I'd love to interview any writers who've taken the plunge!
please reach out!
please reach out!
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Okay writers. I know some of you have taken these AI training jobs and I'd love to interview you without shaming you! DM please if you've taken the bait.
Okay writers. I know some of you have taken these AI training jobs and I'd love to interview you without shaming you! DM please if you've taken the bait.
Job boards are full of "Creative Writer" positions that are actually AI trainers. These companies (the biggest seems to rhyme with Pout Liar) are recruiting fiction writers specifically and in multiple languages. I'd love to interview any writers who've taken the plunge!
please reach out!
please reach out!
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Okay writers. I know some of you have taken these AI training jobs and I'd love to interview you without shaming you! DM please if you've taken the bait.
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Job boards are full of "Creative Writer" positions that are actually AI trainers. These companies (the biggest seems to rhyme with Pout Liar) are recruiting fiction writers specifically and in multiple languages. I'd love to interview any writers who've taken the plunge!
please reach out!
please reach out!
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Job boards are full of "Creative Writer" positions that are actually AI trainers. These companies (the biggest seems to rhyme with Pout Liar) are recruiting fiction writers specifically and in multiple languages. I'd love to interview any writers who've taken the plunge!
please reach out!
please reach out!
Job boards are full of "Creative Writer" positions that are actually AI trainers. These companies (the biggest seems to rhyme with Pout Liar) are recruiting fiction writers specifically and in multiple languages. I'd love to interview any writers who've taken the plunge!
please reach out!
please reach out!
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Job boards are full of "Creative Writer" positions that are actually AI trainers. These companies (the biggest seems to rhyme with Pout Liar) are recruiting fiction writers specifically and in multiple languages. I'd love to interview any writers who've taken the plunge!
please reach out!
please reach out!
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We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
Project 2052 — Common Notions Press
Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
www.commonnotions.org
June 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
I love this bc I think we're about to get a whole bunch of great fiction about how we scraped our way past these crises. Not idealized, not gratuitous trauma, just fiction showing us the truth. In its way, my own novel in progress is doing the same.
We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
Project 2052 — Common Notions Press
Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
www.commonnotions.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I love this bc I think we're about to get a whole bunch of great fiction about how we scraped our way past these crises. Not idealized, not gratuitous trauma, just fiction showing us the truth. In its way, my own novel in progress is doing the same.
Oh yeah totally that's it nothing else going on
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Oh yeah totally that's it nothing else going on
All public schools should be capped at 500 students. All of them.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
All public schools should be capped at 500 students. All of them.
I should write an essay about all the different ways I get asked, "What do you do?"
It comes with a range of unspoken questions from "how do you get paid?" to "how can I do that also?" to "and people are okay with that?" to "that's still a thing?" to "that works for you" to...
It comes with a range of unspoken questions from "how do you get paid?" to "how can I do that also?" to "and people are okay with that?" to "that's still a thing?" to "that works for you" to...
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I should write an essay about all the different ways I get asked, "What do you do?"
It comes with a range of unspoken questions from "how do you get paid?" to "how can I do that also?" to "and people are okay with that?" to "that's still a thing?" to "that works for you" to...
It comes with a range of unspoken questions from "how do you get paid?" to "how can I do that also?" to "and people are okay with that?" to "that's still a thing?" to "that works for you" to...
Well these next hurdles seem significant. Finding 13 R's in the Senate seems like a climb.
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Well these next hurdles seem significant. Finding 13 R's in the Senate seems like a climb.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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The way this book has resonated w/readers—on an emotional level, a visceral level, a nauseous-terrified-cold-pit-of-my-stomach level—has been supremely satisfying.
If you haven't experienced him before: boy howdy can @jacymorris.bsky.social weave a suspenseful story❄️🩸💀
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If you haven't experienced him before: boy howdy can @jacymorris.bsky.social weave a suspenseful story❄️🩸💀
store.tenebrouspress.com
I've been meaning to post and post and post about how great We Like it Cherry is. I've recommended it to a ton of people and y'all should really pick up a copy. Arctic, indigenous, ancient, survival horror. It's just amazing.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The way this book has resonated w/readers—on an emotional level, a visceral level, a nauseous-terrified-cold-pit-of-my-stomach level—has been supremely satisfying.
If you haven't experienced him before: boy howdy can @jacymorris.bsky.social weave a suspenseful story❄️🩸💀
store.tenebrouspress.com
If you haven't experienced him before: boy howdy can @jacymorris.bsky.social weave a suspenseful story❄️🩸💀
store.tenebrouspress.com
I've been meaning to post and post and post about how great We Like it Cherry is. I've recommended it to a ton of people and y'all should really pick up a copy. Arctic, indigenous, ancient, survival horror. It's just amazing.
store.tenebrouspress.com/products/we-...
store.tenebrouspress.com/products/we-...
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I've been meaning to post and post and post about how great We Like it Cherry is. I've recommended it to a ton of people and y'all should really pick up a copy. Arctic, indigenous, ancient, survival horror. It's just amazing.
store.tenebrouspress.com/products/we-...
store.tenebrouspress.com/products/we-...
I just found out there's an audiobook for Austin Noir, which includes my story "Rush Hour." I haven't heard it but I've been told the narrator does a great job. If you've got Audible let me know how the story sounds!
www.audible.com/pd/Austin-No...
www.audible.com/pd/Austin-No...
Austin Noir
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Austin joins Dallas and Houston in Akashic's deep dive into the Lone Star State's darkest dimensions. Featuring brand-new stories by: Gabino Iglesias, Ace A...
www.audible.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I just found out there's an audiobook for Austin Noir, which includes my story "Rush Hour." I haven't heard it but I've been told the narrator does a great job. If you've got Audible let me know how the story sounds!
www.audible.com/pd/Austin-No...
www.audible.com/pd/Austin-No...
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Chalamet playing a ping-pong dude in a period piece directed by a Safdie could not possibly sound more made up. Like a prop poster in the background of a sitcom.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Chalamet playing a ping-pong dude in a period piece directed by a Safdie could not possibly sound more made up. Like a prop poster in the background of a sitcom.
In a not-at-all surprising turn of events I'm overthinking my 3rd novel and can't find an agent for my 2nd, which is exactly what happened with my 2nd and 1st.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In a not-at-all surprising turn of events I'm overthinking my 3rd novel and can't find an agent for my 2nd, which is exactly what happened with my 2nd and 1st.
The answer, as always, is give it all to Kim Sherwood. Yes it's weird that I keep talking about her novels, but it's even weirder that it feels like I'm the only one!
www.kimsherwoodauthor.com/double-o-tri...
www.kimsherwoodauthor.com/double-o-tri...
Double O Trilogy — Kim Sherwood
www.kimsherwoodauthor.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The answer, as always, is give it all to Kim Sherwood. Yes it's weird that I keep talking about her novels, but it's even weirder that it feels like I'm the only one!
www.kimsherwoodauthor.com/double-o-tri...
www.kimsherwoodauthor.com/double-o-tri...
I just don't believe the writers are worried about this.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I just don't believe the writers are worried about this.