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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

guy who doesn't understand playground taunts: i know i am but what are you

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

me trying to connect with younger coworkers. (here's to 39! 🥳)

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

my 5yo asked me this morning how old I was turning tomorrow and when I said 39, she grabbed my face with both hands and said in utter astonishment, "Whoa! That's a huge number!"

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

tfw you publish a new story online

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

when I read old drafts I'd put away, just to see if they're any good

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this version was simply not working so I scrapped it and am starting over from scratch. new POV character, new vibes

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

when they make me check a box that says "this is not a simultaneous submission"

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Recently learned that the short film I cowrote will play at the iconic Chinese Theatre next month. I don't think I'll make it unfortunately but it's pretty cool. If you're in/around Hollywood next month, keep an eye out. I'll post more details when I get them.

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's come to my attention that someone is attempting to impersonate me via an AOL account. Any actual correspondence would come from my HarperCollins.com email address so please double check before responding. I would also never in a million years end an email with "Keep being awesome"

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

trying to get back into drafting and have decided that instead of murdering my darlings, this time I am going to write nothing BUT darlings

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Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Malarkey at Kramers!

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

when people ask me what the novel I'm working on is about

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I haven't written a song in probably twelve years but have written five in the last few weeks. I should probably record a very lo-fi EP or something just to get them out of my head

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

finished it last night. I've read it probably 5-6 times over the last twenty years. There are a few other contenders, but Libra might actually be my favorite novel

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

the job description is that you review AI generated content. i don't want to live on this planet anymore

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

when workshop tells you your story needs more interiority

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

back on my bs (reading DeLillo's Libra yet again)

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I regret to inform you that I have begun writing another novel 🤢

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Logged on an hour early to try to get Angine de Poitrine tickets and 2,000 people were in the queue ahead of me. Sold out within three minutes. Crazy how fast these guys blew up (and how obsessed I am with them) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgH...

youtube.com

Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

all my mutuals seem to have been at either AWP or LBF recently and are posting book haul pics. just want to say that I too had a great book haul recently (particularly egregious library trip)

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

reading this year's BASS and if this doesn't describe the lives we've chosen i don't know what does

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

this story I'm working on keeps getting weirder and weirder (complimentary)

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

when i try to work on an old story I put away for a while and it's still not quite working

Sam Neill and Laura Dern, poorly de-aged

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

this is what having an 8yo does to your algorithm

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Update: This might be the strangest thing I've ever written but I am quite enjoying writing it.

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I have not written much of anything for ~a year but have been trying to get back in the game. Realized this morning that the story I'd been working on was written from the wrong character's POV and when I switched it, the whole thing came to life. Haven't felt that in a long time. Not a bad feeling.

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

pretty great review of Gloria Patri here 🙏

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

also: I agree! I love both @austinross.bsky.social stories I've been lucky enough to publish on Short Story, Long... but something about this one that I published on Hobart 7+ years ago still kinda especially lingers for me! it's such a fun, unique, killer banger www.havehashad.com/web_features...

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A Hungry Bear Does Not Dance by Austin Ross

This is later, after the White House, after he has returned to San Clemente. He has shed the name Nixon, that iron albatross around his neck, and instead now calls himself Milhous. He savors the sound...

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

surely others have and just didn't mention it, but kinda been dying to hear that a submitter found and loved a story in the archives via the "random" link!

Something about a Short Story, Long story

I clicked on your 'Random Story' option and was presented with the 'The Beach Leads All The Way To The Deep Sea' by Austin Ross which I got to say I did enjoy but honestly when I read 'A Hungry Bear Does Not Dance' I was captivated. Such a unique story, such a great way of telling the story too, kinda reminded me of Hunter S. Thompson or Thomas Pynchon

OK to share your above response?

Sure!

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

found this absolute steal online. anybody want to go in on this with me

a used copy of a mass market paperback for Denis Johnson's Angels, only $438.85!

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

me logging on here, not having written a word in months

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

says the guy who *checks notes* cast himself in several of his own movies

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

people in holland are buying this. what's your excuse @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

how is it that not a single one of you told me about this book that came out last month. unacceptable

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I had the privilege of seeing this short film based on my story in a packed theater last night. Hopefully it won't be the last time I experience something like this but I'll be riding that high for at least a few days. The jokes were landing, people seemed really into it. I was blown away. So cool.

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

8yo told me on the walk back from school that The Incredible Hulk only speaks in haikus and now I can't stop thinking about it

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Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

lifted some weights for the first time in far too long today

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