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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Here's everything I have currently in the publication pipeline... open.substack.com/pub/rbadams/...

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Upcoming Publications

Here's what I have in the pipeline....

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Gloucester: What, is he dead? Edgar: Sit you down, father; rest you.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Now on Substack, my first fiction for paid subscribers is up. rbadams.substack.com/p/icing-up?r...

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Icing Up

From 100 VICIOUS LITTLE VAMPIRE STORIES

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My heroic fantasy novelette “The Red Priests of Zaggua” (started in the 1990s, finished this year) just sold to DIRTY MAGICK magazine. Great way to kick off a Monday morning!

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Watched STARVE ACRE tonight, which I found wonderfully atmospheric and traumatic. It also helped me understand an issue I’ve been having wrestling with the third act of a story I’m writing about a couple who’ve moved to a strange house on Saddleworth Moor, so hurrah for that.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I was recently interviewed on the Smol Bear Show by one of my editors. The interview also serves as promo for his small press. Check it out if you wanna see nearly three hours of two neurodivergents nattering at each other! youtu.be/K76XP89WYfc?...

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BENJAMIN ADAMS: THE SMOL BEAR INTERVIEW

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Hey everyone, here's A COLLECTIVE PAW, a new anthology from Alex S Johnson, featuring my gentle "cat lady" fantasy, "Bagheera & Bathsheba & Bonnie." Available now in paperback via Amazon! All proceeds go to vetted animal rights charities. Kindle and hardcover soon. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJM427GQ/

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A Collective Paw: An Animal Rights Anthology Volume 1

Amazon.com: A Collective Paw: An Animal Rights Anthology Volume 1: 9798293608621: Johnson, Alex S., Sixx, Nicole H, Williams, Alea Celeste, Maybe, Ellyn, Steckel, Jan, Brite, Poppy Z, Kiernan, Caitlin R, Bark, Jasper, Fairchild, Michelle, Taborska, Anna: Books

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Hm. Sure would be nice to hear back from some editors with either acceptances, rewrite requests, or rejections. Anything’s better than an empty inbox, and at least with a rejection I can retool the piece for another market. A check or two would also be good! #writerlife

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I’ve signed a contract for my story, “The Lady of Silken Decay,” for the anthology SPELLS AND FANGS, coming September 30 2025 from Dragon Soul Press, in both physical and ebook editions.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

In the Gallifreyan Death Zone! This is the exact spot where the Master accosts the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane in THE FIVE DOCTORS. It’s literally a good 30 minutes down a one-lane sheep farming road in Wales.

Author Benjamin Adams standing in front of a large black rock in rural Wales, with sheep and trees.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Receiving an acknowledgment of submission is always appreciated. Too many small markets these days claim “lack of time,” really? Why’re you editing something in the first place then? And avoiding conflict by simply not bothering with rejection emails at all? Grow a skin like writers are supposed to.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Away from pro writing for over a decade, six months back in and four antho sales under my belt, and once again finding the same swirling miasma of personal politics in the field that helped drive me away from the HWA and then writing altogether. Ah well. All part of the gig. Onwards.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Sold my story “Dead Souls,” to the goth and death rock tribute anthology THE BEAUTIFUL DOWNGRADE, where I’ll be next to work by David J. of Bauhaus/Love & Rockets, Jarboe of Swans, Kari Krome of The Runaways, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

My feline dementia story “Bagheera & Bathsheba & Bonnie” has been accepted to the animal charity anthology A COLLECTIVE PAW, probably the only time I’ll be on the same contents page as Bram Stoker and Sappho.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Now why on Earth would a city of over 10 million people suddenly need to evacuate? This is a bit terrifying.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

As a horror writer, I can conjecture that the right wing has been conditioned into their current level of batshit crazy by decades of Russian mind control signals on Fox News. I mean, that’s just fiction, right? And hey, it explains all the stories of relatives changing into MAGA pod people….

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I just backed this team’s game on Kickstarter. It sounds absolutely charming.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Looks like a ton of Exit 8 “anomaly spotting” copycat games coming up in Steam’s June NextFest.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It’s publication day for the anthology CRIMINAL PURSUITS: THIS IS ME, featuring a mean-spirited little piece by yours truly. Now available via Amazon, link below.

Cover of anthology CRIMINAL PURSUITS: THIS IS ME.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/05/2025

Do you still follow someone because you’re angry at them and want to track the things they do? I invite you to start your summer by unfollowing them so you don’t devote energy to something that makes you sad

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

After something is released, no one should expect to remain spoiler free. Desire it, sure. Just don’t expect it. And don’t get all bent out of shape if it happens - on a list of horrible things ranked 1-10, it doesn’t even place. It’s just an annoyance. Don’t act like you’re a crime victim.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

So yesterday we finally learned the villainous group behind this year’s Doctor Who season arc, and they go WAY back.

Photo of the Brigadier with Sarah Jane Smith, closed caption reads “You know Think Tank.”

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hi all! This anthology featuring one of my stories is now available for pre-orders from the fine folks at Telos Publishing!

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Criminal Pursuits 2: This Is Me – PRE-ORDER – Telos Publishing

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Hm. Don’t think the latest Plex update was quite ready for prime time.

Image from Plex iOS app showing “Top Movies in Comedy.” One film (Beetlejuice) is a comedy, the other two (The Black Tower and The Coffee Table) are both horror films.

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Todd Keisling @toddkeisling.com · 27/04/2025

Apologies for the screenshots, but I had something else to say, and this post is quite long.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

If I heard about issues with Chizmar circa ‘95-‘96, while just a newbie pro on the periphery of things, anyone who was a name at that point who currently claims they never heard anything is either willfully ignorant, a liar, or living in some kind of blissful state I wish I could attain.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Honestly, it’s OK to click “like” on my posts or even engage with them further. I’m not charging tariffs.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Loving what Cory Booker just did. Not loving that once again Dems had to wait for a Black person to step up for “good trouble.” What’s up, @schumer.senate.gov ?

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

So yeah, I’ve finished writing my novel. Typed THE END about ten minutes ago. Now it’s time for revisions.

Photo shows bottom of a MS Word screen that reads, “Page 2 of 265. 76269 words.”

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

At 45,000 words on the novel. This *feels* to me like a halfway point.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

1/Weird how you can look at a 1,500 word story fragment you wrote 30 years ago, and before going to bed have a full draft of a 12,000 word novella finished - a collaboration with a ghost, a memory.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Rewrote the novel thingie in first person present tense from the ground up. Over 30K words now. Cookin'.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Not exactly passive resistance. Ya love to see it.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

That moment when you realize your 1/3 completed novel needs to be in first person instead of third person limited.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The Meta Quest 3 Community page in Facebook is always good for giggles provided by people with low verbal skills who eagerly admit that they’re not “tech-savvy” yet bought a $300-$500 VR headset with absolutely no prior research on how it’s used or what apps are available for it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Vance and Trump are firmly in Putin’s pocket. Bravo Zelenskyy for standing up to these pieces of shit shaped like human beings. Slava Ukraini.

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Slow going the past several days, but I'm past 25,000 words on the novel thingie.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 23/02/2025

This is my old city journalist brain firing but I believe that the USA way of isolating everybody into unwalkable suburbia, requiring private cars for existence, & removing true public space has had a disastrous effect on the US's sense of community & empathy and we must, but won't, deal with that

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Benjamin Adams (He/Him) @benjaminadams.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Guess Screen Rant doesn’t want people seeing their content anymore. Oh, big loss. *happily sets browser to not show content from Screen Rant* #screenrant

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

A screenshot of a text excerpt from a court proceeding, showing a conversation between Judge Reyes and Jason C. Lynch about an executive order that defines “sex” strictly as male or female. Judge Reyes challenges this definition, noting that there are roughly 30 different intersex variations and citing examples such as XXX chromosomes, androgen insensitivity, and five-alpha reductase deficiency. Judge Reyes emphasizes that not everyone fits neatly into an XX or XY pattern, concluding that the executive order’s premise—that there are only two sexes—is biologically incorrect.

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🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I'm going to leave this right here: "Alamo Drafthouse Made Millions. Exhausted Workers Said Enough" by More Perfect Union youtu.be/3Fmfuvo8UIs?...

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Alamo Drafthouse Made Millions. Exhausted Workers Said Enough

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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