Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026For a long time if anyone happened to search my name on Amazon, this guy's face would come up on a ton of merchandise. I finally got sick of it, bought the little bastard, and stuck in between a couple of bookshelves in my office. 000
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Umberto D. This movie is killing me. This old guy can't make rent and winds up on the street with his dog. 000
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Really digging Frank Miller's autobiography. Totally lost and in love with the 1970s New York stuff. Really great. 010
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Twenty-one years after my first pro sale made print, someone reviewed it! shortsfreviews.com/2024/12/10/d...shortsfreviews.comDead Worlds by Jack SkillingsteadThis story starts with a man driving on a road in the woods at night where he hits and kills a dog. The owner is close by and they walk back to her house with the dead dog. Through small details and c... 030
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024"The Howling Man" Charles Beaumont wrote the Twilight Zone script from his own short story. A long time ago I read the story to my little kids on Halloween. Pleasant dreams, kids! 030
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Reading this early Berlin novel by Nabokov, one of my favorite writers. A deceptively simple story. Love the covers of these Vintage editions. 040
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Blitz. New movie on Apple TV. I had some quibbles but it still gets my high recommendation. Parts of the child's journey on the train and later through the London blitz were Dickensian in the best sense, with that weird flavor of heightened beauty and horror. 050
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Hint: it's the off-set cover text on these matching editions. I keep wanting to nudge the title and author up or down. I have been assured that Im crazy to even notice~ 030
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Minor breakthrough on this story when my character has a dream about his father being transformed into a crow chained to a desk and pecking at typewriter keys. It makes sense, trust me! 020
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 15/11/2024For all my OCD friends. For everyone else, I envy you. 140
Reposted by Jack Skillingstead ErinLindiCairns @erincairns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024@jackskill.bsky.social "Salvage Opportunity" is amazing. I love a good lonely drama, and robots/what makes them more, is a personal kink of mine. That they're all existing just to stake a hold on a planet is such a fun setup for the 'hell is being alone with your own damage' scenario. The end is ❤️👍 111
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Thanks, Erin! I really got lucky with Salvage Opportunity. It just fell together like a gift. It's one of my favorite stories~ 010
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I should do that. Strangely, a couple of weeks ago TwiXt starting showing that I had zero followers, though I've had about 400 for years. I figured it was a glitch but by now it seems permanent, though people tell me they are still following. 110
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 05/11/2024Here's a short piece about the dream logic of "The Ledgers," my latest Asimov's story. Hey, if you love short stories like I do you might consider subscribing time the mag. fromearthtothestars.comfromearthtothestars.comFrom Earth to the StarsThe Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Author & Editor Blog 020
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 06/12/2023Bought in the 80s but kept bouncing off the title story. Remained on various shelves in various rooms for decades. Once in a while I'd look at it. Decades don't feel real. Tonight I finally read the story. It was good. The paper had turned yellow. The cover came off. When does my cover come off? 010
Reposted by Jack Skillingstead Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 18/11/2023I told you, people. I told you. Read this glowing and accurate review of @jackskill.bsky.social 's new collection, THE WHOLE MESS.locusmag.comPaul Di Filippo Reviews The Whole Mess and Other Stories by Jack SkillingsteadThe Whole Mess and Other Stories, Jack Skillingstead (Fairwood Press 978-1958880128, trade paperback, 334pp, $20.95) November 2023 Reading Jack Skillingstead’s second story collection drives home t�... 052
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 13/11/2023R.I.P. Michael Bishop. Wonderful writer and one of the kindest people I've ever known. Not that I knew him well, but with Michael even a handfull of encounters tells what kind of person he was. Besides talking at a conventions over the years we carried on a brief correspondence. He will be missed. 020
Reposted by Jack Skillingstead Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 02/11/2023Seattle people! We're celebrating the launch of Jack Skillingstead's terrific new collection, THE WHOLE MESS. Come out Wed Nov 15 to University Book Store. Jack, Nancy Kress, and Me will be reading. @jackskill.bsky.socialeventbrite.comUBS presents Jack Skillingstead, Nancy Kress, and Daryl GregoryIt's a Science fiction, fantasy & horror night at the bookstore 021
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 25/10/2023I hope to god they don't follow through with this. What an insult to artists. And you're right, John. Eventually the AI will be capable of successfully imitating human writers. 010
Jack Skillingstead @jackskill.bsky.social · 20/09/2023This event in Brooklyn was a lot of fun. From left to right: Randee Dawn (organizer), me, Nancy Kress, Vajra Chandrasekera (debut novelist, Richard Jeffrey Newman (poet), and Stephanie Wrobel (thriller novelist). 141
