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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 28/09/2026

I love Tom Gauld. Also, Hi. I'm Mike, and I'm an outlier.

Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 28/09/2026

I had a big week. Read about it, and what I'm currently up to, this week's update from mission control. #WritingCommunity michaeltkuester.substack.com/p/mission-co...

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 27/09/2026

This was the roughest season of fantasy baseball I’ve ever had. Woven around a trip to LA, published author boot camp, an award show and a book release, signing events. But somehow, I still slipped through. The Evil Empire: undefeated since 2009.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 25/09/2026

If I may riff off an oft-repeated quote on writing: Being unpublished is hell. Having been published is hell. The only tolerable state is having something that will be published. Today, things are much more tolerable.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 24/09/2026

With pride and gratitude, I’m pleased to announce one of my stories will be appearing in an upcoming issue of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social!

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 22/09/2026

The hitters on my fantasy team are 2/9 so far today. Woot.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 22/09/2026

A rebrand for my weekly newsletter: welcome to "Mission Control". michaeltkuester.substack.com/p/mission-co...

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 21/09/2026

I love Tom Gauld. And it really is crazy how many stars there are.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 17/09/2026

Saw an ad for toilet bowl cleaner, which included a toilet bowl in need of cleaning, and honestly why have content warnings of not for this?

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Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation @sirbenjaminjr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Feeling pretty positive about Kinda Charming right now 🤩🤩🤩 #amquerying #MG #YA #fantasy #adventure #comedy

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 14/09/2026

I love Tom Gauld. And there's a joke about my writing process in here somewhere.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 14/09/2026

Earlier in the season I really felt like a successful thief for getting Dingler. I actually dropped him (I'm in a shallow league). Ran out of patience.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 14/09/2026

Nothing good ever happens on a Monday

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 09/09/2026

Me: okay, time to log in to work. My computer: Update time! I know you scheduled this update for 4 AM and kept me on all night so it would happen, but I decided it would be funnier if I did it at 8:58. Don’t worry, though! This update will only take four hours!

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 08/09/2026

In honor of the late great Tim Curry, listening to one of my unofficial theme songs while submitting to @clarkesworldmagazine.com today. One of these days I will make it.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 08/09/2026

Just wrote 2k+ words of pulse-pounding cosmic horror and decided I'd earned come college football. So of course SMU @ FSU is delayed. Power failure of all things.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 07/09/2026

I love Tom Gauld. And I know that, when I was a kid, reverse psychology worked like a charm.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 07/09/2026

To everyone in the US, happy Labor Day. Solidarity forever.

Emblem of the Democratic Socialists of America

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 04/09/2026

Amid awards season, a look back at an enduring classic and the lingering question: is this biopunk? My take on Nancy Kress’s Hugo-winning story, in this month’s “Sci-Fi Reviewed”. #WritingCommunity #Books michaeltkuester.substack.com/p/sci-fi-rev...

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 01/09/2026

All systems go. T-Minus three...two...one...liftoff! My next round of #query letters is away!

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 01/09/2026

Tomorrow’s the day: I’m firing off my next round of queries! That and more in this week’s “Writer’s Desk”. #WritingCommunity #querying michaeltkuester.substack.com/p/writers-de...

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 31/08/2026

I love Tom Gauld. Hope you (like me) enjoyed your summer reading. While it lasted.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 31/08/2026

Commencing preflight checks: #Query letter...check Synposis...check Bio...check... T-Minus 19 hours and counting.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 29/08/2026

Night falls, and the next leg of my querying mission is about to begin... T-Minus 84 hours and counting.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 29/08/2026

In the immortal words of Ian Malcolm, “Life finds a way.” But on an alien planet, which way it will go? What science tells the modern scifi writer about alien life, in this month’s “Science in Fiction”. #WritingCommunity michaeltkuester.substack.com/p/life-as-we...

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 28/08/2026

It's Friday, #WritingCommunity! What's everybody got planned for the weekend? I'm hoping to knock out my query prep and watch some college football!

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 26/08/2026

Love how the scammers are now using names like “Ethical” and “Honor”. Since that totally makes them sound more legit. Sure, I’d believe anything from a human named “Honor Librarian”.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 25/08/2026

I invite you to imagine the sheer hubris, the unmitigated megalomania, of such an act. Believing you have elevated yourself so far beyond mere mortals that the sum total of human culture and experience exists solely for your own selfish goals.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 25/08/2026

I once googled "does burning human flesh smell like roasting meat".

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 25/08/2026

Writing “The End” never gets old. That and more in this week’s “Writer’s Desk”. #WritingCommunity michaeltkuester.substack.com/p/writers-de...

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 24/08/2026

Apparently my writing has landed me on the front page of my hometown newspaper. #WritersogtheFuture #WOTF42

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 24/08/2026

Feels great waking up to a completed story, and knowing you're free to find something new to write.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 23/08/2026

2,024 words tonight, and I did in fact write "THE END".

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 22/08/2026

This is fascinating: teasing out tiny details of evolution reveals broader trends.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 22/08/2026

A productive night of writing, and I'm confident I'll be writing "The End" tomorrow night.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 21/08/2026

It's Friday, #WritingCommunity! What's everybody got planned for the weekend?

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 20/08/2026

Even kids think fair should be fair.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 20/08/2026

Saw a post about “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, and I will now have that song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 19/08/2026

Writing is going great tonight, with one small exception: for some reason, I keep trying to put a "t" in the word "neighbors".

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 18/08/2026

I love Tom Gauld. Hope you find your own way to beat the heat (and read some cool books).

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 18/08/2026

Reading the work of others, and getting stretched out for novel-writing season, in this week’s “Writer’s Desk”. #WritingCommunity #Bookish michaeltkuester.substack.com/p/writers-de...

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 17/08/2026

Nothing good ever happens on a Monday.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 17/08/2026

A lot of querying writers query in rounds. But if you know this is gonna be a long, grueling process, why not fire ‘em off all at once? Why I query in rounds (and you should, too) in this week’s “Dear Sir or Madam”. michaeltkuester.substack.com/p/dear-sir-o...

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 16/08/2026

And we're expecting more severe storms, now that parts of Cincinnati have already been blown into another dimension.

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