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Craig Berger

@therealcraigberger.bsky.social
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Teleplay, screenplay, novel, comic book, marketing writer. Philosopher, poker player, chess player, progressive epistocrat, Jewish igtheist. Winner of the Filmmatic.com Sci Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition

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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New Substack up! AI stigma #HorrorAuthor open.substack.com/pub/craigber...
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The Stigma Monster
Dear Craig,
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
New Substack post up! #HorrorAuthor open.substack.com/pub/craigber...
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Evil Robot
Here’s a fun response I got the other day:
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Your weekly fix of abject writer pain and suffering is here! Plus a new excerpt from THE BOOK OF MONSTERS! #HORROR #FICTION #FANTASY craigberger.substack.com/p/the-raveno...
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The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
*The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy are the intellectual property of the estate of Douglas Adams.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
New Year, New Substack post. Plus an excerpt from THE BOOK OF MONSTERS! Still free to subscribe 😉 craigberger.substack.com/p/the-tiyanak #HorrorAuthor #writers
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The Tiyanak
The Tiyanak does not appear in The Book of Monsters, but could probably fit into the Shapeshifter class, perhaps as a type of Changeling.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Continuity Error in #StrangerThings S5. Mike tells Will "You're not a Wizard, you're more like a Sorcerer, because your spells are innate." But the Sorcerer class, of magic-users who don't need a spellbook to cast magic, wasn't introduced until 3rd Ed D&D in 2000.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The post is up #HorrorAuthor open.substack.com/pub/craigber...
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The Ghost of Christmas Past
When I was a kid, I always thought I would be a novelist.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New Adventure in publishing quest: The Dead Zone #horrorwriters ##HorrorAuthor #horror craigberger.substack.com/p/the-dead-z...
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The Dead Zone
We’re still in that Dead Zone between Thanksgiving and the first week of the New Year where nothing much happens, although I’m still sending out queries and the occasional pass does still hit my inbox...
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New Substack post up for Evolution of a Monster Manual. Still free to subscribe! craigberger.substack.com/p/the-soul-s... ##HorrorAuthor
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The Soul Sucking Holiday Season
The holiday season, from Halloween to New Year’s, is tough for me as a writer.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
New Substack is live! #HorrorAuthor craigberger.substack.com/p/the-slaver...
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The Slavering Pitch Monster
So I promised you a story about a disastrous pitch meeting.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I think this might be photoshop not AI
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New Substack up. #Horrorauthor craigberger.substack.com/p/the-two-bu...
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The Beast With Two Bubbles
Here’s a query pass I received the other day:
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Well, like I said, I think humans do the same thing. They say there are no new ideas. I don't know if that's true, but there are countless writers who have drawn inspiration from other writers and sometimes even copy their style to some extent. That doesn't seem to bother anyone.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
New Substack post up craigberger.substack.com/p/lets-talk-... #horrorwriters
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Let's Talk About AI
I want to start by stressing that I NEVER, nor WILL I EVER, have AI write any part of any novel or screenplay I create.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New Substack Post up #HorrorAuthor open.substack.com/pub/craigber...
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The Tendrils of Doubt
So I got an agent to read my manuscript this week.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A substack about one genre screenwriter turned novelist's attempt to get published. #Horrorwriterschat 💗🧙‍♂️⚔️ Evolution of a Monster Manual craigberger.substack.com?r=g5pup&utm_...
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Evolution of a Monster Manual | Craig Berger | Substack
A chronicle of one novelist's attempts to publish a novel that defies genre classification. Click to read Evolution of a Monster Manual, by Craig Berger, a Substack publication.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A substack about one genre screenwriter turned novelist's attempt to get published. Evolution of a Monster Manual craigberger.substack.com?r=g5pup&utm_...
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Evolution of a Monster Manual | Craig Berger | Substack
A chronicle of one novelist's attempts to publish a novel that defies genre classification. Click to read Evolution of a Monster Manual, by Craig Berger, a Substack publication.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Those of you who follow me on social media know that I am regularly a winner or finalist in #screenwriting competitions. I am now offering my services to the public! Please share this link with anyone who wants to win a teleplay or screenplay writing contest!
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My comedy A Christmas Survival Guide for the Modern Vampire was just selected as a finalist by Mad Wife 100 Scripts via FilmFreeway.com! #screenwriting
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Film Festivals, Screenplay Contests, Submissions
Enter the world's best film festivals and screenplay contests. FilmFreeway makes it easy to discover, submit and get tickets to thousands of events.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Don't make us quote George Orwell again.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
And they'll STILL vote Republican
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Trump is literally the antichrist. Anyone that supports Trump and thinks they are Christian is delusional.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Not to mention single language, single personality traits, etc.,etc.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I think it's pretty clear that this collection of "geniuses" doesn't know anything about anything.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"This never happened with an American President before" could be the Headline of every single day of Trump's presidencies.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Who was the clown that asked this ridiculous question of a wartime president? Some NewsMax nitwit?
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A long time ago,eh? Where was that, somewhere very close by?
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Let me translate two things this libertarian light nincompoop is saying: Personal liberties means doing whatever the fuck I want. Free markets means doing whatever the fuck I want. He’s an adult toddler.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Check out my interview with Filmmatic.com on my contest winning Sci Fi TV pilot "Hereditary"! www.filmmatic.com/post/craig-b... #amwritingfantasy and sci fi 💗🧙‍♂️⚔️
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Craig Berger Pushes Biotech Boundaries with "Hereditary"
Craig Berger is a talented and prolific Los Angeles-based screenwriter. His one-hour Sci-Fi thriller, "Hereditary", has the genes of a successful TV project. It also finished top of the heap in Fil...
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"Dear Leopard, even though you seem to have accidentally eaten MY face, I still support you."
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
HOLY SHIT you guys, check out this AMAZING song, Hostile Government Takeover, by @agiftfromtodd! He's singing truth, and this tune slaps. Give it a listen and repost to share.🙏💪
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This guy is actually proud of making mental health care in his state worse. And he somehow thinks DOGE is a synonym for transphobia. SMH
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Favorite.... X-Man: Nightcrawler Justice Leaguer: Green Lantern Trinity: Batman Legionnaire: Timber Wolf Avenger: Hank Pym FF: The Thing Titan: Beast Boy Magic user: Constantine Whatcha got, nerds? 🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
It should surprise no one that JD Vance doesn't know how American democracy works.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Totally with you
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump wants to expand our territory into Canada and Panama. He wants to send "criminals" (read: political dissidents) to El Salvadoran prisons. Welcome to the Soviet Union circa 1950s. And you so called #Reagan Republicans voted for this shit. Ronald Reagan is turning over in his grave.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I think that's technically a wrap
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Trump is the epitome of those slack jawed kids.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Actually I'm not white, Im Jewish, so I'm one of the people you're trying to eliminate so you can have your good, pure, white country back again. But good Americans of conscience have stopped your kind before and we'll do it again. I'm done humoring a Nazi. Bye bye.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
You've missed everything, since you completely ignored the content of my response so you can believe exactly what you want to, which is what MAGAs do.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I don't know what you mean...i certainly wish the result had been different..it would have saved a lot of lives and prevented a lot of suffering.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
And most of those people were held accountable. You will find Democrats hold their people accountable FAR more often than Republicans. I call Trump a rapist because "man held civilly liable for sexual assault" is too many characters but either should be disqualifying.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Lol. You don't know anything about me but you ppl never let facts interfere with a good narrative.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Clear corruption is the millions of dollars of fraud Trump has been found guilty of by numerous Judges. It's releasing hundreds of violent criminals bec they supported him in an Insurrection. Pardoning a gun charge that would have pled out if not for GOP politics isn't in the same universe.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
No, you don't have it right at all, nor do you want to get it right, and he's not my boy, stay on topic.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Hunter Biden nonsense is a distraction and irrelevant. Trump just gave Elon full access to our Treasury, which controls, among other things, payments to defense contractors that are his competitors. I wonder if you understand how corrupt that is.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I'm not getting into the weeds with this stuff with you, James. If you want to believe Mr. Grab em by the pussy is a perfect gentleman and his many accusers are liars, that's your choice.
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Communism...Hunter Biden..it's clear this has devolved from any semblance of a real conversation 2 a spouting of Trumpublican keywords that have been programmed in. I hope u get all you want from the new authoritarian racist regime but unless that's plane crashes and high prices it doesn't look good
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Craig Berger @therealcraigberger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Uh huh...whatever you need to think to justify the election of a felonious fraudster authoritarian rapist to the White House, James
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