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last call to sign up for my writing magic class at @storystudiochicago.bsky.social! if you're into earth magic, portals, witches, unusual superpowers, and magical creatures, this class is for you. we'll meet online starting next Tuesday, August 4. see you there!

Writing Magic with Ruth Joffre - StoryStudio ChicagoThis class is all about magic and how it can shape a story. We’ll explore various magical systems to understand how they work and what impact they can have in our writing.www.storystudiochicago.org

I’m having the travel day from hell but you could cheer me up by buying my chapbook. I will also accept pet photos

Lies I Tell My Children, by Ruth JoffreProse poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Almost a decade in the making, Lies I Tell My Children is a collection of surreal and fanciful falsehoods dreamed up by a single mom just doi...bottlecap.press

flight delayed three times for a total of seven hours before I even got to the airport 🙃

what a nice surprise to click on a link and see my forthcoming @adventitiouswords.bsky.social story “A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Multiverse” reviewed—and to see so much love for @reckoningmag.bsky.social, where I’m on staff! clearly Jay has excellent taste

I’m not immune from this even though my work usually falls in the Mostly Average Person engaging in Extremely Unhealthy behaviors and relationships category

fuck AI. buy books written by humans. buy weird little art projects people worked on for ten years without ever knowing if they would see the light of day. let the words do their slow work on you until you emerge an entirely different person—someone AI could never dream of

went camping 10,000 feet up a mountain and while I didn't see any bears I did see a marmot on the mount

you guys, I'm reading my contributor copy of the forthcoming issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social and it is so good and so delightfully strange! it includes my multiverse story about a geographer lost in a labyrinthine house, where she meets a version of herself changing history in every timeline

I love a mountain lake

writer achievement unlocked: I got to add a books dropdown to my website because now I have two 😭

wildflowers of the sierras

announcing my chapbook while in the sierras has been great because I post about it then fuck off into the mountains all day and forget the internet exists

meanwhile, in the meadows

I have a story forthcoming in this issue! 😍

meanwhile, in the mountains

today I: - hiked up to an alpine lake and back - officially announced my chapbook with Bottlecap Press - got paid money I had given up on getting all in all, a fantastic day!