Judah Mahay

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✨Literary SFF Author. Explorer of this human enigma.✨ English Professor by day. Hockey player by night. Happily married. Vegan | Alaskan | Querying

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Writing Tip: ✨Avoid Filtering✨ ♥️Love this concept. 👇Found a great article by Michael R. Emmert on this to help level up your writing: #WritingCommunity www.scribophile.com/academy/an-i...

Filtering: How to Avoid Using Filters in Writingwww.scribophile.com Sometimes the words we choose can separate the reader from the action. Learn about filtering in prose writing and how to avoid using filters in writing.

For #Juneteenth, let's repost with your favorite black author, or a black author you want to read. Dread Nation by Justina Ireland It's an alt-history contemporary fantasy based out of a school minutes from my house. The book is sitting on my desk. Can't wait to read.

Found a great article for authors wanting to write disabled characters (which you should). #WritingCommunity thesuiway.beehiiv.com/p/models-dis...

Models of Disabilitythesuiway.beehiiv.com or why I needed to write that novella

I just discovered a new anthology, and I kinda freggin' love it: I just submitted my reject (21 rejections for this story, many of them personalized and asking for more, story just too weird). You should send yours as well! calendaroffools.com/submissions/ #WritingCommunity

Submissionscalendaroffools.com Calendar of Fools is seeking your rejected stories for the Intergalactic Rejects anthology. Sometimes you have a really good story that just hasn't found a home among the markets and magazines. It doe...

For the record, I want a book trailer like this one day: (Also, the book has incredibly worldbuilding and is a blast) #writingcommunity #boneseason youtu.be/HgwLfnAKgvs?...

The Bone Season trailer - a novel by Samantha Shannonyoutu.be The official trailer for The Bone Season book by Samantha Shannon. Visit the official facebook page www.facebook.com/theboneseason and join the conversation on twitter #BoneSeason. The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing. 'Truly extraordinary and thrilling' - Andy Serkis

#WritingTip Worldbuilding according to the venerable Ursula K. Le Guin, when to keep, when to cut: "...what intensifies the reality of the story and what clogs it, and when enough is enough." #WritingCommunity www.gollancz.co.uk/ursula-k-le-...

Ursula K. Le Guin – Answers your questions for Gollancz Festival 2015www.gollancz.co.uk Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards a…

I’m done. Trying not to think my first agent was a fluke. Focusing completely on the new WIP. ❌QueryTracker Premium Cancelled ❌Publishers Marketplace Cancelled ❌Pending Queries Closed ❌2 Years Querying 2 Books All that remains: 🍥7 Indie Subs Still Pending #writingcommunity

Per advice, I've compiled the books I am querying into a page on my website. For any agents or acquisition editors out there, may my near-future Frankenstein retelling or character-driven, literary fantasy pique your interest: #WritingCommunity www.judahmahay.com/amquerying/

Books I’m Queryingwww.judahmahay.com Though I’ve written four books over these last twenty years, I currently have two polished, beta-read, and heavily revised novels I’m querying: A near-future, high-concept Frankenstein retelling and a...

#WritingExercise: "Writing Around the Edges." I.E. no nouns for the MC. None. Yup, none. Details in the link that follows. What effect will this have? Why would you do this? Thoughts? Observations? #WritingCommunity

#WritingPrompt: Life finds a way. #WritingCommunity

#WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity Who could this have been? Who is looking at this photo? What are they trying to figure out?

I just entered for a chance to win the Orbit Loot Sweepstakes that celebrates #AAPI Month! @orbitbooks swee.ps/dkqMRM_LjEmpy

Orbit Loot: AAPI Heritage Month 2024swee.ps Sweepstakes! Enter for a chance to win a book bundle in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month.Top row; left to right: The Gods Below ARC by Andrea Stewart, Mistress of Lies ARC by K. M. Enright, Godde…

I won a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant back in the day allowing me to attend a residency at the internationally acclaimed Watermill Center. This was seminal in my artistic journey. Check them out. #WritingCommunity #Artists www.watermillcenter.org

The Watermill Centerwww.watermillcenter.org The Watermill Center is a laboratory of inspiration and performance, founded by theater and visual artist Robert Wilson, which provides a unique environment for a global community of emerging and esta...

What inspired your novel? I stumbled across this image on Instagram and couldn’t help but ask what their relationship was. So, I wrote a story about a remorse-filled mother and her soul-eating dragon godchild. #writingcommunity

Pinky Thinker Press is open for submissions! ✅They are amazing! ✅They pay pro rates! ✅They love experimental art. ✅Including SFF! ✅And previously published material! Share, repost, and submit! #WritingCommunity www.mignolo.art/pinkythinker...

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If you haven’t already, please consider reading my experimental fiction about a ticked off AI demanding a soul. #writingcommunity www.judahmahay.com/soul-requisi...

Soul Requisitionwww.judahmahay.com Published: Pinky Thinker Press, Issue No. 11, 5/2/2024.

My first pro-paying short story is live!!! Read the tale of an irate AI demanding a soul in Pinky Thinker Press! #WritingCommunity Digital (free): www.mignolo.art/ptp Print (buy): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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Yup, this is my hometown, and I can attest to the truth of this: The Cat Who Became Mayor youtube.com/shorts/Z2WOe... via @YouTube

The Cat Who Became Mayoryoutube.com Stubbs The Cat was appointed mayor in Talkeetna, Alaska.

Just signed my first professional-paying short story contract! Thank you again to Pinky Thinker Press for believing in my story of an irate AI demanding his soul! #writingcommunity

Just got the acceptance letter to teach at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth this summer! I get to create a 1-week intensive (5hrs/day) writing course exploring “On Being Human” to genius middle school and high school kids. Stoked! And a bit terrified. Wish me luck. #writingcommunity

Update: The Cost of Undying 2 years querying 182 rejections 0 query full requests 1 pitch editor full request 1 query maybe pile In a maybe pile! First time for my dark literary fantasy. ✨Feel like this is a moment. Praying I at least get a personalized rejection. 🙏 #WritingCommunity

#WritingCommunity, let’s play a game: If I was an agent I would rep… …authors who write literary speculative science fiction and fantasy that are just as interested in literary success as commercial. Authors who dig into human angst with piercing tools of magic and/or bionics.

So close! "It's clear that you've devoted a lot of hard work to this project, and your passion comes through in your writing. However, while there is a lot to be commended, I worry that this project is too similar to one already on my list..." #amquerying #writingcommunity Book in question below:

Morning early glow. #writing #writingprompts #writinginspiration

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Celebrating Trans Visibility Day! You are seen! Keep being the awesome you.

Trying to figure out TikTok. Any advice please? I posted a recent promo reel that’s getting traction, and I don’t want to lose momentum. Profile link below.👇 #WritingCommunity #booktok www.tiktok.com/@judahmahaya...

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Updated the blurb for Body Insurance: #WritingCommunity Would you read this? Any comp suggestions? Rose is society's dark secret, not thought possible, assembled by Viacorp from a biopod unit—an interconnected composite of organs and tissue all too ubiquitous called “body insurance.” (thread)

Q? How many of you all have an author app or have thought about getting one? What would you want in it? Been tweaking mine for years and would love any tips. #WritingCommunity Here is mine for reference: apps.apple.com/us/app/judah...

‎Judah Mahay, Authorapps.apple.com ‎Explore stories about current science taken to plausible extremes and grit-strewn reality to the mythic. All of this through the lens of the Alaskan-born SFF author Judah Mahay.

Just got a FULL REQUEST!!!! I'm beyond excited! One step closer. 350 rejections tallied in the search for a new agent. Don't lose hope. Discarded or unseen authors still have worth. Perseverance pays. When in doubt, I recall my thesis advisor's words about my novel. #writingcommunity