Dale Stromberg

Dale Stromberg

@stromberg.bsky.social

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Castigator of texts and poor devil of letters.

Debut novel Mæj coming in 2024 (tRaum Books).

Melancholic Parables pub'd 2022.
https://dalestromberg.jimdofree.com/fiction/melancholic-parables/

Unobtrusive immigrant. Proud papa. 生来の追放者根性. He/him.

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MSF has been doing important work not only in the field but also in speaking the horrific reality of what they and the people of Gaza are facing. Breaks my fucking heart

A lot of people are choosing to look away right now in the face of something that is making Doctors Without Borders say things like this

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If you want access to free books, please get a library card. In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to. Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource. As an author and reader, I support libraries! #books #libraries

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Well here's something you don't see everyday, a factual article about the lives of transgender people. www.cnn.com/business/eco...

These millions of Americans are more likely to live in poverty, be unemployed and have no family support | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Quinn Merriss, an 18-year-old who identifies as transgender and non-binary, barely makes ends meet.

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I think in every lit scene you have writers who want to help others, and writers who see every other writer as a threat. What the genres to tend to have is both an institutional memory and (relatively) strong genre-specific organizations with the goal of helping their members and others.

I feel like (and admittedly, this is purely gut instinct) genre authors are typically more open to helping lift up their peers than more purely literary types are.

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Arendt: "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world--but the most probable change is to a more violent world."

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Write to your MP Tell them this transphobic bullshit has to stop Gender affirming care is healthcare Shout louder!!! We got the tories out, now the real work starts Protect trans kids!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Protect all trans folk!! Trans rights are human rights!! members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

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A thread to read:

There’s discourse on the timeline about the damage that streaming services have done to tv/film but speaking as a filmmaker one of the worst things about them is, if you sell your movie to them for what sounds like a good price, that fee is now paid to you quarterly over the entire license period.

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The main answer to that question is, surprisingly, because it does

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Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.

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@tadethompson.bsky.social two concepts I picked up working on the cross-border digital sales VAT discussions were - ZOPA - zone of possible agreement, and BATNA - best alternative to negotiated agreement. Useful in identifying where to give ground, and when to walk away, in contract negotiations.

i'm going with 3. 3rd wheel, 3 legged race, three's a crowd... it's often associated with the absurd or pathetic plus the numeral 3 looks like a butt

inconclusive results. possibly nine, or six

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OMG.

“At once an ambitious, densely plotted adventure, a commentary on gender and class, and a linguistic tour de force, this is a true work of art.” —Rachel A. Rosen ( @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social ), author of Cascade MAEJ preorders are live: dalestromberg.jimdofree.com/fiction/m%C3...

Mæjdalestromberg.jimdofree.com Coming soon from tRaum Books 21 October 2024 — PREORDER THE PAPERBACK — Bookshop.org | Barnes & Noble | Amazon — PREORDER THE EBOOK — Itch.io (coming soon) | Gumroad (coming soon) | Amazon Hundred...

@tuckerlieberman.bsky.social has written on Medium about my novel Maej (forthcoming from @traumbooks.bsky.social ) “An intricate, glowing landscape, crackling with reality-benders and powered by courageous rebellion.” tuckerlieberman.medium.com/enchantment-...

‘Mæj’ Is Enchantment: New Fantasy Fictiontuckerlieberman.medium.com A luminous and lilting debut novel

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This rot feels like a precursor to AI because it's point-of-view-less. The originals are full of things the original creators liked *from among similar things* (or were bullied into including, with D&D and Tolkien); subsequent iterations are a flat, untextured expanse of the Thing Itself.

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BREAKING: The Lancet has published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

I newslettered. open.substack.com/pub/dalestro...

The Seldom, №5open.substack.com The Flaws in Fairyland & Pushing Our Cruise Ships

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The Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Kickstarter features solicited poets Dr. Taylor Byas, Lora Gray, Ai Jiang, Brandon O’Brien, Margaret Rhee, and Abu Bakr Sadiq! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

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HEY!!! I've got a new story for subscribers out on Patreon, AND ALSO this is the last time I'll be posting a self-contained story there for a while. I'm going to spend the next 6-7 months serializing a novella, starting in August. www.patreon.com/posts/july-s...

Loved this thread

This is a subtweet about Frankenstein because I don't want to be a dick, but I also want some facts out there. 1. Most novels at the time were anonymous. We can't make definite judgements about why Mary Shelley's name wasn't on it. It was common practice. The novel was barely respectable. 1/?

what about that person INDEEEED

“no such thing as unskilled labor” what about the person who reviewed my manuscript

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today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

Make a band more vegetable Yam Halen

Make a band more vegetable Fine Young Cabbages

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And the podcast is awesome, so you should listen to the existing episodes while you're not writing.

I just got to interview @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social for the Writers Not Writing show, and she's awesome, so be sure to subscribe so you don't miss her episode! bit.ly/WNWHome

Writers Not Writing show — Not a Pipe Publishingbit.ly

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Feedback on a flash fiction critique by Dale Stromberg.. '...The comprehensive critique and suggestions were invaluable and have helped me make the story even better.' PR @stromberg.bsky.social #critiques freeflashfiction.com/critique-ser...

Critique Service | Free Flash Fictionfreeflashfiction.com The Critique Service... The critique of your flash fiction will include a general analysis of your work, a line edit to highlight manuscript faults, and an overall analysis that will offer suggestio...

I just reviewed @theworldsgreatestwriter.com’s sugar-rush of a novel LOVE/AGGRESSION (pub’d by @traumbooks.bsky.social) over on Medium. Un-paywalled link↓↓↓ medium.com/@dale.stromb...

Love/Aggression: a reviewmedium.com This madcap novel is a sugar-rush of situational absurdity, wicked satire, hallucinatory imagery, and maximally burlesque characters.

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“A document signed by the head of Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, in late June—and viewed by The Wall Street Journal—warned that the conditions in which Palestinians were being held could violate international humanitarian law.”

Palestinian Doctor Says He Was Beaten During Seven Months in Israeli Custodyapple.news The director of Al-Shifa Hospital was released without charge, sparking criticism from both Palestinians and Israelis