Brooks Benjamin

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Drinks coffee. Eats pizza. Writes books like MY SEVENTH-GRADE LIFE IN TIGHTS. The inked-up librarian. Rep’d by Uwe Stender and Brent Taylor (Triada). he/him
Websitehttps://www.brooksbenjamin.com
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Not sure I’ve ever read a book as beautifully written as Nothing but Blackened Teeth by @casskhaw. This was literary ASMR. The writing wasn’t just lyrical and pretty it was brain-tingly and visceral. My god.

Oh, it was also scary as all get out.

#amreading #writingcommuity #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #horror #horrorfiction

First finished book of 2023 was a trip! BELOW by Laurel Hightower. This one may have been small in stature (barely 104 pages) but it was truly monstrous in scares!
#writing #reading #horror #books #writingcommuity #readersofmastdon #authors #laurelhightower
@sheilamaverbuch God that’s so true! 😭
@Ivy Thanks!

My #gamedev buddy of many years, Dustin Hansen (@dustwrites) just joined Mastodon and I wanted to give him an #introduction to get him going

Dustin was instrumental in being a leader and a mentor in my early days in #videogames at #EA. An #artist that reached great professional heights with hard work and without having to be a massive dick to everybody. Never settling he did theme parks, toys, books, indies, AAA, art teacher to his kids, etc, hes awesome.

#mastoart #writing #gaming #author

@aelisterauthor That’s awesome!!
One of the things I enjoy about Mastodon is how the #writingcommunity acts like an actual community and less like a middle school cafeteria where the popular kids take up one table and won’t let anyone they don’t know sit with them.
On Twitter, too many traditionally published authors didn’t want to associate with non-traditionally published ones. I felt that pressure to ignore them, too. I’m not feeling that here, though. I hope it stays that way. 😊
#writer #authors #publishing #kidlit
@VictoriaMAdams I'm glad I'm not the only one! 😂

My agent and I agreed it'd be wise to wait until after the new year to put my newest MG on sub.

On one hand this means I won't be frantically checking my phone every three seconds during the holidays.

On the other it means I need to scrap my New Year's resolution to not frantically check my phone every three seconds in 2023.

🙃

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