C. Dan Castro

#Booktwitter #ICYMI #Interview #Writing #ShortStories The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: SMFS Spotlight: Josh Pachter shortmystery.blogspot.com/2026/01/smfs-s…

Need an inexpensive gift? For $5, buy the “Witcraft 24” anthology, with 48 comedic pieces, including “The Optimal Solution” by yours truly! Available at Amazon tinyurl.com/4s5pdk7c and elsewhere. #WritingCommunity #Writers #InexpensiveGift #CheapGift

Hello @stygianspace Would you mind a DM from a fellow Dragon Gems author?

Hello @NemmaW Would you mind a DM from a fellow Dragon Gems author?

Hello @realflooddamage Would you mind a DM from a fellow Dragon Gems author?

Know someone who needs to laugh? Want to get them a present for the holidays? Buy them the “Witcraft 24” anthology, with 48 comedic pieces, including “The Optimal Solution” by yours truly! Available at Amazon tinyurl.com/4s5pdk7c and elsewhere. #WritingCommunity #Writers

Have kids? Grandkids? And they like historical fiction? Have them check out my story, "Saving Rome the Republic," with Cincinnatus and his 11-year-old Lucius. It’s FREE in Promised Protagonists, Issue 02, at: promisedprotagonists.wixsite.com/mysite/issues #WritingCommmunity #writers

@MysteryWeekly Very sorry to learn @MysteryWeekly is stopping, esp. due to Kindle. Any chance you could get by selling issues as Ebooks and/or selling copies on a print-on-demand basis? (Not my idea; credit to a fellow member of the @SMFSocy)

Mystery Magazine is 9 years old!!! Thank you to all the talented authors and to our cover artist, Robin! #Mystery #Magazine #MyXAnniversary #MyTwitterAnniversary

The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: SMFS Member Award Winners at 2024 Killer Nashville shortmystery.blogspot.com/2024/08/smfs-m… Enjoy writing mystery short stories? Consider joining the SMFS. It’s free, and you will learn a great deal from folks who win awards! #writers #WritingCommmunity

My story—The General, the Mole, and the Perfectly Tailored Monster—comes out in Black Sheep #15 on September 1! Available at Amazon, B&N, etc. If you like thrillers and/or hate Nazis, give it a read! #WritingCommunity #Writers #WritersLift

@RyanWBenson @EmberJournal Congratulations, Ryan! If I may ask, how long was it from submission to acceptance?

Excited my fantasy short story, "Faded Scars," was accepted by @emberjournal. It will be available online on October 4th. #shortstory #shortstories #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #fantasy #love #lovestory #story #writing #free #writer #writerscommunity #urbanfantasy #storylove

My story—The Night Is More Richly Colored Than The Day—is in Pulp Adventures issue 45! (Link: boldventurepress.com/pulp-adventure…). The gunshot destroyed Taylor’s color vision. Can he solve his near murder with a damaged memory and only able to see black, white, and gray, gray, gray?

If you need a few free laughs, check out my story on the Saturday Evening Post, the “Ol’ Switcheroo” at saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/07/the-ol… I’d pay real money to know what @JefferyDeaver thinks of it.

If you enjoy reading horror, and like stories that are FREE and SHORT, check out my four-drabble sequence on Metastellar: metastellar.com/fiction/it-sha… #WritingCommunity #Writers #HorrorCommunity #Horror

Have middlegrade kids? Tell them to read my spooky story “The Mirror People” in Haunted Words Press, Issue 7. It’s FREE! The story is fantasy with a dash horror and a pinch Chinese folklore. Issue 7 should be available midday, March 23rd, on HWP's website: hauntedwordspress.com

“A poet with a poem in mind is like a robin with a worm. Let go the worm (or the idea) for an instant, and both have slithered inevitably away.” —Phyllis McGinley #WritingCommunity #AuthorBday #Writers

I haven’t been on Twitter for a while. Hey, what’s this X thing? #WritingCommunity #Writers

@Bylrweltmann Just like the work you’re querying. You feel fairly good about it, then send it out. If you get no nibbles, you reconsider and potentially do some rewriting.

#amquerying people how do you accept your query is ready and not keep rewriting it ad infinitum? #WritingCommunity #amwriting

I’m in Bards and Sages. First time my name’s ON A COVER. Unreal! 
A link for those who enjoy fantasy: books2read.com/b/basq12024 Currently available as e-books, print is coming soon. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Fantasy #ShamelessSelfpromoWednesday

Check out witcraft.org from @doug_jacqu7340, launched 27 August, with stories from Australia, US, UK, Mexico, Spain, Germany, & India. Join thousands who enjoy a daily dose of wit, word play, absurdity & inspired nonsense. And it’s FREE!!#WritingCommunity #Writers