John Fox

Just dropped in a year-end writing collab with 13 incredible creators on the @Bookfox channel 🎥✍️ We shared our favorite writing advice of 2025. Lots of great tips packed into this one! youtube.com/watch?v=h3V4Gz… #amwriting

Great list!

I have gotten a lot from the @bookfox YouTube channel and highly recommend it to the #WritingCommunity. End of this PSA.

Authors: what youtube channels do you watch for writing advice? Three I love 1. Brandon Sanderson (his lectures are amazing) 2. Alyssa matesic (she also offers query bundle services, which I recommend) @AlyssaMatesic 3. Bookfox (Regular short vids) @bookfox Who else?

@JasonAChristian The book is so fantastic.

Really? I’d pay nothing. Ever. Magazine submissions aren't supposed to be Disney World. I pay as a reader to read and support the things I love, not as an author, least of all to acquire "benefits".

@saintsoftness You’re looking for Alain Robbie-Grillet, one of the French New Noveists, specifically “The Voyeur”.

Can you name a novel that features only objects and architecture but absolutely no people as characters?

How in the world does Claire Keegan get away with publishing short stories as $20 hardback novels? Don’t get me wrong, I love Foster and Small Things like These, but they are not … books?

Toni Morrison: 40 Mark Twain: 41 Marcel Proust: 43 Henry Miller: 44 JRR Tolkien: 45 Raymond Chandler: 51 Richard Adams: 52 Annie Proulx: 57 Laura Ingalls Wilder: 65 Frank McCourt: 66 Harriett Doerr: 74 Harry Bernstein: 96 No, you’re not too old to publish your first book.

Susan Sontag just casually ruining my life in her foreword to Pedro Paramo

@SequoiaN I’m sometimes close enough (50%?)

@SequoiaN I hear you on this. I’m so terrible at estimating future income. Fun fact, though! Stripe selected me for an academic research of entrepreneurs where they test me twice a year to predict what I’ll make in the coming months, and if I’m right, I get a $100 Amazon gift card.

@EricScotTryon @JukedMagazine Oh, congrats! But I didn’t know they were going under. And I recommended you and Flash Frog to several flash fiction writers I met at a writing conference over the weekend.

Even though I fly through this airport regularly, in my brain DFW will always stand for David Foster Wallace.

@DanFriedman81 @Darinstrauss I certainly don’t think that, but I do think that Trump has been pretty anti-war — not sure how that would affect the currently Middle East issues.

Explain to me someone who thinks, "At a tinderbox international moment like this, it'd sure be nice if Trump were in charge."

@RockofAges66 @sewistwrites Just read that one with my sci-fi book club. They loved it, I didn’t.

@sewistwrites Ancillary Justice - Leckie Re-read about a month ago, still great

@ian_90211 @sewistwrites Just read her craft book on writing suspense novels!

@sewistwrites If we're talking about fiction, The Talented Mr. Ripley is a great book written by a woman - Patricia Highsmith. She takes what should be a completely unlikable and unrelatable character and somehow gets her readers on his side. The writing style is also superb.

@sewistwrites The Incendiaries by RO Kwon. I’m reading it right now!

@SequoiaN That is absolutely hilarious.

@_motherslug Seriously, though, I avoided cell phones and internet even though I wrote a modern novel by isolating my characters in a remote place.

@_motherslug I would recommend setting your book during the time period of …. Never.

I want to write a novel but I don’t want cell phones or the Internet in it and I don’t want it to be a period piece and I don’t want it to be sci-fi. Not a knock against any of that, much of which I love, I just have this specific vision but I can’t fucking figure it out. 🙃