#real-world — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #real-world, aggregated by home.social.
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#Design #Explorations
Colors your screen can’t show you · “You’ll feel crazy once you see it.” https://ilo.im/16dwpn_____
#Perception #Colors #ColorSpaces #Screens #RealWorld #DigitalDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
#Design #Explorations
Colors your screen can’t show you · “You’ll feel crazy once you see it.” https://ilo.im/16dwpn_____
#Perception #Colors #ColorSpaces #Screens #RealWorld #DigitalDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
#Stress of any kind doesn't peak and vanish.
Mental Emotional #Anxiety can increase your #EnergyExpenditure.
It floods our system until we are drowning in #Burnout .
#AcademicPressure , #PeerDynamics , #Workload , #StudyStruggles , #BehavioralShift , #CognitiveIssues are all #RealWorld problems .
#BrainBoost need not be Temporary .
Take Charge of your System NOW with #NouriaFit and its Integrated #StressTracking features .
#NeuroNutrition needs more attention . -
#Stress of any kind doesn't peak and vanish.
Mental Emotional #Anxiety can increase your #EnergyExpenditure.
It floods our system until we are drowning in #Burnout .
#AcademicPressure , #PeerDynamics , #Workload , #StudyStruggles , #BehavioralShift , #CognitiveIssues are all #RealWorld problems .
#BrainBoost need not be Temporary .
Take Charge of your System NOW with #NouriaFit and its Integrated #StressTracking features .
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My final post on MTV Real World memories is that watching it became part of a Thursday ritual between me and my girlfriend at the time. After work, we would go to
Pellettieri Joes for their Thursday Lasagna special, then we would stop at the grocery store on the way home to pick up a can of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, and we would bake them, and watch The Real World while eating them.It is a fond memory.
#MTV #RealWorld #Memories #Ritual #Thursday #CinnamonRolls #FuckICE
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My final post on MTV Real World memories is that watching it became part of a Thursday ritual between me and my girlfriend at the time. After work, we would go to
Pellettieri Joes for their Thursday Lasagna special, then we would stop at the grocery store on the way home to pick up a can of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, and we would bake them, and watch The Real World while eating them.It is a fond memory.
#MTV #RealWorld #Memories #Ritual #Thursday #CinnamonRolls #FuckICE
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I watched this interview with Judd Winick (Real World season 3 San Francisco) and it brought back a whole lot of memories. It's not THAT long ago when this show aired but the world was SO different. At that time I had or was just getting my first internet/WWW dialup account (thank you Servtech) and this whole Pandora's Box of internet social media toxicity couldn't have even been imagined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyjdt_8CIzY
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I watched this interview with Judd Winick (Real World season 3 San Francisco) and it brought back a whole lot of memories. It's not THAT long ago when this show aired but the world was SO different. At that time I had or was just getting my first internet/WWW dialup account (thank you Servtech) and this whole Pandora's Box of internet social media toxicity couldn't have even been imagined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyjdt_8CIzY
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What We Write About When We Write About Grief, Part Two
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament.
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
In last month’s post (“ What We Write About When We Write About Grief ”), I provided examples of authors depicting grief in three different genres: fiction, poetry, and memoir.
Most of the comments responding to the post focused on how credible or authentic (or not) the various excerpts were in describing what it felt like to grieve.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/12/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-grief-part-two/ -
What We Write About When We Write About Grief, Part Two
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament.
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
In last month’s post (“ What We Write About When We Write About Grief ”), I provided examples of authors depicting grief in three different genres: fiction, poetry, and memoir.
Most of the comments responding to the post focused on how credible or authentic (or not) the various excerpts were in describing what it felt like to grieve.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/12/what-we-write-about-when-we-write-about-grief-part-two/ -
Why?
Years ago, in my other life as a journalist, I interviewed Michael Jordan for a cover story for the magazine I worked for at the time. At the peak of his fame, shortly after his father was murdered, Jordan had quit basketball to try playing baseball. When I interviewed him, he had just made the sudden and surprising decision to return to basketball.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/10/why/#CRAFT #Writinglife #adviceforwriters #KathleenMcCleary #REALWORLD
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Why?
Years ago, in my other life as a journalist, I interviewed Michael Jordan for a cover story for the magazine I worked for at the time. At the peak of his fame, shortly after his father was murdered, Jordan had quit basketball to try playing baseball. When I interviewed him, he had just made the sudden and surprising decision to return to basketball.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/10/why/#CRAFT #Writinglife #adviceforwriters #KathleenMcCleary #REALWORLD
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A Decade of Damage: Revisiting the Novel That Saved My Writing Career
Way, way back in 2011—a far more innocent time—my debut novel, Domestic Violets , was published. The book entered the world to several positive national reviews, a brief bit of gentle buzz, and, well…moderate sales. In other words, Domestic Violets did okay. Records were not set, yachts were not purchased, but, as far as I know, nobody lost their job over the thing. It was a small win followed by a sigh of relief.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/09/a-decade-of-damage-revisiting-the-novel-that-saved-my-writing-career/#REALWORLD #Writinglife #MatthewNorman #publishing #writinglife
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A Decade of Damage: Revisiting the Novel That Saved My Writing Career
Way, way back in 2011—a far more innocent time—my debut novel, Domestic Violets , was published. The book entered the world to several positive national reviews, a brief bit of gentle buzz, and, well…moderate sales. In other words, Domestic Violets did okay. Records were not set, yachts were not purchased, but, as far as I know, nobody lost their job over the thing. It was a small win followed by a sigh of relief.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/09/a-decade-of-damage-revisiting-the-novel-that-saved-my-writing-career/#REALWORLD #Writinglife #MatthewNorman #publishing #writinglife
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Balance is a Practice, Not a State
I am not a serious yogi.
This feels important to establish before I say anything else about yoga, because I don’t want you to picture somebody who wakes up at 5 a.m. to flow through an hour of sun salutations before practicing crow pose. Earnest respect for the people who do wake up at 5 a.m. for sun salutations and crow pose: you are built different than me.
The way I’m built is more like a ramshackle old rowboat. I float except for the times when I’m sinking. I do yoga except for the times when I don’t (there’s a joke about boat pose in here somewhere)(I hate boat pose). I write except for the times when I’m not writing.
But like the rowboat keeps bobbing in the waves until someone drags it to shore, I keep doing yoga, and I keep writing.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/04/balance-is-a-practice-not-a-state/ -
Balance is a Practice, Not a State
I am not a serious yogi.
This feels important to establish before I say anything else about yoga, because I don’t want you to picture somebody who wakes up at 5 a.m. to flow through an hour of sun salutations before practicing crow pose. Earnest respect for the people who do wake up at 5 a.m. for sun salutations and crow pose: you are built different than me.
The way I’m built is more like a ramshackle old rowboat. I float except for the times when I’m sinking. I do yoga except for the times when I don’t (there’s a joke about boat pose in here somewhere)(I hate boat pose). I write except for the times when I’m not writing.
But like the rowboat keeps bobbing in the waves until someone drags it to shore, I keep doing yoga, and I keep writing.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/04/balance-is-a-practice-not-a-state/ -
The Real World | @DrJimCarey | Flipboard
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What Makes Human Storytelling Human
Much on our minds nowadays is the issue of human-written versus machine-written fiction. There’s a lot to say about that, but for me it leads to a question: What actually makes human-written fiction human?
This matters not only in terms of readability. Machines already write well enough for many applications. Eventually machines will write fiction indistinguishable from human-written fiction, though it will be necessarily and always to some degree imitative. (So is some human-written fiction, frankly, if we’re honest.)…
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What Makes Human Storytelling Human
Much on our minds nowadays is the issue of human-written versus machine-written fiction. There’s a lot to say about that, but for me it leads to a question: What actually makes human-written fiction human?
This matters not only in terms of readability. Machines already write well enough for many applications. Eventually machines will write fiction indistinguishable from human-written fiction, though it will be necessarily and always to some degree imitative. (So is some human-written fiction, frankly, if we’re honest.)…
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Where Are You, Muse?
Due to a technical error, Juliet’s post, which was originally published on May 18th, was not sent to our email subscribers. We are republishing the post today in order to reach those readers. Many thanks!
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Where Are You, Muse?
Due to a technical error, Juliet’s post, which was originally published on May 18th, was not sent to our email subscribers. We are republishing the post today in order to reach those readers. Many thanks!
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A Draft With a Will of Its Own
You’re working through a draft and things happen that you didn’t plan—and you had a plan, or at least you thought you had one. A character is acting out of character. Imagery recurs when you write about a certain place. You’re questioning whether the story is the genre you thought it was when you began. You type out words that seem to have come from the ether.
If you’ve lived some shade of the above, have you wondered what it means when a story seems to have a will of its own?
We may feel frustrated over our grasp of the story. Why can’t we just write it to plan? We might even feel shame for losing a sense of control.
But what if these little blips on the radar aren’t so much signaling what’s lost as what’s possibly been found?
Meet Abductive Reasoning…
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A Draft With a Will of Its Own
You’re working through a draft and things happen that you didn’t plan—and you had a plan, or at least you thought you had one. A character is acting out of character. Imagery recurs when you write about a certain place. You’re questioning whether the story is the genre you thought it was when you began. You type out words that seem to have come from the ether.
If you’ve lived some shade of the above, have you wondered what it means when a story seems to have a will of its own?
We may feel frustrated over our grasp of the story. Why can’t we just write it to plan? We might even feel shame for losing a sense of control.
But what if these little blips on the radar aren’t so much signaling what’s lost as what’s possibly been found?
Meet Abductive Reasoning…
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Closing the Taste Gap
Jane Austen offers deep insights into human behavior, even in the person of her most minor and unlikeable characters. One seemingly throw-away line that has haunted me for years comes out of the mouth of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. While criticizing Elizabeth’s skill at the pianoforte, she remarks on her own history with the instrument, “If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
On its face, her comment assumes a grand superiority and a certain tone-deafness. Does she really think her exalted social status translates to superior capacity, even in skills she’s never acquired? What makes her disparage Lizzy’s skill in the same breath that she invites her to come play more often in her home?
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Closing the Taste Gap
Jane Austen offers deep insights into human behavior, even in the person of her most minor and unlikeable characters. One seemingly throw-away line that has haunted me for years comes out of the mouth of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. While criticizing Elizabeth’s skill at the pianoforte, she remarks on her own history with the instrument, “If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
On its face, her comment assumes a grand superiority and a certain tone-deafness. Does she really think her exalted social status translates to superior capacity, even in skills she’s never acquired? What makes her disparage Lizzy’s skill in the same breath that she invites her to come play more often in her home?
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What Other Art Forms Taught Me About Writing
I collect hobbies.
In true ADHD fashion, my interests are expansive, my search history littered with deep dives into any number of subjects, and my living space full to the brim with all the stuff one accumulates if they are, like me, attempting to fully live up to the idea of becoming a “Jack of all trades” (and master of none).
(Also, in truly circular fashion, one of the hobbies I’ve collected, much to my mother’s chagrin, is the hobby of collecting itself– books, but also various dolls (American Girl and Disney collectible dolls primarily), along with cute mini-backpacks, quirky overalls, and of course, supplies for all my non-collecting hobbies).
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/26/what-other-art-forms-taught-me-about-writing/ -
What Other Art Forms Taught Me About Writing
I collect hobbies.
In true ADHD fashion, my interests are expansive, my search history littered with deep dives into any number of subjects, and my living space full to the brim with all the stuff one accumulates if they are, like me, attempting to fully live up to the idea of becoming a “Jack of all trades” (and master of none).
(Also, in truly circular fashion, one of the hobbies I’ve collected, much to my mother’s chagrin, is the hobby of collecting itself– books, but also various dolls (American Girl and Disney collectible dolls primarily), along with cute mini-backpacks, quirky overalls, and of course, supplies for all my non-collecting hobbies).
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/26/what-other-art-forms-taught-me-about-writing/ -
Real World used to have a subscription music club, a CD a month. Some great releases, among others I first heard Dub Colossus, 9Bach, and these guys, Juju, on their releases. Juldeh Camara and Justin Adams. Great players, infectious stuff. They were part of Robert Plant’s band a few years ago. #juju #music #RealWorld
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Real World used to have a subscription music club, a CD a month. Some great releases, among others I first heard Dub Colossus, 9Bach, and these guys, Juju, on their releases. Juldeh Camara and Justin Adams. Great players, infectious stuff. They were part of Robert Plant’s band a few years ago. #juju #music #RealWorld
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watch the other cards here: pod.geraspora.de/tags/exitstra… <- Thanks for watching 😀
#meme #apocalypse #doomsday #collapse #civilization #future #gameover #exitstrategy #problem #endtime #system #matrix #explanation #politics #resources #society #technology #brain #humanity #computer #digital #simulation #reality #vr #realworld #rl #virtualreality #survival
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Beach Glass Writers Residency
Your book doesn’t need more time on the back burner. It needs a week.
Beach Glass Writers Residency offers an intimate, distraction-free creative sanctuary in Rogers Park, Chicago — steps from Lake Michigan — where writers come to do the work they can’t seem to do anywhere else.
Each residency week includes:
✦ 6 nights lodging
✦ Daily continental breakfast
✦ Individual coaching with a developmental editor
✦ Special programming with a guest author
✦ All residency amenities
Only 1–3 writers at a time. Real solitude. Real progress.
Weeks available: June through October ($995)
Is this the year you finally put your book first?
🔗 BeachGlassWritersResidency.com …
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Beach Glass Writers Residency
Your book doesn’t need more time on the back burner. It needs a week.
Beach Glass Writers Residency offers an intimate, distraction-free creative sanctuary in Rogers Park, Chicago — steps from Lake Michigan — where writers come to do the work they can’t seem to do anywhere else.
Each residency week includes:
✦ 6 nights lodging
✦ Daily continental breakfast
✦ Individual coaching with a developmental editor
✦ Special programming with a guest author
✦ All residency amenities
Only 1–3 writers at a time. Real solitude. Real progress.
Weeks available: June through October ($995)
Is this the year you finally put your book first?
🔗 BeachGlassWritersResidency.com …
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/23/beach-glass-writers-residency/ -
What to Do When Someone Writes ‘Your’ Book
A few years ago, I was struggling to write a story. I had an incoherent outline and a few sample chapters and just couldn’t pull it together. Desperate, I texted my dear friend Jan O’Hara, who agreed to take a look. We batted ideas around for a bit, and I went back to work feeling much better.
Some months later, I mentioned the story—now much further along—to Jan, who sent me a panicked note back saying that she was also now working on a story and it had an unmistakable resemblance to mine. Scrupulously ethical, she offered to abandon hers if I thought it was too similar and sent a summary for me to read.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/22/what-to-do-when-someone-writes-your-book/#REALWORLD #BigMagic #dopplegangerbook #ElizabethGilbert #JanOHara
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What to Do When Someone Writes ‘Your’ Book
A few years ago, I was struggling to write a story. I had an incoherent outline and a few sample chapters and just couldn’t pull it together. Desperate, I texted my dear friend Jan O’Hara, who agreed to take a look. We batted ideas around for a bit, and I went back to work feeling much better.
Some months later, I mentioned the story—now much further along—to Jan, who sent me a panicked note back saying that she was also now working on a story and it had an unmistakable resemblance to mine. Scrupulously ethical, she offered to abandon hers if I thought it was too similar and sent a summary for me to read.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/22/what-to-do-when-someone-writes-your-book/#REALWORLD #BigMagic #dopplegangerbook #ElizabethGilbert #JanOHara
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Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller?
Email readers, heads up! For the full effect, pause after the excerpt and decide: Would you turn the page? Vote and then scroll for the reveal!
Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents often make their read/not-read decision on the first page . In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on the first page.
Here’s the question:
Would you pay good money to read the rest of the chapter? With 50 chapters in a book that costs $15, each chapter would be “worth” 30 cents.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/21/flog-a-pro-would-you-turn-the-first-page-of-this-bestseller-50/ -
Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller?
Email readers, heads up! For the full effect, pause after the excerpt and decide: Would you turn the page? Vote and then scroll for the reveal!
Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents often make their read/not-read decision on the first page . In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on the first page.
Here’s the question:
Would you pay good money to read the rest of the chapter? With 50 chapters in a book that costs $15, each chapter would be “worth” 30 cents.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/21/flog-a-pro-would-you-turn-the-first-page-of-this-bestseller-50/ -
The Real World | @DrJimCarey | Flipboard
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The Weird Editing Habit I Can’t Write Without
I’ve always had a strange editing habit: I read almost everything I write out loud.
Emails. Ads. Chapters in my novel. Billboards and banner ads no one will ever actually hear spoken. I read them all out loud. I do this because the rhythm of my writing matters to me—and because I can hear when something isn’t working faster than I can see it.
The first time someone pointed out this strange habit, I was sitting in my cubicle at the advertising agency where I worked. I was deep into hour two of trying to get a paragraph of body copy exactly right. Every time I made a change—even something as small as changing a comma into an em-dash (my favorite!)—I would read the paragraph out loud again to hear the difference in the rhythm.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/20/the-weird-editing-habit-i-cant-write-without/ -
The Weird Editing Habit I Can’t Write Without
I’ve always had a strange editing habit: I read almost everything I write out loud.
Emails. Ads. Chapters in my novel. Billboards and banner ads no one will ever actually hear spoken. I read them all out loud. I do this because the rhythm of my writing matters to me—and because I can hear when something isn’t working faster than I can see it.
The first time someone pointed out this strange habit, I was sitting in my cubicle at the advertising agency where I worked. I was deep into hour two of trying to get a paragraph of body copy exactly right. Every time I made a change—even something as small as changing a comma into an em-dash (my favorite!)—I would read the paragraph out loud again to hear the difference in the rhythm.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/20/the-weird-editing-habit-i-cant-write-without/ -
A Plot Twist with a Twist
Serendipity once again gave me my topic for this month. For my birthday this year, Ruth managed to find a piece of sheet music I’d been hunting for a while – an organ arrangement of Handel’s “The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba.” The piece is not terribly hard and eleven different kinds of fun to play.
It also reminded me of a delightful plot twist I read some years ago in Jane Langton’s Divine Inspiration (1993). Divine Inspiration is a good mystery and I’d recommend it, even though the denouement involves some technology that eighteen-year-olds would probably have to Google. But the mystery really endears itself to organists because it’s about one of our own. (If you would like to read it, be warned: spoilers ahead.)…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/19/a-plot-twist-with-a-twist/ -
A Plot Twist with a Twist
Serendipity once again gave me my topic for this month. For my birthday this year, Ruth managed to find a piece of sheet music I’d been hunting for a while – an organ arrangement of Handel’s “The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba.” The piece is not terribly hard and eleven different kinds of fun to play.
It also reminded me of a delightful plot twist I read some years ago in Jane Langton’s Divine Inspiration (1993). Divine Inspiration is a good mystery and I’d recommend it, even though the denouement involves some technology that eighteen-year-olds would probably have to Google. But the mystery really endears itself to organists because it’s about one of our own. (If you would like to read it, be warned: spoilers ahead.)…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/19/a-plot-twist-with-a-twist/ -
4 Guides to a Sustainable Writing Life
In the publishing industry, “what will sell” is always a moving target. To adapt is to survive, for both creators and those who sell their works. Add today’s rapid socio-political shifts and it’s hard for a business to create a strategic plan that will still work next week let alone in the year(s) it will take to write and publish a novel.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/14/4-guides-to-a-sustainable-writing-life/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #Writinglife #DonMiguelRuiz #emotionalmanagement
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The Story of You: How Much of Myself Should I Put In a Book?
Writers leave distinct fingerprints in everything they write, little pieces of themselves scattered in their work. It’s just a casualty of our job.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, my current research obsession, left clues to her lovers and relationships that readers can trace through her poetry. Sylvia Plath branded her poetry with her rage and discontent and used her personal experience in a psychiatric hospital in her novel The Bell Jar. Emily Brontë left a lasting impression in her poems and novel of a woman who didn’t fit inside a box, who was underestimated and dismissed even though she was highly intelligent, while Charlotte wrote about plain women in humble circumstances who were also independently minded—portraits of herself.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/13/the-story-of-you-how-much-of-myself-should-i-put-in-a-book/ -
Social Media is Redefining the Author’s Job
BookCon is a beloved event where the invisible boundary between authors and readers finally falls away, and everyone gets to share their mutual enthusiasm for impactful storytelling. I’ve never had the privilege of attending, but that’s where social media comes in handy. Each year BookCon took place, I found myself wistfully scrolling through posts shared by readers, authors, and publishers alike, dreaming of the day I’d finally be part of the crowd rather than a remote spectator.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/12/social-media-is-redefining-the-authors-job/