If you wanna write well, you gotta read lots. That’s what I tell my budget, anyway. #books #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #booksta #booklover #bookshelf

Shipping up (like, way wayyyyyyyyyy up) to Boston 🏙️ For those who wonder why most of my stories take place in and around MA… I ask, why not???

Just a little reminder for #fridayreads that this little beauty exists🤗 It’s spooky, mysterious, short, AND CHEAP so feel free to check it out💀 👻 🔪 #horror #bookstagram #books #reader #writer #author #spooky #reading

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ There is much to be said of this walloping pack-a-punch of a novella, and to call it a merely a good book would be to call its furry hero merely a good boy. First, the writing. McRobert writes with the comfortable yet precise prose of someone who’s been writing longer than he’s been alive: every paragraph, every phrase, every word just fits. The writing is confident and polished in a way that only a natural-born writer can execute, but is still down-to-earth and real enough that anyone could pick this beauty up and understand it. I can’t wait to get my physical copy, as there were soooo many turns of phrase and idioms that I was dying to underline and ruminate on. Next the story. It’s about as clean as you can get - no unnecessary rabbit trails, no extraneous characters or details, no fluff, everything and everyone were well-functioning organs in the body that was this beautiful story - but beyond just being clean, it was truly beautiful. Because of some traumatic experiences with dogs, I have a bit of a fear of them. I’ve always thought they were beautiful and I know they can be the most loyal friend a person can have, but I’ve never been a “dog person.” I think this book changed that. Somehow, Neil was able to write a dog who was a fully-formed character without going into either cartoonish anthropomorphism or by just appealing to other famous dogs and acts of bravery. Riot is as real and lovable as any human character I’ve read, and I’m fairly close to asking my wife about finding a Riot of our very own. Besides that, I loved each and every storyline and fully fell into caring for each one, a hard but necessary feat in shorter form fiction like this one. Only the best authors can execute this in such a short story, and Neil shined like the sun. Finally, the man. All the best fiction is true. No, I’m not saying Neil is peering somehow into an alternate reality and transcribing what he sees as a kind of history book, but that the themes in this book - childhood, bravery, duty, life - are truly and beautifully said. Neil’s heart shines through and I can only hope and pray he doesn’t keep us waiting too long for whatever’s next!

It’s been a long month. Between the complete upheaval of my life in more ways than one, the existential crises of simply BEING in this time and place, and the exhaustion that comes with all of these, my writing and reading has kinda taken a back seat in most of the practical ways. What I was glad to find in sitting back down to write in the morning or finally having the time and energy to read at night these last few days is that it was ONLY the practical ways - the actual composition, the physical picking up of the book - and that as I dove back into this world, I realized I never really left; or maybe that it never really left me. Last week, as things began to settle a bit on my major fronts, I sat down at my newly configured desk in my new office and began to write a story (which, by the way, came from everything going on in my life - the machine never really stops). It was scary at first: I couldn’t find the right words or phrases, the characters felt flat, the hot points of the story miles away and beyond my reach. But even as I struggled, something in me began to unfurl and stretch. Something began to come alive again and it feels like a fresh wind. Anyway, all that to say, I’m back and hopefully on my way to being better than ever. I’ll have a new short story collection coming out by year’s end, a new novel by next year, and maybe even some short stories in between. It’s never too late to start, and never too long to restart. #author #writer #desk #bookstagram #books #book #writerlife #indie #indieauthorsofinstagram #new #story #fyp

👻 LOOKING FOR A (FREE) FRIGHT? 👻 Music and mad scientists and memories and more… The latest episode of The Write Word Podcast features a very scary short story, written and read by yours truly. In this week’s regularly scheduled episode, my fellow hosts and I will be reviewing the story and going over all the things that worked and that perhaps did not and we would LOVE your input as well… so, here is an audio version of the story for you listening folks, and the full text is available at www.josiahfurcinitti.com/thefirstthreeseconds ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING ⚠️ This story contains scenes of graphic violence, intense themes (death, murder, what lies beyond, etc), and harsh language. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3VvIOj06r1m2zNDEO9UdVf?si=DMw_Yx9MQUSe_Hxm5AJp0A #scary #spooky #writer #audiobook #free #story #storytelling #indie #indieauthorsofinstagram #bookstagram #booksta #books #scarystory #frightening #audio #podcast #review

😱 Fear & 👹 Monsters & ✍️ Writing & 📕 Reading & 👀 New Projects & 🐺 When the Wolf Comes Home & 🙌🏼 SO much more… In the latest episode of the Write Word Podcast with the inimitable @catnassidy !!! This was SO much fun and we got some really hot tips on writing from a master of the craft. Go listen to this episode!!! https://open.spotify.com/episode/3f5OiIv8tdTO1Tb3oUH1Py?si=0LgTGllnSYm8sL8uAcPmmw #horror #scary #books #bookstagram #bookish #new #fyp #discover #wolf #fright #interview #podcast #natcassidy #whenthewolfcomeshome #writer #writersofinstagram #readers

Fellow writers - are you a plotter or a pantser? I have been anxiously awaiting the release of this one… here we discuss what those crazy terms even mean and have a great discussion about where on that spectrum we lay, as well as some of the merits and pitfalls of both #writer #writing #writersofinstagram #podcast #readersgonnaread #books #bookish #book #bookstagram #reading #method #how #howto #story #style #fy #fyp

📣 COMING UP SOON ON THE WRITE WORD PODCAST 📣 The Battle of the Century… Where on the plotter/pantser spectrum do YOU fall, fellow writers? P.S. don’t know what these strange terms mean? Tune in to find out on March 24th, 7 AM! #writer #podcast #writing #plot #pants #author #amwriting #writers #bookstagrammer #bookstagram

📚 ✍️ My Writing Space ✍️ 📚 My desk was a Covid project - designed and made by my brother-in-law and yours truly. Drawers on the left, shelves on the right, and a pull out drawer for my keyboard (the musical kind, not the 1990’s computer one). It’s where I sit and write every morning and where I get some of my best work done. Where do you do your best writing? #writer #writing #writersofinstagram #writings #author #book #booklover #bookstagram #booknerd #desk #design #viral #fyp #scrolling #funny #funnyvideos