Fiction is Culture. Underground lit, aboveground editing autopsies, and craft pathology from the “Official Unofficial Editor” of Substack’s Fiction tab.
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Invitation to the Autopsy: Specimen No. 14
(creepy cover image by the amazing Simon Stalenhag)
Gentlepeople of all shapes sizes and sorts, as we attempt to take up tempo, yet again, and I get rhythm, we continue on as demanded by the slipstream thusly:
I trust you found y...
AUTOCLAVE 1.5/ POST 101 THERE COMES A PURPLE SUN
Photo stolen from , edited to be purple as fuck by me.
WHAT THE FUCK IS AN AUTOCLAVE?
I compartmentalize my longer rants, psychoses, recommendations, and carny shilling here in the Autoclave. While my instruments from an aut...
Craft Pathology Report: What I Mean When I Say I Edit Fiction
I describe my editorial style as holistic1, client focused, interrogative, and obsessed with precision. This sorta shit turns into marketing paste in your mouth real fast if you don’t watch what you’re chewing.2 So I figure I may as well sa...
SO YOU ENDED UP HERE?!
WHAT THE FUCK IS BURNT TONGUE AND WHO ARE YOU?
I’m Emil Ottoman, The Editor, and this is Burnt Tongue. It’s named after some obscure writing craft shit that sounds catchy, but that’s not the point.
BURNT TONGUE IS?
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Craft Pathology Report: Everything Wrong With Your Genre and Why I Don’t Need You to Read It to Listen to You
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HEY YOU’N’S, IT HAS BEEN A WHILE
Every once in a while I read some shit that gets under my skin and keeps me up at night. And last night I slept like shit. Ergo.
The Literary Salon with Thaddeus Thomas...
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