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Mike Nagel

4 months

Stoooked to finally officially announce this! 🔥 The fine folks at Artie Audio have turned Duplex into an audiobook read by the absolutely brilliant @timheidecker . What a freakin dream. Listen on Audible, Spotify, etc!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

12 years ago J and I took a trip to Portland just so we could see the famous Powell’s Bookstore. Never never never thought I’d have a book on the wall one day. I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

3 years

Legit bothers me when an online mag with god awful design says they want a writer's "best work." Let's see a little effort on both sides here.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

AWP book haul. Can’t wait to check out all these amazing writers!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 years

basically the top thing i look for when submitting to lit mags is good design. so many journals with v high standards in writing and v low standards in design. i dunno. seems like journals should at leasts try to make the words look good? just basic kerning/leading? pls?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

what about a quarterly print mag called ICYMI that republishes all the best online indie lit from that quarter? could that be a thing? I'd subscribe. I love all y'alls work but damn I hate reading on my phone.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

who's going to AWP and gonna be hitting the sparkling water if you know what I mean?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 years

First acceptance of the year and it's from @hobartpulp ??! Do I get to take the rest of the year off now?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

7 months

🥳🥳GIVEAWAY POST 🥳🥳 Heading to the post office later today with a CuldeSTACK. Want one? Just like, comment, retweet, literally whatever, and I'll have my robot pick someone to send a copy to 😘😘😘😘

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

7 months

🎉 SURPRISE!!!!!!! 🎉 Did another one. No pre-orders! Just straight to your mailboxes! 😘

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

4 months

Got a fresh stack of Culdesacs and I'm feeling Giveaway-ey! 😘✌️💰 Win the book David Shields said is "A minor masterpiece!" and someone on Goodreads said, "No it isn't!" I'll give away 2-3 probably. Just like/comment/RT whatevs! I'll pick winners tomorrow!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

4 months

As a massive Bud Smith fan, this co-sign has gone straight to my head 😎 Prepare for me to be insufferable.

Bud Smith

@Bud_Smith

4 months

These two books by Mike Nagel delighted me in the same way Norwood by Charles Portis did, and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller did. Comedic, beatific American sadness, with just the right dash of heroic optimism — anyways highly recommended

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

Went good everyone!! Thank you for your thoughts and prayers 🙏🙏🙏

Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

I've never done a reading before. Any tips?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

well this slapped.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

showing my wife, a highschool teacher, that my song about gum got 100 streams while she was at work

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

I've never done a reading before. Any tips?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Can’t wait for AWP!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

. @autofocuslit lookin good at AWP 🔥🔥🔥

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Author copies y’all! This is a thing people tweet right?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Gonna write a “covers” book where I just rewrite other people’s essays but a little worse

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

Come by the @autofocuslit at AWP! They have such amazing titles this year 😍

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

3 years

Well well well. Look what’s real.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

7 months

🚨🚨 WEE WOO! IT'S A GIVEAWAY! WEE WOO! 🚨🚨 Heading to the post office later with another CuldeSTACK. Who wants one?? Win the book David Shields called "A Minor Masterpiece" and my wife called "Neat!" Just like, comment, RT, whatever. My robot will pick a random winner. ✌️😘

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

One v cool moment at AWP was watching @kevinrmaloney and @kylerseibel read stories I’d just accepted for @havehadhavehad to a room full of people at the @CLASHBooks reading …and hearing those people love every fucking word. Just one of those AWP things, I guess.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

Stoked to be included in this banger of an anthology with a real who’s who list of contributors. Thank you ⁦ @megtuite ⁩ ⁦ @rgvaughan ⁩!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

I had an AI create a word cloud for all the books people mention on my timeline

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

feeling very intimidated by instagram. like, what, i gotta take pictures of shit now??

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 months

Just another day of writing my hilarious haha essays full of laughs and poop jokes

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

Wrote about Purgatory, the "bad new", Jamba Juice, et all, for those cool kids @IdentityTheory ✌️✌️✌️

Bobblehead by Mike Nagel - Identity Theory

If you put your body in charge it will eventually lead you directly to a Jamba Juice.

www.identitytheory.com

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

as a sober person it's a huge relief when dry january is over and I can go back to feeling like I'm better than everybody else

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

3 years

if you want rejections to hurt less, try letting acceptances mean less

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Uh, how bout I **giveaway** a DUPLEX? I guess just like or retweet or comment on this? Literally do whatever? I’ll randomly pick a winner or two? Okay two? PLUS I’ll send another random book, so if you already have Duplex, you’ll also get something else. YOU’LL GET 2 THINGS.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Sending off some Duplexes tomorrow. Anyone else want one? This one specifically?? This EXACT one? Just like or comment or RT and I’ll pick someone before I head to the post office! 😘😘😘

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

I’m so proud of this I’m retweeting it. I don’t even care. Fucken @Powells yawl!

Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

12 years ago J and I took a trip to Portland just so we could see the famous Powell’s Bookstore. Never never never thought I’d have a book on the wall one day. I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 months

Gonna do this one next I think?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 years

Off the top of my head, some mags with good to great design: @BodegaMag @aptmag @splitlipthemag @salthilljournal @EL_DIAGRAM @outlooksprings @hobartpulp @LunchTicket1 @Spectacle_Mag @xraylitmag I’m leaving out a bunch I know. Others?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

Sometimes I worry you guys don’t understand just how square I am.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

7 months

Just heard that one of the pieces I accepted for HAD will be someone's first pub. So cool.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

3 months

Reading is Duplex is soooooo 2022. Hop on the hottest new trend and LISTEN to it instead 🔥🎧 Narrated by the LEGEND @timheidecker . Check it out on Spotify, Audible, the Apple one -- literally wherever. ✌️😘

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

7 months

I walked around my neighborhood 466 times and then wrote you this little book about it 😘 CULDESAC is out now from Autofocus Books.

CULDESAC - Mike Nagel — Autofocus Literary

ABOUT THE BOOK Mike Nagel has no idea what’s going on around here. Fresh out of the duplex, he and J have rented a house in a fantasy-themed neighborhood where people walk backwards, his neighbors...

www.autofocuslit.com

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

if I've learned anything from Captcha it's that the thing that makes us uniquely human is our ability to tell if there is a traffic light in a photo

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

thank god this novel is LITERARY. for a second I thought it was BORING.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

So we just agree that Twitter is back now, yeah? We’re back? We all agree?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

Wheaton let me handle the table display and didn’t check my work ✌️

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 years

still haven't mastered how to walk down a long hallway toward someone and know what to do with my face

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 months

It's good, you guys. It's like quit-writing good.

Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 months

Fine, @Aaron__Burch .

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

get on twitter, they told me. funny gifs of dogs, they told me.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 years

I wrote this thing about getting my oil changed and seeing a therapist and going up a mountain and about how hard it is to do pretty much anything 🚗🙍⛰🤦‍♂️ Thanks so much to @hobartpulp for publishing it!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Want your party to be a banger? Just add PowerPoint!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Me at 18: “Nobody can tell me what to do!!!” Me at 35: “Please, literally anyone, tell me what to do.”

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

they say if you've seen one aunt annie's pretzel stand you've seen the mall

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

4 months

Told my haircut lady to give me “The Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”

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@jonwaddy

4 months

. @misternagel and his biggest fan!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Holy shit, I have a contact high from this exchange ❤️❤️❤️

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

Best text I’ve ever received. All I’ve been trying to do this whole time is tell you guys that Spoon is the best American rock band there is.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

7 months

t-minus 60 minutes until I start reading for @havehadhavehad ! Here's the vibe from the back room of my parents-in-law's house. Send me something that reads well here:

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

X-Y-A-Y

X-R-A-Y

@xraylitmag

1 year

GIGANTIC NEWS: XRAY TO PUBLISH BOOKS 🩻📚🎉🩻📚🎉🩻📚🎉🩻📚🎉🩻 we're beginning with CARDBOARD CLOUDS by Benjamin Niespodziany ( @neonpajamas ), out in early fall. stay tuned for a cover image and preorder deets!!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

The Bob Loblaw Law Blog

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

Might fuck around and read Slaughterhouse Five again 🤷‍♂️

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 months

Are you sick of books that *go somewhere* and have all those annoying book-y things like *characters* and *a plot* and *a point*? Boy do I got the perfect thing for you 👇

CULDESAC - Mike Nagel — Autofocus Literary

ABOUT THE BOOK Mike Nagel has no idea what’s going on around here. Fresh out of the duplex, he and J have rented a house in a fantasy-themed neighborhood where people walk backwards, his neighbors...

www.autofocuslit.com

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

😍😍😍 Seeing the whole 2022 @autofocuslit line up all together is so cool. So proud to be part of it along with all these killer writers.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

3 months

This is going to be a problem.

michael nagle

@nagle5000

3 months

It's my first published piece of writing! It's about farting. (Spoiler: it's not about farting.) @barrelhouse thank you! <3

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

11 months

if any of you apply to this you're dead to me.

Little Engines

@Little__Engines

11 months

The magazine needs a columnist to fill Mike Nagel’s 👞👞 Please send your pitch for a monthly, year-long column along with links to recent non-fiction: av @ adamvoith . com Repost for the writers!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

Wrote about dragons and coffee pots and kindness for my favorite magazine, @Little__Engines ✌️

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

7 months

Submission reading is going well...

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

In the mountains, doing mountain things ✌️

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

Perfect Sunday night in Plano.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

In Culdesac, I meet up with a writer who believes in God to ask him if anything matters. "Why does everyone ask me that?" he said. That guy was Jonathan. We grabbed coffee a few times at Starbucks after his diagnosis. I am so sad to hear that he's gone.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

“A person can waste their whole life, without even meaning to, because another person has a really great face.”

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

HO-boy 😎 More nonsense coming to a @hobartpulp near you soon.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

I still don't really know what AWP is but I've been twice now and seems like it's just a bunch of really rad people hanging out and eating barbecue and talking about Joan Didion?? 10/10 recommend.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

4 months

. @CLASHBooks is so hot right now 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Kevin Maloney

@kevinrmaloney

4 months

I may have spilled the beans on this back in 2021, but it's always a good thing to see one of these Publishers Marketplace announcements with your name on it. HORSE GIRL FEVER coming your way on Oct. 1st. I'm so proud of this book and so excited to be working with @CLASHBooks 🔥

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Wife, a PhD student and English teacher: "What are you doing in here?" Me, a guy who's doing the dishes: "Oh nothing, just working on my dishertation."

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

If you bought Culdesac at AWP (or anywhere), I love you ❤️ 📸Post a pic of the book and tag me! 📸 I'll pick someone to send a CULDESAC KNICK KNACK PRIZE PACK to. Get shit from Jamba Juice, a yellow belt, and other Culdsac themed stuff! 🔥🔥 Literally making this up as I go!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

every project is just a race between how long it takes me to finish it and how long it takes me to get completely bored with it.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 months

I was lucky enough to read this already, and it’s really special. I told Andrew he’s tapping into a classical style of essaying you don’t see much anymore but that is so compelling in Andrew’s hands. Essays of mental weather. Memoir of a thought life. It’s a banger.

Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

5 months

My mid-life crisis collection of essays is now available for pre-order @autofocuslit , parenting, identity, divorce, travel, eating spouses! It’s all there. Thank you to @wheaton3000 and @wheatofthemomnt for shepherding these out!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

😘✌️

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

some of yawl are moping around here like the McRib isn't back, but it is! It's back!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

Now that's a good looking haul.

Paul Rousseau

@PaulWrites7

6 months

Here’s my full #AWP24 book haul! Tasty morsels from @autofocuslit , @MalarkeyBooks , @MoonCityPress , @pleiadesmag , @fairytalereview , and @Little__Engines

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

What's your favorite book title?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

One of the coolest things about reading for @havehadhavehad is that the pieces you pick start showing up in your Twitter feed like 5 days later 😂It's the Prime Now of indie lit!

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

watching a dog you love run as fast as it can is one of the great joys in this otherwise kind of pointless life

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 years

The way @splitlipthemag keeps up with and promotes their writers is just unbelievably cool. I’m sure it’s tedious and time consuming but it really means a lot.

Split Lip Magazine

@splitlipthemag

6 years

We're starting to think the #SplitLipFAM might be a little *too* good. LOOK AT HOW MUCH YOU PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER!! Featuring @lynnfmundell & @megpokrass & @katoscope & @thiriimkm & @tanyagrae & @joshdenslow & @anniejo_17 & @robhollywood & many many more

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

3 years

Does my book's cover have a can of an imaginary meat called BEEF HAM on it? Yes, yes it does. ✅ Can you now pre-order a copy straight from @autofocuslit ? Also YES ✅

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

Find a publisher who knows how to gently encourage you to get out of your comfort zone. 😍 @wheaton3000

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 months

Here’s mine. No skips.

kyle r seibel

@kylerseibel

5 months

Some books I’ve read this year so far

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

Stoooked for this one

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

my day job is in marketing, and here's my only advice for writers: include friggin links. don't ask people to go find your shit. paste a friggin link. make it friggin easy. this has been my masterclass.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

7 months

Cancel your Friday plans and send me something!

HAD

@havehadhavehad

7 months

Another submission call coming! Courtesy of... the one and only @misternagel !! Friday! 6pm CST (7pm ET)! full details in image, alt text, & replies. link will be live at above time (and, we're betting, will be closed and dead a minute or two later?)

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

3 years

After extensive testing, excited to announce DUPLEX is compatible with almost any shelf.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Remember seeing the two prices listed on books as a kid and wondering how the checkout person would know you were Canadian

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

7 months

Polish up your little whatevers and set your egg timers for 6pm CST 👇

HAD

@havehadhavehad

7 months

Another submission call coming! Courtesy of... the one and only @misternagel !! Friday! 6pm CST (7pm ET)! full details in image, alt text, & replies. link will be live at above time (and, we're betting, will be closed and dead a minute or two later?)

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

wait this thing is in Missouri?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

So…what, you turn 35 and now you’re just tired constantly, all the time, for no reason? Is that the deal?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 months

How fucken rad that Kevin Wilson is on this Great American Novels list??

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

5 months

Which kids books hold up? In the mood to read some kids books, but I don't have kids, so I don't know. Thinking Stuart Little unless someone has a better suggestion?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

9 months

Going to the bathroom at AWP next year is gonna be 🔥

Little Engines

@Little__Engines

9 months

Snagged one of the last remaining booths at AWP, across from @TBQuarterly & @MalarkeyBooks and right next to the bathrooms. Like legit in the entrance to the bathrooms.

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

1 year

. @adam_voith AWPing pretty hard

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

How are we supposed to tell if anything is any good?

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

6 months

This story ignored literally all of my guidelines and overshot the word-count by about 3x but it was just too damn good to pass up. Wish you all could have heard the room full of people at AWP laughing out loud as Kevin read this brilliant little gem. ❤️❤️❤️

Kevin Maloney

@kevinrmaloney

6 months

Check out my new story “Baby Albatross” over at @havehadhavehad . It’s about the time my wife & I ate mushrooms & saw Barbie. Thanks @misternagel for plucking this one out of the pile! A few of you heard a condensed version at AWP. Hope you dig it! 💕💕💕

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Mike Nagel

@misternagel

2 years

Heyyyyy oooooooooo.

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