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Jack Burgos

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Jack Burgos is a 33-year-old author of transgressive, speculative fiction living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was born in Miami, Florida, the son of Colombian and Cuban immigrants. He graduated cum laude from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2007, with a B.A. in English, a B.A. in Philosophy, a Political Science minor, and a concentration in Creative Writing. He graduated with an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tulsa in 2013.

Jack co-founded the writing critique group Nevermore Edits in 2012, through which he continues to improve his craft. His work has been published in Happy Days, Sweetheart, Beyond the Nightlight, Now Playing in Theater B, and Dark and Dangerous Things III. He edited Broken Worlds, published by ...more

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There are habits that are hard to break, and there are lessons that are hard to take. If you struggle with writing at times, then you're like me. Maybe you haven't heard the lesson, maybe you're still internalizing it. Here it is in its most basic form.

If you're not having fun writing it, your reader won't have fun reading it.

For a long time after I heard those words, I still let mysel

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	Psychopomp and Circumstance by Adrean Messmer (Goodreads Author), Jack Burgos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terror in 16-bits by Jonathan Raab, Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author), William Tea (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Nightlight by Adrean Messmer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robin Kirk (Goodreads Author), Alex Schvartsman 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Days, Sweetheart by Adrean Messmer (Goodreads Author), Jack Burgos (Goodreads Author), Shannon Iwanski (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	13 Hearts to Start a Storm 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Misbehaving Dead by Jack Burgos (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adrian Ludens (Contributor), Leigh Harlen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Worlds 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now Playing in Theater B by Adrean Messmer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christina Klarenbeek (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jack Burgos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark and Dangerous Things III by M.A. Chiappetta (Goodreads Author), Jack Burgos (Goodreads Author), Donna A. Leahey (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jack Burgos and 10 other people liked Buchdrache's review of The Men: "This one time I write a review to a book I haven't read, because the premise alone is horribly transmisogynistic. Every person with XY chromosmes vanishing, including trans women and nb people, is not the hot take the author thinks it is. This is not" Read more of this review »
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