Editor of 40+ traditionally published books, author (short fiction published 140+ times), sociologist (PhD), educator (retired prof) he/him.https://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mxz7n2jci22kMy review of Candas Jane Dorsey's AT THE FREAK SHOW is up at the Ottawa Review of Books: https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/at-the-freak-show-by-candas-jane-dorsey16 Oct 2026 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxz7n2jci22khttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mxozrea3os26My micro fiction "Your Forever Home" was published today (Thanksgiving Monday) by Vine Lines Press's "Fifty More or Less". This is my second published dribble.12 Oct 2026 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxozrea3os26https://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mx7z4bpqy22zMy 50-word short story, "Pied de Terre," was published today by Vine Leaves Press. Exactly 50 words is called a dribble, whereas a story of exactly 100 words is called a drabble. I have had 22 drabbles published, but this is my first dribble. "Pied a Terre" is a take on "A Cask of Amontillado".06 Oct 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx7z4bpqy22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mwtwbjl2pc26The official launch of Black Beacon Book of Horror 2 is today. Happy to have my story, "Summoning Demons" included. ["Summoning Demons" was originally presented as an audio play on the Lost Poetry Club, June 2024.] It's nice to see it in print. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0GGZ9WS1101 Oct 2026 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtwbjl2pc26https://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mvsn4344xc2wMy review of The Curve of the Corridor is up at the Ottawa Review of Books https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/the-curve-of-the-corridor-by-victoria-feistner18 Sep 2026 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsn4344xc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3musovh6oak2u'Interview' up today (Sept 5) on Black Beacon Books as part of the lead-up to the launch of their latest horror collection, in which I have the story "Summoning Demons"....which is more about magazine/submissions than demons. https://blackbeaconbooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-scary-interview-with-robert-runte.html06 Sep 2026 00:02 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3musovh6oak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mqxdst3ck22gMy short story, "Murgatroyd and the AI" is up at Reimagined AI. www.reimaginedai.org/stories [The story is reprinted from the “Heavens to Murgatroyd”, Shawn Bird (ed.) Lintusen Press, March 2024. The cover photo is Pepper, an actual emotional support robot from Aldebaran Robotics.]18 Jul 2026 22:46 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqxdst3ck22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mpyeidtd7k2jThe audiobook version of Dave Duncan's The Traitor's Son narrated by David Bendena is now available from all the usual outlets (Koko, Audible, Barns & Noble,spotify, etc.) I was the editor on this book.It's one of Duncan's few pure SF novels https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/audiobook/the-traitor-s-son-306 Jul 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpyeidtd7k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mojfcpilmc22My review of Thomas Trofimuk's Saudade up today at Ottawa Review of Books: https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/saudade-by-thomas-trofimuk17 Jun 2026 22:45 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mojfcpilmc22https://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mm6axcs2i22yMy review of As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories is up at Ottawa Review of Books https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/as-the-earth-dreams-edited-by-terese-mason-pierre19 May 2026 01:37 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm6axcs2i22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3ml5eexlz3c2vAttended (via Google Meets) the launch of David Gerrold's short story anthology, "Shadows & Reflections: Diving in the Sea of Time". from Donovan Street Press Inc. this evening. Great to see, can't wait to read. (now available for pre-order): https://www.amazon.ca/Shadows-Reflections-Diving-Sea-Time-ebook/dp/B0GPR2172Z/ref=sr_1_2? https://www.amazon.ca/Shadows-Reflections-Diving-Sea-Time-ebook/dp/B0GPR2172Z/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OE6EKYMJPP8Y&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.lgkVDN_b18pSvNN6BtXa-p06ozl35V3rNYlgR5byqdqA8uuRJ8jepI0bW89-UDp6zonX9BUZUqz7hhCu13XCwGmxYxe2QoGdUVS50vcELNdqphud734aMWVGZbDXtEuOIpDprQKvce-8SSr3crBKeJQiX0rgppTvRdB_sXva63QNKNHGNtPg8MXSti56yZvnr-gceuj4vvT5XEMRaBevlml0b3ljKZcUsY5bS9UE0z7TSBCZYkcp48r3OM7lhS5y8GmvUm8AOl4dApAgTQ0dvqpMiMVskx_ax1qBzkDx4no.omMY3iSM6Epb9CawBPvJaDxvz8p2Ii4PXoB7_vRh22A&dib_tag=se&keywords=david+gerrold&qid=1778024235&sprefix=david+ger%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-105 May 2026 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5eexlz3c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mjpiovlunk25My review of "Borderlandz: Tales from the Edges" by Douglas Smith is up at the Ottawa Review of Books: https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/borderlanz-tales-from-the-edges-by-douglas-smith17 Apr 2026 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpiovlunk25https://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mhg6rxudsc2rMy review of Matthew Hughes' memoir, "A Guy Just Passing Through" is up at Ottawa Review of Books: https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/a-guy-just-passing-through-by-matthew-hughes19 Mar 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhg6rxudsc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mf5zlvsqfc2yFor people in the Lethbridge area...18 Feb 2026 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5zlvsqfc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3meyo2cbyh226My review of Finnian Burnett's "Redshirts Sometimes Survive" is up at Ottawa Review of Books. https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/redshirts-sometimes-survive-by-finnian-burnett16 Feb 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3meyo2cbyh226https://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mczz5hrnek2yhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/writing-when-youre-dead-estate-planning-for-authors-w-dr-robert-runte-tickets-198071233691922 Jan 2026 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mczz5hrnek2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mchzczfbxc2yMy flash fiction, "Kill Switch Override", was published today in Infocalypse #1. www.infocalypse.press/issue-one/ https://www.infocalypse.press/issue-one/15 Jan 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchzczfbxc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mbz2vtojsc2eOf possible interest to anyone thinking about trying to write flash fiction. Karen Schauber was the person who got me into, and published my first, flash fiction.09 Jan 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbz2vtojsc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3mabhwss34k2wMy 485-word flash fiction, "The Yard Sale", is up at Sudden Fiction. https://yoursuddenflash.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-yard-sale.html18 Dec 2025 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mabhwss34k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3m7b22wj3ck2rMy short story, "Grandfather's Birthday Barbeque" has been reprinted in Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue (JayHenge Publishing). Thanks to Jessica Augustsson for including it. I think this is the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0G57TDPM9/ref=sr_1_105 Dec 2025 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7b22wj3ck2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3m5yrdrsafk23@bsky.app My review of Emily Weedon's Hemo Sapiens now up at the Ottawa Review of Books https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/hemo-sapiens-by-emily-a-weedon19 Nov 2025 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5yrdrsafk23https://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3m3t5bztgmc24My short story, "Schrodenger's Train," is up today at Metastellar Science Fiction. https://www.metastellar.com/fiction/schrodengers-train/23 Oct 2025 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3t5bztgmc24https://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3m363amllwc2tMy review of Starship Librarians, edited by Shannon Allen and JR Campbell, from Tyche Books is now up at Ottawa Review of Books. https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/starship-librarians-edited-by-shannon-allen-and-jr-campbell14 Oct 2025 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3m363amllwc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/robertrunte.bsky.social/post/3lz5dgonvqc2dMy 50-word story, "The Experimental Writer," is up at Sudden Flash. (And yes, he's an example of an unreliable narrator.) https://yoursuddenflash.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-experimental-writer.html18 Sep 2025 21:50 +0000at://did:plc:fuqtjowdvimdplfx4eyns6vq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz5dgonvqc2d