Tag: fiction
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2025-05-13—Proofs, After Moses: Prodigal, Marlin on Conclusions and Canon, Olney on New Stories
Get yourselves settled in for a long one. After I provide my writing updates, I’ve got a review for After Moses: Prodigal in the pipeline, musings on deathbed repentance as a story element (I hate it), and I’m entering into conversation with two other blogs on articles/essays they’ve posted. Yeah, I know, insane. I disappear…
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2025-05-06—This Can’t Be Right, It Hasn’t Been a Month Yet

Less than a month between blog posts? Clearly something is wrong with me. Well, read on to learn about The Gaslight District, read about some thoughts I have on the nature of art, and get another Devon Eriksen recommendation. (This time it’s an interview!) I ordered proofs for Inner Demon recently, so I should get…
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2025-04-30—The Good Stuff on the Back Shelf: Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, After Moses

Today, we’re talking about the good stuff. Some of the best reading I’ve had in a long time. The kind of stuff that only people who are in the know ask about. (At least, as far as I’m aware. Saga of the Forgotten Warrior and After Moses are criminally underrated.) But first! Inner Demon is…
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2025-03-07—Some Really Weird Fiction (Annihilation), AI Again

As a write this, a two-year-old is screaming in my ear because it’s quiet time and she wants to be anything but. Let’s see how this goes. As for my writing updates, I think I’ll bullet-point it this time: Bloggyness Review—Annihilation Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer, is a sci-fi/cosmic horror/”new weird” novel originally published in 2014.…
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25-02-28—Raccoon in Space (Chloe’s Kingdom)
This post, I’ll remember to not leave the placeholder “XX” in the subject line. … I hope. Halfwhisker, draft 1… I’m declaring done. Strictly speaking, I haven’t fully written my way to the end of the book, but I have the outline written out, and I’m just done with draft 1. Been hammering my head…