Tag: Western

  • 2025-12-15—The 2025 Blog in Review

    2025-12-15—The 2025 Blog in Review

    Ah, the blog—how much has changed in just a year. I started out with inconsistent, relatively disorganized posts that threw a bunch of unrelated topics together, but ended a lot more consistent with my weekly scheduled and a lot more focused in each individual post. While this blog exists to support my writing, I’m still…

  • 2025-09-01—September Newsletter

    2025-09-01—September Newsletter

    Happy Labor Day! May your break from labor be relaxing. Also… welcome back to my newsletter! If you end up having a good time, please make use of that Subscribe bar at the bottom. Or maybe… you don’t have to wait? Writing and Publishing As I predicted, most of Inner Demon‘s audiobook work happened in…

  • 2025-08-25—Travel By Star

    2025-08-25—Travel By Star

    Just in case this is a dealbreaker for anyone, I have to state this as plainly as I can: at no point in Travel by Star (by Paul Scott Grill) does a tiny pink blob hop on a five-pointed glowing stellar object and ride it to another location—or, in other words, travel by star. This…

  • 2025-08-18—Men (and Books)

    2025-08-18—Men (and Books)

    A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. [Emphasis added.] Camille Paglia This blog post has evolved significantly since I began laying the groundwork…

  • 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…