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The Standard Reminder About Preorders

Hello! Preorders of books are good! I’m just over here saying that for no reason at all, and definitely not because I have a book called The Staircase in the Woods coming out on April 29th ahem ahem...

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Wanderers Is a Buck And Change

If you have one dollar and ninety-nine pennies laying around, you could take that filthy lucre and shove it into your computer or other digital device and that device will then give you 800+ pages of...

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Five Things You Learned As A Writer Writing That Cool Thing You Wrote?

Dear Writer Types: a reminder that this blog is a place where, if you have a book coming out, you can submit to me for a Five Things I Learned Writing [insert your book name here] guest post! If you’d...

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Here’s What I Think You Do Today, January 20th, 2025

It’s gonna be a stupid, horrible day. We all know that. It’s going to be full of what passes for pomp and circumstance amongst the set of rich tacky dickheads that are about to take full control of...

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Jennifer Doktorski: Five Things I Learned Writing Finding Normal

There are five towns in the U.S. named “Normal” and seventeen-year-old Gemma Leonardo plans on visiting every one of them. Right after she escapes Children’ s Hospital in Harrisburg, where she’ s...

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Enfys J. Book: Five Things I Learned Writing Queer Rites

Embrace Your Personal Power with 20 Queer-Specific Rituals Queer people go through all kinds of unique milestones and rites of passage as we grow into our true selves. Whether you are coming out,...

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Bryan Young: Five Things I Learned Writing Battletech: Voidbreaker

For those of you not familiar with BattleTech, it’s the long running tabletop miniatures game, RPG, and fiction series that began in 1984. Some of you might know it as a videogame, where it flies...

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Dan Hanks: Five Things I Learned Writing The Way Up Is Death

When a mysterious tower appears in the skies over England, thirteen strangers are pulled from their lives to stand before it as a countdown begins. Above the doorway is one word: ASCEND. As they try...

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On Doom And Joy

There exists this habit, I think, online where, when we see people experiencing and then displaying an emotion that makes us uncomfortable, we feel the need to challenge it or even to correct it. Case...

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Bookshop.org Now Sells E-Books, Huzzah And Hooray

Did you knooooooow that you no longer necessarily have to be tethered to Amazon for your e-books? I mean, okay, you didn’t need to be technically anyway — obviously you can buy e-books from a variety...

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Please Promote Your Work In The Face Of Uninvited Nightmare

I’ve seen people say they don’t want to share their books, their art, their work right now because it seems trivial in the shadows of these dark times, and I thought, I should talk about this. And my...

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Jennifer Probst: Five Things I Learned Writing To Sicily with Love

When she learns she has a big Italian family she never knew about, a lonely woman travels to Sicily for a life-changing summer in the new romance from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer...

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Where To Start With The Books Of Chuck Wendig, 2025 Edition

Everything is perfectly normal and fine, and in that world of normal fine normalcy, one might want to read books. And once in a while, I get someone asking me, “Hey, what book of yours should I read...

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A Buck Ninety-Nine Gets You The Book of Accidents

Is this book $1.99 now at your favorite ELECTRONIC BOOK-O-MATIC website? It sure is. It’s got haunted house vibes, creepy coal mines, a disappearing serial killer, magical owls, generational trauma,...

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Announcing: The Calamities & Chaos Reigns

OH, HELLO THERE. Who has four thumbs and another two books on the way? This guy. *points at self using two thumbs* Also hey do you know anybody looking to buy some thumbs? I seem to have two extra...

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Lilith Saintcrow: Five Things I Learned Writing Coyote Run

In the first Amazing Tale of Antifascist Action, New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow serves up science fiction pulp in a North America fractured by drones, bioweapons, and ideology,...

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Del Howison: Five Things I Learned Writing What Fresh Hell Is This?

 Step into the twisted mind of Del Howison with this unflinching collection of dark tales. What Fresh Hell Is This? brings together stories from across Howison’s prolific career, each one exploring...

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Raven Digitalis: Five Things I Learned Editing Black Magick

Darkness is interpretive. It’s in our nature to explore the shadows. Through the 13 stories presented in Black Magick, compiled and edited by award-winning occult author Raven Digitalis, the reader is...

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The Staircase In The Woods — Prelude To A Tour

Hey! A brief announcement here — I’ll have a couple more official details later in the week, but I wanted to let y’all know I’m going on tour woooo and sure everything is chaos out there and sure I’m...

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Alex Grecian: Five Things I learned Writing Rose of Jericho

Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still...

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