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Where’ve You Been?

“Where HAVEN’T I been? Woof!” Lord Flasheart.

Honestly, I’ve a lot of different places and getting more and more cranky with social media. Not to mention frustrated with so much contradictory advice for how to use social media. It’s now getting sorted out and we’re finding ways to interconnect as much as possible in an effort to minimizing my time costs and maximize my reach without burning me out.

That’s why you suddenly got almost an entire year’s worth of posts from Substack. If ...

Art Gallery 3:

Techno Distillations in the Holler

An early experimentation with Midjourney inspired by a prompt that went sideways.

https://resonantmediaarts.substack.com/p/art-gallery-3

If you’re looking to commission some artwork for book covers, ads, and so forth, please feel free to contact me at: mdboncher *at* resonantmedia.art.

Till next time, vaya con Dios!

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Nightshade and Skypirates Conclusion

a Tales from the Dream Nebula Short Story by M. D. Boncher

Here is the end of the “Tales from the Dream Nebula” short story. If this piques your interest, then check out the rest of the series, now available on Amazon!

Interlude: Nightshade & Skypirates2.

Four gunships that were positioned noses facing in with crash webbing stretched between their gun struts to make the octagon. The crowd of a few hundred boisterous pirates cheered for the two combatants. Captain “Dapper” D...

Psst! Hey! Interested in Some Exclusive Content?

from author MD Boncher?

Do you like my writing or my artwork, or are interested in exclusive behind-the-scenes content on world building, maps, or even previews or a front row seat to new books as they are being written with the opportunity to provide feedback and possibly direct the story?

Then mosey on over to my Patreon! Why Patreon? Mostly because Patreon allows me to customize paid and free content easier and provide more variety and more nuanced subscription tiers than Substack, ...

Springtime Updates

from the madness that is the mind of MD Boncher

Everyone keeps telling me I need to engage more, I need to sell myself as the author, that the days of hiding in the far corner of my house, writing my books, and then flinging them out the window and letting publishers do all the promotion are gone.

Well, crap.

So here I am, with my wife’s encouragement (she may or may not be standing over me with a very big stick), attempting to engage the “public” and give you a bit of a glimpse as ...

Inspiration Strikes: Wyrd Werewolf Wrangler

Art from a new anthology.

In support of my wife’s newly published short story, I was commissioned to do a series of advertising artwork. Of course in the process I generated several more images that I liked but they couldn’t use. Since I shouldn’t let good work go to waste and it’s something fun to put you in the mood for weird west stories, here we go.

https://resonantmediaarts.substack.com/p/inspiration-strikes-wyrd-werewolf

Wyrd Werewolf Wrangler Anthology

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Nightshade and the Sky Pirates Chapter 1

a Tales from the Dream Nebula Short Story by M. D. Boncher

I originally wrote this to be included as an interlude for my third Tales from the Dream Nebula novel, “The Waking Nightmares”, but found it make the text longer than I wanted it to be so I held it back. Now that I’m considering putting the first two volumes together into an omnibus, I’m looking to possibly include this story there.

So if Flash Gordon style golden age sci-fi with art deco beauty in a psychedelic color palette, ...

50 Word Story

“Free Spirit”

The stolen truck sputtered to a stop. Pale dawn lit the high desert winter sky. “I’m free, now.” He whispered to the biting wind.

His children’s car crested the hill.

“Not going back to the home.”

His soul took his last breath’s hand and ran down the gravel road together.

Pre-Order Deadly Flames: Dragons in Combat

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Now ready for pre order! On sale January 13th, 2025!

You can find a Dream Nebula short story in there titled “Back in the Saddle” mixed among all the other dragon stuff! Big critters doing big things!

Dawson VanderZee was fed up with media fame and wanted to return to
his former life as a professional hunter. When the Big Double M Ranch hired
him to remove some dangerous megafauna that threatened their ...

Pre-Order Deadly Flames: Dragons in Combat

https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Flames-Dragons-Bayonet-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0DRDV113B

Now ready for pre order! On sale January 13th, 2025!

You can find a Dream Nebula short story in there titled “Back in the Saddle” mixed among all the other dragon stuff! Big critters doing big things!

Dawson VanderZee was fed up with media fame and wanted to return to
his former life as a professional hunter. When the Big Double M Ranch hired
him to remove some dangerous megafauna that threatened their...