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GET TO WORK HURLEY: Episode 14. Welcome to the Thunder Dome, debut writers!

The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE FOURTEEN : Welcome to the Thunder Dome, debut writers! In this episode we talk about what good agents can do you for you, and how to navigate that tricky gray area when you make the leap from a scrappy new writer to Voice of the Establishment. Also sharing some book recs for your...

GET TO WORK HURLEY: Episode 14. Welcome to the Thunder Dome, debut writers! In this episode we talk about what good agents can do you for you, and how to navigate that tricky gray area when you make the leap from a scrappy new writer to Voice of the Establ

TheGETTO WORK HURLEYpodcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcasteach month as a Patronor make aone-time donation. EPISODE FOURTEEN : Welcome to the Thunder Dome, debut writers! In this episode we talk about what good agents can do you for you, and how to navigate that tricky gray area when you make the leap from a scrappy new writer to Voice of the Establishment. Also sharing some book recs for your...

Jojo Rabbit and the Absurdity of Fascism

NOTE: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR JOJO RABBIT

It’s a surreal time to be aware of – let alone following – the news cycle these days. Government officials proudly admit to crimes on Twitter, in press conferences, and then insist they are not crimes and why are you so triggered by a little treason, anyway?

We are in an age of disinformation at an unprecedented scale, and on a multiplicity of platforms designed to overwhelm and exhaust. Young white men in particular have come of age in this world looking for purpos...

GET TO WORK HURLEY: Episode 13. How to take notes, long-term career planning, and why writing books gets tougher over time.

The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE THIRTEEN In this episode we discuss how to take notes, long-term career planning, and why it is books seem to get more difficult to write the more of them you write. Ill also be tackling some listener questions, from where to find more gooey biopunk to what I think of writers...

GET TO WORK HURLEY: Episode 13. In this episode we discuss how to take notes, long-term career planning, and why it is books seem to get more difficult to write the more of them you write. I’ll also be tackling some listener questions, from where to find m

The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE THIRTEEN In this episode we discuss how to take notes, long-term career planning, and why it is books seem to get more difficult to write the more of them you write. I’ll also be tackling some listener questions, from where to find more gooey biopunk to what I think of writers’ u...

The Logic of Time Travel (With Graphs!)

As The Light Brigade takes the world by storm, I’ve heard from readers who want to know more about the “complicated graphs” I mention in the acknowledgments. These are the graphs that Dr. Joshua Bowman created for my agent, Hannah Bowman, and I to run The Light Brigade characters through to ensure there was narrative logical sense in all the time jumps.

Josh was kind enough to put together the graphs and explanations in a shareable form and gave me permission to post them here. All graphs are...

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Why Do So Many Artists Suck at Business? Because Businesses Like It That Way

A recent conversation on Twitter inspired a tweet storm from me at like 2 am. One author asked other writers what was the one piece of advice they would give to debut novelists. The responses were interesting and mostly upbeat, except when they… weren’t. You could pretty much guess how somebody’s first novel experience went by the type of advice they gave.

Unsurprisingly, some folks really hated the depressing, downer advice from grizzled mid-career writers like me who were like, “HA HA you t...

Writing Career Goals and What’s Next From Team Hurley

After a relatively quiet 2018 (comparatively), this year is warming up to be a busy one, with THREE book releases and at least one, probably two Big Book deadlines, and ongoing Patreon story deadlines each month as I continue to build a legion of heroes on Patreon.

Here are the big new releases you can look forward to!

March 19: THE LIGHT BRIGADE. THREE starred reviews already! My time-traveling Starship Troopers with time travel novel. July 21: MEET ME IN THE FUTURE: STORIES. My “best of” s...

2018 in Review: Writers Do Things

I put off doing all my year-end admin, mainly because I wanted to have a couple of days that were actually days off, and then because I’ve been head down working on The Broken Heavens and then my latest Patreon story there at the month’s end.

Year-end is a time of reflection for good reason. When you get to the end of a year during the coldest, darkest time of year, it can feel like you did absolutely nothing.

So, to dispell that notion, here’s some shit that got done despite 2018’s desire to...