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A Boss Fight Review

Here’s a review of Boss Fight that came to my email this week:

Boss Fight is an imaginative, thought provoking collection that thrusts readers into battles both extraordinary and deeply personal. Across seventeen tales of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, this anthology explores what it means to fight not only against external threats, but also against grief, regret, and the limits of one’s own humanity.

What makes Boss Fight remarkable is its range. Readers encounter rebels standing ...

Arcanum Miskatonica

I’m narrating “Arcanum Miskatonica” over at Pseudopod. Check it out, if you’re so inclined.

Choose!

I’ve been working on and off on a sci-fi choose your own adventure story where the main character dies horribly in pretty much every ending you can find. There’s a couple of good ones in there somewhere, but they’re hard to find. It’s very much like I imagine the future to be: dangerous and full of ways to die.

Still, I wrote about 3000 words on it yesterday, so that’s something, right?

Here’s page 107. The first draft of it, anyway.

There’s no way you’re getting anywhere near the engi...

Lacunae and Nocturnes

I’m narrating “Lacunae and Nocturnes” over at StarShipSofa. Check it out, if you’re so inclined.

Backtalk

The latest edition of the Journey Into podcast features yours truly as “Armin Pluto”, host of a podcast suspiciously similar to 99% Invisible, in a meta-episode that focuses on the early days of space travel.

Listen here.

Wondrous!

It’s been a very, very long time since I’ve done any audio work, but recently I was asked by Cast of Wonders to perform a story for episode 488. The story is called “Interview with a Sixth Grade Science Fiction Food Stylist”, and it’s… weird. Clever, but weird.

Listen and enjoy. I would say it’s…

(Stewart from Letterkenny saying “wondrous”.)

It’s an honor just to be nominated…

Or, in this case, just to be remembered.

I got an email this weekend offering me a role in a podcast. Should take me all of ten minutes to record it. I haven’t been on a podcast since August of 2017, when I performed “Digging Up Doug” on Tales to Terrify. I had honestly thought that I was out of all the narrator rolodexes by this point, almost 4.5 years later, but it’s nice that sometimes people still think of me.

I know I haven’t posted on here since April 2021, but don’t think I haven’t ...

I am writing, but…

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this in the past, but I write under two names — this one, and a pseudonym. I know I wrote a bunch on my fantasy novel earlier this year, but that mojo has petered out and I’ve been instead working on pseudonymous fiction. I finished a book, two short-stories, a novelette, and the first part of a flash fiction collection.

So, I mean, progress is happening. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

In the meantime, here’s a preview of my as-yet-unfini...

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Because I didn’t have anything else to do…

Lately my mind has been running itself ragged with the idea of starting my own literary magazine. Because, you know, I didn’t have anything else to do… like work on my novels. I’ve been making a lot of progress on my fantasy novel, and it would really suck to arrest that progress just to work on a completely new project. But I guess that’s how it is for some writers: we go for the new and shiny, instead of finishing one thing at a time.

And this magazine idea has been consuming me, especially...