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Flash Fiction Friday: The Newest Year and the Lastest

This one’s a little weird, I’ll grant you…and it’s a tad late for the holiday…and technically a little depressing…but also a little wordplay experiment I’ve been thinking about for a while..might come into use in some way in a bigger feature at some point.   “It’s finally here,” thought Graham as he looked to the sky, “the day we’ve all… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. Robin the Boy Wonder

I know…today’s the first day of the new year and all that, and I should probably give out some tidbits about the day and how it marks some sort of important something or other…I just don’t care.  Instead, I’m going to talk about something completely different… In fact, I’m going to talk about a character that has, traditionally been one… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. Writing Daily

Alright, so, here’s the necessary post, the one where I give you the most important advice you’ll ever ignore as a writer…the piece of advice you’ll get from every single writer out there who feels happy with themselves as an author…but the piece of advice that doesn’t really mean anything until you actually start doing it. Write every single day!… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. Resolutions

Another year has passed, meaning another yearly post about how I don’t do resolutions, but how I’m making one anyways. But first, I want to tell you about last year’s resolution.  One I don’t talk about too openly because, well, I wasn’t necessarily all that open about the bad habit.  Last year, I quite smoking. In fact, as of 11/11/2014,… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. Social Media Marketing

I want to get this out there first, right away…I’m terrible at using social media to sell, so my comments here are probably quite different from those you might get from those who have done a lot better on these platforms…but I have a feeling if you got the truth out of them, it might not be all that much… Read more →

Book Review: Blackbeard’s Freedom by Jeremy McLean

Yet another one of those books given to me by the author with a request to read and review.  I’ll admit, it’s difficult reviewing books as honestly as I want sometimes when I know that the author is going to be reading the review.  Luckily for me, most of the books I get in for review are real gems. This… Read more →

Flash Fiction Friday: Truly Super

Truly Super “I’m on my way home, honey, I promise.  Yes, I remembered to pick up the milk.  Of course I’ve got the baby, you think I’d leave him at daycare?” Again?  I mean, it’s not like I really left him there for that long.  The place is open until six.  And besides, it was just the one time, it’s… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. Christmas

Of course when I was scheduling these blog posts, and coming up with the ideas of what they would be weekly…I didn’t notice that Christmas fell on a Tidbit Thursday. I mean…can you really have a weekly article space fall on a major holiday like Christmas which is intended to be used for random information and not then use the… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. Author Interaction

In my road to author happiness, I’ve had the good fortune to run across a great many awesome authors.  I say this is good fortune because I’ve also managed to find an overwhelming number of jackasses.  They’re out there.  Those folks who just care about themselves, don’t have any interest in talking about anything outside of their books and will… Read more →

Fat Mogul vs. Conquering Insomnia

I used to struggle with terrible insomnia. And I would try a whole host of things to get over it. Things like cutting out caffeine from my diet entirely (even avoiding things like chocolate due to the small amounts in there) to taking melatonin pills, to running, to staying out partying all night.  Nothing worked.  Ultimately, my options at night… Read more →