As you can tell from the sidebar, I’ve recently started publishing material on Substack that I might formerly have published here. While there isn’t too much point in publishing the same pieces in two different places, I want to make sure that visitors to this website have easy access to anything I publish elsewhere. Consequently, I’ll preview all the content here and provide links. As with all my posts here, my Substack posts are all available for free.
Literary Snobbery (March 2)
This article discusses the harms that flow from assuming that one genre is objectively better than another. Literary works should be judged on their own merits, not on their genre label. To read the post, click here.
“Green Wounds” (March 4-5)
This is the short story that inspired The Strange Case of Guaritori Diolco. Though set in modern times, the story features Medea, the ancient Greek sorceress. She isn’t satisfied with destroying the life of Jason, her traitorous husband, only once. Instead, she finds him and kills him each time he reincarnates. But all is not what it seems, as a mysterious stranger reminds her. You can read the story (split into two posts) here. Alternatively, you can download the story in ebook format here. (Signing up for my newsletter is optional.)
Finding Inspiration in Everyday Places (March 6)
This is the first in a series of posts about how to find inspiration in seemingly unlikely places–in this case, my own backyard. You can read the post here.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (March 8)
What’s my take on the recent Netflix adaptation? You can read my post here.
Book Review: To Kill a Unicorn (March 10)
After reading this book, John Corwin is one of my new favorite authors. To find out why, read my post here.
World-Crossed Lovers (March 15-19)
Spell Weaver fans will appreciate this story of Magnus’s visit to a parallel universe to find a second chance at love. To find out whether he achieves his dreams or not, you can read the story, serialized in five parts, here. Alternatively, you can download the story as an ebook here. (Signing up for my newsletter is optional.)
Spring, Time of New Beginnings–for Fantasy Writers (March 21)
This is my Spring Equinox discussion of how the myth of the dying god makes good raw material for fantasy writers. You can read the post here.
Early Morning Walk 1 (March 25)
This is yet another post about finding inspiration in ordinary things. Of course, since it’s based on a pre-dawn walk, the imaginings it generates tend to be dark…
“Rock and Roll Heaven” (March 25)
What happens when a man with delusions of being an ancient god actually meets that god? Nothing good!
You can read the story that won fourth place in the Wicked Writing Contest right here.
Hmmm… I had intended to list both March and April in one post, but it’s clear now that I will need to split it, so I’ll be back with the April listings soon.
Advice on Substack
For those of you who are writers, yes, Substack can be a good platform. But as you’ll notice, even without counting the seven posts based on older material, I’ve been posting far faster than I ever did here. That’s partly because it’s hard to get visibility on Substack when one first joins. The key element in building an audience is publishing frequently. You need to give readers a reason to visit your Substack.
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Is this AI generated?
My texts (whether in the form of posts or bound as books) are never AI generated. The graphics in the post are either photographs I took, human-made images licensed from Shutterstock, or book covers designed Peter O’Connor of Bespoke Book Covers.
In the interest of full disclosure, I did experiment with AI generated images from Shutterstock (which has a program that compensates artists for the use of their work in training), and then only for things I wouldn’t have hired a designer to do. I stopped even that relatively narrow use of AI after a while.
So many books to chose from!!
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Lots of interesting reading
I like how this roundup highlights a wide range of creative work—from stories to reviews—while emphasizing consistency and finding inspiration in everyday life.
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My favorite spring memory is smelling the flowers in my garden!
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Just getting out of the house in the fresh smelling air! And that’s every year!