What happened to NaNoWriMo? I’m not doing NaNoWriMo anymore because of the complete 180 they’ve made over the past few years. That includes endangering minors and supporting generative AI, for which they used disabled writers as a shield, and disabled writers took a major stand against that. There is a laundry list of other reasons, […]
Today, Amazon announced that Kindle Vella is coming to a close. Here’s the timeline: As of today, October 28, 2024, authors cannot post new stories but can continue to post new episodes in existing stories. Readers can no longer comment on episodes. As of December 4, 2024, authors will no longer be able to post […]
Sherlock Holmes comes to Fun Classic Reads on August 8, 2024! We’ll be reading the short story “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons” by Arthur Conan Doyle in its entirety. It was originally published in Collier’s in the US in 1904, then in The Strand Magazine in England the next month. Finally, it was collected, along […]
I’ve bought a few small Victorian diaries in my time, but never a full-sized antique ledger being used as a journal! It’s the best of both worlds: part business ledger for a blacksmithing business, part personal diary. The blacksmith’s name is G. R. Shultes. He was young, still in school, but at the same time, […]
Join productivity sprints with historical fiction authors Margaret Pinard and me on Friday, April 26, 2024! We’ll be spending 2 hours doing a productivity livestream that includes productivity sprints and breaks. You can work on anything at all during the productivity sprints: your schedule for next week or next month, your to-do list, some research, […]
It’s National Picnic Day, so what did Victorian picnic food look like? Get ready to be shocked. Victorian picnics could be family events or social events held by groups or churches. So the amount of attendees varied a lot. In Mrs. Beeton’s Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery from 1865, a 40-person picnic menu included (get ready […]
Jeeves and Wooster have always been a well-loved pair, both in books and in TV adaptations. Now we’re going to bring you “Pearls Mean Tears” from The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in 1923, and you can bet it’s going to be a lot of fun! What the world needs right now is […]
Did you know that the movie His Girl Friday was originally a play called “The Front Page”? But His Girl Friday became a classic movie full of snappy, witty lines that move very fast! Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell immortalized their roles, and it’s a much loved film of Grant’s in particular. What the world needs right […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 27 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 27: Morton, Patrick, and Sean debate who will get the Ruin Rats’s cipher tattoo. The tattoo turns out to be a brutal endeavor. In my […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 26 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 26: Carmichael tries to cope with the enormity of the many high-priority issues that need to be resolved for Dark Acts, until his past comes […]